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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
NOVELTY IN SIXTH AVENUE.

New York Correspondent Pittsburg Dis
 patch.
 A Sixth avenue restaurant has been try ing the French custom of having little tables on the sidewalk, and the effect on Sixth avenue pedestrians is amusing. The first day they lined up on the curbstone and waited solemnly for the first person who would sit at one of the tables. No end of persons went into the restaurant, but though each paused for moment by these publicly placed tables, none quite summoned the courage to eat there, and all went in to the seciusion Of the inner rooms The crowd on the curb stone grew. It was not a chaffing crowd they had no intention of making fun of the tables or the people who might be sufficiently unconscious to sit and drink there. Their attitude was one of respect ful wonder. This was a new custom and they were not going to make up their minds about it until they saw just how it worked. If the first persons who sat at these sidewalk tables looked as though they liked 1t and were not bumped into by the passersby, or did not have their drinks swiped by some hurrying messenger boy, Sixth avenue might decide to make these tables popular; but in the meantime how can they decide definitely about the things unless someone consents to sit at them?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
Trom the Louisville courier-Jourual.

From the Louisville Courier-Jourual.
 N HULALONGkORN is in Paris AS For the benefit of those who O think that 1t is a headache cure or q new brand of stove polish, be it said that Chnlalongkorn is the King of Siam. He Is even more than that. He is the most high, illustrious, invincible and powerful morach, crowned with | o golden crowns, each adorned with nine species of precious gems, greatest, purest and most divine master of immortal souls, who secs all things; sovereign emperor, under the shadow of whose wings lies the rich and incomparable Kingdom of Siam, to whom is subject the most fruit ful of all lands lit by the sun; greatest of lords, whose palace is of fine gold and jewels; divine master of the golden thrones, and of the white and red ele- phants sovereign god of nine kinds of gods, king who is like unto the sun at its zenith, and like unto the full moon in the time of harvests; king whose glance is mole dazzling than the orb of the morn ing; king who is above all emperors, monarohs and porentates of the universe from the rising to the setting of tho sun All of this is Chulalongkorn. Very few persons have ever felt that way, and it is difficult for the average collector chased, tax-ridden, underpaid, over worked plain American to imagine just how rosy the outlook is to his majesty of the one hundred and some golden thrones and the read and white ele- phants. But one American has reache1 the dizzy heights whereon Chulalongkorn spreads his plumes.
 Says a Paris cablegram:
 An American who has given the name of J. K. Jones-probably fictitious-is un- der arrest here for having created a dis turbance upon one of the houlevards. The man insisted that he was the King of Siam, and that no one had the power to arrest him. He had had too much ab- sinthe.'
 Let us hope that the name Is not fictitious. There are a great many mem bers of the Jones family in America Gen ally speaking, they are not greatly en- cumbered with wealth. Often they are born to the blow instead of the purple Many of them live in obscurity and die
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

From the New York Press. for the gout.
 Good cooks prevent more divorces than the most eloquent preacher.
 One sensible thing about spending all your money is you never have any to lose on investments.
 To a girl her wedding is like entering heaven; to a widow getting married again Is like leaving the other place.
 A woman's enjoyment of a visit is writ ing long letters to those at home telling them all the grand things she is doing, just as if she really were
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
WHERE SHALL THE LOVER REsTf

By Sir Walter Scott. Where shall the lover rest,
 Whom the fates sever From his true naiden's breast,
 Parted for ever? Where. through groves deep and high
 Sounds the far pillow, Where early violets die,
 Under the willow. There. through the summer day,
 Cool streams are laying; There. while the tempests sway,
 Scarce are boughs waving; There, thy rest shalt thou take,
 Parted for ever. Never again to wake,
 Never, ohi never. Where shall the traitor rest,
 He, the deceiver, Who could win niaiden's breast.
 Ruin. and leave her? In the lost battle,
 Born down by the flying, Where mingles wars rattle,
 With groans of the dying. Her wings shall the eagle flap OCT the false-hearted; His warm blood tiie wolf shall lap, Ere life be parted Shame and dishonor sit By his grave ever; Blessing shall hallow it.
 Never. oh! never,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The tiaskln letters.

q sm reading with great interest the daily letters of Frederic J. Haslkln in The Age-Herald," said Capt, Frank P. oBrien yesterday.
 These articles show great care in prep aration and contain much valuable infor= nation.
 "The story of a few days ago on BelYa Lockwood. the woman candidate for President of the United States, was of special interest. It is not generally known that Mrs. Lockwod has stepson in Bir- mingham in the person of Jule L. Lock wood, at one time partner of Ben F, Roden"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

eral truth that there is a tendency to- ward equalization and harmony between the hurtful and the helpful forces in na- ture. And it is only when that tendency is overcome and the general adjustment of conditions thrown out of balance that we get a plague or an epidemic or such a pest of caterpillars or moths or bugs as different communities endure from time to time.
 It is in line with this tendency that our scientists are pursuing their inves- legations.
 The supply of food and the supply of trees lie at the very beginnings of things industrial. Anything tending to destroy, or even to diminish, them is a matter of national concern. The news of the par aste bee" from Kansas is most welcome, and when the parasite which destroys the gypsy and the brown tail is discovered the rejoicing in Massachusetts, at any rate, will be deep and sincere
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
AN AUTOMoBIIEITEM

