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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-15

gish turn, we presume the bigger buck
etfull of slop people
SOLDERING would give us, the
happier we would be.
Over Dewey Being humane and a
notch above that
class of diet, we don't want slops at all.
In one thing the pigs have the advant-
age of the humane bipeds. He may
eat Stops from choice, but he is not
compelled to be slobbered upon by all
the rest of the pig creation, simply
because he has made lucky root in
some patch of dirt. What makes us
think of this fact just now is reading
of how Dewey is being slobbered over
by multitudes of men and women. 1T
he likes slobbers we have no complaint,
and he certainly is satisfied. This full
some adulation of the Admiral is
purely selfish. Many people erect mon
uments to dead friends on the grounds
that in so doing they reflect credit upon
themselves. The monument must be
fitting to the builder as well as the
dust beneath it. It's on this principle
that many are full of ELUSIVE honors
to others, to greatness, to famous peo-
pie. re them, it's like shaking hands
with the Queeu-a thin film of honor
ever after clings to their hands. Dew
ey, Roberts, Mckinley or the Queen
are not gods to be adored. They are
but men among men; to be honored
and praised for all good and censured
for evil and weakness. The good book
forbids having any gods before its One
Great Author. Idolatry, whether it be
paid to a man or golden calf, is sim
full. It's q sin to commit which, man
must have a little fool streak in his
nature to prepare him for it. Give
Dewey honors, houses, swords, pension
him for life; but don't forget the brave
men, whose names are unknown, who
really took Manila and sunk the Span
ish fleet.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-15

We want it generally understood
that the "Lakerest" at Lakeport is now
open for business. We not only fur
nish table board, but also have q num-
Der of nice rooms. Sunday dinners 80
cents, from II to o'clock; supper 20
cents, from 6 to o'clock. For Sun
day meals kindly send in your order
by Friday. Ice cream served at all
hours. Address, Lakerest,
&c Lakeport, Mich.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT PROHIBITS
in CHINA AND AFFAIRS AT HOf1E

All the world seems to be aroused over
the conduct of the Russian troops in Chi
ma. The Russians have been there before.
They have had experience in Manchuria.
On the march against Pekin they have
taken no prisoners They have killed
every Chinaman in sight. Indeed they
have fought China with Chinas own weap-
ons. 1t is brutal but the Chinese are
brutal. They give no quarter and ex-
pect none. The wounded Chinaman on the
battlefield is like the wounded Indian. He
expects to be stabbed and scaped. lie
knows not what it is to be taken prisoner
and treated with generosity. He therefore
fights to the death when he fights at all.
The Russians have killed all classes be-
cause they have been taught by experience
that self-protection requires 1t. They have
done just as the japanese troops did at
Port Arthur in the winter of '94-lxilled
everything in sight-took no prisoners and
left no wounded because the wounded
Chinaman is the most dangerous China
man.
We have abused the Russians quite
good deal, but our own troops right here
in this country have on repeated occasions
shown as little quarter to the Indians as
the Russians have recently shown to the
Chinese. We all remember the battle of
wounded Knee" back in the winter of
1884, where our troops were forced TO
shoot down men, women and children
among the Sioux Indians. Some hundred
of these Indians had been captured or
corraled and marched UP by battalion of
troops into the presence of the command
Ing officers at the headquarters camp.
There were men, women and children
among the Indians. They were wrapped in
blankets and lined up in front of the COM
mandlng ohcers camp. A detail of men
was ordered to go among them and search
them Tor weapons. As the men approach
ed, each Indian-man, woman and child
threw aside his or her blanket and opened
hre with rifles, which had been concealed
beneath the blankets, upon the troops, kill
ing many of them. The women and child
rem fought like demons and our troops
found 1t necessary, in order to save them
selves, to fire among them, until every
man, woman and child in the body had
been killed. When the news of this fight
came East a howl went up; but when the
matter was investigated by the War De-
partment at Washington, the action of the
Sixth Cavalry and other troops was ap-
proved. So it may develop that the ac-
ton of the Russians in China may event.
ually be approved from the point of neces-
sity.
speaking of the Chinese situation, the
manufacturing interests of the Birmingham
district. and indeed of all this country is
intensely interested in the outcome of the
present complication. An American army
must be maintained in China until a new
government is established or until the coun-
try is divided up among the foreign pow
ers. We have done our share of fighting
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

