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The daily sentinel., 1908-09-12

FOR RENT-Newlys furn ish ed room
S12 per- month; all Sonveniences
lady preferred 1876 0iray avenue
The daily sentinel., 1908-09-12

FOR SALE have an Al surrey
horse for sale. Chas. Clark.
The daily sentinel., 1908-09-12

FOR SALE-Good work horses; also
good drivers. 243 Grand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
Congressman Underwood

Congressman Oscar W. Underwood, who is now in Birmingham, should have no opposition for reelection. He has not only acquitted himself with high credit ever since he first took his seat in the House of Representatives, but today, as a member of the ways and means committee, he occupies an exceptionally commanding position. Since the war few southern men, in- deed, have won the distinction in na- tional affairs that has been achieved by MT. Underwood.
 He has performed splendid service for this district and he will continue to do so. In the Sixty-frst Congress revision of the tariff is to take place, and it will then be of the utmost i'm portance that this great industrial dis trict be represented on the ways and means committee. Humanly speaking the democrats are sure to control the next House. MT. Underwood is the logical man for chairman but if, by any chance the republicans should have a majority in the House, MT. Un- derwood would still be the most infiu- ential democrat on the ways and means committee. And as The Age Herald has previously pointed out, this district simply cannot afford to swap congressional horses while crossing the tariff revision stream.
 Jefferson county will rally to Under wood with enthusiasm. Perry, Bibb and Blount are solid for him, and on the day of the primary this county wilb be practically solid for him, too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
Protect the Primaries

In Louisiana's first official primary James J. Bailey and P. M. Lambre- mont were aspirants for the nomina- ton for lieutenant governor. Lambre- mont carried the city precincts and was declared the nominee of the dem ocratic party. Before the democratic state central committee MT. Bailey contests the result, alleging numerous frauds. Votes were cast, he says, in the names of dead men, and he goes on to aver that 5000 votes were fraud ulently counted in New Orleans. Lam- bremont, on the other hand, attacks the legality of many tally sheets in the rural districts. Perjury and ballot-box stuffing are freely charged by both as- pirants. Beyond all reasonable doubt the city bosses in New Orleans paid small attention to the requirements of the primary law, and the state cen ITdl cOluInlIIee IS SlIIiuS oo o SOui eO hear and decide all charges of mis- conduct. It has power to go behind the returns, and it should do so.
 The purity of a primary in a one party state is a matter that goes to the bottom of electoral rights. "The primary" says the New Orleans Times-Democrat, 'is the work of the people forced by them from hesitat- , ing legislature, and intended to restore to them the right to choose, their can didates and their officials. That this right should be stolen from them at the very first primary is bad enough, but that the theft should be glossed over, the men engaged in the crime not only protected, but rewarded, is more than the patience of brave and independent people like that of Louis jana will stand. They have suffered too many losses in the past, endured l too much suffering in their long and fierce fight to suppress frauds no worse than those committed in the re- cent primary to submit patiently to this latest outrage, no matter whose seal or indorsement it bears"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
Denvers Hospitality.

Denver is making great preparations for the entertaining of her guests to the national democratic convention,'' said a citizen who keeps informed, last night. Numbers of the best homes in the city will be thrown open, and there will be more individual entertainment than any other city in the United States has ever extended.
 ''The spirit of hospitality is very great in Colorado, an illustration of this being given by Gen. W. J. Palmer of Colorado Springs last summer, when he enter tained all of the veterans of his regiment of the Civil War, not only having them as his guests while they were in Colo rado, but paying their transportation. Thomas F. Walsh, one of Denver's mil lonaires, will throw open his beautiful place, 'Wolhurst to the visitors.
 Denver is right there when it comes to making her guests feel at home. The people there seem devoted to the task of showing the visitors little more con- sideration than is generally given else where. This is the reason more than 20o,0O0 tourists come to Denver every year to spend the summer D.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
School Books for Five Years

The state text book commission, ap- pointed to make contracts for a supply of school books for use in the public schools for a term of five years from October 1 next, has met and adjourned to June 8, when books will be selected and contracts signed
 The selection of text books for 800,. 900 children is task that no doubt sits on the consciences of the mem- bers of the text book commission. It pertains to citizenship in the future and to the happiness and usefulness of many lives. It will no doubt be done with good judgment and with a due sense of it's deep meaning.
 The difficulties in the path of the commission are by no means few They are not exactly free to select the books they may consider preferable, because of the expense incurred in any change. This expense would fall upon many families that have no money to spare for text books in these dull
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
May Festival Assured.

