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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

ordinances operated to make Busse mayor. Under those ordinances the street railroads of Chicago are to be conducted hereafter upon a revokable license. The traction companies agree to pave, clean, repair and sprinkle the streets they use; to give transfers to all points; to spend from s4O000,0 900 to $50,000,000 in extensions and improve ments, all much needed; to pay 55 per cent of the net profits to the city, or, if the people prefer, to reduce fares to a like extent, and the city may at any time take over the lines on the pay ment of not more than $5O,00OO00 be- sides whatever sum shall hereafter be expended in improvements approved by the city's officials
 This is the scheme that the strap hangers accepted, because it promised to be speedier in operation than Mayor Dunne's plan for immediate municipal ownership. The straphangers did it. The traction companies had permitted their lines to fall into slovenly condi- tion, and the vast numbers in Chicago compelled to use daily the street cars went to the polls and voted Dunne down and Busse up. That was all there was of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Jemison for President.

'I think it would be good plan for Robert Jemison, Jr., to be elected presi- dent of the Commercial club for another term said member of the club yester- day. "He has made a most acceptable president and he has a number of plans on foot which I believe he should be given an opportunity to complete.
 T do not know whether Mr. Jemison would care to have the office again, as it requires great deal of time from his personal business, but I do think he would do well to accept it again. The election is to be held shortly, and l am not seeking to oppose any one that might want the office, or who might be sug- gested. President Jackson held the posi- tion for two terms and the plan seemed to me to be successful, and I would like to see MT. Jemison have 1t again."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
Natural Gas.

'The natural fuel gas near Huntsville is proving a great commercial success" said coal operator who vlsted the Spring city this week. "Of the thirteen gas wells tapped at least ten are exceed ingly rich. This natural gas is being piped into Huntsville and already the coal trade of that town is feeling the com petition with the cheaper commodity. It looks as if gas is that part of the state will soon take the place of coal.
 From all I could learn no more power ful natural gas has ever been discovered than that at Huntsville. Shreveport has an excellent quality of natural gas and little or no coal is used in that market now, but 1t is not up to the power stan dard of the Huntsville article
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
CulIman Strawberries.

"Culman strawberries are beginning to make their appearance in the Birmingham market" said Morris avenue merchant. and the wholesale price is IS to % cents a quart Of course, when the season is little farther advanced the price will come down. The outlook for q large yield is good. The quality of the South Ala bama strawberry has been exceptionally fine this spring and the truckers who raise strawberries are making money on the crop.
 "The produce business generally speak ing is somewhat quiet just now. It is between seasons, but in Q. week or two Morris avenue trade will be brisk enough
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
MT. Hartman in Politics

