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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
The reason a girl likes to have you
squeeze her hand is because she says she
doesn't.
man has got to be a hero about some
thing If it's only a boil his grandfather
once had.
Hardly anybody is such fool as to i'm
agine girls like him because he goes to
Sunday school.
Women aren't going to enjoy Heaven so
much il they can't wear pink kimona
once In while. &
The greatest pride to a woman in being
married is being able TO brag about hav-
ing lot of things she hasn't got
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20
LES MAJESTE.

From the washington Herald.
THE American newspaper that facetous-
" refers TO Emperor. William as BIZ
W ould not dare do it in Germany" says
the Birmingham Age-Herald We do not
know just what The Age-Herald means
when it says the American newspaper"
but II It is any one of some half dozen
we know, the Emperor would be lucky If
he got off with anything so mild as mere
ssRnl'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20
LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE.

By Epes Sargent.
A life on the ocean wave,
A home on the rolling deep;
Where the scattered waters rave,
And the winds their revels keep!
Like an eagle Gagged L pine.
On this dull, unchanging shore;
o, give me the flashing brine.
The spray and the tempest's roarl
Once more on the deck l stand,
OF my own swift gliding craft;
Set sail, farewell to the land;
The gale follows fair abaft.
We shoot through the sparkling foam,
Like an ocean bird set free
Like the ocean bird. our home
Well find far out on the sea.
The land is no longer in view,
The clouds have begun to frown
But with stout vessel and crew,
Wen say, Let the storm come
down.
And the song of our hearts shall be.
While the winds and the waters rave.
home on the rolling sea,
A life on the ocean wavsi
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20
One to Fourteen

Alabama has the only county that is
not connected with the railroads of the
country-Choctaw That county pos
sesses logging railroads and locomo-
tives, but none of them are connected
with the general railroad system of the
continent When the Western Alabama
railroad is built Choctaw will secure a
railroad, and a spur from Meridian may
be built even sooner. Choctaw Is a
productive county, and it will soon
have railroad conveniences and accom-
modations.
Tennessee is differently made up, for
she has fourteen railroadless counties
actually fourteen without a foot of
railroad for general use, and 1t has one
county-Hancock- has no rail
road, no telegraph line, no telephone,
no canal-nothing but dirt road con-
nections with the outside world. Han
cock is an East Tennessee county,
lying on the Virginia line, not far from
the line of the Norfolk and Western
railroad. 1t is mountain county, far
from the madding crowd. The four
teen Tennessee counties which have
no railroad are Sewer, Hancock and
Il. H..
Lake In West Tennessee, and Pickett,
Cannon, Clay, DeKalb, Jackson, Ma
con, Moore, Perry and Van Buren, in
Middle Tennessee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20
MOTIONS.

No wonder people who think about
themselves all the time often appear dis
contented. The average person can't find
much in himself to make him glad.
While the Teddy bear is less of
nuisance than the poodle. being inanimate,
it fails miserably to create an intellectual
atmosphere.
One of the surest ways to kill time is TO
start an argument about religion.
While Fiji women don't wear any
clothes to speak of. they have a fine
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

The custom of nominating candidates
and candidates for the important state
and county offices in party primaries has
long been established. Many of US have
been, and always will be, earnest cham
pions of the primary as against the CON
vention plan, but it was never inteded
that the system should be expanded
locally so as to include police officers.
fire department officials or heads of the
engineering, street cleaning, financial or
auditing departments. For obvious rea-
sons the chief of police should be abso-
lute1y Independent of small politics. The
police force from top to bottom should
be far removed from saloon influences
and no member of the force should be
placed in a position where he would be
tempted to solicit the votes of the law
less element.
The fact is that if Birmingham is to be
a well ordered city. people must choose
INA primary election capable. progress
sive and fearless man for Mayor and up
right, intelligent and representative men
for the Board of Aldermen. We would
then have citizens in charge of municipal
affairs in whom all could have confidence.
Let the Mayor and Aldermen, RESPONSE
BILE to the people. select the heads of de-
partments as in former days. But for
Heavens sake let us not attempt to
make ward politicians of municipal SER
wants whose whole time should be given
to performing duties for which they are
paid.
The city committee, at its next meeting
should rescind it's action of Thursday
night so far as it affects heads of de-
partments. Let responsibility be placed
upon the shoulders of Mayor Ward and
the Board of Aldermen, and the subordi-
nate officials be accountable to them, and
through them to the citizens. Mayor
Ward has proven one of the very best
heads any city in the south has ever
had. Do not handicap a business Mayor
by surrounding him with subordinates
who are merely politicians
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20
LoAFING.

