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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
An Old Veteran.

"rhe first centenarian I ever met was MT. Henry Parmento, Uncle Henry as he is called, well known citizen of Char lotte, N. C., who was on his way home from Richmond, where he had been at tending the Confederate reunion," said a commercial traveller. 'He proved an in- teresting character and was no doubt Fl conspicuous figure among the vets. MT. Parmento was born in Anson county, North Carolina, in January, 1894, and is therefore 1OS years of age. As he was nearly three score when the civil war be- gan he could have kept out of the army on account of the age limit, but he said he felt young enough for active duty, and being an ardent secessionist, he en- listed in the Forty-third North Carolina regiment and served until the surrender in 1865.
 MT Parmento married early in life and was blessed with seven children, only three of whom are living. His oldest child is a daughter just 80 years of age. This venerable ex-Confederate was a farmer. but in recent years has done only light garden work. He says he was never drunk in his llfe but has taken many a dram He has used tobacco ever since boyhood.
 Uncle Henry looks old, but is no more infirm than the average man of 75. When asked what church he belonged to he replied None as yet, but I expect to join the Presbyterian some day."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
Cr0p Estimates

The government cotton crop report has been pretty we'll digested, and It's general tendency in the markets has been to depress the price of new-crop cotton. Better weather has pulled In a like direction, and between the two new-crop cotton Is settling down to about 12 cents.
 The general opinion seems to be that the government has not overestimated the acreage. When farmer sees in sight a chance to get $60 a bale, he will not cut down his acreage except upon actual and overwhelming com pulsion.
 On an unchanged acreage the best expert opinion points to crop of 12,- 000,000 bales, provided the rest of the season be generally favorable. An acreage that produced in 1906 about l3,500,000 bales, when the initial off
 
 cial condition was but 1894 points be- low an ideal stand, may grow 12,000,- 900 bales even when the initial condl- tion is 295 points below the ideal Very many are, however, inclined to say that 32,000,000 acres will not, after long rains and chilly weather, make more than 100000 bales.
 The world will demand from us 13,. 100000, and even a twelve-million-bal crop will be worth more than 12 cents. An eleven-million-bale crop would point straight to 15-cent cotton and cotton famine. The increased consumption of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
AN ODD WORLD,
le Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 An old gentleman in Tennessee has scat tered sS0,000 in small change through fear that he might be murdered for his money. He lost his faith in banks because his sole deposit many years ago was paid out on check. There ought to be a moral to this item of the nights news. Likely there is Someone may find it in the injunction against laying up treasures in this vale of tears, and some may find it in the folly of scattering what has been saved. Everyone as his light shineth.
 To one the odd part of the tale is that a man at S4 years should begin to value his remnant of life at more than the savings of his years. This man cannot have long to live. His $30000 might have made easy what years remain to him. yet all of a sudden he is seized by the fear that someone may take his life in his feeble age for the coin he spent his strength in accommodating. 1t is queer world. It is merry world when viewed from the right standpoint Obviously money is not the best of it. though it is probable more persons have sacrificed their lives for money than have given their all to save their lives. Who shall decide who Is wisest?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

now many cigars he smokes after din- ner, than read his latest book. The story of the future will probably be written in few sentences, but it will be accom- panied by twenty-page biography of the author. together with his photograph h. deed, some of the popular magazines con vey more information by their illustra- tions than they do by their printed pages; and the photographers art has introduced a kind of universal language. As for scientific primers and school books, they will soon be made so alluring that even children will cry for them-not over them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
sIpELIeHTs ON MYTHOLOGY.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Sister" asked Melpomeme. "why art thou so gloomy"
 'Because,' said Calliope, who, in her capacity as the muse that presided over eloquence and epic poetry, had done hard days work at her desk, reading manuscripts and firing them into the waste basket. T am oppressed by fore boding that all my labors have gone for naught. I shall die utterly unknown, and my name will perish from the earth!
 Little did she think that the most dia- bolical and soul destroying instrument ever devised for the purpose of torturing the ears of mankind would send her name screaming and footing down the ages!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
Issues of 1908

MT. Bryan says the trusts, the rail- roads and the tariff will be the issues in the next campaign. MT. Richardson of Huntsville says the issue next year vii, be decentralization rather than centralization.
 The real issue next year will include all these and many more, and that issue will be the nature of the govern ment that Washington fought for and founded. Is this to be a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or Is Il to be a plutocracy based on slush funds and purchased elections, and corrupt judges, and a Senate tied to the trusts?
 This is the true issue, and that issue will stay with us a long time. "The interests" have been combining and fattening themselves sixty years, and if in the course of sixty years more a return to the principles of the Declara- tio- of Independence can be secured, we will indeed be fortunate.
 Congressman Richardson need not try to confine the issues of 1908 to state rights. The very nature of the republics control is in the balance, and that Is the issue that must be met next year, no matter what the party platforms may say.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
THE BURIAL OF LOVE.

