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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE REAL
 THINGS OF INTEREST TO BIRMINGHAM

orphan child of it's properties and takes liberties with Birmingham which it would not dream of with Governor Hoke Smiths Atlanta.
 I don't mean to be abnormally critical about this. but if any one will look into the schedules and service of the South ern railway and it's controlled lines today and year ago they can see for them- selves. It is true they have had period of depression. Their earnings are away off. But they have given Atlanta all it's demands; and Chattanooga the same We people of Birmingham-believing in our virtues, our industries our worth, and knowing our toll to it's till-have said nothing; and we have become the way ward child and the way station.
 If one kicks it is best to state the real facts And I do hope that the men man. aging the Southern railway will give more time to its real operation than to sweetly scented notes and eloquent talk upon flying visits to the greatest and most substantial and prosperous city of the best district upon it's entire system.
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 And right in this connection the acts of the executive committee of the United Steel Corporation which we shall all hear of within the week will tell a story which will make all of as here who are here to remain and grow up with Birming- ham be glad that we are here. Every merchant and business man who is here today and who is doing business upon business principles may be glad of it. He will prosper in the future. But it shall be a mistake to overndulge in real estate speculation The improvement will be gradual, but substantial. The raising of rents will be ruinous. They are too high now. To dos so will drive people to the suburbs
 The real people of Birmingham want common sense to prevail. Both the fan atical and the graspers must be called down.
 Whether those who read agree or dis agree. the words above are the candid sentiments of
 2,a5Gsoze~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
AN ALL-CANADIAN NIAGARA.

From Leslie's Weekly.
 Are the power companies in a conspir-
 acy to make Niagara Falls entirely Ca
 nadian? That will be the result accord
 ing to Dr. Joseph w. w. Spencer, if they
 avail themselves to the full extent of the
 grants under their franchises. He is an
 eminent Canadian geologist and probably
 the best known authority on the water
 fo-' and power capacity of the Niagara
 river. He is the author of a monograph
 published under the authority of the ge- ological survey branch of the Canadian department of mines, entitled "The Falls
 of Niagara: Their Evolution and Vary ing Relations to the Great Lakes, Char acteristies of the Power and the Effects of Its Diversion" After making-a careful survey of the river above the first cas- cade (which rushes over wide ledge at a considerable distance above the Ca-
 nadian Falls), he is convinced that the diversion of water has decreased the flow over the rim of the cascade by one foot, | and he predicts that the level of Lake Erie will soon be lowered one foot, and perhaps three feet at a more remote date. The American Falls, now about thou l sand feet wide, will then be reduced to a few shallow streams trickling over the | edge of the precipice. and the main fall
 which has already lost 415 feet of it's width as the result of artificial embanl<- ments, will lose 250 feet more while it's l depth at the brink will be two or three 1 feet less Since 1900, when the Cana l oian Falls were 2950 and the American i 1000 feet wide, the total width has been I diminished to $500 feet; Ii the power com 1 panes insist upon utilizing all their !, grants for diversion, the width of the 1 cataract will be reduced to 1500 feet, all ] of it in Canadian territory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
Music In the Colleqes.

'The cultural value of music is at last being appreciated by college faculties, remarked an educator. Leonard Me Whood of Columbia university is leader in the movement to make the musical de- partment of American colleges count for something, and under his leadefship great progress has been made within the last five or six years. A few years ago music was not treated seriously in any American institution of learning. The old and mar row idea that the study of music was detrimental rather than otherwise to a young mans scholastic career. But most educators are waking up to the fact that European countries, notably Germany,
 places the study of music alongside of mathematics and the classics, and that no man is considered educated unless he knows something of the theory of the di- vine art and is able to follow intelliS eutiy a sonata, symphony or an oratorio
 Today something like 40 per cent of the colleges in the United States have made music part of their curricula in many of these colleges knowledge of music has credit in entrance, and in quite a numDer progress Tn the stldy ol Hhusic helps toward a degree. The Idea Is not to
 make finished performers or vocal artists of the students, but rather to teach them harmony and composition, thus forming a taste for the highest and best in an art that is more pleasure-giving and uplifting than all the others. The time will come
 when every college must have it's depart | ment of music When that day arrives | America will no longer be called an un- l musical nation; for when all the colleges l examine candidates for matriculation on | music with a view to entrance credit, i the preparatory schools must include
 music in their pedagogical work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
Judqe Sharpe.