Everybody works but winter. He doesn't
appear to be up to his job.-Pittsburg
Gazette-Times.
Every body works but winter,
He sits around all day,
While the smiling sunshine
Makes 1t seem like May.
January's balmy,
Meath a silver moon,
Seems as II the seasons
Jangle out of tune.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

should not be one bit of local Jealousy
in this matter, for until the south
makes a beginning and gets one inn
migration station the monopoly of Ellis
Island will remain unbroken.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

The partnership which the people
enjoy with Mr.. Carnegie is probably
of the inaudible variety.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

The man up north who bought new
sleigh in the fall is not an admirer OF
the present winter season.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

Chicago and Birmingham will elect
mayors this spring, and both races
promise to be interesting.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

The new Delaware Senator is a can
ner, and it is to be hoped that he will
have his labels on straight.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

France and Spain have both confer
red decorations on our noble fellow
citizen, Herbert Chatfield Ghatfeld-
Taylor. He bids fair to Guido in orna-
mentatioa town crier or a street
talIir
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

Senator Tom Platt's physician can
serve his country by ordering his pa
tient to resign on account of his health.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

Seventy degrees winters are not
pleasant to folks wearing twenty
degrees underclothes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

An English scientist says the sun
and moon are the cause OF earth
quakes, and no one can disprove his
statement.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

California is shipping strawberries,
and Georgia is producing peach bios
SONS SO runs the world away.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

The Wildcats of Vermont are unlike
the wildcats of Wall street. The latter
are the nore dangerous of the two.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

Julian Hawthorne hasn't word to
say of the Presidents English, and
Senator Tillman can't say anything
goc. about his actions
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

Sir Oliver Lodge says the human
race is in its infancy. If E. H. Harri-
man had been born one thousand years
later he would probably have worked
the planets in a merger schome.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
llaet634oea,.

1t is not right to think that the peo-
pie who make the most noise have no
weight. Some of them weigh over 200
pounds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

Tim Woodruff now sees that gaudy
wesklts were the cause of his undoing,
POLITICALLY spealli4g.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

The Ohio jury that returned 939 in
dictments against the Standard Oil did
not yearn for a round number.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

Having been inaugurated for his sec
ond term, Governor Hoch is greeted
with the usual "hoch!"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

Senator Guggenheim says he is I'M
trammeled, but reformers persist in
saying that having millions means the
same thing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

"Why do educators quarrel?' asks a
contemporary. Some of them probably
quarrel over a distribution of the lime
light
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

The Rhode Island legislator is pur-
sued and tempted at present by three
millionaire aspirants for a senatorship,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

The next Smith to enter the Senate
may be Hoke Smith of Georgia The
Smiths in all parts are beginning to
assert themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

Oklahoma will start out by abolish
ing government by injunction, but she
cannot abolish the government branch
of that Dusir esq.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

"As an indication of the interest in
South American countries in products of
Birmingham said Postmaster Carter
yesterday, here is letter which | have
just received:
San Felipe, Aconc., Chile, S. A,
December 6.
Dear Sir-I take the liberty of adj
dressing you, sir. thinking that In your
locality there may be interested reliable
manufacturers in the sale of the follow
ing articles: Ornamental and architectural
cornices, ceilings. arches, balconies, por-
tcoes, spiral stairs. metal portable build
ings, furniture and general similar ar
tcles. Buyers have found by experience
that the quality and finish of American
goods are unequalled, Therefore, send me
the Messrs. Manufacturers special
sketches, plans, catalogues and full in
formation, samples etc
"'Thanking you In advance. sir, for
your kindly attention, and hoping to hear
soon of leading firms, l remain yours
truly, JACINTO VILLAR,
'Postoffice Box 1881
81 don't know whether Birmingham can
supply him with all he wants or not, but
1t at least shows Birmingham to be well
advertised when a man down in South
America applies here for such products"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

when life doth ruffle like an angry
sea-" MARBLES a poet. Pour on little
oil, say we.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

