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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
TO HELEN.
BY Edgar Allan Poe

By Edgar Allan Poe.
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean banks of yore
That gently, DER a perfumed sea,
The weary. wayworn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
On desperate seas long wont to roanI
Thy hyacinth hair. thy classic face
Thy Naiad airs have brought me homf
To the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.
Lo, In yon brilliant window niche
How statue-like I see thee stand,
The agate lamp within thy hand!
All, Pschye from the region which
Are Holy Land!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
WHEN You ARE RRoKF.

8I1I1AN IOO AIhE bftOfAE4.
Nobody likes you when you are broke
Nobody wants you around.
Cold the reception that you will get
Scarcely friend will be found
Nobody slaps you hard on your back,
Nobody gives you smile,
Even the passing stranger can see
That you are not worth his while.
Nobody likes you when you are broke
You are soon dropped by your crowd"
Closed are the halls where revelry romps
Poverty there's not allowed
Minus your roll you are down and out
No way of holding your own.
Money will bring you host of friends,
Lacking 1t, you'll be alone.
Nobody likes you when you are broke
Comrades will turn you away,
Passing you up as a derelict,
Having no kind word to say.
Nobody cares for a man who's down,
Citizens this is no joke.
Living on earth without the wherewith
Is hard on the man who is broke.
F. d. Coburn of Kansas. who has been
offered the vacant seat of Burton in the
Senate, Is a devoted collector of horse
shoes. Burton's hobby was collecting dol
lars and 1t got him into trouble.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
HIS MOOD.
From Harper's weeldy.

From Harper's Weekly.
A member of the faculty of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin tells some amusing
replies made by a pupil undergoing an
examination in English. The candidate
had been instructed to write out examples
of the indicative. the subjunctive, the pot
entail, and the explanatory moods. His
efforts resulted as follows:
II am endeavoring to pass an English
examination. If Il answer twenty ques-
lions / shall pass. II l answer twelve
questions l may pass. God help mel"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

country we should not slap tax of
five dollars on him. 1t was not done
while the north needed immigrants.
but now when the south needs them
it is pressed into a bill that threatens
to become a law-that will be made
law unless every southern vote is
polled against it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
Weather Prophet.

81 know nothing of the science of meteo-
rology, but have been watching the signs
of the weather for forty years and seldom
fail TO forecast correctly in a general
way" said an elderly citizen. 1--WE are
going to have a long hot SPELL We will
have genuine summer weather until the
first of August, when the temperature will
be lowered. August will be unusually
pleasant-some like the early fall"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Thomas Nelson Page says that Euro
pean countries do not have a cordial
feeling toward us on account of revela-
tions in American business enterprises.
The attitude of Europe will readily be
excused
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

The meat packers do not, 1t is plain,
rank cleanliness next to godliness.
They do not place it at all. They are
not on speaking terms with 1t
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

That was a fine story told about the
Carpatia cutting a whale in two and
the stormy waves being soothed by oil
from the monsters carcass.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
AT THE BRITISH CAPITAL.

From Pick-Me-Up, London.
The Duchess Of Teck opened last week
an institution which has been neatly de-
scribed as horsepital, dogpital and cat
pita1.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

The beef trust and the Standard oil
alike deny the allegation and defy the
alligator, but the public are inclined
to think both have been caught with
the goods on them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

The New York Giants are taking
their medicine along with the other
teams this year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Ethel Roosevelt didn't get first hon
ors at school this year. Secretary
Taft's daughter took them off.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

The corporations will be expected to
pass their campaign contributions for
1908 out through the coal hole.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Farmer Coburn will endeavor in the
Senate to stick to his last, and let the
departments alone.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

The beef trust should borrow for a
few days Chancellor Day, who Is
primed against President Roosevelt.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

He Is no longer called Datto Bryan.
He is again William Jennings Bryan,
and don't you forget it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

The current pictures Of ex-senator
Burton are those of ex-senator Turner
of Washington, formerly of Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Wisconsin calls the United States
Senate "the bulwark of capitalism
and trustocracy." This covers the
case.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Connecticut has blacksmith who
pulls teeth and shoes horses with equal
facility.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Two pints of milk make one quart.
So do one pint of milk and one pint of
water.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

The San Francisco children are
going to school in tents. and they can
imagine they are at a circus while they
study their A B Cs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
HEAR! HEAR!

