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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM

Sumter Sun: Birmingham people pay AS high as 60 cents per dozen for green corn. Why can't Sumter county truckers add another vegetable to their long list by supplying that market
 Franklin Times: Birmingham will In all probability be the scene of one of the warmest prohibition fights this fall ever pulled off In Alabama
 Tri-Cities Daily: A Birmingham man breaks into print with the startling state ment that he has discovered a comet, Some of the dispensary booze fighters in the Trl-Cities have at times seen whole consultations, but have not published the fact.
 Talladega Mountain Home: A whip and razor company has been organized in Birmingham. It ought to do a cutting business
 Elba Clipper: Birmingham policemen say It takes SS7 a month for them to live. It is fortunate that 1t does not take that much for an editor; if it was true a number of good papers would be without pilots and the best men in Ala bama would be blowing base drums In the celestial band
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
ADRlFT WITH THE TIMES
THE APOSTLE OF APPLAUSE.

THE APOSTLE OF APPLAUSE. Behold, the limelight shows his worth To all the nations of the earth By spoken word and printed speech All men who live he strives to reach, Impresslng them with what he knows. While every passing breeze that blows Doth bear upon itself note
 Sent from his most impassloned throat. Chautauquas blaze his honored name, He stumps the land and plays the game Of politics, for good or i'll,
 Yet subject to the peoples will. At e5ery banquet board you'll see Him taking part right merrlly. When morning comes, as sure as fate, The press will say his talk was great. Nobody seems to know just how He got the laurel on his brow Nobody seems to know just why He figures in the public eye. And yet, 'tis not so strange, because He is tn Apostle of Applause.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
Musical Instruments.

Speaking of the higher arts In the education of the youth of this country, l want to call your attention to the enormous increase in the manufacture of musical instruments" said an edu- cator.
 "In America there were 625 estab- lishments engaged in this industry in 1905, employing 35,220 wage -earners, with an aggregate capital of s72,225,379 and annual products to the value of s69.574,34O. This shows rapid in- crease from the work of preceding years along these lines and Is a fair indication of the rapid development of this nation as one of music-loving pro- clivities. In fact music seems to be rapidly becoming a national necessity in this goodly country of ours. and am glad to see it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
SOUTH'S DILEMMA

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 "The south has gradually come around to the conviction that liquor is at the bottom of much of the difficulty 1t is ex- perienclng In dealing with the colored cluslon that it would have less difficulty in dealing with certain class of whites if the sale of liquor should be forbidden It requires a long time for the south to arrive at these conclusions, and when they were reached 1t seemed to people north as well as south as If the solution of a great problem had been found But the south wants foreign immigration, and 1t is bending all of it's energies to induce the foreigners who have heretofore chosen the north to settle on it's planta- tions and to become residents of It's towns and cities. The inducements which 1t has to offer are tempting, and for a time 1t seemed as if they would prove ire sstble. But the south has Just been ridely awakened to the fact that the so- luton which 1t found for one of its most serious problems is likely to prove an in- surmountable obstacle in the way of the solution of another. We read In a dis patch from Washington, alleged to con- tain the views of high official of the immigration bureau:
 ''The German, Austrian. Swede, Finn, and nearly all other classes of Europeans will not go where they cannot get beer. Besides that, they resent any interference with what they shall eat and drink, be-
 ieving these are matters of personal lib- erty They do not hold the view that so light a drink as beer. when taken in moderate amounts and under circum- stan&es to which they are accustomed. ia eilher a sin OF a crime r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
KING EDWARDS NEW DIAMOND.

