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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
SODA FOUNTAIN LUNCHES.

From the New York Evening Post.
 Double sundae-peachesr' said the tall young man.
 The man behind the soda-water foun- tain dropped two ladlefuls of ice cream Into a tall glass and poured plentiful supply of fruit juice over it.
 Egg and matted milk and ice cream, and shake 'em all up good" quoth the next customer. The order sounded oddly but the creamy product that was poured into the glass looked both refreshing and palatable
 Are those recently invented drinks?" an interested observer asked.
 Mot specially" was the reply. ''We fill any order they give up here-no mat ter what the combination is. People are getting so they invent their own drinks moren they used to. The number that takes an old-fashioned straight soda is growing smaller every day. We have to do some mighty queer mixing here.
 'I think" he continued, as he dropped a spoonful of Ice cream into a lemon ade, 1t comes partly because a whole lot of folks get their luncheons here dur Ing the summer time. A straight SOua 5 mostly gas, and 1t ain't filling for very long. But when you add matted milk or eggs or ice cream or all three it makes a pretty substantial meal.
 ''It ain't only those who patronize the dairy lunches that come here. Any man who makes himself think he's dieting during hot weather can get here just the sort of a sustaining drink he's look ing for. There's one man who has come here every day for month, and never drinks the same combination twice. He's ordered some wonderful mixed drinks, and they always foot up to 15 or 20 cents at least. One healthy looking woman lunches on three sundaes' every noon. She takes them in single order in a high glass sos not to attract attention.
 'Not more than half of the orders in- clude soda in any shape" he added as he pushed plate of crackers toward a man who was slipping from a glass into which coffee, an egg and matted milk had been poured, land milk drinks are all the go just now. That's proof that the customer is taking his lunch here. He wouldn't order a milk drink on top of chicken croquettes or before it. No, sir; we serve the cheapest sort of quick-lunch at double-quick time you can get anywhere in the city. That's why we're so busy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
Breeding Place For Flies

Ordinance No. 146 purports to be a measure "to minimize" the breeding of house flies in this city. It Is, how ever, measure that it is futile on its face. for the second section of the ordinance is as follows:
 Sec. 2. That all of such stalls shall at least twice in each week have the manure dropped, deposited or collected therein removed therefrom, and shall also have removed therefrom at least twice in each week all of the damp or moist sawdust or straw which may be used in said stalls for bedding or other wise upon the floor thereof.
 Twice in each week is better per haps than twice in each month, but that is about all that can be said of it.. In the heats of July and August in this latitude flies are matched with speed and dispatch, and an ordinance that calls for the removal of stable refuse "at least twice in each week" Is not an ordinance that minimizes In the least the breeding of flies in this city. The householders and stable keepers who know how rapidly the larvae of fies are matched and who have due sense of their duty to their neighbors will cleanse their stables daily, but the careless and negligent, who obey the law only when they are forced to do so. will hatch out flies under ordinance No. 14s just as freely as they did be- fore it was passed.
 Ordinance No. 146 should be pulled in. It is valueless, unscientif1c and misleading. It does not command the , support of a single wellinformed phy- sician, and 1t never will. It is not a credit to a progressive city. It should be put on a scientific basis or else repealed altogether.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
(Average price for 1ssO-1sss is 1oo.o)

The cost of living reached higher vel in 1907 than it had during the 1s- ar period. The highest point was uched in October, 1907. A decline gan to appear in November of that ar and its extent will be reported by ae bureau of labor after the present llan5a1 year is ended. It is, however. ported that between October and the ose of the last year 132 of the 25S icles had fallen in price below the h point of the year.
 | doubt the cost of living which d been increasing throughout the ar had received a check last October, t before that month every group owed in 1907 an increase in price.
 farm products taken as a whole
 increase was greatest, namely, 1O.e
 cent; for food, 4.6 per cent; for
 IS and clothing, 5.6 per cent; for
 and lighting, 2.4 per cent; for tals and implements, 6.1 per cent; lumber and building materials, 49 cent; for drugs and chemicals, S3
 cent; for house furnishings, 6.S per t, and for the miscellaneous groups, Jer cent
 To what extent monopolies contrib sd In this general increase in prices not stated by the bureau of labor, it is long lane that has no turn, the turn came in October last. lat its entire course will be so far as
 prices of staples are concerned re- ins to be determined.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
From the Washington Post.
INDIANA SCENE. "Is this lynching bee or pilgrimage

