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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

Look at Washington. City nowl
 The man who created and built 1t up and insisted upon asphalt streets and Identification In every way was abused in the ineipieney of his ideas. Yet to- day by unanimous vote of every resident and of Congress perhaps the most ex- pensive monumental design is being erect ed as permanent pledge of the practical on his part and peroration to preserve evermore for Washington the pride of it's people, and of all the people. in the man who prudently did himself and his nation proud
 I believe in the man or the men who do something.
 I fight for good roads, and for better streets. want more lights. more fire department stations, more good police men, more shade trees. more flowers in our gardens, more churches and Sunday schools, more hospitals and reform schools. and boys homes, and help for the Creche. where orphan children taken care of-all are the things which go to build up a home community.
 We are all of one build. Some of us may be prosperous, or we may be in trouble. If our neighbors be worthy. why not share with them? The sweetest of all religious creeds is to bear with fellow man.
 Let us now in the Birmingham district encourage the foreigner who comes to live with us: cut out the one who comes to US for day; help the one who is with us; bear and forbear-be generous; but always honest with our own ones and our neighbors.
 When we do this-however be our views unon subjects that some of us might dis agree. whether tariff or otherwise-we ,an 20 upon the rostrum. into the pulpit or into cold print of the metal types and exnress ourselves with the full knowl- edge that the neighbor who hears or reads will consider It in the same whole aome spirit as intended when put in cold type words of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
Not the sIoss.sheffieId.

The Sheffield Coal and Iron company is some times confused in the public mind with the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron company The latter is not only year in-and- d-year-out money maker but 1t carries a large cash surplus and is there fore not a borrower. The other company. the Sheffield Coal and Iron company has no connection whatever with the Sloss- Sheffield. The former Is just emerging from receivership. It has a blast fur mace plant at Sheffield, but the stacks have been idle the greater part of the time.
 The company is now being re-organ- ized and is about to resume operations with ample working capital. It was pre- sumably that company. and not the Sloss- s-Sheff!eld, as erroneously reported, that recently executed a $750000 mort gage in Walker county
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
Death KneIl of the FrOCk Coat

Man is decadent in the respect of clothes. Once he was gorgeous in
 silks and laces and knickerbockers and what not In the reign of Me Kinley all true statesmen wore long frock coats. The Roosevelt regime even was a Prince Albert" admins tration. but Teddy is now in Africa, where he has presumptively ceased to wear Prince Alberts, and as for they could not be induced to wear one of those coats on ordinary oc- casions in any kind of weather. The occasion would have to be truly for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
THE OLD MILL.

By Thomas Dunn English. Here from the brow of the hill I look. Thru a lattice of boughs and leaves On the red gray mill, with it's gambrel
 roof.
 And the moss on it's rotting caves I hear the chatter that jars it's walls, And the rushing waters sound, And l see the black floats rise and fall AS the wheel goes slowly round. I rode there often when l was young,
 With my grist on the horse before. And I talked with Nelly, the miller's girl. As waited my turn at the door. And while she tossed her ringlets brown, And fiirted and chatted as free, The wheel might stop, or the wheel
 might go, It was all the sameNto me. Iris twenty years since last l stood On tho spot where l stand today, And Nelly is we'd and the miller Is dead, And the mill and l are gray. But both, till we fall into ruin and wreck, To our fortune of toll are bound; And the man goes and the stream flows, And the wheel moves slowly round.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
The Prohibition Question.

