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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
Washineton's Farewell Address.

AS | walked around the city today"
said 4 man who belongs to the old school,
Il could not help thinking how truly DIR.
Strong spoke last night when he said the
Americans venerate nothing.
This is Washngton's birthday and the
onl. signs of the event are to be seen
in store windows where little hatchets
are offered for sale. This is really hui
initiating to us as a people. BY and by
the name of George Washington and
Santa Claus will stand for the same thing
in the public mind-a myth.
"on every Fourth of July l read the
Declaration of Independence; on Wash
ington's birthday l read his Farewell
Address, and l wish to say that to my
mind there are not in existence two more
important documents for the American
youth to read and know.
How many people are there today who
know what Washington said in his Fare
we'll Address? took occasion to ask at
least twenty young men whom 1 know
and to my surprise and to their shame,
they had not the slightest idea of what
he said or the circumstances under which
he spoke. We hear Washington called,
Father of his Country; we are told he
was first in peace and war and in the
hearts of his countrymen' but such ex-
pressions express nothing; the world has
known greater generals, the world has
known men equally as prominent in peace
ana as dear TO their countrymen; but
doubt it the world has ever known a
man who closed his career with such an
expression of patriotism, love and solicit
tude for his country as did Washing
ton.
AT time when this country is strain
ing AT the cable which has held her off
the rocks during all the storms which
swept around her since Washington's
time; when the dangers he foresaw and
against which he warned the young re-
public have really appeared, it would
be well for our people to read his words
and learn the remedies he proposes. If |
could afford it, would have eighty
million copies OF that Farewell Address
printed and give one to every American
citizen
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Consumers of Iron.

Officials Of the United States Cast Iron
Pipe company. including President G. E.
Hayes of New York and Vice President
George Long, after inspecting their plant
at Bessemer and investigating the iron
market, left yesterday for Admission,
where the company owns and operates
another pipe plant. Mr.. Hayes said he
was glad to see the Birmingham district
progressing on substantial lines He
found Birmingham sharing in the general
prosperity of the country and keeping
abreast with the times.
The United States Cast Iron Pipe conf
pany, known as the pipe trust is one
of the most important concerns in the
country and is Que OF the largest con-
sumer5 of southern pig.
Referring to the visit Of Mr.. Hayes and
party a man prominent in the trade said
last night: THE United States Cast
Iron Pipe people are in the market for
the purchase OF a large tonnage of Bir
mingham metal. They seemed surprised to
find unsold stocks here so small. There
are about 5000 tons of iron on the yards
in Alabama but the greater part of this
metal is sold and would have been de-
livered had the railroads been able to
supply cars.
The Iron and Steel company of Mas
sillon, O.. an extensive manufacturer of
cast pipe, is also in the market for a
considerable tonnage of Birmingham iron.
President II. 4. CroXton was here about
two weeks ago and will probably soon
close contracts for second half of the
year delivery. Large consumers have
about come to the conclusion that pres
ent prices will remain firm, if indeed,
they do not move up
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
Police Commission

As The Age Herald has pointed out
from time to time, the police commits
sion of Birmingham should be abol
ished and the police force placed under
the Mayor and Aldermen. This change
should be made not that the per
sonnet of the commission is below the
aldermanic standard, but because the
people who elect the Mayor as their
executive chief hold him responsible
for the suppression of crime. And as
the executive must see that the laws
of the city are obeyed, it follows log
ically that he should have direction of
the police.
Under our present system the Mayor
has no more authority over a police
man than the priyatae citizen has, and
yet the public expects the executive to
administer every department. of the
municipal government Whether he
has the authority or not, the Mayor is
blamed if police officers fail TO perform
their duty In curbing the lawless ele-
ment or if residence sections are with
out police protection. Let the legsla-
ture pass the bill recently prepared by
direction of the City Council, and then
the Mayor and Aldermen will have full
control of the police department and
will be rightly held responsible for its
personnel, it's discipline and the en-
forcement of the city ordinances.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
Our foster-nurse of nature is repose.
king Lear.
Trusts in the South

Five states were represented in the
recent session of fruit growers in At
lanta. and John J. Cunningham, pres
ident of the American fruit union, was
there also. Mr.. Cunningham has his
hand on the pulse of all the fruit trees
in the south and central west, and he
expressed the opinion in Atlanta that
I'VE are to have good fruit crop" this
year. ut is impossible" he went on
to say "at this time to estimate what,
If any, damage has been sustained in
the different states. | understand
there is a 10 per cent damage in west
ern Arkansas and slight damage to
fruit in Texas, but this is indefinite.
There are two more months of danger
yet you know, and something may
happen before the crop is past danger"
The safety of the southern fruit
crops after a winter of remarkable
mildness is very gratifying. The sap
was started upward in all of them in
January, but it was checked in time TO
save the buds and the crop. A large
crop ~ However, scarcely probable,
for the fruit crop of 1906 was heavy.
and two fine crops in succession would
be something out of custom. A reason
pears and apples seems however, to
he pretty well assured.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
ALABAMA PRESS