If there is man in the land who thinks the republican victories in 1904 were not directly due to the use of slush funds contributed by Wall street corporations, that man should read and reread the Harriman-Roosevelt correspondence from end to end. It reeks with slush. It sprang from, is based on and relates to slush.
 It explains why the republicans of the Fifty-ninth Congress refused to pass a publicity bill-that is to say, bill compelling the publication of every name and every amount contributed to federal campaign funds. They refused to pass it, not because of 1904, but be- cause of 1908, when they expect to another fund to be applied as that of 1904 was. How that was applied MT. Hartman makes plain in his letter to Sydney Webster, which he says shall stand unchanged. In that letter re- ferring to the President he says:
 "In his presence I Called up an inti. mate friend of Senator Depew. told him 1t was necessary in order to carry New York state that $20O,000 should be raised at once, and if he would help, I would subscribe S50000. After a few words over the telephone the gentleman said he would let me know, which he did prob ably in three or four hours, with the re- suit that the whole amount. including my subscription, had been raised.
 "The checks were given to Treasurer Bliss. who took them to Chairman Cor telyou. If there were many among them of life insurance companies or any other like organization of course Cortelyou must have informed the President. I do not know who the subscribers were other than the friend of Depew, who was an individual. This amount enabled the New York state committee to continue it's work, with the result that at least 5O,O0o votes were turned in the city of New York alone, making Q difference of 100000 votes in the general result.
 "There are between 22O0 and 2SOO dis tricts in Greater New York, and in a campaign such as that the expenditure of, say $50 in each district for campaign pur- poses, not including the watchers on elec- tion day, would take more than $10o,00O"
 "While deploring." says MT. Harri- man in his public statement of Tues day, that the sacredness of private correspondence should thus be vio- lated, cannot withdraw anything from the letter." He reiterates therefore the statements herein published, and really the President does not discredit them. MT. Roosevelt attempts to be very emphatic, but his emphasis re- lates to denials about the presidential campaign of 1904, evading altogether the New York or Higgins campaign of that year. The latter was an essential part of the former. Both elections were held on the same day, and no one knows how the restless elements in the New York cities will vote. It became necessary therefore to carry New York ito elect Higgins, and when Higgins election had been rendered secure the presidential race was as good as won. The parrying of denials in the Roose-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
THE EPISODlCAL CLERK
Goes Out to Lunch In Denver and Comes to Himself In New Orleans.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Denver offers the latest theme for the psychologist and the allenist.
 The incident which furnishes material for these scientists began six months ago A clerk In the Southern Pacific railroad offices in the western city called his wife over the telephone one day at noon and told her to have lunch ready for him in a few minutes, as he had his hat on and would catch the next street car for home. He hung up tho receiver, lefs "the room apparently to so home and disappeared. From that moment all trace of him was lost. Nahum Wing was a man of excellent habits, his business affairs were in sound condition, he was a valued employe, his future seemed bright, his home life was happy. No one could suggest a motive for his disappearance. They searched the city and the whole neighborhood. Special detectives were employed. The efforts to find the slight est clue were futile. After a while Mrs. Wing, concluding that it would be use less to hunt further and thinking that perhaps her husband had met with death
 
 and she and the child went to Boston. It was there her parents lived.
 Now comes the sequel A few days ago a young clerk in railroad office in New Orleans asked a fellow clerk to tell him where Coumbine street was. It was on Columbne street in Denver that Wings home had been. When he was told that he was in New Orleans he would not be- lieve 1t. He was finally convinced. He had come to the New Orleans office a few weeks previously, had applied for posi- ton, had obtained it. and had started to work. He remembered nothing of all this. He could remember only the fact that he had left his desk at luncheon time and had started out to board a street car to go to his home. As for the six months that inervened, his mind was blank. He lost his faculties suddenly in Denver and regained them a half year later just as suddenly in New Orleans. After much ef- fort he got into communication with his wife in Boston. and by this they are to- sether once more.
 What can be more fascinating to the student than the mysteries of the human brain? Here in the case of Nahum Wing is psychic phenomenon of marvellous .n- tercst. His story is striking as narra- tive; as an episode of scientific value it is all the clements and facts that resulted in the six months of total forgetfnlness would be profitable and divertng.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
NEW YORK TAX LIST.
Mrs. Russell Sage Holds First Place.
 Carnegie Next.

