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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15
The first number of the Albanian

The first number of the Albanian,
edited by Judge A. e. Caffee, has a
wholesome, metropolitan appearance.
1t is, too, a newspaper that considers
books and horses parts of this life, as
we'll as politics. Much attention Is to
be given to historical matters pertain
ing to this State. Judge Caffee's ideals
are high. Let us hope he will not pull
them down an inch. A paper that
mingles lituerature with politics and
outdoor pastimes with money-getting
is pleasant relief, and the Albanian
promises to take just that form.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15
A WILD AND STORMY NIGHT.

From Burns Tam OShanter."
Nae man can tether time or tide;
The hour approaches Tam maun ride:
That hour, O. nights black arch the key
stone,
That dreary hour he mounts his beast In;
And sic night he talks the road In.
AS ne'er poor sinner was abroad in.
The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last;
The rafting showers rose on the blast;
The speedy CLEANS the darkness swal-
lowed;
Loud. deep and lang the thunder bel
lowed: 3.
That night child might understand
The Dell had business on his haAA.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15
NOTHING TOO GOOD FOR PETTus
From the washington Times.

Stopping at the Fairfax is Gen. c. NJ.
Shelley, former Congressman from Ala
bama.
II think" said General Shelley, that
there is an overwhelming sentiment in
our state in favor Of returning General
his present term expires. In years he is
the senior of every Senator. and in men,
tai and physical vigor he is younger than
many In that honorable body. There is
nothing in Alabama too good for him.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15
Early MardI oras.

Ash Wednesday will be four weeks
from yesterday, which means that Madri
Gras will be four weeks from yesterday.
Lent is fixed by Easter and Easter is
regulated by the moon.
This great festival of the church falls
on the Sunday next after the full moon
after the 25th Of March. The vatican
has the date of Easter in every year of
the century calculated already. It comes
this year earlier than usuai-March 90.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
Fl the New York Press

Fi<{l the New York Press.
Great mems sons are great mems
grandsons' little fathers.
The servant problem will be solved
when a circle can be squared.
The friends OF your prosperity are the
enemies of your adversely.
Even successful ambition Is always Bit
ter because OF the things In which II has
been baked.
higher attainments without giving him
the means to reach them.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15
one Dollar Fine for Miss Sent checks,

New York, January l4.-Because bank
clerks who sort on an average Of more
than 100000 checks day made SO many
mistakes recently the Clearing House As
sociation has made rule fining each
bank 81 for each "missent'' check. the
minimum fine collected by one bank from
another not to be more than D any one
day. s.E 2 - .s
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15
THE UNITED STATES 49,"

From the Chicago Tribune.
Popular speech is something which
neither laws nor Supreme Court dicta can
change, and the mass OF the people will
stick to it that the United States "is'
a nation.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15
MEN HELP SOME

From rne- Chicago Record-Herald.
They are already beginning to pick out
the men who are wanted to help at the
coming Mothers Congress. Still this Is
only proper. Women never can be good
mothers without the help of the men.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15
WALL STREETS SINKING FUND.

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A war between Minnesota and the pro-
posed railroad merger will tend to dis
close the exact condition of Wall streets
reserve ammunition
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Adlai Stevenson and David Bennett
Hill are deluding themselves with the
idea that they are leading and reor-
ganizing modern Democrats. 49,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15
A PLEASANT QUARTET

From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Four Kansas sisters. were recently mar
ried on the same day. The papa of large
girl family should never despair.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Senatorial talk will not build an
isthmian canal, for 1t has been going
on for fifty, years and not a spadeful
Of dirt has been thrown out.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15
SOUTH OF THE IsTHMus.

From the Pittsburg Times.
Now Paraguay wants to have the fun
of a South American revolution. Some
thing is always doing below the isthmus.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Senator Tillman is to be William
allenwhited, but he will reply with a
pitchfork and not in libel suit.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Grounding day is near at hand,
when the nature OF the rest OF the
season will be definitely determined.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Miss Stone has tired the nations,
and no one is watching the possibili.
ties of the case.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Captain Hobson is going on the
lecture platform instead Of in poll
tics. This is better. although this is
not lueal.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Some of the new locomotives weigh
$4,000 pounds. and only automobiles
can buck them successfully.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Joseph Chamberlain can stand with
out wincing as much abuse as an
American politician.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Captain Hobson does not object to
fame and female adulation, but as for
politics--he wants none Of 1t in his'n.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Professor Lombard locates the soul
in the backbone, but what Is wanted
is some one who knows the soul when
he sees it.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

