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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

From the New York World
 Of all living creatures man has the greatest endurance.
 Some of the feats of endurance that he has accomplished make the similar achievements of the lower animals, even with their specialized faculties, seem of little consequence.
 For instance, M. Garnier, at the Cafe Martino in Paris, not long ago undertook to play the piano continuously for twen- ty-seven hours, allowing ninety minutes, divided into short intervals, for rest and the laking of nourishment.
 Commencing at p. m. he did not stop | till a. m. After that he took brief in- ttervals of rest every four hours and kept on playing until o'clock the follow ing evening Cramps stlffened and knot | ted his fingers, but massage was ap- piled and he kept on playing. His hands swelled to almost twice their size. His 1 face swelled and turned blue. His arms had to be proped up with cushions. Yet with wonderful persistence he con tinued to play. Every nerve was strain- cd to keep up the movements. Every
  Ills finger tips were lifeless.
 Midnight finally came and he played till the clock struck He had won his wager of $200 with fourteen minutes to spare.
 Then he collapsed, prostrated with a severe nervous attack.
 But Blanca, an Italian, beat Garnier' S achievement. At his home in Venice he played for fifty hours, with only three brief rests Garniers music was. how ever, far more rapid and difficult than Bianca's.
 Some amazing pedestrian feats have been accomplished by man. In 1899 J. Hibberd of London walked from Shore l ditch Church to Yarmouth, distance of 1241k miles, in q hours and 46 minutes. He was 50 years old at the time, but would without doubt have done the dis tance in an hour less if he had not missed his way and vocered several unnecessary miles.
 Every day the average man generates l a force of 3400 foot-tons-enough, that is to raise 3400 tons height of one foot Only 10 per cent of this force is avail able for other work than that of keep ing the body warm. But how much the | residue may be exceeded by strong man in good training is shown by the fact that Mckenzie, winner of the race last year to the top of Ben Nevis, was work ing at the rate of 11,000 foot-pounds pel minute during the sixty-eight minutes that the race lasted.
 Speaking of mountain-climbing. Sii Martin Conways Alpine record of th' year 1894 is another startling proof o what man is physically capable of doins and enduring. Sir Martins tour lasted eighty-six days. During that time he GOV cred 1000 miles on foot. ascended twenty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17
NEW LEADERS IN THE SOUTH.
Young Men Coming to the Front In
 Public and Professional Life.

From the New York Sun.
 Between the constitutional conventions held from 1867 to 1871, the period of re- construction, and those held from 1890 to 1902. the period of disfranchising amendments, was less than the span Of generation-usually put at thirty-three years But within that period a very great change has come as regards the average age of public men In the south. This is an era not only of young men springing up, but also of young men talk ing indisputably the lead-a marked feat ure of all recent political, educational economic and professional conventions in the south.
 Senator Tillman of South Carolina is 55. Senator Mallory of Florida Is 54, Sem ator Culberson of Texas is 47 Senator Bailey of the same state is 3s and Senator Eimmons of North Carolina is 4s
 Of the lawyers praoticing at the Rich mond bar less than twenty were in the Confederate army, the others either nav ing been too young to serve CT not hay ing been born until after 1S65. This is also true of the doctors. Very few of the old army surgeons are now in active practice and the list is being rapidly reduced.
 Nearly all the southern civil engineers who have developed the railway systems of the south are young men, some Of them very young men. Not only has the former southern custom of nominating Confederate veterans to congress. to the legislature or to other elective offices ceased to be observed. but a numbr of very young men were candidates for office this year-sons of veterans and in a few instances grandsons.
 This tendency to substitute new men in public and professional life not only for old men, but also for men of middle age in the south appears to have been &C., cepted with equanimity by the former leaders of public opinion there. It is re- nected largely among southern clergymen of all denominations, and, to smaller extent, in business.
 There appear to be no direct success sors to such distinctively southern cele- brities as "Zeb" Vance, Isham Harris, Judge Merriman, Wade Hampton, Judge Reagan and Ben Hill. "Joe'' Wheeler, Senator Morgan, General Gordan, Senator Pugh and few others remain active, but the present opportunity offered to young men is being remarked at every success sive southern convention or gathering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17
THREE WOMEN SING OF
 HOMEBUTLOSEHUSBANDS

