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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
Prosperous State.

"A peculiar thing about Texas said S. D. Ashley of St. Louis, lis that Tn spite of the fact of it's remarkably pros- porous condition 1t put on poor mouth just after last years panic, and business came almost to a standstill.
 "One could readily understand how business depression affected industrial centers and commercial cities depending upon the trade of manufacturing dis tricts. But the cities of Texas were in class to themselves, and there was no reason whatever for hard times In the Lone Star state The agricultural inter- ests and nearly all other interests in Texas were never more fourishing. It seems that the people simply thought It was the fashion to croak, and they did croak. For time business seemed par alyzed. But all of a sudden the people woke up to realization of their favored conditions and for the past four weeks prosperity has been in evidence from one end of Texas to the other
 ''I visited Houston, Dallas and other im- portant Texas towns in April and found business distressingly dull. I went 10 Texas again early this month and every town was enjoying high degree Of pros- perity. Indeed, I found business men wonderfully buoyant and optimistic.
 Tn other sections of the south business Is in a healthy condition and the bumper cotton crop in sight is having a fine ef- feet on the spirits of the people,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
GENERAL BOOTHS FORTUNE.
From the Washington Herald.

From the washington Herald.
 General Booth, the grand old man" of the Salvation Army, has just entered upn his SOth year, and 1t Is curious to re- call the verdict of a doctor whom ne consulted as a young man. He was anx- ious to enter the ministry but the medi- co told him: Tt would be sheer suicide. You would be dead in a year." And tho veteran has only recently returned from a world tour, and seems as full of en- ergy as ever. It may not be generally known that General Booth does not draw a single penny from army funds beyond his travelling expenses. His personal in- come-on which he brought up his family lis simply the interest on a capital sum of R5o00 which was provided by a friend who believed in the man and his work at the outset of his career. When the general dies the capital goes back to that friend or his heirs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

' AM indeed glad to see the firm
 stand that Governor Conner has
 taken in suppressing the lawleas clement in Jefferson county. which is talk ing advantage of strike situation to give vent to their incendiary instincts.
 Governor Conner has taken the bull by the horns, so to speak, and has called out the state militia to prevent riotlng and bloodshed and to protect men who want to work.
 Every man has the right to strike for higher wages if he sees fit to do so. Every man has right to value his own abilities as a laborer, a mechanic. or in any other work of life. I respect the man who places a high value upon his ability and his energy. But no one re- spects the man who would intimidate hls neighbor because such neighbor desires to perform legitimate work for the sup port of himself and his family at price which he deems adequate.
 The organizers of labor unions and the men holding office under them are per fectly right in trying to get just as high prices for their labor as possible. They are respected for it. But they should equally assist the operators and mine business on business principles, instead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
A -NolsELEss, PATIENT SPIDER.

By Walt Whitman. A noiseess, patient spider, markd where, on little promontory, 1t stood isolated Markd how to explose the vacant Va surrounding, It launch1 forth flament, filament, ha- ment, out of itself, Ever rrr-eling them, ever ureiessiy i'7g them. -,. soul. where you stand,
 lctached in rneasureless
 space, nusng, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them. Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold, Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere. my soull
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Twos company unless they are hus- band and wife.
 There's hardly anything a girl can be more ashamed of than a good appetite.
 woman is prouder of her husband for being introduced to a millionaire than for getting an honorary degree from a col lege.
 mans idea of lucky financial turn Is having some money his family doesn { know about, 50 they won't get 1t away from him.
 When a man is in love with a girl he wants to tell everybody what a perfect creature she Is; when a girl is in love with a man sine wants everybody to tell her what a fine fellow he is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
BEING A USEFUL HUSBAND.
le Atchison Globe.

From the Atchison Globe.
 Now and then the Globe mentions the case of some husband who occasionally geto up and gets breakfast, allowing his wife to rest while he prepares the meal. In this respect Ribert Handke of Walnut township is the most faithful example that the writer of this is able to find. Getting breakfast belongs to MT. Handles regular daily routine. and Mrs. Handke admits that she has prepared only one morning meal during their 10 years of married life. MT. Handke is said to be good cook too. and does not get breakfast because he has to. but be- cause he likes to cook, because he likes to get up early, and, above all because he has good wife and wants to treat her right.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
This Seasons Weed Policy

