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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
Bankhead on Roads.

''The good road movement is perhaps the greatest, the most beneficial and the most enduring that exists said Senator Joh'i H. Bankhead yesterday. "Other issues may die out or reverse themselves, put this one always grows and takes a firmer hold with each year.
 Alabama has been talking good roaos for years, but it is only recently that reei action has been taken. We are ho" coming to an understanding of the in- portance of accomplishment along this iin' and believe in few more years the roao
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Occasionally a couple marry and live happily ever after they are divorced
 A rose by any other name would smell as sweet and cost as much when out of season.
 It's awfully hard to be popular with yourself and please your neighbors at the same time.
 When the average man fails to make good he begins to look around for some one to blame 1t on.
 Just because married man does the things his wife wants him to do is no sign that he is stuck on the job.
 With the waning of the honeymoon Cupid again gets busy and substitutes pair of green goggles for the rose-colored glasses. sa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
WHILE AWAY FROM HOME.

Birmingham people who are leaving home for the summer should have The Age-Herald follow them and thus keep Informed about what is taking place in the city and state during their absence. The Aee-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., 1908-07-25
SOME FEW ESCAPED.

From the Bohemian
 "Oh. John," whimpered the wife as that editor has done with the account of our musicale. He has placed it along side the column of death notices. It's a shame. And we had such prominent peo- ple as guests, too.'
 '1 suppose" said the husband wearily, s'that the editor wishes to call attention to the fact that some people are more fortunate than others."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
Reqardinq Convention Cities.

"It will be several years before the an- nual meeting of the National Educational association gets around to Birmingham, but we should not have to walt great while for the annual meeting of school superintendents, said pr. J. H. Phillips, who Is one of the executive committee of five members that selects the place. Only cities of splendid hotel accommodations can handle such a vast crowd as attends the National Educational convention. but as the superintendents number only about 1000, and as 600 or TOO would be fair av- craze attendance, Birmingham should be soon candidate for their place of meet ing.
 "Yet, even the superlntendents require large, as well as high class, hotel &C., commodations, for they are as a rule men used to the best of everything, and when they are away from home are ready to pay for the best. Many of them are &C., companied by wives and the visitors In attendance would swell the crowd to something like 2o0o or 5000. The superin- tendents meet next February in Omaha, and l should have no difficulty in bring ing them to Birmingham the following year; but it might be advisable to wait until we have an additional hotel When big conventions are held in cities with inadequate hotel accommodations the rep utation of the city in question is great ly hurt It was that way when we met in Jacksonville, Fla. The hotel accom- modations were limited and exhorbitant prices were charged. The superintendents haven't yet stopped complaining. That occasion was certainly a bad advertise ment fol. Jacksonville"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
AN AUTOGRAPH.
mes Russell Lowell.

By James Russell Lowell
 Der the wet sands an insect crept
 Ages ere man on earth was known And patient time, while nature slept,
 The slender tracing turned to stone Twas the first autographs; and ours?
 Prithee, how much of prose or song In league with the creative powers,
 Shall scape oblivion's broom 90 longf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Poor Rojestvensky caught heart trouble in the Sea of Japan. He en- countered enough there to start any heart to humping, but he still lives. It was another Rojestvensky who died at Bad Nauheim.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

The President says he will plan no house with closets until he returns from Africa He does not know how many or how large closets he may need.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
California Fruit Crops.

c. A. Sans of Sacramento is in Bir- mingham as the guest of B. F. Eborn. He is a native of Tennessee, but has been engaged in grape culture in California for several years.
 Sacramento is a great fruit center" said MT. Sans. Tt is, in fact. the larg- est fruit market in this country. The fruit crops are unusually abundant this year. l doubt if such bumper crops were ever grown before. If we can only get good prices the people of California will fairly roll in wealth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
ABOUT "FINGY" CORNERS

ing in.' Two months later some one saw F'ingy Corners at Johnny Woods saloon, taking morning drink and con- flding in the bartender. Gee, Pete, dose Delaware avenue folks is clannishp' he said. Once he presented his newspaper pass to the conductor of an Erie train. This person did not look to the con- ductor like William J. Corners pro- prietor Buffalo Courier" and he said go. Corners, heated, roared at him. At the next station the conductor wired to the proper authorities: Man representing himself as William J. Corners presents Corners pass. Think he is a fake. Looks like prize fighter and talks like a tough" Back came the answer: That's him." The following is the classic story of Corners: He made" the Buffalo club. At the next evening entertain ment he appeared in a proper dress suit and shirt, festooned down the front with a set of large diamond studs and da- mond watch fob His friends in the club, trying tact, lured him into a haber- dasher's, where one bought a simple set of pearl studs, remarking that no gen. tleman wore jewels in his shirt bosom. "Glims?" said Fingy, catching the point instantly, "I notice that them as has 'em wears 'em" One day, talking over things in general, he fell to boasting, and dropped two bits of Corners wis dom. Speaking of his relations with the democracy of New York city he said: T fixes 1t up for 'em so 1t looks like the little w'ite mice wot runs out of your sleeve an, wen they grabs for 'em, runs in again, an gifts 'em wen they grabs" Also "So help me Gawd, there aint nuttln' can come between me an Charlie Murphy. They ain't make nuttin' as thin as that"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
About Persons.

