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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20
Mir, Maben Returninq.

President J. c. Maben of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company, who has been in Italy with his family for more than four months, sailed from Naples for home yesterday. His cable to Vice President J. W. Mcqueen yesterday did not state whether or not his wife and daughter were returning with him, but recent mail advices indicated that they would probably accompany him and woul spend the summer at one of the eastern resorts.
 svely within the past five years, but he has great predlection for Italy and few Americans know its mountain regions bet ter or are more familiar wltl the Eternal City than he.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20
MT. Taft'S Running Mate

The machine put through on the first ballot the nomination of James School craft Sherman of Utica, N Y, for vice president He is lawyer and banker He has been in Congress 20 years, and he is regarded as an expert raiser of campaign funds. In the present Con- xress he is a member of the commit tee on rules.
 The nomination of well-known standpatter instead of Governor Cum mins is but an additional evidence that no real revision is intended by the re- publican party. Cummins is real re- visionist: Sherman is and long has been standpatter. He ranks in that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A very dishonest thing about woman
 who is married for her money is not to
 have it.
 Che of the most satisfactory things
 about having a big family is that it isn't
 any bigger; A woman can love a man because some other one does when she could hate him under ordinary circumstances. When a man tells the exact truth about what time it Is when he comes home late 1t makes his wife suspicious of where he was. About as mean a trick as your poor relatives that you have looked down on can play is to make money and then do it to you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20
SIT DOWN, SAD SOUL.

By Bryan w. Procter.
 Sit down, sad soul, and count The moments flying; Come-tell the sweet amount That's lost by signing, How many smiles?-a score? Then laugh, and count no more, For day is dying. Lie down, sad soul. and sleep, And no more measure The flight of time, nor weep The loss of leisure But here by this lone stream, Lie down with us, and dream Of starry treasure. We dream-do thou the same; We love-forever; We laugh, yet few, we shame The gentle, never. Stay then, till Sorrow dies; Then-hope and happy skies Are thine forever!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20
Bishop Aliens Appointments.

The Right Rev E. P. Allen, bishop of Nashville, will arrive here today and will proceed to Bessemer, where he will spend tonight Tomorrow will be d very busy day with him.
 He will confirm a class at St. Aloysius church, Bessemer, at a. m.; class at St. Anthony's church, Ensley, at 10 d. m; class at San Marcos Qtalian con greation), East Thomas, at 8 D. m., and a class at the Church of the Immaculate Conception (colored congreation, Bir- Iningham, at D. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20
Real Estate Values.

Since the resumption of work in the steel plant and furnaces in the district there has been a strong demand for real estate, especially for residential pur- poses in the suburbs" said Henry Burg of Fairview yesterday.
 There is a general rush for homes in the district by laboring men and others. Real estate lost but little in market value during the business depression and the activity during the past week is but natural"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20
The Peach Crop.

While Alabama's peach crop will nos turn out to be the bumper yield that we had hoped for, it will be quite large and the fruit will be of excellent flavor and quality" said a farmer "ln the northern part of the state the peaches fell off the trees just as they were maturing. In Central Alabama the fruit growers have had better luck
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20
time is to be lost in making a Greater

time is to be lost in making Greater Atlanta.
 Birmingham has reached the point where it will go forward by leaps aud bounds. If Greater Birmingham has today a population of 13O,OO0 it will probably be found with 135,000 to 140,- 900 souls when the government enu- merators make their canvass in June, 1910
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Boss Brayton has been reelected national committeeman for Rhode Is land He retired in order to come back as the champion of reform and lower prices for votes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

THE sTAY-AT-HoME. He won't leave town this summer The pleasures of the sea And sunsets OCT the dancing wave Are not for such as he. He won't leave town this summer Can't stand the price, you know; But money never worries her
 His little wife will go. And this is what shell write him
 Upon a postal card:
 ''It makes me very sad, dear heart, To think you work so hard" And while these words she's penning, With most distressful air, Poor hub in town is toiling
 Like sin to keep her there!
 REPLIES. A man never stops wondering how a woman can pin her clothes on. A baseball fan is a person who doesn't want to go to heaven until after the home team wins the pennant. The anti-Taft delegates will always re- member this year as nineteen-hundred- and-sat-upon.
 George Ade finds it hard to be pleasant just now He is one of the original Fair banks men.
 With joyful cry of Here's papa" an entire Philadelphia family fell out of a window Few husbands and fathers cause so much excitement when they return home.
 A contemporary discusses First Aid for Bathers." If that isn't cake of soap it must be a scrubbing brush. It doesn't require long arm to reach highball. Make Edgar shove it toward you. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

The Jersey City woman who dreamed that she was to die was at first dis appointed because her dream did not come true. Give it time enough it cer- tainly will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Mrs. David Jayne Hill probably had ping on a bicycle. before the Kaiser would receive her husband as an am- bassador
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

The Dunkards object to the proposed change of name to the Church of the Brethren. A majority of the members consists of "sistern.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Speaker Cannon must have been rained to see speakers get up in the convention who had not been recog- nized by him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20
CRAM PED.