Andalusia News: Suppose we have one
session of the legislature every ten years.
That's often enough--if we're going to
have this kind.
Marshall Banner: John l.. Sullivan says
that Mr. Roosevelt still has the punch."
John L. obviously lands on the solar pick
us of Presidential self-esteem by his daln-
ty compliment.
Marion Standard: The state capitol has
now every modern Improvement except a
mortgage, and it will soon have that if
Mr.. Corners boys keep on building air
castles and governors mansions.
Prattville Progress: The man who origi-
mated the idea of distributing government
free seeds must have had a great head
Anyhow, there is some deep, underlying
benefit connected with the custom that
nobody but a congressman can under
stand.
Luverne Journal: The third" house of
the legislature has passed all the gem
eral bills up to date. Including the bills
to raise all salaries, etc. The present legis-
lature is catering to the rich man and
cotton mills and telling the poor man
to go to the devil.
Mobile Register: Frank 'Brien did not
get the mayoralty of Birmingham in his
contest against George B. Ward, but his
failure was but by 1903 votes. Consider
ing the excellent reports of Mayor Wards
administration, the vote Captain O'Brien
received was great compliment
Gadsden Journal: The yellow peril
howlers are having a hard time to keep
up public interest in their foreboding The
people are not enthusiastic for the ex-
penditure of hundreds of millions in an
ticipation of a peril that is too hazy to
even register a distinct outline.
Montgomery Journal: If the President
should now send the name of Oscar
Hundley to the Senate for confirmation
TO the new judgship for the northern dis
trict Of Alabama, it would be a pretty
good joke on those who have been fight
ing his confirmation for federal district
attorney And the President may do it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
TAXING BACHELORS,
New York Herald.

fTOm the New 7 ork Herald.
Five states have bills pending concern
ing bachelors. In Iowa bill is pending
to tax every bachelor over forty years
Of age $25 year and over As s3O.-Bir-
mingham Age Herald
The effort to impose a tax upon bach
elors is a glaring instance of 1.-The tyr
amy of the majority And yet many of
the greatest men in the world in all fields
of endeavor are bachelors whose freedom
from family responsibilities and cares en-
ables them to concentrate all their abil-
tiles upon their work.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
Adjournment TO July

Both houses of the legislature have
passed a joint resolution providing for
an adjournment on Saturday next to
July Q. This will give the code COM
mission time in which to prepare its
report, and ii will give each individual
member time in which to sum up his
acts of omission and commission and
devise proper remedies.
About fifteen days will be left in
which to conclude in July the work of
the session, and great deal can be
accomplished in that time. especially
after thinking all the propositions be-
fore the two houses over. -Four months
for meditation and fifteen days for ac-
ton is a good rule, and the state will
be the beneficiary, let us hope.
The jamestown exposition appro-
priation still hangs fire, but it will
doubtless be passed before adjourn
ment When the members go home to
their constituents they should be asked
why they did not give the voters of
Alabama a secret ballot--why they
persist in filing the state with white
men who cannot vote. We have 100
600 white men who are kept from the
ballot boxes by poll tax that is UNI
wisely cumulative. Why not permit
the people TO say what they desire in
this matter? The members should go
home in order to get the answer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
A WASTE OF MONEY.

y IOII I-IIt,
Some years ago, when Speaker Cannon
was plain member, he took one of his
constituents TO dine with him at rather q
good hotel in Washington. 1t was in the
fall and Mr.. Cannon ate very heartily of
that American edible, Indian corn; in fact
almost his entire dinner consisted of corn
The Westerner hoked at him and said /:
Say, Mr.. Cannon. what does il cost you
TO board here? About IS a day said
Mr.. Cannon. I'm he burned" dwarled
his constituent "ef I don't think it would
be cheaper for you TO board at a livery
stahlA.''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
A man could afford to buy jewels for
a wife If he wasn't married
The way TO convince a man is to make
him think he is convincing you.
\ woman is so proud to have her hus-
band in public life that she is willing
to have him called a seoundre for it.
\ man never gets much fun out of
showing his wife how to fix her sewing
machine unless ha Knows how Ia al1as.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
POST CARDS AND VALENTINES.