Capt Frank P. O'Brien, in securing Innes' orchestral band for a May festival in Birmingham has done a good thing for music and a good thing for the re- union fund for the benefit of which it is to be given" said J. E. Shelby, chair man of the reunion music committee.
 The executive committee decided not to assume the responsibility of bringing h. nes here, as attractive as the famous bandmaster's proposition was, but turned the matter over to Captain O Brien with promise of the committees moral support.
 ''Innes is to come for five performances three nights and two matinees-and to arrange for the details of this festival means much work on Captain O'Brien' s part. But this public spirited citizen and Confederate veteran has undertaken it with characteristic enthusiasm and it be- hooves the people of the Birmingham dis trict to support him and make the festival a great financial success. Every dollar of the net proceeds will be turned over to the reunion committee.
 "Innes has a splendid concert band and all music lovers will delight in the bril- liant programmes that will be presented. While orchestral numbers will predomi- nate, several short chorus works will be heard on the first and second nights and a popular spectacular piece, Americana for band, chorus and military, will be the attraction on the last night. The To- cal chorus will be trained and directed by MT. Memoli, who is also the reunion musical director,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13

Baltimore and Ohio. the Southwestern and the Illinois Central.
 The singular fact should be noted that the Atlantic Coast Line, which controls the Louisville and Nashville, accepts the scheme of uniformity and yet the Louisville and Nashville does not. The truth is, the entire passen- ger rate problem in the southeast would be ended if the Louisville and Nashville and the Central Railroad of Georgia would assent to the new ar engagement.
 The adoption of interchangeable mileage books at 2 cents mile will prove a great boon to the travelling public, and the roads that have adopt ed it deserve commendation and pat ronage, and will assuredly get what they deserve.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
Get Ready to Vote

An unusual number paid poll taxes this year and these men undoubtedly intend to vote. Some citizens cannot vote because they are not registered, but there will be an opportunity to register before the day of the city, county and state primary on May IS. When the registration lists are re- opened every citizen otherwise entitled to vote should see that his name is registered in the county's list of voters.
 This is essentially political year, although no governor or legislature is to be chosen. A President, Vice. President and congressman are to be elected this year; also mayor for Birmingham, president of the city council and a county Board of Reve. nue, not to mention various other of ficers. Every citizen should take a hand in these important contests. AS the executive officers of the nation, the county and the city are to be voted for, their selection will be quite suffi- cient to make this a year of the high. est importance from political point of view
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
HABITS OF THE SKUNK.

From Forest and Stream.
 A skunk can catch any insect that he can get to fight him. On one occasion went to the woods in quest of squirrels It was a warm, cloudy afternoon in Sep tember. While standing on log wait ing for a squirrel I saw a large object moving through the weeds toward me. which I first took to be gray fox. raised my gun and prepared to shoot but as the animal advanced I noticed that it was not a fox, but a skunk, and the largest I had ever seen, his color being very much like that of a gray fox. When he first saw me he was about 20 steps away, but instead of making an effort to retreat he rose on his toes, nuffed up his hair and and tail anI jumped up two or three times, lighting on the ground stiff-legged. after the fash ion of sheep on the entry. of dog to the barn lot, at the same time hissing and blowing as a mad house cat will do, I kept him covered all the tipe with my gun.
 In few minutes his anger seemed % subside, he then walked few feet away and with his left paw he made a few
 
