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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
CompIete Education.

Have you ever remarked how few peo- pie there are who understand the mechan- ism or principle of the labor-saving de- vices in everyday use?' said man yes- terday as he hung up the phone. q never gave the subject a thought myself until one of myechildren asked me how the telephone worked.
 I'll venture to say that 99 per cent of the people who ride on street cars have not the least Idea of how the cars are moved or lighted, beyond the fact that they know 1t Is done by electricity Of eourse 1t is not to be expected that the general public would be familiar with the details of dynamos and motors, but liberal education ought to include a knowledge of the fundamental principles of everything
 "A philosopher once said that an edu- cated man was one who knew something about everything and everything about something. If that definition be taken as true, then there are very few educated men to be found in the ordinary paths of life. Unless the tree of knowledge bore golden apples not many people today
 
 after the fruit
 Curiosity is one of the characteristics of children and manifests itself in vari- ous ways, but principally in breaking open toy to see what makes the figure move. Why is not that spirit fostered by taking the young and inquisitive mind Into the lecture room where the wonders of nature are explained and the beauties of natural philosophy set forth? Children are hungry for knowledge. but that appe- Ute soon becomes depraved by dime novels or bad company. They are bound to learn something to satisfy the mental craving and if the proper food is pre- sented it will not alone strengthen the mind and morals, but produce a disgust for garbage
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

1 maiden herself. But we believe that spring is now here. though 1t is not un- likely that winter, gathering LID the folds of his hoary robe, may give us another slight fiirt in the face yet, or kick up the back of his heels to remind us how little he cares for our grumbling and complain- ing. We have been watching and wait- ing, and think We have caught a elimnss of the beautiful virgin of the seasons, in the blossoms of the trees, upon the ground coated here and there in It's liv- cry of green, and with her magic power entieing forth the tiny herbs, the wood land flowers from glade and glen to kiss the morning dew, or to play the lovers dalliance with the sunbeams; have heard her whisperings in the varied melody of thousand gay carols at the risings and settings of the day; have scented the per- fumes, of which the morning breezes. fresh from her nightly couch, are laden; and have felt her maiden-like touch In the gentle heavings of her bosom soft with the breathings of the south-hail lovely spring! Reader, are you made glad at the approach of spring? If not go and cultivate the finer sensibilities of your nature. for you are not 1t for Iife's ble. ,ngs.-springville Item.
 The Huntsville Mercury prints the day of the month in box car letters at the head of it's editorial page. Time Is serious matter to the Mercury
 A woman in an Alabama town gave "42' party the other day. It didn't have anything to do with anybody's age,
 NECESSITY. poet sang a tender lay
 Of love among the flowers And royal maidens who reclined In perfume-laden bowers. And then he scared to greater heights And reached point sublime, On which he hung his golden harp The while he wrote a rhyme.
 ENVOY.
 Reality, alas, is far
 More cruel than words can utteri To think that such as he should swap His verse for. bread and butter
 A DREAMER The end of dreamw Twas spoken of A man who tried and failed. To the world his work had little weight. For his purposes were yelled. But a comrade wept and tenderIy Put wreath on the 1owly grave | or one who knew how to fight full we'll And to lose and still be brave.
  Have you ever failed in arithmetic?' asks a newspaper writer. Aye. and in algebra and geometry and trigonometry and calculus
 Being a "good fellow and speculatins in mines and baseball caused the down. fall of an Indiana man. A combination like that would floor any man.
 NOT so WARM
 It isn't far to summer time,
 The calendars avow.
 And yet in truth, 'tis very far
 From summer-like just now.
 Paul Cook.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
ROCK ME TO SLEEP.

