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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-17
NEWSPAPER ciHcULAToRs MEET
Representatives of Many Southern
Newspapers In Atlanta.

Atlanta July 1.-THE Southern Asso-
citation of Newspaper CircuIators was
formally organized at a meeting of cir
culation managers of Southern newspa-
pers held here today. Representatives
of the circulation department of papers
in many sections of the South were
present w. b. Roberts, formerly of the
Atlanta Constitution. was made temper
ary chairman and w. A. Scott of the
Montgomery Advertiser temporary Sec
rotary.
Officers of the association were elected
as follows:
President-C. E. Everett, News-Demo-
crat, Parucah, Ky.
First Vice Presidential. H. Ahrens,
Picayune, New Orleans.
Second Vice President-W W. Moore,
Citizen, Asheville N. c..
cretary-Treasurer-W. A. Scott, Adj
vertiser, Montgomery, Ala.
The officers are members of the board
of directors and the other five directors
are w. w Holland. Journal, Spartan
burg. s. c.; J. L. Erwin, Constitution,
Atlanta; j T. Simmons, Journal Attain
ia: j. A. Hardman, Tennessee, and
Desha Breckenridge, Herald, Lexington,
Ky.
Among others in attendance on the
meeting were Porter d. McKillip of the
Milwaukee Sentinel, and e. II. Riddle
of Adrian, Mich.
The meeting will continue tomorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-17

on the latter-day discoveries Of science
have really only beer means to an END.
It win perhaps surprise you to hear that
/ do not take especial pride in having
written the motor car. the submarine
boat and the navigable airship before
they became actual realities
when I wrote about them as realities
these things We're half discoveries al
ready. I simply made fiction. out OF
what became Interior fact, and my object
In 50 doing was not to prophesy, but to
spread a knowledge of geography among
the young in as interesting a drass as
could compose. Every single geographical
fact and every scientific one in every book
that I have ever written has been looked
up with care and is scrupulously cor
rect. If, for instance. I had not wished
TO point the fact that a Journey round
the world entailed the apparent loss Of
whole day my Round the World In
Eighty Days would never have been
written. And The Mysterious Island
owed its inception to my wish to tell the
worlds boys something about the Won
ders of The Pacific
MY eighty-fourth book, which has Just
been published, is a description of the
home life of the Missing Link, as I be-
heve the life of that queer bond between
the ape and the man will one day be
found in an African forest in a place
where 1t very likely may be found. for 1t
is one of the few corners of the world
which has not yet been thoroughly ex-
ploredl
Jules Verne is now "a years old. His
hair is now white, but you would never
think to look at his ruddy face and see
his energy that he had been suffering
for years from cataract, as we'll as from
the lameness brought on by his having
been shot in the leg by mailman some
time ago.
81 suppose" he said. Il may consider
my life's work as nearly finished. l am
at work now On my hundredth volume.
and in the nature of things, I doubt
whether I shall ever write another. In
fact, my feeble eyesight prevents me from
doing more than a page or two of it a
day just now. If l want to keep up with
the worlds news as well. Only eighty
four OF my one hundred volumes have
been published so far. and they Will con-
tinue to appear at six months intervals.
so that, of course. ten or twelve of
them are very likely to be posthumous.
I work extremely fast when / am in
health, and If the operation for cata-
ract which I must shortly undergo re-
stores my eyesight for me. as the doctor
hopes, | will / may, after all, go on into
my second century of volumes. For [
am quite untired, and work either at my
books of at the municipal business of
Amiens, is my chief recreation
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-17
coRsETT OPERATED ON.
Former Champion Put Under the Knife
For Cancerous Growth on Tongue.

New York, July 15-The real reason for
James ]. Corbett's refusal to go to San
Francisco for the Fitzsimmons-J effries
fight has just become known. He has had
to undergo an operation for cancerous
growth on his tongue, caused by excessive
smoking. The condition of his tongue
annoyed Corbett considerably in his train
ing, and 1t was decided some time ago
by his physician that the use of the
knife would be necessary. DIR. George
Simmons of this city went to Corbett,s
place, on Long Island, Saturday and
performed the operation. 1t was sue
cessful and Corbett is resting quietly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-17
History in ihe Gull States.