From IIarper's Bazaar
 Stella-Can you dress within your in- come?
 Bella-Yes; but it is like dressing within a berth in a sleeping car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

FINALLY. Life is just bubble, So they say, Ended when we've had our Little day. All in vain we struggle For prize, Polling unrequited Meath the skies. Every morning hope we For the best, Pushing blindly forward In the quest. Danger fraught endeavors Lead us on, Till our strength and courage Both are gone. Then we face the parting With a sigh; Sleep. and are forgotten By and by.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20
AGE-HERALD ECHOES

Memphis Commercial-Appeal: The Bir- mngham Age-Herald unlxindly remarks: "Hoke Smith, alas, had the fatal gift of . oratory.'
 Augusta Herald: The Birmingham Age Herald wants to know What is a pen pant?" Some of our local fans think it is sour grapes.
 Jackson News: What is a pennant?" asks the Birmingham Age-Herald. It's something the Birmingham team has ID earthly chance to get.
 Hattesburg News: The Birmingham Age-Herald says that the way to curb the meat trust is to quit eating it. All right, then-"youse first, Leon.'
 Walker County News: Congressman Hobson is at Newport enjoying himself, wholly regardless of the Japanese in- vasion he formulated
 Anniston Hot Blast: The Birmingham Age-He raid turned itself into a Chicago edition yesterday. Must be hard up for news from a more democratic section
 The Commoner: The Birmingham Age Herald says Congress only monument when it adjourns will be the bills left over and piled high" Not so; the monument will be the hole in the treasury.
 Houston Post: What is a pennant?" asks the Birmingham Age-Herald. That's easy. It is something that doesn't fut- ter over the saintly ball grounds of Hous- ton, Washington and St. Louis
 Grove Hill Democrat: When lower railroad fares are known to mean in- creased passenger earnings. declares the Birmingham Age-Herald. the railroads will not be long in getting into the swim.
 Columbus Ledger: More than 1000 sail ors have deserted on the Pacific coast, according to the Birmingham Age-Her- ald Well. for goodness sake, don't let Mr. Hobson know it, for he might pre1 cipitate trouble with Japan at once.
 Atlanta Georgian: The reunion edition of the Birmingham Age-Herald was a. handsome and complete newspaper. It
 
 federacy-such an edition as the visitor will file away for reference.
 Atlanta Georgian: It certainly does make a man mad to call him an old rooster.-Birmingham Age-Herald.
 Yes, but his anger is as a summer zephyr, as compared with womans mad when anyone calls her an old hen.
 At Newport to sniff the ocean breezes. Our congressman is patron and lover of the salty pillows and a captain of the sea. So much so that he voted for the ship subsidy bill. You can't teach sea dog new tricks. no matter if he is ! protege of the peaceful hills of the land- lubbers.
 Marion Standards: The Age-Herald | printed handsome reunion edition Tues , day in magazine form. While the edi-l ! ton was filled with good reading mat l ter the handy size and make up was very attractive feature The reading pubs 1 lie would appreciate it if the regular edi-s tions of the large daiies were printed l in this convenient shape ! Tuscaloosa Times Gazette: The AsdA 1 Herald has instituted fight orf i making on baseball games. MoS i old objections to baseball h7 1 gradually disappearing, and f ~ 1 bling feature can be elimind A'SSs 1 place the great American q higher plane and help the Il reaa.
 the people who love to see Il
 the diamond
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Frank Hitchcock still has the work of his life to do when he tries to land Taft in the White House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Discarded republican presidential booms may as we'll be dismissed alto gether, for none of them will keep on ice four years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Stewards Iceberg" promises to keep the Pacific coast warm, for vast coal beds of finest quality are being found there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

John Hays Hammond began at the wrong end. He should have resisted all efforts to force the vice presidency on him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

The betting at the race courses has been stopped in New York, but not in Wall street
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

There will be no Frank Hitchcock at Denver It is to be a convention of the people in fact as well as in name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

The grade crossing is pronounced the great American crime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Few visitors at Chicago escaped without being boomed in the home papers at least for vice president.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

The republican national platform oi 1908 should be included in Roosevelt's complete works.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

MT. Taft's Cincinnati house has n, porch, and it will soon have no lawn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Frank Hitchcock's figure is declared to be without flaw, and so is his work as a campaign figurer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Chicago is not all politics by any means It also boasts 165 June brides a day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

