The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-05

the boil weevll is going north. Wonder if Texas politics is getting too hot for him!
 Montgomery Advertisers New York hav- ing refuse to stand for Oscar Wide's ssalome.' they might try it on Pitts burg.
 Troy Herald; Dr. osler says people would live longer If they stopped using tobacco Probably it would seem longer to some.
 Jacksonville Record: It is to be hoped for Mr .Harriman's ease of mind that he does not believe all the things that are printed about him.
 Sampson Ledger: Governor Conner ial ruling the legislature with an iron hand, and only those measures which appeal to him will become laws.
 Decatur News: If pr. Wiley continues his investigations there'n soon not be left d thing to eat. However. newspaper men are used to that condition.
 Pine Belt News: A woman magazine writer comes out with the assertion that man is a plain necessity" And by the same token some women are ditto.
 Bullock County Breeze: Senator Shoot is so much of an issue himself that he hardly gets fair chance to inform him. self on the other questions in congress.
 Andalusia News: The present governor of Alabama focks by himself when he ob- jects to immigration. What Alabama needs is more immigrants and fewer agi- tators.
 Talladega Reporter: Don't know how he managed it, but Mir. Bankhead got more appropriations for the improvement of Alabama rivers and harbors this term than ever before.
 Dothan Eagle: The brightest remarks some men ever made was done in the presence of their parents, when they were too small to demand a place on the sa- cred walls of fame.
 Marion County News: There is not newspaper man in Alabama that could Dt luuuCcQ lO piDiSi IiabICA AOA 0 ioAA- road that was objectionable, even though he had every pocket full of free" tick cts.
 Leighton News:s Alabama is now under one-man rule. The little fellows in the house and senate dare not express a wish for fear of displeasing "his highness." Conner is "it."
 Mobile Herald: The average number of world shaking earthquakes is some flfty-elght a year, which is more than one week. The work of the predictor Is not so hard as it may seem.
 Clayton Record: Few people can tell how many ex-Governors of Alabama are now living. There are five. Here is a list of their names and residences: Hon. w. R. Cobb, Woodlawn; Judge Thomas G. Jones and Col. Wm. c. Oates, Mont gomery; Capt Joseph F. Johnston, Blr- mingham and Hon. Wm. D. Jelks, Flu faula.
 Ozark Tribune In all seriousness, we doubt the constitutonality of the law that prohibits trading between the rail- roads and the newspapers. It seems to destroy the right to contract. as parties may wish. However, we commend Gov ernor Conner in carrying out his pledges. and then if it Is not good let the courts of the country say so. Tuscumbia North Albanian: The North Alabamian extends it's sympathy to
  izen, In the hour of his sorrow. A good wife is the greatest gift of God to man. i and her noble Christian life does not I stop with her demise, but goes on | through ages to come. May the loving l Father heal the wounds of husband and 1 children, and they look forward to that happy day when all shall gather with mother on the other shore.