song He happened to be passing her home one night and heard her singing the plaintive ballad. He was so affected that he immediately entered and e1asped her to his arms, and now everything is lovely.
 Mrs. Phillips has been told that thc song would make her a small fortune, but she declares that 1t shall never be published She holds 1t sacred.
 Marion Barrackman made her greatest success when she set to music James Whltcomb Riley's "The Old Trundle Bed" which has gained great popularity in the middle west Four days before she sent the song to a publisher she eloped with Raymond Earth.
 The song was far more successful than her marriage Whether domestieally quenched the fires of musical inspiration, or her personal experience made it inn possible for her to compose music, is a moot question. Certain it is that the publishers to whom she submitted her ef- forts declared that the music of Mrs. Earth lacked the rhythm and swing that had distinguished the compositions of Miss Barrackman. She applied for di- vorce and her husband was not unwilling that it should be granted so last June the court made her Marion Barrackman again, and the first song she wrote after she secured her decree was immediately accepted.
 Miss Maebelle Hufford was "co-ed" at Ann Arbor when she wrote the Ann Arbor Two-Step," which has had a great success. Her romance began in class room and it. progressed with a rapidity faster than any known musical move- ment
 Edward Johnson was the young man who gained her affections, but it is possi- ble that she would not have married him had she not wanted to go to a dance. Exit from the dormitory was forbidden. The resourceful MT. Johnson, aged 21, placed a painters ladder against the window, Miss Hufford descended and they went to the ball. After that festivity they sought a justice of the peace and were married.
 It was the same story-music and do- nestle peace seemed incompatibe-and now Mrs. Johnson has sued for divorce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17
REED AND THE PRESIDENCY.

From the Boston Herald
 Thomas B. Reed, like ex-President liar rison has died prematurely. Both were of superior order of intellect, but MT. Reed was the better fitted to be leader and controller of men. Locality made Harrison President, as Reed had to over come the disadvantage of locality to be considered in that connection. Reed also had the personal popularity of MT. Me- Kinley among his associates and his re- marl1able skill as a politician and that of the men enlisted in his service with which to contend in rivalry. Men of strong will, like Reed, are not as rule, selected as the candidates of parties for the presi- dency. The only one thus deliberately chosen since Jackson was Henry Clay, and he was defeated of election. Grant had will, but he was apt to subordinate it to those about him, and he was selected solely for his military service. Cleveland had more of the Jackson in him than any man who has succeeded 'Old Hickory" in the Presidents chair, but the poli- ticians didn't know it when they first made Cleveland their candidate. It was plain enough in the case of Reed-too plain to make his presidential prospects promising. He doubtless shared the am- bition of the great men who had gone Before him for the office, but his later in- dependence put him farther away than ever from it, unless some popular upris- ing had pitched upon him as it's candi- date-which was not probable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17
FORTUNATE SOUTHERN COLLEGE

From the Chicago Tribune.
 The complaint has been frequently made in the south, and not without req son, that southern institutions of learn ing are not remembered by the northern millionaires in their benefactions. Un- doubtedly, with the exception of Berea college, Booker Washingtons Tuskeggee institute, and the school at Hampton, this it true, and yet the southern schools and colleges need help more than the north ern ones.
 Why this discrimination is made it is not necessary now to discuss. There may be sufficient reasons for it growing out of the failure of the south to present it's claims in a convincing manner. It Is pleasanter to note that one university in the south has no reason to complain Of neglect. Tulane university in New Or leans last year was the recipient of $S,- 100000 by the bequest of the late Miss Newcomb A few days ago A. c. Hutch inson. president of the Louisville and Texas railroad, died in the same city leaving fortune of about $1, GOO. In his will, after making sundry bequests to rel atives, friends and public charities, he gave the remainder of his fortune, amounting at least to a round million dol lars, to Tulane university, which thus, in two years, has been enriched to the amount of $4,OOO,OOO.
 This would be a handsome sum even for universities which are used to dona- ton showers" and educational institu- tions all over the south probably will envy Tulane its ,doubly good luck. But right at this point it is proper to sub init that the occasions to chronicle dona- tions by southerners to southern colleges are as rare as ''angels' Visits" Were Miss Newcomb and MT. Hutchinson the only wealthy persons in the south? If the south were a little more liberal in help ing its own, perhaps the north would be influenced to do something. Besides, the Lord helps those who help them- selves.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17
If arguing makes us sweat, the proof of 1t will turn to redder drops.
 --Julius Caesar.
Fees and ConniY convicis.