By William Cullen Bryant. Two dark-eyed maids, at shut of day, Sat where river rolled away, With calm, sad brows and raven hair; And one was pale and both were talr' Bring flowers, they sang, bring flowers
 unblown;
 Bring forest blooms of name unknown; Bring budding sprays from wood ana
 wild,
 To strew the bier of Love. the child. Close softly, fondly, while ye weep. His eyes, that death may seem like
 sleep:
 And fold his hands In sign of rest, His waxen hands, across his breast. And make his grave where vioiets nide, Where star flowers strew the rivulets
 side,
 and bluebirds, in the misty spring. Of cloudless skies and summer sing. Place near him, as ye lay him low, His idle shafts, his loosened bow, The silken fillet that around
 His wagish eyes In sport he wound. But we shall mourn him long and miss ttis ready smile, his ready kiss. The batter of his little feet.
 Sweet frowns and stammered phrases
 sweet. And sraver looks. serene and high. A light of heaven in that young eye; All these shall haunt us till the heart Shall ache and ache-and tears shall
 start.
 The bow, the band, shall fall to dust; The shining arrows waste to rust; And all of love that earth can claim Be but memory and a name. Not thus his nober part shall dwell, A prisoner in this narrow cell; But he whom now we hide from men In the dark ground, shall live again Shall break these clods, a form of light, With nobler mien and purer sight, And in the eternal glory stand, Highest and nearest Gods right hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
Essentially mad, without seeming so.
 -1 King Henry W.
Philander's Boom

The much-discussed boom of Phi lander c. Knox has been formally launched. Bois Penrose is to lead the delegation which is to demand Knox's nomination, and Bull" Andrews would be his right hand man if he had not betaken himself to Arizona. The capi- tol grafters will no doubt distribute themselves among the districts, and each and every one of them will be on hand to promote Philander's nomina. tion.
 And so will "the interests" Philan- der's pockets are we'll stuffed with re- tainers from the steel trust and vari- ous other trusts, and he will leave no stone unturned to become the standard bearer of his party next year. His platform calls for Protection with a big P, and for the Proper" regulation of corporations and trusts.
 The reactionaries think they have folnd a man they can trust and yet who can be elected. He did conduct B suit against the Hill merger scheme, and that suit Is to be worked for all it is worth in case Philander Is na0h mated next year. There is busines4 M hind the Philander boom, and it 1s really more promising than 1t now looks to be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
NeWspaper Men,

'The International League of Press Clubs, which is to meet in Birmingham next October, will not be as largely att tended perhaps, as former meetings, when the members travelled on passes, but it will bring here many well known newspaper men and the affair promises to be one of the pleasantest of the year. sad a member of the local committee of arrangements.
 The railroads will make as cheap a rate as possible and several northern press clubs are arranging to bring large delegations. I think the crowd will num- Der, all told, about 900"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
CRITICAL BLIND MAN.
Kansas City Star.

A blind man walked into the office of the Lexington News the other day and ordered some cards printed. The cards set forth that he was blind, an orphan and generally miserable When the cards were ready the sightless one pulled out a roll of bills that would make Rockefeller ashamed of himself. and, glancing at one of the cards, remarked. That's pretty nice looking job!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
THE PISTOL TOTER.

From the Talladega Mountain Home
 The Age-Herald Is again using It's pen ell against the pistol and the crap shoot CT. These devices of the devil are put ting men in their graves in every part of the country, and the time has come when the law should require every pistol toter to wear a label to that effect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
EnsIey,s Growth.

