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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28
Endorsing Oliver

President Roosevelt is being urged to
appoint w. j. Oliver on the Panama
canal commission, and The Age
Herald believes that he would greatly
strengthen the commission and get eX-
cellent practical results if he acts on
the suggestions now being made. Just
as soon as it was found that the Oliver
syndicate was not to be awarded the
contract for digging the canal and that
the work was not to be done by con-
tract. hundreds of influential men who
know Mr. oliver and appreciate his
character, his capacity, his energy and
the value of his successful experience
in enterprises involving large construc-
ton, teegraphed to the President yes
terday in behalf of the now famous
contractor.
The commission is being reorgan-
lied and Mr.. Oliver would make an
exceptionally strong man for the chair
manship He would inspire confidence
at the start. for he knows how to
handle men and would see 10 1t that
the work would be pushed forward as
rapidly as possible and that every form
of graft would be excluded.
Mr.. Oliver is a resident of Tonnes
see. but his reputation extends through
out the country The endorsement
that he is receiving is, therefore, spon-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28
More Changes at Panama

The Panama canal rarely fails TO
yield plenty of designations and sur
prises, and it furnishes such things
whether the digging is going on rap.
idly or slowly. The resignation of
Engineer Stevens is the latest surprise,
and the handing over of the construc.
ton of the canal to the engineering
branch of the army is still another sur
prise. The rejection of all bids, in,
Guiding that of Mr.. Oliver and his asso-
ciates, is third surprise.
The President has now boxed the
compass, so TO speak. He cannot well
spring anything very new ON the coun
Try in connection with the canal. for
he has exhausted all possible schemes
of construction. He may, ii is true.
take up anew the old familiar round.
This is not, however, probable, for his
army engineers cannot decline to serve,
and the President seems TO be con
WINGED that the army should construct
the canal so far as engineering leader
sAip is concerned.
It cannot be said that the admins
tration has won any glory in the nu-
merous changes that have taken place
in canal direction from the days of Ad-
miral Walker to the days of Shonts
and Stevens. Change has succeeded
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

BY HOMER DAVENPORT.

trap with real live duck. No canned goose
will ever land him.
If, as a boy, you have ever watched
a crawfsh handle his prongs and feelers,
You then have seen Mr.. Hartman on the
witae IS stand. The crawfish will back up.
when he must, but only in the direction
that suits him, and only toward one of
his holes. where he can get away. In
this connection / noticed this morning
that Mr.. Hartman hasn't been answering
questions He shows a desire all the
time to put questions instead of answer
ing them, and when questions are asked
that evidently he would like to avoid, his
crawfish-like feelers, his mustache, GER
tain wings of it,. rise and fall, one strand
remaining up in protest
All this time in those steam-gauge
glasses there is a glitter and sparkle.
Finally in a most entcing way he says:
,Jont you let me tell you all about
the Chicago and Alton?"
It was amusing to note the difference
in audiences today in the Hartman hear
ing. Half of it looked like the late Cor
nelius Vanderbilt. and the other half
were persons with long-legged cameras,
that reminded me of the oil wells of Los
Angeles. In such a trial the first shock
yo get is to hear the words;
Now we got only s1S0,OO00oo for"
I heard with similar interest some years
ago the late Coils p Huntington in the
Pacific Roads investigation in Washing
ton. He forgot a tri1e like 100000 and
cou.d never remember fractions of $1,000
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28
THE MOLLYCODDLE.

From the New York World.
President Roosevelt should be Just to
the mollycoddle. The craven. the weak
ling, the coward the slanderer, the muck
raker, the doubling Thomas, may have to
take their chances with cruel world,
but the mollycoddle is entitled at least
to humane treatment. And Mr.. Roose
welt is President of the mollycoddle no
less than of the just man armed. Doubt
less Providence created the mollycoddle
for some inscrutably useful purpose. Even
a cultivated scholar and college president
like Charles w. Eliot may possibly prove
in the end not to be an absolute waste
of material.
Milton once ventured to remark in a
quiet way that they also serve who only
stand and wait" OF course Milton may
have been prejudiced-he was sent to
oxford when young and was blind and
helpless and had to write his poems by
dictation. Still he was not exactly a
mollycoddle or the champion of the
mollycoddle cause in English politics.
whatever strenuous President may
think of his absurd notions about stand
ing and waiting.
Try to imagine a world where no molly
coddle was permitted to survive his in
fancy The just man armed needs him
as a contrast to his militant righteous
ness. What would be the satisfaction OF
being a sky-piercing mountain of virtue
if as far as the eye could reach there
extended nothing but q dead level of equal
" mountainous virtue. If ali the world
were a Niagara nobody could hear a
sound. A very inoffensive mouse may
make a lion roar, and 1t is the lions roar
that strikes terror into the hearts of the
animal kingdom.
The mollycoddle must be preserved X
only to accentuate the greater glory ~
his superiors.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28
WITH WATTERsoN AWAY.

