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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

scarcity of money is partly due to the tremendous volume of general busi- ness and partly to over-speculation and oyer-promotions. The spectators and promoters have been knocked out, but general business has not been and cannot be, while crops are abundant.
 And they are abundant. The winter wheat crop will admit of free exports. The spring wheat crop is promising. A great corn crop will be grown if frosts do not come until October, and there will be a wealth of cotton picked if killing frosts are delayed until No Yember These great crops will make good times and good times are beyond reasonable doubt to stay with Us de- spite Wall street flurries and the stringency in the money market.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28
THE CRAWL CURE.

From the New York World.
 From Berlin is reported the crawl cure'' for certain ailments and deformities. The patients pad their knees and toes and creep about the room in a circle. Some of them crowl with one side much higher than the other. to correct an unsymmet- rical carriage.
 These exercises are not fantastic. Man has never fully changed from the stoop- ing posture which Darwin attributed to ape ancestry. The crawl stroke' in swim ming is by many experts considered the fastest for a short spurt Metchnikoff traces frequent ills in the human sys- tenn to the failure of an originally stoop- ing frame to become fully adapted to an upright posture.
 Anthropologlsts give many curious instances of surviving traces of quad rupedal walking. A lost child suckled ana reared by wolves or other wild beasts does not learn to walk upright. but de- velops creeping callouses on his hands and kr ees. Romulus and Remus in the old Roman legend. Mowgli in Kipling's tale, are the dressed-up. fabled form of the shuffing, creeping. untitelligent man cub of exceedingly rare fact.
 Specifically, crawling is good for the digestion and for the muscles of the legs. arms, chest and back of the neck. It counteracts stoop shoulders-that Is, it would if people tried 1t. Few will. It looks and sounds too much like prac- ucal joke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28
DIseusTED SOUTHERN COLONEL

From the Bohemian Magazine.
 They tell story of a Mississippi col onel who, while visiting Berlin. had en- unused over the fine appearance of the military arm, until one day on Unter den Linden his toothpick slipped from his mouth and an expression of horror over spread his countenance. Approaching him was 8 magnificent specimen of an officer of hussars, debonair. alert. very impos- ing in his red tunic with white frogs, his well cut riding brooches and gleamng boots. From the flap of his shako to the tip of his sabretasche he was the ideal of a beau militaire. except that he was as black a negro as ever toiled in cotton field. while on his arm simpered ra- diant German girl. It is said that the outraged colonel left by the next train for Vienna
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28
Like a Niqht In June.

Have you noticed how nice Jupiter Pluvlus has scted during these dog days" sighed a happy -go-lucky fellow last night.
 AS a rule the old fellow gets stirred up considerably during these days and turns the hose on us in great shape, but this year I think the old man Is over sleeping himself. If 1t Is true he has so far forgotten himself as to soak us while we were roofing for our pennant winners. but l readily forgive him when he allows us to have days like those we had today. I suppose you will say I am apt to rue all this bragging and that the man with the hose is apt to wake up at any minute and give me such a drench- ing that no amount of pressing will ever put my clothes into shape again. but I can't help bragging on a night like this"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