"Ensley is growing relatively faster than any community in the south,' said a man who does not live in the Steel City, but who visits 1t frequently.
 Tn 1900 tbe census gave 1t only 2lO0. today a conservative estimate places its population at 1s,0oO and this does not include the large settlement In the Tennessee companys reservation. The population of Ensley and its immediate environs aggregates about 24,ooo. The city is being improved steadily and now presents compact and business-like ap- pearance."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

THE HONEYMOONERS Behold the honeymoonersl See How much in love they are, Oblivious to all the world Within a Pullman car! Now, some will see the Jamestown show And some Niagara Falls, And others will repair to spots Where Mother Nature calls No matter what the place may be. They'll hardly mind, wis, For any place is pleasant when A persons full of bliss! Steward Edward White the author has come out in defense of President Roose- welt against the nature fakers, which suggests pygmy smuggling up to giant and saying, Don't be afraid; I'm here!" My soul is obsessed with the wander. lust" warbles a poet Go ahead and lose yourself, sweet singer. We don't carel
 ALAS, TOO TRUE.
 The things we want ss
 And what we get
 Are always diff
 Percent, you bet!
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Taft is the only man who could set tie the Howard Gould outbreak, and it is not certain that Mrs. Howard Gould would remit much of the sum she wants at even Taft's suggestion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
BOTTLES IN BIRMINGHAM.

From the Andalusia News.
 It required two blows of the Birming ham young lady to crack bottle of champagne over the bow of the govern ment cruiser that was christened in Mas. sachusetts last week. Bottles seem to open easier in Birmingham than anywhere
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

It isn't Prof. Triggs' hair that his wife objects to, but it is several full fledged females that she has discov- cred and that have made her divorce seeker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Fall is the best time to marry" says a newspaper writer. There are some people who declare that no time is best.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Pictures of shady lanes with flowers growing along either side are being circulated by the railroad companies for the purpose of turing people away from their work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press.
 A girl would rather have broAen en- gagement than none at all
 Some men are lucky to die even if they go to the wrong place
 Women are smart enough to make be- lieve they aren't so that you get fooled by them.
 There's no fun at all in sleeping late in the morning unless you ought to be at work.
 When bride gets a wedding present she has to try to exchange it to see how much 1t is worth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

When 1t becomes necessary to call young Alfonso by his full name, his parents will probably begin early in the morning and finish about noon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

The White House still refuses to do Dr. Long justice, and the doctor is get ting additional evidence daily to con firm his wolf theory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

"The south and the nobinee," is the way a Virginia newspaper prints it.. Might as well call him "nobinee" as anything else.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

"Talk About the Weather" is the title of an editorial fin the New York Mail Universal Topic" would have done just as well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

The Burrill Irish bill has been drop ped because it satisfied no one. least of all the Irish people, the supposed benefciaries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

The Chicago newspapers. less the Tribune, are conspiring to advance the price of Sunday newspapers to cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Dr. Wiley is now engaged in his great act of living one hundred years, and the rest of us are sitting around watching him do it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
MILITANT MAYOR.

From the Lamar Democrat.
 There Is one thing you can say about the Mayor of Birmingham: He'll scrap you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
Miss Mattle Robinson Dead.

Jackson, Miss, June 7.-(Special )-Miss Hattie Robinson, Jacksons oldest, wealthiest and best beloved dispenser of charity, died today. mourned by all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

The renovation of the Gould linen is to be conducted in public after all. It cannot now be done in any other way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
ALABAMA PRESS

Montgomery State: All honest hands look alike to Teddy" who recognizes that the man behind the toil-soiled hands is the maker of our material greatness; also that he votes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Ever had that lazy feeling
 Stealing OCT you in the spring? Makes chap so good for nothing
 That he hates to do a thing. Wouldn't eat if gnawlng hunger
 Didn't worry him to death If a chap could do without 1t,
 Darned if he would draw his breath! Wakes up in the drowsy morning
 Feeling like a ton of brick, Such a laxness in his system,
 Makes him think he's very sick. Work? gee whizi the words abhorrent And the thing itself is worse Indolence has got him going
 Down the chute from bad to worse. Sure, a 1oafer's not worth killing,
 But 'tis also true, alas,
 That the fellow is related
 To g. large and growing class, For the best of us will flicker
 When the green is in the trees And dreamer's thoughts are sailing
 On the wings of honey bees! The Arkansas Gazette says that the Pike county jail is empty. Rooms may be had there for the summer months by the simple expedent of cracking a crib. A St. Louis judge has decided that girls may stand in the front doors of their homes dressed in pajamas trimmed with pink ribbons.
 Three Confederate veterans returning from the reunion at Richmond presented
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

The Presidents only chance seems to consist in getting the wolves them- selves to uphold his side of the story.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

The Arctic zone has sent out slkir- mish line of icebergs six miles long. Let Us hope the zone is not coming south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Get out in the open" says a contem-- porary. And be nature faker? Never!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Airship travellers should stop at sky scraper hotels. In fact, they cannot well get by them in some towns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