From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
 Automobiles suffer frightfully in cross ing the Atlantic,p said chauffeur Usually, after passage, they have to be repainted. They come out stratched beyond belief.
 ''It is because they are not carried right. They are crated and put down in the hold. That is a mistake They should be carried as they are in crossing the English Channel or the Mediterranean on deck, uncrated. but securely fastened and swathed in wadding and burlap.
 Carried so, they would escape all in- jury, every scratch; and their owners would be saved the S75 or S100 in re- pairs that they now have always to add to their cars passage money"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
WHAT ABSENTEE GAN DO

unostentatiously without even an expen- sive consultation between noted physi- clans to console them in their hour of approaching separation from the clay The Jones family has never put on of- fensive tugs It is the average Amer ican family, the typical American family. It has never been spoiled with power or unpopular because oi its pomp. If an American Jones has managed by the in- Production of few drinks of absnthe into hts unsophisticated system to feel like a man sitting upon more than % thrones bossing the red and white elephants, the most fruitful kingdom under the sun, and nine kinds of gods-if he has tasted wornl- wood and dreamed that the good old American name of Jones was Chulalong- kor1h and that his glance was more dag zling than the orb of morning, and his facial resemblance to the full moon in the time of harvest striking enough to attract the attention of the casual ob- server-let us not say that the name of Jones has been disgraced by the debau- chery of a sprg of that family, and his arrest upon a public thoroughfare in European capital but let us rather con gratulate J. K. Jones upon having danced for one fleeting moment upon clouds never before trodden by one of his tribe. And let us congratulate the French upon hay Ing manufactured the most marvelously potent of all drinks.
 That can with logic absolute
 The two and seventy jarring sects
 confute'
 J. K. Jones-of somewhere in America may have awakened upon the morning subsequent with head somewhat re- sembling a toothach in quality and beer keg in size. He may have had to pay few paltry france into the coffers of the alien to recompcnse a foreign government for having inter- iupted his reign over the nine kinds of gods and the red and white elephants. He may be for the rest of his days a sober ard obscure member of the Jones family of America But un- til the mists gather upon the mirror of memory, J. K. Jones. of somewhere in America, must surely carry with him prismatic memories of the day when he was above all of the potentates and em- perors and monarchs of the universe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

land who are under the harrow, and if those people are willing to accept the governments offer it should satisfy those outside
 The Irish question presents difficult ties which do not exist between Ing. land and her other foreign possessions. Centuries of strife have left wounds that are hard to heal, and only the gentlest of treatment will bring about reconciliation of the two peoples.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
Eaaer for Richmond Trip.

''As the time for marching on to Rich mond draws near, the Veterans are full of eagerness and feel sure the camps of the Birmingham district will be we'll represented at the reunion,' said Capt J. l.. Darby. adjutant of Camp Hardee
 Some of our members who were unde- cided about taking the trip have made up their minds to get in the procession. Alabama will give good account of it. se& - the reunon.n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Charles Mckee of Little Rock, ex- president of the Arkansas Bankers association, now in Birmingham as a commissioner to the Presbyterian gen. eral assembly, laughingly remarked to a big fnancier of this town that he had not been long in the banking bus mess when he discovered that the first requisite for his job was nerve.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
IS THIS FAIR?
KNOCKING BIRMINGHAM.

From the Washington Herald.
 A subscriber complains to the Birnling- ham Age-Herald that he cannot stop blushing. Evidently he Is a newcomer in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

A pastor who wrote that a thrill "permeated" his being every time 8 certain good looking married woman entered his church is now experience ing the thrill of holding down an- other job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Cheer up, Houstonians; it's three days yet till Sunday" says the Hous- ton Post. The lid is down in Houston on Sunday and every colonel has to lug a bottle around in his pocket.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
PROTEST FROM PlTTsBURe

From the Pittsburg Post:
 The Louisville 'Herald'' in these few paragraphs hits the Pittsburg nail on the head
 It seems to be the fashion nowadays for every editor to stick Pittsburg under the fifth rib every morning before break fast.
 IS THIS FAIR?
 Why ridicule Pittsburg because dozen of its Newrlch lack balance?
 Why insult a decent law-abiding, pro- gressive citizenship because a few men of loose morals have been torn from the realm of responsibility?
 Pittsburg puts to shame nearly every city in the land when 1t comes to philan- thropy, enterprise courage. aggressive ness, business honor and business acu- men.
 Yet, along comes some pert paragrapher who brings ignominy on the decent be- cause of few indecents.
 It makes us ashamed of the Awerican press to note these facts. It is cruel, 1t Is unjust, it is unanerican.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

