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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
HOW MANY MEALS A DAY?
Theories Without Number as to What
 Should Constitute a Days Fare.

From the Boston Evening Transcript.
 Have you ever taken time to reckon the multiplicity of the theories nowadays with regard to the number of meals that should fill out the days fare and the hours at which they should be eaten? If you have done this the probability is that you emerged from the study in arithmetic convinced that it makes pre- cious little difference what a man is do- ing as long as he Is possessed of a suffi- cient amount of faith in the line he Is fol- lowing. For you can easily call to mind half a dozen of your acquaintances who say that their health has improved 100 per cent since they cancelled their break lasts and took to eating a rather hearty luncheon. And within sound of your voice are as many other persons who de- clare that they never knew what perfect health meant till they cut out the mid day meal altogether, allowing a satisfying breakfast and not too late dinner to cover the amount of food consumed through the day. Then come to your mind the lusty opponents of the theory that five meals a day are none too many to keep the
 
 oyer the robust condition they have WOOL ed and won through clinging to a regimen that allows but one square meal a day.
 And if you feel to take a firm stand for or against any one article of food or drink and are looking for examples to help you to decision, you get quite as much con- fused in an attempt to decide who has the rights of the case with him. One will tell you he cannot drink coffee because it affects him in such and such a way, while another will tell you that he never could get through his days work without its gently stimulating influence, and that he knows it benefits him because he al- ways sleeps like a baby after drinking 1t late at night. Going through the list of things that men eat and drink you will find the same pros and cons apply and 1t becomes fearfully bewildering before you get half through the list. So. if you care to search the records of food causes that medical journals have champloned say for the last century, you will find that what was blest in one decade was de- cried in the next. And then you know you aren't the only one who has almost been swamped by contradictory evidence in the case of the people vs. food When however you get where you are convinc- ed that some great occult moral principle after all only superficial, and then un- dertake to study this principle, and its qualifications, you are bound to have your first real satisfaction from the prob- lem, though you probably will not be able to get off the fence in your cogitations on this aspect of it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
Poultry Farming.

While truck farming has beol de- yeloped on large scale in Alabama within the past few years, this state is far behind other progressive sec tions in it's poultry industry. The Bir- mingham district is an enormous con sumer of food products and draws it's supplies from many states.
 It would be too much to expect per haps, for Alabama to supply Birming- ham with all the chickens and eggs it demands, but there is no reason why the great volume of this class of food should be brought here from Tennes- see, Kentucky, Mississippi Arkansas, Missouri and other states. Alabama does not furnish one-ifth of the eggs and poultry that are consumed during the year in this district And yet there are few industries that pay so well as poultry farming and no southern state is better adapted to this business than Alabama. It requires compara- lively small capital and the results are quick and sure. Like all other farm industries the poultry business has advanced on systematic and scientific lines in recent years. Formerly all the eggs and chickens that came on the market were only incidental to farm work. The poultry yard came under the care of the housewife and the money derived from this source was seldom accounted an asset in farm operations.
 Today, when many farmers engage exclusively in the propagation of poul- try, this business is conducted on a strictly commercial basis. Ten thou sand dollars invested in this industry will, if the henneries receive business like attention, yield a better dividend lhan the same amount invested in a mercantile business in the city.
 The last speech that the great statesman, William E. Gladstone deliv- cred was on the subject of small farm. ing. The occasion was an immense gathering of his rural Friends on the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
About Persons.

F. w. Kellog of Nashville is registered at the Hillman.
 J. c. Hayward of Carbon Hill was one of the Morris arrivals last night.
 Dr. E. NJ, Sellers of Searles is stopping at the Metropolitan
 R. M. Wood and William Weller of New York were among the Hillman's arrivals last night.
 R. A. Dunlap of Gadsden and w. A. McCalla of Tuscaloosa are at the Morris F. H. Sullivan of Nashville was one of the St. Nicholas late arrivals last night J. E. Wilkerson of Selma and w. E. Pitts of Montgomery are registered at the Metropolitan.
 Chancellor R. B. Kelly stopped at the Florence last night en route from Chero-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Varied Industries.

