The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-03

try today.
Ashland Standard: Work in the spring
time will receive It's reward in the fall.
No work. no pay.
New Decatur Advertiser: Congressman
Bowie resigns with honor. Senator Burton
will not resign even in disgrace.
Headland Post: Men and women forget
to grow old in Headland-life is one long.
drawn-out youth. Worry banishes at the
magic name of Headland.
Dadeville Spot Cash: There is no need
for anybody to be out of work these
days. Laborers are in demand in all lines
of work, and there is no excuse for idle
ness.
Sheffield Reaper: It is said that hog
can be, taught 10 drink from a bottle.
That's nothing new. Just wait until We
get the dispensary and such performances
can be witnessed constantly in the alleys
and out-of-the-way places in Sheffield.
Eutaw Wing and Observer: The Cum
bingham papers make a big racket when
ever a Cunningham man is elected to the
senate or legislature, and can always see
victory in sight for the doctor. When a
| Conner man is elected they never know it.
| Sumter Call: The Alabama railroad COM
mission passed through Epes Tuesday
| afternoon looking 10 after the interest Of
| the dear people. They stopped at Epes-
to get orders We didn't see Mr.. Conner
nor any of his associates leave their pri-
vate car.
leighton News The mayor of Selma has
had five or six young men-about-town
arrested and fined on the charge of vag-
rancy, because they toll not, neither do
they spin" II the same rule were adopted
| in some other towns we know of, either
the city treasury would be filled to over
flowing or the population of the towns
greatly reduced.
Florence Times: The excellent manage
ment of the convict department of the
| state government, and its handsome re-
suits, is figuring largely in the current
| political campaign. Who did it?' is the
| question. 1t might modestly be suggested
that Governor Jelks was chief executive
| OF the state from the commencement OF
improved results until the present time.
Scottsboro Progressive Age: A negro or
| ator from Boston was invited to Councils
school at Normal to deliver an address.
He arrived in an intoxicated condition and
was promptly elected from the premises
| The Chattanooga Times well says that
Boston should recall this representative
| OF race equality and put him In a
straight jacket OF public contempt.
Edwardsville Enterprise: On March
| next. Alabama loses the services of an
able and most faithful friend by the re-
tirement of Hon. S. J. Bowie. He exer-
cised great ability in legislative work. and
no man did accomplish more than stands
to his credit The Congress will miss him
after his retirement and the whole state,
as well as the Fourth congressional dis
trict, will feel the effect.
! Greensboro Record: There is some fear
| that the railroad rate bill passed by Con-
| gress may take all power out of the hands
of our state commission. Congress can
| not interfer with matters altogether with
| in our state, and we hardly think there
would have been unanimity on the part
of congressman and senators in favor
of the bill if It did curtail the pow
ers of the state commissions.
Columbia Breeze: A new game has
cropped out called 1.-The Editor" and a
country weekly tells about 1t. Take a
sheet of ordinary writing paper, fold nice
w, enclose a bank note sufficiently large
to nay all arrearages and one year in ad-
vance and hand 1t to the editor. Keep
your eyes on him, and II a smile adorns
his face 1t works fine and dandy NOW Is
the time to plan the joke; 1T beats ping
pong, pit and finch all hollow
Greensboro Watchman: 1t would be well
for the newspapers of the state to ask
those who are running for the legisla-
! ture in their respective counties what dis
position they propose to make Oh the
large surplus said to be in the state treas
ury. This is almost as important ques-
ton as railroad rate regulation The pub
| lie schools In the towns and country dis
tricts and the old soldiers should most
| certainly get the larger share OF 1t, but
| strenuous efforts will be made to get the
lions share OF 1t for more favored and
less needy objects. Let's keep our eyes
open.
Brewton Standard: The editor VINO can
please every one is not suited for this
earth, but is entitled to wings. Human
nature is so constituted that some OF our
readers would like to have us feed them
on scandal; some would like to have us
tell the unvarnished truth about them'
while others would kill us If we did. 1t
is a comforting thought to the editor to
know that the Lord Himself did not please
every one while on earth. We labor hard
to entertain and please our subscribers
but that we should occasionally fail is to
he expected, but you will always find us
willing to be forgiven.
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