From the Shreveport journal.
That murmur of approval comes from
the breakfast food foundries.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

The putting of new labels on old
cans of meats is an industry we can
well spare.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Congress may be called upon to say
just how many holes there should be
in peekaboos.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
CHANGE OF SCENE.

From the Florida Times-Union-
The forum for You're another" argu-
ments has been transferred to Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

A willy clothing merchant advertises
comfort Clothes" but there would be
no comfort in a suit of mosquito net
these days.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

When underground theatres come in
the future the stage doors where john
MES Turk will present strange appear
ance
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Lawyer Patrick says old age beats
the electric chair every day in the
year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

The packers regulations need to be
livened up more than their canned
meats do.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

]. Pierpont Morgan's new art collec
ton should not be considered Kann-ed
goods.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

"Scab" music won't go in Selma. 1t
doesn't sound right to union dancers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Take shot at the beef trust. Every.
body else is doing it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE TIMES

~ R. ERASTuS HOLT. a man who
L. appraised mankind in a way that
is interesting if not conclusive. According
to DR.. Holt a boy 10 years of age is
worth s2Oe1 50; at 10 he is worth S42ss. ss
and at % he is worth $54ss .03. From that
time until his death he gradually de-
creases in-value. and if he should live to
be 70 he is worth but Sl7.1s. These prices
apply TO the laborlng class. A higher val
uation is placed on professional men, a
good lawyer for instance. being worth
nearly $4,000 when 40 years of age 1t is
a pleasant pastime which DR.. Holt has
devised, but he seems to have overlooked
the man who is worth but 80 cents.
A man who had been dumb for twenty
one years regained his speech the other
day and abused the privilege by asking,
rs it hot enough for your
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

The eruption of Packingtown smells
to the clouds at least.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
THE sTANDPATTER.

THE STANDPATTER.
Sing song of Pacxingtown,
Magnates in a stew,
All so habbergasted they
Don't know what to do.
Awful the exposures made.
Situations bad,
While the individuals
Eating meat are sad.
Sanitation Is unknown,
Filth is everywhere,
But the vegetarian
Doesn't seem to care.
Every time Colonel Bryan's name is
mentioned somebody gets up and hollers.
Alfonso is settling down to the routine
of domesticity.
Our platform: More peeks in the peeka-
boo.
WEARIED
I'd like to go away from here
And hunt a change of scene
Where I would never see again
A muck rake magazine
A Birmingham restaurant advertises q
business mans lunch at prices ranging
from 10 to Is cents.
A $50 to shot won the other day. A
few people were glad.
There is not much chance of a vaca-
tion for the muck rake man this sum-
mer So much remains to be done.
John Phillip Sousa says that people are
forgetting how to sing, but, alas, in our
block every now and then somebody re-
members.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Admission Hot Blast There was a mighty
rafting of the packed meat cans when the
big stick came down among them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Hand-raised sausage are selling at a
premium.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Andalusia News: And the boys tell
US that fish are biting down on the river.
Seems to us that fish always bite well
along about grand jury time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

The duma sharpens its knives before
every debate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Packingtown should reform itseli
by cleaning up.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

An exchange attempts to chronicle what
prominent people are doing, but makes
no effort to keep up with them after
dark.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Atmore Spectrum: senator Tillman
ought to get some pointers from Mr.. Bev-
eridge on methods of getting legislation
"passed while you wait"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Roanoke Leader; The prompt bill payer
is a useful and popular citizen. And his
class is increasing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

The beef magnates sheer. When one
comes to think of it. that is about all
they can do.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