Tt may be that the prohibition wave has not spent itself,' said R. D. Moor man of Baltimore, 'but it looks to me as if it would be checked-for a while at least.
 'There is a strong anti-saloon move ment in Maryland. but it is a safe bet that we will never have statutory pro- hibltlon In that state; and from my knowledge of Virginia politics and Vir- gina sentiment in general I can say that a reaction against the statewide prohi- bition idea has set in in the Old Domin- ion. The fight in Virginia Is bitter, but certain well known men who were for mery classed as prohibitionists are now coming out against it.
 T am not connected with the liquor business directly or Indirectly and have not been in recent years a bar-room drinker, but from my observation I am convinced that the anti-saloon agitators make a great mistake in not advocating measures that can be enforced in cities as well as in the rural distrivts I prohibition bills that have passed had al- lowed hotel proprietors of reputable standing to sell liquor to their patrons ana have beer, wine and other exhilirat- ing beverages served on the table, there would have been less danger of reac- tion.
 q believe that the great majority of men are sincerely in favor of minimizing the liquor evil, but majority,,I l would say, would be in favor of a little moro personal liberty than we find in the anti saloon platform Manv nrohfbitionists a ra fanatics, pure and simple, and think that taking a drink if beer wine or whisky is sin per SC. The majority of good citizens do not look at the matter that way.
 If temperance reform Is to gain a permanent hold in this country 1t will be when prohibltionists modify their prin- ciples"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
MT. 6 abb to Go On the Bench

The wonder is not so much that the President rendered a Yale alum nus the nomination for the district judgeship as it is that the nominee could afford to accept the nomination. MT. Grubb will have to give up large and assured law practice-perhaps the best in the state-in order to accept the proffered iudgeship.
 The President has solved the long struggle, and there will be no one in the Senate or out of it who will harbor doubt as to MT. Grubbs ca pacity or impartiality. June Hund- ley has been on the bench for more than two years, and in that time has proved his ability beyond question: He has, indeed, established an excellent record, and in the long contest against him has made many friends. These friends he will retain, but all of them, including Judge Hundley himself, will agree in saying that the President made a good choice when he nom- mated MT. Grubb. His legal learning his equipment, in short, for service on the bench-his freedom from prac- tical politics, and his unquestfoned in tegrity, all combine to make the nom- ination happy, timely and promising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
The Iron Market.

President J. c. Maben, of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company, has re- turned from New York. When asked about business conditions he said there seemed to be some improvement. "There Is improvement in spote at any rate," said MT. Maben. "The stock market Is strong and upward, due chiefly to the large unemployed capital seeking invest ment.
 The iron market is firm and fairly active. The sloss-Sheffield has been sell ing its output for weeks past at $11.50. Consumers are taking the iron right along and consequently we have little tonnage on our yards-not more than 1000 tons"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
THE HOLDERS.

 Plodding along plodding along, What though the sun may shine And the flowers bloom and the world be fair, Each says, "No joy is mine< And the days and the years are ever the same, And little there Is to gain. And the world Is a world of thorny ways And shadowy walks of pain. Plodding along, plodding along, Grown old before their time, Misfortune has whitened their beggarly locks As the grass by autumns rime. And they blight every bloom and chill every heart By the sorrowful looks they wear, And they never have learned what 1t means to hope Meath the weight of the cross they bear!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
LIFE,s POOR LEST.

Laughter rings through halls of folly,
 Fools parade with fulsome pride, Vain assurance wins the laurel,
 To the worthy brow denied; Self-love mocks the finer purpose,
 Tireless, consecrate and true, Greed, 1t seems, prompts every movement,
 Every act that people do. Sweet and simple things are sighted
 All the world must make show Trim your ship to sail with Fortune,
 Howsoever winds may blow. Crook the knee to great god Mammon,
 Celebrate with pipe and flute; Where'd they get it2-Shhh!-no matter
 Hall, all hall the Lords of Loot!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
~uERE is all sorts of good about 9 Birmingham; and then there 'S
 some of the bad.

some of the bad
 Because it is new and prosperous and energetie-and because the go-ahead spirit Is dominant-the grafters get in occasionally to play upon the enthusiastic spirit of all of us. The rank alleged auto mobile races was an instance.
 am glad the policemen for their relief association got good fund out of 1t. They should have gotten all of the reve- nue. They are deserving and the great majority of them do their work well. But as the policemen did all the work in booming the alleged show they should get for their fund the profits from it.
 This Is a mere local suggestion because the police force of Birmingham is good one The men of 1t do their work well. There are few of them. but with growth We shall have more. If Chief Bodeker will keep up the standard all of us will be proud of them.
 In this connection 1t is funny how &C., tive policemen and deputy sheriffs have gotten recently about automobiles. So active were they two weeks ago that complaint was made about a machine of the electric variety that I happen to know cannot speed over five miles an hour unless It be going down Twentieth street hill with the brake off
 A machine that cannot exceed fifteen miles was fined sixty-three dollars for speeding on the Mount Plnson road.
 It is well to do duty but bad to do wrong. fl t
 Look out in the county. There's fee to every arrest. Why not have the law of reckless driving7 Punish the man who does it in city or county. Punish the man who interferes with his neighbor. But don't go out and try to make fees.
 There's been whole lot of the good and virturous in Birmingham promoted by those who have not practiced what they have preached. Look at the government liquor licenses here! Look at the blind tigers. Ask the railroads for their liquor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
THE JOKERS.

