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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
School ChIIdren's Car Tickets

The timely influence of Commission CT Neshitt of the state railroad board resulted in a declaration in favor of the legality of granting reduced rates to those attending school. Governor Conner concurs in the declaration of the board, and President Ford gladly accepts the result. The children will ride at the reduced rate as soon as President Ford can procure from the printer new tickets.
 There has been no desire at any time on the part of President Ford's company to treat the children unfair ly. It did desire to keep within the law, and as soon as the law had been authortatively construed 1t took steps to issue school children's tickets at the accustomed reduced rates.
 This is a benefit that will be felt in many families and by many chil. dren. It certainly has public bearings and there is scarcely a parent of a small scholar in the city who will not warm up to President Ford because of his prompt and generous action in this matter. His desire to keep within she terms of the law and to serve the children arc alike creditdble to him and they so to show that We have ll the new president of our great public utility system T man who will be pub lic-spirited up to the limits of the la ~.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
STORIES OF BOOK TITLES

blood and sin. Problems" naturally. are dealt with; we note these two instances; Love, the Criminal" and Love. the Judge" Queerly enough these are not by the same author. Mysteries, too, have been extremely popular with novelists ever since Dickens wrote (but did not complete) The Mystery of Edwin Drood." In this brief list, in A single English journal of new novels, we find The Great Skene Mystery" The Mys- tery of Lady Isobel," "The Chateau of Mystery" and-this last probably by way of burIesque-"The Mystery of Mary Ann"
 Others of the newest English novels are The Shadow of Evil" The Devil and Dolores.' "The Curse of the Ful- tons" ''The Sevret Door," "The Unpar- donable Sin," "The Sinners Syndicate" ''The Pagan Woman" and "The Mar riage Lease" What a world of dark devilishness must be concealed CD be- heath these namesi And what shopeirl could possibly resist them? And there are others: Copper Under the Gold" is cryptic, but conspicuous "blurb' on the cover inadvertently betrays the fact that 1t Is the tale of Ian unconventional situation of a man and a woman." A little more lurid, no doubt, is the sug- gestion of The Palm oil Ruffian," When Terror Ruled" "The Fatal Dose" and Tn His Grip" "The Dupe" Is ad- vertised as "a story of the Monte Carlo trunk mystery" 'The Little Anarchist Is possibly sociologico-pathetic, as may be Miss Braddons latest. which Is en- titled Her Convict" Of course "The Hara Diamond" is a detective story. But detective stories are not as plenty as sin stories-just plain revelations of wick edness Is 1t because they are so much harder to write?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
Chattanooga Boomlnq.

That city which more than any oth CT will receive the investment of whisky money In case Birmingh am goes pro- hieition, Is, in the opinion of J. c. Conn, general agent of the Alabama Great Southern, Chattanooga.
 MT. Conn stated that since the de- claration of prohibition in Georiga many whisky wholesale establishments had located in Chattanooga, and he be- lieves that many more will be drawn there from Birmingham, in case prohi- bition carries here.
 With the possible exception of Bir- mingham," said MT. Conn. 'Chatta . nooga Is showing the greatest growth Right now, two sky -scraping office buildings are in course of erection, one of them the Patton hotel, being an exceptionally fine structure.
 '''rhe city is enjoying a great boom in other respects, too. Business is fine Every branch of business is receiving a rush, and everybody seemingly has his hands full. Chattanooga is de- stined to become one of the south g greatest cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
TEXAS.