By Elizabeth Akers Allen. Backward, turn backward, o Time, In
 your flight, Make me child again just for tonight! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore: Kiss from my forehead the furrows of Smooth the few silvery threads out of my
 hair; Over my slumbers your loving watch
 keep;
 sleep Over my heart, in the years that are
 flown, No love like mother-love ever has shown; No other worship abides and endures, Faithful, unselfsh, and patient like yours: None like mother can charm away pain From the sick soul and the worldweary
 brain. Slumber's soft calms o'ev my heavy lids Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to
 sleep. Come. let your brown hair, just lighted
 with gold, Fall on your shoulders again as of old; Let it drop over my forehead tonight,
 
 light; For with it's sunny edged shadows once
 more Haply will throng the sweet visions of
 yore; Lovingly. soft, it's bright pillows sweep; Rock me to sleep. mother rock me to
 sleep, Mother, dear mother, the years have been
 long Since I last listened to your lullaby song; Sing then, and unto my soul 1t shall
 seem womanhood's years have been only
 dream. Clasped to your heart in a loving em-
 brace. With your light lashes just sweeping my
 face. Never hereafter to wake or to weep; Rock me to sleep, mother, rock nc .e
 sleep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
A FAMOUS NEWSPAPER.

From the New Orleans Picayune.
 The New York Evening Post signalizes Its removal to it's new quarters, facing Vesey street, by the publication of n handsomely colored supplement replete With half-tone engravings and contain Ing a retrospect of it's history, covering the one hundred and six years it has an pealed to the country as a gatherer of news. During that long period it's des tinles have been looked after by some of the greatest lights in American jour nalism. and while at times it's policy may have grated on the nerves of the people of the south, that south has con- ceded it's honesty of purpose and its tra- ditionai lack of anything approaching the yellow" Among these lights appear the names of Alexander Hamilton, William Cullen Bryant, Parke Goodwin, John Bige- low, Carl Schurz Edwin Lawrence God kin, Horace White and Henry Willard. a list 1t would be hard to equal in the annals of journalism. In addition to a restrospect of its history and biographical sketches of it's occupants of the editorial chair. the supplement contains much that will interest the historian and archaeoIo- gist, while it's admirable pictures, show ing in detail the construction of its new office building and the many reproduc- tions of views of New York before the era of the skyscraper, show at glance the marvellous changes that have come over the city within very few years Not tne least of interest may be mentioned the four pages of chronology of the city. a feature of the supplement that will lead to many copies being filed away for ref erence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
Abe Rueff, Defendant

The trial of Abe Rueff, the San Fran cisco boss, goes to show that public se-iment. when once fully aroused, will in any city deal with big rich rascal unflinchingly. There Is indeed. 6 question whether Rueff is not being dealt with too vigorously. He Is de- nied bail, and he Is kept in durance vile by an ellsor who is unfriendly.
 He has but small opportunity to bring his machine to bear, and he will have to go to trial on the square merits of his case before jury that he can moi naclA The danger in San Fran cisco appears to be that he will be tried with undue severity and with perhc7s preconceived opinions of guilt In the minds of the jurors.
 Public sentiment has been aroused, and there is not perhaps an honest man in San Francisco who has not. al ready pronounced Rueff guilty of graft ing. A popular vote would consign him to prison, but still he is entitled to a fair trial, and the court should take precious good care to give him one in the face of an honest public sen -iment Too much public sent1- ment is sometimes as much to be feared as too little. The general public is in fact inclined to be either too lax or too fierce and the happy medium IS not often developed and maintained in our American cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
TYLER A JOURNALIST.
Washington Herald.

From tho Washington Herald.
 Ralph W. Tyler, the Ohio negro pollti- elan recently appointed by the President as auditor of the navy department to supplant one of Senator Penroses constit- uents. has for years been secretary for prominent newspaper publishers at Co., lumbus, serving in turn in that capacity two or three newspaper proprietors. He is an expert stenographer, and, like the pri- vate secretaries of most newspa per pub fishers, learned the business so thorough y that he has been intrusted with much important reportorial and editorial work By reason of the fact that he often handled the copy sent into the office, cov- ering social events, it appears that hesbe- came facetiously known at Columbus as the society editor of one of the Columbus papers. It is said that Tyler is not pop ular with the colored people of Columbus.
 Tyler has accumulated comfortable fortune out of Columbus real estate and is rated as one of the richest negroes in Ohio.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20

