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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06
BRAKEMAN. SPARE THAT SLEEVE.

From the Washington Evening Star.
 An important issue has just been set tied in Boston For a long time the polite brakeman and conductors of the Boston and Maine railroad, which carries large number of people in and out of the cultured city each day, have been in the habit of assisting women passengers to enter and leave the cars at the sta tions. But every summer the superin- tendents of the. line have been besieged with the protests from shirt-waist wear CTS. complaining of the marks which the not-over-clean hands of the company's servants have left upon their otherwise spotless sleeves. Boston hates this sort of thing beyond words. Better clean gown than a costly one. The shirtwast was such a boon. It solved the problem of summer dress so nicely. It would be a pity to have to wear dark colors just be- cause the brakemen and conductors were both polite ana deficient III personal clean Illness. For the women were polite in the premises, too. They recognized that it was wholly unjust 10 require the brakemen and conductors to scrub their hands at every station And furthermore they were 10th to demand that the brakemen and conductors be reproved for their polite ness. But the situation became unbear- able Laundry bills we're growing and something must be done. So finally the officials of the corporation. after grave conference, have ordered that henceforth the brakemen and conductors abstain from helping women passengers on and off the cars save in the case of the aged and infirm. No age limit is prescribed so that in all likelihood the shirtwaist "girr' will now be allowed to make her way aone with unsettled elbows. The Hub has made another revolution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06
A TEXAS IDEA.

From the New York Press.
 "A man in Texas is in New York with a promotion. the most marvellous since wa ter was turned into wine. He says he has invented a process for converting 100 pounds of milk into loo pounds of butter. At present the rate is four pounds of but ter from each 100 pounds of milk. That is good average But 100 pounds of but ter from 100 pounds of milk Is a trifie steep. However, he is willing to prove it. He has gone to the expense of buying a great herd of Jersey cows and hopes soon to put their product on the market. Up will go the price of milk; down will go the price of butter We have laughed over the COW that gives buttermilk, but here, we are told, is the COW that gives only butter Our friend churns only sweet milk and milk of different ages mixed to- gether. After the conversion into butter he will run the latter through a clothes wringer and squeeze out 50 per cent of it as water, leaving fifty pounds net.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06
"GoinQ loo Far"

The Augusta Herald and the Colum- bus Enquirer-Sun are demanding that lynchings in their states be stopped. "The lynchings are of too frequent oc- eurrence in Georgia" says the En- Quirer-Sun. Four negroes were lynch ed in Georgia in June, all for murder, and not one for the usual crime" Such frequent lynchings will continue to occur in Georgia, in spite of all re- grets and all warnings on the part of the Herald and the Enquirer-Sun, until the governor of the state has it driven into his head that there are more votes to be secured by maintaining the law and enforcing order than by pandering to passion, prejudice and ignorance.
 Whenever Governor Terrell desires to put an end to lynchings he can readily and quickly do so. By order ing the solicitor and sheriff to see that the ringleaders of the lynching bee at Fort Valley, or of the one at Newton, where three negroes were lynched, are arrested and indicted, and later tried for murder, an end will at once be put to the sport.
 But at present public sentiment is not sufficiently aroused on the subject, and the governor, who is candidate for reelection, thinks that thesa are more votes to be secured by offeriSg u mock reward and winkiHg one eye at the lynchers. When the Herald and the Enquirer-Sun have brought public sentiment up to a proper respect for the law-when law and organized so- ciety and order and young boys unbru- talized outrank lynching frolics and righteous vengeance and all that, then the governor of the state will get down to business, and proceed as high sheriff to have the ringleaders of g
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
Bright Naval Cadets.

'aThe eight Alabama boys who passed their organizations at the naval academy last week made splendid record said a military man. "The examining officers complimented them very highly and said, according to one of the newspaper re- ports, that no set of young men from any state had passed. as a whole, so fine an examination as the Alabamians. One of the cadets is a Birmingham boy, Wil- liam w Hicks. son of R. c. Hicks of the seaboard Air Line. He received his pre- paratory education in the public schools and went to Annapolis direct from the Birmingham High school.
 Tt Is a coincidence that two of the eight Alabama cadets are sons of rail- road officials, Walter Knox. superintend- ent of the Louisville and Nashville at Anniston, having a boy in the same class with young Hicks'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06
COLLEGE STUDENTS AS
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From the New York Mail and Express.
 The Nebraska Labor bureau has done we'll to send out an invitation to students of eastern colleges and universities to come out and help in the harvest fields. It has done well because there must be a good many stalwart youths now help ing themselves through college who would be very glad of the assurance of good pay and very light expense until September. And the college boys. whether they are in need of money or not would do we'll to accept the invitation.
 It would be good thlngs not only for the fiber of the individual students con- oerned. but for the solid information of the educated classes ok tine east, If every college and university student took Wanderjahr, either at the end of his study or during his vacations, In the broad and breezy west-not to grow up with the country, but to get next to 1t; a Wanderjahr. that is, in the old indus trial sense-a year of hard work, spent possibly in various places, or advantag- eously employed in wholesome service at one representative calling-preferably in agriculture.
 Let us imagine. for instance, liar yard student, more or less inoculated with the Harvard scorn. arriving at a Kansas, Nebraska or Minnesota farm on fine morning in mid-June. Imagine him, stalwart and 1.-the of frame. but somewhat pale of face, asking the pro- prietor of the farm if he could get work
 for the summer. We can also imagine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06
Mental Processes.

