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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Nashville and HuntsvlIIe railroad.

THE people in large section of Ten
nessee, and especially those living In the
eastern end Of Giles county and Mar
shall county, are very much interested
in the proposed Nashville and Huntsville
railroad" writes Marvin Brown to
friend In Birmingham.
I'VE feel confident that the Atlanta,
Birmingham and Atlantic railroad Is back
of this movement and that it means great
things for that section OF tennessee
through which It will run.
There seems to be a sentiment against
the Nashville and Huntsville In Nash
Vile, and the newspapers there and the
board of trade will not pay any attention
to 1t. We understand that the Birming-
ham papers have devoted great deal OF
space to the Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic railroad, and wish that you
would send us number of the papers IN
order that we may subscribe, as we want
the news in regard to this road.
1.-The people of Giles county and Mar
shall county, In Tennessee, and Madison
county In Alabama, have subscribed $780,
600 to the building of the road, and we
are interested largely. Nashville is asked
to raise $4,000 in private subscriptions.
I'VE hear that the Atlanta, Birming-
ham and Atlantic is making surveys
north of Birmingham towards Huntsville
and we are all glad to hear that the road
is pushing toward this part of Tennessee
via Huntsville"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
Care of County ConviCts

The Rev. J. w. Cary of Calera and
his fellow-worllers were disappointed
when the Legislature took long recess
without doing something to protect
county prisoners when they are let to
contractors and carried outside the
bounds Of the home county. DR.. Shir
ley Bragg is authorized to inspect jails,
but he is not authorized to inspect the
camps of contractors who hold county
prisoners.
The county prisoner is often badly
treated, first in the county jails, but
chiefly when he passes into the hands
of contractors. When he is taken from
his home county no public official gives
him or his condition any attention
The sheriff and commissioners in the
home county forget him, and no one
else is authorized to consider, much
less to befriend. MIN.
This is not only inhumane- but it Is
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
Game Commissioner In City.

John H. Wallace, state game and fish
commissioner, who spent last night In
birmingham, discussed the new game law
saying:
"Unless a speedy halt had been called
the time would not be far distant when
there would not be left a single vestige
of game in Alabama. The pot hunter
has been rampant in The state Tor nun
dred years and he has depopulateo the
fields and forests to a most amazing ex-
tent MANY of our most valuable species
of game birds and animals are danger
ouslv nearing the point of determination.
"witbin recent years the practice of
netting and trapping live birds and ship
ming them to other sections mas peen
carried on by the wholesale.
TT will devolve upon the county war
dens to see to 1t that the game law is
strictly enforced. Under the law l have
the authority to remove those waroens
who do not properly discharge their
duties, and this 1 will not hesitate to do.
at may be said that the game law OF
Alabama stands at the head of the list Of
fair, impartial and effective statutes OF
It's kind.
The license feature taken In connec-
ton with the provision that allows no
hunting on the lands of another without
written permission, will put out of bust
ness every hunting day in Alabama, not
less than 500 negroes who invade the
fields and forests from September to April
With Sc shot guns and pursue game with
the vengeance of a spitful fury on the
trail of a lost spirit"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
Jimmy Wall.

Jimmy Wall the famous minstrel man
who is appearing in monologue this week
at the Majestic theatre, has many friends
in Birmingham, and his visit has served
to refresh his memory most pleasantly.
Mr.. Wall has been coming to Birming-
ham for a great many years. Few thea
tre-goers there are who have not seen
him at one time or another in one OF the
better known minstrel organizations, and
some have laughed at his jokes many
times. Mr.. Wall has played with practi-
calIy all the leading companies, with the
exception of the Lew Dockstader organ
ization.
A friend was telling an incident which
illustrates Jimmy Walls sociable nature.
After performance at local theatre
one night Wall dropped into place for
some refreshments. He struck up
friendship with the man behind the bar
and the two chatted pleasantly until clos
ing time. The next morning when Sec
ond barkeeper opened up, who should
saunter In but the minstrel man of the
night before
The two began to talk.
"What are you doing up so early?' the
barkeeper asked.
..Got to catch a train answered Wall,
What timer
'Five-thirty."
"well, you are such a friendly sort Of
chap that l will just shut up the shop
and see you off," said the barkeeper, and
SO he did.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
He WAS Neutrality-suspicious..
Effort to Lay Out" Governor Of Me-
vada a Dismal Failure.

