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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18
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By Florence Wilkinson. What seest thou on wonder desert plain. Large. vague and void? see a city full of fiickering streets. I hear the hum of myriad engine beats.
 What seest thou? I see a desert plain
 Large vague and void. What seest thou in wonder human face' Pale. frail and small? I read page of poetry. of sin. see a soul by tragedy worn thin.
 What seest thou?
 I see a human face.
 Pale, frail and small What seest thou at wonder dim cross-roads Beside that shattered inn? Untraveled Possibility. The Inn of Splendid Mystery.
 What secst thou?
 l see the dim crossroads Beside shattered inn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

 Conuressman Taylor's Position

The transfer of MT. Bankhead to the Senate deprives this state of member of the rivers and harbors committee. Alabama is the chief river state of the union, and it is indeed important that she should secure representation on the committee that handles rive and harbor problems.
 MT. Underwood is a member of u ways and means committee, and view of the possible revision of tariff it is best that he should as representative of this district stay the leading committee of the Ho George w. Taylor, Congressman the First district, lives at DemoI where the Warrior empties into Tombigbce, and he is one of seniors on the appropriations CO ai- tee. committee thatranks next
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Other peoples manners worry us lot more than our own morals.
 A woman has an awful bad temper to find fault with her husbands.
 When girl firts with man it's sign sh3 can convince her mother she didn't.
 A man thinks he knows all about poli- ties when he buys a drink for politi- cian.N
 When woman buys robes from her dressmaker she callx Ina dnnx for them statementss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18
All superfIuous branches We Top away. that bearing boughs may live.
 king Richard IT,.
Bear In Mind

Bear In Mind
 In considering the question of prohi- bition in Jefferson county two things should be constantly borne in mind. In the first place, this is essentially an industrial district-the Pittsburg of the south; and, moreover, industrial conditions here, so far as they relate to steel making, are peculiar It would be manifestly misleading to compare the Birmingham district with agricul- tural counties or even prosperous cities where steel plants are unknown. Our large iron and steel producing com panies are dependent largely upon i'm ported labor, the Tennessee company In operating it's great rail mill at Ems ley being dependent almost entirely upon such labor. And skilled steel workers will not leave Pittsburg, Cleve- ters where sumptuary laws are never discussed and come to a prohibition community to live where they cannot take glass of beer openly. In the second place, prohibition does not pro. hibit. In nearly every populous pro- hibition county in the United States it is notorious failure and worse than a failure, for the blind tiger thrives, and, as everyone should know the traffic in wildcat" liquor is an un- speakable curse-the most demoraliz- ing of all curses.
 Advocates of prohibition say that the abolition of the licensed saloon would not affect the labor situation adverse ly, but on the other hand, would i'm. prove it. Yet is it not reasonable to sup pose that the officials of the iron and steel making concerns in Jefferson know what they are talking about? They naturally put premium on sobri- ety. But it is not question of what they would like to see along the tenn perance line. With them it is simply a practical matter of inducing skilled labor to settle here and holding the men after their services are secured.
 Prohibition leaders also refuse to admit that the law they propose has been a signal failure in cities where it has been tried. But the plain facts are against them. Not only have anti prohibitionists investigated conditions states and found drunkenness on the increase, but casual observers, having no personal interest in the liquor ques- tion, have reported the same thing. It is the sheerest folly, therefore. for any one to declare that prohibition does prohibit in large towns. And if statutory prohibition is not operative in cities like Portland, Bangor and Kansas City, how could it be anything like effective in the Birmingham dis trct, with it's peculiar labor conditions and it's inadequate police protection? The blind tiger business would run riot here, and lawlessness would be in evidence from one end of Jefferson county to the other.
 Looked at, then, from moral point of view, the cause of temperance in this district would be best subserved by strict regulation of licensed sa- looms; and, beyond doubt, the sub stantial business interests of Birming- ham, Bessemer and Ensley, the indus trial cities of the county, cry out against a blighting experiment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18
PROSPERITY CONTINUES

fail may umps tightening healthy condition will year hermore the indications prosperity In Birmingham prosperity Last it highwae
 
 few Wall street market intervals during widespread disturbance only industrial nd Certain is that the banking ma but exceptionally satisfactory capital the exceptions
  imregnable than of the Ohio Commercial travellers reporting that
  retail rushed from exhibition
 
