The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-07
AGE-HERALD ECHOES

Memphis Commercial Appeal: The Bir- mingham Age-Herald wants pain-proof stomach. Why not line it with fire water?
 Savannah Press: The Birmingham Age Herald notes that all the orators speak well of George Washington because he stands in nobody's way.
 Columbus Ledger Judge Feagin or Birmingham fined a physician $1Oo for concealing patient who had the small pox, and The Age-Herald thinks the fine was none too heavy.
 Savannah Press The Birmingham Age Herald says: "Everybody is against the Aldrich bill apparently except the inner circle, and the members of that circle have decided to pass it'
 Anniston, Starr The Birmingham Age Herald quotes from Shakespeare to prove that the times are wild" Perhaps, yes; but it is more probable that what ails The Age-Herald is an inactive liver.
 Washington Post: We don't need bullet-proof clothes so much nowadays as we do pain-proof stomachs," comments The Birmingham Age-Herald. Especially since Birmingham went dry-eh, brother?
 Florence Herald: The Birmingham Age Herald asks: ''The question before the people this year is simple-shall the United States control the great trust, or shall the great trust control the United States?'
 Lafayette Banner: The Birmingham Age Herald is a strong advocate of the plan of working the county convicts on the roads. A number of the counties of the state have tried this plan and it has proven very satisfactory.
 Houston Post: Over in Birmingham, says The Age-Herald, the usual form of greeting is, Have drink out of my walking stick Of course, that is better than nothing, but We prefer to be greet ed by the Atlanta fellers who have bought 14,00O hollow baseball bats.
 Houston Post: The Birmingham Age Herald evidently desires a quarrel with the Toledo Blade when it says the Mud hens should be called the Mudroosters. Furthermore our Birmingham contempor- ary is wrong, because the Toledo aggre- gation rarely has any growing to do.
 Tuscaloosa Times Gazette: The Age Herald is stirring up commotion about the price of groceries in Birmingham and the matter has reached the stage of per- sonaI letters from the wholesalers. Some thing will be doing soon and however it may turn out the consumers cannot be much worse off than they are
 Anniston Star: Business is improving in Birmingham, says The Age-Herald. The same thing may be said of the entire country Business is improving; and while 1908 will not go down in history as a period inundated by the high tides of prosperity. yet it. seems probable that we will be able to look back on a fairly prosperous year when the Slst day of De- cember, 1908. is reached
 Roanoke Wa) Herald: ''The men thus far mentioned for vice president at Chi- cago are Governor Fort of New Jersey, Governor Guild of Massachusetts, Senator Crane of Massachusetts, Timothy L. Woodruff of New York and William Allen Smith of Michigan" says the Br- mingham Age-Herald.
 These are candidates for retirement from public view, so to speak.
 Baltimore News: The Baltimore News is responsible for the statement that a New York husband told his wife such d funny story that she dislocated her jaw laughing at it. The paper does not state what the joke was, but it is presumed that 1t was to the effect that Depew and Platt were going to resign-Birming- ham Age-Herald.
 Oh. no! It was much fresher and more side-splitting than that ancient Depew- Platt resignation joke It was about a chicken that crossed the road.
 Gadsden Journal: The Birmingham Age Herald is conducting campaign against exorbitapt prices for food stuff and other necessities. In doing this 1t is sfepping on the financial toes of many in- fiuential Birmingham people, but this Is not deterring it from doing plain duty 10 the people of the district. The cost of living throughout the. mineral section of the state is out of all proportion to wages and in comparison to cost elsewhere and the sooner the combination that main tains these excessive prices Is broken and fair competition is established the bet ter for the future of us all.
 sINcERE IN CONVICTION. From The Russell Register.