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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22
From the Washington qa.) Democrat.

From the Washington Qa.) Democrat.
 S VERY once in a while there is OD) a deluge of articles on the coun-
 try editor. The big papers are always discussing the country editor. They handle them with gloves on. as if they were some pest that had to be handled gingerly or that might be catch ing like measles or smallpox. Or they might be liable to break out in new place. like wild Indians.
 What is the use? Who asks the big papers for any patronage or for any en- couragement, or for any odds. for that matter? Surely. we do not. We say. we get tired of it.
 The country editor is as Independent as a hog on ice. compared to the big city editor. Of course, he defers to his biggest advertiser. When his biggest advertisers daughter gets married he swears by the long horn spoon that she is fairy nymph. when. ten to one her feet don't track, and her hat is on crooked. He defers to his Oldest subscriber" who pays for A dozen copies 10 send to kin. and when he comes to town he speaks of 'our prominent citizen. MT. Doodab." and writes nice pieces about the team he drives and about how liberal he is at the church and in charity, when he knows doggone well that he pays the preacher in scabby potatoes and talks low to save wear and tear to his vocal chords and makes his wife go barefoot in summer to save shoe leather. However, aside from that. the country editor is as independent as we said hewas.
 But he asks no odds from his city brother, and, dad bump his pictures. he doesn't ask for any nice pieces to be writ ten about him. He. eats three square meals day if he can get them and if not he writes nice pieces about a land that flows milk and honey and swears, ''by gum." that his party is entitled to said he was.
 Ask favors from our city brothers
 Not on your chin whiskers. The coun- try editor breathes the pure, free air of liberty. and you get more patriotism in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22
Belgium to Take Over the Congo

The Congo Free State is in extent a vast empire in the heart of Africa lying between British possessions at either end. It IS said to hold 20,000,000 of Africans, and the British govern ment seconded by Secretary of State Foot, seems to think the natives are held in a condition of semi-slavery. How much English covetousness and a couple of Thomas F. Ryan concessions have to do with this belief cannot at present be estimated. No doubt the natives have been treated badly, and hands the Congo over to Belgium af- fairs in the huge dependency will be bettered
 The chamber of deputies has at last passed bill that embodies a good share of the Congo annexation treaty. The senate and the King are both in favor of annexation, and the vote in the chamber of deputies-yeas S3, nays 55V-y1s practically conclusive. The hitch all along has related to the demands of King Leopold, owner and sole pro- prietor of the Congo. In the bill voted by the deputies the old reprobate is permitted to retain enough to sink a ship, but when he dies the entire prop erty passes to Belgium. The Belgian senate will pass the bill and it will soon doubtless become a law. The anomaly of individual ownership of an empire will then be ended for the em- pire's good, let us hope.
 In the bill as it stands financial re. sponsibility is thrown on the Congo provincial treasury. This policy the senate will have to accept in order to secure annexation, for the deputies de- cline to fasten on little Belgium the possible deficits of the vast African possessions. This was the turning point, and the people of Belgium will no doubt take over the Free State without accepting any financial respon sibility on account of it. As, however they are to conduct the Congo provin cial government it will be necessary to limit expenses to receipts in order to avoid any moral responsibility on account of territory owned by them They, however, expect the Congo to sustain itself as Canada and Australia and many other British provinces do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22
A ROMAN FATHER.
From the Chicago Post.

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 History is bubbling over with stories of the fortitude of Roman mothers, but the Roman father has posed but seldom in the limelight of approbation. Now, however, comes Roman batter to occu- py a niche in the hall of fame, if only he seizes the opportunity--and his daugh- ter
 The Rome in question is not the one which sat upon its seven hills" etc., but the Rome which is in Georgia, and the father is not toga-clad senator strding to the forum, but a common, everyday member of the state legisla- ture, one Dean, first name not given to save telegraph tolls. This Dean, it ap- pears, has been active in fighting the too promiscuous use of the whipping post and his opponents have produced and exploited a letter sent him by his daugh- ter which reads thus:
 Dear Dad: I see by today's papers that you have at last come to your senses on the subject of whipping. My only regret 4s that you did not see it that way when I was younger JANE.
 Brooding memories, yes, and the lin- gering smart of childhood castigations. Turk between the lines, but these are not the significant feature of "Janes' note. What impresses the general reader most Is that Dear Dad" has a solemn duty to perform; the punishments of Jane's youth fell one short of the needful num- Der, and it behooves this Roman father sadly perhaps but firmly to inflict the final spanking upon his child. In the language of the immortal Cicero, lanes "got one coming to her."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22
VindicatIon of the Primary Law

