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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
MINT JuLEPs EDIToRIALLY MADE

From the bdlIl1DOTb oufl.
 As every one knows the manufacture of a mint julep is even more difficult than the cultivation of the mint. The art, indeed seems to require a certain natural aptitude or genius, without which the most laborious study goes for naught. There are cases on record of men who have spent years in practice and experi- ment and then given up in despair. Not a few, overwhelmed by modification and disappontment have attempted self-de- struction. Even the ingestion, or drink ing, of a mint julep cannot be properly achieved without thought and training. The novice pours the ethereal juices into his system in a nasty and vulgar maii- ner, and so loses nearly all of the flavor. He grows intoxicated and disorderly, and brings disgrace upon a difficult art The true connoisseur approaches the opera ton ir a more dignifed and gentlemanly way. The green hearts blood of the fragrant mint, coursing upward through the golden straw, leaps softly upon his palate and makes it vibrate like an aeolian harp. A few playful drops leak ing upon his mustache and goatee there glitter and gleam in the sunshine like priceless emeralds. Flashes of rising pink chase themselves across his enraptured face His lips curve into a smile of de- light His eyes beam with ecstasy. He is happy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
THE TRADE OF WRITING

endeavor to writer folk of every class.
 Mark Twain's earnings amount to al- most s1, GOO 00O-an amount that many per sons, mistakenly, assert cannot be hon. estly made in commerce in lifetime. This shows how much richer the field of humor is today than 1t was cen tiry ago. George Bernard Shaw might have remained a clerk if the possibilities for getting money returns were no great CT than those that were offered when Terence and Plautus wrote. MT. Dooley is vastly better paid than the Athenian philosophers, and Wallace Irvine is much more handsomely remunerated than was the brilliant but now almost forgotten Winthrop Mackworth Praed.
 While the market for trashy writ ing is more active than the market for literature. there Is no reason for the writ CT of literature to be discouraged Writers of popular songs and popular novels get larger immediate returns than writers of blank verse, but the writers of blank verse have greater opportunities than they formerly had. Had Shakespeare been writing during the first decade of the Twentieth century William Vaughan Moody might have entered the market with "The Great Divide'' and harvested larger royalties in year than the au- thor of Hamlet" but Shakespeare, writ ing for a modern London publisher, would be making great deal more money than he made when he wrote the. plays that are now second in popu- larity to the Bible, and far outsell the works of any other uninspired writer. If Homer had been born in Indiana he might not have become as rich as George Ade, but he would not have been merely a gifted "hobo" If an active news paper reporter, chronicling the history of yesterday in prose. gets greater money return than the earlier epic poets, this does not mean that the market for poetry is worse than it was before the trade of writing trashy fiction and the trade of reporting current events became remun- erative, but that the returns for all manner of writing are better than thav have ever been.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
FoRGETFUL, INDEED
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Ledger
 A minister's wife, a doctors wife and travelling mans wife met one day re- gently, and were talking about the for getfulness of their husbands. The mlu- isters wife thought her husband was the most forgetful man living, because he would go to church and forget his notes. and no one could make out what he was trying to preach about
 The doctors wife thought her husband was the most forgetful, for he would often start out to see patient, and for get his medicine case and therefore travel miles for nothing.
 Well" said the travelling mans wife, my husband beats that He came home the other day and patted me on the cheek and said, T believe I have seen you before, little girl. What is your name? I"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
Reunion Chorus.

