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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27
The Bargain Counter.

The bargain counter has developed a
new species of woman who is not al
ways a credit TO her SEX said mild
hammered man as he gained the street
and fresh air.
Yes, the bargain counter woman is
sometimes a good object to avoid. She
will push and shove and edge and force
herself through a crowd, digging her
elbows into peoples ribs. stamping on
peoples toes: her resolute look indicative
of her intention to get there or perish
in the attempt. l got caught in one of
these bargain crowds recently and would
rather trust myself to the tender mencies
of a herd of buffaloes For the first time
in my life I learned what it is to be
a mere man, and now that I know I'll
profit by the lesson"
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down, and he had no idea of abandoning
his ambition. He pocketed his loss, and
manifesting no resentment toward the
men who had defeated him, prepared for
the campaign TO succeed William A.
PETER That campaign was due in 1896
and in the meantime he must work. He
went to Galena, where some friends gave
him start in a zinc mine and his faith
ful wife helped to keep the pot boiling
by making cakes and bread for the wom-
ans exchange She had been through the
campaign of 1894 and 1895 with him. and
nowlshe was his partner and ally in MAX
ing the living. The election of 1896 came
on, and the fusion won the legislature
Then Burton sat down to wait for Lucien
Bakers term to expire. To begin he
was given the republican caucus nom
ination in 1897, and in 1898 the majority
of the state senators, holding over un-
til the legislature of 1901 were elected
for him. In 1900 a majority of the house
was elected for him He had a. contest
but before the caucus was held Senator
Baker withdrew. and Burton was NOM
mated without opposition.
NOW WAS TIE real beginning of Sena-
tor Burton's troubles. So long as he
was only defeated candidate seeking
ultimate success, his enemies simply laid
plans against him. They had possession
of the office he coveted, and possession
was nine points of the fight But when
he appeared with votes enough to elect
and wrested the office from them a VEN
delta was declared and since then dam
ger has lurked in every bush for him.
His undoing finally was his financial ne
cessities. He wanted to pay his debts
and get rich, and so he resorted to de-
vious methods to make money
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27
Yellow Fever and tuberculosis

New Orleans is getting rid of its
mosquitoes of all sorts 1t is filling in
low places and screening cisterns and
drains and receptacles of water. BY
the middle of April that city has in
past years been fully infested by the
troublesome insects, and yet today.
says the Times-Democrat, the greater
part of New Orleans is entirely free
from mosquitoes of any kind, and bars
ordinarily up at this time of the year,
are unknown" In some sections where
carelessness and disobedience to the
law has prevailed there are some mos
quitces, but they are far scarcer than
ever before. 1t is proposed hereafter
to do the work thoroughly, and to make
the cost of 1t lien ON the property
treated.
This country has two great aud
important battles to fight-the one
against the mosquito, and the other
against tuberculosis. The latter is the
more difficult of the two. The former
is a matter of detail and work in cities
and the lesser towns. But the proven
ton of the great white plague" is full
of difficulties. The education of the
people seems to be all-needful as Il
first step. Old ideas must be rooted
nut. and the new and better ideas in
eulcated. 1T is says the New York
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27
IN HOTEL LoDBIEs
Remarkable act.

1T seems to me very remarkable that
not an accident of a serious nature has
occurred during the construction of the
Brown-Marx building said a gentleman
yesterday.
THE work is certainly very danger
Gus and the men employed on the build
ing seem to be very indifferent of the
perilous heights and positions The Won
der is that many of them are not in
jured or killed for they seem to be so
careless of danger. consider it almost
miraculous that not one serious accident
has been recorded
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27
CAN'T YOU REMEMBER

From the Chicago News.
An anticipated calamity that actually
came?
A sycophant who turned out to be a
real friend?
A horse that could trot as fast as the
man who sold him to you said he could?
A prize fighter that went through the
throes of the championship without be-
coming demoralized?
A bad gran who was really as bad as
he was reputed?
successful man who used up nine
tenths of his time telling what he was
going to do next?
A man who went wrong who wasn't e
highly respected citizen?''
An absconding cashier who wasn't "a
trusted employer"
A woman criminal who was not 'beauti-
full and apparently refined?'
An actor that wasn't thoroughly delight
ed with himself?
Anybody who achieved sinlessness be-
fore starting fusilade of stones at
others?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27
About Persons.

