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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
SALARY s1,ooo. 900.
Something About the RaIah Among
 American Wage-Earners.

From the New Broadway Magazine
 He is a short, sturdy man. about fifty two years of age, rather bald, and as plainly undecorative in appearance as the general manager of a great railroad sys- tenn He commands what is said to be the highest salary paid any man in the world.
 No, he is not a life insurance president A S1O0, OO0-l 0-life-insurance president would have to work nearly ten years for the salary that this man earns in twelve months. In one year he receives as much as the United States government has paid all told to Messrs. Roosevelt, Mckinley and Cleveland for their services as Chief Executives. Yet this man, whose yearly pay equals that of a score of Presidents, may walk any day from his employers offices in the Empire building, at Il Broadway, to his spacious 200-foot yacht waiting for him at the Battery, and never receive a glance of recognition other than from casual acquaintances. The yacht, manned by crew of thirty, carries him bC HIS NOhitig HOiitt ct 1iVuNtSAtis thdoost and out of business hours he may amuse himself with any one of his several speedy autos, each of a price to buy home for the usual wage-earner. On the door of the office. he has left there is only the name.
 John Hays Hammond is the most fa- nous mining expert and the highest-paid A frip Ia i,;,, countries so well that he can pick the one paying proposition out of :, a thousand that would look good to the average per son. The man with the proposition sell dom has to unroll his maps before he has his answer
 MT. Hammond does the bulk of his work through a corps of experts who go to all parts of the world to examine properties. \ hen one is reported on favorabIy by successive groups. each higher than the first, then the decision reaches the last court, which is Hammond. He goes to the place, in his private car if possible. and looks the property over. He reports in hardly more than a word, "Yes" or No" The word of no other man to- "aS, Hot even ol bulSon, can marshal so many millions to what must essentially be gambling proposition. This emi- hence he has won through a long series of tips that have been wonderfully ac- curate.
 The glaring publicity of salary, of dol lars and cents, is distasteful to him. But the gauge of dollars and cents is only another way of saying that a safe prophet in the professions is a rarity that comes high, and nowhere quite so high as in the person of John Hays Ham, mond.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
Mayor Ward Consistent

Mayor Ward in coming out against prohibition is perfectly consistent. He has been the ardent champion of high license and rigid regulation of the liquor business. He was last elected on a saloon regulation platform.
 The Mayor has had large experience in municipal affairs and no one is bet ter able than he to look after the saloon men and to keep the vicious among them in check. He is alert, he is honest, he is aggressive and he never backs down.
 With large body of his constituents protesting against his present course the Mayor stands on his mettle and, come what may, gives the public his views frankly and clearly. Regarding prohibition he says: There is only one thing we can be positive 1t will do
 it will free liquor from heavy bur den, the historic device that has al- ways been used to crush or restrain any undesirable s<raffic It will mark the commencement Of long. bitter harassing conflict that will unsettle salaries and incomes, wreck friendships and paralyze the spirit Of public cooperation; then repeal of the law will follow. In con- ing into office I swore to do every thing in my power to protect the faith and credit of the city. l therefore cannot honestly share re- sponsibility, even tacitly, for move ment which if successful must necessarily undo what it has taken years to build up and cripple every department of the city government for an indefinite period. All my sympathies are with the good men and women supporting prohibition; my judgment is against their plan
 Mayor Wards fearless statement of his position should be applauded by all fair-minded men and not criticised harshly by any. In view of the fact that the Mayor understands condi- tions here thoroughly and fully ap- preciates the situation in all it's bear ings, his position against prohibition will have a good and far-reaching ef- feet on the election next Monday.
 Such threats as those made to him yesterday that his political career shall be ended" amount to nothing. They were evidently the utterances or excited and nltra-enthusiastic men.
 The calm, conservative, moral and business element of Birmingham will uphold Mayor Ward and will do so publicly at the meeting to be held to- night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
Cotton Goods

In the last year the price of cotton goods was advanced from per cent in the case of ducks to 25 per cent in the case of ginghams. Sheetings were marked up 20 per cent, yarns 23 per cent and print cloths 19 per cent. The average increase in the various classes Of cotton goods was about IS per cent
 Marshall Field & Go. of Chicago re- gently advertised cut in standard fines of cotton goods of 15 to 20 per rent. In other words, that big firm proposed to wipe out the advance of the last year hut it declines to sell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
cHlCAGo's WORK OF ART.

