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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
School Book Commission

The governor, in appointing the text book commission under recent act of the legislature, has made excellent selections. The language of the act makes it clear just what sort of mate rial should make up the commission. Educators of known character and ability men well acquainted with the work of arranging courses of study and engaged in public school duties.
 Including the governor and the super intendent of education, who are ex- officio members, the commission is composed of Il men. Of the nine com missioners appointed-one from each district--two represent large city schools, two represent village schools, four represent country schools and one represents an agricultural school. Thus it is seen that all classes are repre- sented and that the purpose and spirit of the law creating the commission as well as it's letter, are carried out.
 In educational circles all the con- missioners are recognized as men of ripe experience and high integrity, and it is felt that the books they select. for use in the public schools of Alabama will meet with the approval of teach CTS and the public at large.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
ToMLINsoN FOR DELEGATE.

From the Florence Times.
 It seems to be generally conceded that Col. John w. Tomlinson of Birmingham will be selected as one of the delegates for the state at large to the national democratic convention. MT. Bryan, whose nomination now no one doubts, never had more earnest loyal. enthusiastic or devoted friend and advocate than Colonel Tomlinson. Hence it is generally understood that Colonel Tomlinson's nom- ination for this important trust would be most gratifying to democracy's great leader Colonel Tomlnson, moreover, de- serves the honor. He has always re- sponded to the call of his party, and has given both his time, his money and his talent to the cause of democracy He has spoken in almost every doubtful state, and by reason of his fidelity to dem oeratic principles, his high character and unselfish party service is eminently worthy of this honor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
Motor Cars in Chicauo

The two leading contestants at Chi cago among the racing automobiles were Amer.can machines. One was an army machine going to Fort Leaven- worth, and the other was the Thomas car, which is the only American car in the New York-to-Paris race. The Zust car is an Italian machine; the De Dion and Montobloc came from French shops, and the Protos was made in Germany
 The race is not so much one of speed as of endurance against obstacles of weather and bad roads. Heavy as they are it is surprising that they could be driven through snowdrifts and mud at all at this season of the year from New York to Chicago. It shows how strong they can be constructed, and no doubt the machines engaged in the present race were built to withstand all strains that could be foreseen.
 Difficulties will accumulate after Chicago is left behind. Each car selects it's own route between points, and each will seek the Pacific independently. If all five outlast the roads and weather they will face across the plains and the Rockies it will have to be said tnere is nothing that an automobile cannot be driven through and over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
William 6. EcAdoo d Georgian

Two companies and two sets of en- gineers had failed in the attempt to tunnel under the Hudson river at New York. and success did not come until man born near Marietta, Ga., took hold of the enterprise. William G. McAdoo was born in 1863, and was educated at the University of Tennessee, and in 1885 te went to New York to prac- tice law. He is not an engineer but he is a financial and executive genius, and he has opened two tubes about two miles long, and he will soon open two more, when nearly all the Jersey terminals and trolley lines will gain access to the Wall street district and to the theatre district on a five-minute schedule and at one fare, 5 cents. The tunnel company has it's own subways on both sides of the river. and in Courtlandt street it has erected the largest office building in the world. The total cost of these rev. olutionary conveniences in the chief city of the country reaches $70,000, 900. They are worth it, however, because there are 100000 people living in New Jersey within 25 miles of the city hall. and there will be double that number by 1850.
 The project that is now an accom-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
The Eurnitnre Industry.

'In the furniture industry Michigan continues to lead the other states, at least so far as fine hardwood furniture goes" said Bertram Jacobs Grand Rap ids is the center of the industry. The larger manufacturers there own large timber tracts in the south and draw a large part of their raw material from this section. The gum known as tupelo is a southern product that is in high favor now. A prominent citizen of Bir- mingham has a forest not far from here in which tupelo is abundant. He is shipping the wood to Michigan and finds good profit in it.
 Since southern hardwoods enter so largely into the manufacture of fancy furniture, the question is often asked. why do not men of enterprise and cap ital build factories here for supplying this territory with the finished product that now comes from Michigan? The answer is easy. The manufacture of artistic furniture requires mechanics skilled in this line. The industry referred to has been developed in the northwest, and it has required 50 or 70 years to bring it up to its present high state. The men who work in the Michigan factories are sons and grandsons of woodworking me- chanics. In short, Grand Rapids has developed, so to speak, a race of furni- ture artisans. It would be almost i'm possible to induce these high-class work men to leave their homes in Michigan and come south.
 There is no reason, however, why common furniture cannot be manufact- ured successfully in any of the states where the timber is close at hand. As a matter of fact the manufacture of cheap grades is getting a good start in the south. There are two flourishing factories in Atlanta, and High Point, N. C., is known throughout the coun- try as a furniture factory town. Furni- ture manufacturers, backed by capital, could do well in Birmingham. There is demand enough right here at home to take up the product of more than one factory turning out plain furniture"
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plished fact was begun in 1878, and the final resumption under Mr. McAdoo did not take place until 1905. The proseeu- ton of the task has since been unceas- ing. and ct no time was failure permit ted to suggest itself. Even the casual ties in the employment of 5000 persons working underground were few. The work that the McAdoo company has accomplished stands without a rival under water elsewhere in the world, and New Yorl, and New Jersey are justly proud of their adopted son.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
coLLEcE-RRED MEN.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Statistics gathered at Yale suggest the possibility before many years of distinct class of college-bred Americans The ne- ures show an interesting number Of grad- uates who are the sons of graduates or Yale and other colleges. The proportion Tn recent classes is not as large as 1t was 100 years ago, when a Yale class consisted chiefly of the sons of clergymen and law yers, but has recently shown rapid in crease. In 1903, the last year included, eS per cent of the graduates were sons of college-bred fathers.
 It will be generations before major ity of Americans, even of those whose families have long been in this country will be college bred. What will happen first and last for long time will be the existence of great number of families in which the members. from father to son.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
PET OF THE "oUARTER.n
When Love Came Into the Life of
 Robert Higgins.