From Mark Twains Autobiography in the
North American Review:
There were many practical 1okers In
the new territory. do not take pleasure
in exposing this fact for 1 liked those
people; but what I am saying Is true.
1 wish l could say a kindlier thing about
them instead-that they were burglars,
or hat-rack thieves, or something like
that, that wouldn't be utterly uncomph-
mentary, would prefer it, but can't say
those things, they would not be true
These people were practical tokers, and
1 will not try to disguise 1t. In otner
respects they were plenty good enough
people; honest people, reputable ana ike
able. They played practical jokes upon
each other with success, and got the
admiration and applause and also the
envy of the rest of the community. Nat
urally they were eager to try their arts
on big game. and that was what the
governor was. But they were not aoie
to score. They made several efforts. but
the governor defeated these efforts with
out any trouble and went on smiling his
pleasant smile as II nothing had hap
pened. Finally the joker chiefs OF Carson
City and Virginia City conspired together
to see If their combined talent couldn't
win a victory. for the jokers were get
ting into a very uncomfortable place;
the people were laughing at them, instead
of at their proposed victim They banded
themselves together to the number of ten
and invited tho governor to what was
a most extraordinary attention in those
days-pickled oyster stew and champagne
-luxuries very seldom seen in that re-
gion, and existing rather as fabrics or
the Imagination than as facts.
The governor took me with him. He
said disparaglnsly:
dts a poor invention. 1t doesn't de-
ceive, Their idea is to get me drunk and
leave me under the table, and from their
standpoint this will be very funny. But
they don't know me. I am familiar with
champagne and have no prejudice against
It,"
The fate OF the joke was not decided
until o'clock in the morning. At that
hour the governor was serene genial,
comfortable, contented, happy and SOBER
although he was so full he couldn't laugh
without shedding champagne tears. Also
at that hour the last joker joined ms
comrades under the table, drunk TO the
last perfection The governor remarked:
This is a dry place. Sam, let's go ana
get something to drink and go to ped.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
A WORD TO THE WISE.

A WORD TO THE WISE.
Beware of the man with a soft, pleading
voice
And something he's giving away;
To you and you only he offers first choice,
Without lone dollar to pay.
Nobody is working for love nowadays
OF others In dizzy finance,
So pass up the fellow with seoretive ways
And his plea for a money advance
No matter how strong his proposals may
seem,
Twill pay you to ask for the goods.
And then; quite unable to show you, he'll
deem
It best to strike out for the woods.
The old world Is crowded with people
who think
They know how to live without toll.
And they do, for a fact. With a laugh
and a wink
They'll frame up a scheme to despoil.
Just live on the fruit of your labor and
You're tempted to hazard your luck,
Remember the fellows shut up in the pen
Who tried the same thing and were
stuck
The safest old plan is to save all you can
And keep your ambition in lash.
For none but a twenty times millionaire
Can afford to be caught in crash.
college professor says that our busl-
ness men lack courage. culture and char
acter. He doesn't leave them much to
travel on.
Even II Opportunity never does knock
on your door, she is apt to knock on
your neighbours door and put him in a
place where he can give you a good job.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
Bonapartism to 30 Defined