From the washington Post.
 NN NE hundred and thirty-two EVJ years ago today our nation was born. In the years which 1t has taken to reach it's present great stature it has witnessed many marvellous things come into being which had never been before. Some of them might never have existed had 1t not existed first. They are its gifts in science, in art, in achieve ments, in discoveries and in learning to the civilization which produced 1t. There are but few of the other marvels of the past century and third with which 1t has not been associated or upon which it has not asserted a strong influence.
 Every year has produced more and more things new and strange to civilization. The progress of the world since the last Fourth of July has been triumphant processional of things accomplished. Aerial navigation was an experiment then; now 1t is an achievement. The Dreadnaught was the boast of Britain and the scourge of the seas then; now the navies of several powers have greater ships than the Dreadnought, and she has begun to be looked upon as a toy in comparison with the vessels of the fu- ture. Wireless telegraphy has become within the year service almost as com mon as the telephone, and the noiseless gun promises to revolutionize warfare. Electricity has been harnessed to draw the chariot of progress through every land under the sun; every work of man is be-
  ing accomplished by it; its powers have been studied and more widely dissemin- ated, and its use as a force for the discharging of projectiles from guns greater and more terrible than the world has ever known is about to be accomp- lshed.
 But inventions and appliances do not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
Interest In Denver Proceedings.

"Although the outcome In Denver IS well known. there is wide interest in the con- ventjon.' said member of the Commer' cial club. All day there has been a crowd around the bulletin board or the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph company on Second avenue.
 "I think the bulletin service or 'his company should be especially commended It is the quickest and most compreneh- sive report I have seen. l am told the company has representative in the con yention hall, and that the report here IS on the bulletin board three minutes stter anything has happened in Denver. Con trary to the general belief, these bulletins are sert by telegraph and not by long, distanca phone. The company uses us own telephone wires over which the re- ports are telegraphed. A wire can be used for telephonic and simultaneously telegram can be sent over the same wire. The bulletins received here go dirct from the convention hall to Chicago, and from Chicago are received here over through wires"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
Good Theatre Town.

"The fact that Birmingham is good show town and progressive, even in dull times. has been impressed on me lately, said Manager Martin L. Semon of the Bl- jou theatre. Birmingham Is the oniy city in the south with theatre open at present. I uo not refer to the park theatres and picture shows, Of whlch there are a large number scattered through the southern states. The Bi1ou has not only kept open for 46 consecu- tive weeks so far, but the house has done A fine business all along, even when warm weather began and rainy nights were in order This showing is a source or much satisfaction, both to MT. Wells ana myself. Birmingham is extremely ho- eraI in supporting her amusement enter prises. This city has established new record for summer theatricals in the south and one of which she can well afford to boast"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08