From the Washington Post
 Chicago has given fresh evidence of. .iber devotion to art and her discrimination in seizing upon the fitness of things. Those who assert that the art sense is atrophied in the United States, do not know Chi cago' and Chicago does not know them The art sense is not atrophied in Chi cago-it is infamed, passionate. franticalIy alive When 1t was found that six days a week were not sufficient to satisfy the demand for art there, the Auditorium opera house was engaged on Sunday night, and first-class vaudeville pre- sented to the hungry and thirsty lovers or art. There was "a huge audience pres ent,' according to the Record Herald, and most of the people seemed to enjoy it. The prolonged howl of laughter rang through the vaulted arches, and betimes the voice of song was lifted in unison with the conNc soubrettes refrain"
 What was that refrain? What was 1t that sank into the soul of Chicago and caused a huge audience to burst into song? It was the poignantly sorrowful burden Don't Get Married Any More Ma the lines of which arolsed' bangs of memory in many a Chicago bosom. The lines ran this way:
 Don't get married any more, ma
 Don't get married any morel
 Four times in my time wife you've been And four before l came upon the scene l don't like so many changes,
 It makes you kinder wonder where you Soon as 1 get used to one, another comes
 along.
 Can't l have permanent papa?
 'It was San affecting moment" says the Record-Herald
 But what Is the use? It is too much to describe the wealth of artistic senti- ment and suggestion, poured out on that halcyon Sunday night. Suffice 1t to quote the Record-Heralds delighted reporter: Tt was a long bill, and in some parts very strong" If we had space, we might dwell upon the pagic of Cliff Crawfords S voice when hefrected Kipling's ballad. ''It was fine,' says the Record Herald, the way he filled the house with his far, ferocious cry of the electrifying last stanzaS Of course, it was fine Chi cago will not tolerate anything else.
 And still there are neurotic and milksop Americans who allege that there is no art sense in the United States! Let them go to Chicago and hear the far, ferocious cry of the art lovers as they thrill to real art, or sway their emotions in uni son to the haunting melody of Don't Get Married Any More, Ma" There is art, and nature, too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
EAST LONDON.

By Matthew Arnold Iwas August. and the fierce sun overhead Smote on the squalid street of Bethnal
 Green
 And the pale weaver, through his win-
 dows seen, In Spitalfields, loolx'd thrice dsprited l met preacher there 1 knew, and said: iil and o'erworked, how fare you in
 this scene?' l Bravely." said he. flor I of late have
 been Much eheer'd with thoughts of Chris. 'h.
 Living Bread 0. human soul as long as thou ca Set up mark of everlasting lig Above the bowling senses ebb and To cheer thee, and to right thee fl
 roam
 Not with lost toll thou laborest tn l.s
 the night Thou mak'st the heaven thou hop'ft
 deed thy home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
Great shonpina Center.

Retail trade in Birmingham has been unusually brisk this fall said mer- chant. Taken altogether the volume of business is quite up to that of last fall and I am inclined to think 1t is even larger
 Birmingham is the shopping center of this section of the south. In fact there are only two cities south of the Ohio river where the merchants carry such large, rich and altogether attractive stocks Women come here from every part of Alabama and Mississippi to do their fall and spring shopping"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
m the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 You don't find anybody agitating for express trains to heaven.
 The way to make girl think you are good looking is to tell her she is.
 When a widow isn't in hurry to get married again she is rooling everybody but herself.
 No matter how ugly you are with a woman she will forgive you if it is be- cause you are jealous about her.
 The average man thinks he is saving money by spending s1 to entertain a man who will give him g pass to theatre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

It is reported that the leading towns of New Mexico and Arizona are think ing of running out the gamblers. Be- fore long there won't be any place where a tenderfoot can go and absorb local color.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

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. Goodbye to sun, Goodbye to flies, Now union suits Will advertise.
 Houston Post And drinking men Will take d nip, Because, you know, They fear the grip.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Alas-alack-- And bless my soul It's time to buy Your winter coal
 Montgomery Advertiser. All those who think they are better thar other people please rise. All right Every. body please sit down,
 IN CONCLUSION. Only little while we play At joy and sorrow blended Ere long there comes the final day, And then the game is ended.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
rHE sIINsHINE HEARr.

There's joy and wealth and love untold For the sunshine heart that never grows
 old Alas, for the man who counts his tears And laughs no more with advancing
 years. Each day will bring him cares increase, The lift of hope ere long will cease And all the sweets of life will be A shadow and a mockery. But the man who loves as little child. By singing bird and bloom beguiled, Who greets the morning with delight And dreams beneath the stars at night Of better days and future bliss, And never talles the world amiss- An, such a man can never die. But lives in halowed memory The Wright Brothers are the original airship drummers. What a change!" excIalms the Port land Telegram Wed like to bet prune that the man who wrote that para graph has just put on his eheavies."
 A TRICKY THING.
 We've always had
 certain dread
 UT sleeping in
 folding bed.
 Without a bit
 Of warning, 'sdeath
 It shuts right up
 And takes your breath While it may be true that there are no automobiles in hades, the chances are that the place Is Crowded with auto mobilists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

They have cold wave up at Medi- cine Hat, but there is a hope that it will be shunted away from the sunny south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

An actor and poet were indicted in St. Louis on the same day, but the incident is not important, unless the poet was indicted for poetry and the actor for acting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
CHATTANOOGA NEWS.