in China. We are, in a measure, a. party
to the present condition of affairs 1t was
forced upon us, 1t is true, but now that
we are In China with our troops, we must
demand our trade and commercial rights
and be prepared to enforce our demands
1t Is manifest that China will be thrown
open to the trade of the commercial pow
ers of the world. The country will be de-
veloped. Railroads will be built; manufac-
tories established. We must find a market
therein for our manufactured products, and
we must see that our rights of trade in that
country are equal to those of the most
favored of the other nations foreign to
China. If we withdraw our troops before
these matters are settled we will be de-
prived of our rights. Only the nation which
is prepared to fight for its commercial
rights seems to get such. We want to sell
steel rails to China-and wire nails, and
ploughs, and railroad spikes, and car
wheels, and telegraph and telephone wires
and all other manufactured products of iron
and STEEL Therefore, we must demand and
maintain our demands for the same rights
and privileges of trade accorded to Rus
STA, Japan, England or Germany. We don't
want territory, but we want the same COM
mercial rights of nations which might ac-
quire territory and we want these COM
mercial rights to prevail not only within
neutral territory, but within territory which
might be acquired by other nations now
possessed of the territorial mania.
1 have read and heard good deal re-
Gently about the inability of our iron man
ufacturing concerns to export their prod
L.
heard that a new line of steamers is to be
established between Port Royal and Liver
pool and Bremen this summer by the Low
ry Round Bale Cotton people, and that they
are to have one or two steamers a week. II
this be the case, it is Birmingham's OPP
portunity TO export pig iron and the man
ufactured products OF the same by this line.
There will be plenty Of room for iron along
with the cotton and cheap rates should pre-
vail.
We have high cotton now, and high cot
ton can naturally pay liberal freight rate.
Low iron can therefore take advantage Of
high cotton.
The big rolling mill is to start up again
next week. 1 hear. The timidity of the mar
ket for manufactured iron and steel mas
passed, a better feeling prevails, ana the
l....e difficulty with labor has been settled.
All of which is good for Birmingham. The
starting up of the rolling mill will add $25,-
600 a month to the pay-rolls of the city
and large part of that should go to the
retail merchants.
When the Birmingham manufacturer
pushes his goods out into the markets of
| the world there will ALWAYS be demand.
| 1 saw an instance of this in Bessemer the
| other day. 1 happened to visit the Bes-
| semer Foundry and Machine Company,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09
THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.
ZeJ17uea

fruitful of nameless griefs. The why Of this
some men of many experiences asked one
another last nightfan 1t was agreed that
familiarity was the answer. Men and wo-
men who in sense grow UP or are thrown
constantly together come to know all of
each others faults and BECOME dulled to
one anothers virtues and merits of at
Effectiveness. They become used to each 9TH
er and are therefore to each other COM
monplace. Brothers are always astonished
when their sisters make men mad in love or
wild in admiration. Sisters do not per-
ceive nobility in their own brothers. wo-
men do not regard as desirable husbands
the men who assisted them in making
mudpies in childhood's happy hours. And
however beautiful women be grown to be,
their playfellows are apt to see the freckles
still and the bony little legs In the wrinkled
little stockings. Along the line of familiar
fty, the Jills of life rarely wed the Jacks.
Knowing one another and truly loving one
another, each is to the other prosaic, and
not given to romantic rawlings. steadfast,
they are never exuberant in the verbosity
of mere love-making.
Thus when the strangers come raving and
ranting and making great show of fuss
etio ledtieIS TIC mystery Oh
the unknown about them, 1t is then time to
begin to prepare for the actual business of
marrying. And thus it is that nearly all
marriages are brought about because of the
fact that men and women who marry do
not know each other. Most amazing reck-
lessness!
And passing to a broader condition, no
community has ever yet been able to I'M
derstand how one of its boys could, fool
the world into believing him great!
In this business of marrying the advan-
tage Is for ever with men.
There are women in the world of whom
there are no men in the world worthy.
The least praiseworthy of good women
are better than the most praiseworthy of
good men.
The souls of good women are bare to the
world In their unspotted purity There Is
no man however good who would willingly
bare his soul to good women.
O Mother of God, bless the women!
THE MURMURER.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09
1Hs ORlY pallY NEWSPAPER IN AlAskmi
Decrease in Bicycling.