Ex-Governor Hayward and Commits
sioner Watson of South Carolina de-
serve the thanks of all the southern
states in their effort to have the Bona
parte opinion itself construed and the
policy of the administration in relation
to immigration fully defined. The At
torney General, who lives in Baltimore,
has attempted to say that the new i'm
migration act doe not permit state
to do more in Europe than to advertise
its resources and attractive features,
and that any pecuniary assistance ex-
tended to an immigrant would be ille-
gal, justifying his exclusion from our
ports.
Governor Hayward is confident the
President and Secretary Straus and
CommissionerGener Sargent do not
share the Bonaparte or eastern view of
the new law, and he is endeavoring to
get a definite Interpretation of the
Bonaparte opinion. Let us hope he
will persist until he ascertains just
where the administration is ADJUST
how much of a gold brick the south
accepted when it voted for the law that
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
TRAGIC STORY OF CHICAGO

fingers in his heart. There was no dis
cord' the bark Of matrimony was sailing
placidiy and uneventfully along, and
then tho stroke came. Hammer went
blind. The light failed.
1t was some sort of nervous trouble
leurits is what the doctors called 1t.
Things began to grow dim before the
doomed mans eyes. 1t was only faint
shadow at first, this terrible catastrophe
that was to cloud his life and try his
mate in the crucible and find her want
ing, and he paid little attention to 1t at
first. Then the cloud began to grow
darker. He began to see with difficulty.
He consulted medical men. They ordered
him to quit the road without holding out
any hope Of recovery. He did so. And
then one day 1t happened that he could
not see at all; the optic nerves had died;
the eyes, while apparently sound and
good, were sightless; sound in body, he
was moro helpless than little child, his
period of independence had gone out with
"the light that failed"
Then came the dark days for him.
Strangers came and saw his plight End
pitied him. The wife saw It and pitied
herself. Strangers, moved by pity, took
him out of the room for walks, to church,
to musical performances.
The opportunity for the noble woman to
assert herself was at hand. She did not
take It.
Instead she tried for a divorce, but
no attorney would take her case.
hou
Then you have no case"
Then the husband helped her out, and
helped himself. He instructed his attor-
ney to file bill of divorce. Inc case
came before Judge Kavanagh. Mrs. Ham,
mer was represented in court by her at
torney. Hammer told his story and one
witness was examined. Mrs. Hammers
attorney made no motion to cross-exam-
inc either of the witnesses. The de-
cree was granted in fifteen minutes.
Then the ways of the two split. The
wife was left the home; Hammer moved.
Blind, helpless and disheartened by
trouble, all but penniless, his condition
was one to move anybody to pity Reia-
tives took him in for a few days. Then,
In company with another man, he took
a room and began his life alone.
He had looked over the field and had
found that as an insurance broker his
lost faculty would be less hindrance to
him than in any other sphere of activ-
ity that held forth promise OF profit. He
became an Independent insurance broker,
Joining forces with a we'll known firm Of
insurance agents. Too blind to be able
to see his way and too poor to hire boy
to lead him, his first months were dubi-
darken. He began to see with difficulty.
sistance. They gave him their insurance
and told others Of him. Soon he was
able to hire boy. and the boy has been
with him ever since, serving as a guide
and assistant He became known, partly
through the novelty of his enterprise and
partly through his business persistence,
and little by little his business grew I'M
til his income is now $500 a year and
upward. And 1t is still growing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
Three "Rearu Movements

The fall in prices of leading shares
dealt in in Wall street has not been SO
heavy as 1t was in "the San Francisco"
collapse of last spring, or as it was in
the rich mems panic of 1903. The pres
ent downward swing was begun in the
last fortnight of December, and even
WREN the losses of December are in
cluded they are outranked in extent by
the record of 1906 and of 1903.
The New York Evening Post has
compiled table showing the fall in
leading stocks since January l., con-
trasting them with the losses In those
stocks in 1906 and 1908, as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13

San Francisco and handful of Japan
csc children sprang upon the country
South Cardinals efforts in bringing
more white men into the south have
been eminently practical and success
full, and that state desires to continue
the work, and there is nothing in the
way except the Bonaparte opinion.
How much that is in the way depends
upon the manner in which the admin
istration construes it. Governor Hey
ward and Commissioner Watson are
serving all the south when they take
steps TO ascertain what the Bonaparte
opinion means. The south awaits with
interest the answer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
BLASTING A BUDDING KlPLINo.