From the Houston Post
 Equinoctial daysl Fades the glorious Iexas summer into the unreturnng past, leaving memories sweet to illunine the coming years! Comes the gustt autumn with her gold and crimson leaves and air like wine! The perfumed zephyrs are lost in the swelling music of orchestral winds which toss the pillows of the sea and moan the summer requiem amid the soughing pines, Tho bleating 1ocks arc gamboling upon empurpled hills and herds of lowing kne feed lesurely upon yer dant stretches of the horizontal plains The bob whites liquid notes come soft and low from fields of rustling corn. In whitened cotton fields the happy pickers sing their songs of joy and mirth and rogulsh echoes catch and wait the mu- sic to the distant dels! Grand Old Texasl The land where every season is a joyl Whether garmented in the verdure and blossom of the smiling spring, or bathed
 in the kindly warmth of the summer sun, or radiant in the Tuning beauty of au- tumn time or mantIed in the drifted snows. she Is the same matchless, mu- nicfcent, militant, melodous, miraculous, magnetiferous, magnanimous, macrocos- mic, millesimal. multloquent old Texasi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
GREAT UNIVERSITY.
'om the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
 When we hear of a Mohammedan uni- versity with 5000 students pursuing learn ing as some men pursue the dollar, it makes our vaunted pride In education look cheap and small. Twice as many men as either Harvard, Yale or Cornell study with all their hearts and heads in this university situated in the center. of business Cairo. which, as a writer who has recently visited 1t, says. Is one of the wonders of the world. We Anglo -Saxons think we know it all. But in modern Egypt is a system of learning that has existed almost a thousand years, and is today as vital as strong, as concen- trated as If freshly ordered by a faculty of the great leading minds of the coun- try. It Is in fact Mohammedan. and it's curriculum is chiefly the study of the Korean and Koranic law. What are you going to do about it. or don't you care to do anything? There is no afootball in the university at Cairo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
FITZ IN BRONZE,

From tne New ' ork World
 What worthier subject for the scuIp- tors art could Gutzon Borglum find than Bob Fitzsmmons?
 He may yet do for America what My ron and Pythagoras of Rhegium did for Greece. The classic plains of Ellis and Phocis, where the Olympic and pythian games 1ourished, were dotted with the statues of victorious athletes. It is heavy odds that the tattooed man could have put the best of them to sleep in ten rounds. Surely there is room among the prancing generals and pantaooned states men of our public parks for one heavy weight champion of the prize ring.
 Hazltt. Borrow. Bernard Shaw and John Boyle OReilly in literature have ex- alted pugilism Whistler put Garfield the gambler on canvas. Why should Bor- glum not perpetuate Fitz in bronze? Shall any squeamish regard for the prejudices of a mollycoddle civilization bar from the field of plastic art Old Fitz, who has been the idol of millions?
 For the first time there rules in the White House President who, like Pol lux, has been the patron of boxing. In his Harvard days Mir. Roosevelt used to put on the gloves at the winter eXhihi- tions with FIanks-Hanks of Boston. Under the inspiration of Gutzon Borgium may we not yet hope to see standing guard over the portals of the executive mansion the heroic figures of Jake kil- rain, John l.. sullivan Bob Fitzsimmons, Jim Corbett and Jim Jeffries-men who have defended the nations eolors against all comers2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
he Saenuerfest

All lovers of music in this country honor the singers who constitute and maintain the North American Saen- gerbund. The ''bund" is quite an old institution, having keen formed more than fifty years ago, for the cultiya- ton of musical art and the develop ment and preservation of the musical spirit among the German-American people. The national saengerfest which is held in one off the large cities every three years, is a musical event of the first magnitude, while the dis trict fests, such as the one we are now having in Birmingham, are well worthy of note.
 No influence has played so impor- tant a part In the musical history of the United States as the saengerfest. Ire German singers are the pioneers and out of their efforts have grown the broader music festivals which have been so notable in an artistic and ed ucative way during the last forty years.
 The Birmingham saengerfest, the third held in the South, is delightful affair and those who attended the grand concert last night were well re- paid. The next general or national saengerfest will be herd In Indianapo- lis in 1908 and it is hoped that before another decade passes Birmingham will have the pleasure of entertaining the 5000 singers that make up the chorus of the big fest. All praise to tLe German-Americans cf the North American Saengerbund. May those with Us this week find their visit alto gether agreeable and come again ire quntly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
PROHIBITION vs. COMMON SENSE