From the Montomery Advertiser
 The legislature that adjourned cannot show wherein it has been specially friendly to the 700,Ooo children in the public schools. It did nobly for the hand fuls that attend the special schools, but 1t did comparatively little for the many in the public schoos.-Birmingham Age Herald.
 The increase in appropriations for the public schools for the year 1s07-o9 is s3Oo,0O0 and for each of the three sue ceeding years s35o,OOO. That is not a very ba-. showing. Besides this. if there is an increase in tax valuations the public schools will get an additional sum of 90 cents on the hundred dollars. It is generally understood that there will be very large addition to the tax valuations and the schools will obtain from this ss"roA at least S150.o0o more money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28
JUDGE JONES AND ALABAMA.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat
 Judge Jones. who presides over fed eral court in Alabama and who has taken up the anti-states rights fight where Judge Prftchard of North Carolina left off, received a brief but valuable lesson in legal ethics yesterday. When the hear ing on the injunction sued out by the Louisville and Nashville railroad against the Alabama authorities, restraining them from enforcing the new rate laws was opened yesterday at Montgomery, the state attorneys failed to appear. Finally, in response to a telephone summons, Att torney General Garber presented himself and announced that the counsel for the state had reached the conclusion not to enter an appearance fin the case. This decision. he added. was based upon the Issuance by Judge Jones of an elaborate opinion upon the case prior to the hear ing and before counsel had been given an opportunity to argue the questions in- volved This action, so far as the at- torney general knew. was unprecedented, and the attorneys for the state consider ed m Indl on lno part Ol luc NOui |. 4Ho attorney general then withdrew from the court room and the railroad attorneys and the judge proceeded with the hear ing.
 The rebuke to Judge Jones will doubt less meet with the hearty approval of Alabamians and many outside the state who have followed the sensational case and the actions of the court will regard it as thoroughly deserved. While it's ef- feet upon the case at bar is problem atieal, 1t will at any rate call public at- tention to the unfortunate habit of cer- tan federal judges to rush into print and by a premature defense anticipate their own subsequent rulings. thus in- dicating that the issues have been pre- judged and that no amount of argument on the part of counsel will alter their opinions. Fortunately the judges of this class are few: they can easily be counted upon the fingers of one hand. Most of the jurists elevated to the federal bench have sufficient regard for the proprieties to accord the counsel upon both sides a hearing before announcing their conclu- sions.
 The lesson administered to the Ala bama judge Is timely. and it may even prove a shrewd tactical stroke on the part of the attorney general. as it draws attention directly to the mental attitude of the jurist and suggests his apparent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28
Business and the Fall Season

These are the last days of the pop ular summer season-the very last week of it. On Sunday next we will enter upon a month with an 'r'' fin it, and that means a great deal to the hope and imagination of the vaca- ton seeker at least. It means that cool nights are close at hand; that cot ton bolls are opening-that mosquitoes are either disappearing or are disabled, and that the work of the cool months of the year is to be taken up and pros ecuted vigorously.
 Let no one tell you that there will not be plenty of work forfall workers after September 1. The entire coun- try is throbbing with real life and en- ergy. The very scarcity of money shows that general business is main Ained at maximum. The fact is, the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28
BIRTH OF SONGS.
How Some Famous Hits of the Day
 Originated.

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 l The story of every popular song of the day is suggested by an accident or incident" said Fred Hager, the we'll known music publisher and composer of Laughing Water" "The Midnight Fly err Miss Dixie" and a score of other successes. No song comes from a long. deep thinking. though I admit a great deal of word building Is required after the suggestion occurs"
 This set the writer searching. and ba was amply rewarded by a number of cases proving MT. Hager's assertion. The Bird on Nellie's Hat" was inspired by Arthur J. Lamb. its writer, witnessing an incident on Broadway car. Two women sat next to him. One of them with little stuffed bird on her hat told the other one how she fooled her male appropriateness, making all of them thinl, that they were the only real one in her affections, and making love to each one in turn.
 Lamb thoughtfully gazed at the rtt,a bird on her hat as he listened. and ,n stinctiyely the thought occurred to him that 1t was good thing the old saying. "a little bird told me" was not true. Before he left the car the line .rYou don't know Nellie like do" was ringing in his ears. and short time afterward the entire song was completed.
 The incidents in "Marianina" were brought about by tale of woe poured into the ears of James Brockman. its author by the deserted Italian husband who sat In the adjoining seat in Bowery theatre and watched his faithless spouse adorning the first row of the belighted chorus.
 Beneath the Old Acorn Tree, Sweet Estelle," was suggested by the story a cowboy told In a western drama in a Tank town. and the line and story were almost identical with the song.
 Here's to Our Absent Brothers" was suggested to MT. J. Fred Helf in a most peculiar manner. Helf is an enthusiastic Elk, and some time ago, together with several other brethren, was on his way to attend the convention in Denver. At the hour preceding midnight the Elks assembled in the Pullman car to give the customary toast. As they stood there they were joined by little fair haired lass who begged to be allowed to ofer it, and upon their agreeing, she repeated the Heres to Our Absent Brothers" with clearness and precision. The incident was impressed upon the song writer's mind, and returning home he wrote the song in which the episode was the main theme.
 Your Lips, Your Eyes. Your Golden Hair cried the swashbucking lover in romantic drama appearing at Broad way theatre some months ago, and Syl- vester sturges, who sat in the orchestra fairly hugged himself with joy. What a capital theme for a ballad" he cried, and shortly afterward sold one bearing the same title to Helf & Hager.
 Here are but four cases pointed out, but there are dozens of others, as the writer has found out by research
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28
From the New York Mall