The jokers need your sympathy,
 Who have to toll each day And write q rhyme or point jest
 For very little pay. And sometimes when they're sick and sad And all the world is drear, They can't afford to heave sigh,
 Or even shed a tear, But still must wear the cap and bells And joke with might and main, As if they never had care
 And never felt pain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
MORE STRENUOUS.

q see that MT. Roosevelt is merely shootings lions in Africa"
 What would you have him do?"
 Well shooting is so conventional that I thought perhaps he would prefer chok- ing them to death."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From tho New York Press

Nobody has a good enough temper not to go wild if you tell him he hasn't.
 It may take nine tailors to make a man, but one wife can break him.
 What a girl always wants to make sure of a man is that he is never sure of her.
 A mans idea of public spirit is trying to get a reserved seat on a reviewing stand at a police parade.
 A girl can put man on her list of suitors the day before she knows she is going to be introduced to him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
SMILING.

 Just @ trick of smiling Drove his cares away, All his life begulling
 Sorrows somber sway; Gave him hope and courage In the midst of rue Truly, tis surprising
 What @ smile will do. Just a trick of smiling When he met defeat, Kept his heart unsullied, Kept his temper sweet; Helped him to be patient Tn the midst of rue Truly, 'tis surprising
 What a smile will do!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

be formed from the officers and mem- bers of all the military organizations in the district. By joining together in this manner a much better showing can be made and more interest will be taken in the trip. Not only that but better modes of transportation and accommodations can be had by this consolidation. The different military bodies are enthused over the proposition and 1t Is fully ex- pected company will leave Birmingham that ssI be a credit to the state of Alag bama in general and Jefferson county in particular.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
STICKY LITERATURE.

Honestly, I believe The Kissers' is about the most sentimental novel I have ever read,'
 You don't say so."
 Yes indeed A page torn out of that book would make first class fly paper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
THOSE HATS.

q read funny story once which told how a woman put binders on her hem pecked husband to keep him from look ing at pretty girls on the street,
 'No need to do that now. It's impossi- ble to see their faces, any way"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
Military Men To Memphis.

"The Jefferson County National Guard association is making preparation to form provisional company from this district 10 take part in the approaching Confed- crate reunion at Menvhs." said mem Der of the association. "The company whi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
FACTS IN THE CASE.

DO cigars ever contain roper"
 "No That's just a pleasantly of the jokesmiths As matter of fact, hemp is too expensive to put in the cheaper brands of cigars"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

The Iowa insurgent senators are the men who will come out of the pres- ent contest with honor and increased regulations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

The African lion is a mild antagonist when compared with selfish special in terests struggling for chances in the Aldrioh tariff bill to get rich quick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
ON AN OFF DAY.
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When fellows down and out, When a fellows weary, When his heart Is sick with doubt And the world Is dreary, Nothing beats a friendly slap Landed on his shoulder Makes him feel a better chap,
 Cheerfuller and bolder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
MUCH WORSE.

