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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Friend of Birmingham.

One sometimes hears the remark that
many outsiders come to Birmingham and
make money and then carry It away,
but ". H Woodward who built the First
avenue sky seraper and who is to build
another sky seraper on Second avenue IS
nos man of that class" remarked a
prominent business man.
Mr.. Woodwards home is IN the east,
but he has made a great deal of money
IN this district and he Is investing 1t
here. He Is one of Birmingham great
est benefaetors Think of IT. When his
second steel frame building is completed
he will have expended IN this kind of
Improvement over million dollars. Mr..
Woodward, being a broad minded and far
seeing capitalist. has absolute confidence
in the future values of this city. Our
people will always delight to honor him
as the pioneer in the erection of up-to-
date office buildings. His work certainly
marks an epoch in the progress of Biz
mingham"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-06
FoRERuNNER OF EXPANSION.
Big Steamer VIII Take Party of Manu-.
facturers to the Orient.

Seattle, Wash. September IA large
ocean going steamer the Oregon, is now
being fitted up here for the purpose of
taking party of American manufacture
ers, with exhibits, on a six months cruise
commencing November 10, to Russia,
China, japan, the Philippines, the Straits
Settlements. India, Mauritlus, South Al
RIGA, Australia and the Hawaiian Islands
his, 1t is said. will be the forerunner
of greater expansion to .Amersca-s COM
merce, being unique and practical OPP
portunity for buyers and sellers to be-
come personally acquainted and discuss
the exhibits and methods of packing ard
preparing goods for the various markets.
establishing agencies, effecting sales and
ascertaining the financial responsibility
of interested parties. The United States
corsuls invariably report that personal
solicitation and samples are absolutely
necessary to bring about an EXPANSION
of business. In this floating exposition
American manufacturers Will have all
classes as buyers from tine coast cities
as well as the interior, brought to view
the latest up-to-date ideas, as well as ma
tive merchants and exporters desfrous of
selling their products and raw materials
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-06
Elimination Of corrunllon.

at Is truly refreshing to the people
of Alabama" says the Huntsville
Tribune. that the faintest intimation
of fraud has not been made in con-
neetion with the recent primary. This
indicates a pure atmosphere, and a
completely changed condition of af-
fairs" 1t should be remembered that
the Tribune is Huntsyille's republican
evening paper, its editor being the
probable nominee of the republican
party for governor. Mr.. Lane Is, how
ever, an editor who says what he
thinks and sees.
The new registration under the new
constitution has in fact reyolutionized
at a single bound the states electoral
business, and the change is as welcome
as it is sudden and complete. Few
stop to think what fraud at the bal
lot box meant. 1t really ment dishon-
esty in everything. 1t demoralized
everything and everybody. 1t de-
stroyed confidence in public men and
measures, and it invited young men
to enter upon a career of crime. 1t
had filled the state with rascality and
corruption.
Now that the ballot box has been
reformed and purified, let us weed out
the evil effects of past Generalization.
Let us insist upon honest legislation
hereafter, freed from lobbyists and
corruptionists. Let every act of the
legislature be watched, and let the
legislator who is corrupted by the
lobbyist become a marked man here
after Let the book trust and all othel
trusts that work corruption be draw
out. Reform is the watchword, ant
now that we have an intelligent cleo
torate and honest elections and tn
primary system the state should COM
into the hands of the people to the ent
that the work of reform may be car
ried forward with good prospects o
s1lccess
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-06

