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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05
HELLol WILL you MARRY ME-?
courtshlp and Proposal BY Telephone
Results In Marriage.

Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.
New York, September 1.-After a court
ship by telephone Harry Ellis, night
manager of the Brooklyn office of the
New York and New Jersey Telephone
company, and Miss Gertrude Donovan.
daughter of a wealthy retired contractor
of Brooklyn. were married at the Ellis
residence, 115 Suydam street.
Ellis was called up late one evening
by Miss Donovan. who told him over
the phone that her father was i'll and
asked him to notify a certain physician
Immediately. This happened several
times, and at last the two knew each
others voices.
Some time later Ellis attended ball
and there was introduced to a Miss
Donovan, who he quickly discovered was
the young woman Of the telephone. He
obtained permission to call on her and
made several visits. but his work made
calling often difficult, and he would fro
quently pay his respects over the wire
as of old.
Ellis decided he would ask Miss Dono.
van to marry him, and obtained a leave
of absence for one night set ont for
the Donovan residence. On the wav his
courage failed him. and after walking
several times around the block in which
the Donovan residence stood he went in
to telephone booth and rang UP the
young woman's house
Miss Donovan answered the call. After
much spluttering and hesitation Ellis
finally managed to make It clear that
ne was making a proposal of marriage.
"Tll say yes if you come down to
the house and ask me-" was the an
swer.
1t is matter of credible report that
the proprietors of the little telephone
booth were amazed to see a young man
spring out of the booth. throw down some
change and dash at full speed up the
street. That was about year ago. The
Rev. DR.. Stole performed the ceremony
yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05
BECOMING MORE COMPLICATED
Situation In Republic % sAaytl Grow
Ing Worses

Kingston, Jamaica, September 9-Let-
ters received from Hayti. dated Septem-
Der 1, say that the situation in that re-
public is becoming more complicated. In
the chamber of deputies. as now cor
stituted, NJ. Pierre, one Of the candidates
for the Presidency, has majority over
his rival. M. Fouchard, while M. Firmirs'
revolutionary party is making Roadway
in the field. No settlement of the difficult
ties in sight, business is entirely suspend
I'd in the chief towns, and the public en-
ployes are leaving their work because
they have not been paid since General
Sam resigned the Presidency and left the
country.
According TO these advices those who
are guilty of burning the town of Petit
Goave have sought refuge on the Island
of CURACAO, and are bound for Jamaica.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05

crop. Reports from that great state
are very conflicting. and estimates of
the crop vary even more than a mil
lion bales.
It Is plain at any rate that the crop
is below the worlds full consumption,
and that the price will not fall below
eight cents. On September 1 the
worlds visible supply was less by
10000 bales than it was one year
before, and the crop outturn had been
nearly 100000 bales. If the pres
ent crop be but 1O,5OO,O0O bales there
will be no surplus of cotton, and pres
ent prices should be fully maintained.
The size of the new crop will remain
in dispute as all previous crops have
been, and the seesawing of prices will
no doubt go on, but producers should
not be disturbed by them. They are
entitled to eight cents, and they should
not sell below that price.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05
A SECOND MARY MAcLANE.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Another Mary MacLane person has
turned up. She is Ida Monroe of New
York City. Except that Ida writes in
poetry and Mary in prose. they are as
like as two peas, but Ida is prosaic
enough to write her poems "by the
kitchen fire on grocery bags that I cut
up" She has the same self-conscious-
ness coc>-sureness of genius as Mary.
She says: Il have the true gift of pa
thos. 1t doesn't matter where 1 am. my
thoughts are lovely, tender, divine.'' The
effects of genius upon Ida are the same
as those Mary has to endure: when
write one of my poems 1 am swept away.
cannot eat Really, am not well nour-
ished, feel so deeply. Sometimes | am
on the verge of nervous prostration."
After all these naive assurances of her
genius she lets us into another secret of
her soul. She says: Passion is my
forte. Oh. l have suffered. I cannot
trust my man."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Mosquitoes.

while there have probably been as
many mosquitoes In Birmingham this
year as usual. they have been distributed
in an unusual way" said an old citizen.
These annoying little visitors have
been more numerous IN the business sec
ton of the city than ever before. In
many offices and stores they have
swarmed every day since June, and just
now they seem to be more troublesome
than ever. whereas, in dwelling houses
they have been conspicuous by their alb
sence.
'I have not seen a mosquito bar or
heard of one being in use this summer,
and I take this to mean that premises
have been kept in better condition than
formerly; that they have been free from
stagnant water"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05
TALES OF THE SHAH.