From the Providence Journal.
 The Cullinan diamond which Premier Botha proposes to give to the King of England, by resolution of the colonial parliament, in token of the loyalty of the people of the Transvaal and their appre- citation of their constitutional liberties, Is deescrbed as the largest and most valu- able stone in the world. When 1t was discovered two years ago sticking out of the rough excavation of the Premier dia- mond mine it was readily recognized as of great purity as well as of extraordl- nary size, so that experts estimated that, even after cutting, it would have a value of around one million dollars. Commer- cially.aof course, such a diamond must carry far less value; even hotel clerk or a faro dealer would hesitate to wear it. and the occasional collector who had the price would be likely to think while before seizing upon 1t with so many desirable rarties of one kind and another open to bidders for segregation.
 This remarkable stone is said to weigh more than three thousands carats in it's present uncut condition. Such a size makes the famous diamonds of the world, most of which are now in possession of royalties or states, seem but insignificant pebbles by contrast. The Czar's Orloff stone weighs less than 200 carats. The Koh-i-nur, one of the royah jewels of En- gland, but 10224, although before repeated cuttings 1t is said to have weighed nearly eight hundred; the Regent diamond in the Louvre, 136, the De Beers, 225, and the Tiffany, 125 carats. Even in the unsur- passed collection of crown jewels and be- jeweled orders of chiyalry of England's royal house the Cullinan will find no rival.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
Value of Scientific Earminn.

''I have solved the labor problem" said farmer In discussing the difficulty to obtain labor. "I have reduced the number of acres l had formerly under cultivation and I find I can raise Just as much from ten acres well fertillzed and cultivated as I could from twenty-five or thirty half fertilized and half cultivated.
 My attention to the benefits of nten- slve cultivation was first awakened when l had a conversation with a man from another state who told me he had cleared S2500 on ten acres simply by raising pota- toes. The first crop was Irish potatoes, followed by sweet potatoes in the fall. He gave all his attention to these two crops last year, but this year he added cab bage and beans.
 "I had eighty acres of land and tried to cultivate about forty. Of course I had to raise feed for my mule and a bale or two of cotton to buy groceries and dry goods for the women folks It was a case of whipping the devil around the stump year after year, but now all that is changed.
 Another thing that has helped me very much was the information I got out of the bulletins published by the bureau of agriculture and which can be had for the trouble of writing postal card I did not know until l read these bulletins that farming is a scientific profession and requires a great deal more knowledge than people generally imagine. The sue eessful farmer today Is the man who spends an hour or two every evening in reading good practical works on cultiva- tion of the soil and market reports of nrlceS.N
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
HUMOR OF ANIMALS,
Captain Magazine.

From the Captain Magazine.
 Even a toad laughs when he has swal- lowed a large beetle and 1t begins to walk about inside. It does tickle sol Ducks laugh most when they come out of water The ground feels so funny under their feet that they cannot help themselves; but they have much more humor than fowls at any time. A duck Is born with twinkle in his eye and smile at the end of his tail. Tragedy does not suit him so well-one cannot be very tragic or very dignified with a waddla for a walk
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
FOREVER AND A DAY.

By Thomas Bailey Aldrich. I little know or care If the blackbird on the bough Is filling all the air With his soft crescendo now; For she is gone away. And when she went she took The springtime in her look, The peachblow on her check, The laughter from the brook. The blue from out the May And what she calls a week Is forever and a day! It's little that I mind How the blossoms, pink or white. At every touch of wind Fall a-trembling with delight; For in the leafy lane, Beneath the garden boughs, And through the silent house One thing alone I seek. Until she come again The May is not the May. And what she calls a week Is forever and dayi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
FAME OF BOYLE GREELEY.

Y IUIII T IIt FLU.
 Saturday, August 10, was the seven teenth anniversary of the untimely and lamented death of John Boyle O'Reilly. After such lapse of years most men are forgotten except by those bound to them by tics of blood. The personality even of the men who profit most by the art pre- servative of all arts is obscured, and, since there are fashions in literature even as in toilettes. much of their work is rel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
REFLECTIONS OF FABACHELoR.