From the way John D. Rockefeller con-
Quoted himself on his recent ocean voyage
one would suppose that he is thinking OF
entering popularity contest.
TOO MUCH FOR HIM.
A fellow wandered down the street.
An awful wreck was he.
His eyes wide and CLASSY were
Most pitiful to see.
He did not speak a single word,
And yet twas plainly read
That he was very much distraught
And slightly off his head.
Some people who did know the man
Began exchanging winks
And said, HE tried to learn the names
OF all the summer drinks"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Greenville Living Truth NJ. Witte is
said to have retired from the Russian
cabinet as a result of impaired health"
His chances for long life are undoubt-
eddy increased by his retirement.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Tuscaloosa Times Gazette: If there
should be an increase of fifty academic
students at the university next year there
would be serious trouble in finding DOR
mitory room.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Sumter Sun: Beans have dropped to 10
cents per bushel but the larger part of
the crop brought $3.50 per bushel, and the
same land has another crop on it. This
is farming some.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Tainted money should also be de
natured.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Alcohol has almost as many uses as
woman's hair pin.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Huntsville Tribune: We fail to see how
railroads can possibly find cause to COM
plain in that they are now afforded a
legal reason for declining to issue free
passes. Certainly it will prove a relief
to them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Selma Journal: A big wheat crop seems
to be assured the wheat growers. Ala
bama used to raise a good deal of wheat,
but has almost ceased to produce it. 1t
can produce it again. 1t is a mistake TO
think that wheat will only grow in a cold
country. For centuries Egypt was the
granary of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Columbia Breeze: It is said that the
coming fashions will make our girls look
as their grandmothers did, but no decree
of fashion can ever make them act as
their grandmothers did. And, as Job said
to his sympathizers after giving vent to
wild lamentation over his boil hobby
"That'a no JOSH
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

No communication will be published
without its authors name. Rejected man
uscripts will not be returned unless
stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Guatemala is having regular tamale
time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Arbitration is unknown in Cananea,
Mexico
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Gullman Democrat: The workings of
the old convention plan got a black eye
in Tennessee last week. The cost of the
primary is almost prohibitory but there
is healthy absence of machine politics
when all the people speak by secret bal
lot.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Washington Bureau Herald 142l @
street, N W.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Greensboro Watchman: At the com
mencement of the State university a
Tuscaloosa last week, the trustees of tina
institution conferred the degree of LII. D
or thirty-nine different people. We ough
to be ashamed to admit 1t. but really thil
highly honorary degree, which is sup
posed to mean a great deal, was conferred
upon some men in Alabama we had never
heard of before, and-upon some we hav'
heard Of.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

Marion Standard: The weather has been
fine for the raising of chickens this spring
and they are said to be plentiful all over
the country The hatchings were little
late on account of the cold weather. and
they are just now being marketed. 1t has
been several years since the country has
had a good chicken crop, which Is no
doubt indicative that summer protracted
meetings will soon be inaugurated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

A $50 to shot won the other day. A
few people were glad.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09


Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, post
Office as second-class matter under act
Of Congress March 3, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

The current pictures Of ex-senator
Burton are those of ex-senator Turner
of Washington, formerly of Alabama.
The beef trust should borrow for a
few days Chancellor Day, who Is
primed against President Roosevelt.
The corporations will be expected to
pass their campaign contributions for
1908 out through the coal hole.
Ethel Roosevelt didn't get first hon
ors at school this year. Secretary
Taft's daughter took them off.
-.s.-
He is no longer called Datto Bryan.
He is again William Jennings Bryan,
and don't you forget it.
Farmer Coburn will endeavor in the
Senate to stick to his last, and let the
departments alone.
The New York Giants are taking
their medicine along with the other
teams this year.
Congress may be called upon to say
Just how many holes there should be
in peekaboos.
The putting of new labels on old
cans of meats is an industry we can
we'll spare.
The packers regulations need to be
livened up more than their canned
meats do.
Connecticut has a blacksmith who
pulls teeth and shoes horses with equal
facility.
Two pints of milk make one quart.
So do one pint of milk and one pint Of
water.
]. Pierpont Morgan's new art collec-
ton should not be considered Kann-ed
goods.
Lawyer Patrick says old age beats
the electric chair every day in the
year.
"Scab" music won't go in Selma. 1t
doesn't sound right to union dancers.
Take shot at the beef trust. Every
body else is doing 1t.
The eruption of Packingtown smells
to the clouds at least.
--s.---
Paclingtown should reform itself
by cleaning up.
The duma sharpens its knives before
every debate.
Hand-raised sausage are selling at
premium.
Tainted money should also be de.
natured.
Arbitration is unknown in Cananea,
Mexico
Guatemala is having regular tamale
time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

There is not much chance of vaca-
tion for the muck rake man this sum-
mer. So much remains to be done.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

A Birmingham restaurant advertises a
business mans lunch at prices ranging
from 10 to Is cents.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09

WEARIED.
I'd like to go away from here
And hunt a change of scene
Where I would never see again
A muck rake magazine
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-10
The Fifth Amendment.