CONFIDENTIAL.
If inspiration would strike me
And send me soaring to
Those upper regions glorious
Empyrean realms of blue
Perchance | might endite some verso
To make you much admire
The beauty of my soul laid bare
TO music on the Tyre.
Perchance, my winning tenderness
Might wiring from you a tear
And then again In lighter strain
uplift your heart with cheer
Alas, what deeds l might perform
On Pegasus his back,
what wonderful and lifting verse
l might turn out, alack.
But inspiration never comes
To rhymers such as me,
And as for wooing of the muse
That maid I never see
If I should linger for a spark
Divine to light the way
Ia never sing at all, you know,
Instead of every day.
FOOD was the subject at a meeting of
a Kansas archaeological society. Food
Is getting to be one of the most scientific
topics of the day.
SUGGESTIONS.
OF glad mint juleps poets sing.
Likewise the summer rose.
Some hints of peekabo we hear
And open-work for hose
another married man is In trouble as a
result of the latchkey habit 1t should
not be regularly practiced after midnight.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

Banker Walsh of ~Chicago, who has
been indicted on $50 counts, must be
a busy man.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

Governor Hughes makes appoint
ments and consults the machine after
wards.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

EOI LIE WIN nave NudStu Jul 3 lehi .
W. in their "nightes,' the people,
not the burglars, wearing the
''nighties," aver that they find such gar
ments admirable for running. The old
fashioned 'nightie" for gentlemen is some
what of a handicap until the atmosphere
gets under it and raises it above the
knees, when the lower limbs and espe-
cially the feet, being freed of all impede
ments, are permitted to move back and
forth with great rapidity. Pajamas, on
the other hand, are admirably adapted
to sprinting, and 1T is said that II the
night is frosty one runs better than
In the sultry summer time. Burglars fear
angry men in night clothes, for 1t Is an
established fact that the longer you chase
an intruder in such attire the madder
you get This Is phychologically explained
by the fact that the man in pajamas
realizes what ridiculous figure he pre-
sents and the only possible balm for
his pride is to catch that burglar. Peo-
pie admire a we'll known citizen in des-
habille If he triumphantly holds burg
lar by the scruff of the neck, but only de-
rislve laughs will greet him If he sneaks
back home baffled and alone.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

No more colored babies will be
named Theodore Roosevelt.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20
summary.

sUMMERY.
Sing of fishing,
Sing of trees
And the humming
or the bees.
Murmur of a
Silver stream
Where we used to
Loll and dream.
Music of the
Birds above,
Building nests and
Talking love.
Beaming of the
Friendly sun,
Frolics when the
Day is done.
Flowers, flowers
Everywhere,
Scent of roses
In the air.
Watermelon,
Cooling drinks,
Places where the
Cracked ice chinks.
Lying doing
In the shade,
Buzzing fans and
Lemonade.
Beauty at the
Glad seaside,
Exc the blushing,
June time bride.
Big moon shining
In the night,
Bad for poets
Loves delight.
Aren't we daily
Bards contrary.
Rhyming thus in
January?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

On Mr.. Bryans farm the maximum
is produced, regardless of the expense
account.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

One touch of winter would stimulate
the underclothes trade.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20
Experience With Concrete.

Speaking of concrete" said Joseph NJ.
Meighan, the prominent contractor,
everybody must have observed how
rapidly it has come into use for all kinds
of construction. The demand will con
tinue to increase, for new uses are being
found for concrete from time to time.
The ancients appreciated it's value and
used it instead of stone in bridges and
public ed1hces. 1t Is now accepted as a
fact that the pyramids of Egypt, regard
ed by the moderns as a marvel in en-
cheering, were built of concrete and no.
of stone.
Concrete, which seems a matter of
course today. was for a long time a lost
art
But what l started out to tell was
my first experience in concreting. About
four years ago | built a bridge for the
Louisville and Nashville at Verbena and
erected for its support two piers, some
thing like thlrty-hve feet high. My work
being finished the engineer of the road
accepted 1t. l knew | had done my part
honestly, and l knew, too, that the en-
glneer was a master in his profession,
but until trains had passed over safely L
was solicitous as to what might happen.
The day the bridge was ready for use I
stood behind a tree in the woods nearby.
to watch the first train pass. fast
express came laundering along and struck
the bridge at the rate of sixty miles an
hour. My heart was beating fast, but in
a twinkling the rain had dashed across
the bridge and was soon out of sight.
Well l gave a sigh of relief. Those con-
crete piers were all right. 1 built many
such afterwards and never had any fears
when they were tested. As all builders
know, the longer concrete stands the
harder it becomes, and this is more than
can be said of stone And then another
thing that adds to the value of this ma
torial is the fact that 1t withstands in
tense heat and earthquake shocks Not
one Of the buildings constructed of steel
and concrete in San Francisco was in
jured in the quake or the flames"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