New York Special to the Cincinnati En-
 quirer.
 With a rush of more than thousand belated taxpayers who wanted to swear off their personal taxes, the personal property assessment books closed at noon today.
 Among the eleventh hour callers was Harry Payne Whitney, who swore off the $10 000O,O0o assessment against the estate of his father, the late William c. Whit ney, all but $517S, which he admits is taxable under the laws of New York. His sister, Dorothy Whitney, had her per sonal assessment reduced from s2,000.000 to $55O GOO. and his wife, Gertrude Whit ney, allowed the s25O,0OO assessment against her to stand.
 Harry Payne Whitney swore off all of his personal assessment of S,75o000, and Payne Whitney his of s500Oo.
 Most of the other reductions made to- day were by small taxpayers, in amounts ranging from q few dollars to s25,oo0.
 Andrew Carnegie yielded first place as the largest individual taxpayer in the city to Mrs. Russell Sage, who will pay on s7,55S, ,O0o this year, while MT. Carnegie will pay on ,7,SOO,0oo.
 Mrs. Sage's assessment consists of so, 900 in personal property, sS2o,o00 against her residence, and s2,25S,o0o against the estate of her husband.
 Mir Carnegies assessment is divided into s5,000,0O0 of personal property and s2,3Oo00O upon his residence,
 Third on the list is John D. Rockefeller, who is assessed this year upon S2,o0o,OOo personal property and $55O,OOO upon his home.
 William A. Clark will pay upon to- tai assessment of s2,775O00 this year, of which $2 GOO is levied against his man. sion in Fifth aveaue and s275,OOO upon personal property levied under the Sake nonresident law, which Is in force this year for the first time.
 Charles M Schwao who is next on the lis., will pay taxes on $2,029,000 of which s1,.yJ,OoO is levied against his residence in Riverside Drive, and the balance upon personal property under the new law af- fecting non-residents.
 Mrs. Adelaide Yerkes Mzner is fifth on the list, paying taxes upon $2,o00,O0o of which s15OO,00O is assessed against her Firth avenue residence, and 0O0 upon personal property.
 j. Pierpont Morgan will pay taxes on s1,74O0o0. of which Sl,3400O0 is levied against his residence, while Elbridge T, Gerry will pay on $1, 455,00O, of which sl0G,- 600 is levied against personal property under the Saxe nonresident law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
UNTO EACH MAN HIS HANDIWoRK

By Algernon C. Swinburne. Unto each man his handiwork, unto each
 his crown, The just fate gives; Whoso takes the worlds life on him ana
 his own lays down He, dying, so lives; Whoso bears the whole heaaviness Of tho
 wronged worlds weight, And puts 1t by. It is well with him suffering though nc
 face mans fate: How should he die? Seeing death has no part in him any mores
 no power Upon his head, He has bought his eternity with . little
 hour And is not dead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
LAX JUSTICE.
.e Pittsburg Post.

From the Pittsburg Post.
 Tt is better that 100 guilty men escape" declared the eloquent counsel for the de- fense, rather than one innocent man be imprisoned
 Make it 300 guilty men," suggested the hardheaded judge. That's about the proportion at present escaping in this jurisdiction"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
BoYHooD OF A GREAT MAN.
Ie Chicago Tribune

From the Chicago Tribune.
 The subject of this sketch while boy went one day to visit relative in the country.
 ''Uncle" he said, as he followed the old farmer out to the barn after dln- ner. don't you want me to do some thing to help you?"
 You can go and water the stock if you want to, Eddie" answered his uncle. Eddie compiled with alacrity.
 "I'd rather do it than anything else in the world he exclaimed.
 That boy, now a middle aged man, is known to fame as Edward H. Hartman. He has been watering stock ever since.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
STRAINS.

From the Houston Post.
 .Straws in the millinery window" says the Atlanta Constitution. show which way the money goes" The Washington Post amends by saying: And straws in the drug store will soon show which way the soda water goes." And the straws in the booze parlors will show which way the mint juleps go if you do not already know
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
THE "eRAINsToRM" COCKTAIL.

From the New York World.
 The ''brainstorm cocktail is the new drink that has come to occupy an inn portant position on upper Broadway. It was invented last night by some thirsty wanderers who were seeing New York from the top of water wagon. This is it: Take a very tall glass-Pittsburg glass preferred; chop lot of ice very carefully. Place ice in glas and let it ThaW"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

, ment, each young man took little off the end of his steak and painfully consumed
 it. When all had finished there was enough meat left to feed eight or ten more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
THE PEssINIsT.

