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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01
STUDENT FOR LIFE.
Columbus Man Has To Stay In Col
 leae To Draw Annuity.

From the New York World.
 Doomed to be a 'rah 'rah boy all his days is the fate of William Cullen Bry- ant Kemp-who has been a student at Columbia university for 2 years-if he would continue to draw an annuity of $2500 left him years ago by generous but exacting relative.
 "Bill' Kemp, as he is familiarly known, does not recall whether the relative was an uncle, an aunt or a more distant rel ative. The will provides that Kemp is to receive the annuity as long as he continues to be registered in some col lege and also that he live in the college dormitory.
 The fact that Kemp has continued to be a student at Columbia for 27 years is taken as evidence that he means to keep drawing the annuity. But grave problem confronts him. How can he stretch the course out so that it will last his lifetime? How can he keep from be- ing graduated?
 Bills chief aim has been to systema- tize his studies so that he may not pass examinations. The professors at the uni versity marvel at the skill with which he Hunks. His hair is streaked With gray The student life has agreed with him, however, and he is inclined to be portly There is not a "rah-rah" boy who enters with more enthusiasm into the college sports, and no important event would be complete or successful without the presence of Bill"
 He is lavish entertainer in his rooms in Livingston Hall. Having been at the college while 20 or so classes have come and gone, he is perhaps the best-known college student in the country. Each year he has found it harder to find new studies to keep him in college.
 The only way Kemp can account Tor the strange provision in his relative s will is that when a boy "Bill' was rather dull and the relative wanted to make sure that he would be a man of learn ing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01
"Me and My People

he Emperor Williams example IS
 nething the White House as it is at present manned and constituted cannot resist, and the only wonder is that another upshooting moustache is \ not cultivated there.
 The latest piece of Kaiserism in the White House is much the worst of the berries. In cabling to President Pardo bf Peru President Roosevelt says with kare egotism, Accept the assurances tof the highest consideration and warm regards from me and my people. My people and me" would have been bad enough, for he possesses no peo- pie, but when he says me and my people" he almost out-Kaisers the Kaiser himself, and takes away the American breath. Now we know" says the Provi- &dence Journal, republican paper, or at least not a bit Of a democratic Bryan paper, why he took Tn God we Trust off his and our gold pieces" He did not approve of the pronoun-it was too conglomerate.
 It is better perhaps to dissolve the partnership between 'me" and my people" Kaiserism pals on the appe- tite after while It Is good joke at first, but in the long run it has bad taste, and it is therefore better to ex. ciise the senior member of the firm from a chance to write in a third term any more cablegrams of the me and-my-people sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01
MR. UNDERWOOD WANTED BAN

From the Washington star.
 AS much as the people of Washington see of the members of the Senate and House there still remain about the per sons of the national legislators some of that glow and glamour that surround their persons when at home among their constituents. Maybe that's the reason why some folk congregated in down town drug store the other day groaned with violent disappointment at an unex- pected denouement.
 There was quite crowd of people in the store when the door flew open and Representative Oscar Underwood of Ala bama, the democratic immaculate and disciple of Brummel, hustled in. It was quite apparent that MT. Underwood was not only in hurry, but very worried. His brow was wrinkled vertically and horizontally, and as he glanced at the clock. which showed few minutes after G. he sighed audibly. Somebody in the store tipped everybody else off that 1t was Mr. Underwood who waited In a fret, and & clerk. sharing in the ex- citement and thinking that perhaps MT. Underwood was i'll, galloped up. Every body else craned in anticipation.
 Say" cried MT. Underwood to the clerk, with another nervous look at the timepiece, "do you keep bandoline?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01
The Telephone Exchange.

