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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23
HoG-klLLINe TIME IN DIXIE.

From the Washington Herald.
 Says the Charlotte Observer
 And now it's hog killing time"
 That sentence does not sound over ele- gant, perhaps. to the uninitiated and ig- norant, but to those who know 1t Is an editorial utterance not to be improved upon; a veritabe poem, inspiring and grand.
 In matters of this kind, the Observers s presiding genius yields, magic pen. Those not sure of their constituency would have rambled off into labyrinth of words. They would have sought to atune their praise to heroic measure; have invoked the foreign aid of high sounding sentences and wonderful rhetor- ical gyrations, Not so the wise old Ob- server. It is sure of It's ground. It knows that everybody in its neighborhood knows just what is meant when 1t sounds the busle-modestly. unpretentiously, and with calm.
 And now it's hog-killng time" says the. Observer, and stops-and at once and forthwith, without more ado, experienced and knowing ones prick up their ears and begin to see visions of bright and happy days to come; such as big city folks may read of, but seldom, seldom see Why. hog killing time" down that way means that the woods are red and brown and good to look upon; that scalybarks, chin auapins, and walnuts are ripe, and per simmons. too: that the morning air is fresh and nlpping cold: that cracking bread Is at hand, and backbone pie and spare-ribs, and all of that! It conjures thoughts of red-gravy ham-home made and cured with real hickory ashes; of breakfast bacon unaoquainted with salt peter, and embalmng compounds concoct- ed of curious chemicals And then the whole lovely dream culminates in one riotous vision of surpassing grandeur in which hog-jowl and turnip greens, backed, fianked, and surrounded with fresh buttermlk and cornpone. are most intimately concerned.
 'Hog-killing time in Dixie! It s rather rough on the hogs. but 1t is one long -drawn-out delight to everybody and everything else involved. It is even thought by the natives that the porkers themselves submit with some sort of cheerfalness, because they realize, in a vague and indefinite way, just how much happiness they are about to bring among people of their acquaintance
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rom the New Orleans Times Democrat. 1 HE President has emerged from " the canebrake of North Louis-
 ana highly delighted with his

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 1 HE President has emerged from
 \O the canebrake of North Louisi-
 ana highly delighted with his hunt and the success which attended 1t. He is much gratifed that the party slaughtered three bears out of a possible five known to have been in the neghbor- hood of the camp He also dwelt upon the fact that he and the other hunters ate the game which fell under their rifles, bar the. wild cat, and particularly com mended the gastronomie virtues of bear liver and possum, putting their relative value in that order. Now his commen- daton of the possum as human food was not political, but gastronomic. The chief executive spoke as a gourmet, not as a demagogue. It might be supposed that at this late day he had determined to break the force of his discharge of the black battalion by appealing to the sympathies of the negro in his commendation of the possum. But this view will be advanced only by the splenetic, who see evil in every utterance
 Passing over the virtues of bear liver, as being beyond the scope of description in simple prose, 1t is gratifying to know that the President is & convert to possum diet. There are very many persons who have not been blessed with dark skins who do not despise the humble possum, after he has been slaughtered and prepared for the table. Many persons will recall with pleasure surreptitious visit to the cabin of some old negro who had given out the confidential information that possum and sweet potatoes were on the bill of fare No healthy boy was ever gorged beyond the point at which he would reject such an invitation, and he has invariably dis appeared into the tall timber with the package in his hands apd returned with it in his midst. The President is not the first. by any means, to discover the merits of the little beast, that is ugly in life. and beautiful in death.
 It Is, perhaps, unfortunate that the President did not make his discovery be- fore giving certain luncheon or dinner which has been much commented--on. A possum at that function would have been highly appreciated no doubt. for the guest "ouio nave ieAt ehtreiy at hoH'e III the presence of the 5ucculent dish. But that Is past and gone, and we may con gratulate ourselves that the first gen. tleman in the land' las at last been introduced to the possum, and has been duly impressed with the meeting
 But a grave suspicion obtrudes Was the possum shot or was the tree cut down and the neck of the animal broken after it had been worried by he dogs? The man who shoot a possum is only less criminal than the man who shoots a fox. and proclamation should at once be made concerning the process by which the possum died. The hunters being true sportsmen. though not entirely dead game by reason of their refusal to eat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

nize the existence of the primary sys- tenn, and that will. beyond doubt, lead to surprising results.
 The republican convention will con- sist of 992 delegates, and 497 votes will be necessary to choice. The southern states will send up 332 dele gates, and these will, practically speak ing, be named by federal office-hold- CTS. The territories will send up 26 more, and these will be named by ofice-holders Here is a total of 35S votes to which 156 votes may be added from the states west of the Mississippi river where the Roosevelt anti-corpor- ation policy is very popular This would enable the administration to control the convention, but will it dare do it?
 But underlying all questions that are to come before the republican con vention Is the uncertain attitude of the administration towards its own head. On the republican side of the house this is and it will continue to be the puzzle of the entire situation, and no one but Theodore Roosevelt can solve it. And even he may not know in October what he will do in Innn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23
A Business Barometer.