The beef trust is rapidly convincing the people that beef diet is unwhole' some.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Every Senator thinks he is too great to be the subject of vice presidential boom
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Taft's blood relations are capital I.olitical fence builders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Big crops promise to make this sum mer a memorable season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

CURIOUS. q want a copy of Antony and Cleo patra,' D said the prospective customer. "All right Here you are,' said the hustling clerk
 The other looked carefully around to see that no one else overheard him and then asked. "Is it anything like Three Weeks?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

something his wife wouldn't get the credit for"
 AGAINST ODDS. The poet murmured. Woe is me-" Then wrote some lines called Victory
 MY! MY! pretty school teacher, As quiet as a mouse, Once taught little children In little school house. But time brings it's changes, As you will allow; She has half a dozen In her own house now!
 SELFISH "What is your idea of a good timer" "One with a high fence around it.'' TEDDY THINKS. 'Tis not so hard
 Ones self to shelve, If one feels sure
 Of nineteen-twelve.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20
REUNION AFTERMATH

Franklin Times: Birmingham did her self proud In the way of entertaining the Confederate Veterans last week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20
REGINNING OF THEE END.

"What is that fearful racket in the parlor?"
 Father is putting a paddock on the piano."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Montgomery Advertiser: Three thousand men went to work in Birmingham Mon- day. Three cheers for Birmingham!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Augusta Herald: No, Pauline, a citizen of Birmingham is not necessarily a knocker because he is a Birmingham mer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

TIRED. Tired tired, tired,
 Tired of the work and the worry; Tired of the pitiless grind, Tired of the hustle and hurry Tired of my desk and my job, Tired till I am actually teary, I've never once thought that a chap Could be so internally weary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Jackson News: What is a pennant p asks the Birmingham Age-Herald. It's
 something the Birmingham team has ID earthly chance to get.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Scottsboro Progressive Age: Thousands of men are being put back to work in the Birmingham district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Gadseden Times-News: The populists are to meet in Birmingham in July, but 1t is not believed that they will crowd the city quite as much as did the vets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Talladega Mountain Home: The vet erans have changed it from Bad Br- mingham" to Bully Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

HOT. Iris waxing warm-observe the fat man mop His steaming brow and mutter, sotto voice. Reflections no religious wight should hear. At slumber time we kick the cover off And pray the gods to send a little breeze, The while we wait in vain the spell of sleep. To think, that just few short months ago We did opine we would be glad to see The good old summer time back on the job; Declared with what we thought was irony. That May had traded places with De- cember But now, look at the efforts mortals make To stand the heat Who has the biggest grouch? The chap who said it couldn't get too hot For himl
 JUST HOW HE FELT. "Pikerly won $50 in a poker game last night
 q suppose he felt pretty good?' "Yes. He said that was one time he did
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Augusta Herald: The Birmingham Age Herald wants to know What is a pen pant?" Some of our local fans think it is sour grapes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Hattiesburg News: The Birmingham Age-Herald says that the way to curb the meat trust is to quit eating it. All right, then-''youse first, Leon"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Hattiesburg News: Hats off to Birming- ham, the great industrial center of the south, where more than 10000 men have recently returned to work at good wages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Memphis Commercial-Appeal: The Bir- mingham Age-Herald unkindly remarks :: "Hoke Smith, alas, had the fatal gift of oratory."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Andalnsa News: The old veterans who Were present at the reunion last week at Birmingham pronounce the gathering one of the most successful in the history of the organization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Some chap has scheme to found an American peerage."
 q suppose the brewers will lead off?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

HIS CHANGE. q long for seclusion." How about second place on the ticket?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Fort Payne Journal: It is reported that tine visitors to Birmingham during the reunion left more than S1,000,000 in that town and the general impression seems to be that they all got the worth of their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Anniston Star: And still Birminghams s ball team manifests no determination to climb out of that hole at the bottom of the Southern League percentage column.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

something his wife wouldn't get the credit for"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Carbon Hill Weekly: The reunion at Birmingham last week had the tendency of drawing together more people possibly that had ever before been in the Magic City on any previous oc- casion. Birmingham did well by the old veterans, and her praises will be sound- cd from most every state in the south. This was indeed a great time for Br- mingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Eufaula Times: Many thought that Birmingham had attempted more than she could carry out in trying to entertain the old veterans and the big crowd of people that attended the reunion. But that was a mistake, for all who attended this big reunion tell that 1t was one of the best managed affairs that they have ever at tended, and to cap the whole climax there was not an accident to mar the pleasure Birmingham citizens did them selves proud in providing amusements and taking care of the vast crowd that visited them for a week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Ashville Southern Aegis; Birmingham is covering itself with glory in the ac- count it made of the reunion, and pro- poses to utilize it to advantage A big boom has already been agitated on the heel of it, and if Birmingham don t make something out of 1t no other city reed try. Already it's newspapers are taking the pains to let the world know that before Birmingham began there was no creation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Columbus Ledger: And still another new skyscraper at Birmingham is an- nounced. This prohibition business sure ly must be killing that town with kind ness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Tuscumbia Alabamian-D Dispatch: Bir- mingham is to be congratulated on the excellent manner in which she entertained the old veterans at the reunion. One old veteran returned and informed us that his entire expense while in the city was orly 20 cents that they would not let him spend anything, that part of tine time he was not very well, and that good women offered him every tender consideration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-20

