The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-25

The pay-as-you-enter cars are in use in Chicago, and they may be put on down this way. It costs no more, how ever, to ride on one of those cars than it did in the old kind except when the conductor oyerlooks you.
  If Judge Landis had fined the Stand ard Oil company something like s10 the chances are that Uncle Sam would have had the money in his pocket by this time.
 Now comes an authority who says to eat meat if we would live. About the only way to compromise with the various food factions is to eat nothing at all.
 It is not at all surprising to learn that the two women who figured in Chicago's sensational case of mixed identities do not look at all like each other.
 Perhaps it is just as well that Secre- tary Root has had his nerves strength ened by Professor Muldoon. He may have to witness a bullfight in Mexico. If President Roosevelt lets the ste- gomyia fasoiata deter him from hunt ing bears In Louisiana he has less courage than we gave him credit for. If the President does not proclaim Oklahoma a state the rule hereafter will be. Let none but republican states knock at the door of the union " John D. Rockefeller, Jr, gives up his Bible class because it interfered with business. Business first and religion afterwards. seems to be his motto.
 
 A former chorus girl says that diamond-studded parasol is neces' sity of life. Of course it is to twenty-dollar-a-wee chorus girl! Congressman Burton of Cleveland should retain his congressional con- mission, for it will come In handy after the November election.
 Oklahoma is declared to have be- come a part of the solid south, and the 2. o. D. expects President Roosevelt to do his duty.
 Pennsylvania's capitol is said to be composed of putty spread over a frame work of embezzlement and grand lar ceny.
 Up in New York they call Governor Hughes "Straight-Line Charley" They believe he is just that sort of man.
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 When an educational institution an- nounces that the prospects are fine, the reference is to athletic teams. Now is the season when the bad woman in melodrama smokes a cigar cite as if virtue were nothing to her.
 
 Instead of being back in Australia, where he belongs, Bill Squires is train ing for another fight in San Francisco. Money Is so plentiful In the winter wheat states that the people prefer railroad fare to the use of passes. rir,1f1 h1c a1rnq6X hpnn informed that he cannot follow Sir Thomas Lipton over the course.
 The Pacific fleet parade is but an effort to fire the American heart be- fore the presidential campaign. Miss Kuttner confesses that she loves Earle, but won't own up to be- having in a scandalous manner.
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 While President Roosevelt hunts bears in the Louisiana swamps the mosquitoes will hunt him.
 The corn has hardened, and so has the spring wheat, but all the cotton bolls are not matured.
 The Mauretania will now proceed to out-turbine the Lusitania, and to cre- ate new record.
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 chicagos mail order houses are too big and too busy to bother with for eign business
 Chicago claims all national conyen- tions by reason of custom, which makes law.
 One solitary republican Congress- man won a seat in democratic Okla homa.
 The paralyzed Rogers will speedily