From the February Broadway Magazine.
 For a generation yet the quarter will talk of Robert Higgins When he first came abroad he had lot of money. He work pink velvet waistcoats and swag- gered about Julians After two years of this his money gave out. No funds came from the far-away St. Louis of his birth. But he couldn't leave Paris-and the hill of Parnassus. Somehow he lived, grow ing hairier as to head and dirtier of face and hand. He had a studio under the caves of an old house in Montparnasse-a garret so foul and forlorn and exeep- tional that it became place of pilgrim age. Visitors from oversea-young mar ried couples eager for a glimpse of Bo- hemia-were taken there to see artistic squalor at it's squalidest. There was no lock to the door, so that he who would could enter. And If Higgins was not there twas considered the proper thing to tie a beefsteak to the door, or leave loaf of bread, by way of calling card Higgins was rather proud of the thoroughness with which he lived up to the Bohemian ideal His life was like a page from Munger. And, as he was the leanest and dirtiest, so probably he was the happiest rapin in the quarter. Naturally enough such pride had to have a fall. It came about this way: good girl from home was taken up to see the famous garret. Higgins happened to be in; and he saw the girl from home; that was love-oh. how the dirty gentleman in corduroy and hair loved that girl. He began to think of barbers and baths. In the years he had developed certain original and lug ubrious style of painting. His subjects were gutter-snipes, drunkards, beggars- the sediment of the city. He bundled up a lot of such drawings and took them looked them over and said: T suppose you know we don't pay fancy prices here-IIl give you 300 francs for the lott
 The Bohemian almost tainted with emo- ton. x
 He purchased new garments and clean liness, and when he appeared in the quar- ter that afternoon his friends did not know him-so he was able to borrow some money from them; and he sailed for home on the same steamer with the girl. There must have been something wrong with that girl, for she did not love him in spite of the bath and the barbering. And the other day the quarter heard with joy: Higgins is coming back. He's got as far as New York;" And the quarter waits, hopeful expectant, till it's prize Bohemian comes again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
Thinks Rent Is Too High.

While a racket is being made abont the high cost of living in Birmingham raise a little about the high rents here," said F. B. Clark Morris ave- nue broker. yesterday afternoon. Re tail grocers can't be expected to adj only a cent or two per pound to the cost of the goods they are selling when they have to pay such heavy rents and also run long line of delivery wagons.
 Rent is entirely too high here, in my opinion, and I believe a comparison with other cities on this subject will result in the discovery that Birming ham is paying way wonder higher rent than any of tn em. A reduction in rent will be followed by a general reduc- tion in other things"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
AROUND THE COUNTRY