New primary laws have this year been tested in Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois. Texas and the Dakotas, and in nearly all of them a large percentage of the party vote was cast. In some of them 80 per cent of the full vote went to the polls. The people every where were ready in all of the states mentioned to take part in the selection of party candidates-a privilege denied to them when the bosses and the old convention system were in evidence.
 Nor is that all. The choices of the rank and file at the primaries stand approved as a rule by men of experi- ence and close observation. Better men were nominated than the conven- ton system has of late turned out. The
 defeated may cry out against the pri- mary system but the rank and file do not. The plan has come to stay. It IS
 as fully vindicated in the midwest as it is in Alabama, and no one seriously proposes to abolish it in this state.
 In the up-to-date primary all parties vote at one place at one time. This involves some voting by members of one party for the ticket of the other party. This evil will, however, cure itself. Some, too. do not relish the de- mand for their party affiliations. "Dtrect primaries" says the Chicago News. "are intended to secure independence of action inside party lines, and thus raise the standard of party candidates
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dict that this year it will receive between 5oo0oo and eoo.ooO.
 regret very much to see the prohi- oition ticket in the field because 1t will dra" more democrats in the doubtful states than 1t will republicans. am thinking that Bryan will be elected, all though cannot Just figure it out. If he should be defeated. however, the demo- cratic party will have the prohibition party chiefly to blame. It will be all the more regretable when we remember that MT. Bryan himself is in sympathy with prohibition principles. The repub- hean party as party stands for liquor, especially for the beer interests-both near and genuine-and Mir Taft does not believe in prohibition
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22
OLD SHOES.
From the New York World.

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 Isaiah zug of Milton Grove. Lancaster county, Pa, has been wearing the same pair of shoes to church for 30 years. He wears other shoes week days and has dif- ferent pairs for wet and dry weather and for house wear.
 Following the example of Mr. Zus would save the people of the United States more money than the in- terest on the national debt. Good shoes, treated right and worn at inter vals, will last for years. Four pairs of shoes worn alternately and kept on trees will outwear five pairs bought one after the other and each worn until useless. Shoes need a rest. like razors The evapo- ration from the feet destroys leather un- less it is frequently dried out. The over night interval is not long enough.
 Besides wearing longer. 1t is better for the feet to change daily. Uncomfortable shoes diminish a mans energy. They in- pair his comfort and distract his thoughts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 A woman can take as much pride In her good figure as if she had 1t.
 A man is as prold of understanding the batting averages in baseball as he IS ashamed of knowing his catechisn1
 Parents seem to think one of their first duties is to make their children believe all the things they don't believe them selves.
 People can have a very enjoyable time when they are off on a pleasure trip plan ming all the nice things they will be apie to do when they get home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

to be voted for independently at final elections. Citizens cannot have bipar- usan primaries without weakening po- iltcal parties and opening the door Wide for purchasable voters who have no regard either for parties or prin- eiples."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22
About Persons.

Vice President Powell, Freight Traffic Manager George P Biles, General Passen- ger Agent ". c. Rinearson and Division Passenger Agent J. C. Conn of the Queen and Crescent, who have been mingling with business men of the Birmingham district for the past two days, left yester- day for the north They are optimistic on the prospect of business from the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22
WHILE AWAY FROM HOME.

Birmingham people who are leaving home for a vacation trip should have The Aee-Herald follow them and thus keep informed about what is taking place in the city and state during their absence. The Age-Herald will be sent to them at any address at the regular price, and the address will be changed as often as desired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

the liberals will be able to elect Go meg they will no doubt stay at home to begin to plot for a revolution that would bring back to the country Uncle Sam. They know too, that if he does come back, he will come to stay.
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Columbus Enquirer sun. 'CnlcaBo IS 75 years old,' says the Birmingham ge-Herald. Yes, and she has led an awful life.
 Hattiesburg News: The Birmingham Age Herald thinks that the next an archist who tries to stab the Sultan will first provide himself with can opener.
 Roanoke World: What is the mat ter with Birmingham?" asks The Age Herald of that city. From what you've been telling, Age Herald, Birmingham doesn't need doctor.
 Columbus Ledger: The Birmingham Age Herald makes the blunt" and at the same time pointed (paradoxical as it may seem) announcement that the democrats need plunks much more just at present than they do blanks" Washington Herald. "Cat whips d rattlesnake," says a headline in the Birmingham Age Herald We presume the rattlesnakes have all degenerated into mere mollycoddles since Alabama went dry
 Columbus Ledger: The Age-Herald complains because Birmingham is not given cheap railroad rates to summer resorts Possibly the railroads tn.--- that one in Birmingham is so well sat isfied that he doesn't want to go away. Do ~fn nn' civilization, such as it is, is 100 years older than Jamestown or Quebec's," says the Birmingham Age Herald. Like some of the European and Asiatic civ ilization, 1t has long ago passed into it's second childhood.
 Washington Herald: The Birming- ham Age-H Herald says it cost only $500 to notify MT. Bryan, while it will cost SIT 900 to notify MT. sherman. Still. 1t must be rememb cred that MT. sherman isn't as used to it as MT. Bryan, ana may be harder to convince. Florida Times-Union Says the Bir- mingham Age Herald "To get even the farmers should meet and appoint commission to devise ways Of making Presidents happier and better If they will provide him with plenty of live things to kill he will have "corking time."
 Jackson Clarion Ledger: The Birming- ham Age Herald Is very much wrought up over the statement that 1t cost $lI- 900 to notify Mr. sherman and only $500 to notify MT. Bryan. Perhaps 't was harder to make Mir. sherman be- ,ieye it than 1t was MT. Bryan. The latter has been nominated before, as you will remember.
 Greenville, Advocate: The Age-Her- aid says that this Is what the people of Birmingham see and drink in one day in that city: When Birmingham goes out for relaxation during these hot summer months she looks upon "A miles of moving picture films every
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22
The Prohibition Nnte