George w. Stone and wife of Montgom-
cry are among the guests at the Hillman.
R. e. Scott and G. c. Simpson of Opelika
are at the st. Nicholas.
Miss Norris Ouerbaker of Louisville,
KY, is the guest OF Miss Ethel Clifford
at the Morris.
]. L. Johnson and wife of Corona are
stopping at the Birmingham
Ben Talley of Bear Creek is registered
at the Morris.
]. H. Jackson and wife of Talladega
are at the Hotel Hillman.
S. T. Bell and j. W. Bell of Mobile are
at the St Nicholas.
r. T. Connally of Atlanta is stopping at
the Morris.
j. H. Donaldson of New York is at the
Morris.
Miss Lulu farrell of Monroe is stopping
at the Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27
Shares for the Unwary.

Zone Of the warm evenings last week,
said a tlght-fisted old bachelor, 81 went
out to East Lake just 10 get a breath
of fresh air and / had not been very
long inside the park when | met with a
lady friend who had three little girls
with her. Well, the children soon directed
my attention to the merry-go-round and 1
had to spend a quarter on that, and now
that they had tasted blood, or rather
my money 1t was simply a matter of
bleeding me to poverty In due course
came the swing, the roller-coaster, the
railway, ice cream, peanuts, popcorn and
just as we had finished the rounds. They
wanted to begin over again-these clam
orous children. That evening cost me
just IS and forever stamped me as E.
u. Mark.
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either speaker, and then they go back
unstirred and perhaps undetermined.
There is an utter lack of ginger in the
campaign. Even joint debates do not
dispel the languor into which an ur-
duly long campaign has plunged the
people.
Both candidates claim to be rate re-
formers from the head waters of Rate
creek, and the voter sees no chance
for fireworks in contest in which
both stand on one platform. The tame
ness of the campaign is due in other
words to the tameness of a common
issue.
After all the activity and prosperity
of the state may conduce to dullness
in matters that are not counted as
essentials. Every man is too busy in
field or shop or office to give much
time to public business. Even the alter
nate senatorial race is not a bit warm,
and few know who are running for the
minor state Offices.
But we can trust to the contests
over county Offices to bring the voters
to the polls in August. The candidates
for sheriff and the like will see that
every man does his duty if they have
TO send a carriage for that man and
a summons to him to come in at once
and vote. He will come under such
circumstances, but nothing less than
that, it appears. will bring the average
man to the polls this year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
There's no use making money; you've
only got to spend it.
A woman has a much better time at a
funeral than a man has at a wedding
It's almost throwing money away to
send a boy to college IL he has no ath-
letic ability.
After you marry girl you don't change
your ideas about her half as much as
much as you do about her relatives.
1t takes lot of humility to think you
ought to be one-hundredth part as good
as other people ought to think you are.
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Apathy in Alabama.

The Selma Journal bewails the fact
that the race for governor is dragging
itself YEARLY along, lacking snap and
vigor and even tone of any sort. 1t a
sadly-neglected piece of business. Mel
Their candidate can elicit any consider
able degree of popular enthusiasm.
V oters go in limited numbers to hear
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27
at ISN'T RAINING. RAIN TO ME-

By Robert Lovemail.
1t isn't raining rain to me,
It's raining daffodils;
In every dimpled drop | see
Wild flowers in the hills.
And clouds of gray engulf the day
And overwhelm the town;
1t isn't raining rain to me,
It's raining roses down.
1t isn't raining rain to me,
But fields of clover bloom.
Where any buccaneering bee
May find "a bed and room,
A health unto the happy.
A fig for him who fTets,
1t isn't raining rain to ma
It's raining violetS.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

State Treasurer Berry has been
nominated to carry the democratic
banner this fall. He swept the stale
last year, and the outlook is good that
he can repeat the operation as a can
didate for governor.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27
AN OREGON TRAGEDY.

From the Joseph (Oregon) Herald.
Maud Dale, while on her way to Chico,
Friday, had the misfortune to be thrown
from her horse. She broke seven bones
and half killed Maggie Jones in the
shade of the stately pine tree.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

The criminal neglect of Congress in
neglecting to pass the quarantine bill
is due in part to Texas greed and in
part to a desire to withhold an appro
priation that would benefit the demo-
cratic south only.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

The next general assembly of the
Southern Presbyterian church is to be
held next May in Birmingham. The
general convention of the Baptist
church should be tackled next. We
want all the big things.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27
BURROWS GAME STRUGGLE
FOR OFFICE OF SENATOR