From the New York Times
 The attitude of the Louisville Courier Journal toward the prohibition movement which has been growing so strong in the southern states, is perfectly rational. Col onel Watterson, to be sure, sets forth the arguments with a picturesqueness or eX- pression which excites the Ire of his IT, rational opponents, but nobody is better able than he to meet any issue that thus arises.
 The danger with the measures so ex- treme as the anti-liquor laws the south ern legislatures have been adopting Is that they will soon become obsolete. The revulsion is bound to come. Laws tending to decrease drunkenness and the crimes for which 1t Is responsible, to regulate the sales of intoxicants, and increase the responsibility of liquor dealers are wise and are likely to be enforced wherever the public sentiment approves them. But the new prohibition movement Is too fierce to last long. Not only the sale, but the manufacture of liquor is prohibited and vast, well-founded business interests are threatened.
 Kentucky is already in bad plight from a trade point of view. and the ad- vaneed prohibitionists there clamor for the closing of the distilleries. The Courier Journal contends that the distillation and sale of liquor has never been successfully prohibited except among the Moham- medans, who are given to the use of strange and dangerous dfugs as a con- sequence. It counsels moderation, though with the employment of mmoderate Ian guaRe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
From the New York Mail.

@ HOSE who sell books know how \0 much good title' means in
 the business. From the book sellers point of view, a good title, of course. Is one that will help to sell the book. Particularly if it is a novel. In that case, the title should tell something of story itself If 1t does tell story ocatively, the fortune of the book is half made Examples of good storytelling titles, in the case of books already well known, are Jude the Obscure,' ''The Egoist' "The Ordeal of Richard Fev- ere" 'The Kentucdans," "The Common Lot" "The Wheel of Life" 'The De- topus." "A New England Nun" ''rhe Reign of Law" "Old Creole Days" ''The Grandissimes" "The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop" and "The Colonel of the Red Husasrs."
 Current American novel titles are per haps not quite so narrative as some of the old ones. We have fair examples of suggestions, however. in '"rhe Younger Set '"The Walking Delegate" "The Breath of the Runners" "The Dust of Conflict and others. But all these, and perhaps as many more of like sort that might be cited, quite pale their inefectual fires beside the titles adopted by some of the English popular story writers of the moment. We have just been looking over the publishers advertisements in that highly respectable London literary jour nal, the "Athenaeum." and we find an nounced there the names of a number of books that are likely to make some of our own popular novelists die of envy It is the proper thing in the book market just now, it seems, to suggest something wicked and perverted-to hint at tale of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Tom o'Byrne Returns.

Tom O'Byrne and family are back at home from a far-western state. MT. O'Byrne is looking in fine health and is in good spirits Said he:
 "The west is a great country, full of health. of gold, silver, lead and copper, but, law mel how nice 1t is to be back in Birmingham after A stay away from home. The west is an enjoyable country to visit, but not like home. and it re- joices me to be able once again to shake hands with the people I know. During my visit I was asked many questions about Alabama, especially Birmingham, and I would not be surprised to see an ln- hux in this direction during the winter. told them all about our excellent climate and our broad and liberal people,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
TELL ME NOT NOW.

By William Watson. Tell me not now, if love for love Thou canst return Now while around us and above Days fiambeaux burn. Not in clear noon, with speech as clear, Thy hear axow, For every gossip wind to hear
 Teli me not nowl Tell men ot now the tidings sweet, The news divine; A little longer at thy feet
 Leave me to pine I would not have the gadding bird
 Hear from his bough; Nay, though I famish for q word, Tell me not now, But when deep frances of delight
 All nature seal. When round the world the arms of nigh
 caressing steal. When rose to dreaming rose says. Dear Dearest, and when Heaven signs her secret in earth's ear, Ah- tell me then
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
About Persons,

''Tusca loosa loses an excellent citi- zen" said Charles Duprey of that city, who was in Birmingham yesterday. when J. Manly Foster removes to Montgomery. Mir Foster has been ap- pointed counsel for the Louisville and Nashville railroad. and his headquar- ters will be in Montgomery. MT. Eos ter Is one of the legislators from Tus- caloosa, and is an exceedingly able lawyer In addition he is one of the enterprising citizens of Tuscaloosa who are booming the city immeasurably."
 
