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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22
CLEVELAND AT SEVENTY

democracy was approaching it's time of
division and peril. lie was everywhere
held to be the wise and safe man of the
hour. The office veritably sought the
man.
That Virtue of humility which has u
calmness of spirit and a word of other
blessings attending upon it, set its stamp
/, upon the craftsmanship and upon his pub
lie record. He protested no mastery over
the views and acts of his countrymen.
He was of them, with them. In the pres-
dental office he was the embodiment OF
the spirit of the American people, Just,
straightforward, calm, efficient And in
his retirement that virtue of humility. the
antithesis of the arrogant spirit, unfail-
ingly attends him. 1t is notable in that
sum of qualities that have given him so
high place in the respect and affection
of the nation.
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LAWsoN's HARD LUCK.

From the Washington Star
Mr.. Thomas W. Lawson just missed,
by narrow margin, q sensational adver-
tlsement for his first novel, which is now
the cause of much transforming on the
part of the literary critics. Last week S
panic in Wall street occurred on Wednes-
day. the Is. and Thursday, the 14th, while
the sharp recovery in prices came on Fri
day, the 18th. If the Calendar had been
a little more kind to this budding author
the world would have been treated to the
spectacle of a genuine bear raid, with
tremendous consequences, on Friday, the
49, and Mr.. Lawson would have had a
gilt edged chance to scream in exultation
just little louder than usual. This year
will yield two thirteen" Fridays, which
is the usual number. They will occur in
September and December. The earlier of
them will perhaps find a tickle reading
world altogether oblivious of the fren-
zied efforts of the Boston financial gym
mast to attract attention.
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
w. j. Murphy.

One of the most popular railroad Of
ticials who visits Birmingham is Vice
President W. j. Murphy of the Queen and
Crescent. His headquarters are in Gin
cinnati, and his duties keep him pretty
closely on that end of the line.
II do not have the opportunity of seeing
the Birmingham district as often as
would like" said Mr.. Murphy, but I am
in close touch with 1t all the while. Biz
nlngham is marvel Of industry and
progress. and it has grown considerably
since | was last here"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22
REFLECTION OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
A financial genius is man who can
have family and money at the same
time.
The man who invented curling tongs
has made more curly heads than the
Lord.
Smoking costs a lot, but swearing off
cos.s lot more trying to find as much
enjoyment in something else.
What a woman likes about giving re-
cep.ioi is the way all the people tell
her what a good time they had when
she hnc VS. they cidnt,
nice thing for people who are en-
gared is ii doesn't seem to make any
difference to them how big fools they
make CT themselves. and that's the way
70 have fun.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22
An Important Question.

lone of the most important questions,
if not the most important question, that
is confronting the American people. and
one upon which they will have to render
their verdict in the near future is whether
the respective states of the American
union shall keep untrampled their rights
to regulate their own affairs by the in
herent right Of the respective legislatures
of the different states, or substitute in
lieu thereof strong, centralized govern
ment, with state lines obliterated, and
state legislatures and states courts abol-
ished," said Maj. William II. Long, men,
Der of the legislature from Morgan coun-
ty yesterday
This vital question has been brought
to my attention most wildly by the ten
dency of Imperialism in some sections of
this country, and more particularly by
specials in the daily press from Washing
ton, stating that the next Congress will
be called upon, in addition to the law
to regulate interstate commerce, to pass
a law that will regulate all corporations
in the United States, including the basis
of assessing taxes on their tangible and
intangible property. and providing for the
collection of license, etc., by the federal
government.
In the face of the present decisions
touching the police powers of the respec-
tive states. as to their rights to regulate
by legislation the corporate interests of
the several states, such legislation by the
federal government would be unconstitu-
tional.
Alabama has recently passed several
laws regulating the various corporate in
terests of this state, and most important
of these is the bill promising for raising
revenue, which imposes licenses on the
franchises, and assesses the tangible and
Intangible property of the corporations
doing business in this state. IL the le9is-
lation as contemplated by some in Con-
gress was carried into effect namely, the
licensing of the franchises of all the cor
porations in the United States, and as
sessng their tangible and intangible prop
erty and providing for the collection of
same, it would deefat the object of the
different appropriation bills passed by the
legislature and embarrass the state. Not
only would the effect be felt in Alabama,
but in every other state of the union.
Hence, there Is room for thought for
those upon whose shoulders the response
bilites of government rests in shaping
the destiny of great people, a great ma
tion, established for great PURPOSES. -
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THE LOSE S.