There will be this year no proclama- tion by the mayor against weeds in the streets and on the lots, but notice Is being given in the plainest of black faced type that the law will on and after July 2S be strictly enforced. There will be this year no pleading with individuals to cut the weeds on their lots. All are to have timely no- tice and then the law and its penalties will take its full and rigorous course.
 This is as it should be. Weeds cut now are weeds cut in seed time and they will not reappear. Mayor Ward proposes to rid the city of weeds. The nests of mosquitoes and the home of red bugs are to be destroyed, and the absentee owners of vacant lots will serve themselves by promptly and fully obeying the law. If they leave weedy growth of four inches on their lots they will assuredly wish they hadn't. Unearned increment must at least cut its weeds in this city.
 Mayor Ward should receive the SUD- port of all good citizens in this mat ter, but whether he does or not he has the courage to do his duty, and in the matter of weeds he will assuredly do it. He may not be fully up to stand ard in the matter of matrimony, but regarding weeds he certainly is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
Cotton In October

While spot cotton sells at Il cents, cotton for October delivery is freely offered at 91s cents. This, too, in New orleans, where quotations are not ma nipulated and regulated by eastern yuinners. The speculative dealer de liberately says cotton in October will ho worth less than 10 cents.
 The truth is, the men who deal in contracts know even less than the sarmer does what sir critical weeks vili bring forth4 .rhe crop outturn has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

waves of the dirtiest water go over the decks of the ferries that carry cars across, and you feel that you are travel ing by land and by sea all in one trip writes George w. Peck from New Or leans.
 "The old river says nothing, but 1t IS onto all the deviltry going on in all the states through which it flows. If you could understand its language, 1t would tell you here how it left the people of Minnesota and Wisconsin enjoying wet goods, how Iowa is so dry that the peo- ple come down to the river to drink, how Missouri gets some drinks and wants Q be shown why 1t shouldn't keep drinking if 1t wants to. It washes the feet of Illinois where one foot is dry and the other wet; it laughs at dry Arkansas, which comes across it to Memphis to get it's jag. It passes Mississippi, where the only drink obtainable is liquid quinine and stomach bitters and chlls and fever cure and stuff to drive malaria out of the system, and then it gets so large and powerful here that the gulf is hardly big enough to contain its contribution of liquid sand and sewage.
 And the people talk of controlling by dams and dlkes and dredging a river that acknowledges no man as master, and goes where 1t pleases, across lots or in the channel, as it has mind to do.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
A REPORT.
Erom the Bellman.

From the Bel1man.
 Admiral Lord Charles Beresford has sat in parliament on several occasions. At York, one evening, after having ad- dressed a political gathering, famous politician who had veered around on the home rule question approached him and said:
 Admirable speech, Beresford; very good. indeed. I didn't think you could do it. You don't look like statesman.
 .'Perhaps not" was the bluff sailors re- tort. NO more do you look like wealth ercock."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

Former Congressman ". W. How ard of Alabama has opened headquar- ters in hotel in Chicago He is in hot pursuit of a nomination for the presidency at the hands of the Inde- pendence League. He has several op- ponents however.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
Piano Trade Improvement.

''The piano trade has been dull ever since the panic, but Is showing signs or improvement" said the manager of large music house. While pianos have come to be regarded almost as household necessities, they are still classed as lux ures when economy is to be practiced. and the trade Is therefore among the first to feel hard times.
 More pianos were sold in June than in May, and I think our sales will be still large between now and September. The improvement in the piano business is significant, for when 1t picks lp, gen. eral trade Is sure to be active.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

The republicans seem to think they own New York because the democrats have not carried it in 16 years. As a matter of fact they carried 1t in 1906, electing their entire state ticket, ex- except their candidate for governor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

curing safe and accurate reconnois- sanee over the enemy's country. The balloon of today is for observation pur- poses, not for participation in actual battles in the clouds. The balloon of tomorrow may be more aggressive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

Those who were mentioned for vice president should organize at once be- fore they slip back into oblivion. Their temporary emergence should be cele- brated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
BRAlNLETS.

From the New York Times.
 "Our lesson today was on some words having the same sounds, yet spelled diff ferently," said a Harlem teacher T asked the class to write sentence In illustration, and Tommy Smith handed me this bit of brilliancy:
 T cheWs to choe my old gum shoo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

The socialist-labor party declines to accept MT. Preston"s declination. The fact that he is in prison renders him all the more acceptable to his party. That party polled in 1904 vote of S2,- O2o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
ON IHE MISSISSIPPI.