From the New York Press
 A man is awfully ashamed of his boy for fighting If he gets licked
 The less woman has to say the longer she can make it into a letter.
 A woman would like to get telegrams if she knew what was in them before she had to open them.
 The reason a man can work so hard around his own house is nobody Is paying him for something he ought to earn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

DISTRESSING END. noted rooter passed away, Now, what do you think of that7 And for a shaft to mark his grave Was planted a baseball bat. His friends did grieve and at this thought
 They wept aloud all the more "Alack, he'll have no sure way now Of finding out what's the scorep' A newspaper reader who probably feels sorry for John D. Rockefeller suggests that warships ought to burn oil
 WISDOM TABLET.
 Altho mule
 Be sweet and kind,
 Just walk in front,
 And not behind.
 THE LIFE ROAD. No matter what the world may say, Keep moving on. Don't break your heart for yesterday- The pleasures gone. Just fix your eyes upon the goal, Hope for the best, And with a brave, undaunted soul Go to your rest.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
Money Does Grow on Trees.

"The old saying that money does not grow on trees has been knocke ed into a cooked hat" said a gentleman from Aberdeen, Ala.
 T know a mana sure enough farm er-in my county who has this year col lected and sold from six fig trees fruS for which he received In cash money s47 50; and you must remember that this Is only small part of the sur plus crop of a genuine Alabama farm CT. His name Is J, T. Bagley, and if you do not believe what I tell you, just write him a note. He shows the people how to do lt."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

The Kansas City Journal says it is so hot at Muskogee that popcorn Is popping on the ear. It is now in order for that celebrated mule to again find himself in barnyard full of popcorn flakes, mistake 1t for snow and freeze to death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

Women at Greenwich, Conn, are summer to keep cool. So far, no cred itable witnesses to this fact have been found
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
THE CRAFTY OCTOPUS.

From the Washington Herald
 If Attorney General Bonaparte should ever try to borrow any money from a trust, he would probably get turned down." says the Birmingham Age-Her- aid. Not much; they do not play the game that wayl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

Kansas City regrets 1t cannot annex the city on the west or Kansas side of the river, for it contains 100,S35 people. State lines are sometimes very embarrassing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
CAN'T COIN THEM.

From tlle Washington Herald.
 The country needs more Governor Comers.f says the Commoner A number of people will be glad to know, how ever, that Mir. Bryan does not possess the free-coinage of governors powers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

egated to the rear. But Boyle O'Reilly lives both In his personality and in his work; and one who knew him well can- not hefp thinking that the former fame is the more appealing. In him. the man was never shadowed by the artisan" and so it remains in death. Men still discuss his characteristics. and narrate his gener- ous and helpful deeds, although new generation has grown to adolescence since he passed away.
 Even in these materialistic days, when even true poets find 1t hard to get hear ing. his poetry lives, much of 1t passing into familiar speech, and influencing men to the deeds which have grown out of his true conception of human brotherhood. It still pleads for the cause of his be- loved native Ireland, and for the highest ideals of his not less beloved adopted America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

The government forbids the opening of the Jamestown exposition on Sun day, and Virginia is not prepared to fight for her rights in this matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

This is the twilight of the red man. asserts a western paper. In that case, firewater is affording him a colorful sunset.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

Venezuela has a court of First In. stance, and this court has fined an asphalt company 24000,000 bolivars. The Lands fashion is spreading fast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

Not until December will we know where the next President will be nom mated, for the democratic national committee will not meet until then.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

Are you not honest?" asks a news paper writer. Well, if we were dis honest, we certainly would not tell anybody about 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

The greatest diamond in the world is not to be cut up. It goes to the British crown in all it's glittering en- tirety, thanks to the Boers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

King Edward will soon outrank the hotel clerks and bartenders, for he is about to receive the biggest diamond in the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

Now that deadly germs are said to frequent street car straps, what can the straphanger hang to?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

A woman, Empress by force of char acter, Is ailing and 400,000,000 of peo- pie are distressed and disturbed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

A New Jersey farmer says his weather prophet Is the twist in the tail of his pet hog.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