of votes, was quite willing that Mr.
Helm should be declared the nominee.
This decision of the candidate entitled
to run again. Of which the committee
was informed by his friends. Influenced
it IN making its decision to abide BY
the face of the returns.
It Is said by some that this will es-
tablish a precedent and that the COM
mittee should have investigated the
returns. It cannot establish a prece-
dent except where the conditions are
similar. The conditions here were
that Mr.. Julian, who alone had any
thing to gain by a second primary,
aequiesced IN the action of the COM
mittee.
A return is a return. The error in
this one, If it existed. was known at
least four days before the committee
met-in ample time for a new return
to have been made and the old one
withdrawn. The returning board of
Conecuh county cannot complain. It
was their mistake, If any, and they
did not attempt legally to correct it.
Under the circumstances it is not ap-
parent that the state committee should
have done otherwise than it did. The
committee sat in a ministerial capac-
ity. There was no contest before it.
It had nothing to do but count the
votes according to the official returns
and declare the result.
Suppose next January, when the two
branches of the legislature meet in
joint assembly to count the returns
and declare the vote for governor and
other officials, that some one should
hand the president of the senate a
letter stating that there was an error
in the returns from his county, or
suppose some one should arise on the
floor and say that Governor Jelks is
credited with 500 more votes from
certain county than he actually re-
ceived-in the absence of a contest
would the joint assembly be authorized
to change the official returns from any
county simply because some one says
they are wrong? The cases are SINH
lar, and if there is an error in a re-
turn, the right way to correct it would
seem TO be to call the returning board
together and have them correct it
officially.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-06
Boiled Water In School.

The Chicago public schools were
opened last Tuesday with an enroll
ment of 1000 pupils. On account of
the prevalence of typhoid fever in that
city these pupils are required to bring
275,000 bottles of boiled water to
school. Later on the board of educa-
tion proposes to install caldrons for
the boiling of supply of drinking
water. but at present the 275,000 are
required to bring to school that many
bottles of water
This is a sad commentary on Chi
cago's drainage canal-a work that
cost many millions, and that was to
give the city pure water. 1t is well
that two drainage canals were not
built, for then the water supply would
have been insufferable.
Perhaps after while the scientific
world will awake to the fact that the
typhoid problem is the chief problem,
and it will be given the study and at
tention that it's gravity calls for. It
is the chief curse and plague and dan
ger of this latitude and country, and
yet the protection against it is no
better now than 1t was one hundred
years ago. It is a reflection upon the
healing art and upon science that the
dread disease has not been more thor
oughly investigated and mastered
That it can be mastered and driven
out is not to be doubted, and when
a way to do this has been discovered
the strong arm of the law should be
invoked and the ascertained remedies
fully applied and enforced. Yellow
fever does not kill one where typhoid
kills a hundred, and yet yellow fever
has been closely studied, while ty.
phoid has not been.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-06
100000 IN HOTEL BILLS.

