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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03
Russian Peace Preiences.

While Russia is talking peace and Chi
Washington, it is conducting vigorous
campaign in Manchuria, as the following
dispatch shows:
ST. Petersburg, September 1.-Oficial dis
patches confirm the report of the occupa-
ton of Isl Isl Kar, which leaves only
Mukden to be captured in order to place
the whole of Manchuria in Russian pos
session. Apparently there is no intention
to relax that hold. General Kouropkin, the
Russian Minister of War; has just ordered
two batteries of Krupp guns to protect the
Manchuria Railway. Eight new batteries
of quick firing guns will be distributed
among the four new Siberian army corps
The truth is, Russia is conducting two
Chinese campaigns, the one in conjunction
with allies at or about Pekin, and the 9TH
er in Manchura, and she proposes to treat
with China as to these campaigns separ-
ately. She has seized Neuchang, which is
in Shrinking province. Under certain re-
mote circumstances she is willing to leave
Neuchang and Pekin. but she gives no as
surances whatever that she will evacuate
Manchuria.
The truth is, she does not consider Man
churia and Mongolia a part of China and
she proposes to seize them. She has, in
fact, seized them, and holding them she
is ready to leave Pekin, and possibly Neu.
chang She is using the United States to
serve her purposes in Manchuria and Mon
Ola She has seized what she wants, and
is of course willing to withdraw from what
she does not want, or to ask for an open
door in what she cannot at present gobble
up.
The open door is wholly ti-Russian.
Her policy is another case of Dingleyism.
She slams the door shut in territory con-
trolled by her. She is barbaric, arbitrary
and out of touch with the rest of the
world. And yet this is the country the
administration is supporting and cumming
with and listening to in its desire to get
out of the muddle it has plunged into.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

hotel here on the site of the present
Mountain House so-eaiied would. be prof
table to its owners and a blessing to the
public, particularly the people of Birming-
ham, who are SO near by. The place is as
well kept now as one could expect for the
charges made 1t is cheap enough in
every respect"
The Ladies of Charity of ST. PauIs
church will repeat their festival and dance
at Lakeview on Friday night, September
9TH; and in view of the delightful enter
tainment furnished two weeks ago, and
the cause which charitable women are
seeking to serve, there ought to be hun
dreds of persons present at the event to
come this week The object is to aid the
charity of st. PauIs church, as declared
by the Rev. Father Downs al late
mass yesterday morning. Great good
is being constantly done by this fund
greater than the general public is aware
cf-and all charitable-minded persons
should feel it pleasing duty to give the
ladies practical encouragement.
The oyster season is come again, and
the fall in the temperature of the weather
will cause a brisk demand for tSis most
priced of all fish.
Yesterday came nearer to being a COM
fortably cool day than any other day in
Birmingham since early last April. So
pleasing was the southwesterly breeze
which blew all day that men who had per-
spired and suffered through five trying
months were quito eager to declare that
summer heat was entirely gone. Most
likely they were in error, as many a hot
noon of September may demonstrate.
There will be no more hot nights at any
rate; and so all inhabitants may appre-
ciate Sancho Panza's benedietion. Blessed
is the man who invented sieep!' The tenn
perature early yesterday morning was
distinctly cool
Mayor Walter Melville Drennen has re-
turned from Boston.
Charles o. Locke has returned from At
lantic City. Mrs. Locke and her children
are in the Catskills.
The Rev. Father O'Reilly, John w
O'Neil and p. II. Linnehan have returned
from the East.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03
He Owns His Home.

