The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-10

Chattanooga News: Birmingham is holding a stiff upper lip, but it is by the hardest. Youngstown Telegram Birmingham constitutes the latest addition to the arid spots of the south
 Houston Post: For the present, our plans for annexing Birmingham to Hous- ton have been abandoned, Arkansas Democrat: Birmingham IS being talked about as never before, and the ants are the cause of it all
 Youngstown Telegram: Birmingham is making a strenuous effort to steel itself against the ordeal of enforced aridity.
 Houston Post: Mounting Montgomery has, since the Birmingham cataclysm, be- come the city of grave apprehensions. Arkansas Gazette: Georgia and Bir- mingham are going to exchange drain age problem for an irrigation problem. Guntersville Democrat: Connoisseurs who dote on Extra Dry" ought to be content with Gadsden and Birmingham after January 1.
 Houston Post: Are the paragraphers go- ing to be so hard-hearted as to refuse to organize some relief scheme for Atlanta and Birmingham?
 Washington Herald: We shsuld not be surprised if Birmingham and Atlanta started the new year with the worst headaches they ever experienced. Savannah Press: When the city of Bir- mingham went dry the city of Birming- ham went down. Editor Mcintosh of AL bany seems to think this a clear case or sympathy.
 Washington Post: Since the discovery that peanuts destroy the desire for liquor' there may be a greatly increased demand for them in Atlanta and Birmingham this winter.
 Ensley Sun: The Birmingham papers went after the Birmingham Railway Light and Power company about dirty cars, and since that time things look brighter.
 | Knoxville Sentinel: A baseball league composed of Atlanta, Savannah, Knox | vile. Birmingham, Macon and Asheville 1 would be a dry circuit. Chattanooga needn't apply.
 Montgomery Times; Birmingham has promised the loan of some of her vet erans in the war just ended there. They say they .are up on the fine points of strategicalswarfare.
 E;ufaula Times: Wep, Birmingham viii have an opportunity to demonstrate, after January l, whether prohibition will pro- hibit, and see if property will depreciate on account of prohibition. Houston Post: John Temple Graves made great mistake in failing to make a few speeches in Birmingham just be- fore the election but we suppose he was already glutted with glory. | Washington Herald: The Houston Post compares a Florida orange to "a sponge filled with Dublin stout" Is the Post try ing to work up Birmingham tAla) mar ket for the Florida orange? 1 Huntsville Mercury. The Greater Bir- | mingham election has been called to be held January 6, 190S The Magic City has had enough election excitement for one wear. but she begins it again early in the next.
 Augusta Herald: The race goes not al- ways to the swift, as Birmingham may tell us on January 1. We had already been dry two months prospeetiveiy before i the dry drouth moved Birmingham ward. | Huntsville Mercury: Birmingham mer- | chants are showing their faith in the banks of the city by offering to pay premium of cents on the dollar for ali cashiers checks taken in payment Of ac- | counts
 Houston Post: After January 1 intelli- l gent railroad trains will make it point | ot go through Atlanta, Birmingham and Knoxville at night so that passengers may not observe the terrible dryness that tortures those cities.
 Houston Post: Birmingham Presby- 1 ferian preacher made his fellow minis | ters mad by declaring that committee | of them who marched to the city hall to | force the Mayor to declare himself on | prohibition were asses While the good | brother acted in a very unpreacherlke | manner we must say that he unveiled large and luminous statue of truth.