Washington Herald: A goody issue of Hettygreenbacls might be circulated with safety, however.
 Youngstown Telegram: More welcome even than Uncle Sam's jackies in Peru are their dollars.
 Atlanta Journal: Who broke up the ground for such heavy crop Of candi- dates this spring?
 Washington Post: A new Hartford, Conn.,, baby weighed only F ounces at birth. Even the stork seems to pull off the short-weight stunt occasionally
 Austin Statesman Nomination ana election by primary election is much more democratic than nomination and election by manipulation and political bossism. Richmond Times-Dispatch: Lots Of young infintives never dream that they can do the split until some Michigan congressman or other gets hold of them. Knoxville Journal and Tribune: Don't give up the ship Colonel Harvey, edi- tor of Harper's Weekly, is still holding on to the country by it's candal append age.
 Providence Journal: MT. Justice Brew CTS assertion that the President is play ing hide-and-seek with the people" seems to lack judicial preciseness. Where IS the evidence of any hiding? Philadelphia Inquirer: A man recently boasted that he once whipped RooseVeit and another rises to remark that ne spanked Emperor William. There isn so much in this spare the :od' bus mess after all.
 Atlanta Georgian: A Parisian boarding house keeper collects from his guests at the point of pistol. It is now up to inc boarders to use gun to make the boarding house keeper produce a chicken that is not all neck and wings 1y.nsas City Times: The public serv- ,ce corporations in Washington, D. C., find themselves at g great disadvantage They are subject to congressional super l. vision. and they cannot control con gress by liking half dozen waros. | New York World: The Massachusetts man who left $5OOO by his will to the town of Andover ''to inculcate the art or real spelling in the minds of posterlty announced his intention too late to re- ceiye a letter of commendation from the | White House.
  | Houston Post: Now that the New York World has suggested Roosevelt for the | democratic presidential nomination. noth- I ing remains to prevent a meeting pe- l tween MT. Pulitzer and John Temple Graves but the s15oOo Hearst salary that ! MT. Graves draws.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
A Little Trolley Story.

"The speed at which trolley wheel travels was Illustrated on the East Lake line the other day. said Larkin Andrews yesterday afternoon. ''The car was bound for Birmingham, when the trolley wheel flew off The motorman did not notice it, and the car continued rapidly on with the pole scraping the wire. The conductor finally discovered it and stopped the car two blocks from the place where the wheel had come off. During this time the little trolley wheel was travelling behind the car, the speed at which it was travelling almost equaling that of the car. It continued rolling until it reached the car, when the conductor stopped it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
Furnace Nearing Completion.

Of the blast furnaces in the Birming- ham district that were shut down in De- cember four have resumed operations and two or three others will be blown in probably during the spring.
 The Birmingham Coal and Iron com- pany, formerly the Tutwiler company, is completing a large furnace at Wander bilt near the city. In design and equip ment this furnace will be strictly mod ern, and will have capacity of 250 tons a day James Bonnyman, general man. ager of the company, said yes- terday that he hoped to have the new furnace ready for blast by the first of April. He said that it was being fin- ished with all possible dispatch and that it would be lighted immediately upon com pletion.
 The Birmingham Coal and Iron com- pany's furnace now in operation-the Van- derbilt-is turning out about 125 tons of pig metal daily. MT. Bonnyman said the company was selling more iron than it was making, and hence the urgent de- mand for the new furnace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 The most successful love affair Is when it's imagination.
 We all like babies because we know it wasn't their fault.
 The only chance man has to make money in speculation is to go against his judgment.
 If a girl won't let you put on her rub bers for her, it's because her ankles aren't dressed for it.
 The reason a woman gets so much en- joyment out of her unhappiness is she knows it's because she's good wife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
SOME JAPANESE CUSTOMS.

From the Yotsuya Mission. Babies are carried on the back. Wooden shoes are worn. They are al- ways left at the door.
 People pass to the left instead of to the right.
 They sleep on the floor.
 They eat with chop-sticks.
 Men and women wear dresses almost alike
 Even in winter their only fire is little charcoal in a small box.
 Men sometimes wear hats; women never do.
 Marriage is arranged by parents or friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
BY NATURES KINDLY LAW.

By Alexander Pope. (From Essay on Man.') Behold the child, by natures kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tckled with a
 straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth
 delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters gold, amuse his riper age And beads and prayer-books are the toys
 of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps. and life's pobr play
 is Ter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

At last some persons have been found who approve the Stoessel yer dict. The war department desk war riors at Washington say it means dis cipline.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

Chairman Jones of the prohibition marty says the party's vote in Novem- Der will total round million. But he may not know what the November re- suit will total up at.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

MT. Fishs grip on society was not passed upon by Judge Ball, and he can work it against Hartman while Har- riman works the business end of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
lnnes' Band.

F. N. Innes, the famous bandmastel of New York, is registered at the Hillman. It Is understood that he is here to ar range for a series of festival concerts to be given during the Confederate reunion. Innes' band was heard in concert in Birmingham a few years ago. and 1t is recalled as most delightful entertain ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

E. H. Hartman is also to be dele gate to the Chicago convention. That particular convention would be incom- plete without him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

The latest charge against Theodore Roosevelt comes from Philadelphia. That city says he wears ready-made clothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

One stowaway has made the trip seven times. He is deported to become a stowaway on the next ship, and he is only 15 years old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

Everybody is against the Aldrich bill apparently except the inner circle, and the members of that circle have de- cided to pass it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

Hartman has claims upon the re publican party, pecuniary claims, a part of which were indorsed by Theo- dore Roosevelt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

E. H. Harriman's vote in the Chicago convention will be straw that will show which way the Wall street wind is blowing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

