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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
Mexico and Guatemala

Guatemala lies on the Mexican bor- der, stretching from the Pacific ocean to the Gulf of Honduras, which Is a part of the Caribbean sea. Were 1t not for British Honduras, Guatemala would have as long a shore line on the one sea as the other. It Is no unimportant country that President Cabrera pre- sides over, and any serious trouble be- tween Mexico and Guatemala may presage the absorption of the latter by the former.
 When President Barillas was driven out of Guatemala he fled to Mexico, and he was assassinated in the latter country. The Mexican authorities say that General Lima, commander of the Guatemalan army, was at the bottom of the political crime, and they demand the extradition of General Lima. This demand Guatemala refuses to comply with, and possibly diplomatic relations between the two republics will be broken off. If so, 1t is feared restless characters will stir up troubles that will in turn lead to war and the occu- patton by Mexico of Guatemala. Inn mediate war between the two is not anticipated.
 Guatemala insists that no treaty ex- ists that authorizes Mexico to call for Guatemalan citizen. The existing treaty relates to fugitives and not to resident citizens. At any rate, General Lima is not to be handed over to the mercies of Mexican courts, and Mexico will have to solve her murder problem in some other way.
 Guatemala holds about two millions of people, largely of Indian blood, and she has a standing army of 56,000 men, which can readily be increased to 100,- 900 men. General Diaz could, perhaps, conquer Guatemala, but the task would be neither brief nor light, and perhaps the entire scrmmage will yet settled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
DISEASE SPREAD BY INSECTS.
rom American Medicine.

From American Medicine.
 The spreading of disease by insects as now proving to be much more common than was believed to be the case but a year or two ago, or even a few months ago. The greatest attention has hitherto been given to those diseases wherein tho insect acts the part of secondary host in which the parasite undergoes some kind of change not possible in man-malaria. yellow fever filaria, Texas fever. etc. It Is interesting to find increasing attention being given to the possibility of the me chanical transmission of infective organ isms from man to man by means of the commoner insects, flies, bedbugs, reaches and f1eas. There Is no reasonable doubt that in recent wars files were responsible for the transfer of typhoid bacilli to foods which were not screened.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
EIourlshinn Pine Plant.

John J. Egan of Atlanta is registered at the Hotel Hillman. He is president of the American Cast Iron Pipe company, one of the new and prosperous concerns operating at North Birmingham.
 We have every reason to feel satis- fled with our pipe business,' said MT. hgan. "The company has frst-class plant and is having good demand for all its output
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
Going to Europe.

Tt is within reason to say that three times as many Birmingham people have engaged passage for trips across the Atlantic this summer as ever went abroad in any previous year." said Leo K. Stei- ner, who represents a number of steam ship lines. This demand for steamer tickets has come with a rush. While many persons are engaging passage on fast lines, not few are buying tickets by the slower and cheaper ships. Some persons who do not stand back on cost, take the slow lines because they like to be as long as possible on the sea.
 Our people now think no more of talk ing trip to Europe than they did ten years ago going to Washington or New York. And all this. of course, denotes prosperity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
Truck Farmlnq.

"The demand for truck farms within a radius of twenty-five or thirty miles of Birmingham is quite active" said B.. F. Eborn. There Is no better land for small farming in the south than we have in this section. It is especially well adapted to berries and orchard fruits.
 Apples, pears and plums thrive in the Birmingham district and farmers who have had several years of experience in raising these fruits say that they are very profitable. The fact that Birming- ham is & great market Is causing farm values in this part of the state to rise in value. While there has been good deal of trucking in our region this industry is still In Its infancy. I expect to see large development along this line within the next ten years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
A GREAT SURPRISE.