 Dr. W. IT. Wilder. president of the Frisco System Medical association. left Birmingham yesterday for St. Louis, where the sixth convention of the as- sociation begins today. Dr. J. M, Mil Ter also of this state, who is one of the eight vice presidents of the associa . ton. left with pr. Wilder. The con vention will last two days, and an in- teresting programme will be carried out.
 l.. Sevier. first vice president and traffic mana ger of the Seaboard. Jj hl Birmingham today. Mir. Sevier's head quarters are in Norfolk, to which city he will remove his family during the winter.
 Lieutenant Governor Henry B. Gray left yesterday for New York. He was accompanied by his son, Henry, Jr., who will enter preparatory college at Potts vile, Penn. Before returning home, MT Gray will attend the National Bankers association, which meets in Atlantic City next month
 T. II. Jack of Greensboro was in Bir- mingham yesterday en route to Har- ward, where he will equip himself for a professorship in economies and his- tory. MT Jack was graduated from the University in 1902. and since that time has served as adjunct professor at Sewanee At college. MT. Jack am swered to Captain Jack of the Will derness"
 ]. c. Conn. general agent of the Alabama Great South ern, With head quarters in Chattanooga, spent yester- day in Birmingham. MT. Conn told of an attack made last week on Joe Cur tis, formerly a newspaper man in Bir- mingham, by some unknown individual who struck while his victim was look ing in an opposite direction. Mir. Cur tis was painfully though not seriously injured.
 S. G. Van ostrand formerly very popular passenger agent in Rirming- ham, and now located in Knoxville, was in Birmingham yesterday. T think Knoxville fine, of course" said MT Van Ostrand, but mine for Bir- nainRham' every shot. The city seems
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
X abama's Annual Event

Two weeks from today the state fair will throw open it's gates in no doubt superb October weather. The farmers of the state and the good peo- pie of the states lesser towns are coming this year to the fair and horse show. From the eighth day of Octo' ter to the sixteenth day of the month
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
Do All Beoqars Need Help.

Your city is rapidly assuming metro politan proportions, said visitor. and I notice a number of mendicants on the street. I wonder if they are worthy. Now. I would not deprive a crumb of bread from one in want, but I will tell you this storyi
 Not long ago I was standing fin front of a Broadway hotel in New York when well-dressed man approached me and asked for a dime with which to pay TOT a small breakfast, telling me that he had lost his all the night before and was with out friends or money. Just then an at tache of the hotel called me inside and told me that the man begging me made his living that way and that he could buy me over doubly with his funds In bank.
 'I am just wondering today if you may not have something of that kind in Bir- mingham. If you havn't, you are not quite up to date"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
NATURAL ANNOYANCE.

From the Chicago News.
 Marie Coreli Is greatly annoyed by d little story now going the rounds of the press. The form it generally takes Is this: "She was asked the other day why she does not marry. She replied: I have three pets at home which together an- swer the same purpose. I have a dog which growls all the morning, a parrot which swears all the afternoon and a eat which stays out at night Miss Corelli possesses neither dog, nor a parrot, nor a cat, and she has never yet met anyone bold enough to ask her why shc is unmarried.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
HE COULD NOT CRY.

From Brooklyn Life.
 When minor Philadelphia county court was abouo to open it's session re- gently the discovery was made that the court crer was absent A substitute was provided and the court had barely taken up a case when a brcathless messenger boy dashed in with telegram signed by the absent crier The mssive was handed to the judge, who read
 ''wifes mother died last night. Will not be able to .cry today
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BAcHELof
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 A family is good excuse for never be- coming a millionaire.
 When woman is an heiress as well as pretty, it's in her own imagination.
 A womans idea of nice letter Is how much she can put in it without saying anything.
 Education is a great help to those who make their living by giving it to those who cant.
 When a man gives his wife money to buy something for the house he acts as if Ahe owed 1t to him on loan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
SAD DAYS AT WEST POINT.

From the Boston Herald.
 A West Point graduate laments what he calls the dismal spectacle of West Point upper classman sen fenced to six months total loss of holiday for commanding a pebe to brace up and put his shoulders back. The trouble seems to be with the defi- hilton that now attaches to ha2ing An upper classman can't look cross eyed at plebe now without expos ing himself to the perils of a court martial or something worse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
HARD ON THE TYPO,
.e Washington Herald

