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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
Near the First Division

When Manager Vaughn saw that he had a non-batting infield he quickly made three changes in it, and today that infield Is doing it's share of the teams batting This has worked remarkable change in the situation a change so great that the pennant is no longer an ironical flag. It means that the home team Is still the cham pion of the league, and that they may extend their term of championship to December, 1908.
 Too much praise cannot be awarded to the managers of the home team for quick and excellent action. There is no fair-minded person who now has any criticism to offer-no one who de- sires any further change in the line LID. It Is good enough to battle to the end, and if the team will do game and gingery playing its place will be very near, if not at, the top at the end of the season, for It's four pitchers are as a quartet unapproached in the South ern league, and the team as a whole Is fielding well and batting reasonably well. Good team work is all that is needed now, and this will no doubt be had throughout the remainder of the season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
TO POLLY.

By Mary Lee Van H. Crutchfield. To sing of Polly. lovely maid, Requires no fabled muse's aid; Her charms can inspiration give And make her poets numbers life. Venus, thy throne of Beauty yield, Nor dare dispute with her the field; Thou ne'er had won the Golden Prize Had Paris viewed my Polys eyes. In vain the goddess would compare With her for features, form and air, In Pallas self, alas! We find But a weak emblem of her mfnd Observe the Diamonds lucid blaze. Darting forth it's sparkling rays; Those shining charms could never vie With charming Pollys brighter eye. The crow who mounts on pinion high And seems to pierce the azure sky, His sable plume, however rare, Is white compared to Polly's hair. The crimson blush that paints the skies When all enlivening morn shall rise. Is but a faint attempt to show, The rose that in her cheek both glow; The lilies pleasing to the sight
 May boast indeed their vigin white But Pollys breasts both lovelier dawn Beneath their veil of envious lawn, Ye Powers above, accept my prayer, And make this lovely maid your care, Secure and keep her from all harms Till Fate shall give her to my armsi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
Cotton Speculation.

People may cry out against stock and cotton gambling and legislation restrict ing speculation in futures may be passed, but so long as brokers are allowed to carry on business anywhere, customers will not be wanting" said man about town.
 1.-TWO months ago when cotton was low and the weather was unfavorable, look CTS on became bullish. and some began to buy on margins. Within the past four or five weeks cotton futures have advanced something like cent pound-$5 bale. Scores of Birmingham men have made money. 1t is reported that one man con- nected with the cotton trade has pulled out S100,OOO in profits. These figures may be greatly exaggerated, butt I happen to have a friend who bought 2000 bales on a margin of g a bale and sold on 64 points advance. His profits were about s5O0O.
 "It is proverbial that most spectators who win keep on trading and lose in the end.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
The Cotton Prospect.

"Since the close of the rainy season and the beginning of warmer weather hope has returned to the almost despairlng cotton farmer and he has gone to work In earnest. believing that Providence will finally give him a measure of reward for honest labor" said planter from North Alabama, who was in Birmingham yesterday.
 Tn the past few days under the balmy influence of the summer sun the cotton in the fields has shown wonderful revival and the farmer is already beginning to sing as he pursues his labors.
 "Of course there Is no hope for any thing like a full average crop, but every condition has its brighter side, and while the farmer expects reduced production he can safely expect higher prices.
 And then cotton is very hardy plant, weathering most unfavorable conditions at times, and the bulk of the 1907 crop may yet be considerable If the present good weather continues the general crop condition in Alabama will be quite diff ferent."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
Moretti's Exhibit.

'"The most beautiful exhibit that I saw at the Jamestown exposition was Mo- rettPs," said J. B. Babb, secretary of the Commercial club. His sculptures are re- garded as fine works of art and as they were chiseled from Alabama marble atten- tion is thus called to a valuable product of this state not generally known to the northern public. Morettrs Is one of the few exhibits that was in place on the first of June"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
WOES OF THE sLEEPfNc CAR.