The wheel that once threatened to empty
the churches and theaters, overthrow we'll
established forms of recreation, and revo-
lutionize society, has subsidized to an ex-
tent not anticipated. Those who ride for
recreation's sake are becoming rare, and
the bicycle enthusiast is no longer
strident. to say the least People do not
go out before breakfast to begin century
rms and the over-capitalized bicycle fac
tories are in the hands of sheriffs. The
American young couple is no longer seen
awheel-in fact, society and young women
seem to have abandoned the fad as quickly
and spontaneously as they took 1t up
But bicycling will survive. 1t has passed
its fad period. and is now coming into its
normal stage. The little wheeled machine
will enter more and more into the busi-
ness and school life of the people. Nor
will it wholly cease to be means Of
recreation Every child will be a bicycle
rider and more or less of them will use
the vehicle after they become men or
women. The pendulum will swing slowly
back and the bicycle will take its proper
place in the popular economy.
The automobile will pass through like
experience. Both are wheeled vehicles.
The automobile is now fad in society.
When it begins to do freighting, society
will scorn It, and then it will find its true
place and level in the work of the world.
This is what the bicycle is about to do as
the predecessor of the automobile. Each
has its good uses, both in the way of rec
reation and business, and each will fall
into line at the proper points in the world S
great procession. Neither will be lost to
mankind Neither will disappear alto
gether
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09
Mobile and BIRMINGHAM.

Mobile outranks Birmingham by 81 peo-
pie But hold! this is what she did in the
early days of June. Over two months have
elapsed and Birmingham has gathered in
the 54 she lacked, and as many more be-
Sides and is rocking ahead as the first city
IN Alabama. Mobile is good but drowsy,
and it should rejoice that 1t is second to
noisy, buoyant, smoky Birmingham.
There is one way in which it can stay a
good second to Birmingham and that way
consists in pushing a quick opening by the
government of the Warrior river. When
the coal, coke, iron and steel that make
Birmingham what it is can be bArged to
Mobile, thus calling to that port ships from
all parts of the world, then indeed will Mo-
bile grow into a great port, and its popu-
lation will be handsomely increased Then
Mobile will have such cheap fuel that II
CAN build mills galore
The opening of the Warrior river is all
important to this district, and it is scarce
ly less important to Mobile, which has such
sharp competition as a gulf port at both
Pensacola and New Orleans. The State is
interested in the growth and development
of its one port, and the entire State should
promote to the top of possibilities the OPEN
ing of the Warrior.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09
ReautifYinq a City.

writer in the Nashville American
shows that in order to make city attract
i've and beautiful and valuable it is nee
essary first to agree upon some general
plan, for without this there can be no har-
mony in the effect produced. 1t is not pos
sible to adopt a general plan unless each
citizen has within himself that spirit which
realizes that each must make some con-
cession in order to bring about harmony.
Fitness and continuity of conception are
needful when attractiveness in a COM
munity of homes is sought. This writer
then presents five cardinal points that are
to be kept in mind when one is planning
to make a city beautiful, as follows
1. Native grasses, through which may
be cut easy walks where wanted.
9. Native, desiduous trees which are
strong to resist storm and sleet, which at
ford good shade In summer, which are
clearly, which are not specially attractive
to parasites and the limbs of which do not
die year by year before death comes to
the tree itself.
8. A terrace here or there, perhaps, or II
lot is too level, break the monotony with
an artificial terrace hastily arranged
diOullu tHo IOuSe lOulluullOnS anu
of earth dug from the cellar.
4. Plant flowers in the background
should you wish flowers, but do not place
them among the trees and grass.
5. Avoid artificial adornments unless
called for by comfort or a purpose.
Fences are no longer required for protec-
ton they now carry with them a suspic-
ion doubt of the genuiness of the civiI-
cation of the locality which maintains
them.
If these cardinal points are observed, the
general effect will be so striking and
pleasing that minor points will suggest
themselves almost, and the town that
once was so unattractive as a whole, will
become joy to the eye, and a spot to be
treasured in the memory. This town
should try the plan that is coming into use
elsewhere, for Birmingham may be made
as beautiful and attractive as any town In
the land If each family will treat its lot
In accordance with the rules that expert
ence and artistic tastes have demonstrated
to be needful in other towns.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09
lax Dodqinq Did II.