From the Nashville American.
 "In going from here to Texas It IS nee essary to have some words with the oid Mississippi river, which, during these cy- clone days. is getting up waves thar would do credit to the ocean, and those
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

The sparrows in the New York city parks are disturbed by the snorers who are permitted on hot nights to sleep on the grass
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

Matrimony is rapidly depicting the ranks of the trained nurses. The white-garbed angels of mercy are going of like hot cakes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

of resorting to violence. The men who are not satisfied with conditions here are at liberty to go elsewhere, but they will rot be permitted to put bullet holes in the skins of those who want to be of Birmingham without receiving like pun ishment in return and at a wholesale ratio This Is no wild western district where the man with the six-shooter rules.
 The man of industry is the man of this district: and the man of industry must be protected even though the standing army of the United States government be called out to do so.
 The officers of the industrial corpora tions of this district owe it to themselves, the stockholders of their companies, the business interests of the district and the workingmen of Birmingham to maintain order, to protect the men who would work and to be quick in bringing order out of chaos to whatever extremes It might be necessary to go.
 While we have been through rather strenuous times for the past few days, it looks now like the mob spirit is to be curbed and that before the present week is ended the mines will be filled and the better element will again be at work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

Thaw gladly accepts a jail as a summer resort this year. It is better from his viewpoint than playhouse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

The old oaken bucket may be favor ably accepted by the prohibitionists, but it will not pass muster among the sanitary scientists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

President Roosevelt declines to can his thoughts for oratorical campaign purposes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

Brooklyn feels humiliated when it reads Pat McCarren's boast that he has 40, 900 votes he can deliver to any body whose bid is acceptable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

Colonel Guffey of Pennsylvania will not be permitted to subscribe more than $100O0 to the democratic cam paign fund He is persecuted man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

One county in Kansas which holds 257 registered votes has 57 candidates for office This is considered the record of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

No one is safe from attack by vice presidential boom until the Hearst con yention has met and made nomina- tions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

The vice presidential whiskers are to remain a feature of the campaign. They are in way confusing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

Mrs. Guinness may be dead and then again she may be keeping delicates- sen store in the wild and woody west.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

This is sweat-box weather of the az gravated type, but the weather clerk promises to do better today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

A patriotic woman held the balance even when she named her twin baby boys Bryan and Taft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

Peary has left Sydney, N. S., and his staunch ship, the Roosevelt, is now headed for the pole.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
as lmaaInatlon bodies forth.

And, as imagination bodies forth, The form of things unknown, the poets pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothines 4 local habitatlon and a name.
 -Mldsummer Nights Dream.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
HER BITTER LESSON.

He danced his way into her heart
 Upon tho ballroom floor; The girl declared such grace and art She'd never seen before. Alas, she made a fearful break,
 As young things aften will; Mere nimbleness won't buy a steak Or pay the grocery bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE SITUATION
 IN THE BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT TO-DAY

It is true that the scale for mining coal in some of the mines has been material ly reduced within the past several months. l understand, however. that there will probably be increases in the scales in the early fall. and there is every outlook for a splendid period of prosperity, both to the mine operators and to the miners.
 The best opinion is that this week will see an end to the difficulties in the min ing situation.
 I am glad to see that former Mayor Mel Drennen has decided to abandon the contest for Mayor against Frank O'Brien and leave an open field for the latter.
 Frank O'Brien is one of Birmingham's ablest and best citizens. There is not a more patriotic man in the Birmingham district. No man has done more for the upbuilding of Birmingham and there Is not citizen of this community who would make a more thorough, energetic, conscientious and business-like Mayor of the Greater Birmingham than would Frank O'Brien.
 He has no opponent now but every cit- izen in Birmingham should go to the polls and vote for him as a compli- ment to a splendid fellow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
WHILE AWAY FROM HOME.

rmlngham people who are leaving home for the summer should have The A9e-Herald follow them, and thus keep Informed about what is taking place in the city and state during their absence. The Age-HeraId 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., 1908-07-19

The best way to take vacation is on the installment plan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

THE CHOICE OF A DREAMER In the town of Work-and-Worry, Given OCT to sordid care, Up and dowr the people hurry, Stumbling meath the loads they bear; Plying this and that endeavor,
 Seeking fame or yellow gold But true happiness shall never To their weary eyes unfold. Far away In vales contented.
 Lazy drones the bumblebee, Where the breeze Is violet-scented And the sunset glory's free; Where the day brings joy unending And the evening proffers rest Meath an arch of blossoms bending, In the byways of the blest. Who would choose the strife and pustle And the wages of despair, When the haunts where green leaves
 rustic
 Call him on to finger there! When his stified soul Is crying
 Out for sweetness and repose, And his heart is signing, signing For the lily and the rose!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

The weather Is hotter than the cam- paign, but the latter may make good In the fall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

Street cars that taboo cats and dogs should add to the list end-seat hogs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
heJG7,es-

welt refused to speak into a phono- graph"
 'Of course he refused. A phonograph wouldn't say 'Rahi Rahl Rah! every time he hit trust below the belt"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

GENTLE SUBTERFUGE. He seemed the gladdest fellow Who ever walked about; Of hope he had such plenty, It never did give out. In summer time or winter, He sang the whole day through And people thought he never Had drained the cup of rue. But that is where he fooled them Although he wore smile And helped his weaker brothers And cheered them all the while, He wasn't really happy But only played part To cover up the sorrow That ranked in his heart.
 MO UNyTIIJrSIAGM
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
SLEEP.