The first number OF the Gulf States
Historical Magazine has been pub
lished, containing 80 pages Of excellent
matter relating to the history of this
section. 1t does not discuss or even
refer to matters of the present time
but 1t does attempt to preserve and
set right matters long out of the public
mind.
Peter j. Hamilton tells the story Of
the beginnings of French settlements
in the Mississippi valley. The Old
Southwest is presented in letter writ
ten in 1909 by Gov John Adair of Ken
lucky to James Madison, with an in,
PRODUCTION by Reuben T. Durrett. Der
nard Ship, the Florida historian
whose volume on De Soto and early
Spanish history are highly considered,
tells us of his long life. He is now in
his eighty-ninth year. John w. DuBose
alone deals with the civil war in a
paper entitled THE Tragedy of the
Commissariat' Mr. Owen puts be-
yond loss the record of Col. Edward
Lacy of the Revolution and of his de-
scendants. The remainder OF the mag
azine is filled with a variety of mat
ter that the future historian will need,
and that the thoughtful reader of to-
day will be glad to see in print.
The magazine is edited by Thomas
M. Owen, who is particularly well
fitted for such work. He is secretary
of the Alabama Historical Society, and
director of the State Department of
Archives and History. The magazine
is to be published bi-monthly, and the
price of subscription is three dollars a
wear. The first number is in excellen,
form. well printed on good paper, with
Uncut edges. Such magazine should
find adequate support throughout the
Gulf States, for these States cannot
afford to let their history be lost either
permanently or to the present genera
ton. The magazine before us offers
an opportunity that this section should
sustain and utilize. This can be done
by becoming subscribers and by lend
ing such other assistance as may lie in
ones hands.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-17
ADMINISTERS SINGING REsuKE.
New York Judge Does Not Like Yer
dict of Jury.

New York. July 16-An extraordinary
scene was Witnessed in the court room
Of Recorder Golf when jury acquitted
Mrs. Lizzie Madaus of killing her hus-
bard, an engraver, with potato knife.
The recorder charged the jury strongly
for conviction, and few believed the de-
ferse could hope for anything better
than Disagreement. Even the prisoner,
who had teen stofcal throughout the trial
cried as The recorder finished his charge.
Mrs. Madaus five cl1i1dten, including
her prison-born infant. were in the court
and the nearby corridor
When the jury returned and the Fore
man announced the verdict, Recorder Golf
said to the prisoner:
Tho ancients had q law whereby in
the case of a very outrageous crime they
would some times permit the criminal to
live that he might suffer the shame of
his crime, which they considered Sc
inhict, and something like this must have
been in the jurys rdnc that they let you
live and look upon the faces OF your chill
dren, the children when you have made
orphans.
The result of this verdict, most extra
ordinary s it IS, even in the face CT your
own testimony, gives you your freedom.
but you will carry with you the knowl-
edge that you have murdered your hus-
band and orpliened your children. You
1ray 60"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-17
Novels to Become Extinct


London.-Jules Verne. the aged novel;
ist whose stories Of the future have so
often come true. has been saying some
particularly interesting things about the
future of romance. as well as about him.
self and his work at the present time. to
correspondent who visited him at his
home in Aniens.
The author of Around the World In
Eighty Days" and, by his own confess
sion. hundred other works. says.
Il do not think there will be any
novels OF romances. at all event in volume
FORM in fifty or a hundred years from
now. They will be supplanted altogether
by the daily newspaper, which has al
ready taken such a grip on the lives of
the progressive nations"
Novels" Verne went on, ARE not nee
essa airy, and even now their merit and
their interest are fast declining As his
torlc records. the world will file its news
papers. Newspaper writer's have learned
TO color everyday events so we'll that to
read them will give pcsterity truer pic
tuIe tnan the historic or descriptive novel
could do, and as for the novel psychology
zeal, that will soon cease to be, ard will
die of hamilton in your own lifetime
Il am second to no living man." con-
tinued the novelist. in my admiration of
the greatest psychologist the world has
ever known-Guy dc Maupassant-and he.
Ike all true geniuses. foresaw the trend
CT human ideas and needs, and wrote
his stories in the smallest possible COM
pass. Each one of De Maupassants soul
studies is concentrated 1ozenge of ply
chology. The Maupassants who delight
the world In years to come will do 80
In tho newspapers Of the day. and not in
Volumes, and they VIII, as you news
paper men express it, crystalize the
Psychology OF the world IN which they
live by writing up the day-to-dav
events. The real psychology of life is in
its news. and more truth-truth with a
big T-ean be gathered from the police
court story the railu ay accident, from
the everyday dofnss Of the crowd, and
from the battles Of the future, than can
be obtained If an attempt is made to
ciothe the psychological moral In a garb
OF fiction
II believe that the fantastic novel Is
on its last legs. The writer of the fu-
ture. even II he peoples Mars. the moon
and other planets, can only do 50 upon
human data. The Moon men will be
human beings In carnival attire, that is
all. One day, perhaps, communication
with the other planets will be possible,
and then you will have, not novels about
/
Mars and the Moon, but your Lunar and
your Marian newspaper correspondents. ]"
"The books" Jules Verne went on, in
which I have published prophecies based
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-17