The trouble about hunting for the North pole in an automobile Is that you can't eat the automobile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

That Alton deal did not please Lon don capitalists, for they have refused to lend Hartman more money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

A timely essay on How to Eat Ice Cream" is going the rounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

It is unhealthy in Topeka, where in May 21,323 persons swore they needed drinks as medicine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

4 photograph 15 feet by 12 of MT Roosevelt is to be made. Here is an- other record breaker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Gadsden Journal: And what would Kentucky want with a waterspout? With all the wisdom of Providence there seems to have been a miscue in this instance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

The straw hat Is becoming bolder and more determined every day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

The unprejudiced and uniformed juryman is in evidence at Boise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Does unless his plans have carried And he's busy getting married.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

a pathetic picture as they made their way out of the Union station, going up town. Time had dealt harshly with them. One had lost a foot, while all three were gaunt, grizzied and weather-beaten. None of them had decent coat to his back and as they slowly hobbled along through the crowds an observer was struck by the tragedy of their lives-poverty-stricke weary of years and disabled. The world held little for them, you will say. Yes. but there was something left and the vet erans freshened up considerably as they hurried toward a nearby saloon to get 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

An eastern paper says the captain of river barge was arrested for spanking his mother-in-law. Whatl No cheers?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Between the weather and the green bug the wheat crop has become de- creasing quantity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Washington Herald: Voliva proposes to sell Zicn City The inhabitants thereof have been sold so often they ought to be used to 1t by this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

The state of New York collected $8,707000 last year from saloons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
A GREETING.

Rise above your little worries,
 Leave your troubles far behind. In forgetting lies the secret
 Of content and peace of mind. Look for love among the roses, Smile bit to close the day, Let the light of hope rekindled
 Shed It's beams upon your way!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

It may be possible to get cured by faith, but you can't get rich that way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Columbia State: William J. Bryan writes: "The man who habitually car ries club usually develops nasty temper" And this is no nature-fake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Dr. Long would no doubt consent to arbitrate the wolf issue before Honore Jaxon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

As tip distributor Kuroki is said to be breaker of records.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

THE MAGIC MONTH. This Is June. the month of roses. When a chap in love proposes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Marion County News: When the grow CTS learn to sell their cotton direct to the spinner they will put the bucketshop gamblers and spectators out of busi- ness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Louisville Courier-J -Journal: It Is said that the President Is drafting a brief re- ply to Dr. Long and that 1t will be ready for publication In few days. It shouldn't take three minutes to write "stung."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

France is to have a new national holiday, and Joan of Arc will be the occasion of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

The gold plate from Georgia should bear to the President a Georgia water melon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
PRESS POINTS

Austin Statesman: What are you doing toward doing the mosquito that will do you and yours if you don't do him?
 Mobile Register: Taunton, Mass, has a blueJay that whipped a cat Taunton is heading up for presidential call down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

4,ot being warlike, the only noiseless powder we are acquainted with is taI- cum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Montgomery Times: A farmer in Ten nessee is reported to have uncovered thirty-five large black snakes. He did it with q blow, however, and not a cork screw.
 Oneonta Southern Democrat: Is the stork protected under our new game law?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Omaha matrons are having conniption fits over plaster '1imbs' shown in the windows of certain department stores, but the 'llmbs' are still on display, suitably adorned with hosiery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
THE ICE MAN.

 Enter the Ice man! A mighty man Is he And to the panting world at large a stern
 reality He takes a little piece of Ice and sells it
 for dime That's hardly worth a nickel and he
 knows 1t all the time. NO matter how We kick about the price
 we have to pay, You'll find he keeps on charging in the
 same old care-free way. We've often pictured Joyfully what fate
 Is held in store For the ice man when he lands upon the
 dark, Plutonian shore. It is not at all surprising to find that the honorable name of Smith is repre- sented on the Haywood jury. This time it is Levi Smith.
 Nothing does a newspaper man more good than to see lots of women carrying bundles wrapped in his paper. says the editor of the collinsville Courier, who is a philosophic man and appreciates his useful calling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Houston Post: We are not only pleased at the death of the Chicago Chronicle but we are willing to express box of cucumbers to the men who conducted 1t if they will agree to eat them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postofiee as second-class matter under act of Congress March 8, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Washington Post: A few years ago a uniontown Pa.) man shot his grand mother by accident, and the other day lie shot his daughter by accident Which again proves that accidents will happen in the best regulated families.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08

Washington Bureau Age-Herald, 1421 c street. N. W.