O how he mourns the flight of time, The spread of anarchy and crime
 The pessimistic man.
 He never has a word of cheer, He sees no merit anywhere
 The pessimistie man. A great big beam Is in his eye, Than laugh he'd much prefer to cry, Alas" we hear him often sigh
 The pessimistic man.
 There's no place on this earth for him, His chance of heaven, too, is slim The pessimisuc man. For such ss he is life no good His heart is dough, his head is wood
 The pessinistic man.
 It seems to us he's in the way, Nobody presses him to stay, He sullies cen the brightest day
 The pessimistic man.
 Somebody ought to tell him how To laugh a bit and do it now
 The pessimistic man. He fails to get his share of bliss, The best in life he's bound to miss The pessimistic man. If he'd out change his tune awhile And twist his face into a smiles He'd find joy easy to beguile-
 The pessimistic man. It is planned to give a. banquet in Pitts burg tonight at which twenty eight honest men will be present. The population of Pittsburg is approximately 5OOooo.
 At any rate, President Roosevelt has discovered that D. H. Hartman is no mollycoddle.
 Galusha A. Grow did very well in life for a bachelor. He wasn't crusty, either.  Buckwheat cakes, sausage, fried pota- toes and shad roe are recommended as cure for cold feet in husbands. Still, it is hard to see how such diet is going to help a husband when he's in a poker game.
 The Easter parade is over, but 1t isn't paid for yet. LAUGH IT OFF. Is trouble tugging at you still?
 Laugh 1t off. Does fate contrive to do you i'll? Laugh 1t off. It's possible to laugh and make The skulking forms of sorrow take Themselves away, if you'll but shake Yourself. and tho your heart would break, Laugh it off! Cheer up, Mister Dunnsi
 Have you spring fevered yet? PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
ovERsENsirIvE.
, the washington Star.

From the WaShIlSlUI otdl.
 q am afraid you don't like work
 'Yes, I do," answered Plodding Pete; T have so much respect for work that when I see a piece of it to be tended to I allus feel like turnin' 1t over to somebody else that wouldn't be as likely to spoil it as l would"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

The overcoat is about to be dis carded again, but it should not be put beyond recall, for other cold snaps may be due us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Harriman's physicians tell him he should take long rest, and the public second the motion with an amendment to the effect that he rest in some other country, letting our railroads severely alone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

The campaign against noises should start with noisy people. Other sorts of noises are not half so bad, if we except the phonograph and the electric piano.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Washington Herald; ''when, oh, when, will the tariff be revisedr' asks the Bir- mingham Age-Herald. Too busy to an swer now. Some one else wants to know, How long is a. stringr'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Hamilton Stunt Nothing to do but to eat, sleep and smoke, and take an occa- sionaI jump over somebody's smoke house, says Uncle Joe Cannon. Gee, what an easytime some people have in this world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

This country has grown eight mil lions in six years, and is keeping up the lick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Ruef and Schmitz have engaged Del mas to defend them, and they may be preparing to plead paranoia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Many who do not want to die dis, graced simply speculate in stocks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

women spoiled her Easter gown to save a boys life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

The occupation of Oudja by the French recalls the first occupation of Egypt by the British. The latter are still there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Wall street will try no more furry jokes on the country for the country refuses to pay any attention to them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Senator Kittredge is for Taft, and both of them are about as fat as any body ever gets to be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Pennsylvania will stand everything even 1900 per cent profit on boot backing stands for use in the new capitol.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Miss Mae Wood is remarkably still. She should be getting ready for the trial of her issue in the April court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Panama is now the great American health resort. It is so healthy down there that there is no sale for ceme- tery lots.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

The flowers in the Easter hats for tunately were not natural and could not be frost-bitten.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Kansas City Star, One of the railroad senators in Kansas is quoted as writing to a. friend: "The reception I received upon my return from Topeka reminded mo of midnight in the cemetery of a deaf and dumb asylum
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Chancellor Day has recovered suffi- ciently from the humps to speak an- other word for the trusts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Harry Thaw evidently knew where and when to draw the line between sanity and the other thing. He can play both parts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