NN HEN a man Is asleep he Is out
 WY of mischief. It is one of the
 W most absolutely innocent things he can do. All the poets have spoken well of the habit Sleep is balny, , "dewy, tired natures sweet restorer," etc.. etc.. and sancho Panza, It is re- membered, called blessings down on the head of the astute person who first h. vented it.
 It is one of the paradoxes of our civ ilization that sleep. innocent though 1t is, has become so thoroughly disreput- able when 1t Is in the public eye If a high city official or one of our Judges were found asleep on a bench in a small city park, 1t would cost him his honorable fame and might cost him his or Intellectually unsettled. No woman, no matter how respectable. can go to sleep in a public place or conveyance without being nudged into wakefulness by some official guardian of the proprle- ties. The man who dozes off Is likely to be aroused by the noise of a police mans stick beating a tatto on his soles.
 It seems that sleep may be like that equally innocent institution, religion.
 This is no place to get religion.' was the stern rebuke administered, as the au- thentio anecdote has it, by the sexton of a fashionable church when an old colored nanny gave that as her excuse
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28
TO ELLEN.
Igar Allan Poe.

By Edgar Allan Poe.
 Helen. thy beauty is to me
 Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, OCT a perfumed sea. The weary. wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face. ThyNaiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece,
 To the grandeur that was Rome. To, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-lilSe I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand,
 An. Psyche from the region whioh Are Holy Land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Outlook for Fall Lumber Trade.


 There is every reason to believe that we will have a good fall lumber trade said J. II. Eddy, secretary and treasurer of the Alabama Lumber Man ufaeturers' association.
 A break in the midsummer dullness is already noticeable and fully as many orders have been placed during the past week as during the three pre- vious weeks. Prices are also begin ming to look up and there will proba- bly be further advances soon.
 The lumber trade is peculiar. Heavy sales in nearly every case mean that extension work is in progress. Lumber used for rebuilding is but a small item in the trade. Naturally. during presi- dental years there is a marked cessa- tion of extension work by the large interests until the result of the election is determined. The lumber trade is one of the first to feel this cessation, and we therefore expect a falling off in business next year. On the whole though for the next few months the outlook is excellent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