''The building trade furnishes truer in- dex of business conditions in a city than any other means I know off," said a con- tractor, land it is more susceptible of the influences of prospective changes in gov ernment than is the barometer of changes in the weather.
 Building improvements are the first forms of expendity&e to stop when clouds gather on the political horizon, and they are the last to start after the sky has cleared. Building improvements indicate an expansion of business and conf- dence in the future, and when you visit a city for the first time and want to know what the people think of the future of the place and what prospects they en- certain, just look around and see how much building work is being done.
 Several big building contracts were in contemplation in this city about six months ago, but since all this agitation has sprung 1up the contracts have been laid aside to ywait developments Some people are saying the city will be ruined by prohibition. and others are saying it will be benefited, but the man with money to invest in building improvements prefers to wait until time shall prove how the experiment will work.
 T expect to finish by Christmas all the work 1 have on hand at present, and l do not see any prospect of new work coming in. This does not apply to me alone, but to all to the contractors In the city. Of course this means a large num- Der of men being out of employment for about three or four months. at least, and the probability that many of these men will leave the district.
 For the sake of the city and the citl- zens I hope this agitation will soon die out and that people will get back to their regular business
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23
Street Car Routes.

Birmingham has an expensive and well equipped street car system, but the serv- Ice would be more satisfactory if the routes were not changed so often" said an old citizen.
 Changes were made too often in the past, but they have been even more ire quent within recent weeks. There is too much experimenting The routes should be fixed and remain unchanged, so that the public would not wait in vain on the wrong corner.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23
THE CEMETERY ROAD.

An old red road leads O CT the hill
 To spot where the dead are sleeping, And through the years, for good or i'll,
 While stricken hearts are weeping The sad processions wend their way
 Upon the final journey That all of us must take some day 7 At the close of lifes brief tourney Wild flowers bloom on either side
 When summer clothes the hills. In weedy haunts the rabbits hide,
 Or little mountain rils Go tumbling down in hoyden glee,
 With many leap and fling And message to the shining sea
 From some forgotten spring. No matter what the seasons be,
 1is favored none the less. In summers ardent livery Or winters sombre dress. The old red road serenely winds
 Through banks of bloom or snow And breaches rest to feyered minds,
 For death Is sure, we know
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23
Result of Prosneritx.

"The long continued prosperity of this country has enabled individuals, industrial corporations and banks to get we'll ahead and therefore be in strong position to pass through hard times, should they come upon us." said a manufacturer.
 Tn former years when depression came it came to stay for several years. It used to be something like this: Two or three years of prosperity or four
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or five years of extreme dullness. Heneefortlf we will have good times for many years together and short, temporary depression. After the presi- a great boom again; provided, of
 course. crops are as bountiful as
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BEAR LIVER AND "POSSUM"

the wild cat, it Is to be assumed that after the pretended death of the possum, some one placed a stick across his neck and jerking him up by the tail fractured his spinal cord, which is the only author ized method of execution. Other methods of producing euthanasia in such cases are unconstitutional, null and void.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23
Seund Banks

While financial circles in New York were naturally excited over the tenn porary closing of the Knickerbocker Trust company yesterday, the banks throughout the country are in an ex- ceptionally strong condition. The run on the Knickerbocker Trust was, as runs usually are, absolutely senseless, for the concern is not only thoroughly solvent, but, according to statements of the state comptroller and others in a position to know, it's business was managed with the utmost integrity There was not the least thing shady about the banks transactions, and there was nothing weak about its re- sources.
 The New York flurries have no ef- feet on Birmingham's banking inter- ests. The banks here, every one or them, are able at all times to meet any emergency. Ten years ago. when Birmingham was getting over a long period of depression, the local banks were taking a fresh start. They were in good shape then, but of course were not impI egnable, as they are today. As Birmingham prospered, wealth ac- cumulated and deposits piled up rap idly. It is safe to say that in no south ern city outside of New Orleans are banking conditions quite so solid as they are here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press