 ing around began to slowly switch his tail over the place where he had scratch ed. At each movement I became more and more interested, and watching l saw swarm of jellow jackets emerging from the ground. Hot and furious they darteo at the little fellows tail, which was kept constantly in motion, each one sticking tight to the long fur and doing no dam age. I never shall forget his keen piack eyes as he looked at me as if to say: watch me; I have done 1t before.' With a tail covered with jackets, Ike so many burrs. he walked few rect away and began to pick them on and eat them as hungry boy would so many berries. This act repeated once more. the little yellow warriers were gone, and their home left defenseless and desolate' was dug out and carried away by the victor who left apparently without any fear that would do him harm. And ], then a boy, now grown to manhood. am xlad that did not shoot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
HER NEWSPAPER DAD.
Little Girl Tells Some of the Thinqs
 Her Father Does.

F. W. Beckman in the Des Moines
 Register.
 Newspaper daddies are funny. think Mines one
 Hes funniest at breakfast, only it isn't breakfast cause it's lunch, and that's another funny thing about it.
 Where's 'smorning's paper?" he asks mamma, the first thing when he comes down stairs. And then when she looks sort of childishly at him cause he's a little gruff, he hurries up and says Good mornin', everybody" just as though he felt kinda 'shamed of him. self.
 And then he won't talk when he gets his old paper. He justs sticks his nose into it and looks at one page after another just as fast as he can, ani then he begins all over again and docs it slower. and keeps still for quite a while.
 Then mamma and I walt for an ex- plosion.
 Tits" he says. "They couldn't spell cat right
 Then he goes chasing from one page to another as fast as ever he can talk ing-to himself, and when he's got real mad he shouts at mamma, "rhey buried it. See; they buried it back there way back there, of course, and it's the best story in the paper?"
 Then mamma says, quiet, like a calm after a storm, Come, dear; your coffee Il get cold"
 But he's more like a bear than a dear, and he doesn't come, but he keeps on growing at the old paper. l guess he finally gets tired of himself. too, and then he jumps up throws the paper on the chair, and tries to dodge mammas funny smile.
 Mammals awfully patient, I think, and she never gets mad, but just smiles and smiles at daddy when he gets cross at things. Sometimes she asks him why he wants to keep on being a newspaper man if it's so awful One time he answered and said it was because if he kept on working 16 hours a day. maybe the of- flee would some time give him as much as the stereotypers get for working eight hours a day. Mamma said that was sar- casm. I guess he thinks sarcasm must be a good thing for the office, cause he most always talks that way about it.
 But newspaper daddies aren't always cross. Sometimes mine hurries down stairs a whole lot earlier, and then when he grabs the paper he smiles all over and shouts at mamma:
 See that story? That's a clean scoop and a bully one
 That's worth living for, and, say. won't the fellows on the old Bugle feel sore, though!
 q tell you" he says then, "one day like that is worth bicycle of cathay," whatever that is.
 And then mamma looks at me and smiles cause we both think he's funny sometimes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
LIFE AT ROME'S HOTELS

the sunshine. Dinner is served at and 7:3o according to the hotel, and usually by S:30. at least, the groups of daintiIy gowned women and the men-largey in evening dress-are filling the salons the corridors the winter garden.
 Almost every night there is some vendor of trinkets or laces, with table in the corridor, around which women hover like bees over flower One night it was sa Florentine with chains bracelets, pins, necklaces, etc, lovely, glittering things that no woman could resist. Every one bought-friends bought for each other and the lovely souvenir that fell to me is a long topaz chain that seems all m- prisoned sunshine. In Naples, at all the hotels, group of street singers are apt to come in after dinner, but there is little music in Rome don't know why Flor ence and Naples, yes, and Genoa and ven- ice, are filled with musc-songs and play ing from morning till night, but Rome is curiously silent. There is a great deal of dining out in Rome; there is great de- votion to bridge and other games. The opera has its devotees, though as rule the American visitors do not take kindly to the very late Italian hours Announced to open at g. the curtain seldom rises be- fore 10, and 1t is ? a. m. or after before the performance is over.
 The American in Rome seem to take the supreme pleasure of their lives in vis- iting each other. Rome is to them 8 charming and picturesque scenic back ground in which to set their social fes- tivities, and they invite each other to teas and dinners and drives with the most ar dent interest. Never am I so favored with the perpetual society of compatriots aa when I am in Rome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
THE CHOICE.
From the Bohemian.