WEATHER FOR NEWSPAPERS.

From the Boston Post.
A shred little eamin is the Boston news
boy, and, from chance remark : over
heard one make, / fancy VIC would have
gloomy Sundays the year round II he had
anything TO do with the WEATHER.
1t was at the Park street subway en-
trance on a recent Sunday morning. Two
ragamuffins we've calling out their Sun
day editions early as l passed chat way.
The glorious morning promised day of
sunshine, but suddenly there doomed PUP
from the West low hank OF threatening
clouds. As l stood trying to find the cor
rect change for a paper | had bought
from one the other exclaimed to his fell
low:
Hi, look at de clouds comm up, Chin
myl"
"IIuny geef' exclaimed his companion;
Oats greatle
1 couldn't quite understand why these
youngsters should be interested In the
clouds, but | venture6 a guess: You're
afraid it's going to rain said.
Nav, replied the che called Chin
my" 'We'se afraid it amt
This sta teruent only made the mystery
uee per, anu L dSkeu TT SnllgnIFnti1eItl
Its like dis" said "Chimmy," We
makes mere on de Sunday papers den we
duz ON de udders; and when it's nice
day why den everybodywots got de prfca
goes to &c beach er beat rdin'. an dey
dor't read de Sunday papers, see? But
when it looks like rain why den dey stays
at horne an reads de news
he other neNsboy made even finer
distinction of the case.
'Wot makes good Sunday bizness," he
broke in, rs fer d wodder ter look like
rain from daylight till 10 O'Clock, an still
not ram: coz if 1t rams why de peepul
amt cor in out at ALL But If it only
looks Ike rain deys skeer'd ter go way
an dey buys dc Sunday papers an stays
home"
At that moment they both broke away
at the whistle of cuatorne" on the Ire
mont street curb.
So it seems thai Sunday newspaper
sales depends considerably on the condi-
tion OF the weather.
A nswaboy's stand at a street corner is
a nor, valuable asset than is ordinarily
supposed. 1t belongs to the boy by right
of months or years Of his presence there
every moi ming, rain or shine, the year
through It IS an lnwrftten law that no
newsboy shall trespass upon tie selling
corner of another, although he Is free u
build up ousnecs and patronage at any
uncecupied stand. The good will Of one
such news-sclling corner in the ousy part
Of Boston was recently sold by one news
bow to another for $50 cash, and the
buy err counted himself fortunate to get II
at that figure.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-17
TWO LOVERS.

BY George Eliot.
Two lovers by a moss grown spring,
They leaned soft cheeks together theres
Mingled the dark and sunny hair,
And heard the wooing thrushes sing.
o, budding time!
o, loves best primel
Two, welded, from the portal slept;
The bells made happy carolings,
The air was soft as tanning wings,
White petals on the pathway slept.
o, pure eyed brfde
o, tender pride!
Two faces DER cradle bent,
Two hands above the breast were
These pressed each other while they
rocked.
Then watched a life that love had sent.
o, solemn hour!
o, hidden powerl
Two parents by the evening fire;
The red light fell above their knees
ond heads that rose by slow degrees
Like buds upon the lilly spire.
o, patient life!
o, tender strife!
The two still sat together there;
The red light shone about their kneeA
But all the heads, by slow degrees,
Had gone and left that lonely pair.
o. voyage fast!
o. vanished past
The red light shone upon the floor
And made the space between them wide:
They drew their chairs up side by side;
The pale cheeks Joined and said "once
more"
o. memories!
o. past that isI
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-17
Military Enthusiasm.