The cannonmakers have reaped
rich harvest ever since The Hague
conference adjourned.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

The drink consumption per 10 of
population was highest in France, 1886
gallons; next in the United Kingdom.
332 gallons; next in Germany, 800 gal
Ions, and lowest in the United States,
147 gallons. The consumption of spirits
does not greatly vary In the four coun-
tries, but while France drinks wine to
excess. Great Britain and Germany
guzzle to like extent beer.
Mr.. Schooling does not attempt to
say in which country of the four drunk
enness Is the most common, but he
does admit 1t is far more common in
beer-drinking Great Britain than 1t Is
in the United States. Mr.. Schooling
goes ON to attribute the superior alert
ness of the American workman to his
relative abstinence from alcoholic
drink.
The best obtainable statistics con-
corning drink consumption show that
in all Of the countries named it is
becoming less, although it is conceded
that beer drinking is still increasing
In this country, and wine drinking in
France. The days of whisky, gin,
brandy and rum are nearly ended,
and the strong drink Of the coming
man will consist of either beer or
wine.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Trusts are alarming when they are
formed and equally alarming when
they go to pieces.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15
STRONG.

From the Washington Evening Times.
It is now stated that Limberger cheese
makes drunkards. There is no doubt that
It causes Incorporate language.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

"Pelota," a Spanish-Cuban game, is
coming. It is very fabby, but 1t is a
trife better than golf.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15
Analogy.

From the Somerville Journal
Whyte-Did you say she was poetess?
Black-Yss. and her sister is a dress
makersaa
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Herr SUnnenberg is endeavoring to
be the Tillman of the German Parlia-
ment.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

The Hanna boom went down under
a continued diet OF cornbeef hash and
buckwheat cakes.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15
Drink Bills in Four Countries.

John Holt Schooling In the Fort
nightly Review discusses the consump.
tion of liquor in the four advanced
countries of the world-the four most
highly civilized and progressive coun-
tries on the earth. He finds that in
1900 liquors were consumed per 10 of
tho population, as follows:
Beer, Spirits, Wine,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Only the lawyers are standing up to
'Lige Dowie now.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Even the Pennsylvania Railroad has
backed out OF the anti-pass agree
ment. II prefers to DO American.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Uncle Sam is waiting on Sig. Mar.
conf before laying Pacific cable.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

What Birmingham lacks is owl cars.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Senatorial canal digging makes the
country tired.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Beer, Spirits, Wine,
gallons. gallons. gallons,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-15

Spring hats viii be in order IN Birming-
ham on that date. But how viii It be in
New York?
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-07-24

Brooke intends going to Philadelphia
for few days to superintend the com.
pletion of his home at Rosemont. then
TO join his wife at Bar Harbor. Gen.
aral Brooke was born at the Brooke
farm, near Pottsville, Pa, in 1893.
Secretary Root in announcing the re-
tirement of General Brooke paid him
the following tribute
"The retirement from active service
this date by operation of law of Major
General John II. Brooke, U. s. A., is
announced, terminating a period of
over forty years of efficient, honorable
and distinguished service on the active
list of the volunteer and regular army.
During his long service General
Brooke has exercised important militia
ry commands, both in peace and war,
and always with credit and honor to
himself and to the country.
"It is n pleasure to refer to a record
such as this, which would serve as an
example and an inspiration to every
young officer who has yet to shape his
character and career in the military
service"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-07-24
SLEEPING HEROES.
Mighty Men of the Past That Are
Expected TO Return.