From the Bohemian.
 A young man stood before the mirror completing the finishing touches to . toilet of which he felt justly proud.
 He was going to call upon The Girls widowed mother to ask for her daugh- ter's hand in marriage.
 At last, everything was complete ex- cept his cravat. Before him, on the dressing table. spread the two cravats between which his choice rested. One. neat black with narrow white stripe. which he had bought himself. The other. a cravat which The Girl had given him for a present-a tie such as only women purchase
 ''If I wear the black and white ono I'll look my best' he unused. "On the other hand, if I wear the one She gave me I'll please her immensely but will look like a fright
 Then he whistled, walked around the room-and carefully tied his cravat.
 The mother said Yes, although there were tears in her eyes, and The Girl thought he was the handsomest and bee1 dressed man in the world.
 Which cravat did he wear?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
MONKEYS SHOOT DICE.
Fall Into Bad Habits on shipboard and
 Cause Trouble.

From the New York American A Simian sat on the stafboard deck, And shouted with fiendish glee:
 You had eleven, another seven
 But the point is mine-its THREEi'
 It boots not whether sea bulls can sing. elephants play the trombone or the Statue of Liberty do a skirt dance. All these things have been branded by King Ka- good as nature fakes. But here's a won der that the most captious naturalist must kowtow to:
 MONKEYS CAN PLAY DICE!
 Proof? Ali right. Ask the crew of the good ship Montrose, a freighter which looked into Tomkinsville yesterday after hard voyage from Singapore. The Mont rose had cockatoos. parrots, monkeys creatures on board. But to the monkeys instead of the muttons.
 Fifty festive monkeys on the long voy- age had watched the Chinese, Japanese American and English sailors shooting the elusive dice. and, after their habit, decid- ed to initiate. First Officer Euman and Third Officer Mabor, who own the monks, decided to initiate them into the myste- ries of the ivory cubes. Dice were doled out to the monkeys, and many of them. tame and young, were permitted on deck. They rolled the bones about, jabbered over them-and incidentally threw them so furiously that the visible supply of dice was exhausted.
 In the emergency, the officers made a raid on the sugar department and got some of those cute little blocks of sac- charine material. They marked them with l pencil-from the ace to the six-and hand l ed them to the monks. Immediately tho l dice-throwing was continued But To and l beholdl after a few hours the little fel-
 lows who are the strap-hangers of the
 forests discovered that sugar dice were
 good for monkeys, and in a few days i the managing editor of the sugar depart 1 ment called his staff and announced that ] dice throwing must cease.
 1 But when the ship reached Tomkins- 1 vile the officers, feeling sympathy for l the monkeys bought real dice, and if
 Bingham had been around there would ] have been a grand. gallery-play, 14-karat, 1 warranted-not-to-fade raid
 1 The "cop' on the pier heard the rolling l of the bones" and drew his club heroic ally. The captain of the vessel however,
 pointed to the Union Jack and declared ] the ship was under the protection of l Great Britain, and therefore the deck of 1 the ship was really British soil. l The bluecoat damned his fingers in his ] eyes few minutes, and after good rub l and a long think said he thought the
 captain was right. So the monkeys aye i still gambling and gambolling, while the | parrots and the other creatures on board
 look on with the interest at the festivities
 on the floating Monte Carlo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Home Nursing.