Music is to be a great feature of the reunion, and it will be so far ahead of anything of the kind in other reunion cities as to make big hit" said a mem- Der of the music committee.
 "There will be more bands and better bands in the parade than ever heard in other cities, and the concert programmes will be of a high order. Now, the chorus should be in keeping with the other mus ical features. MT. Memoli the musical director, has a faithful few at the re- hearsals, but it will be a shame if those who can sing do not turn out and help in this cause. There should be a mass chorus of fully 300 voices. The music to be sung is easy, and it is hoped there will be a large attendance at the next full rehearsal-Thursday night of next week. Civic pride should be sufficient to bring out hundreds of singers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
Cotton Acreage This Year

The governments estimate of the cotton acreage this season will be is sued next week, and in the meanwhile private crop estimators have the pub lie ear. Let us examine these esti- mates.
 The Memphis Commercial-Appeal presented an estimate on May 25 show Ing an increase of 1.6 per cent in acreage in the entire cotton belt over that of last year. On the other hand, President Hightower of the Farmers Union of Mississippi says the reduc- lion in acreage in that state has been 7.9 per cent.
 Next comes the estimate of the New York Commercial, as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
FalIieres Back in France.

Calais, May 29.-President Fallierss landed here at ? o'clock this afternoon on his return after an official visit of four days duration to England. He was welcomed by the booming of guns from the Calais fortress and the warships in the harbor. Calais was decorated in honor of his arrival An immense crowd greeted him at the pier The President immediately left for Paris on special train.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
AGE-HERALD ECHOES

Pell City Progress: The Age-Herald will kindly notice that Birmingham is not mentioned this week.
 Savannah Press: The philosopher on the Birmingham Age-Herald says few people become bald from wearing think ing cap.
 Washington Herald: If George Bailey is telling the truth" begins the Bir- mingham Age Herald. Oh. well, if wishes were horses beggars might ride
 Washington Post: Says the Birming- ham Age-Herald: MT Bryan will soon go to the White House to stay longer than three days Well, well! Has he been invited to come and spend a week?
 Huntsville Journal: Paul Cook" the wit of the Birmingham Age-Herald, has discovered a Yankee rooster up or down in Connecticut which chews tobacco. TO make things equal some wag must find a hen down in Dixie which chews wax.
 Arkansas Gazette: Fame walks right up and slaps man on the back when he starts to playing baseball" says the Birmingham Age-Herald. Something worse than fame sometimes walks up and slaps man when he starts to um- piring baseball.
 Roanoke, Va, World: The Merry Wid- ow hat and the sheath skirt Is a com bination not eastiy outdone.-Birming- ham Ase-Herald.
 It! lal We thought Birmingham would never come to that. Those abominable things are better undone.
 Hattiesburg News; Birmingham recent ly placed on the market an issue of $150,- GOO per cent sewer bonds and The Age Herald tells us that there was not sin gle bidder. The fact that industrial bonds are now selling high and that municipal securities find no takers is one of the very significant signs of the times.
 Roanoke, Va. World: "Everybody will pay his own fare to the national conven- tons this year." says the Birmingham Age-Herald. Yes, likely so, all but dels- gates; the people will pay the delegates fares, the only difference being that the delegates will really have to pay the fare instead of pocketing the money or spend ing it going the pace otherwise.
 Nashville Tennessean. Tennessee has a primary by the convention route. She is either backward or boss ridden. prob ably both," says the Birmingham Age Herald.
 Tennessee pleads guilty to the charge of being boss-ridden, but that "back- ward" indictment can't hold good in the face of the tremendous outpouring of popular sentiment for direct primary. Ninety per cent of the state press and an overwhelming majority of county com mitteemen joined in the demand for a direct primary to nominate it's state off cers, but the governors state executive committee turned 1t down. That spells ."boss-ridden' for Tennessee, but not backward" and from present signs there will be a change in Tennessee politics that will do away with the convention nomination along with many other de- vices belonging to the machine and the ring. Forward is the watchword in Ten neSsee today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
To Last Restinu Place.

New York, May 29.-Escorted by torpedo boats, submarines and revenue cutters, the United States converted cruiser, Wasp, with the body of Gen. George Clinton, first governor of New York; left this city today for Kingston, N. Y., where the final in- terment will take place in the cerS Stery of the Dutch Reformed church. Former Gov. David B. Hill and many state o1fi- cials will meet the body, and MT. Hill will deliver an m ation in place of Cover nor Hughes, who at the last moment was detalned at Albany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
Colin Is Not Broken Down.