THE LOSE1.S.
Here's to the heroes. wherever they be,
the fellows who do and die,
Who strive for tie right with all their
might
And are never afraid to try
Here's to the toilers who struggle in vain,
To the privates who fall in the ranks,
While never word of praise is heard
And never q word of thanks.
Here's to the dreamers who patiently
climb
For the goal of wide renown,
But treacherous fate and mortal hate
Contrive to worry them down.
Here's to the fellows who never give up,
No matter what chances befall,
Who LATHE their best and sink to rest
With never a cheer at all.
Alas, that they go unhonored, unwept,
Unknown to the careless. world.
No monuments tall mark the place where
they fall
Ind where their proud banners are
fIrled.
No matter how bravely they tried to
win,
Twill always be said that they failed,
And after the fight. in a starless night
The deeds they accomplished are yelled.
RIPPLES.
Youth in your heart will keep youth
in your eyes.
Everybody is apt to do a little brain
storming now and then.
If you should ever get rich, you will
confer a favor on your fellows by not
telling them how you did it.
a good way to forget your other
frD1IhIpS fS IN ha n i11prOwfnU toe
nail.
If matchmakers had to pay the ali
mony they wouldn't be so anxious to get
some PEOPLE married.
A LITTLE RECIPE.
A little sunshine
Now and then
VIII drive away
The cares of men.
A little laughing
AS you go
Is passing good
In time of woe
General Christmas, an American. has
jtined the forces of Honduras. Wonder
If he Is related to Santa Claus?
A festive father went home on st. Pat
rick's day and painted his baby green
Maybe, IL he hadn't been drunk, the judge
would have respected his patriotism for
Erin, but as it was, he was fined 81 and
sent to Jail for 30 days.
MERE TRIFLE.
The usefulness of riches
Is more than | can see
A million in my breaches
Would be enough for me-
BOOSTING MARYLAND.
Pretty Maryland Tyson, the star of the
Greater New York Stars, has a number
of friends in the profession that are will
ing to back their assertions that Miss
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Final Cotton Report

The final report of the census bureau
makes the crop grown last year a close
rival of the record crop grown in 1904.
The commercial crop of 1904 was put
at 13,566,000 bales, although the census
bureau said 13,697,O00 bales were
grown in that year.
The census bureau says 13,290677
bales were made last year. and that
when these bales are put on the 500
pound basis the crop is 13,576,226 bales.
Linters are included. But no one can
say just what Secretary Hester and
the New York Financial Chronicle will
one knows how many bales of the crop
grown in 1906 will be kept back on the
farms, nor does any one know how
many bales grown in 1905 were brought
into sight in the present cotton year.
The ascertainment of the commercial
crop is, in other words, more COM
pick problem than the mere task Of
counting the bales of crop as they
roll from the gins.
Between the final census bureau re-
port in March and the figures of the
experts on September 1, it is not diff
cult to secure close estimate of the
crop actually grown each year. Some
times the final census report exceeds
| the commercial figures of the following
| September: sometimes the former fall
below the latter, but the discrepancy
is not large, and is readily accounted
| for.
The crop grown last year will swing
around 13,5000oo bales. 1t may be Il
few thousand bales more or few thou
sand bales less. 1t is at any rate a
bumper crop. No doubt the crop out
put of 1901 will continue to be the
maximum production in single year
of any country, and the crop grown
last year will be good second.
The surprising thing about the great
crop produced in 1906 has been it's free
and abundant movement, and the
steady maintenance of its price. The
mills have gladly taken all of it, pay
ing the farmer an average price at the
farm or the nearest railroad station of
! 10 cents. When bumper crop brings
10 cents pound the cotton year round,
it is plain that the worlds consumptive
demands are not readily supplied. 1t
is plain that the world will hereafter
desire an American crop Of 100000
bales. This is pretty heavy task-a
task that calls for more labor-more
white farmers. The entire cotton sit
uaton is, in brief. an argument in favor
of immigration, and experience will no
doubt show that Italy is the source
from which We should draw the farm
ers we need to occupy and cultivate
the two-thirds. of Alabama that now
goes untitled.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22
UP TO DATE IN ENGLAND.

From Brains.
The possibilities of advertising are not
as yet fully realized in this country. Our
English cousins can still give us pointers.
This is not jest; in fact, it is very
grave matter, as the reader will shortly
see. What American druggist ever
thought of advertising himself in a
churchyard-on his wife's tombstone? A
tombstone in the churchyard at Green
wich bears the following inscription:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22
TOUGH RHYMES.