According to Chairman Brown Taft has Ohio in his vest pocket. Certainly He also has several other states in the same position but some of them are slow to find it out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

"The good weather surely has ar rived" says Pittsburg paper. It hasn't for those Pittsburgers who are said to have lost over $90,0O0,000 in the recent Wall street slump.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Presbyterian eloquence will be heard in nearly all the Birmingham pu1pits today. The old style of oratory may not be much In evidence, but homi1etic art in It's best form will be exemplified
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Heartstorms come most often in the spring, but brainstorms come at any old time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

President Manuel Bonilla of Hon. duras, now breathing the free air of the United States, says he is not only enjoying good health, but well-filled pocketbook.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

The preacher who married Corey to Mabelle Gilman said it was a heaven made match, in spite of the fact that most of the wooing was done in Paree and New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

The bright sunshine of yesterday and the day before have made the average man feel a hundred per cent better off, even if his bank account fails to show it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

The saloons of Talladega actually asked for seven o'clock closing ordi- nance. The barkeepers may yet preach temperance on Sundays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

However, if MT. Corey does find 1t more convenient to resign a large number of eager aspirants for his job will make no objections.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

In his retort to the Jones Valley Times Senator John T. Morgan shows the sprightliness of perennial youth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

When she can't talk any more and hasn't hat pin, woman is liable to fight with her umbrella.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Abraham Ruef's squeal was one that came very near being heard round the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

There are more than two hundred newspapers in China and the chances are that everyone of them is a yellow sheet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

The St. Louis negro who took nine teen drinks at sitting miscalculated his capacity. He was drowned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Ex-Banl1er Stensland continues to reside in the same place that he was in the last time you heard of him. He is at Joliet, the we'll known peniten- tiary town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

A London woman says there are no gentlemen in America. Maybe she didn't happen to meet any.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

A gentleman in Indiana spent the winter in bed. Lucky dog!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

France is marching on in Morocco" i" says the New York World. So is Massa Frank c. Carpenter. See The Age-Herald today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Pennsylvania is boosting her flavor ite son" for President. Roosevelt re. gards this as proof of conspiracy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

D Being just twenty-one years old, Alfonso is not only newpop, but a youngpop as we'll.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Householders in Alton, H., have formed a combine against the laundry ladies' union and they are making the union look sick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

A street car conductor held up a passenger in New York and took from him $9S0, which was considerably more than the fare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

"If Oscar Hammerstein were An drew Carnegie" says a contempor- ary. That's wild supposition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Brmingham's Confederate veterans are crying, "On to Richmond" but it is nothing more serious than a reunion this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

and more appetizing than breakfast fooo, any way.
 Are we actors7" asks one of those newspaper philosophers. We'll some of us are not and George NJ. Conan never was. An Indiana woman, 7s years old, smokes big black cigars and says they are not as bad as chewing gum Well, they are not-for men.
 Burglars blew open the vault in an In- diana bank the other night and got only $60. A short time ago craeksmen riled another bank in that state and secured something like s7.5O. Both of those banks must have been poets banks. Says the Moulton Advertiser, We ex. pect to whirl kisses to the angels in heaven at Harmony next Sunday and have them tossed back tied up in blue ribbons" The editor seems to have con- fused heaven with the sweet commence ment maid, but it is not such big mis- take, after all.
 IT WOULD, TOO.
 We've often thought,
 When tired of life
 And sick of all
 This bitter strife
 That just one word
 Of kindly cheer
 Would make us glad
 To finger here. Talk about gal'-says the Mobile Herald. Let's don't talk about it! The subject is unpleasant The young heir to the Spanish throne has more names by three than a cat has lives.
 Major Delmas brought s12,oO0. Dolphin Delmas, since he lost out in the Thaw trial. can probably be had for even less. Wont Dothan be swell with that car rier's delivery?' asks the Dothan Home Journal Swell Is not the word! Come now, let's agree" says Bos- ton paper. All right, what shall we agree on?
 WE'LL ALL BE DEAD. When life's one grand, sweet song guess Twill be our luck, gosh ding 1t, To find that on this earth there is Nobody who can sing itl
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

When Chicago gets her race course for airships it will probably be above the smoke belt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

The price of bread is rising. Brea' should rise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
HAM SANDWICH.