SLEEP. Under the lilies, lost in dreams The toll and the trouble past; Where the nigh wind sghs and the fire fly gleams, A tired heart rests at last.
 DAIrI COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
POETRY WORTH WHILE.

POETRY WORTH WHILE T have written poem about you" And you call that friendship!' Sure. The lines state that you make the best brand of shaving soap on the market"
 Now that's something like it Send the poem around and I'll have 1t put up In all the trolley cars.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
CONsERVATIsM.

A Birmingham lover declares that tho girl he is going to marry is lone in q 1ozen." He ought to take the lid off his enthusiasm. It is not considered hyperbolical to say at least "one in a million under such circumstances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

That Scranton, Pa., man who mar ried his cook may think he has solved the servant problem, but just wait until he wakes up," says the Columbus En- quirer-Sun. Oh, he won't mind waking up to eat a dandy breakfast, if that is what you mean.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
CIVIC PRIDE.

CIVIC PRIDE. Now that is the sort of rivalry worth while." "Particulars, please" Smith and Jones are trying to see which can keep the cleanest backyard in town"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

THE TIE OF BROTHERHOOD. The kindliness that prompts a man to lend a helping hand Is better far than any worldly prze A note of human sympathy, a heart 70 understand Will make the desert bloom like para disc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
TEMPTATION.

"Oh father dear, come home at ten," Said little Willie Horn. Poor mother cut her foot off when She tried to carve her corn.' "Confound the lucll'' said Father Horn, ''Tis easy to see through it. | left my razor out this morn
 I knew she'd try to do itn'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

APPLIES TO BOTH "No one has ever risen to dispute Gen eral Sherman's definition of war "Thats true," replied Colonel Sozzle And a great many people wonder why he didn't say the same thing about pro hibtion."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

CERTAINLY NOT. In looking for Someone to pet, No man will choose A suffragette.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
NO ENTHUSIASM.
SELF CONFIDENCE.

1T hear it stated that President Roose
The newspaper., 1908-03-13
Cleft Grating from Start to Finish.

es AMI placed in moist sand. where
they will not ilceze and yet will be
kept cold enough TO prevent growth.
Good results may be followed by
cutting scions in the spring just be-
fore or at the time re grating is to
be done, but 1t is much better plan
to cut the scions in the fall
The stock is the tree or part of a
tree upon which or into which the bud
or scion is inserted. For best results
in grating it is essential that the
stock be in active, growing condi-
tion.
When in the spring the sap begins
to move in the stock. be ready; this
occurs early in the plum and cherry.
and later in the pear and apple Do
the grating II possible on a mild day
during showery weather. The neces-
sary tools are chisel or a thick
bladed knife or a grating iron with
which to split open the stock after
1t is sawed of smoothly with a fine
tooth saw a hammer or mallet to
aid the splitting process. a very sharp
knife to trim the scions, and a supply
of good grating wax. Saw on a
branch at the desired point, split the
stock a little way down, insert a
scion at each outer edge-taking care
that the inner bark OF the scion fits
snugly and exactly against the inner
bark of the stock. This-together
with the exclusion OF air and mois-
ture until a union results-constitutes
the secret of success. Trim the scions
wedge-shaped. as shown in the pic
ture; insert them accurately; the
wedge should be a trifie thicker on
the side which comes in contact with
the bark. Then apply the grating wax
and the job is done
The newspaper., 1908-03-13
PIcKINGs.

Young man, name a business In
which you. as an individual. will have
the chance 25 years hence that you
have in a good apple orchard.
Coarse bags of cloth filled with
soft, homemade lye soap and hung
up in the tops of each prong of an
apple tree is a safe and cheap rem
edy for the San Jose scale and all
other bark lice. The rains cause the
suds to run down all around the limbs
and trunk.
The fruit farm is profitable farm
If rightly managed, but 1t is one on
which crop may be easily lost by
an early or late frost.
The winter apple is probably more
in demand and for a longer time than
any other fruit grown in temperate
America.
We seldom stop to think that the
orange is not a fruit that is native
to the American continent The first
orange trees ever grown in this coun-
try were planted by the Spaniards at
st. Augustine. Fla, about so years
before the pilgrim fathers came to
Massachusetts.