The Chattanooga News has issued a commercial and industrial edition Of 124 pages, which is one of the largest papers ever issued in the south. The News de- serves much credit for it's enterprise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

United Copper" is not listed in New York. It is dealt in on the curb, and yet it gave the country cold feet last week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

We are informed that David War field has turned down an offer of $1,OOO,O00 for his services during a term of years. Crown his press agenti
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

Mrs. Adlai Stevenson meets the President half way on the large fam fly idea and lines up on the other side of the question.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

"The Adventures of an Average Man with Motor Car" is the title of a re- cent magazine article. The average man doesn't own an auto car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

Wall street is no longer sure of the floor it stands upon, for what seems to be the bottom proves to be an inter- mediate stopping place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

Ben Lilley, who owned the dogs that chased the bear, is in the line of pro- motion to at least a marshalship, or possibly to governors chair in a ter ritory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

Millionaires in New York are rapid ly selling their big red automobiles in their haste to turn their assets into ready cash.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

Tom Lawson has not been heard from since the slump in copper oc- cured, but it is believed he is where he enjoys the situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

The gay and festive retired list is rapidly getting married. A rear ad- miral over 70 years old is the latest case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

The Guggenheims and the Heinze brothers are in position to sympathize freely with each other over the copper slump
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

A rural contemporary advertises d "comic" revival of Monte Cristo The play never did seem funny to James ONeill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

The country is not talking politics. It is marketing its crops and getting ready to enjoy the holiday season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

MT Fairbanks is discussing finland Waterways" but nothing stronger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

The presidential party shot three bears, but the President shot but one "a mamma bear of good weight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

Ambassador Tower resigns because he is tired of expending $35,o00 year out of salary of $17,500.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

Cassie Chadwick bequeathed a mil lion dollars to charity but the dollars cannot be found in the estate she left.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

Wall street has been afflicted with locomotor ataxia, but is getting better.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

That drop in copper made chatter that was heard round the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

The transmutation of metals was effected in Wall street when copper was turned into trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

If Carrie Nation would merely use her hatchet to split kindling nobody would object.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

Heinze & Go. were soon curried when they got close to 26 Broadway
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

The President got meal of roast bear meat, and that was what he was in the canebrake for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

The pigskin has supplanted the na- tional game The latter has gone to roost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

Had that copper corner been copper riveted it might have been a winner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

Wall street is offered as many rem adies as man with cold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

The Ides of November will ratify or reject the ideas of October.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
PROBABLY NOT.

ThOBAbL1 NUT. In other days when knights were bold And wore a dreadful look guess they had no fear when told, My love, go fire the cook"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

And wore a dreadful look l guess they had no fear when told My love, go fire the cook!' The effect of drinking green swizzles is said to be truly marvellous. We can very well believe it.
 So far, remarks the Washington Her aid, 'the list includes Wonderful Wash ington, Marvellous Manhattan, Hollering Houston Busy Birmingham, Comforta ble Columbus, Ripsnorting Richmond Nov ing Montgomery, Arid Atlanta and Deso- late Detroit Why the others are back ward is hard to say It is a triae strange that no word has been received from Shifty Chicago.
 CONFIDENTIAL.
 Sing song of trouble
 Some one at the door,
 Or voice inqulring,
 Tell me, what's the scorer"
 When we long for quiet
 And we're all upset,
 That's the time we catch it.
 Forty ways. you bet
 Washington dispatch is entitled Statesmen on Skates" Washington is probably the best place in the country to see statesmen on skates"
 A WOMAN'S WAY. She smiled, and in his heart he said. I'd sell my life forN such a maid And so he did--his honor too, Consoled by this, "She will be true And ever in her memory shall her lord and master be-" So much for love and loves brief pain. Ere very long, she smiled again. Kansas City man values his jaw at $S00O. It would be interesting to know what figure he puts on his wife's jaw,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
ADRlFT WITH THE TIMES