Judge Henry A. Sharpe, now presid ing in the city court of Birmingham, is a candidate for reelection" said a prominent member of the bar. "There are two judges to be elected. Nearly ev erybody will vote for Judge Sharpe be- cause of his acknowledged ability and fitness. We cannot improve on Judge Slarpe'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

The San Diego people sent 33,000 oranges out to the fleet as it dropped anchor in California mud. The sea was soon strewn with orange peel. No lemons in the case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

And now they say the Abruzzi is to marry Miss Elkins and then he is 70 become Italys ambassador to this country. This is the most novel phase of the problem yet presented.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
Prosperity Returning.

Notwithstanding pessimistc reports that come from Wall street now and then commercial travellers who sell goods in southern and western territory note a steady improvement in business" said l.. s. McCarty of Baltimore.
 Business is certainly much better than it was early in the year and as the crop reports continue favorable with the ad- vance of spring, the commercial situation will grow brighter and brighter.
 ''I feel that summer trade will be al most if not quite normal. No one or course, expects prosperity to be so much in evidence as it was in 1906 or 1907 up to the October panic, but when the year is ended the showing will be far from bad. There is no excuse for the croaker and l am glad to find few grumblers or pessimists in Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

The elephant beetle of Venezuela weighs half pound It is the largest insect in the world, and when it falls into ones soup it's presence is speedily detected
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

The times may be hard, but they are not hard enough to crush out admira- tion for and practical support of the great American game of baseball.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

Coffee that wasn't grown in Mocha cannot bear hereafter the name of that port It will be necessary to get a new blend, or get ready to meet the penalty of the pure food law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
THE coLoRED VOTERS.
i, fluence They May Have on the Cam.
 paign Greatly Exaggerated.

From the New York Times
 There was a lot of exaggeration at the meeting of negroes on Thursday evening called to influence the action of the re- publican party in the approaching cam paign, and though that is a fault not confined to any race it is worth noting. The fervent orators who declared that they represented 10, GOO 900 of negroes over looked the fact that there are in the United States, according to the census, only 4,359,265 males of voting age who are either negroes or the descendants of negroes.
 Here is a little deduction of 57 per cent to make at the start. Fully three-fourths of these negro males of voting age live in states where it would make no differ ence which way they voted for presi- dential electors. This reduces the pos sible constituency for which these orators can claim to speak to less than 2,OOO, ,OoO at the most, supposing that they really speak the sentiments of all the negroes in possibly republican states. It would be in certain conditions a goodly number but it is not 100000.
 In this state the speakers asserted that they spoke for 46000 negroes Again, according to the census, there are in the state only 31,425 colored males of voting age The total colored population is not 100000 and the actual number of votes cast by colored voters is probably not over 25,O0O. A good many of these, we are sorry to say, are likely to vote as they are paid to vote
 Nothing not even the indulgence by the whites of the south of the inbred race prejudice against the negroes, has done so much to retard the progress of the race toward self-support and inde- pendence as the use the republicans have made of them for political ends.
 At the same time, much as the repub- licans deserve to be abandoned by the negroes, it is impossible to see how the latter can now hope to profit by the ac- cession to power of the democratic party under MT. Bryan. To aid in bringing that about would be trying to jump from the frying pan into very, very hot fibe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

The appeal on that $29, 100000 fine $ to be heard in Chicago on May ', and at Washington at some later date in the scarcity of them in Wall street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

The grandstand, the Merry Widow hat and the battlefeet are all in the Spot light You pay your money and you take your choice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

A large American brick is to be in serted in the open door in Manchuria, and southern cotton goods will yet have a chance there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
NO PATRONAGE.

