The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-24


 Cincinnati Enquirer: Secretary Shaw is still stumplng round in his old polit- ical uniform.
 Boston Herald The latest official in- vestigation shows that Standard oil still has sort of pipe line cinch.
 Pittsburg Post: It seems unfair to an innocent babe. like the infant Spanish prince, to call him all those names.
 Chicago Record Herald: The magnolias are blooming in the south, which fact in- dicates that it still is possible to be spring somewhere
 St. Louis Times. Fewer "s1O,oOO beau ty" clerks and an increased number of capable mudlarks will make the canal an earlier possibility.
 Kansas City Star: Undoubtedly the shuberts are great theatrical managers, but are they great enough to manage Mrs. Leslie Carter?
 Chicago Tribune: What comfort it is to poor folk to learn from Mrs. Van derbilt that a nice homespun dress can be acquired for only $25l
 Spokane Spokesman Review: The Wall Street Journal thinks the next republi- can ticket may read: Taft and Hughes" That ought to be a winner.
 Dallas News The time is approaching when fathers will tell their spendthrift sons how they began life as poor boys with only $2.1S5.ooo in bank.
 Denver Postt A Georgia woman, who was struck by a train. escaped injury, but lost most of her hair. The locomotive was probably switch engine.
 Kansas City Star: Harry Orchard, the leading witness at Boise Idaho, denies having been promised immunity. In fact none of the Orchards are immune this spring.
 Cincinnati Times-Star: Peary is still talking about another attack upon the north pole. Hasn't he had enough Arctic weather at home this spring to hold him sapr while'
 Charleston News and Courier: The logi- cal candidate for president of undesirable citizens of all kinds is the man who would make Mabelle Gilman mistress of the White House.
 New Orleans Item: The Courier-Jour- nal reminds us that "a horse is a vain thing for safety" Guess that's why they take a steamboat out of here-toot, toot for Honduras.
 Pdttsburg Sun: In a state of society where to be rich is held in greater honor than to be right. there is naturally much bowling among those who have only suc- ceeded in getting left.
 Youngstown Telegram There is sus- picion that Colonel Watterson's dark horse candidate for the democratic nomination for president lives at Louisville, Ky, and that he Is a newspaper man.
 Augusta Herald: It is suggested that the census bureau make count of the "undesirable citizens" in this country. Pittsburg, Hot Springs. Ark, and Spring field should send in their city directories at once.
 Nashville Tennessean: When we con- sider the length of name conferred on the royal baby at Madrid, we are not surprised to learn that 1t took twenty-one bishops eleven archbshops and three cardinals to complete the christening.
 Shreveport Times: When the green
 AA xrr11oa crop and the boil weevil gets through do- ing the same with the cotton crop, we shall probably find that their appetites were not quite equal to the occasion.
 Austin Statesman: Culberson's minor ity leadership will prove him man of genius-the democracy's pride and the nations crying need. Put big man where he can do something and he will do it. Culberson is nothing if not big man.
 Louisville Cou1ier-Journal: Black bass are so large in Texas streams, according to the Houston Post, that Texans go fishing with rabbits for bait. Louis william was seen upon the falls the other day fishing with his nineteen-year-old son.
 Washington Post: That Vassar girl who succeeded in putting the shot thirty feet the other day has won plaudits right and left, but the average man who is looking for a wife will prefer the girl who can put hot biscuits right over the home plate.
 Washington Herald: An American foot ball player who went to Central America to join revolutionary army has return ed home in great disgust It is not prob azle that revolution down there would interest even a first-class ping-pong play CT from up this way.
 Pittsburg Dispatch: Agnes Repplier wonders why men stick to the derby hat year after year, while every enterprising woman insists on a new style of hat with each season. Miss Repplier is not the first person who has named effect and cause in close juxtaposition and yet fail ed to see the connectiCn.
 Providence Journal: It might be well for some of those who are denouncing a certain steel trust official so D4tterly to remember that he is not the first to take advantage of the easy divorce laws. scapegoat will not relieve the national