From the Saturday Evening Post.
 In passing that g-threatened bill re- quiring that upper berths shall not be made up unless occupied, the Wisconsin legislature has laid violent hands upon an honored institution and made terri ble mistake.
 Experienced travellers prefer lower berth because It Is so nearly airless as to be equivalent to an anaesthetic. Scientific experiments show that the windows are so cunningly constructed as to let the air out, but none in, except perhaps when 1t is raining or showing. The passen- ger, tightly curled within the narrow, coffinlike confines, speculates charmingly upon the beauty of the woodwork and the probable cost of the rich upholstery sometimes inhabited until advancing suffocation induces state of coma.
 The management evidently knows the real attraction of the lower berth. It has recently-so a friendly porter informs us-taken out the tiny hammocks in which lower berth passengers deposited their overcoats, hats, coats, vests, trou- sers, underwear, valuables and toilet ar ticles. The idea Is. of. course, that the more clothing one piles in the berth the more effectually will the air be excluded and the sooner one will fall asleep.
 This removal of the little hammock, by the way. is the only improvement that has been made in the sleeping car since it was invented some forty years ago. Otherwise 1t came in perfect state from the inventors brain-that is, 1t took about $3 out of every person that rode in it.
 Many passengers demanded a chance to undress without contortions, a place to hang their clothes and an opportunity to reach a lavatory without that free, democratic commingling of half-dressed people of both sexes which Is the dis tinctive matutinal feature of the sleeper. And, as was to be expected, the com pany cheerfully met these demands-not by foolishly improving the sleeper but by providing compartment cars for which the charge is about 50 per cent more.
 We should not be too severe. Most peo- pie overlook the good points of the sleep ing car-possibly because. in order 10 see them, 1t is necessary to stoop. the running-gear being underneath.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
IN DOUBT.
From Harper's Weekly.

From fddrper's weekly.
 certain young man who, according to all the accepted notions. should be very happy at this time was found by friend the other day with somewhat troubled look upon his face.
 Whats the matter. old man? Haven't had tilt, have you7' the friend inquired
 "N-no," was the reply, accompanied by a sigh. "Fact is," he continued, in burst of confidence, i've been thinking over a little remark Alice made last night
 "Oh. perhaps you misunderstood" the friend suggested, encoura gingly.
 ''I hope so," was the reply. You see, we were talking of-well, how things would be, you know, and Alice said:
 And won't 1t be just too sweet; you wifi come home all tired out from your hard days work. and hold me on your lap for hours. and read to me, and drive all my cares away, and dry my tears, and rub my head-and it will be just like a nOvelp "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

and no more than his duty. If there have been tax dodgers they propose to find them and make them pay their just pro- portions of the expenses of the state, as well as the counties and cities in which they own property. With such men as Governor Conner. Lieutenant Governor Gray. Senator Nat Miller. and Jefferson's representatives in the lower house of the state legislature. there need be no fear on the part of fair minded property own CTS of Jefferson county that they shall be imposed upon.
 As matter of fact. there has been more activity in the real estate market in Birmingham during the last three days than at any time within nine months past. Much property has changed hands. and I am told that several large sums of money have been borrowed for improve ments upon real estate. which will add materially to Birmingham. Indeed, every body seems to be in good humor here and every one who owns something is f1gur- ing oh improving it. We all applaud the man who does something-the man who wears smile and who seeks to make two blades of grass where one grew before. It is indeed easier to wear rainbow than frown. And it strikes me that since the settlement of all these alleged labor troubles all of Birmingham is enveloped in good humor and each man Is striving for the betterment of the community in the way that he might think best.
 The indications are that this will be the most prosperous summer Birmingham has ever had.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
INED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE. GOOD
 HUMOR WHICH IS DEVELOPING BIRMINGHAM