New York, May 2s-The great 3-year- old racer Colon, which was reported to have broken down yesterday, may race in the Belmont stakes tomorrow An courcey Forbes. manager of the stables of James R. Keene, that the injury to Colin, which was first thought to be a lowing of the tendons of the foreleg, is nothing more than an injury resulting from stepping on a stone. and that the swelling has now practically subsided. Mir Forbes stated tonight that Collins tendons are perfectly straight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
Commencement at Columbus.

Columbus, Miss, May 29.-(Special)- J. Commencement exercises were formally commenced at the Industrial Institute and College with Miss Bessie Mabry's musical recital last evening. Today was class day at the schools The senior class planted ivy in many places on the cam pus and other exercises by this class were entertained. Tonight the seniors are pre- sentng "The Merchant of Venice at the chapelof the institution. The programme continues until Monday at noon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
Citizens Who Do Not Vote

In 1900 there were 18607 ,614 possi- ble voters in the country, and only 13,961 ,566 went to the polls when in that year new president was elected.
 The present number of possible voters is perhaps 20 0O0,O ,O00, but if more than 15,O00,000 go to the polls the ex- perts will be surprised. Statistics show that about S2 per cent of northern citi- Zens vote in presidential years, and 53 per cent of those in the south. These percentages will scarcely be ex- ceeded in the voting of next Novem- Der.
 hlabama's presidential vote i- 1904 was 1OSS45; in 1896 it was 193,653. It may go to 150, 1000 in November, but the chances run in favor of some foot ing below 150,000. And yet in 1900 there were in this state 224,212 native white males, S,o82 foreign white males, and 181,471 negro males, all over 21 years of age-a total of possible citi- zens aggregating 413,765. There are now nearly half a million males in this state over 21 years of age, and we ought to have from that number more than 150,000 voters. The cumulative poll tax keeps 100000 whites away from the polls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New fOrR GfeSs
 sure way not to know any too much is to think you do.
 Men would be just wild to pay their taxes if it was against the law.
 The only thing a man can be more con ceited about than his brains are his Whiskcrs.
 The only time a woman ever really trusts mans judgment is when he mar rics her.
 The strongest argument people seem to think they have in a discussion is to get mad with the other fellow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
Vessel Not Badly Damaued

St. Petersburg, May 29.-Reports re- ceived today at the admiralty here show that the damage to the battleship Peter the Great is less serious than was at first supposed The vessel, which ran on the rocks yesterday near Reval, was foated last night and taken into thas port Her sheathing below the water line and near the bow was considerably torn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
THE SUM.

BX~ Paul Lawrence Dunbar. A little dreaming by the way, A little toiling, day by day, A little pain, a little strife, little joy-and that is life. A short-lived feetng summers morn When happiness seems newly born When one days sky Is blue above And one bird sings-and that is love. A little wearing of the years, The tribute of few hot tears, Two folded hands-the fainting breath And peace at last-and that Is death. Just dreaming, loving, dying, so The actors in the drama go; A fitting picture on the wall, Love, death, the themes! But 10 tn
 all2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
Will Close Race Tracks.

Baton Rouge. La, May 29.-An anti race track bill, similar to the measure al- ready introduced In the house, was intro- duced in the senate today by Senator Wimberly Both senate and house bills abolish any form of betting on horce races in this state and are designed to close the New Orleans race tracks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

 The world is full of people trying to da you, The rascals throng the halls and crowd the streets; From pocketpcSs intent on going through you, To chaps with fronts who neerthless are cheats. They know a dozen ways to make you wealthy And all they want, forsooth, is just d chance; And then-a whispered word. movement stealthy- To make the thing a go, cash advance. Don't listen to their honeyed conversation. Don't let them fill your head with idle dreams; Twill only mean your certain ruination For there's a string attached to all their schemes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
Reunion Weather,

Many people have the habit of com plaining of hot weather" remarked a veteran, ''but chilly spell in May or June makes us far more uncomfortable than 90 degree weather in the late spring and summer I attended the reunion in Richmond last June and everybody suf- fered from the cold. Weather such as we have been having this week would be ideal for our reunion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
Central of Georgia Officials.

