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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

the capital If only the Magic City is al
lowed to retain her sovereignty over i'm
peria Jefferson.
Tuscaloosa Times Gazette: A bill has
now been prepared and probably intro
duced by this time to make Birmingham
the capital of the state. This is a confess
sion Of short-sighted policy on the part
of Birmingham however, as the easier
means of reaching the same end would
have been to include Montgomery in the
Greater Birmingham bill.
Gadsden Journal And now it's Greater
Birmingham sure enough. The measure
as previously passed was sent back to the
legislature by the governor with suggest
ed amendments and was again promptly
passed in the new form, which takes
everything into the city except Bessemer.
This should give the Magic City a popu-
lation of near 100000 in the next census
figures.
Dothan Eagle To speak quite conf
dentally, Birmingham doesn't want the
capital moved to that city. 1t has looked
over the different states, and noted that
wherever town becomes the capital,
other cities soon spring up in the state
and become the commercial center, build
ing on a big scale, never having state
politicians hanging around and asking
questions and delaying the labor.
Greenvlle Advocate: The Greater Bir-
mingham bill has passed both houses and
will have been signed by the governor
before this reaches the readers. This bill
was passed at the last session OF the leg
islature, but owing to some errors it was
declared mo good, hence had again to
run the gauntlet. However the bill is a
law and 1t is now Greater Birmingham,
making that city the largest in the state
by good many thousand.
Chattanooga Times: The Birmingham
cop stepped up behind him just as in q
fit of hilarious patriotism he had broken
out in a loud voice with
my country, It's of thee,
Sweet land of liberty
OF thee l sing"
Here, you; cheese that. Yez are In
Alabama, dye mind, ana not in free
Ameriky" The poor fellow turned out
to be a Chattanooga who thought he
was In Atlanta on the evening after the
adjournment of the legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

the largest producers are sold up and alb
solutely out of the market. AS far as
we can make out about half of the north
ern iron which has been sold recently is
for delivery over the first half of 1910,
and the furnaces have asked a premium
of from so cents to 81 over current prices
for delivery this far ahead. This premium
has been obtained without the slightest
difficultYn
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21
A WORD OF WARMING.

A widow-a pretty widow-set love
trap for Senator Borah and the reason
why she didn't catch him was probably
because he already had wife. However,
even the possession of a wife is not al
ways a bulwarlx against a widows wiles.
Let Mrs. Borah beware. There may yet
be something doing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

Each American city should begin to
cultivate the friendship of its census
enumerators who will hold in their
hands it's reputation in the new tables
of population. All will try to look pop
ulous next April
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

So strict is Collector Loeb that a
little girl off Cunard steamer in
New York was held up because she
was eating a small package Of choc-
olate, the duties upon which had not
been paid.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

The doctors were not the first to
discover the rigidity of Mr.. Harrimans
spinal column. Those who had done
business with him discovered it first
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21
ONE FOR EACH.

7 have just counted 40 automobiles in
front of that large building across the
street"
That's the city hall. The board of
aldermen is now in session."
How many aldermen. do you think,
are attending the meeting?"
Forty"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

Lord Kitchener is great soldier,
but Field Marshal Oyama of Japan far
outranks him in actual achievements
in battle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

The west feels 1t should have a
as a recompense and Offset Of the
heated days it has recently been called
on to endure
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

]. Pierpont Morgan may not, even
bring his art treasures to. this coun-
try. The situation remains unex-
planned.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

A Boston literary man desires dis
elimination in the use of slang. Good
slang helps the language as means
of expression.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

The corn-bearing stalk does not
mind a spell of hot weather. 1t was
built to Withstand freak spells in
weather.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

The st. Louis theatres admit in hot
weather shirtwaist shirts, but bar sus-
penders, although the latter are of long
standing and highly respectable.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21
TONOPAH.
Is One of the Most Cosmopolitan Cities
in the West.