From the Chicago News.
 Gunner-I asked that tall chap if he would vote for Hughes, and he wanted to thrash me.
 Guyer-You don't say! Democrat, eh? Gunner-No; barber.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
THE VIOLET.

THE VIOLET. Shyly peeping forth From a broken wall, She looked with sigh At the red rose tall, An imperial bloom, So cold and proud, Who fain. would kiss The summer cloud. Then the violet dropped And Alas said she, '.No worshiping eyes Will alight on me, So low, so poor,
 So far away From the big, bright world And the glare of day. And the while she plained, In accents drear, A holiday maid,
 Wtira laugh drew near. And her face, in truth, Was passing fair And the gold of the sun Cleaned in her hair. With bold disregard Of the morning dew, She plucked the rose And the violet, too. And the leaves of the rose She pulled apart, But the violet
 Lay next to her heart. THE PRESIDENTS FRIENDS. NO man alive is free from faults.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

President Roosevelt is going abroad in 1909, to return perhaps as full fledged candidate for 1912. General Grant tried it, but failed to get third term nomination.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

'Il Libero Pensiero' is the name of new Italian newspaper, the first issue Of which has just appeared in Ensley and Birmingham. S. R. Guarino is the editor. It is a neat journal of 12 pages, including a handsome Easter supplement in colors
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

The Donkhobors have taken off their winter underclothes, that's all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

A bill before Congress proposes the building of a boulevard from ocean to ocean along the thirty-fourth parallel. It would become the northern bound arY of Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

It is a good horse that goes in ten hours 60 miles on good turnpike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

The flock in Central park, New York, is accommodating lambs to offset the scarsity of them in Wall street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

The congressman's happiest dream is of the time when he will go home after adjournment to meet grateful constituency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

The young army lieutenants will soon have a chance to rise, for the government is about to organize q balloon school.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

Sunday is day of rest, and politics national, state and city-should con. form to the spirit of the day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

Patti at the age of 65, is consider ing the making of a farewell tour in this country. She is indeed a grand old woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

It is needless to say that Delegate Alton B. Parker will go to Denver un- instructed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

The mountain labored, but it did not bring forth even an Aldrich bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

Venezuela is afflicted with the plague and Castro.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

Bryan and Taft are still in ths lead, and it only remains to be decided which is to occupy the White House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

Congress has forgotten the Maine and the hulk is deep in the ooze of Ha- vana harbor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

It will never do to take the first de. feat of ball team too much to heart
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

Battleships, like chickens, should not be counted until they are matched.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

The approaching presidential cam paign will be interesting. but it will hardly come up to that of 1884 in the matter of excitement. The only gen. timely hot campaigns since the war were those of 1876 and 1884.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

The Coosa River News, one of the best weekly newspapers in the state, cele- brated it's thirtieth anniversary Friday by issuing a special edition which re- fleets great credit on the management.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
TOO TRUE.
OH. sLuSH!

"Blffkins has invested in a dimple." Please explain" ''He Is married"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
HE AND NO OTHER.

Father who makes the great ap- plause' in the Congressional Record?' "The printer, my son."
 TOO TRUE. Some men have no
 Ambition,
 Except to go
 A-fition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
JOURNALISTIC.

And we are having real Easter weather after all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

SOME>-nORE RECOLLECTIONS. Oh, well do I remember When was a little chap; The hand that rocked the cradle Later on applied the strap.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. I, too, have not forgotten What mother did, you bet; Now feeling of my trousers, I find them warmish yeti
 Houston Labor Journal. You fellows make me weary, And your. stories make me scoff; For all the spankings that l got Were with my trousers off!
 Atlanta Journal of Labor. Well, it did no good to spank you With hand, or strap or switch; You have all developed into Poets, editors and sichl
 Chicago Fuel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

The St. Louis Times celebrated it's first anniversary with an immense edition of 76 pages. total of 16O,o00 copies were printed The Times has made rapid prog ress since it's establishment one year ago and now stands in the front rank of representative newspapers in the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
REPLIES. procession of art-Mrs. Les Id her pig.

