The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-09
AGE-HERALD ECHOES

Columbus Enquirer Sun: The observant editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald has discovered that "a hit in time often saves the nine."
 Savannah Press: The Birmingham Age Herald says: There was not enough left of the Aldrich bill to send to a con ference committee
 Jackson News: The Birmingham Age Herald says that everybody is walking on tip-toe over in Alabama to keep from jarring the Hobson presidential boom.
 Jackson News: Regarding that Massa- chussetts ball player who dropped dead at third base, the Birmingham Age-Her- aid expresses deep regret, for in a few moments the fellow would have scored.
 Baton Rouge State: Regarding that Massachusetts ball player who dropped dead at third base, the Birmingham Age Herald expresses deep regret, for in a few moments the fellow would have scored.
 Washington Post: ''The jug issue is still marching up and down in Geor- gia,' says the Birmingham Age-Herald. Does this mean the stuff that has issued from the jugs is transformed into pre- ambulating jags?
 Richmond News-Leader: "The jug issue is still marching up and down in Geor- gia,'' says the Birmingham Age-Her- aid. We should imagine thai the jug tissue in Georgia would be 1aore dis posed to run than to walk.
 Huntsville Mercury: The Age-Herald of Birmingham is an earnest and elo- quent advocate of good roads. If ever the highways of Alabama are improved, the good work will be largely due to the strenuous efforts of the esteemed Age Herald.
 Houston Post: The Birmingham Age Herald thinks Miss Helen Gould is wise in remaining single. Yet we feel sure that Miss Gould can marry safely in Texas. That is to say, there are plenty of good stalwart men here who can live nicely on s2O0O or 5000 a year provided they do not stay out of nights
 New York Telegram: No new army off, cer can hereafter be sworn in who is not five feet five inches high. Iris rule would lave shut out Phil Sheridan and one Napoleon Bonaparte also.-Birmingham Age-Herald. II ability is all matter of raea+, let thern all be as tall as Fairbanks and as wide as Taft.
 Washington Herald: "The country wants a President who will do things" says the Birmingham Age-Herald Well what do you call fighting nature-fakers with one hand, malefactors of great wealth with the other kicking Congress in the slats with one foot, and planting the other square in the bosom of the anti race suiciders trousers, all at once?
 Macon Telegraph: '<ill the flies," urges the Birmingham Age-Herald, but serious difficulty in this connection IS that flies, like certain human societies, seem to thrive under persecution. That flies are not merely nuisance but a danger, however, there can no longer be any question, although our contemporary is trife strong in language when it declares that a fiy's germ-laden feet rem der if more dangerous than the cruelest tiger the corbra or the rattlesnake.'
 If we had to choose between close quarters with tiger, cobra, or a rat tlesnake, and the germ-laden feet of a housefy. we should certainly risk the lat ter with all the incidental tickling thrown in. We are nevertheless much impressed by the warnings of the bacteriologists and would advise everybody to flee the house. fly by every possible means
 pr. Jackson of New York is said to ] have examined 11O925 housefiies and to have reached the conclusion that the filthy insect is responsible for 5000 out of 1000 deaths due to typhoid fever and 1 intestinal diseases. A single fly was found to be carrying in its tiny mouth and on it's slender legs lover 100000 fecal | bacterial
 l If may be that the fly expert, like the mosquito expert, is rather too much in- l c,ined to claim all the widkedness for I his own particular pet, forgetting that ] foul air and bad sanitation may put in their deadly work without the aid of | insects. Nevertheless the housefiy is un- l o,1estionably one of the most undesirable 1 of all undesirable citizens and it is of 1 prime importance to avoid his unclean touch as far as possible. In the pursuit of this end no single scheme is as sue l cessful as the use of screen doors and | windows in summer.
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