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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

From the New York Journal.
 the south a man shamefully betrayed
 young girl, and her brothers-lknown to newspaper readers as ''the stroth er brothers of Culpeper, va."-eompelled the man to marry their sister.
 The nature of a cowardly dog impelled the man to abandon the girl after he had married her. He married her to save his skin. Then he planned to run away and leave her to disgrace.
 The ''Strother brothers." however, made different arrangements and the man who injured their sister has ended his crimes and also his running away.
 A southern jury acquitted the Strother brothers, declaring that they were un- der provocation that might make cool reflection difficult. The southern judge remarked to the jury that, on the whole, he was rather glad that they were free, and that the gentleman in the graveyard would not disturb any other mans sister.
 Shootings, lynchings, all violence, are regrettablc extremely so. It would have been more satisfactory if the Strother brothers could have received adequate satisfaction from a jury without wasting good powder and shot on a poor speci- men.
 But we cannot quite accept the views circulated by MT. Willard of the New York Evening Post. In New York, of course, those views are not weighty. But in the south they might be looked upon as repre- senting northern opinion.
 MT. Willard says, in his Evening Post editorial, that the southrn judge and jury
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

has perhaps never had better sec. retary of the interior.
 MT. Hitchcock was born in Mobile. He is known as a Missouri man, but his early years were spent in this state. Be he, however. a Missourian or an Alabamian he has a secure place in the records of the government, for it was he who instituted the irrigation system and drove the thieves off the public lands. He raised the portfolio to the highest rank. and there are not a few who regard his retirement as a national calamity.
 He is succeeded by the son of Presi- dent Garfield. The new secretary has not much to commend him to favor save his matyred fathers name, and no one expects him to leave a record equal to or even approaching that of MT. Hitchcock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
IN THESE PEckSNlFFIAN DAYS.
From Puck.

From Puck
 The applicant for a job in the bank stood confidently before the president. You do not smoker" quered the lat ter, pleasantly.
 No, sir was the prompt reply. "Nor chew?"
 "No, sir. I consider the use of tobacco a filthy habit, sir.''
 You never drink? In fact you don t know what liquor tastes like?'
 No, sir
 You don't gamble or play cards?" Never, sir
 "Or bet on horse races?"
 No, sir"
 "You teach class in the Umpth street Sunday school?"
 "Yes, sir
 And frequently are called upon to open meetings with prayer?"
 Quite true, sir
 "In short, you have no bad habits and are pointed out, generally, as model man?"
 well, sir. of course it is not for me to say, sir, but"
 "I understand. You may be all right, sure enough, but your past record is against you. Banks, in these days, have to be unusually careful in selecting their employees. Good day, sir"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
A PINK SUNBONNET HEROINE

stantly her eye caught the obstruction. With one bound like hare leaving her form, she flew to the track, touching here and there projecting crags with light. tip- ping feet. Then running toward where her keen ear told her train was roar ing on, she tore from her head her pink sunbonnet, and waving it as she ran. cried out, Stop, for your lives, stop.
 "The engineman saw her, and the air went on. The train groaned with locked wheels and arrested momentum, but obeyed, and when it stopped the engine, snorting with surprise and fear, was look ing upon its foe, the mass of rock and the rock was dumbly looking back with baffled malevolence on every crevice of it.
 "Gallantly the brave crew of the train thanked the angel of the pink sunbonnet, she who was modestly withdrawing, and saying: Oh, that's all right, I thought something was wrong, but none of them thought to get her name that she might have, in lack of anything else, even the slight tribute of having her name at tached to this story in which she played so great part.
 "A woman with such quick and saw ing logic ought al least to have her name annexed"
 Fear not troubadour. The mysterious beauty of the sunbonnet cannot remain incognito when the land rings with this impassioned tale. Feats such as hers, chanted by such a bard, will bring re- suits. Her name sooner or later will be annexed. And when 1t is, let the name of the bard be annexed, too, and let we'd ding bells ring. If the fair unknown does not wed either the engineer of the fast freight or the poet of the Hagertown Mail there is no fitness of things left in this world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
Elks' Philadelphia Club,

