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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24
FOLLY OF SENSATIONAL
 POSTERS IN ADVERTISING
Lyman B. Glover in the washingto

Lyman B. Glover in the Washington
 Times.
 6 HE day of vulgar posters has gone \CD by. So strong a public sentiment
 has been raised by the objection able bilfboards. of the past that tre- mendous movement for their eradication has been witnessed all over the country. and the time surely come when posters as the vehicle of vulgarity and worse will be tabooed as religiously as any public exhibition of obseenity or crime.
 Time was when every show must have a representation of it's principal scene upon the billboards. and as these pictures were the real pictures of the story enact ed upon the stage, what more natural than that the more vulgar the story the more vulgar the picture There were some who thought vu1garity was a draw ing card and exaggerated the scenes de- picting the nastiness of the play. Here was vulgarity run riot.
 But the very means thought to be pos sesses of special drawing power proved it's own assassin. The exaggeration of wicl1edness had accomplished what the proposed curtailment of 1t had failed to do It had so disgusted those who saw it that they rose in their might and vowed its total abolition. It still flourishes, but by no means with it's former virulence. Its knell has sounded.
 There is another point that is of vital interest to the question, and that is the art taste vitiated by bad posters and stimulated by digniled and beautiful ones.
 Circuses and certain sensational melo- dramas still make use of many-hued fence pictures that appeal to the small boy and to the adults who cannot read, but good taste has so far regulated the average poster of the average show that but little of the former sensational tinge is found in 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24
coLoRED AUTHORS.

From the Macon Telegraph.
 A Washington dispatch states that an assistant in the library of congress has compiled a list of the books in that insti- tuition written by persons of color" finding no less that 220O titles The inves- tigation shows that " a surprisingly large amount of literary work has been done by mulattos and by persons who are one fourth, one-eighth or one-sixteenth Afri- can but ''the straight blacks appear to have done almost nothing" The first colored author, it seems was Phyllis Wheatley, who published book in 1773 and wrote poem dedicated to General Washington. Whether she was a straight black or colored is not stated, but it is altogether likely she was the latter As the fomer have done almost nothing in literature up to date they could hardl.- nave done anything as early as 1773, so soon al.er their importation from the African jungles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

As q matter of face, many Of tho bosi attractions are now never exploited by anything save the name of the star ol company or attraction. Thus MT. Froh- man announces Miss Maud Adams and MT. Belasco announces Mrs. Leslie Car. ter by name simply. MT. Richard Mans- field would not even allow picture oi Brutus. or Of Henry ", or that of any other character to call attention to his work-much less a picture of himself.
 And so good taste is following deeeney and art is sweeping away the vestiges of a decayed vulgarity.
 Personally I would go further still and do away with all posters, if l could, and put every dollar of advertising expense into newspaper columns. But we are largely creatures of habit and also creat- ures of other peoples habits, and because the star at the Bombast theater has his name in large letters about town the company at the Shakespeare hall must have it's name in equally large type. But even this will be done away with in time, I am sure.
 Sec the saving in both money and bad AesA1 HI 0b4Ai6 away Wllil lit olA liNilb- graphic swindle. When we used to think 1t impossible to dun a tneater without filling the store windows with litho- graphs, I have known as many as one thousand tickets a week to be given away for the supposed advertising done by these pictures.
 Natural evolution Is gradually doing away with many of these vulgarities and absurdities, and the time is coming and is nearly here, when all shams and all shoddy will be eliminated from this branch of the business, as from other de- partments, and we shall have the same dignity exhibited in the advertising of our theatrical ventures as that which permeates the representations upon the boards. It will be but a step upward in the general uplifting of all that per tains to the stage and its environment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24
Lonoer Days Are Cominu.

The sun completed on Monday it's annual tour southward, and it is now engaged in retracing it's course. It is swinging back, lengthening the hours of daylight, but not at first mitigating the severity of the weather. Tn more northern attitudes it is a maxim that as the days begin to lengthen the cold begins to strengthen. To limited ex- tent this is true in this latitude, for as a rule our coldest weather comes in January.
 Thus far the winter has not been a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24
ReformatorIes and Y. M. c. A.