From the Cleveland Leader.
 Grandma-Were you surprised to have me come and visit you?
 Johnny-Not so surprised as mamma was.
 Grandma-Why, she knew I was com- ing.
 Johnny-Yes; what she was surprised at was papa's language when she told him about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
PRACTICE OF SIN EATING

would command in their last will and tes- lament the attendance of a sin eater, and while in sound health would provide a mazard for the occasion.
 In Scotland salt and bread were placed on the breast of the corpse and the sin eater before partaking would repeat series of incantations, as did Neil Ross in the story. Fifty years ago in Wales, IS possibly today, district had it's pro- fessional sin eater, who received for each service 2s Sd. After he had eaten the bread and salt he would vanish as quickly as he could, and the friends of the dead would speed him with blows and kicks.
 Was this practice a survival of the rites and ceremonies attending the send ing away of the seapego2t into the wilder ness Oevit, xvi 21. 22)? A Pope Alexan- der In the second century in a decretaI epistle mentioned "the dignity of priests who, by their prayers and offerings, eat up the sins of the people," Or did sin eating come down from the early heather In the British Isles? Two more ques- tons: Was this practice ever observed in New England? Is the custom of serv- ing food at funerals connected In any way with the superstition?
 It does not appear that the payment varied with the innocence or the guilt of the dead man. The Rev. Augustus Toplady, arguing that as we never come up to that holiness which God requires, and therefore we sin every second of our existence, stated that any boy of 10 years has 315,036,O00 sins charged against him; that any man of 80 years must account for 600 sins Toplady recognized no. sin as venial It would seem that the highest price, two half-crowns, would be inadequate for assuming sins of even a 14-yearold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From tha New York preSs

Providence doesn't seem 10 work over time lowering our rent for cs.
 A woman has queer idea about any one who wears false hair unless it's herself.
 One nice thing about real modesty is the way it doesn't feel called upon to blush when there Is no occasion for it.
 Clergymen are very useful to serve as examples of a job you cant make any money in unless you marry it.
 The average sympathizer expects a man who hasn't money enough to get square meals to be thankful he has a Good appetite.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
PRESS POINTS

Pittsburg Sun: Latin American politics is doing its best to bolster up the fading belief in literal hell.
 Atlanta Journal: We hope we shall have as much spring this summer as we have had winter this spring.
 Shreveport Times: We shudder to think what will happen when Richmond Pear son Hobson and Gen. Baron Kuroki meet at Jamestown.
 Houston Post: It is said that John W. Gates will have in his retirement s1O,- 100000 of a fortune that was once s60, 00O,- O00. Well, John Is getting old and ten bets left is not bad.
 Arkansas Gazette: The Nashville Amer ican says: You couldn't see the town for the people yesterday" But few people and one COW will obscure the view of Nashville at any time.
 Washington Herald: That soothsayer who prophecies the expected Spanish royal youngster will be a girl seems to be about as popular in Spain as the weather man is in this country.
 Ohio Sun: A workman smoking a pipe fell over a 2OO-foot bluff in a St. Louis stone quarry. When picked up he was uninjured and still smoking. This shows the advantages of using tobacco.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

Mabelle Gilman's trousseau contains some gowns described as deliberately simple" That probably means they cost lot of money without particu- larly showing it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

defeat justice. Still the courts seem
 powerless to interfere There should be no clamor, indeed for any procedure that would deny justice, but the question is pressing hard upon us whether or not there is any way of securing justice except by the present practice of let ting the trial go on as long as counsel desire to drag It. The interminable length of many trials comes dangerously near being a burlesaue and q scandal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

idence Journal. That's a high and mighty way to talk about an insect that has never yet obeyed orders. Every man at his work" is a state ment that can never be truthfully made until the busybodies are shut up tight and all the critics are dead.
 ALWAYS THE WAY.
 Nobody really cares,
 Unless e
 The pain that hurts is his,
 I guess. Ellen Terry is trying it again-meaninE matrimony. The Alhambra Is badly in need of re- pairs. If all the people who build castles in Spain were assembled at Granada they could restore the old palace in a iiffy.
 IN AUGUST.
 Just now we say,
 Gee whiz, I think
 That spring is sim
 Ply on the blinki
 'T never saw
 Such days before
 And never want
 To any morel"
 But when July
 Has come and gone
 And men perspire
 With nothing on, % @
 We'll pant for breath
 Beneath the trees
 And loudly cry,
 Turn on the breezer' Ambassador Bryce, in saying that Amer lea needed poets, came very near mak- ing his first unpopular statement. The near-poets hate to be told that they are near-poets and the public hates to be reminded of the near-poets. For heavens sake let's have some real weather" cries contemporary in Ohio. Those words came straight from the heart!
 The crocus Is pre-eminently the spring poets flower. IN CONCLUSION. We don't feel long on sentiment Today, Our stock of poesy wreaths is spent, And say, We'll just endite a simple line To fit This vacant place, oh, heart of mine, And quit! PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