six of her former husbands at a novelty dinner last evening in a private dining room of the Stupendous hotel, where Mr and Mrs B. Swimmngton Jones have apartments. feature of the deliehtfrl occasion were the favors, which were solid gold figures of Cupid for paper weights and jeweled hearts done Into watch fobs. A number of engraved auo- tatons suitable to the occasion were laid at the plate of each guest, that falling to the sixth husband of Mrs. Jones being, 'Tis better. to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" A rapid fire of quips were exchanged between MT Jones and the guests who at various times occupied his enviable place In the affections of Mrs. Jones. The repartee was notable. Both MT. and Mrs Jones were overwhelmed with congratulations.
 A GOOD SORT. I like to sing the praises of the optimistic Who thanks his lucky stars for little boons. And putting up with difficulties, does the best he can To be polite to people full of prunes. Nobody knows how hard 1t is to wear a smile always And be jolly chap from morn to night, Altho, tis true a sour visage hardly ever pays As well as one that radiates delight. The storm center of crankism was To- cated in London recently when Maxim Gorky met Hall Calne. 'Why this agony?" queries the Wash ington Post. If they hurt you, brother, take them off!
 YES WE WOULD.
 Oh, work is grand
 We worship it.
 And yet, we'd like
 A chance to quit! The Savannah Press says a lady poet was put in jail in Philadelphia. Heavensi If Philadephians treat lady poet that way, what would they do to a gentle man poet?
 FROSTY NIGHTS.
 When summer wanes
 And hammocks go
 We'll dream of wintry
 Winds and snow
 And blazing fires
 And story books,
 And easy chairs
 And cozy hooks,
 Where comfort turks
 And joy anew
 Slips in to warm
 The heart of you!
 CHEER UP!
 Oh. hush your gab
 And chuck your signs!
 We'll soon be rid
 Of summer flies.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 A man can stop smoking unless it is bad for his digestion to keep on.
 There is no objection to a woman being very thin if she has to sit in your lap.
 When a girl is an heress it's a sign she will look pretty in the newspaper pie lures of her.
 One thing women are frank about is some Of the clothes they are not dressed in in summer.
 One good thing about a widow Is she is in no danger of suffering disappont- ulant nast tima
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28
IT WAS IN BROOKLYN.

From the Home Magazine.
 A Brooklyn public school teacher once required lad of ten to compose a sen- tence containing the word dogma" The pupil, after some deliberation, submitted his effort It read as follows "The dog ma has five pups"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28
ON SLEEPING IN PUBLIC

for the pious ejaculations that had dis turbed the course of the Sunday morning sermon. The parks and public convey ances, 1t is agreed, are no place to in dulge in the innocent relaxations of slum- Der
 To sleep there is to raise the suspicion that you have no regular domicile and no pew in church, and therefore are infer entially an undesirable citizen. The somnolent one Is in danger of being robbed and thereby putting a scandal on public place, remunerating the wicked and adding to the tasks of the police. He betrays either a shameful confidence in the honesty of his fellow men or a shameless indifference to their scandalized disapprobation He is in a state of mental dlshabille that may lead to physical dishabille. He embarrasses men by following a policy of disarma- ment to which they are reluctant to sub scribe. He irritates them by his degen- crate communism. his willingness to in trust his personal safety, his immediate personal effects-and perhaps his perma- nent support-to the community at large.
 Despite their collectivist fads. men are pretty individualistic after all. It dis gusts them to see other men asleep in the open. They are none too well pleased when people eat in the streets. and there are evidences of a growing protest against public spooning. The rooftree has not lost it's function, nor life the need for its reticences
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

In trying to compliment President Roosevelt by calling him the Cromwell of America, certain of his British sub jects seem to have overlooked the fact that Cromwell was very unpopular man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

From the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.
 Prosperity is smiling in the Alabama corn felds,' says the Birmingham Age Herald It's snickerlng a little over here but has the dry grins down in Texas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

When pumpkin pie you see please do not forget me-" pleads the Austin Statesman. Most people when they see pumpkin pie can't think of any thing else.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28
Appreciates Music By Boys.