From the Chicago News.
The present tour of the Shah, Muzzafer-
edDin, In Europe is the NTH mace by o
sovereign of Persia. The first was In 1873.
when a Shah journeyed through The con-
tinent in superb style, spending S10,000,000
during his six months tour. In England
a wing CT buckingham palace was set
apart for the august visitor and his nu-
merous suite. Some curious Incidents
marked his ctay. The palace would have
witnessed the execution of five Persian
courtiers for trihing breach of etiquette
had not the Shah been imperatively i'm
formed that such an event could not be
allowed IN England. His appearances in
society yielded some embarrassing mo-
ments, as, for instance, when he calmly
suggested to a beautiful English countess
that she should join his harem, and Of
fered $4,000 SIS compensation to her hus-
band
Muzzafer-e6-Din is rather fine looking,
with strongly marked features and big
mustache. He is a great shot. On one oc-
casion a copper coin was thrown into the
His other hobbies are pilot ography, teleg-
raphy, cycling and riding in a swift au-
tomobile. His strongest trait is obstinacy.
When half way to Vienna he declared he
would take a rest before resuming his
journey. 1t was no use telling him the
Emperor was waiting for him at the sta
ton. What is the telegraph for?" he
asked. He has a globe of the world made
Of seventy-five pounds Of pure gold.
studded with 51,S66 gems. Persia is made
Of turquolses, England of Diamonds, In
dia of amethysts, Africa of rubies and the
sea of emeralds. 1t is vamed at $3.50
900. His throne is a wonderful work of
art and it is valued at s25,OOO.0OO.
The fate of the court poet laureate in
the time OF the present Shahs father
was not to be envied. On one occasion the
Shan lead to him one of his own poems,
and asked for his opinion. Even If 1 de-
serve your majesty's anger" said the
candid poet, II must say that it is any
thing but poetry" The Shah, feeling in
suited, cried out to those who waited on
him: Take this donkey TO the stable"
After little while, becoming calmer, he
tried the poet once more. this time with
fresh set of verses When he had fin
away. Where are you going?" asked the
Shah. ITO the stable, your majesty
was the reply of the poet. This time the
Shah enjoyed the joke and the poet was
forgiven.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05

n FITHIN the broad confines of the
" United States there are many
- but not all shades and varieties
WINS L. Moore, in Washington Times.
of climate. One of the questions most
frequently asked the weather bureau is,
where shall I find a climate possessing
both dryness and equability of tempera-
ture?"
To this inerrogatory reply must be
made that the nearest approach to the
ideal climate in the United States. as re-
CARDS equabllity Of temperature and alb
sence of moisture, will be found in the
southwest where all shades of dryness.
from rainfall sufficient for agriculture
to the aridity of the desert. may be found.
The temperature is not equable in the
sense of having an extremely small daily
range but, on the ot.--r hand, II possesses
the quality of uniformity in a greater
degree than will generally be found else
where except on the seacost.
The most equable temperature on the
globe will be found on the high tablelands
and plateaus of the tropics Santa Fe
de Bogota In the United States of Co
lombia has an average temperature of
about 50 degree for all months of the
year. and the range for the entire year
is less than is often experienced in a
single day in these ATTITUDES
But while the ideal temperature may be
found on the higher elevations of the
tropics. the rainfall is much greater and
more continuous than in this country
The rainfall of the great southwest
varies with location. Less than 200 miles
from the Colorado desert where the
rainfall Is practically nil, places NAV be
found whose annual average rainfall Is
as great or greater than any point in
the middle states of the east. General
ly speaking. however, the greater nor
ton is dry, using that term as indicat-
ing a rainfall considerably less than
twenty inches per annum on the average
The mountainous portions of Arizona
and California. have an annual rainfall
ranging from twenty to fifty inches. de-
pending somewhat upon the elevation and
geographic position, while the lowland
portions and the plateau especially east
of the Sierras. have a rainfall both
small in amount and variable In char
acter.
The temperature of a place depends
chiefly upon three conditions: Latitude,
elevation, and continguity to large bodies
of water.
At sea level in the tropics extreme
conditions of heat and moisture so com
bine as to produce very great physical
discomfort. But even under the equator
1t Is possible to escape the tropical heat
of lowlands by ascending from 1000 TO
5000 feet, as can be done in either Cuba
or Porto Rico.
In the economy of nature there is a GER
tain limit beyond which tho two ex-
tremes, dryness and equability of temper
allure, cannot co-exist; thus we may find
region so deficient in moisture as to sat
isfy the requirements of the case. but
the very lack Of moisture is condition
that facilitate s radiation and thus con-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05
Price of Cotton.