The tax dodgers have kept Birming-
hams increase down to 1918 per cent Ii
Jones Valley had been consolidated, as in
time it must be for health's sake, and as 1t
should have been two years ago, the popu-
lation of this town would have been
rs, 900, and the percentage about 200 instead
of the paltry figures, 46.15.
This would have struck the country
lions to the district, and to this city-to the
very men who, in order to save few dol
lars in taxation, threw away a golden OPP
portunity. They saved at the spiggot and
wasted at the bung.
Well, the people are all here, but there
is no present way to demonstrate the real
and wonderful growth of this community.
After while. when the population of the
counties of the various states are an
nounced, we will endeavor to place this
locality in its true light, but the greater
part of the world will not listen. 1t will
see those flgures-3S,415 opposite the name
of the city in all tables. and it will not
heed the story of the counties. Still we
will hold up Jefferson County as the
Greater Birmingham, possessing 900
active money-earning people, and a few
will see the truth, but the great majority
will not The tax dodgers should be COM
PEELED to pay the damage they have
wrought.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09
AN IRISH IDYL

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Nary a blue streak had been seen in Kill
kennys sky that day and nary minute
had it's pitchy blackness ceased to pour
rain upon earth.
Patrick had toiled in the fields from
morning until evening, and in no good hu-
NOR had he laid aside his implements and
started toward home. AS his heavy boots
pounded upon the walk they sent out
tune of i'll humor.
Bridget, in the kitchen, had been wash
ing all day. Her usually rudy complex
ion was heightened to a crimson brill
liancy by the steam from the suds. Her
loose, straggly hair, her ill-fitting dress,
and a pair of the "od mans" boots
breathed an air of crabbedness and fight
Patrick, get me a pail of water. Yer
wet an it'll harum We none to go into the
rain"
Patrick grunted, grabbed the bucket, and
started to the pump.
Vigorous was the stroke of the old ham
die. Hardly had a drop of rain time to
fall into the pail before 1t was full.
His boots again brought into the air
noise, but this time more angry and VIC
ious.
In the kitchen, bucket in hand, he looks
at his wife. Then the bucket Is raised and
the contents plunged upon Mrs. O'Hooley.
There, now. ye're as wet as am. Go
get yer own water"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

will show what trade cana do for a town.
Knoxville is both trade and a mannfac-
turing town.
When all the figures are published 1t will
undoubtedly be seen that mills and popula-
ton go hand in hand, and that the towns
that do not attract or, better still, organ
ize factories, will be passed by those that
do The story of 1900 will be repeated and
rubbed in in 1910. Schools and capitol
buildings and trade, even when all are
combined, as they are in Nashville, will
not make cities. That task is reserved to
mills, mines and furnaces, and Rirming-
ham has all three, and this is why 1t heads
the percentage list.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09
Southern Census Eiaures.