From the Wilcox Banner:
 Every son of Ham tried in our courts has white man between him and jus tice>
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
PRESS POINTS

Jackson Clarion-Iedger: Vice President Fairbanks has started a literary bureau in Indiana. Nothing is easier.
 Washington Star: Kuroh is too diplo- matic to give any prominence to Califor- mia in the course of his remarks.
 Louisville Times: Is it possible that every time the Czar discovers new plot he scents his doom? Ahl
 Columbia State: It is probable that King Alfonso of Spain has now cinched the admiration of President Roosevelt
 Washington Herald: A writer finds that "the negro is far worse off in Philadel- phia than elsewhere. Why specify the negro?
 Houston Post: The Atlanta Constitu- ton tells of two Georgia mules being killed by lightning. They must have over in Georgia either strong brand of light ndng or very weak brand of mule.
 Hamilton Sun: Editor Watterson wants the next democratic platform to be short and crisp" If Henri had the writing of it, it's length would not fall short of twenty columns, judging from some of his political editorials
 Pensacola Journal: Judge Gray for President" says Senators Morgan and Pettus of Alabama. Is it possible that these eminent statesmen have forgotten the fate that befell the candidate whom the interests put out three years ago?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
ALABAMA PRESS

Talladega Reporter: Wed not be so suspicious of the Japs if they were not so extremely stuck on this countryl
 Marion County News: They are talking school consolidation in several of the counties of Alabama. and this is the only way to get results with the money that is to be expended for the common schools
 Greensboro watchman: As an encour- aging sign of the time, we note the reception of a letter from a railway off, cial asking us to quote lowest cash rates for advertising. The rates were sent and we are hoping.
 Walker County News: We are of the opinion that if the Alabama legislature would give little more attention to laws forcing the railroads to improve their roadbeds build better depots and give more efficient service generally that it would be better for the people. Safety to human lives and a speedy and prompt delivery of freight Is by far of more im- portance than the efforts to reduce pas senger fares and regulate freight rates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

An Indiana woman, 7s years old, smokes big black cigars and says they are not as bad as chewing gum. Well, they are not-for men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
A FEW WORDS.

FEW WORDS. We'll we'll lift up your head And pull yourself along, A eineh it is, there's more of right Than ever there was wrong The people who are down and out Will always be that way. Unless they rise with hopeful hearts To meet better day.
 A postmaster in Ohio has resigned be- cause the office paid only 10 cents a day. Another case, no doubt, of a man with a. two-beers income and a champagne thirst. Warm weather Is bringing out some fetching elbows and we don't mind, tho some of them are a trine rustyl When a man has a piece of sticking plaster on his lip he can only smile in a small way.
 JUNE'S ADVANCE. The violets are blooming and the roses
 blowing free,
 The mockingbirds are singing songs of
 praise.
 A perfumed wind is whispering in every
 shrub and tree
 And time is rushing on to summer days. A theatrical note states that The Priml rose Path" will open again next season. We were under the impression that 1t was always wide open, with sign up. Badness is rampant i'm Germany, which used to be headquarters for hair. Those Pittsburg prudes surely don't imagine that the girl in La Touches picture is going to take bath with her clothes on?
 SUNSHINE LAND. In Sunshine land all hearts are glad And every face is beaning, Deceitfulness and malice die And there's an end to schening. Land all aglow with flowers, ah, No fields were ever brighter, Nor playing better worth the while And daily burdens lighter. In Sunshine land is hopefulness And pleasant words for cheering. Each one is confident, serene, No grim mischances fearing The hours speed on golden wings, The years, Nike leaves, are falling, Oh, take its message to your heart The Sunshine land is callingl "A Washington woman was observed eating grass, but 1t was nice, long grass
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Burglars blew open the vault in an 1n- diana bank the other night and got only $60 A short time ago cracksmen riaed another bank in that state and secured something like S7.5o. Both of those banks must have been poets banks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Warm weather is bringing out some fetching elbows and we don't mind, tho some of them are trine rusty!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Are we actors?" asks one of those newspaper philosophers Well, some of us are not and George M. Conan never was.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

When a man has a piece of sticking plaster on his lip he can only smile in small way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala. postoff1ee as second-class matter under act of Congress March 8, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

postmaster in Ohio has resigned be- cause the office paid only 10 cents a day.
 Another case, no doubt. of a man with two-beers income and a champagne thirst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Columbia State: It is probable that King Alfonso of Spain has now cinched the admiration of President Roosevelt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

and more appetizing than breakfast sooo any way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
HE AGE HERALD

F. BARRETT..............E Editor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Louisville Times: Is it possible that every time the Czar discovers a new plot" he scents his doom? Ahl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Jackson Clarion-I4edger: Vice President Fairbanks has started a literary bureau in Indiana. Nothing is easier.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Washington Star: Kurold is too diplo- matic to give any prominence to Califor- mia in the course of his remarks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19

Daily and Sunday Age Herald. $500 Daily and sunday, per month..... TO Sunday Ase-9erald. per annnm 2.OO