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

Alexander City OUTLOOK: AT last We are
getting a taste of the real thing-ginger-
in the gubernatorial race.
Franklin Times: No rate bill has yet
been able to see the light Of day in the
Senate and summer is not far off,
Selma journal: The first of May has
come and gone and no real fish story
has yet been furnished by local sports
men.
Baldwin Times: Congress is having as
hard a time to agree upon a railroad
rate bill as the candidates for office in
Alabama
Prattville Progress: A Chicago minister
has given a warning against reckless
marriages. He neglected TO state what
other kind there is.
Sylacauga Progress; The man who
breaches that the American nation has
become heartless will not find himself
very popular in San Francisco.
Pine Belt News: The republican party
10 bOoiS Dduly dlNloSd Oit cNtly pioPcSA-
ton but one. and that is the absolute
necessity of being continued in power.
Andalusia Times: The pension office
announces that the last survivor of the
war of 1912 has just died. At that rate
we will clear the Spanish war pension roll
in 1000.
Montgomery Advertiser: A late medical
writer says that yellow is very soothing
to the eyes, and that must be the rea-
son why some people like yellow news
papers.
Gadsden Times News: Everybody can
have nice hair now is the catchy head
line of a much circulated advertisement
Yes, if everybody has the price Of a
new wig.
Marion Standard: 1t is reported that
full progress is being made at Panama.
However. Poultney Blglow is on his way
down there and another earthquake may
be expected.
Greenville Living Truth: Only wom-
ans mind can compass the reasoning
which makes that sex cut off 10 cents's
worth of sleeves in order to wear 81
worth of gloves.
Tuscumbia North Alabamian: Highway
men held up a citizen in st. Louis Sunday
and forced him to give up the price of
can of beer. That St. Louis thirst Is
something fierce
Baldwin Times: William j. Bryan claims
to have found solution to the Philip
pine problem. Now If some good soul will
find solution to the Bryan problem, the
public will feel better
Eufaula Times: Senator Depew has pub
licly declared an intention to vote against
Senator Smoot, but he don't say when
nor where. Probably that is one thing
the sage does not know.
Marion County News: If they had wanted
to pass a rate bill the republicans could
have done so long ago, but the truth Of
the matter is that they do not intend to
enact any such measure into law.
people were injured in the San Francisco
earthquake. 1t takes something more than
an earthquake to jar an Atlanta man
loose from his politics.
Demopolls Times: On account OF the
threatened prosecution for violation of the
antitrust laws the Armour and Swift
companies say they will remove their
packing industries from the Lone Star
State. But it's all stuff; they won't do 1t.
Centreville Press: The people who live
in the cities of Alabama may think they
can afford to send a railroad attorney
to the legislature and take care of the
would be the greatest political freak of
the nineteenth century.
Scottsboro Citizen: Judge Richardson,
who was declared the nominee for Con-
gress at Decatur last Thursday, he having
no opposition, has decided not to enter the
contest for the Senatorial succession The
decision Is wise one. He has taken high
rank where he is, and the people of the
Eighth district have In Judge Richardson
an able and alert congressman.
Greensboro Waterman: The suggestion
that Captain Hobson now offer for alter
nate United States senator (by the way,
emanating from a source that did all in
its power to defeat him for Congress)
will not be considered by the captain for
a moment. He is satisfied. for the pres
ent, with serving the people as their
representative in Congress from the Sixth
district. and he will represent them we'll.
Cullman Democrat: When any man is
paid a salary of more than $4,000 per
year there Is either graft or favortism In
1t. Congress ties the hands of the Presi-
dent in the matter of postoffice and other
appointments where the salary is $1,000
per year and over. This policy should be
extended to the isthman canal officials.
then Shonts would not be in the hire of
the people and a railroad at the same
time and Governor Magoon could get