There are other PinkertoDs besides "Bob," who has just died. The famous agency will go on unchecked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

Advance copies of the Presidents speech were circulated in Wall street, but no on knows how they got there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

crisis in China impends and so does another step in Japen's leader ship of the Crlent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

A good example of the quick and the dead would be Chicago and Philadel- phia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

Fall Is approaching and so is Con gress and another season of Platt and Depew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

Rich Americans purchase In Europe art treasures, but the Dingley wall prevents them from bringing them to this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

The Rockefeller bill for $73.95 for testifying before Judge Landis has been duly presented and collected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

Emperor Frances Joseph is 76 years old. He is Europe's grand old crowned head.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

The chief effort in Congress next winter will be to avoid the making of a record. This will please the stand patters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

The Standard oil need not try to make a molehill cut If Kennesaw Mountain
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

'The south is playing Into the hands of the north" says the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. That's nothing new.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

Governor Glenn went to New York, but he did not ride on pass, free or otherwise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

It is strange thing, but the modern messenger of peace usually carries bludgeon in his hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

Speaking of the Holiday heart" 1t is not half as important as the holiday purse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

Our navy is now second in the per centage column, and a right use of the Rockefeller fine would carry us nearly to the top.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
A POORLY PAID LOT.

It Is noticeable that the people who do the worlds thinking get very little of the worlds money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
THE SEGREGATED GIRL

offers trip to New York as a reward for superior charms, which are deter mined my a coupon vote. Other parties are merely private enterprises on the part of somebody who gives the girls the trip for lump sum that leaves him something for himself.
 In any party of sightseeing girls, dec- orated with badges and buttons, and gay as an army with banners, the New Yorker infers an advertisement. He is naturally a good -natured, friendly, ser- vceable person. the New Yorker is. and he wants to do what he can to help out the advertisement. Sometimes he does so not wisely out too well, and recrim- nations result
 Now the segregated girl, even on tours, is entitled to the same degree of respect that the unsegregated girl is. We are sensitive about the way we treat women here. Nowhere on Gods footstool Is deserving woman given the full credit Of her individual womanhood more readily than in New York We should treat the touring girl as respectfully as we treat the untouring, homestaylng, hard-working stenographer downtown. Not even badges and buttons and booming pur- pose should forfeit woman that respect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

H. H. Rogers fits from his yacht to his office and back again speedily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

Prices In Wall street have small relation to real values.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
AN OVERSIGHT.

Roll on, thou world, I care not ex- clalmed the poet in a fine frenzy.
 You seem to forget" remarked the practical man, that you have to roll with it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

Several young women stood close to the scaffold and witnessed the hanging of a negro atAshevle, N. c. They ought to be spanked. ''The Goddess of Liberty will reach her majority on October 28th," says the sa- vannah Press. Liberty we are glad to say, is a trihe older.
 IS HE DEAD7
 The spindle legs,
 The smile of him.
 What has become
 Of Sunny Jim?
 Birmingham Age-Herald. The High Silk Hat
 The lengthy snout?
 Some other bran
 Has Forced" him out.
 Montgomery Advertiser. Farewell, MT Not" remarks the Louis- vile Herald. Oh, we hope not A philosopher picked up bathing suit and said, If this be clothing make the most of it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
Nashville American;

Nashville American:
 Maud Muller on a summers day
 Raked the meadow sweet with hay A humble bee got in her dress, and the subsequent proceedings would have made picture show worth wasting your time on. we guess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
PRESS POINTS

Washington Herald: Harry Thaw's leading counsel in the first trial was the man who nominated William R. Hearst for President at St. Louis; his new lead ing counsel is the man who nominated Alton B. Parker. In the event of a sec ond failure, he might try the man who nominated Mir. Roosevelt at Chicago.
 Youngstown Telegram: The peace con ference at The Hague might hold an adjourned session at Casa Dlanca.
 Savannah News Those shots from Taft's opening gun were somewhat char acteristlc of the gunner-Just a bit pudgy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