From the New York Evening Telegram.
After forty-two years of hotel life
Henry Clay Barnabee, the veteran opera
singer, has decided to pass the remainder
of his youth housekeeping. He esti-
mates that he has spent at least $20s, o00
in the time a bare average of 500 a
week, and now he is enjoying the lux
uries of fine apartment house in River
side drive. surrounded by his household
goos and comforts undreamed of in his
hotel experience at a tri1e under the
figure he has been called to pay hitherto.
So strongly does the novelty of house
keeping appeal to him that he travels
every midnight from Manhattan Beach.
where he Is playing, arriving home at .
o'clock in the morning. With the persis-
tency Of an Insurance canvasser he has
argued nome, sweet home" with his
partner, w. H. Macdonald, until in sheer
desperation 1t is expected the latter WIN
forsako hotel living and set up house for
the first time since the Bost onians were
organized.
The nearest approach to home life Mr..
uucDoHdiu Ills hio"A 10 WHtH ne mas
sojourned for a few weeks at his den in
the Adirondacks, which he styles the
RANCH" and which is nothing more than
a miniature chicken farm. Here some of
the finest game fowls of the state have
been raised, notably robin Hood" lit.
tie John" and THE Sheriff."
Mr.. Mac is on the lookout for a Har-
lem fiat, where he can keep at least one
incubator The raising of chickens is a
greater passion with him than singing IN
opera.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-06
THE sWIzzLE COCKTAIL.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Ever drink a swlzzle cocktail? They
make them in the West Indies. They are
said to cause hair to break ont rapidly
on the baidest head and to sweeten the
breath after onions. Maybe you don't
know what swizzle is, in the first place.
Well, it is a stick that is frayed out at
the end you don't take hold Of You put
the brush into the tumbler and turn 1t
between your palms, back and forth, till
you have beaten up the mixture as much
as you want to. The following prescrlp-
ton ought to be right, because 1t is taken
from the woman's page of the Point
Moule a Clique Bi-Weekly Blazon of
British Liberties, published in st. Lucia,
Is. w. l.:
Ice.
Four ounces of water.
Two drops of Angostura bitters.
Two ounces OF whisky.
Gum. (Some)
Powdered cinnamon.
An egg, beaten with teaspoonful a
milk.
Swizzle every ingredient. adding the
whisky last, and work 1t till 1t is frothy.
But don't blame the editor of the wom-
ans page in the Blazon if things don't
come out as they should when you go to
business after this reflection.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-06
M'JIMsEYs BREAKFAST.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
The Hon. Monticello McJimsey, editor
of our esteemed Missouri contemporary.
the Maryville Tribune was married
few weeks ago. Married to lone of the
prettiest and most fashionable young
women of Maryville," the Kansas City
Journal assures us. Thereupon Mr.. Nc
Jimsey sets up a chair of domestic and
culinary science and delivers this lecture:
How many Maryville girls-those of
the fashionable set-could get up decent
breakfast for man If they had one?
There isn't one In ten that could get up
a simple meal of coffee and poached eggs
en- toast"
This implied compliment to Mrs Nc
Jimsey Is great and doubtless deserved.
1t is good to believe that her coffee is
more fragrant than the roses of Gulistan
and more refreshing to the palate Than
The apples of paradise. None the less,
Professor McJimsey is swimming out of
his depth. The simple" meal is always
the hardest to make perfect, and a good
light" breakfast is the hardest meal to
find. There are unquestioning muscular
appetites that are satisfied with hog and
hominy, pile of pork and a pile of
johnny cakes but most men folks are a
little squeamish in the morning, prepared
to find fault and sure to look at the table
with the air of persons full of protesting
livers and in the HABIT of getting out of
bed with the wrong foot foremost. To
console such irritated spirits by a break
fast not too robust of matter and ex-
qusite of form and art is the task of
many devoted housekeepers and accom-
plished servants. There are men who
will gnash their teeth II the muskmelon
is one-half of a degree above what they
regard as the Just temperature for IT.
and rage almost to apopexy If the color
of Tuesdays coffee is one-sixteenth of
the shadow of a penumbra different from
its Monday hue.
1t is no easy job to prepare a simple
breakfast - to make cup of really
worthy coffee. to poach an egg with dis
tinction. This town is full of good res
taurants for which the hens on a hun
bred thousand nests are working over
time, and yet we dare say that not a
hundred, not fifty, artistically-poached
eggs are served In those places In a
week. The ''siinpls' things ara the most
compllcated; and outside of your own
house ind few other fol tunate places
roc's eggs are easier to come by than
a proreily-boiled potato
The Hon. Monticello McJinsey needs
taking down." IL is too elate. lie has
yet to learn the rudiments of household
science. The Maryville girls can cook
breakfasts. simple or compound, that arc
good enough for him and too good. Mrs.
McJimsey should cut off his coffee and
eggs. They are bad for his liver and pun
him up. Let him cook his own breakfast
or eat canned things for while.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-06
GERMANY TO BE DESTROYED.

From the London Express.
In the year 1913 eleven years hence, the
German empire is to go to pieces, accord
Ing to a Polish prophet. His reasons for
the prophecy are so cogent that there is
no room for doubt.
Take. he says, the year 1s49, the date
when the constitution of the German
empire" was first framed. and add the
figures. The result is twenty-five. If
this is added to 1S49 we get 1sI-the year
when the German empire was founded.
Now add together the figures Of that
year. Result, II. Tack this on to 1871
and 1888 comes out--the year when Ger
many lost her first two emperors the
Emperors William and Frederick.
Repeat the addition process-1 plus 8
plus plus equals %; 1888 plus 25 equals
1913
What does this signify? To most peo-
pie nothing more than 1918 But the Polish
prophet has an answer pat-l9l3 is the
date of Germanys destruction. Gould
ANYTHING be cIearer7
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-06
Errors in County Returns.