Birmingham Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks held an enthusiastic meeting yesterday and sev- eral additional names were enrolled in the Elks' Philadelphia club.
 We will take a large delegation to the grand lodge which meets in Philadelphia during the coming summer" said a mem Der of the order. "The trip this year will be unusually attractive, as the railroads offer very low rates and tickets will be sold on the variable route plan. The club will go direct to Philadelphia and will return by the way of Washington, Rich mond and the Jamestown exposition near Norfolk. The tickets will be good for StopoVers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
The Woodstock Corporation.

"Anniston is growing steadily" said a commercial traveller. Its industries are expanding and the Woodstock Iron and Steel corporation, recently organized to purchase and operate the properties of the old Woodstock company, starts off with a large pay roll. This concern is giving a decided impetus to business in Anniston, for 1t is felt that President J.. M. Barr, and Vice President John B. Darlington are the right men to make a success of whatever they undertake. For the present they will make only pig iron, but it is believed they will eventually build a steel plant. The Woodstock stacks have been idle for some time, but when the furnace that has just been re- paired blows in it will be- many a day before 1t shuts down."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
MAN MAKES A BOX HIS HOME.

By Sam Walter Foss. When first the builder builds him .
 house
 Iris raught but a wooden box A thing of lumber, boards and blanks, Of shingles, beams and blocks; And when tis built 'tis still a box, A box to the very minute Some honest fellow takes the house And puts woman in It. Then though it has no gabed front, no
 turret, tower or dome Then Is the builder justified, the box be-
 cones a home. And why should a man dwell in a house Until he lays his head In the windowless room of the earth
 scooped house On the hfllsides of the dead? Let him steer the ship by the pilot stars, And dig in the sunless mine: Let him dwell with his focks on the
 summer hills, And live like tree or a vine. The sky is the roof for brideless man.
 and the seas are his to roam, Till ne turns to his bride in the builded
 house. and the box becomes a home. Why should a man live in a wooden box? The ends of the earth are far; Let him forth to the lands of the south-
 ern cross
 And the lands of the Polar star And meet 1t is for the brideless man, And the dover of his birth, To draw his strength from the roofess
 sky
 And the face of fenceless earth, So let him forth till his thoughts shall
 turn (grown sick with the roofess
 dome,
 To the woman shrined in the builded
 house, when the box becomes a
 home. And when he is sick of the winds of the
 sky
 And the old oceans ancient strife. Let him shear the hills of their pines and
 build
 A box around his wife. And then will his chimneyed, pine-buflt
 box
 Become templed shrine, And he'll grow to the virtues that love .
 roof
 And thrive with the dooryard vine. And then he shall turn from the un-
 fenced earth, and the sea with its
 far sky dome To the woman shrined in the buildod
 house. when the box becomes c
 home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
Cniton and Gotten Production

What a crop of cotton does! It brought last year 800 million dollars into the United States from foreign countries. besides furnishing material for all possible home uses. No other crop does as much. No other crop ap- breaches cottcn in real cash value. :, e figures of exports for the calen- dar year 1906 are furnished by the government:
 Cotton unmanufactured ........, s4l9, lS7 ,936 Cotton manufactures ..........,. 4z,9ol ,O4S Cottonseed oil .......,........... To S9o, 4oIo Cottonseed oil cake and meal. l4l65, 26S Cotton seed ........................ %fo'9-o Cottolene, lardine, etc, chiefly
 from cottonseed oil ............ 4'SOl,0 ,0'S
 Total ........t......''''''''.' 'sfe'''of'ooi
 Never until last year had the ex- ports of raw cotton crossed the 400 million dollar line. Great Britain took li3 million dollars worth of last years cottoni Germany, 109 millions; France, 45 millions; Italy 311a millions; Bel gium, 2 millions. and Russia, mil lions. While the Orient buys large quantities of the cotton cloths that we e.~ort, yet Europe substantially takes the surplus of raw cotton. cotton seed oil and cotton seed oil cake and meal.
 The naked world looks to America for a supply of the great staple, and there is not the slightest indication that it will cease to look this way for it's chief commercial supply in any time that can be foreseen. America has grown the worlds cotton ever since the crop has had recognized place in the trade of the world, and the chances are that this country will continue to grow it to the end of time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIES

Ozark Tribune: Conner, all concede, has kept his promises and has done some thing.
 Dothan Eagle: If we all were to keep out of politics we might go on down the lane of time with a pretty good reputa- tion as a citizens.
 Jacksonville Record: It is more or less natural that the President should seek the aid of Senator Blackburn in uncork- ing the Panama canal.
 Montgomery Advertiser: 'I had rather be right than be President" said a form CT eminent American statesman. Mir. Roosevelt prefers to be President.
 Florence Times: Alabama has twenty one prohibition, seventeen dspensary and twenty saloon counties, and in nine coun- ties saloons and dispensaries are inter mingled.
 Tri-County Weekly: The New Orleans Pieayune remarks that this is not a one mans republic" If you will step over into Alabama you will soon find that this part of 1t is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
ALABAMA PRESS
Natural. Lawyers.

Tn spite of the fact that Max Winkler does not possess a license," said City At torney Edward D. Smith yesterday, it is unquestionably true that he is good lawyer. Had he equipped himself for legal practice there is no telling to what a height he might have attained.
 Max was a great assistance in the re- cent fight for the new police commission bill. Whenever the clouds grew dark and thick Max was telephoned for. He all ways came. He first encouraged, and then went to work. He would return, and in some mysterious manner every cloud had been lighted.
 He is a great lobbyist He has a quick mind, one always alert. He has the ideal legal penehant, and as l said before is a natural lawyer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
From the New York Mail.

NN NE of our readers writes us that t0J he hopes we will print some thing informatory on the subject he is soon to debate, Resolved, that It. erature is more beneficial than science" and that we will say a good word Tor science. We guess that he is young read CT who has not yet had to elect whether he shall gain a livelihood and perhaps repu- tation, by literature or by science. When people get out into the world they do not discuss such general questions. For their vocation they make choice between lit erature or science, a trade or profess sion, according to circumstances or nat ural bent, or probable remuneration. AS between commercial as distinguished from productive or esthetic pursuits, considerable minority of young men may be swayed to humanity; but the propor- tion of those who let that question de- termine the issue between science and lit- erature as a life work Is very small. Nevertheless, the question interests.
 We find 1t possible to say the good word for science that this reader seeks. While we are reluctant to compare It's value with literature and have secret idea that the two are complementary, there is no doubt at all in the first place that applied science pays better in cold cash than literature. To illustrate, the press agent of the Panama canal gets only half the salary of the army en- gineers who are to supervise the digging. In the second place, there is no doubt
 Itron achieved by mankind in the last century was the triumph of science, not at all or ntera- ture The nineteenth century was the scientific century par excellence Tn the worlds recorded history It began with manufacture, transportation ana santa tion not much advanced from where they were in the days of the Ptolemies, or TOT tl...s matter of the Pharoahs what science has done in the hundred years bas corouered space banished plague, safeguarded the lives and improved the health of men and enabled the earth to support several times as many innapl- tants as it could have done two or three hundred years ago.
 snace annfhilating, product multiplying. nature harnessing machinery has given human progress such an impetus that the man who dies at forty now has lived longer than Methuselah with his se9 years of stolid vegetating. It is his sense in utilizing by scientific method natural laws and natural forces, for instruments o1 destruction or production and distri- button that has made the white man the lord of earth His literature and philos ophy have no undeniable claim to supe- riority over those of other races, and the average of literature nowadays is cer- tainiy inferior to what it was among the ancient Greeks. The dominance of the white race and the superiority of the modern age must be ex-ressed in terms of mechanics rather than of literature.
 At the same time we admonish our presumably youthful correspondent that without literature and the kindred pur- suits-that reaching out of the imagina- tion. that self-realization of the instinct of beauty-most of the men in the fore most flies of our time would be sorry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
From the Washington Post