AFTER ALL. Regardless of the turn of fate, The worlds abuse and mortal hate, Just say 1t doesn't matter. Altho your cherished plans go wrong, And the way seems rough and hard and
 long,
 Just say it doesn't matter. If you'll but keep on talking so And hold to courage as you go, You'll soon convince yourself you know, That it really doesn't matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

The floral budget of the entire coun. try calls for $100,O00,oOO a year. New York city alone pays for flowers S11,. 900 a day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

A comets tail is but a harmless piece of illumination-a sky piece without weight or ginger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

A strike of barbers in Pittsburg may lead to an overproduction of boards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Kaiser Wilhelm is about to send one of his boys to Harvard university, where he can chum with young Roose- welt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

The distance is too great for us to hear the steam shovels digging the Panama canal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

President Roosevelt is up to his neck in mire this time and floundering desperately.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
LOOK EORMARD.

Keep your eyes upon the future,
 Keep good courage in your. heart, And be sure you start off rightly
 When it's time to make a start. Bend your energies to doing
 What you think you can do best And in climbing up the mountain
 Never lag behind the rest. Keep your eyes upon the future,
 Let the past be quite forgot, And don't step aside to trihe
 When fair, beguiling spot Tempts you from the way you're going
 With a glimpse of slothful ease, Where a golden fountain tinkles
 And a wind sighs through the trees. Keep your eyes upon the future,
 Keep them on the mountain top, And just tell the idle fellows
 That you haven't time to stop Push ahead for night is coming,
 Shadows creep along the way And the sun of life Is setting,
 Like the closing of a day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

There is no denying the fact that Uncle Joe has been having time on his junket.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Portland Telegram, To a man up the political tree all presidential booms save one need nourishment. That one, the per sistent third term, is evidently self-per- petuating.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Montgomery Advertiser: Keep the fire department out of politics. says the Mus kosee Times Democrat Well, we don't know how 1t is in Indian Territory, but in some sections politics frequently gets warm enough to need the hose wagons sprvicns
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Eight young college boys filed solemnly into a Nineteenth street cafe. None of them knew how to order, so each one sent for steak. Soon eight young men sat dumbly before eight big steaks that filled the table with meat and their hearts with consternation. They were resolute, however. and while the walters sniekered and other guests looked on in amuse-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Mark Twain and Grover Cleveland are the country's serene citizens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
PRESS POINTS

Providence Journal; Spectators at flu ture Harvard baseball games may be treated to the spectacle of a Hohenzol- Tern sliding to second.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Austin Statesman: One of the encourag- ing signs of the times is pointed out by the Birmingham Age-Herald when 1t says panics in Wall street used to be followed by slumps in all lines of business, but not now. The price of iron keeps up and general trade marches right along.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

No communication will be published without it's authors name. Rejected manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Many an editor has been stung in the ringtime by busy bee poetry.
 SELFISHNESS. o we'll say we, When days are fair, Somehow, 'tis hard For us to care What happens, so It happens to The other chap, And earthly rue Just passes By The place where we Are hiding out
 From misery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

We are informed that peel-a-boos will be more peekful than ever this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

Montgomery Times: Richard Mansfield has declared for Roosevelt for d third term. If Dick had given his support to Fairbanks it would have been more ap- propriate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
ACE-HERALD ECHOES

Savannah Press: The Birmingham Age Herald notes that stock watering goes right along and Hartman gets no nearer to the pen.
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Washington Post: Says the Birming- ham Age-Herald: Uncle Joe Cannon wears in the tropics a straw hat, linen duster and a greenlined umbrella" Even with the umbrella, that's pretty neglige attire for our Uncle Joseph.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

New Orleans Times Democrat: A New York physician is experimenting with hypnotic suggestion as a cure for bad tempers. The suggestion of strap i'll the woodshed is sometimes effective when the patients are sufficiently youthful.