From the Chattanooga Times.
Birmingham Age-Herald: The decrease
in the number of comic valentines mailed
is evidence of a rise IN civilization and
decency and good tatse.
Offset somewhat by the postcard in
novation which while not so bad has its
element OF weakness.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
ADRlFT WITH THE TIMES
CLIMBING UPWARD.

CLIMBING UPWARD.
Learn TO lose and keep on irving
That's the secret of success.
Scar up bravely tho you stumble,
Look aboard when sorrows press
Face the future with new courage
Weep no more. the buried past
Don't succumb to great misfortunes.
Tho they strike you thick and fast.
Love your work, and as you do it
Never wish that it were done.
For by him who longest wooes her
Is Dame Fortune soonest Won
The proposition to give father a night
off now and then will meet with the en-
thusiastie approval of father
\ LIGHT EXTINGUISHED.
Where is Upton
Sinclair now?
Lost completely
Well, l VOW
That's the way with
Cheap renown,
Won by knocking
1dchlnBtOWn.
If John D. r. is the nations greatest
joker, as a pert paragrapher declares,
then his jokes are always at our ex-
pense.
HEARD IN THE COMPOSING ROOM.
Il do not like
An item said
The thing they give
Me for head,
Where once / was
A feature and
Was played way up
To beat the band,
I'm now pushed off
The honor page,
Which is the first
That doth engage
Attention, to
An obscure spot
And overlooked.
As like as not
THE Thaw case crowds
Me out forsooth
I'm much chagrned,
And that's the truth.
I'm free from fault
And proper, too.
I'm clean and good,
Moreover, new,
But there's no chance
For me to shine
And get a great
Big black headline.
Till Mrs. Thaw.
Who's Harry's wife,
Can tell no more
About her life.
Paper, sir?' asked a newsboy of a
benevolent old gentleman vito was hav-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
PRO AND CON.

From the New York Times.
Sing Il song of bachelors.
Who so free as /?
l have my pipe, my DOCKS, my dog,
My siphon and old rye,
No man with fewer cares is harr1ed
And yeti sometimes wish I'd married,
Sing a song of benedicts.
\ baby and wife
A home mine own. Who wouldn't BE-
Content with this. my life?
But-when old recollections tingle,
soulstiuAk Wish that vera xtaxlsl
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

ing his morning rolls and coffee in a
restaurant.
"Ah, YOU little rascalr' said he of tie
rolls and coffee. Are there any pictures
in it? Let me See" and he spread the
paper out on the table. None on the
first page, nor any ON the second mage >,
he unused, turning the pages slowly.
We'll, we'll! Here are two on This nage
and another on the page opposite. And
here are two more! l had no idea there
were so many!'
With pleasant remarks and frequent
chuckles he culled the news of the norm
ing from the headlines and then, smiling
more kindly than ever he handed the
paper back to the boy
\ newspaper poet writes a hippant
parody on Little Boy Blue That's
what We call sacrilege.
TOO LATE.
Backward, turn backward,
Time, in your fight.
I've made many blunders
Id like to set right
While George Washington was reputed
to be one of the wealthiest men of his
time, there is no record to show that any,
body ever asked him where he got it.
BRAVING DANGER
Riding on railroad
Fills man with cares
When you start to get aboard
Always say your prayers.
The Teddy bear stickpin is in our midst
1t is at least more useful than the Teddy
bear.
Ridgeway is no more Who said, II told
you So?
A BOYS AMBITION.
Wisht I wuz my puppy,
Or my daddy's mule,
So 1 wouldn't have to
Go each day to school.
W1sht | WIZ a bull frog
Big green one, 1 guess,
So when | went swmmn',
Wouldn't have to undress.
VISIT 7 wuz a song bird,
FLYNN round all day,
Or the tiny squirrel,
Alters at his play.
Wisht I WIZ a ostrich,
Stead o. being Pete
So that l could gobble
Anything to eat.
Wisht ] WIZ a pig, cause
Pigs don't have to wash,
An I've never seen Ma
Comb ones hair, gosh
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
Sembrich May Come.

David A. Montagnon of New York, rep
resenting L. G. Carlton, manager OF the
Damrosch Orchestra and the Sembrich
Concert company is in Birmingham, try
ing to arrange an Easter week date for
the appearance of the famous prima. Ell
lison Van Hoose, the distinguished tenor.
is member of Madame Sembrichs COM
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23
LOCATING GRIEF.