There were some twenty directors and officers at a Commercial club meeting this afternoon," remarked citizen last night, and among that number four gentlemen subscribed 5000 each to new industrial plant and two others put their names down for $500 each. If in so small a gathering so much can be raised 1t ought to require but day or two to raise the requisite of sl2.OOO to insure this man ufaeturing concern for Birmingham with a capital of s25,0OO.
 "The significance of this subscription lies not so much in the fact as in the idea behind the fact. It was put forward that the community itself must foster a move ment toward small industries that will vary our product and themselves grow in- to great plants. While this policy has never been absent from the hearts and minds of many of our enterprising citi- zens, yet during the boom period there was a too general disposition to neglect the small matters and play for big things. With the coming of the inevitable Hull in the Notation of great schemes, comes the sober realization that we need not to stand still because there may be trouble in some other parts of the country We must forge ahead in Birmingham and can do it and the way is plain. Encour- age and help and foster such enterprises as 1t is within the scope of our means to establish
 Fortunately for Birmingham during the flush period through which we have
 
 terprising and public spirited men who have made their fortunes. The very class of men who are disposed to public effort and to push the community, are able to both give and subscribe. They are not going to allow Birmingham to stand still much less go backward. We are, indeed, going forward on surer and sounder lines than ever"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

kee county, where he has been holding court, to his home at Anniston. The Judge is being prominently mentioned as candidate for the supreme bench. He has made an excellent record as chan cellor, and has cleared the dockets in sev- erai of the counties of his division during his term. Several county papers in his division has already come out edltorially in favor of hls nomination.
 Lyman Ward of Camp Hill president of the Industrial school for white boys, is at the Hillman. The industrial school has made wonderful strides during Mir. Wards administration. He has just return- ed from Washington, where he has been to ask congress to assist his school by appropriation.
 Allen Northington and W. P. Fogarty of New Decatur are stopping at the Hill man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
From the New York World.


 MA OPTION was king in our foreign S trade last mont |. The govern O ment statistics just published show that October exports of the staple exceeded $6O, 900 in value, the largest on record with the exception of the corre- spending month three years ago.
 Shipments long held in check by the high prices went forward with a rush, which explains the sudden flood of bills on European purchasers which caused the recent decline in the exchanges and made possible the importation of gold.
 Compared with October of last year, the value of cotton exports increased SIS 900. OOO Exports of breadstuffs decreased about 8, GOO, GOO, but this is made up by gains in other staple products, so that. taking cotton, breadstuffs, provisions and mineral oils in bulk, the increase is near ly s1S,000, OO0
 As the preliminary report of the de- partment of commerce exhibits gain of less than $17,000O0O in the total exports of the month it would seem that all ex- ports of other commodities, including those cleassed as manufactures, must have decreased somewhat as compared with the corresponding month of last year. The recent reduction in the price of steel and iron. however, should stimu- late exports of these in the immediate future.
 An evidence of the contraction follow ing the boom is found in the fact that imports for the month-which have large | ly consisted of raw materials for domes- tic industry-are about s5.500.0O0 smaller in value than those of October, 1902. Thus the excess of exports over imports for the month is swollen to SIS, GOO, 600, as com to rejoice the hearts of all who believe in "a favorable trade balance" as an un- failing sign of prosperity.
 The clamor of MT. Chamberlain and other excitables gentlemen abroad that Europe was being made "a dumping ground for American manufactures finds little basis in the returns of our foreign trade for the completed ten months of the current year. While our exports fall only sIs,OOOOoo short of those for the corre- spending period of two years ago and compared with the same ten months or last year show the handsome gain of s62,- 600 OO0 nearly $50, 900 of this is repre- sented by increased shipments of three products-breadstuffs cotton and petro- leum. What may be done in the way of swelling our exports of manufactures now that wages and prices are being re- duced remains to be seen.
 ! With a merchandise balance of 309 mil 1 lions for the ten months offset by only slight importations of gold this country should be in a position to draw more of Che yellow metal from Europe if needed | to avert serious monetary stringency. | For several years while our exports of domestic products were breaking all rec ords they were largely paid for with American securities that had been held abroad for investment, and the foreign l sellers got banner prices for them. for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
THE PILLAR OF THE CLOUD.

By John Henry Newman. Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling
 gloom
 Lead Thou Me on, The night is dark, and I am far from
 home
 Lead Thou me on Keep Thou my feet; do not ask to see The distant scene,-one step enough for
 me. I was not ever thus. nor pray'd that
 Thou shouldst lead me on. lov'd to choose and see my path; but
 now
 Lead Thou me on! I lov'd the garsh day. and, spite of
 fears, Pride ruld my will: remember not past
 years. So long Thy power hath bless'd me. sure
 it still
 Will lead me on, Der moor and fen, Der crag and tor
 rent till
 The night is gone; And with the morn those angel faces
 smile Which I have lov'd long since. and lost
 awhile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
COTTON KING IN FOREIGN
 TRADE OF THE PAST MONTH

Wall street was booming The volume of our securities held abroad is now com- paratively small, and it would seem that our continued heavy exports of merchant disc must have created credits against which we can draw gold
 The posture of affairs in Europe, how ever is such that the great financial in- stitutions are unwilling to part with the yellow metal and it is in such demand abroad that only urgent need and high interest rates here will make it profitable to bring 1t over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

grounds of Hawarden castle. In dis eussing the resources of England he pointed out the great gain that would come to the nation as we'll as to indi- yiduals, if more attention were given to the dairy and the poultry yard. He cited Holland and France as model countries in this respect and urged the English people to initiate their thrifty neighbors. MT Gladstones remarks would have applied here as well as in Great Britain Farmers associations in the different countes of Alabama should take up ths question in a prac- tical way and obtain results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
Mems Discarded Straw Hats.