 
 
 in and start the book showed on January 1907 eneda optimistic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

for praising moving pietures.-BirminS- ham Age-Herald.
 Paul, don't you know when an editor is full of pie he warns toward the whole world like the autumn sunshine warns toward the Alabama violet-moving pie lures not excepted Ad- Vertiser
 Why should not the moving pictures be praised? There is no greater wonder in this old world than how such things can be. If there is not much in the moving pictures they have in Birmingham to admire and praise then Birmingham has not had as rich supply as has Austin. We have them here that make us laugh and make Us cry and make us gay and make us sigh and make us fret and make us foam and give Us joy all the way home. As productions of art they are more than wonders-they are veritable revelations. evidencing the most remark- able progress in inventive genius and science, only surpassed in excellence by the pumpkin pie. However, the moving pictures are to be seen and not eaten.-- Austin Statesman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

Elba Clipper: Uncle Sam could do something to improve the morals of some of his subjects by putting a stop to vul- gar picture postals that now burden the mails. The fad has grown into a nui- sance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

Montgomery Advertiser When we read of the various and varied troubles of the millionaires we are almost tempted not to be one They have lots of vexation and worry to encounter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18
 TUSCALOOSA TIMES-GAZETT

The Tuscaloosa Times Gazette has just issued a handsome industrial edition which is credit to Editor Tom Garner and his staff. The paper contains many illustrations and shows that Tuscaloosa is prosperng.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

Greensboro Waterman: The farmers down in Covington county designate au- tomobiles as "benzine buggies," and many of them are opposed to good roads in Covington because they say these ben zine buggies" would become too numerous
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

The Cubs of Chicago have gone to their respective winter quarters, but not unhonored, unsung or unpaid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18
DEATH.

DE A II. The time is near When we must go, As strangely as The wind doth blow A candle out So swiftly and So quietly, at The dread command Of One who rules The universe, For better, or, It may be, worse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

A Philadelphia girl fractured one of her ribs while turning down the gas. She must have been in a great hurry to hear what her lover had to say.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

All railroad presidents are ready to approve reasonable control by the gov ernment, always provided they are per mitted to say what is reasonable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

Those Ohio thieves who stole a lot of burial shrouds which they mistook for valuable wearing apparel are in a position to appreciate the lemon joke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18
INTERRUPTED.

INTERRUPTED. The poet yainly tried to sing A little song of love, About the butterflies in spring And eke the turtle dove. The minute that he felt just right To rhyme as ne'er before, Somebody came with all his might And knocked upon the door,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

Tt is hard for a man with the vaca- ton habit to go to work again." says a Boston contemporary Some people are born with the vacation habit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

of the really conspicuously .n men recently brought into public lotice is the Pittsburg man who forced his wife to listen while he read all the current uxorcide stories as object les sons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

Guntersvllle Democrat King Edward is said to be deaf It would be a fortunate affliction for many American politicians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18
ALABAMA PRESS

Mobile Herald :. Anyway, Taft has shown that bee-hrnt can take man further from home than bear hunt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18
SYMPTOMATIC.

SYMPTOMATIC. Aversion to work is said to be a form of illness.'' Then the world is full of people who are seriously ill.'
 MIFFED. We ought to sing to Maudie At least three times a week, To show we like the girle Immensely. so to speak. But when we think of Maudie Somehow We cant forget That Maudie has a letter She hasn't answered yet. CALLED TO ACCOUNT. "At any rate, there is nothing in my past to be ashamed of" remarked Honest Dollar. "Oh. I don't know" replied Tainted Money, T recall at least one time when you were used to buy a vote" THE ART OF OSCILLATION. A little Kissing
 Now and then Will save the day
 For married men.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Unless the little
 Kissing be
 Bestowed on an Affinity.
 Indianapolis News. The secret lies in
 Knowing this: How, where. when and
 Whom to kiss"
 Boston Globe.
 CRAFTY MAN. "Winker has solved the servant prob lem" "How?' 'He told his cook that she was his affinity PUNKIN PIE AND MOVING PIG
 TURES. Nobody tan blame the editor of the Austin Statesman for liking pumpkin pie, but he will certainly be criticised
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

Chattanooga will welcome the bear hunter on October 22. It should ask him to state specifically how many bears he actually shot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

The good old Emperor refuses to die, and the journalists who have divided up his empire should take it all back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

Peace may reign, but cannot abolish the explosion of powder, which can be as terrible under the dove as under the vulture of war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

Standard Oil now raises the charge for cooperage instead of the price of oil. It may yet put values on bung- holes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