"The Hartford, Conn. Young Mems Christian association has been criticised as an expensive institution.s said a man in the lobby, and in meeting the crit icism, the general secretary, Noel H. Jacks, has made a comparison, which is stirring up much interest and dis cussion in Hartford.
 MT. Jacks found that the average age of the inmates of the Massachusetts State Reformatory at Concord is the same as that of the members of the Young Mems Christian association at Hartford. and the value of the reformatory buildings is s1 GOO 900, and of the Hartford association, S25O, ,00O The capacity of the two institu- tions Is similar. Last year the average number of young men in the reformatory was 939. The number of men and boys who are members of the Hartford asso- citation Is 900, but undoubtedly four times as many men come under the influence of the organization The reformatory em- ploycs 65 officers and 30 teachers at an expense of s1O.. LOCO. The Hartford as- soeiation employs ten people with an ag- gregate salary of $S60O. The entire budget of the reformatory is s2160oo, and that of the Hartford association is sl7500.
 ''Mr. Jacks further says that in the re- formatory the inmates give nothing while the members of the Hartford association pay towards it's budget over s50o0 His claims that the purpose of these two insd- tutions are almost identical; that both are intended to improve the characters of boys and young men; that the reformato- " treats the disease and the Young Mems Christian association guards against It's attacks. The expenses to the tax payers of Massachusetts for each inmate is over S20O per year. In the Hartford associa- ton the expense per member to the com uunity is less than $500, and. it is claim ed as we'll thta this expense to the com munity is fully balanced by the public work the association does for those who arc not members that Is, in it's mission ary efforts, and that the members prac- tlcally pay the full expense of their mem- bership privileges In a word, MT. Jacks says that it costs over twenty times as much to reform a young man in that in- stitution as it does for the association to keep him from going wrong. Mir. Jacks claims that instead of being too expen- sive, the association is saving the city an- nually hundreds of dollars, developing high character of men. and saving boys and men from the necessity of reform atory."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24
Arbitration Hanos Fire.

It cannot be said that affairs are mending in Venezuela. The pacific blockade has become a war blockade in name as well as in fact, and war has been or is about to be formally declared by the allies against Vene- zuela. The little republic is mobiliz- in1 it's militia, and equipping them up to it's resources. It is said to have about 35, ,000 magazine guns, and prob ably a years suppl of ammunition. These guns, aided by the Monroe doc Urine, will probably prevent any i'm mediate movement on the part of the allies on nd Our trade with Vene- zuela is, however, destroyed-wiped out-gone, and so is the trade of other neutral countries, and it becomes question as to how long they will peacefully 5tand war conducted on the blockade plan alone, especially when such a plan brings in not a dol Ter of the debts that the war is osten- sibly waged over.
 The arbitration muddle is becoming thicker, instead of clearer. The chances are that Germany and espe- cially the Kaiser, wants no settlement by The Hague court, or even by Presi- dent Roosevelt acting officially. The President has not been formally asked to act as an arbitrator of the dispute, and he is 10th to do so, as he may well be.
 There are serious questions involved in such an arbitration. Supposing, for example, the President acting as an arbitrator, with the consent and at the request of both parties to the dis pute, finds that Venezuela owes cer- tain Englishmen s5.OOO,OOO, and some spe. ulative Germans $10000 000O-is this country under moral obligations, lon account of the Monroe doctrine, to =see that Venezuela, poorer than Job, Says such sums? In other wFds, is the Monroe doctrine dragging us into a protectorate of Latin America? This is very serious problem, for it is very easy to unearth a lot of debts of the Venezuelan sort against any other country in Lat America.
 Whether arbitration would raise the blockade is also another question. If Nit would not, it would net afford any felief to American trade. It would not lft the pres. ure from Venezuela. It Tould not do more than legitimatize
 lme doubtful end speculative claims.
 would, however, go a long ways to-
 rds upholding and supporting the
 nroe doctrine, to which all parties
 all factions in this country are
 hmitted, and the President will no vdo1bt step into the breach as an arbi- tratar if he can thereby save the honor and prestige of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Man rules all dumb animals; woman rules man.
 Loving a woman never satisfies her; you've got to make love 70 ner.
 We can forgive most everything except the person who has to forgive us.
 Some women are built around the an- kles the way they ought to be around the waist.
 Take a woman with him to the heart of desert and man will reclaim it; take a man and they will cut each other s throats over who ought to own the sand if 1t were of any use.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

swindles. repudiations and outrages on foreign residents or treaty obligations It does not protect the rogue republics from a whipping when they deserve one. It does not make the United States a guar antor of their debts or of their develtry. That is getting to be understood.
 While, therefore, the doctrine makes for peace, it does not necessarily prevent war.
 The doctrine will be everywhere re- spected so long as we elect to stand by it and are strong enough to bear the consequences of doing so.
 That bids fair to be a long while
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24
JUST SO!