Charleston News and Courier A Phil adelphia crook has confessed to sixty robberies from memory without consult ing his ledger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

NATURE FAKE. Every little bit helps,'
 Said the spider to the fly I'll put you in my pantry
 And I'll eat you. by and by" A Msssac husetts man was fined only s for a hug. At last hugs are within & poor mans reach.
 What's the Matter With Matrimony?" is the title of a new book. There is noth- ing the matter with matrimony. It Is the people in it who cause trouble A St. Louis man Is suing a railroad because he was tilted. Anything nowa- days, for an excuse to knock a rail road
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

Farewell. Mir. Not" remarks the Louis- vile Herald. Oh, we hope not!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
THE AGE- HERALD

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala. postoffice as second-class matter under act of Congress March 8, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24
SOUNDS FAMILIAR.

SOUNDS FAMILIAR. Mrs. Annie F. Howles was married to MT. Charles Milton Rome in Mem phis The heading over the wedding mo- tice in a Memphis paper was this:
 ROME-HOWLES.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-24

". D. Lanier and John D. Stanley are the only authorized travelling representa- lives of The Age-Herald in its circulation department.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-18
BY EDNA KERR.

Copyrighted, 1907 BY NJ. M. Cunningham.
Herbert Morrow, bent and careworn,
Pissed the parlor door. His daughter
Daisy smiled up at him as he glanced
at her in passing, but the smile turned
into q sigh as the bowed figure van
ished.
IA the run on the bank serious?''
asked Degnon. "Your father looks
very bad.
n am afraid that It Is serious" she
answered. She was engaged to Deg
non and trusted his discretion.
II saw the evening papers, he said,
ssbpt thought that it was just a sem
.sational playing up of an incident. May
/ 60 in and see Mr. Morrow 2"
Il wish you would" she said. Il
seem SO helpless. think he would
like to talk 1t over with a man"
The banker looked up YEARLY as
Degnon entered the library. He liked
this clean cut young chap, who had
come to Midvale to take charge Of the
electric plant. Degnon went directly
ITO the matter at issue.
Il have come to see IL can be Of
any service" he began. Il have some
$4,000 that can get hold Of by to-
morrow"
.'Too little, but thank you, my boy"
said the president of the Union bank.
Us there no way out?" persisted
Degnon. "Just how does the matter
stand 2"
1T is a plot Of Ridgley's," began the
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-18
Get It Some Time.

Those persons who have been par
aiding with banners inscribed. I'VE
Want Work have succeeded in avoid
ing it, at last accounts. Some day they
win be taken at their word and put
to hoeing corn. Then we shall hear
a roar of anguish concerning the ty-
ranny of the successful-Bro
Eagle.
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-18


ment Of suspension, IN the hope that
help might come. At the Provtdent on
the other hand, an extra force kept the
line moving briskly, paying on as rap
Idly as the money could be counted
out
Clerks were busy bringing up money
from the vnults downstairs, and over IN
the First National other clerks were re-
ceiving the money and opening new ac-
counts. Ridgley had devised the scheme
as reprisaI against Morrow. His son
had been Daisy's favored sutton until
Degnon had stepped IN and cut him
out. Ridgley had not forgiven the
banker for the fancied slight and, with
his usual business instinct, was making
his revenge profitable.
1t was nearly noon when clerk
dashed out OF the Provident and hur-
ried into the First National. In mo-
ment ne came outo-g gain, accompanied
BY Ridgiey himself. Iney were making
their way to the Provident through the
crowd when suddenly Ridgley stopped
at the edge Of the excavation.
One Of the laborers, an ltalian' was
working with crowpar az the bottom
OF the pit, seeking 20 disiodge the par
from some obstruction It had encoun-
tered. Kidgley shouted excitediy 70 tne
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p,aa,av Gould ~ maka b,msa,f m,
$500, A. ,sst +ha Itai,an saa,s,d