The procession of art-Mrs. Leslie Car ter and her pig.
 The hook doesn't seem to have any effect on Willyum Jennings Bryan
 As rule, 'eminently respectable" peo- pie seldom amount to much in the world. The germ peril in kisses doesn't interest suffragettes.
 At the hour of going to press there were no signs of a general uprising be- cause Mr. Eddie Foy will not play Ham letr PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

EASTER. And this the day my lady trips To church and holy prayers, A morning smile upon her lips An hundred pretty airs. What though she wears hat so large 'Twould fill corner lot, To hold her faults in strictest charge, Forsooth, I'd rather not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
Ae)Goozs-.
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

sings Paul Cook in the Birmingham Age- Herald. Go toi Ask MT Jacob Rns.- Washington Herald. And if you don't be- 1ieve him ask Gen. Leonard Wood or pr. Stokes-New York Telegram.
 Still, the word of these estimable gentle men doesn't make the President free from faults. Dr. Long and MT Hartman could vouch for that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
A PRAYER.

A PRAYER. All I want is rest
 In quiet place, Far away from toll
 And the binding race. Let me loaf awhile, Let me dream a bit, Give me but a day
 Where the swallows fit. All I want is rest
 From the busy throng, Where the eddies whirl And the tide is strong; Where the weak go down, Never more to rise, And man must fail, Even though he tries. All I want is rest
 For a little while, Where the blooms are sweet And the heavens smile; Where the soul awakes And the heart beats true, And the worlds forgot, With it's weight of rue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

Peaches are coming early this sea- son and in great abundance. A year ago the fruit growers were distressed because of a peach shortage. Now they are beginning to dread low prices because of the heavy crop outlook.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

THEN HE'LL KNOW BETTER. ''He says he understands women. 'Let him talk. He isn't married yet. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
HEDGING.

HEDGING. "Every one of your biscuits is poem. "Why don't you eat one?' My dear, nobody eats poems"
 ALAS. A maid fell down Oh, what pity! None picked her up She wasn't pretty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
IMPOSSIBLE.

q see where man tried to corner the Lmburger market"
 ''He might have known he wasn't strong enough to do that!''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
About Persons,

About Parsons. Dr. Wyatt Hedin has returned to the city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

ITS EVER THUS. A man once bought an auto, Which was the latest style, And yet, the thing exploded Before he'd gone a mile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

THE PRESIDENTS FRIENDS. "No man alive is free from faults.'
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-27
BIG RALLY AT TAMMS
+ '.npuished Visitors Accompsnie
Cairo Wis tors to That Place
Train Late.

Hon T. r.. So ulman OF DuQuoin and
Cant J. VI Joplin OF Benton. VINO
same 10 Cairo To address the Demo.
Graf rally Friday night accompan @ D
PARTY Of local Democrats o. Tammz
yesterday afternoon 90 attend a bic
meeting of Democrats there. The NO
hi'a Is Ohi0 train on which they made
fha trip ua- several hours lafe owing
TO- 900 accident to "a fright train ON the
IHil-a iH which three freight cars
g sre overturned blocking the track
TO- usiH iau Cairo after O'Clock
Too rs.uofra= returned last night on
tha train arriving here a. n 1n
u-,.uCk
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-27
BARGE LOAD Of
CANNED TOMATOES
SOLD BY ALF T. &. HAYNES,
BROKER, TO CAIRO WHOLE
SALERS 49, SHIPPED FROM
SMlTHLAND, KY.