Dr. Bragg, physician member of the board of convict inspectors, attacks and exposes the operations of the fee brigade. An offender who is sentenced for few days, and who is poor and friendless, is at once seized upon by the brigade, and costs are piled upon him until his few days of original sen tence are extended to a term of i'm prisonment of six months, more or less. These additions are in direct violation of the original sentence, and the usufruct is the fee brigade
 Dr. Bragg severely crticises, says the report, ''the system of imposing small fines for small offenses, and adding a long sentence for costs, which is universal, and seems to be practiced with the fees in view" There is no seeming about it; it is very real, and it extends throughout the sixty-six counties of the state.
 Iniquitous as the system is, cruel as 1t is towards the weak and friend less, there is no remedy, simply be- cause the fee brigade will sit as Q third house while the legislature is in session. Half of the members doubt less were eleeeteu by the fee brigade. and the situation cannot be remedied until the moral sense of the state is aroused.
 Dr. Bragg tells no new truths. He simply as a humanitarian and a physi- clan repeats a thrice-told tale. Nothing can be accomplished against the fee brigade until the state wakes up to the iniquity of costs visited upon the weak and friendless in the form of Imprisonment, thus bringing back fees in a ceaseless official round. In this matter we are up against the third house, and it remains to be seen what the legislature will do about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17
LAST OF THE PoPuLIsTs.

From the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette.
 There Is not in all the congressional directory of the United States the word popuHst. This Is as 1t should be. Harris has been in the democratic caucus and has worked with the democrats for five years. There is nothing opprobrious in the name. The democrats will nominate German or Hill for the presidency, and the populists will vote for him. The fel- lows who see nothing good in the repub lican party will not hesitate to line up as democrats. There will be no peoples party nome on the official ballot next year. unless it is put on by petition, and if the peoples party non.inates can didate for President in 1904 the electors in Kansas can't go on the ballot unless by petition. And this Is the end of the stirring days of Singin' Jones of Butler, and Dunkin' of Punkin, and Levi Dum- bauld. and the great mob of shirt-tail rangers, who rose up and threatened to eat up Wall street raw without pepper or salt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 1@HREE young women song writers lCD of Indianapolis-the eldest is only
 22-have had romantic careers more remarkable than any set forth in their songs. Before their marriage their names were Miss Elsie Lowry. Miss Ma rion Barraekman and Miss Maebelle Huff ford.
 These young women live within a stones throw of each other and yet they have never met.
 Each eloped after rapid courtship.
 Each selected for a husband a man younger than herself.
 Each separated from her husband with in a few months.
 In each instance the chief cause of the differences and the separation was the wifes devotion to music.
 It is sad to record that the authors of such sentimental compositions as Baby Asleep" q Love No Other Like My Cabin Home," "She Has Found a Place in Her Heart for Me-" Sleep Baby, Sleep" "The Old Trundle Bed" "He and r and other sentimental and domestic ditties should have personal experiences that belied their songs.
 The only consolation for those who love the romantic is found in the experiences of Mrs Elsie Lowry Phillips, who be- came reconciled to her husband through the same agency that caused them to separate-one of her own songs.
 Her marriage to Howard Phillips was a runaway one in a double sense. Both her parents and his objected to the match because she was but 20 and Harold was only IS. So the young people hired a horse and buggy and started for an oblig- ing justice of the peace. The trap broke down and the horse ran away. For a time 1t seemed that a funeral was more imminent than a wedding, but the pair escaped with slight injuries and carried out their programme.
 Mrs. Phillips proved a better composer than housekeeper, and the boy husband didn't like it. Moreover, he was jealous of his wlfe's devotion to her music, and they separated.
 They really did love each other, and l true to her instinct Mrs Phillips ex pressed her misery and unhappiness in d
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17
Domination or Occupation.

The Monroe doctrine proper relates as well to domination of any sort as to territorial occupation. If an Euro pean country places country's reve- nue under it's own guardianship, as England has done in Egypt, it practi- cally controls that country, and any such domination is distinct and plain violation of the Monroe doctrine.
 The Monroe doctrine was best de- fined by the senate committee on for eign relations when it reported a reso- lution in connection with the trouble that came over the Schomberg line in 1895 and 1896. It said, referring to the Monroe doctrine:
 Tt will assert and maintain that doc trine and those principles and will regard any infringement thereof and partieu- larly any attempt by any European DOW CT to take or acquire any new or ad- ditional territory on the American con- 1 tlnents. or any island adjacent thereto, or any right of sovereignty or domina- 1 tion in the same in any case or instance, as to which the United States shall deem such attempt to be dangerous to it's peace or safety, by or through force, purchase, cession, occupation, pledge, colonization, protectorate, or by control of the ease ment in any canal or ahy other means of transit across the American isthmus,
 .l.1 .fr,t i'm eases of alleged boundary disputes or un- der any other unfounded pretensions, as the manifestation of an unfriendly dis positoin toward the United States and as an interpretation which it would be im- possible In any form for the United States to regard with indifference"
 In this declaration domination of any sort is listed as violation of the Monroe doctrine, and this is exactly what the allies will have to do if the pending effort at mediation by the United States fails. The alleged claims, mostly bogus. of the allies ag- gregate about $25,00O,000, and Venezu- ela simply cannot pay, either at once or in the immediate future any such sum. Domination in some form is 1 therefore inevitable, and domination is fully as objectionable to this country as occupation. The truth is, it is either arbitration or endless trouble trouble so severe and unlimited that no one can name it's scope or limita- tions. If arbitration be declined by Germany, then indeed we may as we'll face the inevitable. The Monroe doc Urine is then to be fought out. It will stand or fall then by the sword, al ways provided we do not skulk out of a fight for the one rule that ren ders two continents free and inde pendent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17
Venezuela and Wall Street

