The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-10
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM

ABDUL BIRMINGHAM
 Columbus Ledger: The Birmingham sheriff must have a very keen scent. He drilled into an iron safe and found blind tiger
 Mobile Item; Governor Glenn of North Carolina, is going to Birmingham in the shank of November to help the law and order league. Poor Birmingham
 Columbus Enquirer-sun: A Montgom- cry Advertiser man states that 1t is im- possible to get a drink In Birmingham. Must have prohibition sure enough.
 Talladega Reporter: It must be dis tressng to the thirsty to know that Bir- mingham. is flushing her sewers with beer and whisky. What will become of the microbes?
 Nashville American: A Birmingham woman looked under the bed the other night and had the surprise of her life when she found the man for whom she had been looking all these years.
 Walker County News: correspon- dent in Birmingham sends this new for 1 mula, which he says has become quite common there: Gimme a sandwich 1 Rye or white?" Rye" Pint or quartz Scottsboro Progressive Age: Birming- ham is experiencing great trouble in en- forcing her prohibition laws. Notwith- standing the monster mass meetings that are being held, it is no trouble to get whisky there.
 Elba Clpper News comes from Bir- mingham that an extra session of the legislature will be called unless blind tigers quit business. Now if these ti- gers have drop of patriotism they will close up and quit
 Tuscaloosa Times Gazette: A hen valued at s10,000 will be at the fair at Birmingham. It is rather a gloomy thing to contemplate how much more little 1 chicken is worth than crowds of human beings who will go to see her. Montgomery Times. A dispatch says MT. Hearst will again soon send an emIs- sary to the Birmingham district. Is this confession that he didn't cover the ground there with John Temple and Can didate .Hisgen a few weeks ago?
 Florence Times: Birmingham is deeply stirred up over the violations of the H. quor law, and intends to stamp out the lawlessness in that respect. There is no doubt that there have been almost open and shameless violations of the law there.
 Gadsden Journal: Birmingham is get ting four new sky scrapers this year which is the record for any city in the states. No other city in the union has made such an advance this year and con- sidering the panic it is certainly phenome- nal. It is indeed the Magic City
 Hattiesburg News: A Birmingham blind tiger man kept his liquor in a big iron safe and turned off the combina- tion when he saw the officers coming You can depend on Birmingham finding some solution to the arid condition forced on it by the state prohibition law.
 
 mingham who have not been able to for get their old thirst are bitterly complain ing that the prohibition law there is be- ing too literally enforced. As a con- | sequence the Birmingham law and order league are not in the highest favor-with certain classes.
 Montgomery Times: Birmingham's chief of police has been worried in an annoymous letter similar to the one ceived by Mir Carter of Chisholm, the other day. The frequency with which such things occur is enough to provoke communities to some line of organized action. The arrest and conviction of one or more of these bushwhacking scribblers would serve an end that will minimize 1 a cowardly practice already becoming quite too common.
 Gadsden Journal: The Birmingham state fair will open on Friday of this week and the Magic City press is making great efforts to make the exposition pop ular. And the present indications cer- tainy point to the best displays of the states products ever yet brought togeth- CT. The farmers of this part of Ala bama should make it a point to attend and see what is accomplished in other parts of the state by men who till the soil The time and money required couN not be better invested
 Anniston Star: News comes from Blr- mingham that the republicans propose to put up a strong fight in the Fourth congressional district. J. O. Middleton, candidate for congress, will have the as- sistance of speakers from outside the state. and an automobile campaign through the district will be one of the features of the fight Our friends. tho republicans, are cordially invited to do their worst in the Fourth district They may stir some interest but it is not be- lieved they will make the campaign hot enough to fire the woods, although there has been a dry autumn.
 
 THE RETURN. Arthuhr Symons. Poems
 A little hand is knocking at my heart,