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
There is mourning in Kentucky A
music has ceased to breathe along the
face of things The mint beds are droop-
ing and the chosen Juice of old Kentucky
has lot its head The bright-eyed south
ern maid no longer stands with reluctant
feet where the mint and the julep meet.
The corn may be full Of kernels, but the
colonies are not full of corn. And all
because Uncle Hank Watterson is crop
ing his way amid the ruins of the Alham-
nra
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Maybe purgatory is nothing but a
dose of machine politics.
nice thing about having a wife is all
the other foolish things it keeps you
from doing.
A woman's idea of comfortable shoes
are those she can wear for three hours
without faintng.
A man has mighty sweet temper to
lose collar hutton and not swear it's
his wifes fault.
A man works hard all day to support
his Wife but not as hard rs when he gets
home and has to button her UP the
back.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28
RIPPLES,

While 1t is a long lane that Mas no turn
ing, we are glad of turn now and then
for the-Sake of variety.
The life we lead from day to day will
never seem slow unless we get acquainted
with a pace that is faster.
1t is often the case that the man who
makes his wealth by double dealing will
stick 10 his former friends more faithfully
than the man who gets his money hon
estly.
The chief objection to wearing a long
face all the time is that when Trouble
sees you he will think you are expecting
him and will proceed to make himself at
home
You will find that men like to analyze
women but women seldom take the trout
think it worth while.
WHEN THE DEVIL WAS SICK.
81 don't feel WE'LL
Remarked a wight
Who likes to run
Around at night.
These words, forsooth
No sooner said.
Than he did clasp
Ills acnmg mead
And VOW to be
Surprising good,
Altho, of course,
'Tis understood
That he'll forget
As soon as he
Is out of all
His misery.
A dentist advertises false teeth that will
"bte corn but of course they can't do
that by themselves.
IGNORANCE is BLISS.
1t isn't good to know too much,
Nor yet to journey far.
Because the less we see and hear,
The better off we are.
"Glad spring is on the way" sings a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28
Warrior Canal.

"Why don't Birmingham get to work
and dig a ditch from here to the Warrior
river" said James DeNeau, manufac-
turer of elevators in Minneapolis. who
has been the guest of J. A. Van Hoose
for several days. II was in Tuscaloosa
several days ago studying a map, and
the first thing that struck me was the
need of a canal from Birmin CHAM to the
Warrior.
why, it would be wonderful thing
for this city and district to have naviga-
bic water from here to the coast There
Is no telling how much it would mean to
Birmingham.
II was very much surprised to learn
that this had been a plan suggested by
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28
SWEETHEART, SIGH NO MORE.

BY Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
1t was with doubt and trembling
] whispered in her ear.
Go, take her answer. bird on-bough,
That all the world may hear
Sweetheart. sigh no more.
Sing it. sing 1t. tawny throat,
Upon the wayside tree.
How fair she is. how true She
How dear she is to me
Sweetheart sigh no morel
Sing it, sing it. tawny throat.
And through the summer long
The winds among the clover-tops
And brooks, for all their silvery stops.
Shall envy you the song
Sweetheart, sigh no more!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28
Winter is about to adjourn sine di,
LABOR IN THE SOUTH.

From the Florida Times-Union.
Labor is so scarce in the SOUTH skilled
or 'unskllled, that employers sometimes
almost fall over each other to secure
every man who offers white or black,
and the highest prices are paid. vet here
is an Italian who successfully played on
the sympathy of an ignorant New York
newspaper man with u story that he had
worked for six months in the south and
got only 81 for Ii.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28
New Passenger Station.

j. S. B. Thompson, general agent of the
Southern railway in Atlanta, spent yester-
day in Birmingham in conference with
the Birmingham Terminal company Off
GERS in regard to the work of construc-
ton.
Mr.. Thompson left yesterday afternoon
at 4 o'clock on the Central of Georgia.
Before leaving he stated that nothing
was done at the conference further than
to discuss and act on some of the mat
ters of construction in progress at the
new union passenger station.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Mr.. Harding. father of W. p. G. Hard
ing. and later the pet scheme of ]. A.
Van Hose, and / cannot understand
why the people of Birmingham have
slept over the matter so long. 1t seems
TO me that they would grasp the situa-
ton at glance and set to work imme-
diately to put it into execution
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28
Decatur Banker.