States district attorney for Alabama dur ing MT. Cleveland's second term, and 1t was at that time that MT. Cleveland was making his record as a sound-money man. In a small way Mir. Clayton was a member of the administration, and must have approved of what was being done by his chief. Otherwise he would have resigned his office.
 Now Mir Clayton is Bryan man. That Is to say, he Is regular. MT. Bryan Is the leader of the party, and MT. Clayton supports him as such. He has MT. Bryan's confidence, as he had MT. Cleve- lands. He wants the party restored to power. He thinks it possible for the two factions to unite under MT. Bryan for victory. And in the spirit of union this former officeholder under MT. Cleveland will preside at Denver with MT. Bryan as the hero of the occasion.
 Maybe we see in MT. Clayton one of the new leaders of the south in the event of Mr Bryan's election. He should "call' for a good deal at the White House with MT Bryan presiding there. What are his "points?" What manner of man is he in council and in action? He is not a spell binder-at any rate, is not listed as such among his southern brethren. He has modesty and good taste, as his brief biog- raphy in the Congressional directory shows. Half dozen lines tell the story, and even his age is omitted He is a lawyer, and has been in politics for years.
 MT. Cleveland as President leaned upon the south for advisers, if it can be said that he leaned at all. MT. Bryan, If chosen, will have to do likewise. The south is his mainstay as a candidate, and will give him the bulk of the votes he receives in November. Should she not, therefore, If he wins figure infuentially in his administration? Are there other surprises in store for the country? MT. Clayton Is one. Who will be the Clay ton of Mississippi, of Georgia, of Louis- jana, of Florida, of Texas and so on?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
North HaYen'S "S2

By a vote of 32 nays and s ayes a long, narrow strip of territory lying on or near Village creek has refused to be annexed until the King act goes into operation next year. It is unnecessary to analyze the vote-to ascertain. for example, how many of the voters In the negative own COWS that roam over lands belonging to other men.
 The case is best illustrated by turn ing it squarely over. The district voted that they would not assist in bearing the expenses of the city government. Suppose then the city itself should by legally drawn ordinances prohibit the district in question from sharing in the advantages offered by the city. To be definite, let us suppose the S2 wHo voted against annexation were by ordi- nance forbidden to do business or to collect rents or to seek employment within the city's bounds. Inasmuch as the 32 say they do not desire to be- come a part of the city's population, the city would logically be justified in denying to them any of its manifold advantages. Would not this open the eyes of the 32 to the logical meaning of the votes they cast in Mondays eIaotion7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
MARKS TIP.
Mark Twain in Chicago News.

MdrK T WHII m OIIICdBU 4'tWS.
 "Once, featuring, l landed in an Aus tralian port. There was no porter In sight to carry my luggage. Seeing rough-looking old fellow leaning against a post with his hands in his pockets beckoned to him and said: See here, if you'll carry these bags up to the hotel I'll give you half a crown" The man scrowled at me. He took three or four gold sovereigns from his pocket, threw them into the sea. scrowled at me again, and walked away without word.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
A WISE PREcAUTIoN.
n Harner,s Weekly.

From Harper's Weekly.
 Willie had not been very good boy that day. and in consequence of certain inexcusable derelictions he had been sent to bed with the sun. After supper his father climbed the stairs to the young- ster's room, and throwing himself down on the bed alongside of the delinouents began to talk to him.
 sWillie," he said, gravely, ''did you say your prayers before you went to bed?"
 "Yessir," said Willie.
 "And did you ask the Lord to make you a good boy?" asked the parent.
 .'Yep," said Willie, "and I guess it'll work this time."
 Good said the father. I'm glad to hear that"
 Yes" said Willie, "but don't think we'll know before tomorrow. You've got to give the Lord time, you know
 "And what makes you think 1t will work this time, my son?' queried the anxious parent s
 "Why, after the Amen I put in an R. s. V. P," explained the boy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
State HlqhWay.

'I am glad to see that the Farmers union heartily indorsed the movement to build a great highway through the state of Alabama to be known as the 'Tennes- see to the Gulf highway said an en- thusiastic good roads advocate.
 This movement to build a state high way across the state has certainly re- ceived a great boost by the Farmers union. The farmers convention was com posed of over 800 delegates, representing every county in the state of Alabama and has a membership of over SeOO' The delegates were enthusiastic in re- gard to this road and urged that each one of theirlocal unions take up the sup ject and discuss the same. They also recommended that each member write a. letter to Senators Bankhead and John ston. also their respective congressman, urging them to ask the United States government to make an appropriation to help build this state highway. l con- sider the building of such a highway one of the greatest and best projects that the state of Alabama could en- gage in.
 "A state road 15o feet wide, coming di- rectly through the state of Alabama from the Tennessee line to Mobile, would be an object lesson road. and would cause different county roads In every county in the state to be built to the state high way. The building of this highway would lead to working the convicts on It's con struction and we would then have some definite plan in road building in Ala bama."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
FROM LIFE.