G. w. Brock of the Alabama Normal college is registered at the Hillman. MT. Brock says his college has increased the past session 25 per cent over that of former years and the outlook for the next session is very promising.
 Henry o. Dumas of Gadsden spent yes terday in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
AGE-HERALD ECHOES

Columbus Enquirer-sun: The Birming-
 ham Age-Herald insists that it should at
 least be said of John Worth Kern that he never wrote a novel,
 Augusta Herald: "Do we eat too
 much?" asks The Birmingham Age i Herald We don't know; but judging by the law passed by your last legislature you drank too much.
 Jackson News: "one coed college in Ohio is responsible for 10000 weddings for its career of 50 years" says The Birmingham Age-Herald. Who says the co-education is a failure?
 Jackson News: Birmingham Age-Herald asks the question: DO we eat too much?"
 In reply we beg to state that most of US find it difficult to eat enough with the cost of eating at present prices.
 Jackson News: Some people can't look inc truth in the face without blinking" says The Birmingham Age-Herald. The man who penned that paragraph must have been reading the proceedings at Starkyille.
 Washington Post: Noting that a Ken lucky baseball fan fell dead at the game the other day, The Birmingham Age Herald 'presumes" he died happy. That of course, depends on how the score stood
 when he dropped.
 Columbus Enquirer-Sun: Do we eat too rnuch?" asks The Birmingham Age Herald. Possibly; but it's a cinch we don't drink too much when there's noth- ing but "nigh-beer' and apple cider to get one into the drinking notion. Florida Times Union: "The showers that were promised us by the weather clerk lodged over into Georgia. ."-Birmingha Herald. Just see the good of ad- vertisng. All the papers had been com menting on Georgia as dry state. | Columbus Enquirer The Birming- ham Age-Herald says that the Newport
 rnillionaires are beginning to pay off their lack grocery bills. Can this be regarded as sign of returning prosperity, or IS | merely a matter of conscience?
 Atlanta Georgian: "In sending Richmond Pearson Hobson to Congress Alabama per petrated the worst joke that was ever
 played on the United States of America"
 says the Florida Times-Union. When Drift" Armstrong, Colonel Screws, Paul | Cook and Ed Barrett get through with
 The Times-Union for that it will look as
 If 1t had had a shindy with Texas tornado.
 ikaiFFIiH F3IslH4
 Houston Post; The derby winner this i year is an Italian, a man who not only
 ,uns horses, but loves them, and the mare | Signorinetta, which has just carried off | the prize of two of the greatest races i'll
 this country, is like domestic poet to her
 owner-London correspondence in Bir-
 mingham Age-Herald.
 Domestic poets over there appear to be
 much like the poets of this country; long, | hun orv and huilt for sDeed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

The Olympic games show that Amer jeans can swim, wrestle and jump to beat the British who live in the tight little isle. A South African Britisher is different
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

will have it's proper place in the public estimation.
 "The Overton amendment to the consti- 'ution is winner. know that the coun- try vote will favor it unanimously. Of course there Is opposition. but httle education will clear that away"
 Senator Bankhead will remain in town until noon today conferring with the good road committee. He will then return to Jasper, and during next week will go with Senator Johnston to look over the government work at Muscle Shoals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

American balloons do not stay up as long as those made in Europe do. h the recent western contest the longest distance made was only 75 miles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

4 line of passenger balloons between New York and Boston is already being planned. Balloons on paper are, how ever, harmless.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

The election of democratic mayor in Walla Walla, Wash, is a straw that shows which way the political wind is blowing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Tom Lawson made $99O,OO0 when the order came from the democratic campaign committee to reject all gifts above $10000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Commander Peary is already in the latitude of cool breezes, and he no doubt pities those who are not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

The New York-to-Paris motor car race has been unloaded on Europe and no one in America cares who comes in ahead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Money received by individuals as corporation dividends can still be paid to the republican campaign committees
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Mir Taft's remarks on obese Wall street donations next Tuesday will be good reading at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Kern of Kokomo" is the way the running mate is known in Indiana, q state that is as alliterative as it Is literary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Chicago dislikes to see it's baseball pennant suffocated in the smoke of Pittsburg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Count Zeppilin is hopeful, although his airship is in a repair shop, where it will be kept a month or two.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

