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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
AGE-HERALD ECHOES

Savannah Press: The Birmingham Age
Herald is of the opinion that Senator jeff
Davis has stamped his personality on the
map in box car letters.
Savannah Press The Birmingham Age
Herald is of the opinion that one year
hence We will be busy constructing a
cabinet for William ]. Bryan
Savannah Press 1t is doubtful il the
Birmingham Age-Herald gets a reply to
its Wanted, a murderer who does not
walk with firm step to the gallows.'
Washington Herald: 1.-The DAYS are
growing longer" says the Birmingham
Age-Herald. Now that Birmingham has
prohibition in its midst, doubtless they
will seem even longer than they really
are.
Admission Star: Prohibition evidently
hasn't become entirely effective in news
paper offices. Today's Age-Herald con-
tanned editorial clippings in the social
column, and the same kind Of matter was
run on the front page Of the Atlanta
Constitution.
Jackson News: "a year hence we may
be busily engaged constructing a cabi-
net for William ]. Bryan says the Bir-
mingham Age-Herald. A year hence we
may be examining the latest styles in
halos and wings along the gold-paved
Broadway of New Jerusalem.
Richmond News-Leader: "1f two-thirds
of the girls who go on the stage would
go to the kitchen instead, there would
be a whole lot more happiness in the
world" says the Birmingham Age-Her-
aid. How does our contemporary recon-
cile indigestion and happiness?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
ALABAMA EDITORS

Fayette Banner: The only man who
makes money out of get-rich-quick
scheme is the one who furnishes nothing
to the people who want to get something
for nothing.
Talladega Mountain Home: 1t begins to
look like it is Strenuous Ted and Big
Bill against the rest of the G. o. P.
leaders.
Prattvil1e Progress: A law entitled "An
act to cut short the lives of two-legged
fools who are a public nuisance by rea-
son of imbibing too much whisky" has
been suggested
Dothan siftings: This is leap year. o,
Inflated bachelor, accept our tenderest
sympathy.
Andalusia News: The dispatches tell
MS that beer is becoming scarce be-
cause the barley crop was almost a
failure" That will not be the reason
given in Alabama next year.
Sumter County Call: An Indiana man
committed suicide because he could not
get an office. If that practice was car
ried out here, we couldn't remove the
remains fast enough.
West Point and Lanett News: The smile
club in America should consist of 10000,
600 members.
Centreville Press The panic, the money
stringency or whatever you may call II
is a rich mans panic. 1t is not affect
ing the poor man or the farmer to any
great extent. 1t is the fellow who can't
make good on his securities. that he sees
gradually declining in value There
should come a time when the rich should
balance up accounts and settle, and the
fault is not with the man of moderate
means nor with the farmer, who wants
the full price of his cotton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
IMMORTALITY.

BY Matthew Arnold.
Fooled by our fellow-men, depressed, OUT
worn,
We leave the brutal world to take its
way;
And, Patience! in another life, we say,
The world shall be thrust down, and we
upborne.
And will not, then, the immortal armies
scorn
The worlds poor routed leavings? or
will they -,
Who failed under. the heat of this life's
day,
Support the fervors of the heavenly
No, no.! the energy of life may be
Kent on after the grave. but not begun:
Ana he who tagged not in the earthly
strife,
From strength to strength, aovanclns-
only he.
His soul we'll knit. and all his battles won,
Mounts and that hardly, to eternal lie.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