From the New YORK Worlu.
James B. Connolly, author OF good sea
tales, has been honorably discharged
from the navy, which he Joined as a
yoeman at President Roosevelts sugges-
ton to get material for stories OF the
service such as Kipling has written Oh
the British navy. Mr.. Connolly's ship
mates resented his climbing through the
cabin widow to a place which they can
win by promotion, and they refused to
he tanned for copy" or even to asso-
ciate with him.
Mr.. Connolly is himself too skillful
writer to talk about initiating Kipling. 1t
cannot be done. For that matter, KIP
ling never enlisted In army or navy. and
British service men do not greatly ad-
mire his stories, because they nnd tech
meal inaccuracies in them. His readers
are outsiders who like his work not as
information but as literature.
The attempt to put yourself IN his
place" has seldom resulted either in good
stories or in true insight when inter-
preted too literally.
villon did not play at vasabondage; he
was a vagabond. Burton was outwardly
a Persian Mahometan when he went to
Mecca, but Pierre Lott could have far
better written in Paris of Mussulman's
feelings when he first views the sacred
city. Robert Louis Stevenson crossed the
ocean in the second cabin in order to
write about the steerage. 1t was Joke.
He might as we'll have been in Edinburgh
with a blue-book. Professor Wyckoff of
n 1rar ralxr n r1,c a ruh
great hardships to qualify himself by
manual toll to write The Workers" He
got some interesting facts, but to the
point of view of his fellowworkmen he re-
manned an outsider.
A man does not alter his real self by
putting on a pair of overalls or, navy
cap. He can better put himself in another
mans place by sympathetic imagination
than by donning DISCUSSES or playing a
part.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13

pretty sure way to create hardened
criminals. Despite all fees and profits
some safeguards of fair and just treat
ment should be extended to county
prisoners when they are removed out
side their own county. The shortest
way seems to be to grant supervision
in such cases to the state board of in.
spectors of convicts. This would OBJ
viate the creation of new Offices, and
it would ensure excellent supervision
of the county conyicts with no radical
or at any rate no unnecessary changes
in method. Alabama should not longer
permit her county convicts to go abso-
lutely unprotected against injustice,
and some assurance of fair treatment
should be accorded them in the name
of a common humanity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
REFLECTIONS A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
The reason girl smiles Is because you
will think she means 1t.
When a man isn't ashamed to speak of
his work job it's a good one.
The small pay in government offices
seems TO go a good deal farther than
any other kind.
1t would take lot of money to make
a woman think she had enough for any,
thing but clothes.
There are mighty few people in the
world who think they are having a good
time unless it has to do with something
,isalass and frivolous,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
ROMANY.

BY Charles Hamilton Musgrove.
The city frets in the distance. lass,
The city so grim and gray;
A glare in the sky by night. my lass,
And blot out on the long white road,
And under the wide free sky.
And the song that was born in my heart
today
Will sing there till I die.
The long white road and the wide free
sky,
And the city far away;
A good night kiss in the twilight. lass,
And kiss at the break of day;
For light are the loads we bear, my lass
BY highway and hill and grove,
And the sunlight is all for life, my lass
And thu starlixht ell for lovo.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
Good Business Conditions.

S. P. Gibbons Of New York, COM
mercial traveller of large experience and
wide acquaintance In the south, 1t at thu
Hotel Hillman. He said yesterday:
Everywhere l have been l have found
the same prosperous conditions. The
south has been enjoying prosperity so
long that to speak of it now is like re-
citing an oft-told tale. Not since the
era of good times set in has southern
thr11t been more In evidence than now.
wall street panics," remarked Mr..
Gibbons, seem to have no effect what
ever on legitimate trade. Merchants were
never more bouyant than they have been
this month. The outlook for continued
prosperity is indeed bright
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
AGE-HERALD ECHOES

Youngstown Telegram: The grip germ
is packing up his grip.-Birmingham
Age-Herald. Well, not so you could no
tice 1t.
Shreveport Times: The Birmingham
Age-Herald says not even moving pic
lures could adequately portray the en-
gineers at aPnama jumping their jobs.
Washington Herald: Tho table fork
is over 800 years old, but many people
have not yet learned how to use 1t"
says the Birmingham Age-Herald. Per-
haps 1t isn't SO noticeable outside of
Birmingham.
Portland Telegram: 1.-The tariff is one
thing that will not down." remarks the
Birmingham Age-Herald. True enough,
the altitude at which 1t is obstinately
maintained by the standpatters Is what
vexes and makes weary the intelligent,
conservative American spirit Of the time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13