"I was greatly interested in recent visit to the exchange of the Southern Bell Telephone company" said a prom inent business man. ''I called on Manager Turnbull and he showed me over the building, called my attention to the mag nitude of the new equipment and ex- plained the modern devices and inventions that have been applied with wonderful results, both from service and an econ omic point of view.
 within the past two years the Bell company has built it's handsome six-story home on Second avenue; built an ex- change in Ensley; improved its other ex- changes, and installed new equipment here that must have cost a vast sum of money. Those of us who have to use the tele- phone every day have remarked a decided improvement in the service and MT. Turn bull informs me that it will be still further improved. AS it is, the service now compares most favorably with that in other cities.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01
Fowler Versus Aldrich

The Fowler bill goes to the House indorsed by the House committee on banking and currency, the vote in committee being Il yeas and nays. Nearly all the republicans in the com mittee supported the Fowler bill.
 This pits the Fowler bill against the Aldrich bill, and the tussle in the House Promises to be warm and ex' citing. The Fowler bill is compre- hensive measure. while the Aldrich bill is mere piece of patchwork.
 The Aldrich bill calls for an emer. gency issue of $5OO,OOoOOO based on municipal or railroad bonds, and it is especially pleasing to Wall street and the northeastern states, all of which are loaded up with the securities named in the Aldrich bill. No one claims the Aldrich bill would oper- ate to prevent panic--it would 6ow. ever be useful in the east aAer q panic had occurred. The Fowler bill aipSl \ writs TrRs for IR,rMip inp assets currency fslsdl FRIED. Arx national b,s.ss Ss ssd St. S.v 7sll. .s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01
The Cabbage Industry.

'oThe cabbage industry seems to De growing in popularity in Alabama ana I am glad to see it," said R. N. Beck yesterday. "I see that Huntsville boasts of the shipment of half a million plants from Georgia for the use of Madison county association of planters. or course' this is a big thing and very commensurate but Chess Hughes of Tuscaloosa has Just furnished one planter near that town with an equal number of cabbage plants for one farm.
 MT. Hughes has furnished plants to other planters In Tuscaloosa county amounting to several million for this sea- sons planting.
 "The people in the vicinity of Tuscaloosa are just beginning to experiment in this industry and the result promises to be very satisfactory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01
EsklMos ADVANCED"
Trial Marriages Are In Everyday Use.
 stefansson's Account of Them.

Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati En-
 quirer.
 Tacoma, Wash.-The first professional ethnologist to visit and study the primi- tive Eslsimos in their far northern homes, Victor Stefansson, has returned to new Westminster with an interesting account of two years travelling among them.
 A peculiarity not hitherto made public in connection with Eskimos is the sys- tenn of trial marriages in vogue. Con7 ventional canons are entirely disregarded, the only prelminaries to marriage sbslng ythe securing of an option on the heart and hand of an Eskimo belle by the suitor If, after few weeks Or months, the couple find they are not congenial, the girl returns to her father. Ittis not unusual for a young girl tb be married five or six times before finally finding her. affinity. After two %ears' compan- is,Isa, iOnship tries cite unknown, In t-sssF' HA CNAf than
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01
BRACE TALKS ABOUT SEVERAL A THINGS OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE HERB