(Topeka Correspondence Kansas City
Starr
ta aAa LII 7la nuRF Sist. filed on
- tor as a settler In a new coun-
try files on a claim He had no follow
ing and no reputation. On the contrary,
by sundry indiscretions, what little the
people knew of him was not favorable.
In his supreme confidence in himself he
sometimes had set public opinion at de-
fiance and the newspapers hammered him
for 1t. He even ventured to invite the
censure of the clergy and once he was
the subject of scolding comment in an
official report of the state superintendent
of insurance. But what Mr.. Burten lack
ed of personal following or reputation he
made up of nerve, energy and fair abil-
ity, and since there was a senatorship
in sight for the swiftest, If not the best,
to win, he went in after 1t.
One day In the early spring of 1894,
when the time was ripe for him to take
the public into his confidence, Mr.. Bur-
ton chose two men to break the news to,
and the scene was in what is called the
little dining room of the Topeka club.
Covers were laid for three, and the fu-
ture senator's guests were David w.
Mulvane, who since has come into ma
tional political reputation, and Hiram P.
Dillon, a lawyer who hates politics and
runs from politicians. Mulvane was only
nine years out OF Yale college and Dill
90
ton unfolded his scheme gently after
the soup, and they laughed. Mulvane
said it was impossible and Dillon was
cynical But Burton was not to be put
down The luncheon ended with the boom
In the air, but later Mulvane saw in it
an opportunity to make an opening for
himself in politics, and he decided to go
an Dillon never was in the movement,
but he always backed Mulvane, and he
was slenced. In the same way W. II.
Rossington, Charles Blood Smith and 9TH
ers were initiated and Mulvane did the
rest.
Mr. Mulvane took hold of him and
started him out. While Burton was MAX
ing speeches in the campaign, Mulvane
was in Topeka making friends with pros
pective members of the legislature. Null
vane's method was to be civil and hos
pitable, and that summer and fall many
men were entertained in the little din
ing room" Buttons part was to speak
for the whole ticket from the stump and
make hay for Burton after the meetings.
it was fine combination, and it work.
ed well. Burton appealed especially to
young men. among whom he classed him.
self, although he was approaching 80.
In this way Burton enlisted the sup
port and sympathy of thousands of young
men, and when the returns were all in
he had nearly enough members to elect
him senator Really he had enough and
more, but his enemies, by tying men up
with state patronage and by Jumping
up" local candidates, formed obligations
that deprived him of some members who
were chosen by the people for him. So
ne lost the senatorship by majority of
one In the caucus and Lucen Baker I'M
expectedly became United States senator.
The loss of the senatorship was sore
disappointment to Burton. He was poor
and in debt, and. what was worse, out
of business. But he was not wholly cast
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

A LITTLE STORY.
A model man was William Toots-
A citizen so clean
That other persons said he was
The best they'd ever seen.
In business and public life
He was so straight and true
That fond admirers lauded him
And swore it was his due.
On Sunday mornings Toots went out
To visit Sunday school.
And gently smiling, asked the tots,
who knows the golden ruler"
The preacher called upon him when
He felt the need of prayer,
Tho Toots responded with meek
And hesitating air.
He was so proper in his life
That people often said,
"Our Toots shall have a monument
As soon as he is dead"
Well. Toots resided in the town
A dozen years and stood
Way up among the chosen, for
He was so very good
Alas, one day a tempest broke
1t landed on this Toots
And in the twinkling of an eye
He quickly shot the chutes.
Ten bank directors swooned away
When first they heard the news
And half a dozen crafty s1euths
Went out to look for clues.
For Toots. they say. had tempered with
The bank books where he worked
Although he was a fine cashier
A man who never shrked.
His shortage was immense, and yet
His populations made
sorry show beside the row
OF bills he never paid
A lot of forgery was found
While immortality
Did prove to all the citizens
Toots rank duplicty.
Detectives did not find their man
They seldom do you know
And all the people in the town
Were glad to see him 60
Lenvoy.
The moral of the tale is this:
Be prudent as you can
And never stake your bank account
Upon sinless man.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

When Mr.. Taft goes to the supreme
bench the republican nomination will
be narrowed to Joseph G. Cannon and
Elihu Root. The latter Is even more
frigid than Fairchlds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

Now that John d. Roekefeller's ply
Stefan says that the magnate has not
been a physical wreck at any time with
IN his knowledge, the point has been
knocked off great many eloquent SER
mons on the evils of wealth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

The Pennsylvania railroad investiga-
ton simply shows that the little fell
lie fellows have no chance in these
plutocratic times.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

The Patrick case is slowly taking
another step. 1t is lifetime affair,
for the accused has both money and
friends, and the gallows fits the poor
and friendless only.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

Missouri will have three United
States Senators-William Warner of
Kansas City. William Joel Gumshoe
Stone of st. Louis, and ]. Ralph Bur
ton of Ironton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

Shonts says he can build a lock ca
nal in eight years, but he has never
D.. one, and he may not know.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

President Cassatt is coming home to
explain the Pennsylvania railroads
remarkable innocence.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

First Professor Triggs separated
himself from the University of Chicago
and now he wants to separate himself
from his wife. Separating seems to
have become habit with the profess
cor
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