Nashville Banner: Cotton is king, but corn, with crop of 2,5oo,oOo,00O bushels, is hefty prince of the realm
 Houston Post: Col. John Temple Graves will probably organize a syndicate to ex- change all Georgia mules for camels. Charleston News and Courier: If Colo mel Bryan were a true missionary he would move the publication office of the "Commoner' to New York.
 Savannah News: North Carolina judges and iuries take no stock in either 'brain storms or "affinities.' They continue to cling to the old idea respecting murder and morality.
 Washington Herald: Mfr. Taft has been enthusiastically indorsed by the Chi nese," so a cable has it. Unfortunately, the Chinese send no delegates to the re- publican conventions.
 Louisville Courier Journal: A Wash ington syndicate writer, who is plainly subsidized by the prohibition party, de- clares that snake bite is almost never fatal to man, and rarely injurious.
 New Orleans Times Democrat: A Chi cago widower with four children has dis played a wife wanted sign upon his front gate This scheme of marrying a cook In order to solve the servant prob lem has been tried before, but 1t seldom works out satisfactorily.
 Portland Telegram: southern ex- change has 1t that the governor of Ala bama is to call a special session of the legislature to discover if the people or the railroads own the state. Somewhat apart from the old-time query as to whether the state or the railroads own the legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

The automatic typewriter is war ranted not to chew gum or to fool with it's back hair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

It may yet be a snug race between President Roosevelt and Governor Hughes to see which can first put magnate in striped clothes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

The President may draw the line at lady bears, and this may account for the scarcity of bear meat in the pres idential camp.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

The President is not seeking bear tracks. He wants bears, and they are not forthcoming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

Although Sig. Marconi is about to inaugurate his wireless service across the Atlantic, cable stocks are steady and even strong.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

Much will be expected from the Filipino assembly, and disappointment will be the chief net result.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

inos have nothing of the sort MT. Taft has told them they be fit for self-government tion. In the meanw' pected to behave have their asr This is Az pine
 d divorce .6es a noise 4owever, that is
 i've to matrimonial
 king a noise when he
 be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

The canebrake bears say they should not be hunted, for they have received no rebates, nor have they organized a monopoly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

Nashville Banner: Cotton is king, but corn. with a crop of 2,5oo.oOo0OO bushels, is a hefty prince of the realm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

Houston Post: Col. John Temple Graves will probably organize syndicate to ex- change all Georgia mules for camels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

The laundrymen are to have con 'nn in Charleston. That is a good
 '>ubt, to wash dirty linen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

ways and means. It would not be pro motion to go from the appropriations committee to that of rivers and har- bors, and yet MT. Taylor is willing to do whatever his constituents in partic- ular and the people of the rest of Ala bama desire him to do. He can secure a place on the rivers and harbors con- mittee if he has Alabama behind him.
 Not only Mobile but all the rest of the state should urge MT. Taylor give up his place on the appror' committee to accept a pl' rivers and harbors co' because he can better district and the other o' of this state by so doin
 willingness to serve tn
 bama on the rivers ant
 tee is commendable,
 met by a universal
 state for transfer t'
 he can serve his dis an eminently satisfa 3 Mobile Register SD h it says "every supp tn MT. Taylor to this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

The Ohio Sun wants to know if Gas Meter belongs to the Ananias club. If he doesn't, he ought to.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

The voters who do not register are the keenest critics of the situation. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

The delegates to the peace confer ence attended 200 banquets, and all will go home we'll loaded up with dys-
  pepsia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18
-+6s-------------- PRESS POINTS

Columbia State: It costs so much to live now that few people can afford to pass the age of 50
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18
AN EASY MARK

"The President says man who carries baby is a good fellow"
 "The man who pushes a baby carriage is a good thing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

While Rooseve. ars in Louisiana Hearst riue. ephant around the ring in New Yorh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

Charleston News and Courier: If Colo mel Bryan were a true missionary he would move the publication office of the "Commoner' to New York
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18
FALL NOTES.

FALL NOTES.
 The days are sad,
 The leaves are brown It's time to take
 The awnings down.
 Milwaukee Sentinel. Aye, gorgeous greens
 Have met their fate It's time for screens
 To hibernate.
 indianapolis News. Good-by to sun,
 Good-by to flies,
 Now union suits
 Will advertise
 Houston Post. And drinking men
 Will take d nip,
 Because, you know,
 They. fear the grip
 EXPLAINED. There is a man in Georgia who is said to love his dog more than his family. No doubt, the animal is a fine possum .dawg"
 AUTUMN NOTES. Mothball days are here again, Idke your HdnnelS out, Breezy little winter winds Whisper all about. Overcoats are on display Derbies, too, we own, And the old straw hat has gone To its fate alone.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Have mother get the blankets And spread em on the bed. Get Joe striped sweater And Bob a little sled. Get Sue heavy jacket And Jane brand new huff, For when winter gets to comin' You'll find it not bluff.
 Ohio Sun. The Washington Post tells of a land- lady who beat a boarder because he complained about his eggs being hard boiled. If we were that prune-eater we would retaliate by beating our board bill.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

ms are appearing -r just now
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