From the washington Herald
'"Tonopah, New, is one Of the most
cosmopolitan cities in the west" said
Herbert Trip, mining broker from that
place, at the National yesterday.
THE wildcat features that always ac-
company the exploiting of mining camp
have almost entirely disappeared. There
is no longer the system of leasing which
obtained at first. The companies that
own the mines are now running them
themselves. as definite, producing business
tically as regular as they are in any
other industry. Furthermore, 1t must be
remembered that Tonopah is principally
a silver camp, where the values run
lower to the ton than they do in Gold
field, and the gambling exhilaration is
correspondingly diminished
1.-The population of Tonopah is now
about SOoO There are two six-story build
ings and one of five stories. We have
a good theatre, at which we have seen
sucn players as Nat Goodwin, Mrs. Fiske
and Dockstadsr's Ministries. In Go1dheld,
30 miles away, where the population is
1900, the Hotel Goldfeld will compare
very favorably with the best in Washing
ton. The wages of laboring men is Tono-
pah is 81 a day. That is the universal
rate, whether a man be laborer, mucker
or negro porter in a saloon.
Zone of the tendencies in Nevada at
the present is toward the elimination of
the 'wide-open idea. The last legisla-
ture came very near passing law doing
liquor traffic, and there is a good chance
that the bill will be passed when the Leg
islature next sits. You know Nevada is
the last state to be wide open.
1.-THE surrounding territory is, therefore,
sending all its gamblers into Nevada, and
it is a correspondingly hot place. In
Tonopah for instance, the five-story
building I spoke of is a gambling place,
and, like the saloons, never closes. When
a proprietor starts either gambling hall
or a saloon, he has a lock put on the
door and then proceeds to lose the key.
I'm spite of the general expectation that
after the first unnatural boom of real es-
tate values they would fall off in a grand
slump, they have held their own very
well, and show a strong tendency to re-
main steady. On the main business street
of either Tonopah or Godfeld you can't
but a lot for less than $1,000 a front foot,
which would be considered a high value
in any long established and f1ourishing
city of the middle west or the east
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

Lord Northcliffe and his numerous
newspapers has gone over to the lib
erals. The tories have lost ground in
several directions lately.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

Annie Besant has been asked to
state, not for publication, what J. Ham
Lewis was in a former incarnation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21
GooDNIGHT AND GOODBYE

GOODNIGHT AND GOODBYE.
"Goodnight"-'ti softly spoken.
Perhaps no heart is broken,
Nor yet from trembling lips escapes a
sigh;
Goodnight fraught with meaning
When soul to soul is leaning,
So fraught with tears when parting
means Goodbye"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

Census supervisors and enumerators
will have to take a day off II they
want to indulge in political activities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
SOME DAY.

Though pleasure flies and leaden sides
Supplant your skies of blue,
Look up. look up with patient eyes
Twill all come back to you!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

A joint debate between Pinchot ana
Ballinger would be almost as interest
ing as a prize fight.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

Senator Aldrich is expecting the ulti-
mate consumer to confess at last that
he is a myth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

The army that was beseiging Boston
could have won capitulation sooner by
cutting off the supply of beans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

The Mauritania brought over 40z
saloon voyagers, thus breaking anoth-
er record
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

Champ Clark is convinced that
Roosevelt will be the next candidate
of the republican party
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21
TIPS

ITS a good idea to pay as you CO."
ITS the surest way to leave them
laughing when you say goodbye"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

Chicago has found chief of police,
but Jane Adams still declines to be Its
candidate for president.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

Straw hats are ripening. They are
between an orange and tan, and
they are nearly ready to be called in.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21
TOO VIVID.

Birmingham man says those peroxide
blends selling tickets in the kioslks of
summer theatres remind him of canary
birds in gilded cages. He must have q
vivid imagination. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

oh, woman, lovely woman,
Your equals not In town
When you start to run up bills,
Or run your neighbors down.
Chicago News.
Oh, woman, lovely woman,
Can nothing you dismay?
I've never, never found you yet
Without a word to say.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

General Bingham says New York's
graft bill is $1O0,OO0,OOO a year. The
general was once the man on the spot.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21
SO CONSIDERABLE.

Its pleasure to sympathize with
Ponsonby."
"Why a pleasure?"
when he tells a hard luck story he
always insists on buying drinks
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

The President declines to say that
census enumerators should be golf
DlayerS
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

'"Tis love that makes the world go
round" sings the poet of the Birming
ham Age-Hera1d. Tt is not always that
I'm Alabama.-Washingto Hehald.
If Mr.. Fuller ever hears that love makes
the world go round he won't rest until he
has introduced a bill In the state legisa-
ture to put Cupid out of business.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21
COULDN'T WAIT.