From the Washington Herald
 There Is a secret society among the Fflipinois known as the Kataastaasan Kagalangalank Katipunan. Now, we do not belong to the Kataastaasan Kaga- langalsng Katipunan. nor has the Ka- taastaasan Kagalangalang Katipunan asked us to join, but we rejoice to write about the Kataastaasan Ksgalangalans Katipunan. because our pet linotype op- orator balled up one of our best jestlets recently and we are after re-e-e-venEe!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24


 per cent bigger than when I was last here"
 Pat IT. Roberson of Cropwell, St Clair county, was in Birmingham yes terday. Mir Roberson al one time was one of the popular students of the University of Alabama. Since gradua- tion. he has taken a technical course at Lowell and for the present IS at his fathers home in Cropwell He has numerous friends in Birmingham, and is always given a hearty welcome. "All Lee county is grieved over the sudden death of Gen. James II. Lane emeritus professor of civil engineer ing at Auburn" said Jesse Perkins or Opelika, in Birmingham yesterday Three of Auburn's professors have gone just as suddenly-Prof. William LeRoy Broun, Prof. o. D. Smith, and General Lane.
 M. w. Howard of Ft. Payne is regis tered at the Metropolitan.
 
 J. N. Cannon of Fayette is in the city.
 W. F. Dent, a prominent citizen or Montgomery, Is at the Florence T. P. Johnston of sylacauga was In Birmingham yesterday.
 c. B. Reynolds of Gadsden Is at the Hillman.
 Prentiss B. Reed of Montgomery IS in the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24

 MAUDIH, MARY AND ANNER. Maudie has the sweetest manner, Maudie Is a perfect dear, Yet somehow, I dote on Amer, Amer holds her title clear To a dandy bunch of money, Moneys what I need you know Possibly-now, aint 1t funny?- That Is why I love her sol
 Birmingham Age,Herald. Now, money Is not all we need To make the world look bright We want helper, yes, indeed, To make our burdens light. Mary is a sweet young miss, Handsome, rich and merry; So please be kind and answer this. Why not marry merry Mary If Mary had dear Anners dough And Maudie's winning ways The kind that lovers worship so And poets like to praise; And If she'd promise not to make Me mind and fetch and carry, Tho matrimony were a fake, I'd merry Mary marryl Paul Cook, in Birmingham Age-Herald. I think that merry Mary has - The ways the poets praise [ know she has a bunch of dough As big as Ann can raise. So if you're bound to marry. Come here and have a look, For Mary with some training Would make a dandy Cook
 Ohio Sun. Isn't chula-eto., the spender, tho? Who said minoe pie7
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
The mutabIe rank-scented many.
 -CymbeIine.
Presidential Straw Vote

The Chicago Tribune has wound up It's great straw vote of editors, legs- lators and party committeeman of the republican party. It was a test ballot of representative republicans in forty five states, and it Is believed to be about as correct an indication of sen- timent in the republican party as can be obtained at the present time. We give below the result of the vote:
 For Roosevelt's policy 4.O13 Against Roosevelts policy ........... 3l3 6lahk ...'..... .....,...............,.... l62
 iotdi vote .'''''''...'....... ........,.,..4, 4,olS For progressive candidate .............3,6 1926 For conservative candidate ........... 6l4 bIank '....................,.... 2iS
 iolai Npte '''''.'''... st..... 4,JlH
 PERSONAL PREFER ENC ES
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24

All the talk about the inscriptions on General Wheeler's monument are idle. Gen Joe Wheeler" would be enough. for that is the way he is known and remembered in all parts of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24

A Missouri woman followed a delin- quent boarder for a week and as soon as he earned some money she at tached it. How would you like to have landlady like that?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24

J. D. Rockefeller, Jr., has decided to leave that Bible class in which he was accustomed to make himself ridic- ulous once a week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24

Secretary Root has brought back a clear eye and strong handclasp to business, but he cant see his presi- dential boom with his eye or clasp it in his hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24

Artist John s. Sargent remains an American, despite all offers of knight hood in the mother country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24

Why the high prices?" asks an in- nocent contemporary. Shhh! The trusts, that's why!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24

China proposes to have a real parlia- ment, not one of the Russian sort, which is dissolved unless 1t obeys the prime minister.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24

John D. Rockefeller manages to live and lay up something against rainy day on fifteen millions year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24

The health rumor is applied ire quently to MT. Cleveland, thus attest ing his popularity and his greatness.