BY SHMPIUMATIC. Aversion to work is said to be a form of illness'' Then the world is full of people who are seriously ill.,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

n-4r sU ate |. re ae mas cat by !, HH
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-18

EXPLAINED. There is a man in Georgia who is said to love his dog more than his family. No doubt, the animal is a fine possum 'dawg."
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-29

faskion Daggett jeered at SnJerin- tendeItt Logan when he began ex- boring a rhyolite ledge for gold. but Logan had worked on similar forma- lions, and had a very clear notion of what he might expect to find Abont two weeks ago Daggett quit Jeering
 walked up and hurried cut to Ord Mountain to make locations or Thy offe, 1fKef. LI.rstA Haskers shaft is down 2h0 feet
 and it kklok at 237 feet flow of two miners inches of water, whicn is
 as good as gold in any desert camp.
 Pending the arTiyaI of appliances for
 handling the water. Logan drifted
 east and west from the shaft on the
 100 and 200 levels anc In the east
 drift on the 100 level he ran into twelve feet of ore that average bet
 ter than S100 in gold to the ton. As
 says of streaks run as high as s1400.
 but the average of the whole ore body
 is more than sI00. Tn the west drift | is a three-foot cross Assure of $200 ore.
 On the 200 level the east drift has cut eight feet of low-grade ore, but | has not yet reached the main body. ] The shaft IS all In ore, and all of the
 rock on the dump shows gold when horned. There are about 5000 tons
 on the dumps that will mill S10 to
 the ton.
 The shaft shows the formation to be regular, the dip of the walls being 1 true and unbroken by lateral displaces meat. There are three rhyolite dykes running through the claim, the shaft being on the central dyke, and when depth is attained, crosscuss will be made in both directions. If the east drift on the 200 level proves contin- uance of the large body of high grade found above. the Hassens will feel satisfied that they have a mine and will put in a stamp mill. Several ex- perts have examined the workings I within the past week, and all have given encouraging opinions and con | graduated the Hassens on the:r good fortune and their enterprise.
 Six miles south of Ord Mountain is Goat Mountain. so named because the | first progpector didn't know mount ain sheep from 8 goat. And. by the | way. there are many big horns inl the lregion which need protection from the game wardens, for the miners VII Kill them off unless dissuaded. George Mier located claims on Goat Mount. ain seven or eight years ago, but did
 only assessment work on them George Hasse5 bought the Mier claims last week, and Is preparing to oe, velop them. Four rhyolite dykes and . a cross Assure of porphyritic quartz made a good surface showing of the same character as the series on OIo Mountain. Nothing has been done in that locality, and the field Is open te prospectors. The country iOoks good for a stretch of about six miles along the hiIls
 Below Ord Mountain there is some placer ground. said to be good for Ss cents to a dollar yard. and som' { dry washing is being done. A ga. engine was taken in yesterday to op crate machinery on Dlacers =+ Cam
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-29
COBALT CAMP.

During the past month mining en. gineers representing English and French investors have been going through the Cobalt district of Canada, making careful examinations Of vari- ous properties. Their reports uni
 forInly show they were favorably ina. pressed with the wealth of the dis
 trict, especially with such properties as the Nipissing. Silver Queen, Co
 bait Central and Coniagas. They have so cabled abroad to their principals J. M Elmer, manager of the cobal' Central properties. reports the uncov ering of several new large bodies o
 ores containing free silver in the Bis Pete mine. This confirms the view
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-29
sAsco SHELTER

The Imperial Copper company's coming big smelter town, under the
 direct auspices of the Southern Ari-
 zona Smelling company. a subsidiary corporation, is getting well in evl- dence m several dIrectIors. x is nc- reported tudI IneIr oVV-UOH STueIUer dU Sasco will be blown in as a New Years present to the stockholders of both organizations. Sasco promises
 to be big town, and the no acres plated by capitalists both in Tucson
 and the Imperial mine, and lying just south of the smelter company's do- main, is attracting considerable at- tention from lot buyers. There are 400 lots open to sale, with prices
 ranging from $1OO to s400 per lot.
 Lots are 50xf50 and Trustee Donau
 reports fifty lots sold within the past week.