There is a man in Birmingham of whom
the newspapers seldom spealt-who there
fore be not among the notorious-yet a
man who has done more for Birmingham
of this day than any man in it, He has
brought happiness to wives and children
contentment to husbands. He has inspired
family circles with ambitions and love of
home-has builded and granted the home
stead to the frugal and industrious, and
aided the fathers to endow the child.
start E. N. Cullom has builded block after
block of artistic, attractive. comfortable
homes, modern in all things, and has sold
them upon monthly payments upon plan
which puts a price upon the property,
dividing that price into monthly payments,
which will make up the total sum in three
or four years, with legal interest on de-
ferred payments for the time. The sum
palu monthly is not excessive, ana IN
few years every man owns his own home.
OF course Mr.. Cullom must make a profit.
1t is his due. Yet the purchaser from the
moment he enters one of these attractive
homes and makes his first payment be-
comes a citizen with pride in his home, his
family, his city and his State. lie assumes
the air of ownership, the pride of sur
roundings, interest in his neighbors and
his street. He becomes citizen in the
full grown and we'll developed sense of
the word, with pride in his paint and love
for his lawn.
Mr.. Cullom has done good work. There
be patriotism as we'll as profit in what he
has done. The Age-Herald honors him and
applauds him. He is a young man of
genius patriotism, character. His hundred
homes will live as a monument to him.
May he grow and prosper and thrive and
reap reward for the happiness he has
brought unto others and the great work he
has done for this growing city.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03
CHILDREN
Heine.

Heine.
nay child, we once We're children,
Two children blithe and small
We crept in the little hen coops,
And under the straw would crawl.
We mimicked the cocks, a-crowing
Our cock-a- doodle-doo.
The passerby believed it,
Nor rocked it was / and you.
We carpeted all the boxes
That Uttered our yard and awry.
Together we dwelt, and made it
A palace, you and l.
The dowager cat of our neighbor
HE'D often thither to call
We bowed to the crone and curtsied,
With compliments large and small.
We asked how she did and gossiped
And flattered and fused and smiled
That farces we have since repeated
To other old cats, my child!
There, too, we would sit and parey
And copy the grown-up ways,
Bemoaning how much, much better
Times were i'm our younger days.
How Love and Trust and Believing
Had melted away in air;
How dreadfully dear was coffee,
And money how sadly rare.
Our childish gambols have vanished,
AS all things vanish must
The world. with it's honey and money,
Believing and Love and Trust
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03
SHOULD SLEEP A THIRD OF THE TINT


From the indianapolis Journal.
Dr. Anderson, speaking of rest and sleep,
says that it is a scientific fact that one
third of our time should be spent in sleep:
quiet, restful, natural, refreshing sleep.
Many men, however. especially literary
men, writer's, preachers, lawyers and doc
tors, all, more or less, starve the brain
necessarily in this matter until they bring
on partial, and sometimes an incurable
insomnia An irritable man, cross, pettish.
peevish, disagreeable and easy to Fly off
the handle" and get mad as a wet hem
on the slightest provocation, can nearly al
ways be classed as one who does not get
or take enough sleep. A self-composed,
placid, quiet, thoughtful, even-tempered,
genial-nat ured man may be known as one
who not only insists upon having his full
quota of Sleep but one who takes Height
good, solid hours of sleep and rest From
medical standpoint natural sleep is the
best and only natural tonic for the nervous
system known, and all other so-called ton
les are stimulants. Natures tonics are ex-
ercise, pure air and water, sunshine and
sleep-al else are stimulants, and often
harmful instead of being conductive to
health. Brain rest and sleep, freedom from
care, anxiety and responsibility, pure air
and water healthy exercise, regular diet,
good dgestion-and this generally brings it
and full eight hours of sleep, would
lengthen the life of the present generation
from ten to thirty years.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03
SHORT STORIES
OF THE DAY
Add. a Triae to HIS Income