Miss Gilman is mistaken when she says Both MT. Corey's family and mine will be at the wedding" for the true and original Mrs. Corey will not he there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
Which Boy Is Liable?

This job of mine certainly is cinch to drive me to the foolish house." sighed a new policeman yesterday. People tackle me every day and ask me questions that 1t would take a prophet to answer, and if man had a college education some of the men and women who are looking for information would make him feel like a freshman taking an examination in the senior class.
 The worst proposition I have been up against was when woman came at me the other day and wanted to snap my head off because l said was not law yer. She has threatened to have the mat ter reported and have me fired.
 Her little boy, according to her state ment, was playing ball with another lit tie boy on one of the side streets. One little boy threw the ball and the other little boy struck it with bat and sent it flying through a window The man that owned the house threatened to have both the boys arrested unless 1t was paid for, and she wanted to know which Of the boys was responsible She explained that if the first boy had thrown the ball so that the other boy could have batted 1t straight 1t never would have gone through the glass, and when l began to see the logic of that she changed her tac- tics and explained that if the second boy had not struck the ball when he ought to have known he could not bat 1t straight, no damage would have been done.
 "When I told her that I was neither lawyer nor a member of the Birming- ham Baseball club, therefore l couldn't decide the question, she got as mad as hornet, and said she was going to re- port me. Just out of curiosity l am going to write the sporting editor of The Age Herald and find out the baseball side of the question, then I'll ask some corpor- ation lawyer to decide the law in the case.
 "The woman said that down in Mont gomery both would have been liable, but thank goodness this is not Montgomery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

beneficiary under the new state laws than the travelling men for they have been getting a ? or 21a cent rate for several Years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

The Washington Herald deprecates tendency to knock the Jamestown exposition. That's right. Give the show chance to get on it's props.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

One of the Steel Trusts uncles de- scribes the bride as that painted thing of the stage" He will not be bidden to the wedding feast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

A Wisconsin preacher who describes New York as an edition de luxe of hell probably got his idea from the better class of restaurants and hotels in that town
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

The Paleface welcomes the red man back to Jamestown, as warmly as the latter welcomed the former three hun dred years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

Mexico proposes to give Guatemala a dose of her Monroe Doctrine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

 CHANGING BACK. A mellow light
 A book-that's all And fancy's free
 To heed the call Of glad romance
 In other days,
 When heroes went
 Their gallant ways And maids were fair
 And sweet and true And there was not
 Much else to do, Save to make love
 And fight and play And pass the gold
 En time away.
 Methinks, 1t was
 More fun to live In those old days
 And take and give With right good will,
 And roam around Where CT advent
 Ire could be found, Than 'tis today,
 When ardor cools And each one has
 His little rules. People who do not wish to be called undesirable citizens may avoid such contingency by becoming desirable. When Chicago woman gets ready to say something harsh about her husband in a divorce court she stops at nothing. One advantage that a highball has over a golf ball is that nobody ever loses a highball. K atll Islliil
 GETTING A REST. The voice of bold reform is hushed At least, 'tis not so loud And persons who did rake the muck No longer draw a crowd. With joy we note this state of things, Because 1t makes us sad To hear that every mans a crook And all the world is bad. tlTha r,nneni1Itc r,,ilst tl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

It seems that every effort is being made to scare up some sort Of past TOT the late Galusha A. Grow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

The papers in the woolly west are giving Jack Frost notice that he IS wearing out his welcome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

Tn Kansas City rainstorm turned to sleet instead of beer, and the people were greatly disappointed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
COMING CLEAR.

