The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM

they would over the return of saloons.
 Atlanta Georgian Birmingham, Ga, '" says the Milwaukee Sentinel. What a thrust at the Empire State of the South!
 Memphis commercial-Appeal: Twenty four murders in the month of November was the record made in prohibition Bir- mingham.
 Montgomery Times: Birmingham looks on Mobile and Montgomery taking their medicine with a blended feeling of pity and amusement.
 Charleston News and Courier: The an- nouncement that Birmingham contains 100 blind tigers probably explains why mint grows wild in that town.
 Montgomery Times: Birmingham re- ports another mysterious suicide" Such affairs are getting to be so common in i Birmingham that the mystery in them has faded
 Opelika Post Birmingham broke all previous records building last year. That was done in the face of one of the worst panics that has ever visited this country.
 1 Chattanooga Times: Birmingham an- nounees with some pride that she has only 100 blind tigers. But the year is young and Birmingham is city of great possibilities.
 l Knoxville Journal and Tribune: The Birmingham people evidently look upon l Hon. Frank Hitchcock as one who is go- l ing to be an influential part of the next administration.
 Chattanooga Times: If they should suc- ceed in passing a statewide law chatta- nooga will have the benefit of the ripe experience accumulated in Knoxville, At lanta and Birmingham of how it is done"
 1 Charleston News and Courier: The l President-elect's remark to the Birming 1 ham embassy that he had come south for rest" disposes of the impression that he came south to play golf and shows that he might have had a fine time in Char lotte.
 1 Shreveport Times-The city of Birming- ham, with population of nearly 100000 souls, has been dry for one year, and ] reports as to how the year 1908 com 1 pared with the year 1907, which was wet, will be read with an unusual amount of l interest.
 1 Centreville Press: President-elect Taft 1 has consented to visit Birmingham on his return from the Panama canal He could not resist the Birmingham delegation, who went up to extend him an invitation. MT. Taft will receive a most cordial welcome l from the people of Birmingham and the state.
 Walker County News: Christmas Eve was Birmingham's thirty-seventh birth day. Think of what that city will be I 37 years hence, even if the King Greater Birmingham bill did go dead. The crirn- 1 inai oblteration of & law cannot stop | Birmiugham's growth. All she needs is l to behave herself and go ahead. 1 Livingston Southern Home: Birming- 1 ham is in such stew about the uncon- stitutionality of the King bill which was 1 designed to create Greater Birmingham that it would be to the interest of that | city to take up a collection among it's citizens to pay the expenses of an extra session of the legislature to remedy the | trouble.
 Jackson Union News: Big Birmingham | | Hon. Frank H. Hitchcock. who is to be | Postmaster General in President-elect l Taft's cabinet and in her usual way gave the Honorable Frank the time of his life. I President Taft will be the guest of that | city on his return from Panama, at which time all Alabama will endeavor to | do him honor.
 Lnevile Headlight: Birmingham was 37 years old on December "A. The Magic City was incorporated December 24, 1871. Birmingham is building faster than any other city in the entire southland and according to statistics only one other city in the United States is growing faster than Birmingham. The next census will unquestionably give Birmingham a pop ulation of more than 125.0O0.
 Chattanooga News: A man journeyed from Atlanta to Memphis few days ago, through Birmingham, says the Comnier- cial-Appea1. Moved by the quality in men which seeks to secure something that is forbidden he asked the porter on the train if it were possible to buy any liquor in Birmingham. The porter said 1t was. During the 15-minute stop the porter went out and bought a bottle of so-called whisky and brought it to the train. The brand on the bottle was that of a reputable distiller. Close examina- tion showed that the liquor manufactured by the distiller had been removed from the bottle and in its place a nerve-wracking, brain killing compound had been put And there are some people In Tennessee who are seeking to place Memphis, Nash vile and Chattanooga in the same posi- | ton in which are Brunswick, Birming- ham and Atlanta.
 COSTS TO EAT SUGAR BOWL.
 From the New York Sun.