Is there any race that has not its
sleeping here? A correspondent re-
Gently pointed out that the time for the
fulillment of the prophecy that the
tenth of Krishna will restore to India
her independence is near at hand. and
every nation has some such savior to
whom the people look. West country
rustics still believe that Arthur did not
die, but sleeps in Avalon, and that in
the hour of Britains need he will
awake, deliver the land and restore
the golden age. In Germany it is Il
popular belief that Charles V. will
some day wake from his enchanted
sleep to reign over Germany, Spain,
Portugal, Denmark, Belgium and Hol-
land. Thousands of French peasants
hold that Napoleon is only sleeping
and that at some future time he will
reappear and rule. And Mr.. Newbolt
has enshrined the Devon legend that
Drake is only listening for the drum.
The Irish peasantry steadfastly re-
fuse to believe that Mr.. Parnell is
really dead They assert that his death
was a ruse, that he was an interested
spectator of his own funeral and that
when the time comes he will emerge
from retirement to give Ireland her in
dependence. Every true Moslem be-
lieves that when antichrist appears
Mohammed Mohadi will awake and
conquer him. A Moorish legend de-
clares that Bobadil el Chico sleeps
spellbound near the Alhambra and
that one day he will awake to, re-es-
tablish the Moors as rulers of Grana-
da. The Servians look to King Lager,
slain by the Turks in 1889, as their
final hope, and should Switzerland be
again threatened by tyrants Swiss
folklore declares that the three men,
bers of the Tell family who are sleep
ing at Rutili, near the Vierwald-
Staten-See, will rise from their en-
chanted slumber and maintain the
freedom of the land.-London Chroni-
Gle
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-07-24
RICE WATER NUTRITIOUS.
Curious Way Some british Officers
Discovered This Fact.

It is probable that few occidental
cooks who prepare rice in various
forms for diet are aware that in dis
carding the water in which it Is boiled
they are wasting what is regarded by
the oriental as the most nutritious part
of the food. This fact was curiously
proved some years since when a de-
tachment OF Europeans and native
troops in India found themselves be-
leaguered in fort with insufficient ra-
tions, even of rice, to enable them to
hold out until force could march to
their relief.
1t was when the officers were seri-
ously debating this problem that the
natives approached them with what
was regarded as n curious solution of
the difficulty. If, proposed the latter,
the Europeans took all the rice, they,
the natives, would be quite content
with the water in which 1t was boiled.
The suggestion. in place of any better.
was adopted, when it was remarked
that while the Europeans found 1t diff
ficult TO maintain their strength on full
rations of rice the natives lost none of
their stamina by several weeks diet on
the water. When the proposal was
made, the action of the natives was
praised as one of great devotion to
their superlors, but the sentiment was
somewhat Modified when the discov-
cry was made that the natives were
quite aware that the principal nourlsh-
ment lay in the water.
Since that time Europeans In the orr
ent, following the custom of the ma
tives, have given rice water to pa
tients, particularly in cases Of cholera.
MS n last resort when no other food can
be retained in the stomach and usually
with good results. But the natives al
ways value this water so highly that 1t
is never thrown away.
In fact it would surprise many cooks
to discover how much may be done
with this apparently worthless stock.
If the rice is cooked in the oriental
fashion-that is. boiled only so long
that each grain comes out of the pan
separate and not as sodden mass
the water when strained off and per-
mitted to cool will become a jelly ap-
preaching the consistency of blanc
mango. To suit the occidental palate
the water should be favored with an
extract or otherwise the jelly may.
have rather an insipid taste.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-07-24

FOOD AND THE SEXES.
The Male Human Needs to Eat More
Than the Female.

According to a writer in the Lancet,
the male human needs more food than
the female not only on account of his
larger stature, but also because he is
the more katabolic of the two. The
man tends TO expend energy and the
woman to store It up in the form of
fat; he burns the faster This sexual
difference shows itself in the very
blood. The man has larger percent
age of chromocytes than the woman,
showing that he needs proportonate-
ly larger quantity of oxygen In order
to maintain his more active combus-
ton, n fact which one may associate
with his comparative freedom from
chlorosis. Moreover, weight for weight,
his pulmonary capacity Is greater than
that of the woman, whose smaller re-
spiratory need is further shown by the
facility with which she can without
discomfort diminish her breathing
power by means of the corset.
"The great contrast between the
metabolic activity of the two sexes"
continues the writer. twas forcibly
brought home to me by a military dis
play given by troop of dusky anna
IONS, with whom were also few male
warriors. The women, in spite of their
daily exertlons, were all rounded and
plump, some very much so, no single
muscle showing through the skin. and
1t was noticed that their movements,
though full of grace, lacked energy
and go The men, on the other hand,
We're spare, their muscles standing out
plainly under the shiny skin, and they.
in further contrast with the women,
displayed truly amazing agility.
bounding about and whirling round in
a most astounding fashion. The wonl-
ell, in short, were essentially anabolic.
and the men were katabolic. / may
here draw attention to the fact that
men are apt to be larger meat eaters
than women, just as they are, possibly
In consequence of this very fact, more
prone to drink alcohol and to smoke
tobacco"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-07-24
Eagles Mere Excursion Thursday July 3lst