That Monroe doctrine subtracts over throw of governments establishment of governments and sessions of territory from any results of any war which any European power may wage on any Amer ican state Those results subtracted from war make war not worth the powder . The doctrine, therefore, makes peace.
 But it does not interfere with the rig or disposition of any European power hold any or all the rogue republics to south Of us to account for their Il
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24
NEW IRON AND STEEL FREIGHT
 RATES.

From the Iron Age.
 The average increase in freight rates on iron and steel products to go into ef- feet on January l, 1903 is 10 per cent The official tariffs have not yet been issued by the railroads. but will probably be sent out this week. The new rates on pig iron, billets, pipe iron, ferroman- ganese wire rods. sheet and tin plate bars and chain iron from Pittsburg and points taking Pittsburg rates, in gross tons of 224O pounds in carloads, are as fo1lourS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

From the New York Commercial
 The Evening Post has tried to solve the problem of why the street cars in New York are so much more crowded this month than formerly. Christmas shopping is not alone responsible for 1t. In enumerating other causes the Post overlooks the fast that the million over' coats worn since the cold snap take up some room. How many cars would the coats alone fill?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24
Hookworm Disease in fAan.

The Age-Herald has been favored with copy of Dr. StIles' pamphlet on the hookworm, published by the de- partment of agriculture. Dr. Stiles is convinced that we have a hoolzworm which is unlike the Old World hook worm, and he calls the malady it pro duces Uncinaria Americana He ad- mits, however, that soldiers returning from the Philippines may give us both sorts, and that the two may become undistinguishable. He thus describes the disease produced by the hook worm:
 Uncinariasis is a specific zooparastic disease caused by hookworms (genus Un- ,cinaria) which inhabit the small intes- tne Its chief symptoms are: Anemla, gith the circulatory symptoms found in all extreme anemias, namely, dizziness, kpalpitation, hemic murmurs; colicky aims in the abdomen; great weakness, in pme cases with considerable cancellation; |nStlpatlOn or dla1Tnoea, StOOlS some mes brownish or bloody; nausea; edema. be only positive diagnosis is by finding parasite or it's eggs in the stools. It affect any class of patients, but is re frequent in persons whose daily life gs them in contact with damp earth CTS, brickmakers. excavators dirt s, etc.).
 e pamphlet is very technical, set forth in diagrams and in scientific
 eology the history and qualities
 fleets of the parasite. It appears
 pe parasite is by no means con
 Q man. It is particularly at
 dogs, and sheep, hogs, apes,
 oxes, cats and other animals
 ted by it. But the exact spe-
 in man is not found in ami
 e hookworms found in ami
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

trying one. The water in pipes has not been frozen, and the plumbers boom is delayed. No doubt January will bring in a cold wave or two that will render pipes unit for their GUS tomary service, and pneumonia and the other ills of trying climates will also be ushered in. But thus far the winter season has dealt with us gently, and there are no indications that. the wild and woody west will send us cold waves of a protracted and rigorous nature. The cold waves from the Rockies this year are either inclined to be mild or else to seek. eongenial attitudes further north. They are shunted to Canada, and if Canada is willing this section certainly is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24
THE "oLD, OLD sONG."

By Charles Kingsley. When all the world is young, lad. and all the trees are green; And every goose swan, lad, And every lass queen Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away; Young blood must have its course, laa; And every dog his day. When all the world is old, lad,
 trees are brown;
 sport is stale, lad,i
 wheels run down;
 and take your place there.
 and maimed among;
 pu lind one face there
 when all was young
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24
Universal Peace.

preached a new year with such univer- sal peace and prosperity" said citizen yesterday. 'The United States especial ly IS enjoying remarkable degree of the latter The past year has witnessed the ending of all the wars on the globe and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
More LIaht.