Maj. J. F. Hanson, president of the Central of Georgla, and Vice President Winburn arrived in Birmingham last night They came in Major Hanson $ car from Atlanta over the Seaboard. Gen. eral Manager Noise of the Georgia Cen tral arrived last night He had been north and came in his car over the Alabama Great Southern. These officials are here to meet the Illinois Central party due this afternoon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
Vets of Chicauo,

"Chicago will send quite a party to the reunion'' said George s. Kellogg of that city "The southern colony in Chicago is large and in the number are 100 or more Confederate veterans in active life. It is likely that fully 50 vets will come here from Chicago and along with them will be a good contingent of others"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

The government cold storage plant at Manila would be sufficient for the uses of an army of 500,OOO. Why did we build t?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

While the Guggenheims are digging gold in Colorado the Ickelheims in New York are kept busy in shipping the yellow stuff to Yurrup.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

ing great preparations for the big Con- federate reunion to be held there two weeks hence.
 Gadsden Times-News Among the cer- is the fact that the Birmingham baseball team will lose
 Savannah Press: A Minnesota criminal caught in Birmingham went back with out a requisition. He wanted somewher @ to spend the summer Jackson Clarion-Ledger: The persis- tency with which the Birmingham base ball team hugs the rear end of the pro- cession is causing brainstorms among the iron-hearted
 Guntersville Democrat: Birmingham has arranged a programme of exercises to celebrate the Tooth anniversary of the birth of Jefferson Davis. It's hard weather when Birmingham is not in the lead.
 Atlanta Georgian: A Birmingham cor respondent in the New York Sun says the result in Alabama was a direct slap at Bryan. So? MT. Bryan can prob ably survive that kind of a slap without much loss of sleep.
 Montgomery Advertiser: A Birmingham man is suing the Pullman company for carrying him beyond his destination, while on his honeymoon. Must not have been his first plunge into matrimony, for like that
 Houston Post: A Birmingham man is suing the Pullman company for carrying him beyond his destination while on his bridal trip. It must be a funny sort of guy who would be so particular about a little thing like that while he's honey incoming.
 Washington Herald: "Chattanoogans ought to spend less time talking about their neighbors,' says the Chattanooga Star. Still, it is scandalous the way those Atlanta and Birmingham people order original packages of things from the Mountain City of Tennessee.
 Montgomery Times: Birmingham is ashamed of her baseball club and we don't blame her. We have ourselves felt the sting of modification expressed in a league cellar cinch and know just how it all is. But aside from all this Birming- ham should apply for a Cotton States berth or get her a Southern league ball i outfit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

The Independence National Party has gone to Europe. Parties do not ordinarily go to Europe, but this one .ent under Hearst's lat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

Chattanooga is happy. It Is supply ing the north with strawberries and Alabama and Georgia with wet goods. Its luck is something extraordinary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

The Confederate reunion to assem- Lie here will be one of the largest and in attractive features it will be unsur- passed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

The republican party wants the sinoos with no fool publicity thrown in. It is built that way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

The governor of North Carolina will next year reiterate his remark with emphasis-it's long time between drinks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

The reunion decorators are already at work, and before the end of next week Birmingham will be in full gala dress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

With pig iron a good seller anu the big steel plant about to resume, this district is in fine shape for summer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

The Giants of New York carry one dummy on their team and no one ob- jects.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

The foreigner has quit paying the Dingley tax, and the consumer is she'll ing out at the same old stand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

No conservatives need apply in either of the big conventions. That sort of folks has gone out of fashion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

Rube Waddell seems to be more in- clined at present to highnalls than to baseballs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
Per cent @Ir@-

 Decrease, 391, ,420
 Plus.
 The Commercials figures indicate an year. The crop got an excellent start, siency of sunshine have made it late rop and lowered it's condition. In all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
DENIED.