As adjutant of Archiebald Oracle Camp No. sos, U. C. V.," writes George D. Pegram to the editor of The Age Herald from Demopolis. T wish to ex- press It's appreciation of the musical talent given so freely and delightfully."- to us at the recent reunion Of Con- federate Veterans by the band of the h. dustrial school of East Lake, a suburb of your city. The "Old Vets" gath cred here by invitation from the camp and citizens of Demopolls, and while regaled by fare and full-handed hospitality, with It's beautiful table for three days, and on the busiest day by a splendid barbecue, this band of boys gave us de- lightful music, morning. noon and night, playing the old airs that car ried memory back to camp. and march, and bloody field. The boys are trim, neat and nice looking fellows, with every promise of the pride of Alabama glowing in each youthful face. Please etxend to them our thanks in this public manner. and assurance that our good wishes will go with them in every pathway opened in the fruitful future of their lives"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

Anniston Star: The telegraph situa- tion is a peculiar one. Both sides say they are satisfied, and yet both sides are doing nothing. This kind of satis- faction is likely to make somebody hungry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

Haneeville Hustler: Culluan county will watch with great interest the anti saloon fight in Jefferson county. It will not be long before this county will be calling for an election.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28
ALABAMA PRESS

Anniston Hot Blast: Having at- tracted attention to himself the gov ernor of North Carolina hasn't quit saying things yet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

What will America do to check Rus sian outrages?" has been asked. If America is wise, she will try to mend matters at home and let the Russian bear work out his own problems.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

Mobile Register: Rockefeller has col lected his witness feet of $78 95 in the Standard Oil case. That was the proper thing to do. The next thing to be done is the collection of the s29,42o, 900 fine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

A St Louis man has passed away after drawing up more than five hun dred wills for other people. If he was a married man the chances are that he never had a will of his own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

lack of that calm judicial boise so essen tial to the careful hearing and impartial weighing Of the issues presented before him. The matter will eventually be passed upon by the United States su- preme court, and the brief by Judge Jones in advance of his hearing of the matters at issue might be admissible be- fore that august tribunal as material and entirely relevant evidence in behalf of the state of Alabama
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

Washington Post The Bible as Good Reading" is the title of Senator Beyeridge's latest book. Privately, however he will probably insist that his speech es are very nearly in the same class.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

A London tailor says green coats will be fashionable next year. Frogs have been wearing them for long time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

Washington Herald: A Chicago girl chewed and swallowed a letter to her sweeth cart rather than have 1t fall Into her fathers hands. It isn't often that a woman will eat her own words.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28
About Persons.
PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDS.

Sheriff James H. Oswalt of Fayette county spent yesterday in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

Times are so hard in Wall street that some magnates are actually pay ing as low as s25 for meal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

THE QUEST. fIelter-skelter,
 Here we go, D and down and High and low, Some behind and Some before, Seeking money, Nothing more. Wearing heart and Soul away, Never taking
 Time to play. Toiling. dreaming, Hoping still, Each with coffers Hard to fill. Trampling others Who oppose, Thus the sordid Venture goes. What rewards do We attain? What the glory That we gain? Little else Dut
 Wretched gold, When we're sick and Sad and old And would gladly Give our pile For a chance to Live @ while.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

New Orleans Times-Democrat: The announcement that Senator Foraker does not like Secretary Tafts recent speechs is strong presumptive evidence that there must be some gond ideas in than
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

The innocence of the Standard Oil must have been contracted under the unwritten law. for the written law has pronounced it guilty and levied a fine of $29.240, ,00O on 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

If a writ from the federal court should forbid the legislature to assem- ble on October 1 there would then be a pretty how'd'do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

Louisville Courier Journal: Tn Russia steps have been taken for the election of third douma. Whats the use?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

i member of the Astor family is willing, strange to say. to be content to govern the country four years. He is willing to forego the privilege of owning it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

Are you registered? Have you got your poll tax receipts in an unbroken chain? These are the questions of the hour at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

Kansas wants to see a Kansaan in the cabinet. She has never had one there, and she thinks she has one of cabinet size.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

The people are .tiring of the tele- graph strike. They do not see why they should be thus punished week after week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28
PRESS POINTS

Savannah Press: The corst trust will either stay or bust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

The officials of predatory trusts do not admire the manner in which Roose- yelt speaks of them. They consider him vulgar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-28

It is useless to complain about the sayings or acts of Senator Guggen- helm. for there are six more like him at home.