of the minor parties in the presidential campaign, the prohibitionists will show the largest gain," said partisan of Wil- nam Jennings Bryan
 III l9O4 the prohibition ticket received ohly 2SS,5Se of the popular vote. pre-
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The long range and the short range weather forecasters of the government should get together, and a united pull might lower the temperature a notch or two
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

The Young Turks are applying Re- form with big R to all branches of sultanism, the harem only excepted. and it may be extended to that institu- tion also.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Governor Deneen will not get the mob vote in November, and the situa- tion in Illinois becomes thicker and more complicated as the campaign pro- gresses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22
THE INFINITE SHINING HEAVENS

By Robert Louis Stevenson. The infinite shining heavens
 Rose, and I saw in the night Uncountable angel stars
 Showering sorrow and light. I saw them distant as heaven. Dumb and shining and dead. And the idle stars of the night Were dearer to me than bread. Night after night in my sorrow The stars stood over the sea Till To! I looked in the dusk
 And a star had come down to mo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Thomas A. Edison is trying to break the inventing habit, but he finds it diff fcult to withstand the temptation of making just one more invention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Typhoid germs cannot be inhaled, the housefly is clearly the chief guilty party. He is an accessory before the fact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Governor Johnson of Minnesota pre- ferred the Chautauqua circuit to poli- tics, but the democratic leaders would not take No" as an answer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

The farmer may not be happy, but he is at any rate rather more inde- pendent in these days of trusts than any other lot of men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

A farmers bull broke up a game of baseball in New Jersey. This is better than to have game broken up by an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Athletic sports still outrank in the newspapers presidential politics. The campaign may be deep, but on the sur face it is quiet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Abdul Aziz lives and rules in Mo rocco, and he should not be confounded with Abdul Hamid, who lives but does not rule in Turkey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Shall the people ruler" is super seded at present by the query, Will the people chip in?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Calling guns are considered the best specifies for mobs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

The therapeutic value of music is under mild consideration during the heated term.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

The unwritten law will become at tenuated if an attempt is made to stretch it to cover Tony Hains' case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

day, eats 200 gallons of ice cream, drinks practically five 50- gallon bar rels of coca cola, four barrels of lime ade and as many barrels of chocolate milk"
 Talladega Mountain Home: Mondays Birmingham Age-Herald calls editorial attention to the great deposits of gray ores in Talladega county and the en- thusiastic reports that have been made on them by geologists of national rep utation. The Age Herald says the most skeptical must concede that the gray ores of Talladega must soon come into furnace practice. An extract in the same connection from the Iron Trade Review referring to the ore lands pur- chased by syndicate last year and known as the Heacock property, says: Taking only the better known portion of the range, 1t is probable that in this | 10-mile section there are somewhat over 50,000,000 tons of ore at easily work able depths that is, above the 1500-foot level. About half this total tonnage will grade above 45 per cent metallic fron the remainder ranging from 45 down to 35 per cent. A fair proportion of the total, say 5000,000 tons, can probably be mined so as to grade 50 to 53 per cent iron.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Illinois is in no position to denounce night riders in Kentucky.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

The people will rule if they first con tribute freely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

The airships have not as yet affected the value or quotations of railroad securities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Another deluge of unwritten laws is to be dumped on confiding reading public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Mehmed Ali Bey has simply gone to join David B. Hill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Springfield's midsummer madness has given the entire midwest a Dlack eye.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

The heavy frost reported in one of the Dakotas did not touch the divorce crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM


 Mobile Herald: Birmingham is erecting a sky-scraper Is stories high, just to get ahead of Atlanta.
 Columbus (Ga) Ledger The citizens of Birmingham declare they must have or der in that district. even if they have to fight for it.
 Mobile Herald: Do spirits exist?" asks Camille Flammarion. Near-spirits do in some drug stores not any further north than Birmingham.
 Rome Tribune Herald: Birmingham has organized a Law and Order league Can this be taken as an evidence that Bir- mingham is still in her swaddling clothes. Fell City Progress: The citizens of Bir- mingham appear to understand that mar tial law is what they need to prevent dis order, yet they don't seem to have nerve enough to demand it.
 Lineville Headlight: The report that Birmingham denizens are selling booze in walking canes may or may not be true But no one will gainsay the fact that something stronger than near beer'' is being sold in bottles in bustling Birming- ham.
 Sylacauga Advance: Ii is A pitv the strikers and coal operators in the Bir- mingham district cannot settle their dif- ferences. It is a serious matter with peo- pie on the outside who have no coal and no immediate prospect of getting any They ought to be forced into settlement of some kind and the strike leaders run out of the state.
 Florida mes-Union The people of Birmingham, in mass meeting, have de- clared that anarchy exists in their coun- ty and shall be put down. Every citizen offered his services and will furnish his own arms to support the law-the miners and mine owners are both given notice that murder shall not go unpublished and lawlessness shall be put down. That is the spirit of the south, and it always comes to the surface when needed-dyna- mite does not settle labor disputes in this section
 Roanoke Va) World Down at Bir- mingham last Saturday test was made of new process for rendering garbage into fuel By the mixture of a few chem icals with lime and coal dust, a system under patent protection by Andrew Engle, the gases in the garbage are released and the residue is turned into excellent furnace fuel. Roanoke might examine into this method of garbage disposition with profit. One of the good features of the to advantage, such as coal dust and gar bage itself.
 Gadsden Journal: As was foreshad- owed, the mine operators of the Birming- ham district have declined to have any thing to do with the miners union They take the position that the miners and their leaders are responsible for all the outrages committed during the strike and that the organization as a whole has put itself in the criminal class. All they want is that their property and employees be protected from the unlawful interference of the union. While this position prob ably does not accord justice to the miners it is only what was to be expected after the outrages suffered. It's another case of the union leaders starting trouble and then finding they were unable to control their men. At least we do not want to believe that the murders and other forms of lawlessness were deliberately planned miners leaders.
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Mobile Herald: Do spirits exist?" asks camille Flammarion. Near-spirits do in some drug stores not any further north than Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Rome Tribune Herald: Birmingham has organized Law and Order league Can this be taken as an evidence that Bir- mingham is still in her swaddling clothes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. Hamlet
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pen to come in contact with live wire there is no delay. We are hurried off at top speed It is quicker and more reliable than chloroform-a fact which apparently was not known to the chief actor in this tragedy:
 After chloroforming two cats, a West Hampstead artist killed himself by the same means" We are not told why the deceased artist did it. Probably it was because this age Is in too great a hurry to patronize art. Or it may be that he was so worried by the danger of being alive and the endless possibilities of being knocked down, blown up, or otherwise cut off by violence, that he choose a safe and easy way out of it.
 Statistics prove that home is a danger- ous place. Progress and the desire to equip ourselves with conveniences have undermined home with deadly wires and pipes, gas that may explode and boilers that may burst And, agreeable to the demand for hurry, houses are now run up by the jerry builder at such speed that they are capable of coming down with equal celerity. Walls or ceilings may col- lapse at a moments notice. chimney pots may crash through the roof or the floor ing subside and launch you hurriedly into the cellar. Consequently it is proved by figures that you are a lot safer in an ex- press train than at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Mobile Herald: Birmingham is erecting a sky-seraper Is stories high, just to get ahead of Atlanta
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Roanoke World. What is the mat ter with Birmingham?" asks The Age Herald of that city. From what you've been telling, Age Herald, Birmingham doesn't need doctor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Pell City Progress: The citizens of Bir- mingham appear to understand that mar tial law is what they need to prevent dis order, yet they don't seem to have nerve enough to demand it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Columbus tGa.) Ledger: The citizens of Birmingham declare they must have or der in that district, even if they have to fight for it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22
AGE-HERALD ECHOES

Columbus Enquirer Sun: Chicago is 75 years old" says the Birmingham Age Herald. Yes, and she has led an awful life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Hattiesburg News The Birmingham Age-Herald thinks that the next an archist who tries to stab the Sultan will first provide himself with can opener.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Columbus Ledger: The Birmingham Herald makes the blunt" and at the same time pointed (paradoxical as it may seem) announcement that the democrats need plunks much more just aft present than they do blanks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22

Lineville Headlight: The report that Birmingham denizens are selling booze in walking canes may or may not be true But no one will gainsay the fact that something stronger than near beer is being sold in bottles in bustling Birming- ham.