A question was raised In the meet
ing of the state democratic executive
committee regarding an alleged error
in the returns from Conecuh county,
which If corrected as claimed, would
would have reduced the number of
votes given to ]. Thomas Hefin for
secretary of state by 100, which would
have brought the number of votes re-
ceived by him under majority and
would have necessitated second pri-
mary between him and the next high
est candidate for this office, Frank N.
Julian.
The committee. however, decided by
: vote of IA to 7. that it would not go
behind the returns. 1t was not urged
to do SO by either of the other con-
testants for this office. and Mr.. Julian,
who received the next highest number
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-06
CAN REPUBLIC OF CUBA
MAINTAIN EXISTENCE

| the prospects for a longer existence are
very good.
In any country we judge something of
its government from the men who are
honored with public positions. If they
are good men and true we think well of
that government. No one doubts that The
schoolmaster-pres of Cuba. Tomas
Estrada Palma, is a good man and a
strong one, too. The pastor and his
other neighbors at Central Valley. n. Y,
where seventeen years of his life were
passed as the head OF a school for Cuban
youths = In the farewell address which
they made to him showed their own deep
esteem. Some of these people went to
Havana for the one purpose of seeing
him inaugurated
President Palma SO far has shown his
firmness and his purity of character. His
aspiration Is for Cuban republic which
shall be like the American republic. a
scheme was formed to restore the lottery,
which had fourished under the Spanish
rule and which is found in all Spanish
American countries. 1t became known
that President Palma was infexibly on
posed to this scheme and would veto II
If bill should be passed by the Cuban
congress. Knowing the feeling of the
president the promoters of the lottery
scheme have not been able to make head
way.
The brutal bull fights, which were COM
mon under Spanish rule, were abolished
by the American military authority. Eff
forts have been made to restore them.
b,.f
Yet they have politicians in Cube who
are selfish, thinking only of themselves,
and caring little for the public good. The
| same Is true of the United States. On
the whole. there is as much patriotism
| among the Cuban public men as among
our own.
The Cuban congress Is formed almost
exactly after the model Of the congress
of the United States. It has about the
same powers. There is a house of rep
resentatives and a senate. No law can
be enacted without the sanction of both
| bodies Some propositions which to US
seem very foolish have been introduced
in the Cuban congress, but simply in
Producing them does not make them
laws.
The chief drawback is the lack of ex-
perience. 1t debates a great deal and
| many fine speeches are made, but fine
speeches In themselves do not keep the
wheels of government in motion, or in
sure the enactment of measures beneh-
cial to the public. But this lack of ex-
pertence on the part of the Cuban con-
gress is in a fair way to be cured, in
the only way that is possible. which is
by the actual exercise of the legislative
function. Experience can only come
from practice, and the Cuban congress
Is having chance to practice.
From the above statements. It may be
gathered that my own opinion leans to
the belief that the Cuban republic will
survive. I certainly believe 1t will SUR
vive long enough to satisfy the mass of
the Cuban people In their aspirations for
| independence.
| There are some factions for the future
which are yet to be taken into account
The leaven OF Americanism is going to
| help the Cuban people. because a sturdy
American element will find opportunities
| in the island.
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Increased Travel.