From the Nashville American.
MI Grief, Mr.. Grief,' called the no.
tel porter through the LOBBY. Then he
went and looked in at the barroom. Grief
Is usually TO be found there.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

Superintendent Kelsey did not hold
mp well under Governor Hughes cross
examination, and he will have to go.
He knows less about insurance than
President McCurdy did.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

1t is the steamship companies in
Japan that do not like the exclusion
act. All other japanese accept it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

Kuropatkin and Kaulbars did not do
tit was the Japanese, those sly, in
sistent little brown men.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

New York has $4,000 practicing
lawyers watching for the coming of the
sons of rich men of Pittsburg.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

The echoes of Swettenham's blunder
are growing fainter and fainter. He
will soon be forgotten.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

Commodore Peary says New Eng
land is more wintry than the country
around the north pole.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

The captain of the Larchmont did
not hold her nozzle agin the bank, be-
cause there was no bank out there.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

A gentleman who has lived for years
in Japan says that the Japanese police
man is a wonder for thoughtfulness
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

The Easter bonnet crop is doing as
we'll as could be expected.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

The Maine ice crop is harvested at
last, and it is big one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

Since 1887 divorce petitions have
been filled to the number of 100000,
about one million of which were grant
ed. This is divorcing some.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

Senator Foraker may not object TO
being called the bulldog of the Senate,
so long as no one insinuates that his
bark is worse than his bite.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

Senator Smoot is off the docket, and
revision of the tariff is beginning to
get a place on it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

Common sense is the basis of the
Schmitz Roosevelt agreement.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

Poets secure state funerals in Italy
at least Carducci did.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

Pittsburg will have its opera glasses
trained on New York until the Thaw
trial is ended.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

The manufacture of church pews is
also vested in a trust. 1t may be a
pious trust, but it should be busted
Just the same.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

The Kansas City Star told so many
truths about the Kansas legislature its
reporters were at length excluded from
the legislative nails.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

The sun spots are fading out They
may have been nothing more than the
atrical bill boards or circus advertise
ments.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

Manicures now attend 10 the fingers
of the girls in the timed meats de-
partments of the Chicago packing
houses. Those houses are trying TO
live down THE Jungle
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

Men in Wall street are becoming SO
crooked they cannot dodge behind a
corkscrew.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

Senator Smoot will stand pat four
years, anyway. In the meantime, the
womens clubs might as well be good.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

The undertakers continue to sit on
President Castro's front doorstep.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

Harry Thaw has to referee the dis
putes of his lawyers while he tries to
lift the indictment that hangs over
him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

The recent railroad accidents should
not be blamed on the sun spots.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

The proper way to pronounce it is
Missouri" and not "Mizzouri." Mis-
sourians were shown this by the In
dams
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

That man in Indiana who advertised
fifty-two years before finding the kind
of wife he wanted tied up to widow
at last.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

The wide open towns are located In
the earthquake belt.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

Paper, sir?' asked a newsboy of a
benevolent old gentleman WHO was hav-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

The Teddy bear stickpin is in our midst.
1t is at least more useful than the Teddy
bear
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

While George Washington was reputed
to be one of the wealthiest men of his
time, there is no record to show that any,
body ever asked him where he got it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

Andalusia News: Suppose we have one
session of the legislature every ten years.
That's often enough-if we're going to
have this kind.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala,
postof11ce as second class matter under
act OF Congress March 5, 1873.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-07-24
Story Telling Pictures.

Art for arts sake had doughty
champion in the late James Whistler
and the following which insisted upon
his view have managed to nearly
drown the cry of those who ask for
pictures that say something human.
The critics who insist upon technique
had the advantage, for in discussing
art and setting it's standard they We're
on their own ground. They declared
that to ask for pictures which mean
something was to demand literature
and not art Recently the head of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sir Pur-
don Clarke, has taken up the cudgel
for the laymen. Said he:
They talk about tone pictures, which are
all technique, and nothing else. But
what's the use of a picture If 1t does not
tell story or convey an impression? To
paint pictures in order to show off tech
nique is on a par with making a chair
which can't be sat in. Neither serves a
purpose except 1t be to express the soul
of the artist or cabinetmaker.
Ii the manager of the great collection
in New York carries out this view he
will find the museum crowded with
Americans who want to be thrilled and
lifted up by art. Studies in color, in
lines and in tone do not appeal to
everyday people. In every broad exhi-
bition Of pictures the crowds will be
seen lingering about the speaking pic
lures which have for subject the
newsboy, the fisherman, the colored
nanny, the sailor or the pioneer.
Smiling, weeping or frowning, they tell
story of joy or pain. The poet whose
songs become t'the songs of people,
sings from the heart to the art. The
painter who wants to put upon art it's
share Of the burden of uplifting hui
mainly must paint from the heart to
the heart. The masses will pass by an
old master and linger enraptured be-
fore s'The Angelus." One is relic of
the mythical past, the other bears in
every line the touch of nature put
there, yea, yesterday. One is dead, the
other vital