G. S. Broadus of Decatur, president of
the Merchants bank, is in Birmingham.
lie is president also of a number of
banks outside of Decatur. They all bear
the name of the Merchants and the
string constitutes one of the largest
banking propositions in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

The president of Harvard and the
President of the United States do not
agree over football, and they did not
meet in the ancient halls of learning.
The former went away to Canada to
keep a convenient engagement.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Blonde hairs, a powder rag and a
bunch of faded pinks figure in a recent
divorce suit. The strongest point made
was that the wronged wife was not a
blonde.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

The Missouri legislature is at pres
ent engaged in contracting smallpox
Four members have it, and the rest
are In an expectant condition. 1t can
not be voted down and out.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

taneous, which is very apt to make a
most favorable impression at the White
House. Few acts on the part of Mr..
Roosevelt would, it is felt, prove more
popular than the appointment of W. ].
Oliver
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Mr.. Jerome should grill the mag
mates of Wall street as he does the
weak little child wife in the Thaw
case. He is making votes for acquit-
tai for she is not on trial.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

iubilant poet, but in view of the fact that
he is singing in Chicago, we'd like to
wager that spring is farther away from
him than ii is from US
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

A dozen steamship lines are running
between New York and Naples, and it
is proposed to divert one or two OF
them to southern ports.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Professor Matteucci of the Vesuvius
tower says he did not say 1t. He does
not think the world is about to be
gesuviusized by a comets tail.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Utah is expected to see that the re-
publican electors are elected next year
without substantial opposition.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

It is announced that Sarah Bern
hardt will travel less in the future
Still she may be able to pull off few
farewell tours, just for the sake of the
money
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

The Kaiser has more poses than
Evelyn Thaw, and while he has five
sons to manipulate the list will be in
definitely extended.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

The American navy is third among
the powers and Captain Hobson will
have to be content with that for a
while.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Don't trifle with a cold,' says
contemporary, as if anybody cared to
monkey with complaint like that!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

John d. Rockefellers income is after
all large enough to enable him to in
dulge in an occasional oyster stew.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

City poets are looking out on mag
mary fields and seeing imaginary
shoots of green grass.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

In spite Of recent examples to the
contrary, peIls on the sea are still less
numerous than perls on the land.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Senator Morgan expresses the opin
ion he will live to see the Panama
canal completed. Alabama seconds the
motion
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Postmaster Busse is the man that
Mayor Dunno will walk over at the
polls next month. No mere postmas-
ter can knock out the champion |. M. ID
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

There is an eruption of smallpox at
Missouri's capitol, and this prevents an
eruption of graft there.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Cross examination of the modern
sort is worse than yivisection.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Grover Cleveland still talks to the
people, even though he has no chance
of reoccupyng the White House again.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

The American Tract society is call
ing for 81 100000 and may call again
before getting that amount.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

A Chicago contemporary has word
to say on street car chivalry. Pshaw.
There isn't any.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28
IN THE ELEVATION


some go up and some go down,
Some early and some later,
For nearly everybody now
Rides on the elevator.
Some give the elevator boy
A nod or pleasant smile,
While others do ignore him quite
And by their manners rifle
This parsonage in uniform
Who wakes very sore,
And with a knowing wink will try
To take them past the floor
They said they wished to visit when
They got aboard the car
bit of pleasantly will pay.
No matter where you are
Miss Myrtle Reed. the novelist. is more
of a heavyweight in real life than in lit
erature Judging from recently pub
lished photograph Myrtle doesn't weigh
fraction less than 800 pounds
SOME HATE TO DIE.
The game is not half worth the candle,
you say?
Perehance that is too true-and yet,
The knowledge that we must quit playing
some day
Is often a source of regret.
Society girls are born, not made SAYS
an authority. Yet they are often made up.
DON'T.
Tough luck
We're stuck
For a comic rhyme.
Can't be
Care free
Simply all the time.
Might write
Some slight
Nonsense for a bluff;
Soon could.
But 'twould
Seem like wretched stuff.
Each one,
Undone,
Must sigh now and then.
We are,
BY far.
Just like other men.
Please now,
Dons VOW
That you'll laugh no more.
Just be-
Cause-gee,-
We are feeling sore.
"And she holds position in the best So
cety in New York;"
WELL" answered Mr.. Jerome, shes
in the 400. -
The 'learned district attorney" wasn't
going to commit himself.
Perhaps little weak tea might help tho
w. c. T. L. to recover from the shock
of Senator Shoots vndication.
Easter hats are blooming everywhere
1t isn't so long to Christmas now.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Philadelphia can not now logically
refuse to call the Hon. IL. Durham back
to power and grating opportunities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Curves in the street railway tracks
are hard on straphangers, but they
soon learn to watch for the curves.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