DENIED. Reading al the pamphlets, Telling bout the joys Of the pleasant places
 Where no grief annoys; Of the summer hotels
 In the hills away, Or beside the ocean,
 Where the breakers play. Reading all the pamphlets
 Which relate at length How a poor tired fellow May recoup his strength Lolling round in hammocks, Or in easy chairs, Drinking in the sunshine And tne buoyant airs Reading all the pamphlets Illustrated too; Here a stretch of sea foam, There a mountain view; Tallyhos and tennis,
 Shhh!-and making love, While the stars are winking, Winking up above Reading all the pamphlets Makes a fellow sad, Wishing for the ducats
 That he's never had. When I see the prices am filled with woe, For they say quite plainly, "Rastus, you can't goW
 THE FIRST STEP. What is the first step in automobil- ing?"
 Walking back home when the blooming thing breaks down."
 NECESSITY. I don't mind working hard-gee whiz, I'd gladly do it; But what makes me so weary is I'm driven to it.
 GAN SEE THEM sIIis eyesight is poor, I hear.7 For everything but soubrettes." THE ANNUAL SLAUGHTER. The Fourth is swiftly drawing near You know the day When little Bobby will, fear, Be blown away. Alas, that tiny tads must try To celebrate And on the fourth day of July Meet such a fate!
 SOUNDS GOOD. Paid in Full seems to have struck a popular chord" 'I guess it made hit with people who lend money to their friends"
 A CINCH BET. It is easy enough to be pleasant When cool wind comes to your aid; But the gent worth while is the one who can smile At 103 in the shade.
 Nashville Tennessean. It is easy enough to be pleasant When the sweet mint julep Is made, But the fellow worth while is the one who can smile When hos drinking beerine or limeade> MORE THAN HE COULD STAND. And now we enter the violent ward" !" remarked the guide. "The man over there in the first padded cell to the left seems to be an unusually bad case" said the visitor. 'He is the widest lunatic ever saw" "Yes, the poor fellow was baseball
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

Like Abou ben Adhem, Alabama leads all the rest in political conven- tions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

The national conventions have vice. candidates only to select.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

Even in Chicago the janitor is think Ing of turning off the steam.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

We are sending back 17.Q00 persons a month to Americanize Eui ope.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
SPOTTED FAME.

''We have here a statue of one of our most noted grafters."
 tThe stone seems to be mottled'' Don't you think 1t quite appropriated"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
TO POSSIBLE GULLs.

fan in a town where the home team los 24 straight games"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

The republican majority in Congress is booming MT. Bryan's campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

It costs a new British earl $S,7S0 to get initiated, including the garter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

The straw hat is getting to bloom in June in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30
LITERATURE.

Dont you th1nk 1t quite appropriate?'
 LITERATURE. I picked up a popular novel And it's pages I started to scan Which told how fair-haired girlie Fell in love with a self-made man, But swore I would read no further When I learned that, instead of a broom, The heroine, Gotrocks daughter, Used her eyes as she swept the room.
 A JUGGLER. 'sHow does he handle the truth?' with great dexterty."
 NowADYs. Publicity, publicity,
 A fig for your modest manl The fellows who win both the fame and
 the tin
 Are built on the hurrah plan!
 REPLIES.
 Ours in Boston are called "vagrom dogs"
 A man who was called the wickedest man in New York" died recently and im- mediately jumped to the eminent position or the W1ckeQeSC ndn III tH6 WOTlu. There ought to be great run on bath ing suits,'' says George Bailey. A few lucky waves will run over them. A little fellow in Pennsylvania choked to death on a rose bud. That would be a good way for poets to commit suicide. Mrs. Humphrey Ward was considerably jolted in a railroad wreck the other day but did not lose her perfect control of English.
 "Let me know if 'tis not SOL sings q bard. What If 'tis so gentle poet? There are a great many ways to make a living, but none of them is quite so easy as it might be.
 '"The preachers in Birmingham are after the merry widows,'" says the Gadsden Journal. The Journal man means merry widow hats of course, but his paragraph sounds wicked. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-30

! naw himself admits that ne is era zy to get out.