"Tt must be bad to be married to a woman who talks In her sleep'
 Not so bad as 1t is to be married to a woman and talk in your sleep yourself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

The women of Sharon proposed to lynch Mrs Boyle, the kidnaper, but the Pennsylvania officials objected to any such rudeness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

Walter Wellman thunders strong in the index, but he is not guaranteed to fly far from his secure base to- ward the North Pale.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

The Iowa idea is the biggest and best thing in the present Congress. It's disregard for special interests is new and pleasing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

A New York burglar carried off all the gifts of a young couple, and that bride will have to buy the gifts she hands over to her newly married friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

A McAdoo tunnel under the North river and thence underground to the New York Central station in Forty second street will make New York a way station only.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

Abdul Hamid may have been glad to get away from the 800 pianos in the Yildiz Kiosh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

The navy department is getting rid of figureheads from ships, and 1t may look for some among the officers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

Theodore Roosevelt is called "Bwana Tumbo" in Africa. In Wall stree the is called worse names than that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

Don't abuse the Alabama weather. at least not until railroad in Colo rado that has been blocked by snow since last November resumes opera tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

The Car must choose between Stolypin, who saved his head, and the reactionaries, who desire to exploit the navy in the future as in the past. Stolypin will win out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

All the nations are accepting the Wright flying machines as the best the world at present affords.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

The Persian Shah always keeps a constitution up his sleeve to meet any emergency that may arise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
INTERESTED.

''Sir, want to tell you about the great est fraud of the age"
 What's the matter? Did somebody steal second?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

As the weather improves so do the Coal Barons.. Both are carrying ban ners on which is inscribed Excel sior."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

The upstate New Workers still he's itate to supplant the snow shovel with the lawn mower.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

A Frenchman has bequeathed his for tune for masses for the souls of peo- pie killed by joyriders. Their sin in getting in the way must be considered great in France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

A tsetse fly is said to make a typhoid fly look like 30 cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

Some cities are endeavoring to put grafters in jail instead of putting them in office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

The lions in Africa are not putting up a good fight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

On the glorious Fourth, now near at hand, orators will declare that this is a government of the people, by the people, for the people, but the ultimate consumer knows it is gov ernment of Aldrieh, by Aldrich, for all the Aldriehes in the land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
DOMESTIC.

How did you get that black eyer" "Flare-bac "Gun?" Nope; wife"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
REPLIES.

Broken hearts are never worn on the sleeve. It Is so unfashionable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
SURE.

oOIh When a woman's pretty, Nothing more g to say; Summer time, or winter, She will have her way. When she cries, good heavens, Let her have the earth; That's the way to hold her At her proper worthl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
A kiss in time often leads to nine.

Just because two people fall out of hammock together is no sign that they are affinities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

It takes a fool to make foolish bet and a greater fool to win it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
LONG-FELT WANT,

Well, It's here at last.' What is?"
 "An agency to collect alimony."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

If everybody could read everybody else's thoughts. some people would have hard time making living. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

No communication will be publisheu with out it's auth OTIS name. Re1ected manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are inclosed for that purpo~7-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

R. L. o'Neal, Jr. and z. E. Morgan are the only authorized travelling rep resentatives of The Age-Herald In US circulation department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

Washington Bureau Age-Herald. 14:i G street. N. W.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala, postoffce as second-class matter under act of Congress March 8. 1879.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-05-11
BRIDGE DAMAGED.

The bridge In course of construction
BY the Cincinnati Southern Railway
over the Ohio at Cincinnati was dam
aged Sunday by the explosion Of two
sticks Of dynamite and the bnilding OF
new spans may be necessary. The
force of the explosion wrenched the
girders considerably, and only az ex-
pert examination can determine the
exact amour: of damsge.
Authorities investigating the incident
declare that the explosion can be laid
at the doors of union men and group
of anarchists, who have become active
In Cincinnati lately. The structure has
been built with nonunion labor, and
the officials 10 charge have received
several warnings that something would
happen.
The explosion occurred at time set
for the arrival of an inspection party,
including at least so prominent men OF
Cincinnati. The road is owned by the
city, aud tour of inspection over the
road improvements and bridges had
been plsnned.
The sticks of dynamite were placed on
the girders, and two 5O-foot fuses were
ignited.
The inspection party was delayed,
and did not arrive at the scene until
half an hour after the explosion.
After the explosion one OF the watch
men saw three men run away from the
scene. He called to them to stop. but
they kept on, and the wstcbman fired
three shots. However, the men es'
capped
A man close TO au anarchist society
in Cincinnati told the investigators thai
an agreement had been made with union
men, but luther information was with
held.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-05-11
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