Brain Hooker in Scribner's Magazine. Her thoughts are like flock of butter
 flies,
 She has a merry love for little things. And bright futter of speech, whereto
 she brings A thrcefoid eloquence-voice hands and
 eyes. Yet under all a subtle silence lies As a birds heart is hidden by lts
 wings;
 And you shall seek through many
 wanderings The fairyland of her realities. She hides herself behind a busy brain A woman, with a child's laugh in her
 blood;
 A maid. wearing the shadow of mother
 hood Wise with the quiet memory of old pain, As the soft glamour of remembered rain Hallows the gladness of sunlit wood-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
X Monument To "UnCle RemuS"

1ncle Remus" wrote, 1t is true, for put he was so loyal to southern >ions 1t is meet that a monument ifs memory should be erected by south alone. The Atlanta Journal poses that 1t be erected by southern pol children.
 his is no doubt a good suggestion. perhaps the most effective way in ch those children could act in this ter Is to declare Dixie Tag Day 6 observed in every town and every pol district in Dixie Land. he proposed Tag Day should be as d as the southland itself and it id be held simultaneously in all southern states, even in Missouri Oklahoma.
 the tag-day method be deemed e the offering of tags should
 be committed to the school
 ], and the support of the school
 les should be sought. The de.
 needs be worked out in Geor.
 at least six months time will
 ed in which to put them in sIrden
 way the monument can be
 ,lly southern, and it seems -sit should be so. No clearer, Ter. product ever sprang from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Prosperous France,


 ''The French people love their country and few of them emigrate," said Paul Calame the we1l-known watchmaker, and as France is now enjoying a high degree of prosperity. emigration Is smaller than ever. France is far more prosperous than Germany. In fact, bus mess conditions in the latter country are in bad shape. France on the other hand Is probably the thriftiest nation in Europe; and it was never more prosperous than it is today.
 "Of the comparatively few French peo- pie who come to the United States to settle, many of them are returning 70 their native land. There are 40 or 5O French families in the Birmingham dis trict, most of the men being employed at mining camps. The number of French miners was larger some years ago. The French wage-earner Is not only indus trious, but he is always law-abiding and well behaved
 MT Calame is a native of Franco Swiss canton and although he is thor oughly Americanized he still keeps in close touch with the Old World and no one has a better understanding of French politics or French social life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
FRATERNITIEs IN COLLEGE.
rom the New York Telegram.

tTOm tn6 lNtW 1OIh ICiS6 aiii-
 whether fraternity life improves the opportunities of college men," said Frank smalley Fite of Pittsburg, at the Wal dorf- Astoria last night, "has always been the subject of considerable discussion. h. deed in the last 10 or 20 years the op- position to secret societies has been So strong that some of the larger universi- ties have seen fit to place obstacles Tn their way on the ground that they tend to create factional feeling among the stV dents and consequently have detT mental effect.
 "Only about 10 or 20 per cent of ne men who attend college where frateih- ties are allowed and recognized bePihe members of the organizations, andft IS this number alone that has the ppof- tunity of forming an unbiased opiron as to the good that they do. Coilefe men who have been members of fraernities are fully able to appreciate thef useiui- ness, however, and are aware hat their chief aim is always to improve he stand ing of their men.
 Both secretly and openly fhe larger fraternities of today encourage theH members in entering into thehthietic ana educational competitions of college life and in bending every effortko bring their universities into more favorable cohsid- eration. In fact, the fraternity man taxes the view that there is no element in col lege fife which works more wiihnsiy, more generously to raise the standard than the college fraternity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
aesturant Business FIourishing.