T fVfff errc NV ," 1 of fN T 0Ss5'
 It's mighty easy to pay compliments unless it's your wife.
 There's @ kind of modesty that blush es only on the outside.
 What girl likes about flirting is she mustn't tell her mother about it.
 A woman can believe anything in the world if there's no good reason for 1t.
 When a boy likes to go to school it's because he expects to stop on the way till it's out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

A man who was arrested the other day thought to get out of jail by say ing that he was chum of John D. Rockefeller. That was a fine way to stay in jail indefinitely
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

D. Benjamin Andrews says all libel CTS ought to be hanged, but ex-Goy ernor Pennypacker wants to enlarge the list by bringing into it as victims all cartoonists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

Balloons go up to move with the wind and to settle back to earth when the gas bag becomes flabby.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

The census bureau says there are 20,O00000 women over the age of 30 in this country, but the bureau prudently refuses to say who they are.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23
IN THE PLAY.

From the York Dispatch.
 The Leading Lady third act)-Have a care. sir; have care.
 The Leading Man tsbsently)-No thinks; I just had one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

The President killed bear in Louis lana, and now he Is going home to hunt the octopus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

The Jamestown exposition will soon be wound up, and Uncle Sam Is trying to forget 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

A Boston man had premonition that he would be shot, and so he was He should have lodged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

The succession to the Austrian throne has been hefnitely postponed. Francis Joseph proposes to rule stand ing up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

Nine multi-millionaires were regis tered at one Chicago hotel in one day It must have been great day for the bell boys
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

If the Hamburg-American line builds 47,000-ton ship, to be driven by both turbine and reciprocating engines, it will readily be the leader in this won derful wireless telegraph period.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

Professor Jenks of Cornell says a boys political beliefs are apt to be de- termined by the banner he is induced to carry when he is F years old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

Balloon races are open to all persons who desire to look at them, for it is not possible to fence the sky in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

A New Jersey man wants divorce because his wife refuses to live in Princeton. Maybe, she used to be a college widow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

Small Is now out looking for a job, with Christmas coming on and possi. bly no presents bought.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

The year 1907 Is not a bit slow in balloons, steamships and wireless tel. egraphy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

The New York clearing house goes to work to save banks before they are wrecked, but 1t will scarcely be able to restore a good reputation to the HeinZe bank.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

The corn crop is fully ripened and it will this year keep the entire coun- try hopeful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

The Philadelphia Ledger is mean enough to insinuate that the s1,000,d00 offered David Warfield was stage money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

The tricks that Heinze worked sue cessfully in Montana were misfits in New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

F. A. Heinze says he is used to trouble - It is fortunate that he had had some training for the package that was recently handed him in Wall street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

The Panama canal should be wide enough and deep enough to float the largest ships in sight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

E. H. Hartman, who has returned to New York, refuses to say anything because he has nothing to say. He is like the little boy the calf ran over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

The national game at present is pol itics, and baseball will have to step lively to keep up with the former next year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

If Secretary Taft is sending Lack any souvenir postal cards none have been received by Foraker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

Chestnuts and turkeys are selling at 30 cents pound, and Thanksgiving will come high this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

= St. Louis is devoted to the science of aeronautics, and it pays no atten- ton to politics, and but little to foot ball.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

Heinze is convinced the copper mines are safer and less rascally than Wall street
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The Heinze-Morse ruction is another illustration of the folly of putting into the Standard Oil crowd
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REMARKS.

REMARKS. The game of love began, they say. With woman, who's the prize, And started that unlucky day She learned to use her eyes For mans confusion and despair And for his happiness Oh. womans eyes and woman's hair Are more than woman's dress. And yet we wouldn't have you think That hair and eyes are all Some mouths could drive man to drink When they are red and small
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-------------se.- ----a----- PRESS POINTS

Houston Post: An Atlanta doctor boasts of having attended the birth of 2400 babies during a practice of 50 years. In Texas that is about the eight-year average of a doctor who really makes speciality of that branch of the practice The truth is Texas is a grand baby state and the storks never go to roost
 Nashville American. Gertrude Ather ton says "any woman can marry any man she wants" Not in many cases, if the man sees her first.
 Nashville Banner: Having failed to eliminate MT. Bryan from the inevitable ness of the situation, Mir Watterson has decided to let the Nebrsskan proceed with his own eventual elimination
 Dallas News: Inasmuch as he is out in Wyoming trying to shoot rabbits, Sec retary Loeb can establish a pretty strong alibl If anybody tries to blame the Wall street disturbances on him. Florida Times Union: physician says automobilng drives men to drink Handy way to get to saloons speedily?
 Nashville Tennessean: .The sun will hide his face tomorrow says Pitts burg paper. Another scandal coming, eh?
 Knoxville Sentine: Hetty Green ad- mits that she is happest when making money money She iSSthen happy nearly all the time.
 