Don't try to keep from hearing
 When the joy bells start to ring, Don't spend the time in growing
 If you really want to sing, Don't plan to make it darker
 Than twas ever meant to be, For the tolls that bind are breaking And laugh will set you freel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

There are no chorus girls in the Moyer-H Haywood case, and It VIII not interest the "400."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

Nebraska lives in the hope that the blizzards will after a while forget where to find her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

Hartman has gone back to sit down until the time comes to get together another slush fund.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

We cannot expect real peace and springlike weather until the Corey-Gil- man wedding is pulled off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

John l.. Sullivan denies that he is about to enter the matrimonial ring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

The Kansas farmer considers the green bug an undesirable citizen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

The weather bureau has the brain storm habit and it cannot get back to normality. This scientific explanation costs nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

If Ella Wheeler Wilcox ever had a thought that she didn't share with the public there is no record of 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

Mabelle Gilman and her old man race fate when they are willing to be mar ried on the 18th day of the month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

Jamestown postage stamps can be purchased, but they do not come any lower than the regular kind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

John Temple Graves is not persona grata either at the White House or at Lincoln, Neb.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

A lot of glad preparations are being made at the summer resorts, In spite of springs delay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

Spring millinery Is tied up in the middle west by the edict of the weather bureau.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

Any rise in wheat will be more due to the speculation microbe than to the green bug.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
ALABAMA PRESS

Anniston Hot Blast: It is proposed to unearth an ancient theatre at Rome. We have some of its jokes on the stage now, apparently.
 Huntsville Mercury: In the contest for the negro vote of Ohio the President has the advantage of Foraker in that he has the appointing power to office, and he is disposed to use it..
 Mobile Herlad Oklahoma has sent a 70-year-old murderer to prison for ninety nine years. He hopes to get eighteen years taken off for good conduct. Hope never dies in the human breast.
 Anniston Star: Atlanta ministers, at a recent meeting, decided that there is no such thing as total depravity,' yet lots of people will persisit in thinking their enemies totally depraved. if not worse
 Athens Courier: The Evans and Brown low factions are at war in Tennessee, and the democrats are enjoying the fun. Evans seems to be getting the best of the fight in the matter of securing pie for the faithful Evansites
 Mobile Register: A silver casket, d beautiful work of art made from a thousand doubloons is the historical pres ent which the province of Asturas will make to the heir to the Spanish throne. It is now ready.-Press dispatch. Every thing is ready except the stork. 
 Gadsden Journal: It Is said that Fath- CT George was tilted four times before Mrs. Custis accepted him as a suitor for her hand. This only goes to show the sort of stuff Colonel Washington was made of and emphasizes the char acteristics that brought him immor- tality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

MT. Bryan repudiates the doctrine of evolution without applying the referen- dunn to it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

There is plenty of sunshine above the clouds, but it is not easy to sail that high.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

Listen as you may, you can't hear a word of sympathy for Mrs. Yerkes- MiZner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

This country is not suffering from a surplus of summer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

Some of the false teeth we see adver- tised in newspapers have a hideous grin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

Anniston Hot Blast: It is proposed to unearth an ancient theatre at Rome. We have some of its jokes on the stage now, apparently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

Atlanta Journal: We hope we shall have as much spring this summer as we have had winter this spring
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

Pittsburg Sun: Latin American politics is doing its best to bolster up the fading belief in a literal he'll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

Ellen Terry is trying it again-meanins matrimony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

ALWAYS THE WAY. Nobody really cares, Unless The pain that hurts is his, I guess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

The Alhambra Is badly in need of re- pairs If all the people who build castles in Spain were assembled at Granada they could restore the old palace in a jiffy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

"The mosquito must go," says the Prov
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09

Every man at his work" is a state ment that can never be truthfully made until the busybodies are shut up tight and all the critics are dead.
The daily sentinel., 1907-10-03