From the New York Telegraph.
 We would advise every wife not to per- init her husband to throw into the ash barrel or give the janitor the straw hat which is shed about this time. It can be transformed into a tidy workbasket by carrying out the following instructions: Get some watered (nothing stronger) silk and paste the hat entirely with it. Then paste piece of pasteboard over the bot tom of it to close up the bowl. After this is done take a sharp knife and cut off the top of the hat, but not until you have fastened a hinge at one end Of 1t. This will serve as dainty cover, ana the effect will be a marvellous one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
Y. M. c. A. Work.

"rhe Young Mems Christian Association Is doing good work in it's quarters on Twentieth street." said J. S. Bridges, ''and the board of directors will soon re- sume the canvass for funds. A sub stantial two-story gymnasium building of brick has been designed for the associa- ton. It is to cost about $20. GOO and we hope to begin work on it next month. The membership of the association is in- creasing steadily and the young mems meetings on Sunday afternoons are well attended"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
Methodist Conference.

Methodist ministers and lay delegates are looking forward with great interest to the meeting of North Alabama confer ence at Tuscumbia next week. Method- ism continues to grow steadily In the United States and 1t is wonderfully strong in Alabama.
 General conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. South, will be held in Birmingham in May. l9O6 The time seems a little far off but it will roll round quick ly and when that great body assemblies it will bring together many of the intel leetual giants of the south
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 When a mans deception seem to fool his wife it is because she wants them to-.
 A woman gets her first idea that a man is reckessly brave because he slaves himself with a shap razor
 The reason bachelors like to be in love with married women is they can do It without having to marry them.
 When two men want to marry the same girl she can have lots of fun fooling each about the other, while she is get ting ready to marry somebody else.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
A BIT OF A LAUGH
Never Touched Him.

From the Kennebec Journal
 T shall get divorce" cried the angry wife. her eyes flashing fire. "Henceforth I shall be freet'
 Well l haven't any kick coming" calmly rejoined the husband. 'Itll be I tell you those"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
Formal, Indeed.

From the New York Times
 She-The governments legislators seem to be formal men.
 He-How's that?
 She Why, they will never notice a bill until it has been introduced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

Birmingham has had surfeit of mediocre shows for the past two weeks. Yet such attractions draw large houses and that is what the man. agers are after.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

If you want to break into Washing ton society you must have press agent One can be secured without difficulty and eXtraneous moss can be removed from the back with celerity and dispatch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

Panama evidently intends to keep in the good graces of his holiness Pope Plus X.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
Excursion Trains.

1 The merchants of Birmingham, by concerted action, will doubtless be able to induce the railroad companies to give excursion rates to this city at monthly intervals. The railroads are operated on business principles and their first object is and should be, to make the investment of the stock holder profitable.
 If excursion rates were unprofitable to the railroad companies they would not be expected to grant the petition of the merchants. But in view of the fact that Birmingham is an uncom- monly attractive shopping center peri odical excursions, well advertised, would pay from the start, for a great number of people would come here who seldom come now
 Every new train into Birmingham has proved profitable to the railroads. NHG lHt lntlCudulS dShtu tut Aid- bama Great Southern to extend the schedule of the Selma-Akron train from Tuscaloosa to this city the off cals were in doubt as to the amount of patronage it would receive. But they agreed to try the experiment. The Selma-Akron train has been running into Birmingham for a year or more. The people of Marion, Greensboro and the stations between who desired to trade here were accommodated, the merchants were benefited and the railroad lost nothing by it's enterprise. The train pays. And so it has been with all such experiments, and so it would be with the monthly excursions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
Classified.
From Life.