 Washington Herald As proof positive that poets are born and not made an Indiana reporter wrote up a burglary as occurring some time between the lower- ing of nights sable mantle and the lift ing of the purple veil that heralds the approach of rosy dawn"
 | Washington Post: The census bureau is authority for the statement that there are about 20,0O0,0OO women over the age of 30 in the United States. It may be true, bus we can't help wondering how the bureau found it out.
 Spokane Spokesman-R Review: A Massa- chusetts bells has manfred an ex-conviet which would seem to indicate that stripes are to be fashionable again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23
EXACTLY.

When man is looking for trouble-'' eWell?"
 And he wants it in hurry. he should go to his relatives"
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Now that we have wireless telegra- phy. let us have spell of wireless politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

WITH OR WITHOUT MAKEUP. Susie is a lovely girl
 That depends on when you see her."
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THE END.

In the land of the setting sun, When the toll Of this life Is done And the goal of desire is won
 What then? There II be nothing to say but goodbye, With a broken word and a sigh, But never a tear in the eye
 Of men.
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

are going to spring that old joke about the price of coal"
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NO EXPENSE ATTA AcHHD.

leaves him after the age of 50 years"
 Without formality. I presumeY,
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RESIGNED.

 Tenderly they lifted his bleeding form from beneath the wheels of a trolley car. Tt is just as we'll" he murmured. T was on my way to dentist"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

The business and professional men who believe that high license and sa. loon regulation will better conserve good morals in Jefferson county than prohibition are not making much noise, but they are thoroughly organ ized Prohibition will not win in this county at the polls next Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23
HARD TIMES IN TrTRKpv

HARD TIMES IN TURKEY. "Chekib, have you heard the news?. "No, what is it?"
 The Sultan Is broke and he's going to take his harem on the road as a m,- sical comedy.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23
oUNDs LIKE BOTH

Richard Strauss says he has new opera that is even greater than 'salome.' !" "ls that a warning or an advertise ment?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Senator Rankhead h City.

Senator John Hollis Bankhead of Fayete is registered at the New Florence. He is just home after the Deep Water ways associations convention, of which he is a member.
 The Senator is not talking politics, nor does he venture an opinion as to the next republican nominee. He is not giving his whole attention either to the prohibition agitation current here and elsewhere. The improvement of Myers and waterways in the Senator's hobby and he will dis ouss this matter on any pretext.
 The Senator states that the Deep Water ways association is doing great work for the country, and has plans the materi-. alization of which will be a great advan- tage of the west and south. particularly. In the way of improving the rivers of Alabama, Senator Bankhead probably has done more than any other one man. He Is interested in the plans of the Commer- cial club at this time to connect the Ten nessee and Warrior rivers. He argues that the plan is quite feasible. and it's undertaking will be most advantageous to the state. He thinks that if Congress is properly memoralized an amount ap- proximatng s5,OOo,oOO might be appro- priated
 The Senator was seen yesterday by numbers oi his warm friends He leaves this morning for Fayette, his home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23

TILLIE Tillie said she'd like a chance The Wall Street game to play, And seeking knowledge in advance Asked, When is bargain day?v
 PAUL COOK.
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Nashville American: Gertrude Ather- ton says 'any woman can marry any man she wants" Not in many cases, if the man sees her first.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-23
Talks of Livingston Schools.

G. W. Brock. professor of Latin and mathematics and secretary of the faculty in the Alabama Normal College for Girls at Livingston, is registered at the Hillman. drawn to Birmingham by the convention of newspaper men and women now in session. MT. Brock is one of the best known educators in the state. and is full of enthusiasm over his new field of labor, having joined the forces of the Normal college last summer He says that the town of Livingston, in response to the generous increase in the appropria- tion by the state. is building a new three story brick structure for the college. Tho building is now nearly finished and the college will be moved into it's new quar- ters on January l. The removal comes none too soon, as the school is prosper ing as 1t never has, and more pupils than can be- taken care of are pressing for admittance The new building will have 15 class rooms and an auditorium that will seat 700 people.
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SHOT FOR A DEER. Poor fellow, he died with his boots on" "A soldier. hey?'
 No, a guide" -
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THE BETTER WAY

THE BETTER WAY. When things go wrong lift up your eyes and cherish no regret, At most, we stay here but. a little while. And what's the use of crying over gauds we'll never get
 Instead of facing trouble with a smile? What boots the vain endeavor and the heartache and the tears, And what reward will rnoping ever bring? In sunny wales of happiness come dream away the years
 Beside cottage where the roses cling.