H
 a landslide in a railroad cut ran up the track toward an advancing train, and by waving her pink sunbonnet pre- vented a frightful disaster. As soon as the train came to a standstill she disap- peared, without leaving her name or ad- dress.
 A heroic, romantic incident is thus told with niggardly regard for details, by the correspondents of the metropolitan press If it were not for the poet of the Hagers- town Mail, the world would have been deprived of the thrill which 1t is only too anxious to feel in contemplating the con- junction of beauty, heroism, and the danger of death. The Hagerstown poet, with rapt eye and provocative word, covers the skeleton of this romance with beauty, and clothes 1t with exquisite mystery. After giving in one sentence his argument, he strikes the chords:
 Like an angel overtaken unaware this woman, one clad for her head in a pink slat sunbonnet, came forth from the chaos about her, emerged into the light of day. saved a train from disaster and silently faded back into obscurity."
 With master hand the poet pictures the cut; the landslide; the laundering freight train in charge of Conductor Charles Cookus and Engineer McKelvey; the 2OO0 tons of goods and coal aboard; the crews ignorance of the danger; and thus impet- uously to the crisis:
 They came laundering on, rushing the heavy train at full speed, and just below them, near the fallen mass, the figure of woman appeared on the brow of the ledge and the eyes of her looked thought fully down. She wore a pink sunbonnet and was a farmers daughter It was in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
Brisk Trade,

Although we have had very little cold weather in this part of the country this winter, our trade has been good,' said a prominent clothier.
 "The few freezing spells caused men to buy winter wear, and we enter the spring season with no winter stocks on our hands And the best of it is from a merchants poin. of view, we are hav- ing an unusually early and brisk warm weather business. Easter trade is fully a week ahead of time. All the indica- tions point to a long and warm sum- mer and this counts far more with clothiers and haberdashers than an av- craze winter Taken altogether, retail merchants have every reason to be sat- isied."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
WHAT IS A BOOP?

Hammond, Ind, Dispatch to New York
 Herald
 Tt is no use taking you out in society. You're too green. You stand around like a boop, and everybody laughs at me for having married you" This is the allega- tion that drove Eugene Johnson, a we'll known resident of this city, to file pro- ceedings againse his wife, Bessie. in the Lake county court here this morning. Johnson confesses that he was never made to shine as social lion. He says in his complaint that when she took him to church or to social gatherings in Ham, mond. where she was d star member, she criticised him because he was green and ignorant"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
Resignation of MT. Hitchcock

General regret is expressed over the retirement from the department of the interior of MT. Hitchcock. " t any boosting or fuss and feathers Mr.. Hitchcock had fought down the timber thieves, and he achieved great results. He did not hesitate to assail United States Sena- t., or anyone else he found to be guilty. He had stupendous task to execute, and he followed it bravely successfully until hel decided to retire frvm office. The 8overnment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
SUCH AS.?