From the New York Press.
 All the world has a mouth watering when 1t hears of the ''roast beef of old England" When Henry Edward Cramp- ton, Ph. D. professor of zoology was de- liverlng his series of lectures on the Doctrine of Evolution; Its Basis and Scope,' he gave the following explana- tion to a wondering audience in Cooper Union: '"rhe roast beef in England Is so good because they have so many old maids over there. The old maids keep cats These cats, running free, catch the mice which make eternal warfare on the humble bees. The humble bees fertilize the soil which grows sweet clover, the finest possible forage for cattle; so you see it is really due to the old maids that there is such fine beef in Great Britain
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
Open-Hearth Stee! Marching On

In 1897 open-hearth steel passed in this country the million-ton mark, and every year since that time it's produc- ton here has created new record. The production in 1906 was 10,970,99S tons. a gain of about two million tons over the production of 1905, and of five million tons over that of 1904.
 In 1906 the total steel production In this country was 23,365,oOO tons, of which nearly eleven million tons con sisted of open-hearth steel. The Bes- semer production outranked it in 1906 but .S00,000 tons. The present year will lessen the difference, and the pre- diction is freely made that in 1908 the open.hearth process will overtake the Bessemer process and pass it. There will be, says the Iron Trade Review, big swing towards open-hearth in 1908, and the Review does not hesitate to predict that it will in that year exceed tl-c Bessemer production by something like 100000 tons.
 This estimate is based upon the fac: tfat the Bessemer plant at Duquesne is to be dismantled, and upon the fur ther fact that in 1908 there will be eighteen open-hearth furnaces at Du- quesne, twelve at Youngstown and fifty-six at Gary in operation. These now furnaces will turn out about four million tons annually, and when they are at work Bessemer steel will sink to second place.
 The hope of this district lies in open hearth steel, and it's rapid rise in pub lie favor will doubtless encourage in vestors to place more money here. The best days of Bessemer steel are ended, and engineers and architects are on every hand turning to the products of the open.hearth furnaces.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
PRESS AGENTS DIARY.
His Material and Mental Progress In
 Season of Forty Weeks.

From the Billboard. Missed meals 0 times. Missed trains times. Took extras 2l times. Refused electric signs times. Bought wine for chorus girls times. Bought beer for chorus girls 16S times. Been broke POI times. Had money 8 times. Asked to drink times. Refused to drink 0 times Bought drinks 1867 times. Been roasted 936 times. Roasted other shows times. Missed prayer meeting 40 times. Found money o times. Neglected important work AS times. Praised by manager times. Roasted by the company 240 times. Got fine showing 240 times. Stories not used 1249 times. Paid excess 23 times.
 Did the right thing e4 times. Did the wrong thing times. Fixed the billposter 240 times. Forgot to send in expense account times.
 Changed incidentals times. Rode on a pass times. Told lies 76S97. 425 times. Cash on hand al opening of season g. 10 Cash on hand at close of season & cents. af
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
Uses Much Soda Water.

Birmingham grows faster than any other city in the south, and the progess seems to be more substantial than else where" said Mel Venable, who formerly lived in Birmingham and now represents one of the largest manufacturers of soda water fountains in the world. "Of course notice the improvements in my line more than in others and the progress has been wonderful Birmingham now has several fountains that are equal if not su- perior to any in the south and one of them here is particularly fine, I believe the finest l have ever seen.
 IF our years ago, in fact three years ago, Birmingham would not have supported such places as have been opened since left here I also notice from the records of the sales of various syrups and other things for soda water fountains that Birmingham is advancing rapidly"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

TlOln ITlt NtW IUIk ItSS.
 Tact is calling a woman's red hair furnished gold and being sure she hears you.
 When a girl pretends she doesn't like candy it's a sign she is trying to grow thin. The trouble with kissing a girl under an umbrella is she screams if it drips down her neck.
 Most people take more credit to them selves over inherited money than if they earned 1t. A woman is hardly ever happily married unless her husband will tell her he doesn' | believe anybody else could dress we'll on so little money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
WELL, WELL