.'There IS much enthusiasm among the
Young men OF East Lake over the pros
pect of organizing a military company
there" said an East Lake man who In
tends to be enlisted in the company.
1--WE have excellent material ard will
start the new company with pretty full
ranks. Thomas e. Huey, the secretary
of the organization, has already list of
forty-five good men.
"At one time East Lake had the Huey
Gtsrds, and it was one of the best COM
panies in the state. 1t enlisted in the
Urjted States volunteer army for the
srs nish war, but upon returning from
that service was disbanded.
Every community as populous as East
Lake should have a military company.
Military discipline affords the best sort
of schooling for young men, and this fact
alone should keep the ranks full
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-17
Career of a Bandit.

The fugitive Tracy was formerly "a
barber in a small town of Maryland.
He stole there all he could, and left
between two days for the then Wild
West, where he at once entered upon
a career of crime. A series of burglar
les and robberies at length. landed him
in the Oregon penitentiary, from which
be escaped on June 9, along with a
fellow-convict. In escaping they killed
three of their guards, and wounded a
fellow-prisoner Tracy afterwards
killed his associate, and he has ever
since been q hunted man. Besides the
three guards he has killed five men.
He has crossed the State of Oregon,
and nearly crossed the State of Wash
hgton, hoping, no doubt, to enter Can
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-17
Elmer COTTON Goods.

Walker Richardson, a former Southern
man. but now engaged in the cotton bus
mess in New York, has given out an in
terview in Charlotte, N. c. on the cotton
situation.
Speaking of the product of Southern
mills Mr.. Richardson says: Il think
some of the mills had better improve the
goods they are now turning out. Some
of the yarns being sold are rotten, and
when time comes to settle up these mills
will likely be at a disadvantage. This,
however, is due to the class of labor en-
ployed and to the bad management.
TT would take several years for
Southern mill to make money on fine
cloths, for it would require that time to
get the operatives trained sufficiently to
be able to make these goods. Up in New
England mill operatives have been work
ing on these goods for many years. and
YOU might say that the required skill had
become hereditary In some instances, but
just put a Southern mill on fine goods
with the present class of help and it
would be in a hole in a mighty short
time"
Discussing the merger scheme of South
ern mills. Mr.. Richardson expressed it as
his opinion that this could not succeed
Among the objections urged are the ques-
lions of what to do with the mill officers,
the deterioration In the value OF stock,
the fact that the mills can now
get advances of about rs per cent
on their yarns from commission houses,
an6 also the unwil'irgness of the stock
holders to enter such combination and
the complete loss of individuality or per-
sonal interest and authority under a
merger management.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-17
Passing Of the Convention.

The Ninth District Congressional
Committee has called a primary to be
held on August Is, for the purpose of
selecting Congressional nominee and
the members of a new committee. This
is, however, no innovation in this dis
trict, for Mr. Underwood was named
in primary two years ago, as he had
been in previous primaries. He him
self always favored such action in his
district, believing it to be the best and
broadcast method of political action.
So rapidly has this movement spread
that it is scarcely probable that con-
vention or beat meeting of any sort
will be held in the State this year.
The various counties and districts are
hurrying into line, so that the business
of selecting candidates of the party
may be fully accomplished on August
25. County, district and state com
mitteemen will be selected at the same
time, and care should be taken to
name as committeeman progressive
men who have not reactionary conyen-
tion hairs in their heads.
The recent action of the State Com
mittee was historic. It marks the
closing of one era and the inaugura-
ton of another, and Alabama has sig
nalized the event by doing away with
worn-out methods, and the adoption in
their place of direct action by the
people, which is after all pure Demoe-
racY.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-17
HOT WEATHER RULES.