N IRMINGHAAT has settled down to @1 business again. The street car
 strike. or lockout. or whatever one might see fit to call it, has fzzled out. The sympathetic strike is a thing of the past; and Birmingham is going ahead in It's own natural enthusiastic and confident way.
 The people of Birmingham believe in the town and It's future. The klckers may press themselves and to raise bit of row, but the substantial people come to their senses quickly and are always ready to put their shoulders to the wheel to make this the greatest city of the south. which 1t is undoubtedly destined to be.
 It was unfortunate that he had to advertise to the world that Birmingham was liable to be a second San Francisco in labor troubles, by virtue of having pro- fessional labor agitators come into our midst to stir up trouble simply for the profits that they might. be able to make out of it.
 Had 1t not been for the fact that the sheriff's office is in charge of real men and that the Mayor of Birmingham is possessed of courage fairness and judg- ment, Birmingham might have been made Into second San Francisco. As it was, however. the agitators have gone; the real workers have settled down to busi- ness and the town is going ahead faster than 1t has ever gone.
 As a matter of fact, living Is high in Birmingham. but the skilled laborer and mechanic and the man who knows his business, earns more in Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

than in any other city in the south. Wages are higher and everything is bet ter here than anywhere else in the south; and the people are really more content than in any othr section of this country.
 So what is the use of anybody being in a bad humor? The trade of the merchant was somewhat off for time, but yester- day there was more buying in Birming- ham than there has been on any satur- day for a year past. And this morning every man, whether he be merchant, man. ufacturer, miner or mechanic wakes con tent and in good humor.
 There is no place in Birmingham for the kicker. We want none of him here.
 Speaking about kickers, some of the owners of real estate in Birmingham have been making much ado about the pro- posed increase in tax assessments. Yet I understand that Lieutenant Governor Gray ana otner stale OFFICIALS ana leg1S- lators propose to put through bill at the July session of the legislature decreasing the tax rate 80 that property owners in Jefferson county will practically pay the same that they have heretofore paid. Tho idea of the state board of tax commis- sioners is merely to equallze taxation in the several counties of the state, and I don't think that in the end Jefferson county, or the property owners in 1t, will have to pay any more than they are justly entitled to pay.
 The state board of tax commissioners Is composed of good men. They simply want every property holder to do his duty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
A MAYOR KISSED 1000 BABIES.
One Illinois Anti-Race Suicide Advo-
 cate Very Busy at Picnic.
.om the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 Alton, H., June 5.--Mayor Beall Of AL ton, known as the "stork' mayor be- cause he continuously breaches anti-race suicide and offers prizes for babies, Kissed about 100 babies at a Sunday school pie mic yesterday.
 '.I don't know who this doctor Is that spoke at Atlantic City about 1t being dan- gerous to kiss babies, but certainty ne never has experienced the sweet Kisses and caresses of children. l have HVed ffty-eght years, weigh 235 pounds ana I have kissed many thousands or papies. Why. I'm going to the north side school picnic this afternoon. and I'll wager I'll kiss 1000 babies while I'm there.
 After the picnic was over 1t was esti- mated that the mayor had made good ms boast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
SUCCESS.

He asked no odds of any man
 He simply went his way And labored hard from morn to night For very little pay. Few comforts came to solace him
 And Joy was hard to find. But hope was ever in his heart
 And plans were in his mind To wrest a share of worldly goods
 From fortune, ere she knew Just what her humble suitor had
 Determined he would do. Therefore, the hero of this tale
 Kept one eye on hls chance And with the other measured still
 The rate of his advance Until he saw what seemed to be
 A way to sudden wealth And took 1t, tho endangering
 His honor and his health. His pile now made. how sweet 1t seems To recollect the time When he was glad enough to buy
 A sandwich for a dime. But sweeter far it is to pass
 His former neighbors by, Assured that his prosperity
 Will make them want to cry!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM

Tuscaloosa Gazette: There Is a great sigh of relief over the state that the Birmingham strike seems to be over and no trouble came from it.
 Russell Register: Birmingham has se- cured the Confederate Veterans reun- ion for next year. The Magic City will have to hustle in order to be able to entertain so large a gathering of people. It would never do for Alabama to do the thing by halves. And we do not be- lieve that Birmingham will rest until she is prepared to do the thing right.
 Montgomery Advertiser: The working men Of the Birmingham district are to be congratulated for the wisdom they displayed They showed their sound sense when they refused to quit their jobs in a sympathetic strike because the Bir- mingham Street Railway company exer- cised its right to choose its own em- ployes. And Birmingham Is to be con- graduated at the happy issue of the threatened trouble.
  is glad with Birmingham that it secured the Confederate reunion. The success of the reunion next year will be a mat ter of pride of the state as we'll as of Birmingham. It will mean much to many Alabama veterans, who were unable to attend the reunions held in other states Montgomery congratulates Birmingham and is willing to help where 1t can for the success of the reunion.
 Marion Standard: The Montgomery pa- pers put 1t that Alabama was chosen as the place for the next reunion of the old vets. Surely Montgomery does not look upon Birmingham as Alabama" This reminds us of the story once told on Dr. Beatty, the once famous physi- clan Of Rome, Ga. He studied in Paris and made reputation there. After his return home a learned French physician was asked where the American Magic City Birmingham was located. He replied that Alabama was located in Birmingham and Birmingham was located in the home of pr. Beatty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Somehow children make you think of eating their way into heaven.
 Girls handkerchiefs are almost as big as their shoestrings for their pumps.
 When man writes a girl love letter she knows he means it and he thinks he does
 A woman likes to think her husband could be bad man if he didn't love her so much.
 Most men make more fuss over having their wives sit in their lap than over heavy dumbbell exercise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
REPLIES.

All the world loves a maker of good pies-also the pies.
 Man is hluest when life is leaden gray. Many heart beats true that the world never hears.
 Matchmakers should have to pay for the divorce.
 Maybe. somewhere we shall get credit for what we hoped to do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
FIRE ALARM FORAkER.

From the Chattanooga Star.
 "Foraker issues almost as many proc lamations as a South American revolu- tionary leader,' says the Birmingham Age-Herald. Well, what are you going to do about 1t? Isn't he a North Amer ican revolutionary leader?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

Richard Crober has won the Derby, but he cannot follow in the footsteps of Lord Rosebery by becoming pre- mier and marrying the richest woman in England
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

President Roosevelt travels a good deal, but he cannot eclipse the pedo- meter of his understudy, William Howard Taft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

A man in Indiana wants divorce from his wife because she has joined a religious sect called "Gliggy Bluks. Can you blame him?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
ALABAMA PRESS

Talladega Reporter: The United States court in Mobile fined the lattery grafters $260,S00. Worse than drawing blank
 Gadsden Journal: Suppress the vag- rant. The loafer has no rights that the honest working man should have to re- spect He's a dead fish in the pond, and his contaminating influence should be eliminated.
 Anniston Hot Blast: President Roose- welt is a brave man when he hastens to the call of the wild, but a body of old Confederate soldiers, carrying guns and the United States flag, seems to have given him the shivers.
 Union Springs Herald A Texas man. remarks an exchange Is telling about trout that seized and swallowed rabbit that was trying to swim across Texas stream Texas being big state, produces big things. We are not alluding. however, to the size of either the trout or the rabbit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

MT. Bryan will be forty-eight years old in 1908, and the esteemed republi- can papers are insinuating that he should wait until 1912.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
YOUNG EplSoN's WAY.