WELL, WELL Oh, laugh! Why don't you laugh bit And let the world alone? Don't trifie with the scheme of things Just breathe the fresh ozone And swap a heartache for a song That's worth 1t anywhere. on' laugh! Why don't you laugh bit And say goodbye to care? If this country had remained England ward there would have been no big stick, says Ambassador Bryce. That is the big gest if in history.
 Poor White" says Pittsburg paper. That's the way they feel about it in Pittsburg, no doubt
 However, we insist on the right to ruminate without chewing tobacco.
 IN NOVEL LAND. Gee whiz, it's fine in Novel Land, Where people fall in love And wed on page three-ifty-t y-three While the cooing turtle dove Doth make them utterly forget The troubles they passed through, All framed up by an author man With nothing else to do. In Novel Land it matters not What doth occur between The introduction and the end, This much is true. I ween, The man and maid will find at last A way to happy be. Tn, wedding bells are bound to ring On page three-fifty three. For while we fear they won't make up, That fate will prove too strong And keep the hero from his love Such thoughts don't finger long. The clouds soon pass away and then We read on breathlessly Till the word is spoke that makes them
 one
 On page three-ffty three. A burglar who left jewelry and silver ware behind and took overcoats and rub bers must have had straight tip about the weather.
 Wonder why we can't have peace with out talking about it so much. The Yankee Doodle comedian will take his Yankee Doodle bride on July the Fourth. We suggest that the bride wear the stars and stripes.
 GETTING THERE.
 Some people talk
 While others act,
 Some neither do,
 And that's a fact.
 Just take your choice
 Of classes three.
 The problems up
 To you and me. College students in an Ohio town stole a corpse and dragged it through the streets If such festive youths can't be stopped from hazing, it is better for them to haze a corpse than some mothers homesick boy.
 SPRING IN SPRINGvILLE We now take pleasure in announcing to our readers that spring has at last ar rived (unless we are worse fooled than some of our exchanges which seem to have mistaken the harbingers for the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
BIG ARIZONA RATHER.

From the Arizona Republican.
 The open season for rattlesnakes is now on ard the snake killers are taking to the brush. On Sunday last Lester O'Leary and cousin from the east went hunting and inadvertently stumbled over the big gest thing in the rattlesnake line they had ever seen.
 They shot the snakes head off, and the rest of the reptile measured six feet and a half in length and was as large around as big mans arm. There were thirteen rattles on his snakeship, and the indications were that several were miss ing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20

assurance at that wickedly conceived dn- ner not only to cause the fictitious MT. Root to get up and make speech indica- tive of the administrators heartily par ticipation in the spirit of the occasion but also so to pull the wires behind the puppet Witte as to make the fabricated guest of honor seem to offer in pretty good French toast to "the illustrious Presi- dent Theodore Roosevelt?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
origin of Kissing Book.

''The exact origin of kissing the book in English courts, though modern, is ob- scure," said a lawyer. "1t is not, should say, a, matter of legal obligation, but seems to be merely a custom dating from the middle or end of the eighteenth cen tury. If witness claims to follow the law according to Coke and to take his corporal oath by touching the book who shall refuse him his right?
 ''The kissing act seems akin, indeed, to what the fancy call, somewhat unpleas- antly, saliva custom, which in modern western life exists in very few forms, though many of the lower classes still spit on a coin for luck"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20

in size and fit associate of the court house in beauty and appropriateness. The Board of Revenue should not in this matter be unduly economical, for money saved now might prove costly twenty years hence. Build for fifty years at least.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
ALABAMA PRESS


 Gadsden Journal: The season of peek a-boos is here according to the calendar, but that's one on the calendar.
 Mobile Herald: Owners of proprietary medicines who manufacture disguised "tonics" for the prohibitory districts ask to be allowed to label their bottles "spiritus rectifcatus."
 Huntsville Mercury: For the informa- tlon of the Montgomery Advertiser it gives us very great pleasure to be able to re- port the mint crop safe and the yield for the coming summer exceedingly prom isng.
 Ashville Southern Aegis: Birmingham filled. up last week with the state Sunday school Convention and a negro medical convention, and it's appetite craves more. Though the latter may never be satisfied. 1t is not likely to go very hungry.
 Mobile Item: Editor Harvey of Harper s Weekly has gotten himself into the White House Ananias club by referring to Pres ident Roosevelt as a "Bombastes Furi- oso." This ought to make Editor Harvey president of the club without a formal election.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20