From the New York World.
Hot weather common sense Is again in
order. Fortunately the summer garb of
our people has within the last few years
been adapted to the tropical conditions in
which we must live for two or three
months. Rational people have learned
also to modify their diet and their drink
ing with some regard to the thermome-
ter. Some men who would think 1t a
crazy performance to feed furnace fire
in July do not see the folly of Sticking
their systems with heat-producing red
meats and fiery wines and liquors. A
large part of the suffering and mortalit,
during the heated term is due to error.
of diet. Next to these the rush habit
is to be avoided. Start a little earle,
OF arrive a little late. but don't hurry
in hot weather..
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-17
NEW YORK PALACE FOB HORSES.
One of the Steel Magnates Has Built
a 100000 Stable.

From the New York Herald.
None Of the magnificent stables erected
during the last year. supplementing the
residences of men prominently identified
with the United States Steel corporation,
surpass the one just completed Tor VIII
liam B. Leeds.
Aside from its cost, which Is estimated
at more than 100000. the home for Mr..
Leeds blooded animals is unique in that
the second story. or stable floor proper,
is swung from trusses. thus allowing the
entire space to be devoted to carriage
room without the usual intervening col
ums. The stable is located on a plot
6Ox1OO. at s. and 60 East Eighty-eighth
street.
The building consists of three stories
and a basement. The latter is nine feet
high. the walls being plastered and
painted. While mainly for storage pur-
poses, the basement includes the steam
heating electric and hot water plants.
The hay chute runs from the sidewalk to
the basement, where the hay is slid on
to scales, the weights being recorded
from the story above.
On the first floor, which is finished. in
maple are the masters room, the har-
ness and harness cleaning. rooms, the
broom and scale rooms. the lockers and
the grooms toilet. AT the rear is the
runway finished in maple to the second
story level, and then in cherry to the
third floor ceiling. There are two dumb
walters in the harness rooms, one to
bring the soiled harness down from the
second floor and the, other to take the
cleaned harness upstairs.
There are eight box stalls, twelve or
binary ones and one hospital stall on the
second floor. They are all of iron ana
painted black. The woodwork is of
cherry, including the ceiling. On this
floor, which constitutes the carriage
room proper, are located also the grooms'
sitting room, two feed mixing rooms and
various small compartments.
The coachmsns apartments comprise
the front portion of the third floor. They
are not accessible except by q private
staircase and are complete in every par
ticular. The rear of the top floor COM
pr;ses eight rooms for the grooms.
One of the appointments is the fire
fighting system, with reels and hose COM
plete On every hoor
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-17
ROBBED A BANK.
Fifty people Had No Effect on New
York Thief, Who Got the Money.

New York, July IA sneake theft went
into the office of the Pacific railroad
at $40 Broadway, this city, and although
there were half hundred persons there
at the time he calmly walked out again
taking with him the cashiers money
box containing about $4,000 in checks
and notes and less than 500 In cash.
AS a rule the box is kept in the safe
OF the office, but the cashier had taken
u out and placed it on the desk, intending
to return IL to the safe in a moment.
He left his compartment for a short time
and when he got back the box was gone
and no trace of the thief could be found.
The checks, can, 1t is thought. be readily
cashed as many Of them are for small
amounts. and the cashier has no record
whereby he can stop payment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-17

The new trolley line to Ensley by
way Of the old fair grounds wiz be OPEN
ed by the middle Of August" said Gem
eral Manager George Fl. Davis Of the
Birmingham Railway Light and Power
Company.
The double tracks have been laid but
we have been delayed in getting Stag
for the ballast. The distance between
Birmingham and EnsIey by the new line
is only a little over six miles. The fast
and elegant cars which the company re-
eeived last spring will be run on this
road and the time between the two cities
will be not over twenty minutes, which
will make the schedule time twice as fast
as the one on the old line to Ensley.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-17
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
Great success is the evolution of little
failures.
A man never loves with his reason and
a woman never reasons with her love.
After a man has learned to be managed
by his wife he Is In a fair way to make
a good husband.
The time woman begins to worry for
fear her husband might get III is when he
is absolutely sound and well.
A woman never gets so old that she
will not sneer at the false teeth OF an
other If she feels sure her own won't
fall out