-HE new year is on; and 1t does
k0 me good to see the kickers gel
in line to boom things. Every
body who has been in trouble, or who
has had a pain in some vital point in
the past several weeks is now getting
in a good humor and talking good times
The salts of the new year is having
effect.
The Greater Birmingham and the great
er everything else was mere novice a
few weeks ago. Everybody was in humor
to be for nobody and for nothing almost.
Every man in town was trying to do
for himself and for nobody else. He
wanted to save what he had and sell
what was of no use to him. He wanted
the other fellow to do the paying. He
felt that everything was going to the
demnition bow-wows.
Yet today everyone is in the saddle.
Some how there is the something to Bir-
mingham that everybody knows is good.
1t don't matter whether the enthusiast
says kill Birmingham if you don't do
as my crowd likes or whether the other
fellow advises to the contrary-it don't
matter how much talk or frills and fur
bellows are INDUCED in-the stuff is here.
If we who are here don't make good,
others will take our places who will
Prohibition is on. We have 1t. The
law may be enforced or it may not. The
chances are that it will not. The city
has not the finances to enforce it. But
whether or not, this town is going ahead
and become the greatest of all the towns
in the south.
An election is to be held Monday for a
Greater Birmingham. If it carries we
take in the outlying districts from Pratt
CITY TO East Lake We take in all that
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
from the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
There would never be any family rows
if it was the way to be happy
A very good way not to have large
family to support is to be rich.
A man takes a drink to make q good
resolution and several to break it.
A woman would hate to fall out of a
balloon unless she was dressed In her
best for it.
A girl has hard time deciding whether
to Judge a mans character by the way
his mother dresses or the flowers he
sends her.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
BY THE FIRE.

BY THE FIRE.
What is the dream the old man dreams?
A dream of the long ago,
And childhood walks by sunlit streams
With the friends he used to know.
IL.
While the flames mount high in the
chimneys throat
And the sparks whrl thick and fast,
With his head bowed low on his faded
coat,
He visits the scenes of the past
III.
Unnotced the children about his knee
When his thoughts are far away
In the golden land of the Used-to-Be,
In the merry month of May.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
SIGNIFICANT Facts.

while the very great things chiefly
denote city's Importance, its growth
and development, the small things are not
to be overlooked" said Birmingham
booster" yesterday afternoon Now the
coming of the United States Steel cor
poration to the Birmingham district
means great things, but the transference
of a headquarters force from certain
city to Birmingham is also significant.
"In the first place, the southern
agencies of the Carnegie and Illinois Steel
companies have been transferred from
Atlanta to Birmingham. Then the South
ern Express company is divided into two
grand divisions, and Birmingham is made
the headquarters of the western division.
Then, the Postal Telegraph company
abolished the SUPPLEMENTARY at New Or
leans and established it in Birmingham,
making New Orleans report to Birming-
ham.
"All these little things are of great
value, and mean that Birmingham is
growing and fast becoming recognized as
the most important city in the SOUTH
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT BIRMINGHAM
AS 1T is TODAY AND ABOUT ITS NEEDS

and peddle the same out promiscuously
Unfortunately. our police force is so small
that it can't regulate everything and we
will be compelled to submit to many viola.
tons of the law unless some of the active
workers for prohibition will get them.
selves sworn in as special officers AMI
do the work they promised to do during
the recent campaign.
However there is no city in the world
where the laws can be strictly enforced.
1t is a fact that since the saloons
closed all the merchants are doing a
better business than they expected to,
and the banks of Birmingham are in
better condition than those of any other
city in all the south.
And right in this connection, the mer-
chants of Birmingham, regardless of the
recent financial panic, prohibition cleo
ton, and the furry in politics are going
ahead on a Greater Birmingham scale.
They have quantities of goods and what
they have is of the very best. They have
really made Birmingham the shopping
center of Alabama like New York is the
rNr1iY, Of biG fry And
speaking of the merchants, they are al
ways in the forefront of any movement
to benefit Birmingham They subscribe
to every public fund and are always in
terested in building up. Therefore, it is
only right and proper that all of us who
are not merchants and at times nave
money to spend should spend it right
here among our own people.
Let us all get together during this New
Year, spend our money at home, help our
neghbors and prepare for the Greater
Birmingham which is to be fact before
the 1910 census is taken.
2o.h9,>r,oe
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
A CHAP YOU KNOW.