The man who remains on the water wagon even a whole year is not enti- tied to a Carnegie hero medal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

New York is discussing Senator Platt's successor. but no mention Is ever made of Thomas c. Platt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Tolstoi is the one Russian who has the courage of his convictions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
AT THE sANcTUM DOOR.

i've been waiting a long time to get my poem published"
 Our subscribers have been waiting a long time to see it published, but I don't hear any of them complaining"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Every old party and even some new ones think they can carry Georgia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Frank Hitchcock is young and red. headed, but it is the treasurer whose peronality counts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

A DREAM I called for eleven-sixty- Twas over the telephone And "CentraT' didn't sny "Busy" In a cross and peevish tone. And I got the man I wanted And perfectly understood The words that he was saying It made me feel so good To hang up the receiver |. And have the business OCT, That I rolled right out of the bed, ker-
 plunki
 And bumped my head on the fioorl
 WITHOUT HOPE What are your plans for the future?' Well, the plans call for a mansion on Easy street, but I expect to end my days in hall bedroom
 POOR MAN. He always staid at home, he did The reason why was plain. His wife was suffragetting from The rear end of a train.
 MORE TO THE POINT. "That book entitled, How to Keep a Husband, missed the mark" How SOP"
 Tt should have told, How to Keep a Husband Going"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

The clerk of the weather is keeping in touch with St. Swithin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
INTRUSIVE

INTRUSIVE. 'I don't like mosquitoes.' "Of course you don't' "They're always trying to take drinl on me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
HIS START.

You left home early in life, I under. stand"
 'Yes when not much more than a boy 'Your father probably advised you to go west and grow up with the coun- try?"
 He didn't specify any direction to take. He just said 'Gitr "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

After a woman passes certain age she has to become interested in prayer meet ing. or sitting up with the sick and the dead, or she doesn't see any society at all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

A correspondent asks: What Is the best way to spend Supnday? Should a man loaf around home, or walk, or ride, or seek amusement?" Don't ask us we don't know. We always feel tough Mon day morning whatever we do on Sum day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
A SONG.

 A dear old song of other days comes
 throbbing through the gloam, A faded melody but passing sweet; A song about the school times and the
 gentle ways of home Before we faced the world and lifes de-
 feat.
 The singers voice is badly pitched, a.
 critic would aver,
 And yet. somehow, his music finds the
 heart
 And wakens there forgotten pain, while
 memories astir
 Pay tribute to his unassuming art. REPLIES. While good people may die young, the good stories don't. The para-luna is a new wrinkle It probably keeps people from being moon- struck
 The Washington Post discusses the Habits of the Young" To the average bachelor they appear mostly bad The electric typewriter will probably writer has ever been able to shock. It is a waste of time to strike back when you are struck by a trolley car. A house fell on a Pennsylvania man and didn't feaze him, but when an automobile ran him down he just gave up. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

If the baby is noticeably soiled as to face and raiment, the mother apologies by explaining how many times she has cleaned it up in the course of the day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
A FROST.

"she let you hold her hand, you say?" ''Yes. But there wasn't any fun in 1t for me-
 why was that?'
 "She persisted in calling me son."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Christmas comes five months from today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

If 1t wasn't for telling their husbands not to smoke too much, and not to eat so fast, what would wives do for converse ton with their husbands?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Washington Herald: There is trouble brewing In Birmingham" says an Ala bama paper. That. however, is not what Birmingham would like to see brewing this hot weather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY.

From the Atchison (Kan.) Globe.
 People rather enjoy it when pretty girl begins to fade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

the percentage column to where they can shake hands with the Birmingham cham pions of 1906.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
CONTENT.

"Times aren't what they used to be- Croakers say. These are good enough for me
 Any day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Ambition, with some men, consists chiefly in finding fault with their present condition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

With the spleen of all the under fiends.
 -Cymbeline.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

If your estate is low enough, Dear optimistic feller, You ought to profit some by it. Just raise ducks in your cellar.
 Houston Post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Jackson News: "One coed college in Ohio Is responsible for 10000 weddings for it's career Of 50 years" says The Birmingham Age-Herald. Who says the co-education is a failure2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Jackson News: Birmingham Age-Herald asks the question, DO we eat too much?' In reply we beg to state that most of US find it difficult to eat enough, with the cost of eating at present prices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Augusta Herald: "Do we eat too much?" asks The Birmingham Age Herald. We don't know; but judging by the law passed by your last legislature you drank too much.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Columbus Enquirer-sun: The Birming- ham Age-Herald insists that it should at least be said of John Worth Kern that he never wrote a novel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

At least it profits much to live, Fen though in low estate; To take what cheer the world may give And make the best of fate.
 Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
PRETTY GOOD THIS.