"A number of the soldiers of the Revo- lution lie buried in Jefferson county, and some of them are in unmarked graves, said a prominent citizen, and the women of General Sumter chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, are doing a noble work in raising funds for a mon ument to be erected here in memory of those early patriots.
 "In order to augment the fund the chapter has induced Mrs. Dita H. Kin ney, superintendent of the United States army nursing corps, whose headquarters are in the office of the surgeon general at Washington, to come to this city and de- liver a series of lectures on Nursing in the Home These lectures will be deliv- cred in Cable hall on March 24 to the 2Sth, inclusive. Tickets for the course are now being sold and it is believed the lec- lures will be largely attended. Certainly there can be no better authority on nurs- ing than Mrs. Kinney
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
Mary Cahalan Monument.

"Moretti, the sculptor, has almost com pleted the Mary Cahalan statue, to be erected in Recreation park, formerly known as East park said a member of the Cahalan Monument association. The statue will arrive here from the sculptor s studio in Talladega county within the next few days and will be unveiled early ir. April.
 Something like $500 remains to be raised to complete the payment on the statue. And the committee having the matter in hand respectfully request that the few subscribing members who are in arrears come forward promptly with the amounts due. Contributions from others will also be appreciated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13

All of the states named In the llst before Maryland have compulsory at tendance laws, and it seems to be i'm possible to reduce to low figures 1lllt' eracy except through the aid of such a law. But no compulsory attendance law is valuable or satisfactory until school facilities in a state are ample and public sentiment sternly demands a law of that nature.
 The Alabama legislature will not meet until the January that follows the next census, and perhaps when it meets the new figures of illiteracy will have been published, and in the light of those figures the members of the legislature can read their duty to the 800 900 children of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
TuE INs1fRANcE AGENT.

q only aek a minute of your time,'' Is how tn insurance agent will begin, His inside pockets erammed with figures
 prime,
 Upon his face the vestige of a grin. It matters not how much you wish him
 gone,
 He doesn't bat an eye or turn a hair. Unbrokenly his language ioweth on Until you just give up in blank despair. You ought to think about your future
 why
 You're apt to kick the bucket any day! And here's the policy that you should
 buy
 With unimportant premiums to pay. You owe it to yourself and family To make provision gainst the hand of
 fate And since you are pleasant chap to I'll give you some reduction in the
 rate. Now, here's the form, just sign your
 name-you won't? You wouldn't take it if 'twere offered
 free? Good heavens man, don't say those
 words, please don't r You're tempting providence-lt frightens
 me-
 All right, but you are really most un- Remember what I said. This booklet Assist you while you're making up your
 mind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
Uniform Passenner Rates

The lower house of the Mississippi legislature has passed the bill putting single fares on a flat 21a cents basis, and it is believed the senate will pass the bill and that it will become law. This will wellnigh complete the move ment to make fares in the south 2h cents a mile, for on April 1 that will be the rate all the way from the Po- tomac to the Mississippi in the south ern states.
 At the same time the interchange able mileage books at cents a mile will go into effect. The thousand-mile books, good for one person, will be honored on April 1 by the Queen and Crescent, the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic, the Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard Air Line, the Baltimore and Ohio, the Southwestern, the Charleston and Western Carolina, the Georgia, Southern and Florida, the Mobile and Ohio, the New Orleans and Northwestern, the Southern, and the Southern railway in Mississippi, the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley, the Hi nois Central and the St. Louis and San Francisco between St. Louis and San phis. At the same time twothousand mile books at cents mile, good for five persons in firm, will be accepted by all the roads mentioned except the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
TO ONE IN PARADISE.

By Edgar Allan Poe. Thou vast that all to me, my love For which my soul did pine A green isle in the sea- love,
 A fountain and shrine, All wreathed with fairy fruits and fowers And al lthe flowers were mine. Ah, dream too bright to last!
 An, starry hope! that didst arise But to be overcast!
 A voice from out the future cries, "On, on"-but OCT the past
 (Dim gulf) my spirit lowering lies Mute, motionless, aghastl For, alas; alas! with me
 The light Of life Is o'eri
 No more-rio moreno more'- Such language holds the solemn seq To the sands upon the shore) Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree Or the stricken eagle soar! And all my days are frances,
 And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye gances, And where thy footstep gleams. In what etheral dances,
 By what eternal streamsl