A CHAP YOU KNOW.
Observe him on the corner stand,
A frown upon his brow,
While ever and anon he tells
Some other person how
The country should be run-the way
To make the most of life.
But all the time he can't afford
To dress his little wife.
His knowledge is indeed profound,
He has at fingers ends
A deal of very good advice
He offers to his friends.
And while to right some public wrong
His very being thrills,
The butcher and the baker say
He cannot pay his bills.
Methinks, if he would spend more time
In min&lng his affairs,
And let, no matter what they did,
His friends attend to theirs
He'd be a more successful man
And more contented, too.
Now that's the way it looks to me
How does it look to you?
A HOUSEHOLD HINT.
There is one thing I wish young
mothers would learn"
"What is it?"
"That Rough-on- Rats is also rough on
children"
A MADE MAN.
.sIIe doesn't seem to be much worried
over prohibition
mo, he's a druggist"
FOOLISH ANSWERS.
''Why is the man making wry face?'
''IIe is a distiller."
what is Wall streets favorite dish ~
Mutton chops"
.What is the greatest luxury in the
world?"
"a thick skin"
A ROAST
s'Who is Eleanor Glyn?"
"She Is the woman who says things in
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

didn't have power or pull to keep out. We
make a big town. We shall have almost
the territory of Greater New York or
Greater Chicago. 1t is well to have it.
But when we have it let us, every one
in this big town, see that it is gov
erned properly Let US see that men are
elected to the municipal offices who have
no axes to grind. Let us see that the
man who represents our neighborhood
on the Board of Aldermen is the man who
takes care of his own front yard, keeps
his sidewalk clean, keeps his own house
fare of his neighbors. Let us know our
men who are to look after the interests
of the Greater Birmingham-know that
they will do unto others as they would
be done by; and see that those who
would aspire to graft or special priv
ilege shall not be there.
Now, to get down to hard pan, so to
speak, all of us who circulate about
know, or think we know, that all the
gambling houses are running in the
hotels and alleged clubs and that Biz
mingham is today the "wide-openest"
town in America. The man or boy with
ten dollars or ten thousand dollars can
find a place to risk it all, and 1 am told
can find all he wants to drink while
making his bets.
We are all talking about the Greater
Birmingham and we all want it. Yet it
does seem that we can't properly regu-
late the Birmingham we now have. l
am told that there are a number of
negroes who are making a regular bust
ness of selling TASKS of whisky around
the two depots and about town gener-
ally They are said to carry a dozen
or more small TASKS in overcoat pockets
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

If our ex-presidents were made life
senators we might develop after a
while a lot of elder statesmen, and
elder statesmen are Japan's chief de-
pendence in crisis.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

The day of larger opportunity and
larger city comes tomorrow We can
organize city that will make Atlanta
look like 80 cents.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

A word or two from Mr.. Taft ON the
tariff question would not be outzpf
place. He did not let anyone at Bos-
ton know that he had ever heard the
word. "Dingley."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

The ST. Louis Times says it is cold
New Year day down in Cullman coun-
ty, Alabama, when probate judge
can't override an act of the legisla-
ture.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

The good women of Birmingham
should request hubby or the sweet
heart to go to the polls early tomor-
row and vote for big city in this val
klpv
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

Never mind Medicine Hat, but go to
the polls early tomorrow and put in a
vote that will boost all values and in
spire all with confidence.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
Presidential Inauauration.

"On the eve of a presidential election
Congress INDUCES in as little legisla ton
as possible" said an old citizen, but
one thing it might do without political
risk, and that is take steps to change
the date of the Presidents Inauguration.
The 4th of March is usually bleak and
dreary and sometimes exceedingly cold.
When Cleveland was inaugurated the
second time the troops marched in a
blizzard.
Ever since I can remember there has
been talk of changing the date to April
30-the date on which Washington was
indicted into office. That strikes me as
an ideal date. The original constitution
did not fix the time either for election
or inauguration. but the 18th amendment
provides for choosing a President before
March 4 and therefore inferentially, per
haps fixes the 4th day of March as the
time for the Inauguration. At any rate
Congress must, take the initiative in the
matter
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
The Greater Birmingham Unit.