Chattanooga Times: Looks as though Birmingham was always in the throes of a municipal campaign. One thing is accomplished by this continuous election performance-it keeps the law and order league at it's 'knitting.''
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-01-03
, Nanded the Medicine.

Some years ago q railway was pe'~
ino made In the west OF Scotland, ana
if was arranged that each Of the nu-
merous laborers employed should pay
penny per week to medical prac-
titioner, so that they might nave MS
services in the event of accident OF
medicine in case of illness.
During the summer and autumn nel-
ther illness nor accident occurred.
Rut when a severe winter followed
all at once the "navigators" began 10
call on the doctor for castor Oil.
Each brought his bottle, into Whlcn
an ounce was poured, until the oil was
exhausted, and the doctor was forced
70 sand TO town for further supply.
When that, too, was getting low me
doctor one day quietly asked a heaitny
looking fellow what was wrong Win
the men that they required so much
castor OIL
Nothing wrong at all, doctor ne re-
r,,;ed "but we grease our boots with
= london Chronicle.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-01-03
sTARvEs TO FEED HER BABIES.
Mother Saves Bread Crusts for Chill
drens Christmas Meal.

NEW YORK, Dec 28.-Having de
MED herself food that her children might
at least have some scraps of bread fol
their Christmas dinner, Mrs. Phyllis
Frisco, her mother love satisfied wher
she saw her children fed and happy. died
at the Eastern District hospital from
the effects of starvation.
Her children, who had been taken in
charge by the Children's society OF
Brooklyn, played around her cot uncon
scious of the privation a mothers love
had gladly suffered for them.
On Christmas day Mrs. Frisco had TAX
en- the few scraps of bread which self
denial had enabled her to save for heI
babies and fed them. flushing their sobs
when they cried for more, she laid all
four upon one wretched bed, and then
tried to sleep on the floor.
With no heat for several days, the
one room which the Priscos called home
at 1884 Manhattan avenue, Brooklyn, was
cold and cherries to the neighbors who
called Thursday morning in answer tc
the cries of the four children.
Mrs. Frisco was apparently dying
while the children were in almost the lasI
sta ges of weakness from lack of food.
Neighbors of Mrs. Frisco would glad,
" have given her food had they known
of her terrible poverty. But the woman
was too proud to accept charity.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-01-03
WHALEY GIRL IS FOUND.
Woman Who Eloped with Rector Is in
Louisiana and May Have Been
Deserted.

NEW YORK, Dee. 27.-That Flor
eta Whaley, the girl who eloped last
April with Rev. Jerre Knode Cooke,
then pastor of st. Georges Episcopal
church of Hampstead, may be now in
Louisiana is indicated i'll letter re-
ceived today by Samuel 7. Wright, chief
clerk of the Nassau county surrogate
court. The letter is dated from Emden
La, is postmarked New Verda, La, and
is signed "V. O. Jones'" 1t says a girl
about II or IS years of age, who gave
the name of Floretta Whaley, was
brought to his home last April by a
man named Cooke. The man said the
girl was his stepchild, that her mother
was dead and that he was no longer
able to care for her, the writer of the
letter declares.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-01-03
MERRILL BLAZE COSTLY
MASONS LOSE TEMPLE WORTH
ABOUT $4,000.
General Store Stock Valued at $4,000
Destroyed and Physicians Lii
braries Go Up in Smoke.

MERRILL, Wis, Dec. 2S.-[Special.l
The beautiful Masonic temple in which
also was located the postof1iCe and the
Langley & Anderson general merchandise
store, was destroyed by fire this morn
ing.
The fire started from electric light
wires and burned rapidly until nothing
but the brick walls remain The offices
of DR.. Cary, DR.. Van Ostrand and DR..
Monroe were located in the building and
their contents were destroyed including
valuable libraries.
Through the timely efforts of Post
master johnson and Assistant Postmas-
ter John A. Niles, all frst-class mail
matter and nearly all documents were
saved and business is being done as
usual for the government in the Brassard
building.
Langley & Anderson carried stock of
about $4,000 worth of general merchan-
disc. They were insured. The loss to
the Merrill Masonic association is about
$4,000, with $4,000 insurance.