Governor Hughes is the whisker gov
ernor of the union. Kansas is beaten a
block.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

Peter Maher knocked out his mother
,n-law in New Orleans. You would think
that the mother-in-law of prize fighter
would read the dope sheet and keep
quiet
INV father has new touring car
said little Sam Rich That's nothing
answered little Bobby Millionchip, scorn-
fully, my fathers been indicted!'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

Everybody continues to talk of our
near winter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20
SUGGESTIONS

SUGGESTIONS.
or glad mint juleps poets sing,
Likewise the summer rose.
Some hints of peekaboos we hear
And open-work for hose.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

The baseball poems are even at times
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

~ in their "nighties" the people,
not the burglars, wearing the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala. post
'ffice as second-class matter under act
" Congress March 3. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

cannot abolish the government pfdhSI
of that ousir esc.
Senator Guggenheim says he is I'M
trammeled, but reformers persist In
saying that having millions means the
same thing.
An English scientist says the sun
and moon are the cause of earth
quakes, and no one can disproye his
statement.
"Why do educators quarrel?' asks
contemporary Some of them probably
quarrel over a distribution of the lime
light.
The Rhode Island legislator is pur-
sued and tempted at present by three
millionaire aspirants for senatorshlp'
----s.------
Senator Tom Platt's physician can
serve his country by ordering his pa
tient to resign on account of his health.
The wildcats of Vermont are unlike
the wildcats of Wall street. The latter
are the nore dangerous of the two.
California is shipping strawberries,
and Georgia is producing peach bios
SONS SO runs the world away.
The man up north who bought new
sleigh in the fall is not an admirer of
the present winter season.
The Ohio jury that returned 939 in
dictments against the Standard Oil did
not yearn for a round number.
The new Delaware Senator is can
ner, and it is to be hoped that he will
have his labels on straight.
Chicago and Birmingham will elect
mayors this spring, and both races
promise to be interesting.
The partnership which the people
enjoy with Mr.. Carnegie is probably
of the inaudible variety.
Seventy degrees winters are not
pleasant to folks wearing twenty
degrees underclothes
Having been inaugurated for his sec
ond term, Governor Hoch is greeted
with the usual "hoch!"
Tim Woodruff now sees that gaudy
wesklts were the cause of his undoing,
POLITICALLY speallilg.
--s.----
"When life doth ruffle like an angry
sea-" MARBLES poet. Pour on little
oil, say we.
Banker Walsh of ~Chicago, who has
been indicted on 80 counts, must be
husy man.
Governor Hughes makes appoint
ments and consults the machine after
wards.
Governor Hughes is the whisker gov
ernor of the union. Kansas is beaten a
block.
On Mr.. Bryans farm the maximum
is produced, regardless of the expense
account.
No more colored babies will be
named Theodore Roosevelt.
One touch of winter would stimulate
the underclothes trade.
Everybody continues to talk of our
near winter,
The baseball poems are even at times
mortgaged
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

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Washington Bureau Age-Herald 1421
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-22

Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Potter arrived
from Michigan on the Korea and will
spend the winter in Honolulu. They
are staying at present with Mr.. and
Mrs. F. A. Potter, Jr., at their home
in Kapiolani Park.
- - ~
lily have removed from Pensacola
street, near Lunalilo, and have taken
a house on Beretania avenue, next to
the Parkes' residence.
~ - .ss
The most important musical event of
the week was the presentation by Mr.
A. K. Virgil of his theories of the art
of musical performance, and the illus
tration of them by Mrs. Virgil on the
piano, which were given at the resi-
dence of DR.. and Mrs. Henry BicknelI
on Kukui street, last Sunday evening.
Mr.. Virgil, who is one of the foremost
musical educators of the country, with
Mrs. Virgil, passed through on the
Aorangi to Australia. While their
steamer was in port, through the
kindness of DR.. and Mrs Bicknell a
large number of music-lovers were
given an. opportunity to hear most
p1easantly-put presentation of one of
the most important efforts to develop
the art of musical performance along
scientific principles.
a.
Mrs. A. F. Judd, who, with her two
children. has been spending some time
on the American Sugar Company
ranch. Molokai. returned last Sunday.
~ ~ ~
Miss van Rodt, a Swiss author of
note. arrived by the Aorangi last Sun
day and is to be the guest of Mrs.
Hans Isenberg for some time. Mrs.