Il think the people of Birmingham now
understand that the vote of the Greater
Birmingham territory including the pres
ent city of Birmingham. will be totaled
as unit said an alderman, "but until
recently many persons were under the
impression that each suburb voted separ-
ately; others thought that only the
towns proposed to be annexed had any
vote at ALL Every one in this city who is
a qualified voter is called upon to cast
a ballot on this Greater Birmingham
proposition Monday
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

The 16 battleships are. steaming
right along, even if their water lines,
poor things, are naked and exposed to
shooting world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

Chicago also has rent strike. In
it's tenements reduction Of So a
month is demanded. The movement
bids fair to sweep over the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

Governor Wilson and the night
riders are still far from a settlement
that insures peace.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

Carrie Nation is in Mexico, but she
has not raided the dispensers of
pulque.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

Birmingham should be put tomorrow
next to New Orleans in the list of cot
ton belt cities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

There will be exhilaration, says
Mayor Ward, on Tuesday morning II
every man does his duty on Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
THE TRAVELLER.

THE TRAVELLER.
The shades were falling fast. when
through village passed the figure of
a man so quaint and old. He bore upon
his back a most unwieldy pack of jugs
and certain bottles which he sold. Said
one who saw him there, his white and
flowing hair, What destination hast
thou, friend, in view?' The old man
quick replied, and dolefully he sighed,
John Barleycorns my name, 1 seek for
pastures new" He then asked the way
to Chattanooga.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

Be patriots tomorrow by casting a
vote that will put Birmingham right
before the world
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

Montgomery Times: The pig iron mar
ket shows sympathy of a slight activity
and Birmingham hopes expand accord
ingly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

Washington is having lovely tennis
weather, and the government is get
ting plenty of advice.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

ton, where they can '1iquor up for II
months.
Montgomery Advertiser: Miniature
beer bottles tied in crepe were .ne pop
ular favors at Birmingham New Year
dinners we presume.
Columbus Ledger: This day week the
magic City, of Alabama will settle the
question of whether or not it will be
Greater Birmingham"
Columbus Commercials: Atlanta and
Birmingham are on the mourners bench,
but they will get sober and be happy
after they sleep it off.
Tuscumbia Alabamian-Dispatch: The
saloons in Birmingham, Decatur and in
many other towns in Alabama adjourned
sine die Tuesday night.
Nashville Tennesean: Wet goods
were put on the bargain counter in Biz
mingham on New Years ve,-and they
disappeared like hot cakes.
Pensacola Journal Over s14,OoO00o of
new capital was invested in Jefferson
y,
good bunch of money for one county.
Jackson Clarion-Ledger: Atlanta and
Birmingham have ordered an extra sup
ply of water wagons and this morning
they were started out on their regular
schedule.
Natchez Democrat and Courier: A lot
| in I'M l1af
are enjoying the proceeds of their bar
gain purchases in the saloons just before
| the close.
I Houston Post: Anyway, there's some
consolation in the reflection that the ex-
perience which Georgia and Birmingham
begin today leaves more of it for the
! rest of US.
Rome Tribune: There is a great con-
| test now on between Atlanta and Bir-
mingham as to which wears the distinc-
ton of being the largest prohibition city
| in the world.
Rome Tribune: The question as to
which is the largest prohibition city in
the world, Atlanta or Birmingham.
hasn't yet been decided. 1t will probably
depend on which one has the most blind
! tigers in operation.
Knoxville Journal and Tribune The
shrieks of a thousand whistles at Bir-
mingham announced the coming of the
New Year and the going of John Barley
corn Birmingham is now one of the
dry cities of the south.
Marion County News: 1t is reported
from Birmingham that Senator Bank
head favors or will not oppose the con-
firrnation of Hundley as Judge. If this
be the case Hundley has nothing to fear,
and he will be confirmed.
| Montgomery Times: The Birmingham
and Atlanta saloon men are busly en-
ga ged looking around for place to light.
Rumor has it a good contingent Of them
will pitch tent in Montgomery to take
advantage of that lone year of grace
Montgomery Times: Birmingham sa-
Icon men are thinking of testing the
prohibition law for That city An in
junction can be procured on nearly any
old protest and there's no telling what
may happen if the magic city whisky
folk are really in earnest.
Pittsburg Dispatch: Birmingham has
lust had one of those cases of reprieve
.in the nick of time" This characterize
ton fully applies when the reprieve ar
rives after the black cap has been ad
iusted and the trap is ready to be sprl'ag
| "a IL was at Birmingham yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