Mr.. Henry Loomis Nelson in the
Boston Herald views with alarm the
passing of a statute which enables the
interstate commerce commission to
compel the production of books and pa
pers to disclose whether a public cor
poration like a railroad is violating the
law. He sees in it an assault on the
fifth amendment to the constitution
which declares that no person shall be
compelled to be witness against HIM
self in any criminal prosecution. -
The fifth amendment evidently did
not have view of the impersonal cor.
poration doing the acts which were for
merly entrusted to individuals. It is
quite plain that if corporations did not
exist and business were still done by
individuals there would be reason to in
sist upon stringent Interpretation Of
the fifth amendment for in that case
the acts complained Of would have to
be done by some person in conjunction
with some other person and the evi-
dence of the act could be reached.
But to interpret the fifth amendment
to protect the impersonal acts of cor.
porations would be to subordinate indi
vidual rights entirely to the rapacity
of creatures without personality OF
| identity.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-10
LIBERATI'S BEST TONIGHT
Band at Harriet Will Play Tributes
to Shriners.

The hostility of the weather depart
ment disappeared last night barely in
time to allow Signor Liberati and his
military band and concert company to
give to the patrons of the Lake Harriet
Roof garden as brilliantly artistic q
performance of the "Stahat Mater
as the local public has ever heard.
All the grand opera singers partici-
pated in the program, and, IN addition
to the announced numbers. Signor Lib
erati gave his "Souvenir de la Suisse"
one of the best solos from his pen.
and there were several other extras.
In many respects tonight will be the
most eventful of the Liberati engage
ment. The Shriners and their ladies
are coming out, several hundred strong.
and will occupy one wing of the roof
garden in testimonial to Iiberati.
Being forewarned of their coming,
Signor Liberati has arranged for this
evening what he regards as the best
program of the season. Not only will
it include such selections as "La
Giaconda,' - "Andrew Chenier'' and
the second List rhapsodie, but there
will be solos by Liberati and all his
lvoealists. The first number will be the
"Mecca Temple march, written by
| Liberati and dedicated to Colonel
Conde Hamlin of st. Paul, and if time
permits there will be extra Wagner
| mum bers, as is the custom on Friday
nights. Souvenir programs will be is
sued.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-10
Railroads
ALTON OPENS AN OFFICE
HEAVY BUSINESS PROMPTS BIG
ILLINOIS ROAD TO ESTABLISH
COMMERCIAL AGENCY HERE.

The Chicago & Alton road has opened
commercial offices at 629-63l Metropoli-
tan Life building, Minneapolis, and it
is expected that the passenger depart
ment will take similar action. Oscar
L. Hill has been appointed commercial
agent with jurisdiction over the twin
cities and Minnesota. and in reality,
over the northwest. The Alton at one
time had passenger office in st. Paul,
but has never made an actual invasion
of this territory by general personal
representation.
This action by the Alton is only one
of countless intimations that railroad
and commercial interets are coming to
recognize the standing of Minneapolis
and the fact that the Minneapolis gate
way to the great northwest is one that
must be watched closely.
Mr.. Hill said today that the Alton
found its business from this territory
increasing to such an extent that it
must open offices here. While pre-
eminentIy passenger route, known as
"The Only Way,' the Alton is
strong frei ght line with connections
south and southeast thru the Peoria and
| Chicago gateways. The company has
close freight arrangements with the Mo-
bile & Ohio for Mobile and New Or
leans, as well as with other lines to
the south.
The office has been opened that ship
pers may be ir position to get quick
| tracings of their shipments over the
Alton and to get information about the
line first hand.
| Mr.. Hill, the new commercial agent,
has been travelling freight agent in this
territory from Peoria and is well known
to shippers. He has been with the Al
ton twenty years working thru various
branches of station service. Up to two
years ago he had been for ten years in
charge of the station at jacksonville,
Ill Mr.. Hill will bring his family to
Minneapolis and will establish himself
as a householder by Sept. l.