The commissioners of agriculture
who recently met at Nashville estimate
the new cotton crop at 9,719, 1874 bales.
This may be regarded as the mini.
mum. The maximum estimate is H..
100000 bales. If we split the differ
ence we have 10,550,000 bales, as COM
pared with a crop in ,19O1-02 of TO-
100000 bales.
1t is very difficult to estimate the
new crop. because it is very spotted
rs a whole. 1t is good in some states,
and poor in others, and in dispute in
i exas. Not until the Texas outturn
Is to some extent determined can a
definite idea be formed of the general
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05

@. W. Ryan. R. C. Ingram, C. c. John
son. l. A. smith. J. F. oeddie. J. n. lid
more. E. F. Wilson, r. 7. Harris and ].
e. Mayfeld.
S. B. Metz of Atlanta is at the Metro
poiitan.
CASTOR Scott of Montgomery Is at the
Metropolitan.
President John V. Smith of the Ala
bama railroad commission is at the Met
ropolitan.
A. P. Smith Of Eutaw is at the Metro
politan.
E. P. Wilson of st. Stephens is at the
Metropolitan.
w. C. Tunstan of Greensboro is regis
tered at the Metropolitan.
Congressman S. ]. Bowie of the Fourth
district is IN Birmingham enroute home
from Montgomery where he attended the
meeting of the democratic state commit
tee. Mr.. Bowie has just been honored
with a denomination for a second term
in congress. with opposition and the
democrats of the Fourth district gave
him a large majority of the qualified
votes. Mr.. Bowie will proceed to An
niston this morning.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05
PRODUCTS OF THE JOKE MILL.

New York Letter in the Plttsburg Dis
patch.
Rogers Brothers new fall line of jokes
arc out, and elevator men. barkeepers
and walters are repeating them to the
public. Here are some of the best: How
do they serve Holsters at Shanfey'sr
''They TIN ow them out" A girl goes into
store to buy garters. "What kind p"
Rubber" I'D loose my job if did" 81
would rather be bunkoed on Broadway
than make money in any other town"
"A man wants a lot of sand to go up In
a balloon, but he does not need 1t to
come down." THE sun is shining In Lon
don at midnight" IF the sun ever shona
on Broadway at midnight we'd all be
In jail" why did you ask me to stand
in front of the mirro or when you gave me
80 this afternoon?' Because 4 wanted to
see myself giving it to you" do You
know ping-pong?' Sure. He washes my
shirts"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05
These are also labor days.
sPoILs ZOE THE NATIVES.

From the San Francisco Call.
Persons who are interested in the
scholar in politics. will be panied to
learn from he Boston Globe that the
beautiful rose and orange tints that beau-
tilted the dawn Of Nj. Winston Church.
Il's political aspirations in New Hamp-
shire have been a bit duiled by the hatch
ing in of some few streaks of drab set
adrift on the political sky over that part
of Cornish known as the flats" It seems
the dwellers in the fats look upon the
famous author as a carpet-bagger ana
are in favor OF reserving all offices for
natives.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
How strongly men advocate self-ab-
negation in others?
How tenderly women regard the cloth
ing of children?
How many men think ii smart to say
ill-mannered things?
How forcible a man can become in dis
cussing a trifling affair?
How effectually a woman can be crush
ed by dignified silence?
How many women increase In import
ance after their marriage?
How many women take even friendly
criticism as personal insult?
How easily a man can fish up an ex-
cuse for making a blunder?
How hard a man will struggle to Sc
cure something for which he has no
need?
How women like to make 1t appear they
contract big bills for wearing apparel?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05
WORLDS YIELD OF GRAIN.
Wheat Crop In United States Is EstI
mated at 646, 100000 Bushels.