From the Union Springs Herald.
The Birmingham Age-Herald wishes 10
find rhymes for "whangdoodle" and
''mollycoddle," two newly coined politi.
cal words Better let 'em alone; they
wouldn't look veil in print, II found.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

John D. Rockefeller is not going to
civlize the Chinese, because he has
not got money enough to do it, and
the Chinese already have civilization
several grades higher than the Stand
ard Oil is accustomed to.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

If the railroad presidents flocking
to the White House increase in num-
Der line will have to be formed each
morning at 9 o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

London has more |. NJ. o. than it
can satisfactorily assimilate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

A Thaw juror will have to be expert
himself to draw the line between the
two schools of experts that have been
brought before him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

When Alice puts ON her. blue shoes
it will be summer time sure enough.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

The President Of the University of
Minnesota says that football is gem
tleman's sport. Still, it is not game
for mollycoddles
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

The people do not inquire about the
panic, for they have not experienced
one The people do not live in Wall
street.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

A college professor says that half
the joy of living is lost to the 400"
Yet many of them are full of good
spirits.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

William Ellis Corey may yet be COM
PEELED to marry Mabelle Gilman in
order to satisfy public sentiment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

Talladega Mountain Home: In his will
NJ. Rockefeller should remember the
girl who used kerosene to start the
kitchen fire.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

in her hall of fame, and SO he goes
marching on as before
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

William Jennings Bryan is pleased
and where they are getting it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

The Missouri legislature should be
vaccinated against the lobby as well
as the smallpox
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

The admission OF Oklahoma will
change every one Of Uncle Sam s
starry banners.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

In Helicon Hall was burned Upton
Slnclair's material for a novel on the
social revolution. It was hot stuff.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

A seismologist says that the earth
is ominously quiet and something is
going to happen. Hold on to your
hats,
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winsome little girl on the burlesqus
stage.-The Billboard.
THE TRAVELLED MAN.
most exasperating chap
Who makes this life a bore
Is he, who having time to spare,
And cash, has travelled DER
Some parts of Mother Earth that filled
His simple soul with awe,
And coming home pulled up with pride.
Must tell us what he saw.
1T remember once, in London town
When l was in Paree-
In Rome, contrary to report,
There isn't much to see.
Reminds me of the time when l
Was going down the Nile
Ha Ha, guess the pyramids
Have been here for a while!
"Of course the mountains here at homs
Are not one half so grand
AS some l did admire when l
Was in foreign land.
All. let me tell you what befell
Me on lucky day
When l was paying, with friend,
A visit to Bombay.
And so he pirates and never stops,
And everywhere he goes
He would impress the public with
How much he really knows.
He never sees the yawn you give,
The tired look in your eyes,
Although he crossed the sea but once,
He'll talk it till he dies.
Fire destroyed theatre in Penn yam,
n. Y, while 1.-THE Hottest Coon in Dixie
was being played theirs. Might have
known that something like that would
happen.
A prophet who predicted his death and
died promptly did about as well as any
body could expect.
A WORD TO YOU.
Dear reader, harken to these lines,
Don't crowd the season.
No matter what the world opines,
We have a reason
For giving you some good advice
Anent the weather.
Let spring perform a sweet device
Upon the heather,
Let song birds sing and trees be green,
The landscape smiling.
TITS but a subtle way, | ween,
OF thus beguiling
Unlucky wights into mind
For doffng gladly
Their heavy underwear, to fnd
They need it sadly.
Chancellor Day has the humps His
millionaire friends ought to pay the doc
tors bill.
Horses have to pay 500 a month for
room and board in Cincinnati.
Hold on to hope and hope will hold
you up
1t is no longer near-spring.
Are you for Honduras?
. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

Theodore Roosevelt may refuse to
run in 1908, but he will not refuse to
name his successor.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

Chicago's all-night bank refused to
crystalize into profits, and it has been
discontinued.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

The Evelyn Nesbit Thaw postal
card is the best seller In the entire
New York collection.
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Reports say that Mabelle Gilman
will soon appear in musical play in
America. The time is ripe for such a
venture. We suggest Corey for press
agent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

The March lion may be reserving
his roar to the closing days of the
month.
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Hartman may be oyerestimated, or
to speak technically, overcapitalized.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

The Wall street game is too COM
pick to be explained, or even under
stood by the uninitiated.
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Scriptural age, but he still can pull
long words out of the dictionary.
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ALABAMA PRESS

Union Springs Herald; Some cotton has
sold here recently at nearly II cents;
still, slowly slips the sliding staple.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

Paris is great consumer of fire.
wood and the supply is becoming
short
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Sylacauga Advance: London had a very
disastrous fire last week, said to be one
of the largest in its history. We always
mad an idea that 1T was too damp to
burn.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

The Coreys are getting ready to
supplant the Thaws as soon as the
trial Is ended.
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A woman had her stocking robbed
the other day. To make matters worse,
she had it OH at the time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

One war governor is living in the
north, Governor Holbrook of Vermont,
aged "a.
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Eufaula Times: The railroads made
no kick on cutting out free passes but
they don't seem to like the 2-cent rate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22

Theodore Roosevelt will not be 10
years old until 1928.
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Mr.. Einley's Speech.