Printer-Where shall I put this news from the White House?
 Editor-In the sporting column.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
Beyond His Means.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
 T think we had better investigate the cashiers accounts" said the bank pres ident
 Why sop asked the vice president.
 Wy wife tells me she saw his wife buy ing things at a bargain sale yesterday"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

The republican steering committee Senator Morgan would even be more powerful when removed from the chairmanship of the canal committee than if allowed to remain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

According to the latest reports the Chicago street railway strike is still striking,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

Panama affairs are important, it is true, but then there is the Press club banquet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

Men may come and men may go, but the mechanical cotton picker has not yet arrived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

It is now about time for MT. Carne- gie to establish another library some where.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

N0A ROVER CLEVELAND has violat- N ed the game laws of Virginia
 and has thus gotten himself named on warrant. It seems that all non-residents are required to pay a li- cense of $1O for the privilege of hunting and this the Cleveland party neglected to do when they began their quest in Queen Anne county on the preserves of the Back Bay Cunning club. It is not stated whether MT. Cleveland and his friends wilfnlly violated the law or not but in view of the fact that they have had such poor luck they no doubt consider the price rather exorbitant. In fact the "hoo- doc has been so pronounced that Mrs Cleveland will probably not receive the usual basket of game which precedes the former Presidents homecoming. It is to be hoped that MT. Cleveland's prowess is not suffering a decline, for it would make the papers very lonesome if he ceased to hunt and fish. MT. Cleveland and MT. Roosevelt are the nations two mighty Nimrods. The reputation of both is good but the Sage of Princeton is cer- tainly not making any records in yir- ginia.
 A good real estate bargain is offered by Ecuador in the Galapagos islands. It is not stated what firm has the matter in charge but it is desired that a sale be effected with a syndicate supported by some world power. Now is chance to pick up a profitable bit of land at a mod fD afsfo
 made public but such a chance for specu- lation should not be permitted to go un- noticed. It is safe to say that if Ameri- can agents had the deal to carry out there would be some developments on the islands. The American real estate agent Is about the most energetic and prolific institution we possess and if he cannot bring about a sale. to good ad- vantage for himself there is something radically wrong
 Cardinal Gibbons has announced him. self as opposed to to showy church we'd dings. Since the Roxburghe-Goeleta affair ministers and church dignataries in all parts of the country have been aroused on the subject and some have openly at tackled such wanton extravagance. The main contention is that such display de- ters people of moderate means from hav- ing church wedding, because they are ashamed to be outdone by their weaIthier neighbors. This point is one that counts for much in the mind of prospective brides. Nowadays any kind of wedding ceremony performed in a church is con- sidered to be an affair of some preten- sons, entailing expense. Young people of moderate means are therefore compelled to think long and carefully before com hitting themselves to a church wedding. And yet it is a pretty custom that has been handed down through the years The sacred place imparts a dignity and solemnity that is wanting elsewhere and it is to be regretted that church we'd dings seem to be losing favor among those who cannot afford expense
 The country was in hopes that it had earned temporary relief from Carrie Nation but just at the opportune mo- ment she makes a grandstand play and draws the lime light in her direction. It seems that the Kansas reformer made a fiasco when she attempted to outrival
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

No doubt General Wood thinks the fire he is now withstanding much more severe than the stray bullets of the Gubans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
A Work of Genius.

From the New York Sun At a dinner given to the boat crew of the Georgetown university the following yell was performed with great success: Boom, Chicka, Booml
 Boom, Chicka, Booml
 Boom, Chicka- a. Ricka -Chicka!
 Chicka Ricka, Boom!
 Boom, Chicka, Boom, Ba!
 Oliver Trix,
 Georgetown! Georgetown!
 1906iii This battle cry was clearly the work of a man of genius. It ought to take a distinguished place in the Anthology which is being prepared by a Harvard professor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
The Mean Thing.

From the Philadelphia Press.
 Miss Loveylips-He said my mouth was like "a cleft honeycomb7 Wasn't that sweet?
 Miss Chellus-Mml yes; but a honey comb doesn't look very neat or pretty when it's split open, you know.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

The horse show at Madison Square Garden offers fine opportunities for Henri Watterson to take down few notes on Gotham society.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

Things were getting rather dull with Carrie Nation, so she had to make play in Washington. The Kansas re- former seems to follow the center of attraction. She was in New York with Dowie and in Washington with con ornSS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

The chorus girls are on the qui yive since hearing that Leopold of Belgium contemplates paying our shores visit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

Now that husky youths are scramb- ling after the pig skin "gawf'' is out of the running
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

It is surprising that Alfred Austin has not done" a few lines of late. He is not earning his salary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

The fatalities in the Spanish-Ameri- can war look rioiculously small when compared to those of railroad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

Now that Atlanta's police are to have free drinks there is no excuse for their remaining sober.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

It will be some time yet before au' tomobiles replace the humble mule in the sunny south
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
He Repeats.

From Judge.
 She-You only married me for my money.
 He-Serves me right for trying to buck up against one of those get-rich-quck games.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

Abdul Hamid has had chance to make a grandstand play since the war clouds in the Balkans ceased to lower
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

Cold weather IS accomplishing what all the yellow fever experts were pow erless to perform.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21

There is so little going on in Wash ington that even the political cartoon ists have run out of ideas.