ALAS, POOR GEORGIAi Full many a sprig of mint will grow in vain this sprins.-savannah Press.
 HAVE YOU EVER? Have you ever seen the money that some
 people say they spend? Have you ever seen the salary some fel-
 lows VOW they get? Have you ever seen a miser who was
 more than apt to lend? Have you ever seen a kitten that was
 glad when it was wet? Have you ever seen the excellence some !
 boosters loudly claim? Have you ever seen the property some
 persons say they own? Have you ever seen an Irishman with
 sIzzy' for a name? Have you ever seen a hungry dog that
 didn't like bone?
 WHAT EVERYBODY WOULD DO. .sWhat would you do if you should suddenly fall heir to million dollars?" q would spend some of it"
 WORK IT OFF. Put on a thousand pounds of steam, Your energy redouble- Oh, that's the trick whenever you Are face to face with troublel
 CLOSE TO GREATNESS. "There are the :-eat and the near great.''
 "Meaning?"
 "The great men and their valets."
 IT USUALLY IS stxrylar +to I-loo:1 IIo,d uritee IaffAra--fs 'I'm listening"
 Do you suppose it is blackmail?"
 THE BUTLER. Ono time I watched butler stand, For all the world not caring, Anl dearly wished that I might learn To ape his lordly bearing.
 REPLIES. A poker game is a night school of ex- perience.
 When a man has the grip he always has the grouch.
 There are 2OOOO feeble minded persons in New York, not counting Platt and Depew.
 'Is dying delightful?' asks t..e Wash ington Herald. Not when you are rich. When Love appears in the divorce court he looks as if he had been out all night. The average Georgian dies happy with his arms around a little brown jug. "Grand Old Texas is about the most unsuffragetted state in the whole palpi- tatng union," says George Bailey in the Houston Post. Every red-headed widow is a suffragette at heart Editor Watterson says you can't un- lock a nightlatch with a corkscrew, but you can deadlock. PAUL COOK. s.s........s.......s..ssss perhaps from mother to daughter, will have college training. Will it be "se- lect' class, divisible by perceptible line from the rest of the population, or an in- distingufshable scattering of groups and persons through the fairly wel-to-do ele- ments, as 1t has been generally in the past? The question is largely part of the other question: Does a college training really make person different from those who lack it? And that question is still .1olNo ta1 lal1a 4a1,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

The transcontinental automobilists may yet have to get on runners in or der to get through the snowdrift belt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

March will have to be dreadful good to make us forget what February did to us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

The school boy is in hard luck, the most of the holidays occurring on Sat urdays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
cONVALEsCENT.

 l love to spend the day in bed, With tender hands to nurse, Disereetly petted half to death, For fear 1 might grow worse. The softest pillows prop me up, The latest book is near, And all I do is read and wait For dinner to appear. And oh. how keen my appetite, And what royal spread Is garnished round with dainty bits And put beside my bedi The things I'really like the most But very seldom get, Unless I'm convalescent-then l do, l do, you bet!- How pleasant seems the world outside, How cheerful all the sounds The chirp of birds, ehild's clear laugh Sweet melody abounds. With gentle words and loving care My heart begins to swell, And I surrender blithely to The joy of getting we'll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

The Cortelyou and the Leslie M. Shaw booms have been embalmed to keep four years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

Pittsburg is becoming so good it will not permit work-children to slide down hill on Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

No picture of George Washington shows him carrying a cigar at the angle affected by Uncle Joe Cannon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

your room over the butchers shop"
 ''Yes. The sausage parked so much at night that it kept me awake"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

The auto racers should have waited until subways were built to Alaska.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

If Stoessel is to be hanged the grand dukes should do it, for he is their seapegoat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

Absolutely freproof cars are to be used in the new tunnels under the Hudson river.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

There is very little hoarding of money as the Easter bonnet seasca approaches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

Hetty Green has grown rich and in- fuential without being a suffragette.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

The London Times may not itself know who owns it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
About Persons.

R. E. Bowdon of Keystone Is at the New Morris.
 J. P. Melvin of Piper is at the New Morris.
 J. B. Murphee of sanofar is at the New Morris.
 J. B. Paisley of Selma is at the New Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

ALAS, POOR GEORGIA! Full many a sprig of mint will grow in vain this sprins.-savannah Press.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

DISTINGUISHED DEAD. "The artificial lake of the Milliontons broke loose yesterday and played havoc with the lawn" What was the damageg' Venus, Apollo and Diana were drown ed.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

DREADFUL FATE. Ring Tail had his fortune told yester- day by the hippopotamus' What did Hippo predict?" Said that Ring Tail would one day be- longNto a dark man with a hand organ" COULDN'T STAND THE RACKET.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27

REJECTED. She cast him off. The pretty miss Objected to His cloven kiss.
 Louisville Courier-Journal. Which is to say, More plainly put, He also had A eleven foot.