To accommodate persons desiring
to visit the beautiful "Lake of the
Eagles " for a day at a moderate cost,
the Philadelphia & Reading Railway
will run special trains Thursday July
3Ist as follows: Leave Bloomsburg
$50 A. NJ, Leave Catawissa g..
A, NJ, Leave Rupert $40 A. NJ,
Leave Danville 6.57 A. NJ, and ar
rive at Eagles Mere 1000 A. NJ.
Returning leave Eagles Mere 6,so
p. M. stopping at above named points.
Tickets will be sold at special rates
CT $3.50 for the round trip, good that
day only on special train in each
direction as noted above.
Sale of tickets will be limited to
seven hundred, for which number
ample accommodations will be pro.
vided. 1T.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-07-24
Niagara Falls Excursion.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Com.
pany has selected the following dates
tor its popular ten. day excursions tc
Niagara Falls from Washington and
Baltimore; July a4, August 7 and 81,
September q and IS, and October 2
and I6. On these dates the special
train will leave Washington at 8 a.
M, Baltimore o:o5 a. m. York Io:45
a. m, Harrisburg II;4o a. m. Millers-
burg 1920 p. M, Sunbury 1858 p.
M, Williamsport 2:3o p. M, Lock
Haven sos p. M, Renova 3:55 p. M,
Emporium Junction sos p. m, arriv-
ing Niagara Falls at 9:35 p. m.
Excursion tickets, good for return
passage on any regular tram, exclusive
of limited express trains, within ten
days, will be sold at $1,000 from
Washington and Baltlmore;> $o.s5
from York; $1,000 from Littletown;
$1,000 from Oxford, Pa; $o,35 from
Columbia; $3.50 from Harrisburg;
$40 90 from Winchester, Va; $3.50
from Altoona; $40 from Tyrone;
S6.45 from Bellefonte; $50 from
Ridgway; 5000 from Sunbury and
Wilkes Barre; $5.75 from William
sport; and at proportlonate rates from
principal points. A stop-over will be
allowed at Buffalo within limit of
ticket returning.
The special trains of Pullman paror
cars and day coaches will be run with
each excursion running through to
Niagara Falls. IN extra charge will
be made for parlor-car seats.
An experienced tourist agent and
chaperon will accompany each excur-
sion.
For descriptive pamphlet, time of
connecting trains, and further infor-
nation apply to nearest ticket agent,
or address Geo. w. Boyd, Assistant
General Passenger Agent, Broad
Street Station, Philadelphia.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-07-24
Hopi Courtship.

When 4 Hopi maiden decides which
Of the eligible young men of the tribe
she wishes to marry, she goes and sits
in his house and grinds corn until he
is sufficiently impressed by her indus
try to marry her.
After the ceremony, which is an
elaborate one, the couple go to live in
the wife's house. If she tires of her
husband, she can obtain a divorce by
merely throwing his saddle out of the
house. After marriage the house, fields
and all their property except the herds
belong to the wife.
The Hopis are indulgent parents.
The right of the children to do as
they please is never questioned.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-07-24
Sheep In Varied Clothing.

One of the results Of the investiga-
ton of a special committee of the So
clety of Arts into the question of book
binding goes to show that sheepskin
is often used by bookbnders under
very different names. They found
books bound nominally in Levant mo-
rocco, hard grain morocco, straight
grain morocco. pigskin. calfskin, croco-
ollie and alligator feathers, all Of which
on close microscopic examination were
found to be the ordinary common
sheepskin on which had been stamped
the special grains and markings of the
skins they were got up to initiate. The
committee, however, were satisfied
that in many cases both the book
binders and the librarians had bought
these feathers under the impression
that they were buying the genuine ar
tcle.-London Globe.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-07-24
Reduced Rates to Denver, Colorado Springs
and Pueblo.

On account of the Biennial Meet.
ing, A. O. H., to be held at Denver,
Colo, July IS to a2, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will sell excursion
tickets to Denver, Colorado Springs,
or Pueblo, Col, from all stations on
its lines, at rate of single fare for the
round trip. Tickets will be sold and
good going on July 10 to IL, inclusive,
and will be good to return leaving
Denver, Colorado Springs or Pueblo
not later than August 81. Tickets
must be validated for return passage
by Joint Agent at any of the above
mentioned points, for which service a
fee of IS cents will be charged.
For specific rates and conditions,
apply to ticket agents.