Census figures for Southern towns have
not been wholly satisfactory and yet no
city in the South is decaying. Three cities
In the exuberant West are reported in that
condition, namely, Omaha and Lincoln. in
Nebraska; Sioux City, in Iowa; and AL
bany, in the effete East is in a like con-
the following table, comprising all reports
for Southern cities to date, shows:
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

where I saw lot of sugar mill machinery
being made on an order from Mexico, and
that is new concern-just year old, but
in Lewis Hoster it has a thoroughly pro-
gressive president and manager.
Why shouldn't much of the machinery
which is to be thrown into China be made
right here in Birmingham?
Speaking of machinery, everything made
III the Birmingham district should be made
at the State Fair, which is to be held here
in November. Those concerns which manu-
facture engines should have engines there
III actual operation, furnished with steam
by Birmingham-made boilers, supplied with
power and machinery to make wire, and
nails and rods and nails and castings and
everything else made in the Birmingham
district. The fact that Colonel jefferson
NJ. Falkner is president of this Fair Asso-
citation and is actively managing 1t can
mean but one thing-that 1T will be sue
cess and that there will be something to
It, When Colonel Falkner does anything
he does it we'll He has the confidence of
every man in Alabama, and he deserves 1t.
Unless all signs fail, when this Fair is
over he will be deserving of even more
credit
The new Telephone Company has come to
town. 1t is erecting poles and wires and
a building of it's own. and seems to mean
business. 1t always struck me that two
telephones would be a great nuisance, but
by experience we shall soon see for
ourselves. The new company seems to have
money and is spending it. 1t is giving en-
IL s.
doing good, whether it proves a profitable
investment for those who are spending
the money.
Although some of the iron men are talk
residence and other properties seem to be
very confident in this town. An architect
was telling me yesterday that there is not
an idle carpenter, bricklayer, plasterer OF
paperer in town. He tells me that 800
houses are now in course of construction
and several brick buildings in the business
portion of the city are either under con-
tract or are planned.
In this connection, I note that the Hill
man Hotel people and some others have
been going out of town to employ archi-
tects and there is some complaint among
the local architects in Birmingham. There
are those who seeking to make this
their home, but there does seem to be
disposition on the part of some Birming-
ham people to buy everything outside in
stead of buying it at home. Atlanta has
made itself because it never spends a dol
lar outside which it can spend at home
and keep in circulation in the neighbour
hood. That's a mighty good rule.
2o.h6,r1o
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

Kentucky and Maryland towns are rot
Southern, and need not be included. 1t is
plain, from the Richmond and Nashville
returns, that the South will not have a Sec
ond city of 100000 population under this
census. The figures for manufacturing
because IT is located on tidal water, has at
its command cheap fuel, and is we'll sup
piled with capital. Nashville is not a man.
ufacturing town. The returns from Knox
vile, Charlotte, Chattanooga, Memphis and
Houston will be awaited with interest.
Houston is not manufacturing town, but
1t has become the central commercial point
of vast State, and the story of its growth
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

Straw votes are in order in Northern cit
les, but not straw hats.
The straw hat fingers in Chicago defiantly
and persistently.
--
Atlantas Mayor holds Office strictly. on
the reform line.
Adam-zad is up against the Kalser's man.
Waldersee.
Corny Vanderbilt listens while his money
talks.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

Mr.. Olney considers the present admin
istration the weakest and slliest in the
history of the country, and Mr.. Olney is a
good judge of administrations.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

The rising tide of shortwaistism in the
South may be checked by the Caribbean
cyclone, which Is slowly but steadily drift
ing this way.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

Tim Woodruff has decided to make his
campaign for the Vice Presidential nomi-
nation in 1904 in shirt waists instead of
WaiStcoatS,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

Mr.. Hanna tells the trusts the only sure
true way to overcome apathy is to swell
the campaign fund. Pay, pay, pay Is his
speech.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

Russia hesitates to leave Pellin in charge
of the Germans and the Japanese, and the
administration as me too does likewise
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

The movement of specie towards Chicago
will be begun soon after DR.. Harpers con-
ference with Rockefeller is finished.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

The 'steemed Republican papers are dis
tributing their epithets between Brother
Webster Davis and Brother Wellington.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

The Empress Dowager will miss, when
she returns to her Pekin palace, many IA
miiar articles of furniture.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

Minister WI thinks wooing on hAyrides
is not becoming. Mr.. WI thinks his coun-
trymen woo more properly.