dreds of letters have been sent into The
 Age Herald requesting that the fight be
 kept up
 A self-constituted committee of five
 well known and prominent men of Birm-
 ingham all interested in one way or
 another in manufacturing, mining or
 other business interests in Birmingham,
 called upon me yesterday and suggested
 that it would be wise and good thing
 for Birmingham if in the event a reduc-
 ton in prices of the necessaries of life
 was not brought about immediately in this district that The Age-Herald should start a movement for a cooperative gro- cery company in Birmingham to supply such as ordinary groceries, meats of all kinds and vegetables of all kinds. They suggested that at the outset one store should be established in the center of the city. one on the Northside and one on the Southside, and that additional branch stores should be established in the suburbs if necessary. The plan sug- gested was that each stockholder would not be allowed to subscribe more than sloo to the stock of the corporation. That when the list was made, a general man ager of the concern should be chosen by the stockholders, this general manager to have charge of the operation of the stores under the guidance of a board of directors to be elected by the stockhold- CTS. That each stockholder should then endorse his stock and place it in escrow with the manager. This would entitle each stockholder to line of credit up to sl0O, or the par value of his stock, during any month. In the event his bill fas not paid promptly his stock would Ak appropriated for the payment of the i,Nne. To people who were not stock 'lasaiers goods to be sold at the same icdps as to stockholders, but for cash; Id Ifthe margin of profits should be re- lcedt to the lowest limit. At the end
 eaces h year a statement should be made i'd di'aidends upon the earnings paid to ockhol ders in proportion to their total lrchaseSTs g during the year rather than 'on thenir stock investment. The sug- ,stion sta lrikes me as a good one: that
 unless lathe wholesale and retail grocers
 Birmints sham devise means by which who mE lst live in Birmingham shall ly the necS Sessaries of life as cheaply as ey can be bought elsewhere. don't likels to be a kicker and do ,t think I ann. find that everybody 'rees that thAailngs are too high here, Id I would bea, glad to test this sug- ,stion by reqtelesting that those who
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01
reaches S25,oOo ooo the money is to be

reaches S25.OOo.000 the money is to be invested in government 2s at 1O4.
 The Fowler bill is vastly better and fairer to all sections, and it remains to be seen whether it or the plutoeratlc down-east Aldrich bill will be pre- ferred by the republican party. Both are now squarely before Congress, and the people will pass upon the wisdom of it's choice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01
Children in Moving Picture Shows.

There is feature to the moving pie ture show now so popular that seems to me would bear an investigation,' said 8 citizen, "and that is allowing children of tender years to take part in the perform ances. l witnessed one the other day in which little girl who had not yet lost the lisp of babyhood sang a so-called comic song. The little creature was very attractive and sang remarkably well for one So young, but far from enjoying her performance I felt nothing but sympathy for her, and no little indignation that she should be subjected at her tender years to such a task. l always dislike to see a child on the stage, but in my opinion these picture shows are more exactlng as performance is given every few minutes, and public clamor demands new song every day or two. These children should not be deprived of the pleasures of child hood which is all too brief.
 Tn fact there is legislation against the employment Of children. hope this mat ter will be properlyl investigated; if not I shall have sonnkhir " more o.s to say on fhe'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

think well of the plan Of this proposed cooperative grocery company and who would be willing to invest slOO in the concern-nobody being allowed to invest more than that-would address a letter to The Age-Herald stating a willingness to do so, or else letter showing that such plan is not feasible.
 This town lof Birmingham promises within the next five years to be the greatest city in tile southl We have everything here to make it so. We, who are here and must remain here and each one of us should do our duty to bring others with us; to build up the indus tries and the business of this city and this district. We should not interfere unnecessarily with our neighbors, but we should make Birmingham in every way so attractive as to bring others with us' we cdl Sio tiliS II we mahe IL cost those who would come with us too much to live in proportion to their earnings.
 Right in this connection, I do not propose to let up in urging good roads in Jefferson county until such has become an accomplished fact. The people of ever.- section of the county, as we'll as of the city, are determined that we shall have good roads; and while there is quite an element making a fight against work ing convicts on the public roads, 1t has been clearly demonstrated that we have little chance of success unless we do try the experiment for at least one year, regardless of the arguments against it which are made in favor of funds for the maintenance of the courts derived from the hire of the convicts to the mine operators. I cannot see why the county cannot make and save money, taking all of it's expenses together, by work ing the convicts on the roads. Certainly if the mine operators can use them profit ably-more profitably than free labor-the county can use them more proftably on the roads than 1t can use free labor. Certainly the people are in the humor of trying the experiment, and I do hope that every voter in Jefferson county will cast his ballot for those candidates for of the Board of Revenue in the May primary who are reasonably com- mitted to trying the experiment of build ing and maintaining the roads with county. convicts for at least one year. Unless we do we will drag along in the same old paths with the same old ruts over the same old roads that we have been going over for the past four or five years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01
Cruel Sport.