"No matter how 1t may be with bus mess in general, the restaurant trade In Birmingham has been better this sum mer than ever before. said a pioneer caterer.
 '.There are twice as many restaurants bere as there were a year ago. but most of +bem seem to have a good run of business. Our line Of trade began 10 improve early in the spring and 1t has been improving ever since. One day dur ing the Confederate reunion my receipts were double as much as they had been on any previous day since I started in business"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08

southern soil than Joel Chandler liar ris, and it seems fit that monument to his memory should come from south en pockets at the instigation of home children that the dead writer had de- lighted and entertained through the creations of his fancy and his humor and lovable optimism that was ever present at the nib of his pen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
POTATOES IN IRELAND.

From the New York Press.
 An Irishman from Ireland-think or thati-told me the other day that In Donegal, in a community of 10000 peo- pie, FOO were insane from eating lrlsh potatoes! "Wherefore?' said l, ever 1n- uuisitive. Replied he: "On account oi the alcohol in the, potatoes At wnicn I could not help laughing, as we in Amer ica eat only one or two potatoes a day, and two big ones would not produce d grain of alcohol.
 why, mon." said my friend you peo- pie in America know absolutely notnins about potatoes. I know an oldish feio" in Donegal whose dinner se5 days in the year consists of 14 pounds of boiled po--
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
CLAYTON OF ALABAMA.

From the Washington s'ar.
 Is not the selection CT Henry D. Clay ton of Alabama for permanent chairman of the Denver convention a sort of con- cession to the Cleveland wing of the de- mocracy? He was q presidential elector in 1888 and 1892, and Consequently stumped his state in both campaigns for MT. Cleveland, whom he must have admired.
 But more than tkis. He wae United
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

woman can trust anything in another of her sex sooner than complexion.
 There's nothing that cures people of wanting things so much as being able to afford them.
 nice thing about vacation Is that after 1t is over you don't have to do it again for a year.
 The successful wife is the one who has so muoS tact that she treats her hus- bands stupidity as if 1t were her own.
 It's the man who uses all the cream in the house for his oatmeal and coffee that gets mad because his wife doesn't keep the bills for it down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
WHILE AWAY FROM HOME.

Birmingham people who are leaving home for the summer should have The Age-Heraid follow them, and thus keep Informed about what Is taking place in the oIty and state during their absence. The Ase-Herald will be sent to them at any address at the regular price, and the address will be changed as ,ften as desired,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08

Luke Wright succeeded Taft in the Philippines, and again in the war of flee, and the friends of the former be- gin to wonder if he will succeed him in the White House. But the trouble Is Taft may never reach the White House himself. There is a big popular obstacle in the way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-08
PROGRESS INONE YEAR

wbIly measure the worlds progress dur in, the year. There have been powerful irpulses stirring among peoples, new ad- vatures into the realms of space and tbught. Wonder in the east--the land of tb rising sun-a multitudionous racs, cuntless as the sands of the sea, has aisen out of the somnolence of centuries ad become in a day, as it were, among te foremost of the peoples of the earth. tothing has been more wonderful than he belated coming of the yellow man into is place. What it will mean for the khite-what new relations and values are 0 be adjusted-is a problem of the fu- Iure.
 The world is full of projects born of new and startling thoughts. An artificial lsland supported on buoys anchored to the bottom of the sea, is one of the strange projects of the year past. It is to be la sort of roof garden floating on the crest of the ocean. at which vessels may call, and it may be lowed from the trop- ics to the Arctics as winter and summer come. An overland route to Europe via Alaska and the wnd-blown steppes of Siberia is another project. Will 1t be practicableP is anoher question. The past has affirmatively solved many harder ones. Why not Ehis?
 The proposed exploration of the polar regions by balloon and airship may pre- sent new ligll upon the possibility of travel lines ercircling the earth. One of these explorations is about to start now. It would seen to have chances for suc- cess. Who knows but that next Fourth of July the American flag may be flying from the forth Pole itself!
 It has hen a wonderful year of pro- gress advertisements and promise, this 1S2d yea of the history of the United States