The Standard Oil will have difficulty
in monopolizing the messages of the
wireless. 1t can pilfer some, but some
will go to the right address uncopied.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

The legal endowment of political
slush funds has been begun. The G.
o. P. is getting in line for 1908.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

Fiddlers can secure seats in the in
the United States Senate, but piano
players are still barred out.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

The fate of the quarantine bill is
enough to make every stegomyia in the
south wear smile.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

befriend the unfortunate and help toward
seeing the error of his way instead OF
fixing an immutable legal price and let
it go at that.
Some of the London papers have been
commenting on these methods as sanity
on the bench saying that the only weak
ness of the method lies in the fact that
so much depends on the individuality OF
the indgen
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

Premier Goremykin cannot please
both the people and the palace, and ne
will probably resign to please himself.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

A magazine writer naively says: at
pays to kill mosquitoes" If he lived
down South he would say, you have
to kill mosqitoes."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

Tom Plat, Senator for express COM
panies. has negotiated them out of the
rate bill.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

Something in the way of an Office
should be handed Charles E. Hughes,
the celebarted insurance prober.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

The earthquake did not put crack
in the credit of the San Francisco
banks.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

1t is lucky that Senator Hepburn
..~n't go any further than shaking his
fist
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

M. Gorky is making his farewell
tour in this country. He is not ethical
enough to suit plain Americans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

Sometimes we can dream that we own
a greenhack factory, but we always
wake up.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

The Douma is not perplexed with
rate bills at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

Burton and Smoot are still Senators
why not?. The rest live in glass
houses.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

Judge Richardson is member o
THE conference committee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

in our neghborhood, said a.
New Orleans man. "A friend of mine has
the unfortunate habit of talking in his
sleep. AS he is married, you can easily i'm
agine how great is his fear that his wife
may overhear him, muttering about mat
ters that he does not discuss at home. One
night a few days ago my friends wife
happened TO wake up during the small
hours OF the morning as result of the
restless tumbling of her mate. What was
her amazement to hear him murmur
the name, Mabel Richardson and repeat
1t several times Tho he but mumbled
the name. the angry wife detected the
affectionate tone of his voice and woke
him up without delay.
Who is this Mabel Richardson?
asked the wife, giving her spouse Wig
orous shake.
Who's who? asked her husband, try
ing to collect his wits.
Mabel Richardson. Mable Richard
SOM repeated the wife, in rising tones.
The husband burst into a laugh and
his wife waved furious Before she could
said, oh, that is the name of a race
horse l lost $500 on her yesterday
and must have been dreaming about it,
Breakfast next morning was eaten in
silence The wife hunted up a newspaper
and read the sporting page before she
became friendly again"
A WARNING
The swimming hole is full of kids
Who raise merry shout.
If you are wearing petticoats
You need not come about.
Ibsen having been placed by the edi-
torial writer's, requiescat in pace.
One girl in your arms is about all you
want at one time.
A drought is reported in Kentucky. The
colonies have a remedy but the soil has
none
Seems like it is going to be time lock
canal.
The patent leather trust is pretty
slick
ENTRENCHED.
When a man who runs railroad
To some anthracite coal mines
Has a grip upon the Senate
And some six or eight pipe lines,
It's a sign that he won't worry
When reformers try to shake
His position with flourish
or
the
old
muck
rake,
1t is whispered that the Gaekwar of
Baroda wants to introduce our methods
of fishing into his country. Nominate
Grover Cleveland for instructor.
The Wisconsin farmer who hitched
his children to pillow was probably the
original of Everybody Works But
Father
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

Alexander City outlook: And Teddy has
reached the deadline, and is being num-
bered with the over-estimated."
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Camp Hill Times: OF course it is under
stood that anything the President says
is subject to amendment.
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Gadsden Journal: Evidently the Presi-
dent wanted to give everybody square
DEAL but objects to having one handed
to him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

Nothing surpasses the discrimination Of
a cyclone.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

The republican party has ceased to
count problems. There are too many.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27
When muck-raker runs amuck 1t is
time for sensible people to stay indoors

girl who lost her power of speech
had it restored by bump in a skating
rink. Can you figure that out?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

Coosa Argus: A wise guy informs us
that the ankle is placed between the foot
and the knee to keep the calf away from
the corn.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

THE GAME.
\ dainty maiden graduates
And then she homeward goes
To fit around while waiting for
Some fellow to propose.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

The swimming hole is full of kids
Who raise a merry shout.
II you are wearing petticoats
You need not come about.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27
THE GAME.

It is more pleasant to be a litry man
than a ditch digger in warm weather
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Coosa River News: Wonders refuse to
cease. Mr.. Bryan's Commoner now refers
to ex-President clevelands bond issues
as patriotic work