"Heard John hendfIck Bangs latest joke?s
 No. What is it?''
 He says he is thinking of running for governor of Maine"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
THE AGE- HERALD

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala.' postoffice as second-class matter uhuer act of Congress March g. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Jackson News: Some people can't look inc truth in the face without blinking" says The Birmingham Age-Herald. The man who penned that paragraph must have been reading the proceedings at Starkville.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

No communication will be published without It's authors name. Rejected manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Memphis News-Scimitar: The Atlanta champions of 1907 have gone down in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25

Washington Post: Noting that a Ken lucky baseball fan fell dead at the game the other day, The Birmingham Age Herald "presumes" he died happy That of course, depends on how the score stood when he dropped
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-12-08

u living H8ll 81 Fame iii be IN
Feifugntou sNeanes 81 II init Dscen.
bs tgih il IN seiahratei
6 ia among Y Wotil
best orattons vsfal biograplie
have been written Of this wonderful
MAN and from that o. Rev Albert
Smith, the following extract Is taken
1T cannot be proved beyssnd dispute.
but careful Investigation reveals the
strong probability. that Russell H.
Couwell has addressed more people
than any otner man living. He has
been on the lecture platform forty-four
years, an adveraged two hundred Ice.
lures year. besides preaching to tbs
thousands who t1r,ng his church, anil
addressing the largest conventions
that assemble in America. He pre-
parsd fifteen popular lectures before
he was thirty years old.
Churches nave been established,
MAGAZINES founded, Inventions made,
business enterprises udertaken, the
discouraged have taken heart, the poor
have become rich, teachers asve adopt
ed methods more in harmony with
psychological laws, real estate has
ben advanced, h.teltepers have be
cons more thoughtful OF the com.
fort of their guests, hundreds of young
men nave entered the ministry, taou:
sands have secured an education, hun.
dreds Of thousands Of characters have
been euoblgd, and heaven will be the
richer, in consequence Of Conwelfs
lectures. A winning cord'alfty, a glow
Of Interest. an absorbing and alum.
conscious magnetism, a quenchlesst en-.
thusiasm communicated through de.
ligntful at-homeness, a sincere pur.
pose to help the listener to De better
happier and more useful for having
heard the lecture all making an even.
ing with Conwell a profitable delight
"Conwell is the most popular lee
turer in the world, which statement
can be sustained by the statistics II
the lecture bureaus; and while mis-
prices are nigh, lecture committees
have found him to be one of the cheap.
est men On the platform. He has a
fine record, as in Beverly, Mass,
which covers some eighteen consecu
tive years. He combines instruction
and entertainment with master hanj
His entertainment IS instructive and
his instruction entertaining"
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-12-08

steps face downward. Mrs. Smith
called Peanut dirty little bam." Pol
ing told the woman that she was nj
las good as bum. Botn swore; Pol
ing rushed the woman back, both fell
It was not a very exciting time accord
ing to the witness way OF thinking.
| Ed, Young gave the next testimony
He saw the woman pull of her gloves
and began to argue with Polling. Smith
hit Polling knocking him to the STEPS
face forward Polling sprang to his
feet, wallopEd Smith, Telling lniIn IA
the payeemnt spul Ramsey pulled
Mrs. Smith back and tried to keep her
ont ile fight. Polling then took the
stand and told his tory. He stopped
to talk to FL. Young. Mrs. Smith
came along with her husband. She
asked Polling why ne had been telling
it that she and Smith were not mar.
ried. He denied telling 1t. She then
asked him where was the knife that
he Intended to cut her heart out with
Polling pulled out a knife from hi2
pocket and laid 1t on Smiths shoulder,
saying, there It is. Smith brushed the
knife aside, knocking 1t TO the side.
walk. Mrs Smith called him a -
dirty bum. He told that she was not
as good as a dirty bum. Smith
struck him. He waded into Smith,
iincelsing him down. He got on Smith.
Mrs. Smith grabbed MIN by the hair
and pulled him off. She grappIed WITH
MIN and they fell.
The mayor thought it free for all
fight and fined Smith and Polling $3.50
each.
In the evidence It developed that
Spud Ramsey was mixed up in the
fight. The mayor had a warrant Ia.
sued for spnl. Spud said that when
Mrs. Smith came up she said: 81 wish
l mad gun would give 800 for a
gun. She wanted spud to get her one.
She then pulled off her gloves and
asked her husband to hold them, stat,
ing that she might have to go some.
He then told about che same story
that Polling told about the bum port
spud told Smith that he was a dirty
coward to let his wife be insufted that
way. He denied hitting Mrs. Smith
He tried to KEEP her out Of the fight,
The case was dismissed.