From the Boston Globe.
 Thomas A. Edison makes 1t rule to arise at 5:30 a. m--whch is generally understood to be about the time when Thomas A. Edison, Jr., goes to bed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

Thomas Sharpneck and Miss Hilsa- beck were married in Ohio. The bride groom was better looking than his name would indicate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

Dr. Long may have sized up the wolf truthfully, but 1t Is plain he does not know Pete, the presidential bulldog, or Teddy. the presidential naturalist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

The Emperor of corea draws his pay and holds the title, but he is not to interfere in any manner with the government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

California has ordered more than twelve tons of limburger cheese. Is this another move to run the Japs out?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

The President will never keep the boys on the farms unless he brings to the farm comic operas and vaudeville shows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
THE LAST STRAW.

 The man who pays the freight Is dad Of that you may be sure. And yet, of all the load he bears 'Tis hardest to endure The idle filings of those who think It quite joke to say That father has but little use For money, any wayl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

A contemporary editorial entitled, n Elucidation of the Hiatus" will not get many readers these days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

The arm of the federal government is constantly more searching in it's quest for impure food articles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

The North Pole may have to take a header in order to escape Walter We'll man, who is about to sail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

Another man named Caruso has been fined $10 for annoying woman. He couldn't sing this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

Garden truck and the crops in the fields are growing day and night in their effort to make up for lost time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

The Boston & Maine railroad will in- troduce summer to its patrons on Juno 10 barring slips.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
QUICK RELEAS SE

It is said that France has 2,9oo, GOO dogs. Every one of those dogs has his day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

Editor Box is now an IL. D.. which may possibly mean Doctor of Lingerie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

Mayor Beall of Alton, H., is said to have kissed 1000 babies at picnic the other day. That man will be president vet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

The remarkable MT. Orchard was a man who did not believe in letting cen sus tables run riot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

The true way to punish Howard Gould and his wife is to compel them to live together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

That Orchard ruffian should have been nipped in the bud.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

On Broadway they often say: There's another Pittsburg millionaire and his bride"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

A late crop of Teddy bears is on display in second avenue window.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

Within the Castle of Despair
 Is gloom, beyond a doubt, But should you ever languish there, A smile will let you out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

J. Ham Lewis Is Voliya's lawyer, and the fight goes merrily on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

English society has not yet recov- cred it's breath from the shock of the Croker Derby.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

All unmarried women are called girls in the newspapers, tho some of them are old girls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

Corea is being gumshoed of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

The mayor of Milwaukee has decided not to go os the stage. Let us all heave a sigh of relief! BALLAD OF THE SUMMER TIME. The juicy days are now at hand when
 everybody mops His streaky, soggy features as he goes. Oh, life's a bore to any man, no matter
 where he stops, When the sweat begins to tricl1le down
 his nose. Electric fans may buzz away and tce
 clink in the glass In places where Milwaukee fluid flows, But there's no joy upon the earth for any
 one, alas,
 When the sweat begins to trickle down
 his nose. You talk about your swell resorts and pleasures by the sea And cottages of love beneath the rose, What chance has any cheer up bard for
 stimulating gee When the sweat begins to trickle down
 his nose?
 Beef is sky-high," says a headline. The COW has been jumping over the moon again.
 Another way to get rich quick is to open drug store In Topeka and sell whisky on prescription. A female reformer wrecked a saloon Tn Kansas with a baseball bat. Yet they say woman can't bat. Edna May s gurglins about domes- ticity. Twill soon wear off.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
THE MODERN CRAZE.

IfiE MODEftN CffAAE
 Rallies was caught making off with a basket of silver "Ah, good evening, MT. Jones!' he remarked to the man in paja- mas. "No harm intended, assure youl merely desired a few souvenirs of our acquaintance. We were introduced at the seallowby ball So, glad to have seen you! Good nightr'
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Seth Bullock may be depended on to endorse anything that President Roose- welt says.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

Few airships sail up to the schedules of their projectors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

Addlcks, at any rate, is not presi- dental candidate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

Entered at the Birmingham Ala. postof1ioe as seeond- class matter under act of Congress March 8, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

The season is backward in every respect except blooming June brides.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

70, my lamb" weeps a poet. Spring lamb, we presume