In the last analysis it was impolite fos President Roosevelt to kill lady bear. CHANGE OF BASE. The days are cold, The nights are dark, There's no more spooning In the park.
 St. Louis Times.
 !! Instead. the chap And the girl he loves In the parlor spoon, Like turtle doves And when he says, T love you so,' We may be sure The lights are low. Enter the prune trustl That ought to put crimp in the fond ambitions of tha boarding house trust
 ALL. A chance to live, chance to laugh, He did his best" For epitaph. And when the sun Of life is set, A single tear Of true regret.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. As he has lived, So will he die For him a tear For him a sigh. "Ee did his best For other men, His one regret What might have been.p
 Ohio Sun. Why not abolish the birch?" asks contemporary For the simple reason that we can't abolish bad boys. Pompadours have triumphed in Pitts burg. They will probably be higher now than ever before. Look at Mame In the year 1906 Saxony consumed 373d dogs. Nobody knows what became of the barks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

The effect of drinking green swizzles is said to be truly marvellous. We can very we'll believe it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

How weary, stale and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!
 Hamlet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

In the year 1906 Saxony consumed a73d dogs. Nobody knows what became of the barks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
CONFIDENTIAL

A Washington dispatch is entitled, Statesmen on Skates" Washington is probably the best place in the country to see statesmen on skates"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

Washington Bureau Age-Herald. 1421 G street. N. W.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-12-10
Risky Speculation.

| In the days "befO de wah" handy
negro named Jack was saving money
earned at odd times with which to buy
his freedom. His master encouraged
him and kept his money for him. In
time Jack had saved $500 and needed
only another hundred to make him
free. His master told him that it
woDidu't be long now until he could
get another hundred. Jack went out
with another slave To celebrate some
local festival Returning along the
railroad track they were frightened 10y
an approaching train. Both got of the
track. but Jacks companion fell and.
striking his head against a rock. was
killed Jack hurried as rapidly as h"
could 20 his masters house. II was
late hour but the master must hear
bin He said. Gimme nah money
right now. The astonished master
demonstrated. saving But, Jack. Nou
need only another hundred dollars to
get free 4 knows H. Mars Henry. I
knows g. nut niggers is too onsartlp
EiH Us Killed hisself by Dustin Dis
head Hg.u roct. an ain gvine hives
mali money ia uothin aS ousartlu a.
uisgsr, Washington Herald
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-12-10

Authorities who have in charge some
of England's ancient treasures try to
discourage the ha bit OF carving initia Is
on these relics hne of $40 was re-
Gently imposed ou a man who had
Clipped his name in letters six inches
high on one of the stones In the
Druid>' circle" near keswick close
10 the giant stone globe ut Swanage 20
special Slab is provided Tor the harm
less reception of the names Of all
who are addicted TO this self advertise
ment Ou popular Alpine SUBMITS 10
is customary for names To be left on
cards iu cmptied wine bottles Chtca
90 News
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-12-10

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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-12-10

The one thing we have more trou-
bic with than anything else" said the
mana ger OF one OF the large hotels In
upper Broadway. IN the facs that NO
men insiaa On smuggling their pet dogs
to their rooms. We have no objections
to do9s ~ doTx. II the animal In no,
too large O. too hercs our guests ma.
take them to their rooms during the
day and may even feed them there
But We draw the line at having dogs
in the bedrooms at night Amy woman
with n pet dog can have the beast
cared for by the porter at night, and
We have specially constructed kennels
for all kinds OF dogs, and we give
them the best OF care. But owners Of
pets seem to think that no one save
Themselves understands Fido or Gyp
The women seem to think that II dog
xie has not the comforting assIran nee
Of the owners nearnees then doggie
win not sleep well. So women try to
smuggle their pets to their rooms IN
der their cloaks or by back ways or
II to their room. believing that We viii
not hear anything about II.
AS matter Of fact. the nYst thing
the porter does after getting his tip is
to tip me. and . couple Of hours later
ths woman IL called upon by 4 clerk.
who tells her dogs cannot stay In the
bedrooms al night.-New York Press
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-12-10
Mis- Nsiahbsr's Cat.

A Cleveland lawyer tells Of a man
living in 4 suburb OF that city whose
sleep had been disturbed nightly by
the bowling on his own back fence OF
his neighbours cat. At last, In despair,
he consulted his lawyer
There sits the cat every night on
our fence" explained the unhappy
man, and he yowls and yowls and
yowls Now, don't want to have any
trouble with this neighbor. but the
thing has gone Tar enough, and want
you to suggest remedy"
The lawyer looked solemn and said
not a word.
II am well within my rights II
shoot the cat, am l notT asked the
sufferer.
II would hardly say that" replied
the legal light. The cat does not be-
long TO you, ~ l understand it."
No"
And The fence doesl'
Yes"
Then concluded the lawyer, ~
think it safe to say that you have a
perfect right to tear down the fence.
-Lippincott's.