Budapest September 4.-The Hungarian
ministry of agriculture estimates the
worlds yield of grain this year as fol-
lows:
Wheat, 1905, $4,000 bushels; rye. 1872
o4o,0OO bushels; barley, LA, 6s0,00O bushels;
oats, 1904. 10000 bushels; corn. 2,97S, $780,
600 bushels.
The European wheat crop is estimated
to give an increase of 1913, 120, 900 bushels
over the crop of 1901; a decrease of 1885,
100000 bushels is expected In the Eu-
ropean corn crop.
The wheat crop of the United States
is estimated at Gas. 100000 bushels, with
a surplus OF 21O,16O,0OO bushels.
The Canadian wheat crop is estimated
at 93,720,000 bushels. with a surplus Of
29S20,o00 bushels
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05
TO ALTHEA FROM PRISON.

BY Colonel Lovelace.
When Love without unconfined wings
Hovers within my gates,
And my divine Althea brings
To whisper at my crates;
When | lie tangled in her hair
And fettered with her eye,
The birds that wanton in the afr
Know no such liberty.
When flowing cups pass swiftly round
With no allaying Thames,
Our careless heads with roses crowned
Our hearts with loyal flames:
When thirsty grief in wine we steep,
When healths and draughts go free
Fishes that tipple in the deep
Know no such liberty.
Stone walls do not prison make,
Nor iron bars cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for hermitage:
If l have freedom in my love
And in my soul am free;
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such libertv~
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05
NEAREST APPROACH IN
u. S. TO IDEAL CLIMATE

tributes to great extremes Of tempera-
ture.
Regions may be found as On the Lower
Nile, where there is a lack of rainfall
coupled with a high and moderately uni
form temperature. The mean winter tenn
perature CT Cairo, Egypt, is So degrees:
a range from winter to summer of p
degrees. The mean winter temperature Of
Phoenix, Ariz.. is 50 degrees; mean sum-
.ner temperature 81 degrees; a range of
80 degrees. It Is by no means difficult to
find a counterpart of the fat-famed
Egyptian climate in the great southwest.
The 1ryness Of the air and the clearness
of the sky are the conditions upon which
daily ranges CT temperature depend; the
greater these, the greater the range of
temperature from day to night. While a
high summer temperature is Characters
tic of the southwest, 1t is a fact long
known to residents Of that section and
somewhat inlperfectly realized IN other
portions of the country that the sensa-
ton of heat rs experienced by animal life
is not accurately measured by the ordin-
airy thermometer. The sensation of tenn
perature which we usually refer to the
condition of the atmosphere depends not
only on the temperature or the air, but
also on its dryness, the velocity of the
wind and other circumstances The hui
man organism when perspiring freely
evaporates the moisture on its surface
and thus lowers its temperature. THE
meteorological instrument that registers
the temperature Of evaporation and thus
in a great measure the heat felt by the
human body, is the wet bulb thermome-
ter The latter as indicated by its name
is simply an ordinary mecuriai ther-
mometer whose bulb is wetted with
water at the time of observation.
The plains just east of the Rocky
Mountains are uniformly heated under
the isolation of summer to an average
of S. degrees on the northern boundary,
and about so degrees on the gulf coast.
The northern portion OF this vast ex-
tent OF country is, moreover, in the path
of atmosphere disturbances that pass
from west to east over our northern
boundaries, thus causing an indraught
of warm, moist air from lower ATTITUDES.
Again, the distribution of atmospheric
pressure over the eastern tWo-thirds OF
the United States is at times such as
to cause a more or less complete stag
nation of the generally eastward drift
of the air; the surface of the ground
warns up under intense insulation and
loses but little heat by radiation at
night; the winds are light southerly and
southeasterly and there Is an absence
of vertical interchange between the warm
surface air and the cooler air aloft. Such
conditions sometimes extend over the
entire Mississippi valley and eastward to
the Atlantic seaboard. On the other hand
while 1t is possible for a heated term
to prevail over the arid regions by day,
the relatively great radiation by night
lowers the temperature to an endurable
degree and there is but little bodily dis
comfort. The heat of the daytime more
over, is borne without distress by reason
of the great dryness of the air.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05
MAKE 1T NATIONAL