From the Boston Herald.
 Vice President Fairbanks can be some thing of a Bunsby himself upon occa- sion. Speaking to the Indiana legislature he said Capital which Is properly em- ployed will be properly protected, and that which is not so engaged must fall under the sharp condemnation of the law" A diagram would be a great help to this sort of brave talk. Perhaps MT. Fairbanks will define himself after the President has separated the sheep from the goats as good trusts and bad trusts v
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
REFLECTION OF A BACHELOR
from the New York Press

From the New York Press.
 Sermons might be more interesting if you could talk back.
 A woman has to be born good many years before a man to admit she is as old as he when they are grown up.
 After girl has been engaged twice she doesn't consider it necessary to tie up he, love letters in baby blue rib bon.
 A nice thing about living in a boarding hor-e is you don't have to make believe you like what you get to eat the way you do at home.
 One of the first things married man needs to learn to have a happy home is to claim no cook Is any good until his wifa teaches her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
HANDSOME COMPLIMENT

From the Talladega Reporter.
 The Age-Herald came out Wednesday in a special edition in honor to "Our Women in the Var It is very interest ing to the people of the state, and added another feature to the great Birmingham daily. The Age-IIerald is a fine news paper every day In the week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
AN ANCIENT INCIDENT.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Lady Godiva was standing before the mirror combing out her long hair.
 Sunshine grew this hair" she solilo- uuized and I can prove it."
 But it is recorded, to the everlasting credit of the people of Coventry. that when she went out to take her famous ride the populace heroically restrained it's curiosity to see either her or her hair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

Birmingham Easter week attrac- tions include Sembrich and Van Hoose, one a great prima donna and the other a great tenor. Either one would draw and coming together a crowded house is assured
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
ADVICE TO YOUNG DEBATER

thae science, through sanitation and ther- ap outics, had prolonged their days and doomed them to an extended boredom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

Interest in Ireland's patron saint will center in Ensley tonight. An at tractive programme has been arranged and the anniversary of St. Patrick will be observed with eloquent addresses, music and enthusiasm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

William Randolph Hearst has form erly read himself out of the demo- cratic party into the independence league, which has a record to sprout.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

Harry Thaw is not always on trial. sometimes it is Mrs. Thaw, sometimes the aienists, and sometimes the two leading lawyers are in the limelight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

M. Casimer-Perier, now dead, re- signed his seven-year presidential job after holding it but seven months. He was not an American.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

Wall street is discovering that the outside country is cool, calm and con tent to subside and behave itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

The occupant of the White House declines to ask for renewal of his lease. He says he will move out promptly on March 4, 1909. ~.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

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., 1907-03-18
Viaduct ColIapses.

Cincinnati, March 11.-Three 50-foot spans of the Eighth street viaduct over Mill creek collapsed today. The damage is estimated at S150.000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

By staying in jail thirty days longer Senator Burton can shed fine of S25,O00, and he proposes to do it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

Greater Pittsburg expects to out rank Baltimore, thus becoming the sixth city in the Eountry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

Teach orchards are getting busy again and will soon be in full bloom. If Jack Frost keeps out of sight the south will have an ample crop in spite of gloomy predictions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

Governor Higgins of Rhode Island seems to think boss should serve the people instead of the people boss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
Mrs. Jacobs, Mother.

Mrs. Solon Jacobs was called to Louis vile last night on account of the critical illness of her mother. Mrs. V. w. Ruff uer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

What Senator Spooner decided to get out of was a rough-andtumble fight with one MT. LaFollette.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

Real March weather may yet come to us punched up by winds from the wild and woolly west.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

The railroad magnates admit that the administration or the people or both have them scared
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

The railroad magnates evidently think the storm center is located at the White House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

It will take a bigger panic than the one of Thursday to intimidate Theo- dore Roosevelt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

Brownsville is coming into the lime light once more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

The standpatters begin to fear they will have no prosperity to point to in 1908.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

Honk wagons are becoming numer- ous in the land of the Sphinx.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

Hetty Green is organizing no pov- erty-cure funds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

Bosses Ruef and Broyton begin to think these are strange and perilous times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

Marie Corelli is preparing to frame a book around suffragette as heroine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

Jamestown's War-Path shows how militant the entire exposition is to be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18

W. D. Lanier. c. L. stricklin and ". M. Sutherlln are the only author ized travelling representatives or The Age-Herald in it's circulation depart rnent