The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-06

per as long as his smokehouse is in Kan
sas City. Get wise and raise your own
meat and have your smokehouse. in your
own back yard
Cleburne New Era: The 25th day of this
month will mark an important epoch in
the history of Cleburne county. 1t will
either mark the beginning of period of
unprecedented improvement and prosper
ity or 1t will mark the discrimination
of public improvements, except in mu-
inequalities.
Gadsden Evening Journal: If you feel
an Irresistible desire to hug and kiss one
of the fair sex try widow in Decatur.
The cost will not be excessive. A jury
there has just decided that such an out
burst of exhuberanee can be accounted
for with 200 plunks. And the widow was
said to be very handsome at that
Gadsden Evening Journal: Birmingham
is talking a ffteen-story skyscraper to
be used as a jail. This is putting the
criminals pretty high up in the world,
but it may be one way of making them
be good. The windows of the top floor
would need but little barring to keep
the prisoners from jumping out.
Sheffield Standard: Crop reports from
the black belt are discouraging. The
fine weather of the early spring set the
farmers all to work. and they planted
too early, using all the cotton seed on
| hand, at best scarce article. The cold
spell killed the plant and made replant-
ing imperative, which is proving very
trying with the difficulty of getting seed.
Hanceville Hustler: The era of pros
perity is due largely to industry. Every
body is at work. The drones are dis
tinctly a back number. We find every
body making smaller debts and paying
them sooner. Everywhere people have
money. We hope they will not be fearful.
Confidence is a wonderful help to bust
ness. The press of the country ought to
voice spirit of confidence and it will
avert financial trouble.
Admission Hot Blast: The Guntersville
Democrat calls attention to a singular
coincidence in connection with the hang
ing of Bob Watts in that county last
the second time a white man was ever
hung in Marshall, the first being ]. ].
Keener, who was hanged in 1857 and the
judge who passed the sentence on Keener
is the father of the man who passed the
death sentence on Watts.
Ashland Standard: The recent cold rains
have greatly retarded the planting of
cotton. Some OF our farmers are nearly
through planting while some have plant
ed little or none 1t may be best that
they have delayed planting for yet 1t
may be cold enough to injure the young
plant and then there needs to be quite
a decrease in acreage that better price
may be obtained for the staple in the
fall.
Randolph Star: The executive commit
tee of the Alabama State Sunday school
convention is considering the advisability
of erecting a large tabernacle in which
to hold the annual gathering of that
body. These gatherings have become of
such enormous size that no building can
be secured to accommodate it, The loca-
ton of the new building will probably be
Eufaula Daily Times; The vagrant
law. if strictly enforced. Alabama will
be relieved very much of the odium of
crime that is now prevailing in the state.
''Idleness Is the DEVILS workshop" is
true axiom, and when man is found
loafing around, when he is able to work,
the probability is that he will get into
some devilment. The old law was def
cient in some particulars, but the new
one meets the requirements The old one
put the burden on the state to make the
proof of vagrancy, but the new puts
it on the person so charged, and the
penalty is more severe than under the
old law
Geneva Reaper: Since the anti-pass
bill went into effect we have been denied
the privilege of about 800 miles of mighty
nice rldin, also of taking about forty
nice square meals with our kinfolks. Now,
as Jake Pepperman of Montgomery is to
be the goat in our oncoming contest
against the one-man administration which
spiked the throttle to the great mogul
behind which we were wont to obtain
so mucn pleasure, we sincerely trust
Jake will force a recanting or butt the
whole shootin' match off the track
Tuscumbia Dispatch. The Farmers
union is considering the establishment
of school in Memphis to teach the grad
ing of cotton. We believe this would be
a wise undertaking. Every farmer should
be prepared to know the exact grade of
his cotton when he hauls it to market
Farmers need more than ordinary book
learning. They should be well educated In
everything that pertains to the raising
and marketing of their products
Tuscumbia Dispatch: We admire a man,
one who does not get ratified every time
| the other fellow appears to be getting
/ the best of him. Some fellows can make
the fur fly awfully for awhile, but the
man that gets there is the fellow that
| does not put up a snowy fight, but keeps
| on hitting away. Yes, after the other
| fellow has attracted the attention of
almost everyone with his great display
of blow and buster the courageous man
is still plugging away at his mighty an
tagonist, like the falling waters that
| continually drop and drop, on and on,
/ of avyh