1t is landslide in favor of Greater
Birmingham if all will go the polls.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

We can make business better by
voting tomorrow for a Greater Bir-
mingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

Do your full duty on the first Mon
day of the new year. Vote for Greater
Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

Columbus Ledger: Birmingham and
Atlanta are about to get into a contro-
versy as to which is the dryer town.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
Anticipating Ordinance.

81 wonder why the Anticipating law
on s6eet cars is not being enforced"
said patron of the car lines, "or has
it been declared unconstitutional? Every
once in awhile I notice in a paper
a strict enforcement of the law and from
the records of the police courts numerous
fines are imposed. Then for some unac-
countable reason the authorities cease
their vigilance and the law is violated
with impunity. 1t occurs to me that
if the law is a good one, and who ques-
lions but that 1t is, it should be en-
forced all he time and not periodically.
If it is a good law in December. it
certainly is in January.
ut cannot be said that the ordinances
in this respect are being observed, as
1 saw a lady this afternoon change her
seat twice on this account. The law is a
good one and its enforcement will GER
tainly be appreciated by the lady patrons
of the cars. 1t is not only filthy but a
menace to health. Let the law be ef-
fective at all times and not in spots
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

Tomorrow is hawser day in Jones
valley, and everybody should pull to-
gether with a will to win.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

Roll up big majority for Greater
Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
THE VALLEY.

Down in the valley the shadows lie,
That's where courage is needed
For there men fail and there men die
And go to their graves unheeded.
The sun shines bright on the mountain
top,
But the valley is cast in gloom,
With never a CLEAN from crag and cop
And never a flowers bloom.
Alas, for the tolers who linger there.
Still lacking the strength to climb
Far up and away from its dark despair
To the goal of a life sublime!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

In the case of the panic everybody
in the republican party is trying to
prove an alibi.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM

Jackson Clarion-Ledger: Twill be a
sad New Year for the buns of Birming-
ham, likewise those of Atlanta
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

Prosperity can be given boost
by voting for Greater Birmingham.
TOM Erow is the day of ballots.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
JUST S
HARD PUT.

Mr.. Carnegie and his secretary were
plunged in gloom "Alack," said the lat
ter, all the available towns have been
used up
well. in that case replied Mr.. Car
negie, 1--WE must found new towns and
give them libraries afterward."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

Centreville Press: A booze train can
now be run from Birmingham to Bloc
ton, where they can '1iquor up for II
months.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
EASY.

How can you make a comedy out of a
tragedy?'
"Get a poor tragedian to play it,"
JUST SO.
Marriage is a lottery"
Ibid you draw blank?"
mo, l drew a blond"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

Many a man would be glad to have the
job of kissing the freckles off freckled
beauty.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

AS OF YORE.
The water wagon rumbles on
And never makes a stop
For any of the passengers
Who miserably drop
Along the road and seize jug,
Or bottle, which they drain,
Although they swore q mighty oath
They'd never drink again.
And having soaked themselves, they wait
In wondrous patient mood,
Until another year evokes
promise to be good.