'The more l see of the good effects of our game laws the higher becomes my regard for John H. Wallace, the father of the bill for the protection of fish and game" said lover Of nature. Few better things have been done by the Alabama legislature than the passage of the bill referred to. Every state should have a similar law.
 q do not know what Georgia has done to protect it's birds, but if it has laws for their protection, they are not en- forced l read the other day in the At lanta Constitution a special from Albany in which a story was related that made my heart sisl A party of 40 men went out for sport. They spent month ill batting for doves. They scattered grain in field and innocent birds came to feed. At first there were not many doves, but the number increased daily, until at the end of month they came in swarms. They felt at home, thinking in their dove-like innocence that friendly hands were providing them with food. The 40 alleged sportsmen went out with their guns one morning and within few hours killed 6OO0 doves. I cannot imagine any thing more cruel. It was worse than bull-fghting''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

Illinois has a new direct plurality primary law, and the reform will yet spread over Kentucky, Tennessee and the Congo Free State.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

The racing automobiles will soon need the services of the Eskimo dogs, as their own power is of little use on the trip in hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

March comes in like lamb, and we are almost sure to have beautiful weather until the end of March, when the month will go out like 8 lion.
 q am always glad to see spring-like days in Lent, for Lent, I believe, derives it's name from spring. The word seems to be of Teutonic origin, and the original idea was, no doubt, that Lent, which is based on Easter a movable festival of the church, marked a period coming mere- ly with the approach of spring. For, as Ash "Wednesday usually comes in Febru- ary, the northern countries are in the grip of winter when the season of Lent Is being observed.
 Next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, so-called because the faithful, at the be- ginning of the penitential tide, are signed by the priest with ashes, the accompany ing words being, Remember man thou art dust and unto dust thou must return
 Last year Ash Wednesday fell on Feb ruary IS, and in 1909 it will come on February 24. It will not come again in March until 1911.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

Admiral Evans has lost faith in the sunshine cure. He has just tried an extra summer and it has not cured his rheumatism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

The bomb-throwers are no respecters of persons, treating the Shah of Per sia and the president of Argentina i'm partially alike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

If the opposing nominees should prove to be Bryan and Roosevelt it will tickle the country to see Wall street pick a favorite.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

The f1ippancy of the New York Ju- TOTS who tossed coin to reach yer dict was condemned by the court re- gardless of the merits of the verdict. Their fiippancy cost them 5000 each,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01
tosr ILLUSIONS.

Ey Jaines Russell Lowell when | wa @ beggar boy
 Ano hVeu Nn cellar damp I had not a friend or a toy.
 But l hau 5laddin's lamp. . When l couioAn sleep for cold
 I had fire erbuah in yos .brain ,.t 2 And builded Win roof ~ w. My beautiful kastIeyn r Since then I h "a to t
 have mopey nd puW ASs $.r { ias s'I 'r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

A Kentucky primary has resulted in the election of a republican United States senator, but a Kentucky pri- mary is bogus affair, mere trick to be manipulated by the machine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