'.The sale of tickets at the Union Pas
senger Station Increases every month, =
said Capt. Jack ". johnson. the ticket
agent.
August sales amounted to over 100000,
and were far IN excess of the sales of
August 1901. I sold about million dol
lars worth of tickets last year but the
sales for 1872 will total million and a
quarter or more. Large ticket sales
show that people are prosperous. The
volume of the passenger business center
ing here Is but another evidence of Bir-
minghams Importance and growth
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Charles NJ. Pepper in Christian Herald.
- HE proprietor of the Christian
Herald asks me to answer the
question for the benefit of your
readers. It Is live question and one that
means much, both to the Cuban people
and to the American people A distin-
guished statesman who has had a great
deal to do IN the national legislation
fixing the standing OF Cuba, recently
wrote me that he hoped. above all things
the republic OF Cuba would survive be-
cause the need of the United States is a
friendly, independent government In
Cuba. I think that is the idea which
President Roosevelt and his advisers also
hold.
Now the Cuban republic is beset with
trouble. They are having hard times in
the island such as were experienced In
the United States a few years ago. The
sugar industry the world over is dull, and
since Cuba's chief product is sugar. the
dullness Is felt just as 1t would be felt In
the United States II there were a poor
market for corn and wheat and the cost
of raising these crops to the farmer was
more than was received for them. Sugar
at this time in Cuba is being raised at a
loss because of the failure of the United
States congress to enact reciprocity
legislation. That is, to admit Cuban
sugar into the American markets at a
reduced duty.
The humorous philosopher. Mr.. Dooley,
sometimes gives his views on things
which are In the public mind. A few
months ago he wrote these apt words:
Hunger is the same In a republic as In
a despotism. The moral was that the
mas ses of the people in Cuba We're not
much better off under the republic than
under the Spanish rule. If they could not
get enough to eat The Cubans UNDER
went starvation In order that they might
have their republic.
A few months ago 1t was the fear of
many friends of the Cuban government
that with so many plantation hands out
Ct work there would be riots and disor-
der, which might threaten the govern
ment itself and cause the United States
to intervene a second time. That fear is
past. The people. in spite or their dis
lTeSS, hive kept pbdceluI anu patient.
Hard times are still ahead of them, yet
the worst has been endured. In the fall
there Is bound to be some work In the
sugar cane industry. because the planta-
lions must be kept going, even at a
loss.
But there is hope now that this sea-
son the crop will not be a loss. Under the
pressure of public opinion the American
congress is almost sure to grant the
lower rates of duties for Cuban sugar and
other products, which 1t refused In the
spring. Then, also. the results of the
Brussels international conference, which
agreed to doing away with the heavy
bounties paid by European countries for
the production of beet root within an
other year will begin to benefit Cuba.
Like all cane producing countries, 1t has
suffered from the heavy bounties paid te
Deet sugar.
(These are what are called material
questions, but material questions have a
good deal to do with the success OF any
government or administration. If at the
very beginning of its life the Cuban gov
eminent works Its way through a hard
times period most folks will agree that
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-06
Chefs.

There used to be a number of French
cooks in Birmingham, but if there is one
here now I cannot locate him." said
Albert. the restaurant man.
THE French chef surpasses all others
in certain lines of work. He makes the
finest coups fricassees and sauces. The
southern negro cook can broil a chicken
or a fish just as well as the French
man and he can do many other culinary
things as well. but the making of soups
and dressing belongs to the fine arts and
there is where the Frenchman comes in.
The people of Birmingham. l would
imagine, have as much taste for nigh liv-
ing as they ever had and l am somewhat
at a loss, therefore. to account for the
absence of the educated chef in this time
of prosperity and extravaganza. 1t may
be that men are so intent upon making
money that their minds do not run on
fancy dishes.
Here is another point that may posi-
bly, account for the absence of the
Frenchman. I have never known a
French cook but who had 10 be humored.
He insisted on being supplied with the
highest-priced oils and wines. He used
the choicest of olive oil and the choicest
of sherry. Now, in this age of progress
we use eleomorgarine for cooking. It is
just as good as oil and much cheaper,
but 1t would be impossible to make the
Frenchman believe it, For everyday pur-
poses Our native cooks are entirely salts
factory, and make fewer dysnentics n,
the long run than the French artists"