All T. + Haynes the broker, has at
the Cairo wharf the largest consgh-
men5 of canned tomatoes ever
brought to Cairo. There is a barge
load Of the goods which We're s ipped
to him by the canning company at
Smithland, Ky The barge contains
3,500 cases, equaF to seven ear loads,
aud have been sold by Mr. Haynes to
four Cairo wholesale grocers at a
good profit,
Mr. Haynes is one of the most sue
ceasful young brokers of Cairo and
vicinity and has broken records sew.
eral times for big shipments OF goods
sold In the Cairo market.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-27
NEW LIGHT SYSTEM
Greatly Beauties Store of the Rhodes
Burford Furniture Company
400 lncandsscents.

\ new lighting scheme that came,
but interest all who see it has just
been installed by the Rhodes Burtord
Furniture Company IN their handsome
store at the corner Of Tenth street and
Commercial avenue Nearly four hun
dred inrandeseent lights are suspend
ed from the ceiling in cut glass shades
in a manner that Eliminates the dark
est Corner ct the room the whole con
trolled by a perfect system O..
switches.
The stove room is the special pride
of Manager W NJ. Hurt and is said T.
be one Of the finest show rooms in
the state Along the north wall Of
the room is a row of Buck S ranges
along the south wall a row Of heaters
and down the center cook stoves
small heaters etc Ia the rear and
occupying the whole rear end Of the
room is a big Buck trade mark with
yellow back ground that shows M
well in the daytime bur is especially
striking at night under the new
rangement of the lights The interior
of the store is just out Of the hand
eff the painters having been com
plctely overhaulcd and rc.dccorated
on the front OF the building are tw
new signs, a furnished house ana a
Buck trade mark. both surrounded hy
electric lights so that they can be see 3
for blocks at night as well as duriu
the day.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-27

tho trained elephants breaking loose
FROM it's chains to enter the ring WHOM
the time came; not waiting for its
mates or keeper, who had been do.
layed
The excellent performances of In"
Carl Uagenbeck & Great Wallace
Cirrus. which will exhibit in Cairo
Tuesday September 20, are noted for
Oh. dash and vim with which they are
ai.eu. This is largely due to the
uniformity Of Nerrick's Concert band,
AMI 10 the good mana-eneat n tAo
equestrian department under the
direction OF Charles SwccnN
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-27
EXCELLENT PERFORMANCES.

II is doubtful if ever any circus
patron ever saw a member OF the
show look az a watch during the per
f1rmance From the time the first
whistle is sounded for everyone to
mount until the last race is run OH
tsr hippodrome track the circus
folks do not need a time piece
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-27
@(@ HEALS
0.0.0. SORES AND ULCERS

indications of blood They show that the
circulation has become infected with and o which are being
constantly discharged the delicate
surrounding flesh and keep the of inflammation
the blood result
old whether
hereditary blood and that
purify the blood Washes saves lotions often beneficial
of their ansepc effects but nothing applied the
blood and
ulcers
trouble
makes lasting changes the quality the
ation, instead of feeding diseased parts impurities
nourishes and heals the namd
fill in with healthy tissue by with rich blood Book
Sores and Ulcers medical advice desired all who
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. |
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-27

Mrs W f. Morris, 34l5 Sycamore
street has neat and new line OF dry
goods notions and millinery goo:s
which she sells at the lowest figures
possible She invites the public to
call and get prices and be convinced
as t. the bargains aud goods.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-27

A small quantity Of pure, still house
whiskey is Indispensable In every
home. OLD TERRELL DISTILLERY,
f.. f. MNEILL Manager Both phones
Free delivery in the city.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-27

WANTED Ladies 20 make aprons:
$3.50 dozen. No cost 90 get work Ma
toIiaIs sent prepaid Enclose STAMPED
addressed envelope Home Apron d
Dr-ss Co. los Augeles. Cal
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-27

THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-27

The first actual still house that ev-
Ct established headquarters in Cairo
was the OLD TERRELL DIsTILERY.
z. r MNEILL Manager.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-27
Wit rnd Mon nnsn

When one runs after wit he is sure
to catch -Montesqueu.
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