"I see where young fellow in Virginia
shot himself because his sweetheart was
a trifle slow in coming down from her
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

IT'S just as well that he did. He
never would have been a success as n
married man"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21
EVER NOTICED

EVER NOTICED?
To a little ragged fellow
Life could hardly be worth while:
And vet, somehow, he always seems
To wear the brightest smile.
RIGHT NOW.
PA, when is the silly season.
.When the legislatures in session"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

Memphis Commercial-Appeal: VIVA
does Birmingham want With that aggre
CATION of tin horns?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

Columbus Ledger: Montgomery will now
be good since an effort Is being "aoe
to move the state capital to Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

Columbus Enquirer-Sun: Birmingham
&c making a very vigorous effort to be
greater
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

Where is the man who's never showed
The world a yellow streak?
And where's the man who's never owed
Twice what he gets per week?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

Chattanoga News Birminghams socia
clubs and pressing clubs LOOK ahhe y
officers of the law.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala
postofflce as second-class matter under
act OF Congress March 8. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21
OH WHERE?

Where is the man can hold his tongue
When wrongfully accused?
Where is the man whose praise Is sung
And yet does not enthuse?
Where is the man who's never played.
The fool amounted times
And from the path of virtue strayed
In this and other chimes?
Where is the man who's always been
Considerable and wise;
Has never sneered at other men,
Or told pack of lies?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-21

Montgomery Journal: Birmingham is so
pleased with not losing part of Jefferson
county that it would not give a cent for
the capital.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-30
A BREAK IS
THREATENED
Ohio May Cut Loose From
The Racing Trust-Con-.
ditions Unsatisfactory.
BY United Press Wire.

Columbus, o., Dec. 30.-Whether
Ohio is to continue i'm the racing
trust controlling the races Mt fairs,
Is to be determined at a conference
called for the rooms of the state de-
partment of agriculture, here. Jan
uary .. The American Trotting as.
sociation and the National TrottinS
association viii be represented. each
by a committee or three, and the
Ohio Fair association has appointed
a committee Of six. The trouble
started at the recent meeting of the
Ohio association at Fremont, when a
resolution was adopted, protesting
about being compelled TO pay heavy
dues TO both the American and Ma
tional asso Citations, under the trust
agreement between the two, under
that agreement one association will
outlaw any fair not maintaining al
allegiance to the other. The Ohio
association derives benefit only from
association derives benefit only from
the National, but is obliged to pay
dues to the American or be outlawed
by the National.
The Ohio committee at the COM
ing conference win be composed of
r. II. Grieve of Xenia, president of
the Ohio Fair association; A, w. Ov-
ermyer, of Fremont, secretary OF the
association; S. j. Vining, of Celina,
f. II. zerbe, of Sandusky; II. IL.
Haning of Athens, and p. S. Ewart
of Akron.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-30
FOOD STANDARDS ARE URGED
Commissioner Dunlap Has Numerous
Reforms In Mind.

Columbus, O., Dec. Establish
ment of food standards for the vari.
Gus food products produced, manufac-
tured or sold in this state Is recon-
mended by State Dairy and Food
Commissioner Renick w. Dunlap in
his annual report. fled with Governor
Harmon. Ohio now bas statutory
standards for some natural products,
such as maple syrup. vinegar and
milk, but there are vast number of
products for which no standard ex.
lists. He also recommends making II
the duty of the commissioner TO en-
force the law against giving short
weights and measures, as this fraud
is daily practiced by some dispensers
of foods.
There is great need of inspection
among the lower grade of hotels and
restaurants The commissioner urges
the strengthening of the sanitary in
spection law which has been found
to be weak, by having 1t state clearly
what sanitary conditions are re-
quired.
One of the most important duties
deyolving upon this department Is
the enforcement of the Cain law, re-
curing inspection to ascertain cases
of persons making sales of intoxicat-
Ing liquors without paying the an
uunl linuor tav NJ s OOO
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-30
A Particular Cigar a
Green Tag Sc Cigar "
For Particular People
Chas. E. Fisher Distributor, Marion lOhio.
her Distributor, Marion.l lOhio.

eyes, and forehead above water. I
aimed for the center; the sound told
that the bullet had struck somewhere
on the head, and the animal dlsap-
peared without a splash. Judd was
sure I had killed, but 1 was by no
means so confident myself. and there
was no way of telling until next
morning, for the hippo always sinks
when shot and does not rise to the
surface for several hours. According
ly, back we walked to the house.
At sunrise next morning, Cunning.
hame, Judd and I, with crowd of
porters, were down at the spot. There
was a very leaky boat I'm which Cum
ninghamo, Judd and L. embarked, in
tending to drift and paddle down.
stream while the porters walked
along the bank. We did not have to
go far, foias we rounded the first
point we heard the porters break into
cultural cxclamations of delight, and
there ahead of us, by little island OF
papyrus, was the dead hippo. With
the help of the boat il was towed to
convenient landing-place, and then
the porters dragged it ashore. 1t was
COW, IF good size for one dwelling
in a small river, where they never APP
preached the dimensions of those
making their homes in a great lake
like the Victoria Nyanza. Tins one
weighed nearly two thousand eight
hundred rounds, and I could well
believe that big lake bull would
weigh between three and for tons.
In wild regions hippos rest on sandy
bars, and even come ashore to feed,
by day; but wrehever there are in
habitants they lard to feed only at
night.-(From "African Game Trails,
by Theo lore Roosevelt in the January
Scribner)
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-30
WILL NAME
Committeeman
Ballinger- -Pinchot Matter
to be Thrashed out by 8
Congress.
BY United Press Wire.