C ONE oF N my good friends among S the .rl Yer. or pir~lssaan-Dosr
 whoesA le and retail-seem to oe bit miffed that HI should have called at tention in this A Column last Sunday to
 q
 the fact that the neeessaries of life In Birmingham were being sold at too high
 =
 price !" e0mparil ." Ni'n o'ner ei'es' They seem to thin me a wicked one for having called A< ltention to the fact and for having arous><>ed a discussion on the subject in the loc./tl columns of The Age Herald. It seem/<<, however, that this diseussion has broTLght out the fact that there is somewhat AI%f a trust, some where or somehow, by WIhich prices are maintained upon such a llIligh basis that injury is being worked tol the Birming- ham district.
 Now there is no reason il n the world why we should not buy the( necessaries of life-the eatables which mu, st maintain life-in Birmingham just as che ap as they can be bought in any other sect ion of the south Labor that we need to build up the industries of this section | will not come here and remain here unla tss they can live as cheapIy and eat as gool d foods as they have in other places. PrN ces of groceries are higher today than they have ever been. And yet we read iiA T the columns of The Age-Herald only \ yes- terday morning and Friday morning 5s the announcement that the Southern RaA H. way and the Louisville & Nashville raiH road, and other railroads, have beenA compelled to reduce the salaries paid to | their employees 10 per cent. Many of
 the manufacturing plants of the Brm- ingham district have done likewise. The
 man who has been making S75 a month here has had his salary reduced to sS7.5O , He has rented his little home. He is , living as economically as possible. His . salary Is cut. Yet he must pay higher , prices for what he eats than he has here tofore paid.
 What is the salaried man going to do? ! He has his wife and children to main , tain. He has not eaten any moro than necessary in the past Now he must pay | out everything he makes and probably | run in debt to live. It is not only the case with the small salaried man but with the man who makes more. Everything in the eatable { line is too high in Birmingham, and 1t ; must be reduced. Outside of the actual man who Is deal ing in eatables, I have not heard of one single man or woman in the Birmingham ! district who does not approve of the { article wrote last Sunday on the sub l ject of the prices of foods; and hun
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

Critic Reuterdahl pointed out tho defects of American battleships, and then at once took passage on one of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

Medicine Hat does not seem to be affected by the present industrial de- pression, for it's output was never larger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

These noiseless guns filled with smolkeless powder are all right, but what the innocent bystander wants is a harmless bullet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

A special message on nightriders is about due, and no one need be sur- prised at it's appearance at any time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

Taft's brother is worth $30,000,00 but no one knows how much of 1t is predatory wealth..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

There are no villages on Boring Straits made up of friendly snow shovelers to greet and meet the auto racers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

Congressman Clayton should be put where he could honor Alabama at the Denver convention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

Our tackles behave better ashore than the man-o' wars man did gener. ation ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

Tn these days of depressed prices baseball players are holding up re. markably well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01
TIME TO KICK.

"The governor is after us with ar,, axe" said the editor-in-chief.
 Whats the matter? asked the night editor.
 'We had a paragraph saying, His spe cial message was great and it came out in the paper, His facial massage was great"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

The spring bonnet hesitates to ap- pear until the g5uSd hogs six weeks have expired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

l ton Post. Every suffragette who reads that statement will want to quit. SPRING YELL. Rahi Rah Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Strawberries wberries An Indiana man borrowed a parlor to get married in. He's the sort of fellow who would borrow a house to live in. THE RULING PASSION. A trolley car ran over him
 While going to the game, The ambulance was summoned, six
 Reporters took his name.
 He fingered at the hospital
 Until the close of day. And every moment doctors thought
 His soul would pass away.
 At last his life began to ebb
 More quickly than before
 And when he saw hope was left
 He murmured, What's the score?" We're strawberry -shortcaking every day and all the worlds in tune.
 A professional bridegroom" recently captured in Ohio was content to play a minor role in life
 George Cohan's new play is called 'The Yankee Prince" The Prince will probably wear loud vest.
 THE HEAD WAITER. A person of polished demeanor is he. We'll versed in the ways of the world. The swell of his bosom is wondrous to
 see,
 His moustache-if he has one-is curled. His chin is uplifted and yet he -'ill bend i To the floor in manner polite, The minute some person whose forte is to spend And hand out the tips heaves in sight. No other celebrity's more satisfied With the place that he fills in this life Iiis port is majestic, he takes & great l pride
 \ In holding aloof from. the strife. No traces of usage appear on his shirt, .Gentility wraps him around. NY trials may vex him, no trifies divert Nis esteem for himself is profound. Fyt often been puzzled in sizing him up I1 hit on whatever he'd do, IT here were mo places where people
 Night sup
 An1 keep the head waiter in view. He spuldnt get down to hard labor sucA base condescenson defames A man whose behavior is such that I He woald shine at the court of St.
 PAUL COOK.