Major Arthur Griffiths cannot complain
that he grows older life grows dull and
monotonous with him, relates the Saturday
Evening Post. Having had in the army
fairly long career which embraced the
Crimean war, and which has ever since
kept him in intimate connection with all
military affairs in England and in close
friendship with most prominent military
men, he varied things by becomingsDeputy
Governor, in succession, of three of the
most prominent prisons in England and
later, for long time, Inspector of Prisons.
Meanwhile, in spare times he edited sew
eral papers and wrote many novels
When in Gibraltar he edited the Gibraltar
Chronicle, and later, in London, he was
editor of the Fortnightly Review one of
the most distinguished English publica-
tons, and then of the World one of the
smartest Nowadays he is trying his hand
on London daily. The several capital de-
tective stories he has written are perhaps
the work that amuses him most.
Il don't think 1 am greedy as an author"
says he, but have invented scheme to
increase my profits. When 1 give people
copies of my story, The Rome Express
they cannot discover who committed the
murder until they reach the last chapter.
L don't always win, but l do some times.
and an authors earnings every little
heips. L am proud moreover, of having
thus made five shillings from Conan
Doyle
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03
Might Grow In Kentucky

Samuel r. Ireland, lawyer and ra-
conteur-by choice the latter-of Washing
ton, is responsible for this story about
genial and ingenious old presiding elder
in the Methodist Episcopal church, South
who was a townsman of his back In Ken
lucky, relates the New oYrk Telegraph.
When he appeared in Mr.. Irelands offices
at Washington one day the lawyer was
cordial to the old preacher, took him to
all the interesting places of the capital,
and in the evening had him to dine at the
home of lady in the official circle, who
would rather decorate her table with
quaint homely characters than with nota-
bles. Spaghetti was one of the dishes
served, and the old man took to it with
amazing CELEBRITY. Put very much at his
ease by the gracious ways of his hostess,
he asked for and polished off another
plateful Of the italian paste
Signing contentedly as he finished, he
remarked:
II wish, ma am, you'd tell me what's
the name of that dish I've just been eat
ing?"
That's spaghetti, elder said the
hostess, ''an Italian dish"
"So?" said the elder. "Well. it's real
good, and I wish before 1 go you'd give
me some of the seeds. Chances are that
we can grow the stuff in Kentucky"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03
Applied to Himself

One day during his Presidency General
Grant came into the room where his cab
met was assembling, quietly laughing to
himself, says a writer in the current num-
Der of Scribners. 81 have Just read" said
he, "one of the best anecdotes have ever
met. 1t was that John Adams, after he
had been President, was one day taking a
party out to dinner, at his home in Quincy,
when one of his guests noticed portrait
over the door and said You have a fine
portrait of Washington there, Mr.. Adams
Yes was the reply, and that old wooden
head made his fortune by keeping his
mouth Shut" and Grant laughed again
with uncommon enjoyment.
The apocryphal story gained permanent
interest in Grants mouth, for though he
showed no consciousness that 1t could have
any application to himself, he evidently
thought that keeping the mouth shut was
not enough in itself to insure fortune, and
at any rate was not displeased at finding
such a ground of sympathy with the Fa-
Their of his country. Grants telling the
story seemed to me, under the circum-
stances infinitely more amusing than the
original.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03
Cotton Wadding Trust.

The assurance and audacity of some of
ism have fastened upon the land are su-
perb in some cases, and in none more so
that in the case of the cotton wadding
trust. Wadding or batting is made from the
waste" of cotton mills and every dis
trct that contains dozen mills there
probably could be a waddng mill But,
thanks to Republicanism, there cannot be.
Columbus. Georgia, fret tried to build
cotton wadding MILL capital needed in its
construction was secured, and the plant
was half constructed when the cotton wad-
ding trust heard of the enterprise, and at
once notified its promoters that 1t would be
promptly frozen out If it persisted in its eff
vestigation on the part of its leading stock
holders showed that the trust indeed had
the power to crush any outside MILL and
the enterprise was abandoned, and the half
completed mill stands today memorial to
monopoly.
Later still a cotton wadding mill was or
ganzed in Chattanooga, and its stockhold-
ers believed they were strong enough to
build and conduct an Independent mill.
Mark the result ''Those," says the Chatta-
nooga Times, "who had the mill in hand,
after a thorough investigation, discovered
that the opposition of the cotton wadding
trust is so strong, persistent and determined
as to render useless all efforts to secure a
mill in Chattanooga"
The cotton wadding trust is an example
of what all trusts were intended to be, and
will be as soon as they gather the courage
of their original intentions. The entire trust
scheme is founded upon the Dingley tariff
and the Republican party. The tariff Is de-
pended upon to keep out goods made in
other countries, and the Republican party
is expected in return for campaign SUBJ
scriptions to save the trusts from really
hurtful home legislation. The conspiracy
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03
FF ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Build a Government Plant.