President w. w. Finley, of the South
ern railway made most excellent ad-
dress at the Commercial club" said Pas
cal G. Shook.
HE stated facts and his conclusions
were sound and convincing. His frank
ness and common sense arguments
should have a wide reading. II peo-
pie will ponder we'll what Mr.. Finley says
public sentiment will come out of the
right mould. The miner, the manufac-
turer, the merchant and the farmer are
equally dependent on the prosperity OF
the railroads, and with the railroads
crippled, all of us would be seriously af-
fected. We must all stand together
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22
Public Hacks.

There is one thing your progressive
city is far behind n," said visitor from
the north, "apd that is your hacks. ar
rived in Birmingham one night last week
and had occasion to drive to friend $
residence on the southsde took hack
at the depot and it was like going to a
funeral in that big numbering, old ram
shackle turnout.
You have a street car system equal to
anything in the country. You have good
streets and well lighted, in fact, so far as
. I can see, you are pretty well up-to-date,
except in the one particular I mention.
I think it would be a paying investment
for some enterprising business man to
put few handsom cabs at the depot and
see If they do not take the attention OF
passengers.
Il made inquiries about the hacks and
was told they are the old condemned car
riages which the livery stables rented
out to negroes. These carriages are close,
stufry and foul smelling. the result of all
classes and conditions of people riding In
them, | have seen, since | have been in
the city, some of these carriages filed to
the doors with negro men and women,
some of them apparently under the in
fiuence of liquor. These are not the sort
of vehicles into which man wishes to
take his wife when necessary to cross
town at night.
Another matter which would be for
public safety would be to make each
driver wear a numbered badge so that a
passenger can make a note of the num-
Der if there is any misconduct. In some
big cities the hack drivers have been
known to take young women passengers
to places other than the one directed,
and it was by the number on the badge
the driver was traced.
I'm a metropolitan city like Birming-
ham you must keep up with the times In
all particulars"
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Guntersville Democrat: Birmingham's
policemen are now armed with a foun-
tain pen. That is much like army Off
GERS In time of war, who are provided
with typewriters.
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livingston Southern Home: The secre-
tary of the Alabama Press association
has broken out again In a species of
brainstorm on Conner. The monotony
and the futility of such a proceeding
does not seem to impress him.
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

Tyson is the prettiest, daintiest and most
winsome little girl on the burlesque
stage.-The Billboard
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Savannah Press: Possibly Harry Thaw
was saner after a "brain storm" Some
times storms clear up the atmosphere.
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|. Providence Journal Chicago fnanciers
call the Wall stree panic a purely local
affair. This is the most unkindest cut
of all.
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w. D. Lanier. C. L. Stricklin and
W. NJ. Sutherlin are the only author
lied travelling representatives of The
Age-Herald in its circulation depart
ment.
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Boston Herald: Probably this demo-
cratic presidential boom for Jesse Grant
had better not be taken for granted.
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Washington Bureau Age-Herald 1421
@ street, n. W.
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Daily and Sunday Herald. $500
Daily and Sunday. per month. 10
Sunday Age-Herald. per annum. 200
Weekly Age Herald. per annum. LOO
Subscription payable in advance.
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Hamilton Sun: BY the way, what has
become of Brander Matthews and his bob
tail spelling proposition?
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No communication will be published
without it's authors name. Rejected
manuscript will not be returned unless
stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
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Entered at tho Birmingham. Ala.
postofice as second-class matter under
act of Congress March 3. 1879.
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Roanoke Leader: An Atlanta woman
has alleged that her husband tried to
gouge her eyes out and to strike her
with q baseball bat, but it was only
after he had cut her incest clothes into
shreds that she brought suit for d.
vorce.
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BOOSTING MARYLAND.
Pretty Maryland Tyson, the star of the
Greater New York Stars, has number
of friends in the profession that are will
ing to back their assertions that Miss