The Studebaker wagons and bug
gies have stood the test of time. M
Cary sells them. See his line befo
you buy.
The daily sentinel., 1907-10-03
Real Estate Bargains

No. $3.50 acres of good land for
only s1,050.00 in a neigh borhooi
where raw land is held at 100000
per acre. This is by far the best
bargain on our list.
No. S46.-40 acres of High Line, red
soil. Tract adjoining recently
sold for 10000 per acre. Very
easy terms II desired. VIII
liduS. luUU.UO
No. 2S4.-15 acres l Ia miles from
Clifton, nearly all IN bearing or
chard and good varieties. $4,000 90
We are anxious to get few more
good places on our list. as we think
there is going to be something doing
In real estate this fall. No matter
how large or how small your prop
erty, we will make an effort to sell
1t for you.
MAGILL s WALKER
533 Main.
Phone Black 1887.
The daily sentinel., 1907-10-03
NAPOLEON BoNAPARTE

showed, at the battle of Austerlitz,
he was the greatest Leader in the
world. Ballard's Snow Liniment has
shown the public it is the best Lini-
ment in the world. A quick cure for
rheumatism, Sprafns. Burns, Cuts,
etc. A. C. Pitts, Rodessa, La, says:
II use Ballard's Snow Liniment in
my family and find it unexcelled for
sore chest, headache, corns. in fact
for everything that can be reached
by lihiment.'
For sale by C. d. Smith & Co.
The daily sentinel., 1907-10-03
Velvet Flour

The w. F. White Mer. Co are
agents for the Famous Velvet
Flour OF. which you have heard
so much. Try a sack and Won
will be satisfied.
The daily sentinel., 1907-10-03
Did
Y Ou
Ever
Phone Black 1887.

hear man say II my father had
bought that piece of property fifteen
years ago he'd be independent today.
Your son will be saying the same of
you fifteen years hence. So get busy
on the following and l havo others:
room modern house. furnace. bath,
etc. only -. ZOO
room modern house, furnace. oath
etc, only ..............S $50
room house. city water. 81, 100
SO acres, hlgh line land. only, per
80 acres well improved, trade for
city property. only $4,000
Come In and see me about your
Fire Insurance, city or ranch proper
y for trade. Money to loan on real
estate.
The daily sentinel., 1907-10-03

On October 10th, we will give
to the lady who bakes the Best
Loaf of Bread from Velvet Flour
100 pounds of this choice brand
and for the second best SO lbs
For Particulars Call at the
The daily sentinel., 1907-10-03
For sale by C. d. Smith q Co.

Very low rates over the Denver C
Rio Grande to Durango and return,
account of Colorado-New Mexico
fair and Indian carnival, October 2
to 5. Call on D. & r. G. agent for
particulars.
The daily sentinel., 1907-10-03

The Colorado Midland has made
to run a through train
to Aspen on the morning of the End
and 3rd for people wishing to at
tend the Tri-County fair.
The daily sentinel., 1907-10-03
NO INTENTION
OF KNOCKING

A. c. Newton Replies to Fair Secretary's At
tack on His Discussion of the Handling of
Fruit and Other Exhibits--Gives Some Figures
Intended to Show How Cheaply Fruit Inter-
ests Were Held by the AssociationA Total
of S3O3.5O Paid for Individual Exhibits--Mr.
Newton Refrains From Personalities.
The daily sentinel., 1907-10-03

Visitors to the fair are invited to
call at Miller's Candy Kitchen, 52S
Main and try some of our delicious
candies and ice cream. 10c a dish
The daily sentinel., 1907-10-03

Have your half soles sewed on.
Prices same as nailed. LATER. Oppo-
site postofiice.
The daily sentinel., 1907-10-03
Van, the Realty Nan,
400 Main S.
Phone Black s6a

Our special cloth finish linen writ
Ing paper, regular 25 cent kind this
week for 15 cents at the and 10 cent
store.
The daily sentinel., 1907-10-03

A moonlight ride just now is de-
lightful in an auto. Make up a par
ty. Phone Black 5S4.