The Philadelphia North American a Re-
publican paper opposed to Mr.. Quay and
Quay methods. openly advocates the build
ing of a government armor plate plant. 1t
anticipates only temporary help from the
Intervention of the Mdvale Company, be-
cause union of forces would certainly
follow. Instead of halves the plumber would
be divided into thirds, and the price of
armor would be put up to the highest point
that the government would bear.
There Is but one sure way" says the
Philadelphia North American, "of breaking
the hold of the armor plate trust upon the
governments throat, and that way Secre-
tary Long knows and has the power to
use. Having complied with the provisions
of the law in advertising for bids which in
his judgment have proved unfair. the proper
step for him to take is to choose site at
once and begin the erection of government
factory. His discretion is absolute, and upon
him alone rests the responsibility of put
ting the United States Treasury out of
reach of the trusts claws.
For the past four years the Carnegie and
Bethlehem Companies have sat obstinately
in their places of dictation and said to the
United States: Pay us our price or you
shall build no Ships Congress made
futile attempt to bring them to terms two
years ago by fixing a lint of $500 ton
upon the price of armor for the ships that
1t authorized. In the opinion of ordnance
experts of the navy that was fair price,
but the trust held out for $545, and not a
keel has been laid. AT the last session of
Congress a similar maximum figure would
have been set but for the obstinate fight
made by Senator Penrose and his coadju-
tors In behalf of their friends of the trust.
Penrose, If he could, would have struck
out of the bill the provision empowering
Il
eminent plant, but the patience of Con-
gress had been exhausted.
But ole final solution of the question re-
mains. The government should quit daily
ing with the trust and do it's own armor
making
When a Pennsylvania Republican paper
advocates the building of a government
plant, the country may be sure that one is
sorely needed, and yet one will not be
built. Mark Hanna knows the reason why,
and his orders are obeyed in the Navy De-
partment as we'll as in the White House.
The rest of the country would know the
reason why If Marks campaign list could
be brought into public view.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03
THE SECOND KNOUK-OUT

From the Chicago Tribune.
Il know well enough fellow citizens"
exclaimed the fierce-browed. shaggy hair
ed orator, that the views 1 advocate are
not popular. Not ten days ago, while ad-
vocating them from a public platform, I
was struck in the head by a brick and
knocked senseless."
''Why didn't you wait till you got your
sense back before you went to talking
again." inquired man in the outskirts
of the crowd in a loud. raucous voice.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

against the people Is complete the three
parties to IT being the Republican party. the
Dingley tariff and the trusts. The two
last-named are the creatures of the one
first named. The Republican party did in
fact prevent the establishment of cotton
waddlng mill in Columbus and chattanoo-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

Edwin L. Johnson in the Forum explains
the value of cotton seed. 1t yields 149
bushels to the acre, against 1913 of wheat,
100000 bushels, the production of cotton
seed in the same year amounted to over
1868, 100000 bushels. Mr.. johnson estimates
that the food value of a given weight of
cotton seed is 50 per cent. greater than that
of the same weight of wheat.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

From the Chicago Record.
Didn't the quiet in the country become
monotonous to your
"Quiet? We had to turn out about seven
times every night and chase cows off the
porch
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