From the Charleston News and. Courier.
The Birmingham Age-Herald notes with
interest that a Missouri editor. who
threatened to write and print an article
entltled Hell and Who Will Be There"
has been warned by the entire town
against the publiction of libeIlous matter.
1t might be as WELL on the whole, to
make the warning national in its scope.
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Posted There

From the Philadelphia Times.
reacher-Now, then. Tommy. can Won
tell me the distance between Pittsburx
and Philadelphia?
Tommy-Oh, Pittsburg' seat the top an
de Phillies is near oe bottom. Pittsburg's
got de pennant cinched fur sure.
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have merely stepped into the corridor.
This is the time when the second hat
comes into use. 1t is slipped from the
inside pocket and worn during the oper-
alton of getting the drink. If the chief
of the division happens to inquire what
has become of the absent clerk one of
his colleagues will casually remark,
why, he must be around somewhere;
his hat is hanging there"
The secretary is said to have several
of the two hat men spotted, and is
about to issue a circular to the effect
that 1t will be better for the employees
to spend their money for other things
than an abundant supply of hats in
which to conceal their shortcomings
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05
Tariff and Trusts for Profit.

The democratic campaign book, a
neat volume of 3s4 pages, just issued.
should be in the hands of every pa
triot. For it shows the Dingley tariff
in actual and full operation. 1t con-
tains a list of 2S7 industrial trusts.
206 of which are protected and pro-
NOTED by the Dingley tariff. The prod
ucts of the remaining 81 are on the
tariff list, but they do not wholly de-
pend upon the Dingley device for
profits. The proportion of tariff trusts
is u per cent.
The campaign book shows in figures
secured from exporters what these
trusts are doing to the home consumer
at time when living expenses have
been increased 40 per cent, and also
what they sell to foreigners for. PRO
tected," says the campaign book, from
out
The Remington and other typewriters
cost 500 in this country; $55 to SOS
in other lands. Galvanized wire rope
at home sells at $3.50 per 100 feet; to
other countries at ~ cents. Primed
shells for use in guns cost at home
$1.53 per 1000; the foreigner gets
them at " cents The home price of
borax is TIA cents per pound; the ex-
port price is "a cents. Wire nails are
sold at home at $2.O5 per 100 lbs; the
export price is $1.30. The sewing
machine that is sold at home for $25
goes to the foreigner at $17.4S. Fenc-
ing wire costs the home farmer $500
per 100 lbs; put the Russian farmer
gets it at s1.37. Bicycle playing cards
are sold at home at $2565 per gross
the export price is S1235. We need
not quote further. Pianos, fruit
presses, axle greases, harness snaps
powder, rabes, sad irons, tin plates
and host of other articles in every
day use are in the lists presented IL
the Campaign Book, and if one de
sires to know just what the Dingley
tariff is he shOuld nronura a conv of n
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05

General Gobin's maneuvers in Penn
sylvania are attracting more attention
than Rear Admiral Higginson's.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05

The Boer generals who are writing
books should consecrate one chapter at
least to the American mule.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05

Miss Stone should send word in ad-
ynace to the brigands that there is
no more ransom money in sight.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05

The Coal Barons are trying to climb
up the toboggan slide, but are finding
it a difficult piece of business. Moral:
Keep off the slide.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05

The first case on the calendar of The
Hague peace court is now being tried
1t is entitled The United States versus
Mexico, and it involves an old relig-
ious fund.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05

President John Hay it would have
been by the grace of a trolley motor
man who was running against time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05

Philadelphia is recovering from the
first shock it received when the first
Sunday Public Leoger" appeared.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05

The author of Little Brooches" and
Jim Bledsoe" grazed the White House
very close on Wednesday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05

Senator Fairbanks is up against a
possible democratic majority in In
diana this fall.