E. H. Hartman is trying not to ex-
plain where he got it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

An Illinois man went mad because
his pay was raised. Couldn't stand
prosperity, as 1t were.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Carter Harrison and Roger c. Sui
Ivan are each in a position to console
the other.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

1t Is great pity that something
cant be done to Evelyn Thaw's un.
natural mother.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

The ship subsidy bill promises to go
back to the Senate to be talked 10
death.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Evelyn Thaw has scored one thou
sand in her poses, and the end is not
yet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

The Cuban republic is blinking out
1t has few friends left.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

The coal man does not want an early
spring
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Lyman Abbott is backing the trusts
now, and they feel very strong.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

w. d. Lanier and c. L. Stricklin are
the only authorized travelling repre-
sentatives of The Age-Herald In It's
circulation department.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Spokesman Review: The Beers may be
in the ascendant in the Transvaal psrlia-
ment, but it is not likely that Great Brl-
tain will have another South African
war on that account.
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No communication will be published
without it's authors name. Rejected
manuscript will not be returned unless
stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
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Daily and Sunday Age-Herald. $500
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Subscription payable in advance.
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Arkansas Gazette: Harvard must do
more than produce Students" said Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Yes, indeed; she must
produce winning football team now
and then for instance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28
PRESS POINTS
Nashville American: Gentle Annie will
soon be singing in the lane.

Columbia State: The cost of living in
creases, but the railways and steamships
are making life seem cheap.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Remittances can be made at current
rate of exchange. The Age-Herald will
not be responsible for money sent
through the mails. Address
THE AGE HERALD
Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Miss Myrtle Reed. the novelist, is more
| of heavyweight in real life than in lit->
| erature. Judging from a recently pub
lished photograph. Myrtle doesn't weigh
! a fraction less than 300 pounds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Portland Telegram; Senator Smoot will
retain his seat This is not a victory for
the Mormon church, but the recognition
of clean personal character. with, per-
haps a little politics ON the side.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28
Gfakl |, " {, llsa1aslQ


Entered at the Birmingham, Ala,
postoffice as second-class matter under
act of Congress March 3. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28
SOME HATE TO DIE.

SOME HATE TO DIE.
The game is not half worth the candle,
you say?
Perehance that is too true-and yet,
The knowledge that we must quit playing
some day
Is often a source of regret.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Society girls are born, not made.n says
an authority. Yet they are often made up.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

These things seem small, and undis-
tinguishabIe,
Like far-off mountains turned into
clouds.
Midsummer Nights Dream.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Washington Bureau Age-Herald l421
G street, n. w.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-28

Troy Messenger: Manager Vaughan, of
the Birmingham baseball team, is getting
In shape to go after the pennant again.
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ton points are requested to furnish q
CODY Of this to other lines"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
OPERATORS ARE OUT

New York, Aug. 1S.-The telegraph
operators employed by the Associated
Press struck at 1887 last night. The
circuits of this association we're prac-
tiaclly paralyzed.
The employees Of the Postal Telegraph
Company generally througout the
country also struck. A number of the
operators of the Postal had remained
loyal until last night, hut the request
of the company that the men work
with, nonunion operators cause1 a
practically universal walkout. At !
O'Clock in the afternoon all operators
in the main Office of the Western
Union here went out. There had been
rumors that such move was in con-
temptation, but up to few minutes
before the men quit work there were
no signs of the intended action. AT
exactly 1 O'Clock shrill whistle was
sounded through the big operating
room and large part Of the force at
WORK left their keys. As the men left
the building they we're chesred by
other operators who had gathered In
the street.