Once before Venezuela gave Wall street a shock. This occurred in the
 third week of December, 1895. It had
 been a troublous year, in the depths of the long spell of hard times. Gold exports had been stopped earlier in the year by combination of strong hands, and prices of securities had risen. Then came more gold exports by a coffee-importing house, and while gold was going out freely, on Tuesday, December IT, came the Olney-Cleve- land message to congress, including the famous remark by President Cleve- land, fully alive to the full responsi- bility incurred, ard keenly realizing all the consequences that may follow.
 England was the offender in those days, and she was seeking more gold territory. The message warned Ael
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17
About Persona


 President Robertson of the North Ala bama Conference college at Owenton re- turned home yesterday from Montgom- cry, where he attended the Methodist conference.
 J. R. Lowry and wife of Montgomery are at the Metropolitan.
 Harry J. English, one of the most prom Inent business men of Atlanta, is at the Hillman.
 Col. L. D. Godfrey of Gainesville was in Birmingham yesterday. He was en route home from Montgomery, where he attended the sessions of the Alabama Methodist conference.
 Alfred M. Tunstall of Greensboro, a leading candidate for speaker of the lower house of the legislature, Is at the Metropolitan. MT. Tunstall expresses himself as quite confident of his elec- tion.
 Col. Richard H. Clarke of Mobile was in Birmingham yesterday. He Is ore of the most prominent lawyers in the state, and is equally as prominent in affairs of state. He said he merely came to Bir- mingham to look after some legal mat ters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17
Admiral Dewey.

"A week before Dewey breakfasted at Manila nobody had any idea that he would add an archipelago to the terri tory of the United States" said a man at the Norris "but great many people believe that something as important may result from his being in Caribbean wa ters just now. Perhaps that is one reason why no such result may come of it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press.
 Coal bills piled on top of Christmas bills get a man in good condition for observing Lent.
 A good many great men take good care to show their greatness by standing al- ways among little men.
 If a man will only let doctors fool with him long enough he can go on being sick for the rest of his life.
 It is a brave man who would get out of bed with the mercury below zero to see if there were burglars downstairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17
Prosperity Everywhere.

w. F. Greaves of this city, general southern freight agent of the Big Four, has returned from a business trip through Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia. He spent several days in New Orleans and a day or two in Atlanta.
 II found prosperity everywhere" said MT. Greaves, "and traffic from my point of view could not have been better. New
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

The Kaiser's sincerely in Venezuela will be tested by the pending arbitra- tion proposition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

It now appears that MT. Barrett was persona non grata to Japan and could not become our minister to that coun- try, anyway. He had talked too much with his mouth He had said the Fil- ipinos were as intelligent as the Jap anese
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

Justice Shiras, who swallowed him self in the income tax case, is about to resign. The quicker the better.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

French sardines are becoming scarce, but American herrings are holding out bravely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

Apostle Smoot is giving tine puTists something to talk about, as if he would be the only practical polygamist in congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

In 70 years Venezuela has had 104 revolutions, but she has not in all that experience struck anything so solid as her present foes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

Elder Shoots election to the senate would require Utah to be admitted twice. if he is to be seated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

Admiral Crunshell may settle the entire matter by putting his ship right into the Andes. He is down that way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

Judge Feagin should work his con. eealed-weapon act for all 1t is worth in the Christmas season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

The baseball magnates were mag netic and save enough to attract peace and invite fast ball.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

orleans is growing steadily and Ia coming to be more and more a great transporta- ton center.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

President Castro begins to think a cyclone has struck him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

If Mir Dewey should eat a hasty breakfast, the allies should double their picket line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

Mascagni knows now where to look for villains for his future operas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

All baseball wars involve a great deal of preliminary sassing before they are settled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

Christmas whisky is beginning to produce it's usual crop of homicides.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

The laziness microbe has been de- tected even among the paragraphers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

Dr. Lorenz is changing the fashions in surgery. More power to his won derful arm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

All books are doing well nowadays, except check books, which are slightly overworked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

Miss Margaret Carnegie aged 10, is the proprietress of the finest house in the land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

Tho Mad Mullah is now reading his own obituaries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-17

A card catalogue of breakfast foods is much needed.