Washington, Dec. 29.--When con-
gress reconvenes next week, one of
the first things to be done will be
the appointment of a special joint
committee to investigate the Bal
llnger- Pinchot controversy.
1t will be the first time In history
that congress has placed q cabinet
officer on trial at his own request. In
making his request for an investiga-
ton, Ballinger stipulated that the
administration OF the forest service
also be made the subject of inquiry.
This has been acceded to by the lead
ers in congress and by President
Taft.
According to present plans. the in
vestigation VIII be sweeping, and ev-
cry opportunity will be afforded both
belligerents TO make good their case.
On Tuesday or Wednesday the joint
resolution, providing for the investi-
cation will be presented by the sem
ate committee on public lands, and
the house committee on rules. It will
be an administration resolution, and
II is expected that It will be adopted
with but little opposition.
Senator Knuts Nelson of Mime
sofa. chairman Of the committee on
public lands, will likely be the chair
man Of the investigating committee.
So bitter has become the dissension
in the presidents official family, and
so embarrassing to the administration
that it is generally predicted today
either Ballinger or Pinchot must
leave the government service as the
result OF the congressional inquiry.
The intensity of the situation has
been acentuated by Pinchots speech
in New York last Monday, in which
he criticised, without the use OF
names, however, the present admin
istration of the interior department,
and by the recent newspaper articles
and interviews by former Secretary
Gareld along similar lines.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-30
MERRY WAR
IN THE A. A.
Election of Chivington Did
not Stop Fighting Among
Magnates.
BY United Press Wire.

Chicago, Dec. 30.--Reports that
the election of Tom Chivington to the
presidency of the American associa-
ton, and the domination of that or
ganization by the Tebeau faction,
means the invasion of Chicago by
the minor league were discredited by
baseball men here today. 1t is point
ed out that the faction which was
pushing the Invasion of Chicago"
plan was headed by President Hav-
enor, of the Milwaukee club This
faction was ousted from control of
the association when President OBri-
en- failed of reelection and 1t is not
believed that the Tebeauites will push
the plan, for the present at least.
President Chivington will move the
leagues headquarters from Milwau-
kee to Chicago on February /. BY
that time, it is expected that the in
ternal war which yesterdays meeting
started, will burst in full force. Ang-
cred by the defeat of his faction, Ha-
venor Is said to be planning repris-
ais in forcing the removal of George
Tebeau from the Craftsmanship of
the board of directors.
The Havenorites allege that when
the board of directors was elected In
1901, the Louisville, st. Paul, Mil
waukee, Columbus and Indianapolis
clubs were chosen and not the indi-
viduals then in control of those clubs
The constitution provides, they say,
that a director must be a member of
the club which he represents. Te-
beau, who was elected as member
of the Louisville club, is no longer
interested in that club which, by the
constitution. has power to elect his
successor. The Havenorites say they
will not sit on the board with Tebeau
and they threaten to get an injunc-
tion preventing him from acting.
Before adjournment the magnates
also adopted the 16S-game schedule
and provided for club-houses and
dressing rooms for visiting clubs on
all association grounds, excepting st.
Paul
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-30
MILL WILL BE
HELD IN FRISCO

by OHiitu IItSS WIRE
Milwaukee, Wis, Dec. 30.--After
keeping the wires between Mlwau-
kee and San Francisco hot for two
days, it was announced today that
the final arrangements for the fight
between Ad Wolgast and Battling Mel
son for the lightweight champion
ship of the world viii be held in the
California city before Sid Hestor's
club. The battle which will be a
forty-nvo round affair, will be fought
in February
The final arrangements were
made by Nelson after he had learned
that Tom McCarey would not raise
his offer of $4,000 to $4,000. the
price demanded by the Dane Hestoi
offered $4,000 and Nelson grabbed
it.
Nelson declared today that after
his fight with Wolgast he would take
on Dick Hyland at Kansas City.