Many of the visiting Cuban teachers dur
Ing their stay in this country picked up
few words and phrases of English, the
meaning of which they hardly understood.
Near the University of Pennsylvania coal
cart driver, who was standing beside his
team, started a conversation with stout
Cuban senior, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord.
$50 you're a Cuban, are your" he asked
Sure" was the rather slangy reply
You like this country"
'All right"
Were you born in Cuba?"
Sure"
How old are your"
"All right
This ended the conversation. as the coal
cart driver apparently felt that his WE'LL
meant efforts were not adequately reward
ed.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

Society is between Thomas Nelson Page
and the heat of New York.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

China is making history while Waldersee
steams along on the uneasy sea.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

If man encounters one of the thirty
species of mosquitoes in this country, he
rest.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

The Cuban pre-convention campaign has
warmed up to the point that admits of the
denunciation of General Wood as a liar and
hypocrit
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

Dewey finds Naraganset Pier much pref
cradle to the stump. He is level-headed.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

New York calls for joint debate on
trusts by Croker and Hanna. 1t would
draw we'll as a prize fight
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

Ii Hung Chang is literally between the
foreign devils and the deep blue sea, for
he is on ship of the allies
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

The newspapers do not think that Here
we rest is a good name for the swiftest
lot
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

Bubonic plague is no respector of towns
or climate. 1t has broken out in Glasgow
which is nearly under the Big Dipper
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

If Lord Roberts has become commander
in-chef of the British army reform has
begun at the top
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

Panics usually follow expositions, and
Paris begins to feel it's panic creeping on.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

| Waldersee and his house and arid art
| list were well when last spoken out a sea-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

The trusts think that imperialism is an
excellent paramount issue for the Demo-
cratic party.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

Lii Hung Changes yellow shirt waist may
go to join some Of his former peacock
feathers.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03

Census figures are thought in disap-
pointed towns to be exceptions to the YER
acity rule.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-08-15

i've. The excellent May Manton model
shown here is tasteful and smart, yet
is loose enough for ease. For immedi'
ate wear it can be made from washa-
BILE material without the fitted front
lining, if preferred: for later, cool
weather use it winbe found admirable
in cashmeres. challie,. yelling and all
light weight, goods md with the lin
Ing, which meal additional smart
ness. Tie singh az; can be stitched
as indicated, 500 EIhg permanently
snug ft, or ca e laced to allow of
such change a Becomes necessary in
cases Of ilf6eSs
AS illustr& He material is a cot
ton foulard nsSlze over the lining and
8trimrned viii needlework. The
sleeves afe ca& at elbow length and
finished WITH fills, and the chic lit
tie boleT6 ID ipfluded in shoulder and
under arm seams, its long terminating
ends being tied in a bow. At the
throat is a soft-draped collar of har-
menizing silk.
To make as illustrated for woman
of medium size six and three-fourths
ySrds Of material forty-four inches
wide, or eight and one-half yards thir-
ty-two inches wide will be required.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-08-15
popular Garment For Autumn.


The Eton jacket gives every indl'
cation of continued and increased pop
ularity. 1t will be the most general
outside garment for autumn. as 1t was
for spring. The jaunty May Manton
model illustrated is simple Of construc-
ton, and has the merit Of becoming
open or closed at touch. AS shown,
it is Of mixed gray cheviot, and makes
part of a general utility gown, but the
design is equally we'll suited to black
and tan cloth that can he T'orp with
any skirt, and to piquc, duck ard the
like. The fronts arc fitted with single
darts. The back is seamless, the snug
effect being gained by under-arm
cores. The collar and rcvcrs are self
faced, finished with rcvrr tailor stitch
ing. The sleeves are two scanIcd. and
fit snugly, will: just enough fulneEs
at the shoulders to prcrcns overnight
ness. They are stitched to simulate
cuffs at the wrists. The closing is ac-
complished with Il single button and
buttonhole. When woln orcn the
fronts are thrown back, rs sliGwn IN
the sketch. The model is lined
throughout with white satin, and can
be worn with the dainticst white waist
without danger Of soilinS it, but any
color preferred can be substituted.
To make as illustrated, for a girl