The agricultural department says skunks should not be killed because they eat harmful insects. This Is all right if the department will supply our farmers with the deodorized variety of Skunks,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20

These north winds must be discour- aging to Walter Wellman, who is pre- pairing to do a North Pole grandstand act. He does not like to sail in the teeth of the wind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
ALARAMA,s GOVERNORS.

From the Macon Telegraph.
 Alabama has five former governors still living. They are Rufus w. Cobb. Thomas G. Jones, William c, Oates, Jospeh F. Johnston and William D. Jeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20

It took away an United States gun boat to get President Bonilla of Hon. duras out of the hole into which he had fallen and carry him away to safety and further negotiations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
PRESS POINTS

Pittsburg Post: The dove of peace ap- pears to be a most popular bird at this time.
 Shreveport Times: What's the use of holding peace congress while that Nica- ragua team is busy throwing pop bottles at the Hondurean banana pickers?
 Pittsburg Star: The President, it seems, is only going to help that candidate to to help himself.
 Norfolk Virginan and Pilot: If pub lished reports of the deliberations of the Thaw jury be correct. some of it's mem bers came near having "brainstorms' themselves.
 Youngstown Telegram: Delmas is wanted to defend accused boodlers at San Francisco. Dementia Americana ap- plies to boodling better than to tragedies of the Thaw sort.
 Savannah News Cincinnati has ordered suppressed a melodrama based on the Thaw-White murder in New York. It must be awafully hot stuff, when Gin cinnati can't stand It.
 New York Mail MT. Hughes, according to a dispatch from Washington, is a man after MT. Rooseyelts own heart. Therein he differs from MT Bryan, who is man after MT. Roosevelt's own job.
 Austin Statesman: The states right to be state is about the only right Pres ident Roosevelt comedies the state, and he has not yet conceded that much to the new state of Oklahoma.
 Richmond News-Leader: "I feel as young today as when l was twenty" says Ella Wheeler Wilcox. But it may be so long back when Ella was twenty that she has forgotten how she felt then.
 Dnever Post A Clorado woman stopped a runaway the other day by cling ing to a horses neck. Quite few men still cling to the horses neck, although 1t isn't very popular drink any more.
 Portland Telegram California man has a new perpetual motion bug in his bonnet which he claims will revolutionize the world As any easy experimental stunt he might give 1t a trial in Central America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20

England built the Dreadnought of 1S.000 tons, and the United States or. dered one of 10000 tons and Japan one of 21,000, and now Russia pro- poses to build one of 22,S00 tons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20

The selection of Thaw lawyers is now progressing, and in the course of another week they will be lined up on the firing line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20

The grandstand period of the Pan anna canal may be considered closed, all the Congressmen having returned from the isthmus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20

A tombstone shortage is not one to cause any great uneasiness in the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
THE BABY,s EYES.

From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.
 Mir. Newpop (to his baby in long clothes)-What kind of eyes have you, baoy9 Baby (Eurglipg)-Goo goo!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20
CHANGE OF SPIRIT.

From the Rome Tribune.
 Atlanta papers are now crying bully Birmingham. Only a short while ago they were bullying Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20

A disgusted Chicago preacher named Snively says the world is pleasure mad. If you had name like his you'd be sore. too
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20

Mary Anderson was first a good act ress and then good woman, and she is coming to America this year, where q warm welcome awaits her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20

It is presumed that the dove of peace flew down to New Orleans when the Daughters of the American Revolution convened at Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20

Pittsburg's masses earn S350000,0 ,00O year while it's classes reap the wages of sin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20

It is a shame to take the Standard Ons money, that nice good little con- pany that encourages competition and fair prices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-20

It is hard to believe the European Kings look forward to kissing each other with lively anticipations of pleas 11po