"what Birmingham needs even more than an increase in the police force, is more street lights said citizen yes terday.
 Birmingham has only 227 street lights. Nashville and Atlanta have each about 1000 public lights. Four lights are eer- tainly equal to one policeman and cost only the third of a polieeman's salary. More light, therefore. must be installed here. They would go long way to rem edy the epidemic of highway robbery, besides affording comfort to the public"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

MT. Dewey keeps his heaviest battle ships significantly near the Venezuelan coast, and it is believed his maneuyers will last all winter and well into the spring season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

It should be noted that the rates cn ferromanganese, wire rods sheet and tin-plate bars and chain iron are the same as on billets.
 Articles of iron and steel manufacture will, as heretofore. take nfth-class rates on less than carloads and sixth-class rates on carloads. The new rates on articles Of iron and steel manufacture from Pitts burg and points taking Pittshurg rates, in carloads and less than carloads, effec- tive January l, 1903, to points named be- low, will be as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

The President can talk to German, a Dutchman and a Frenehman each in his own language. Linguists in the White House have heretofore been few and far between.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

The Jefferson County Medical so- ciety sees good water a-coming, but not much else that promotes sanita- finn,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

Liquidation in stocks is good term. It means that the liquid in them is to be squeezed out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

It is to be Secretary Cortelyou--not private secretary, but secretary of the department of commerce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

spains pretender IS now Don Jaime, his father, Don Carlos, having become tired of the pretending business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24
ArchhIahon of canterburx.

"The death of the Right Honorable and Most Rev Frederick Temple D. D.. arch bishop of Canterbury and primate of all England, brings to mind the fact that the only person in Alabama who had the privilege of meeting the distinguished prelate was Mrs D. T. Taliaferro, princi- pal of Pollock Stephens Institute" re- marked a churchman last night.
 Mrs. Taliaferro was the guest last summer of the late Canon Rawlinson and in the famous eanon's house met Dr. Temple at an informal tea. The primate brought with him the gold chain that King Edward had presented as a souvenir of the coronation. The archbishop and the canon were both octogenarians when Mrs. Taliaferro met them and 1t is a coincidence that both have passed away within few months.
 "Dr Temple was, perhaps, the most scholarly man who has filled the Angli- can prlmacy in modern times. Dr. Tait was saintly eeclesiastic and Dr. Benson was also Q Rlan of exceptionally high spiritual attainments, but Dr. Temple was both spiritual and learned.
 'Dr. Temple was an unassuming man and was as approachable in his palace IS the plainest Englishman In his cottage. "The Right Rev. Randall T. Davidson, D. D., bishop of Winchester, will prob ably be the next archbishop of Canter- bury. He is an able theologian and is personal friend of MT. Balfour, the pre- mier By the way, it Is a noteworthy fact that Balfour's first episcopal nomi- nation, which amounts to an appoint ment will be this to the prfmatial see. And Balfour is a Presbyterian.
 "The Anglican prelates sign themselves according to the old Latin style. pr. Temple signed F. cantuar-an abbrevla- ton of Cantuarensis. The bishop of Win chester signs himself Randall Win ston.
 "The salary of the archbishop of Can terbury is S75O0O a year. In the order of precedency at court he comes fmme- diately after the royal family.
 About Persons.
 Henry Fitts of Tuscaloosa is at the Metropolitan.
 
 William A. Davis of Anniston is at the Morris.
 Gaston Scott of Montgomery is register ed at the Metropolitan.
 S. R. Welton of opelka is at the Morris. J. Alex Moore of Montevallo is register ed at the Morris.
 W. M. Wilson of Gadsden is at the Met ropolitan.
 A. L. slayton of Atlanta is at the Met ropolltan.
 MT. and Mrs. F. L. Treat of Florence are registered at the Metropolitan They were married at Selma yesterday.
 Dr. Thompson Berry will spend the hol- idays in New York with friends whom he made during his term of service at the city hospital i'll that city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

Sir Thomas Lipton will not let the Monroe doctrine interfere with the building and equipping of Shamrock TIT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24
ADMIRAL DEWEY'S FLEET
 NEAR VENEZUELA COAST

Admiral Deweys fleet that numerically otherwise of swItss war.hp in the world The principal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

Mrs. Jefferson Davis condolences to the family of Mrs. Grant were graceful and appropriate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

The belated Christmas shopper will i'll the streets and shops today. Better late than never.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

The deep snows in the winter wheat states are calling aloud for more cars next season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

The Kaiser will not soon hear his first shot, for Venezuela is too far away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

The Yale enrolment is 2S16, the largest in the history of the ancient institution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

Arbitration is only for the strong. The weak are expected to accept any old terms
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

The fireworks have been postponed to the day after Christmas in this town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

Mere money is needed today to move Christmas presents than to move crOns
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

The death of Gen. Wager Swayne recalls the reconstruction day of Ala bama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

Venezuela has plenty of generals, but is short in cold cash.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

This is the last chance to tell your troubles to Santa Claus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-24

It is a snug race between Russell Sage and Father Time.