If, as many believe, liquidation has
run its course, the downward plunge
of the two previous bear movements.
Industrial and trade conditions could
not be better or stronger, and they
seem to call halt in liquidation even
in Wall street. II no further losses
occur in the prices of securities the
bear movement of this year will gen.
orally be regarded as an advantage,
rather than disaster, to general trade.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
His First Visit.

This Is my first visit to Birmingham,
said Blair Boiling, a prominent business
man of Richmond, "and am amazed to
find such a finely paved. and such we'll
built, city. or course, everybody has
heard of Birmingham's rapid growth and
the roseate prophecies made with re-
gard to Alabama's metropolis, but the
city surpasses all my expectations.
I'VE Virginians feel Justly proud Of old
Richmond, which grows steadily all the
while But for marvel in the way of a
young and vigorous city-the future
Pittsburg of the south-one must visit
Birmingham. In many respects 1t out
classes all the southern communities"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
MORGAN FAvoRs GRAY.

From the Savannah Morning News:
The venerable Senator Morgan of Ala
bama has declared for Judge George
Gray of Delaware as the democratic
nominee for the presidency In 1903. There
seems, indeed, to be good deal of Gray
sentiment in the country, notwithstand-
ing Mr.. Bryan's activity. But there Is
still time in which to talk about the
advisability of nominating a southern
man for the great office.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
MoLLYCODDLE.
From the New York Press.

T TOM tIIt 4NtW Tut fCSS'
President Roosevelts "mollycoddle" is
no new member. The word was used GEN.
turtles ago by old English writers to
designate an effeminate, and has been in
almost constant use ever since. A molly
is husband who stays around the house
too much. meddling with the domestic
affairs OF which his wife should have
charge. ITO molly is to follow the wife
about to see that the household duties
are not sighted and to find fault with
everything. This has nothing to do with
bot tamala."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
PRESS POINTS

Atlanta Constitution: A number OF
Yale students will help dip the Panama
canal. The Yale yell may at least scare
the fever germs away.
Charleston News and Courier: They
are talking about a dark horse for tho
republican nomination for President
Senator Lodge is the darkest horse we
can think of.
Austin Statesman: The warpath at the
James exposition will be Stunned by the
Texans who may percnance visit there
this summer. Texas and all her people
are on peace bent.
New Orleans Times Democrat: A Ne
braska girl has married tho man who
burglarized her fathers residence. She
apparently hopes, In this way, to keep
the household furniture and jewelry in
the family.
Houston Post: A Houston man wants
our advice as to how much he shall pay
for his wifes Easter bonnet. We can't
answer unless he tells us how much he's
got We suppose he knows he is ex-
pected to go broke.
Washington Herald: A Kansas negress
got very mad recently because her grocer
sent her a pound of butter marked
"Colored." The grocer was only com
plying with the new food law. but the
colored sister thought he was handing
her lemon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
About Persons.

Mr.. W. II. Wilbur is In the city on
a brief visit. Mr.. Wilbur Is manager of
the Southern Skein and Foundry COM
pany, the branch of the Illinois Iron and
Bolt company, of Carpentersville, ILL.,,
which has been recently established in
Chattanooga. He is gentleman of pleas
ing address and fine attanments.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
A Question of Ownership.

From the Somerville Journal.
"A man is thief who takes what
doesn't belong to him. Indignantly said
the girl to the audacious man who had
just stolen kiss.
perhaps so,' said the audacious man
auda ciously, but that belonged to me-"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13

There are $4,000 lawyers in New
York city, and it is estimated that fully
one-half of the number are working on
the shady side of the law, including the
LAWYERS.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13

Brilliant intellectual women, says
Marie Corelli, are few in number. So
are men Of that sort. The worlds
work Is done by plain everyday folks,
and the brilliant ones are misflts.