The gray-haired man who was leaning back in the hotel easy chair. said T am often struck with the fact that very few people have any idea of what might be called thought processes.
 "The general idea seems to be that a person thinks naturally, or, in other words that the working of the mind is in nate, and follows some immutable law. Others believe that man can change his mental processes and become a profound thinker on almost any given subject by a great deal of reading.
 Now, I have a different theory and believe that the experience of almost every intellectual prson will bear 1t out, A man thinks on the subjects that he talks about. The old idea that a man who says little and looks wise is pro- found. has been exploded, and the few cases in which 1t Is true are only the ex- captions that go to prove the rule.
 "The man who talks is the man who thinks, and he thinks most on the subjects upon which he talks most. If you want to become well informed on any subject, then make 1t your favorite theme for conversa- tion. While this may not make you pro- found, 1t will at any rate make you bet ter acquainted with that particular sub ject than with any other, and you will find that 1t will soon be the subject on which you think most
 When Charles O'Connor. the great New York lawyer-orator, was asked by a young friend what course he should pur- sue In order to become a good public speaker said: Master facts and talk about them; the man who knows most can speak best, and the man who talks most gen. erally learns most Talk and study.
 Now I don't mean to advocate gar rulity, nor do I wish to be understood as claiming that verbosity and wisdom are synonImous terms, but I do say that we get most of our knowledge through con versaton. and that in ninety-nine cases in g hundred the wise man is the talking man-but he may be a nuisance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06
A MAN wlTHoUT A sALARY.

From the New York Press.
 The world knows that H. E. Hunting ton inherited a majority of the millions left by Uncle Collis Pacific Huntington. He was Uncle Collis' favorite nephew. The old Forty-niner was childless. His adopted children possess none of the Huntington instincts. therefore he loved H. E. When Hartman got hold of the Southern Pacific Huntington got out. Hartman said: "Stay here as president; we need you" Huntington replied NO, it is impossible; we cannot agree on the dividend question" But 1t would hurt the system if Huntingtons name were taken from the directorate. Every body in the southwest believes in Hunt ington. Remain as a director, and ac- cept the vice presidency" Huntington answered.: T will do so on one condition; if you will Insist upon it. let me be vice president and director, but under no circumstances will consent to accept a salary. Not one cent of the roads money must go into my pocket" Hartman had to accept the conditions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06

the glee of the farmer at the appearance of a young man who does not need an interpreter. who seems to have some sense, and who admits that he wants to learn and is willing to work No time would be lost in parleying. The young student would be requested to take off his coat and but in
 But in" he would need to, for the place Is strenuous through the summer months on the farm. But the appetite the youth would have. And the cob webs that would be cleaned out of his brain as well as cut of his 'inwards" by that bracing summer toll among strong and self-respecting men
 His fine scholastic scorn would evap- crate as the morning dew vanishes be- fore the fierce sun of the prairies. Sup posing this college man to be a real man, he would return to the East and to whatever indoor calling or outdoor leis- ure fate and his parents had assigned him, with broader, better and truer ideas of his native land and it's destiny than he could otherwise have had. He would return with firmer muscular and mental fiber, prepared to do his fellow men bet ter and braver service.
 Let us hope the call of Nebraska for college men will not be unanswered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06
Tuskeqee in Africa.

Booker T. Washington has been compelled by the demands upon him of the great school he has established at Tuskegee to decline the invitation of the British government to go to South Africa to study the needs of his race in that section of the world. He cannot afford to spend few months away from Tuskegee even for the pur- pose of carrying his work and ideas to another continent. He Is welded to the institute at Tuskegee where he proposes, it is plain, to do his life work, knowing as he does that he can but begin 1t at the best.
 In South Africa there are three races, the British, the Boers and the negroes. The latter may by immigra- tion from the interior of the continent become very numerous. They already oLtnumber the other two races, fur nishing there as here the rude labor employed in the mines and on the farms and in the towns. The race problem there is very much what it is here, and the British authorities seem to think that the ideas of Tuskegee in the direction of industrial education constitute the best solution of the pro blem that can be found. This. is why they asked Booker Washington to go to South Africa. They did not expect him to leave Tuskegee for good and for all, but they as.-ed him to go there and stay long enough to ascertain the situation and to prescribe the remedy.
 The principal of Tuskegee declined the invitation, and no doubt the Brit ish authorities will now send students or a commission, or both, to study at Tuskegee. What has been accom- plished among the negroes of this state, and what is possible in that di- rection in South Africa. Perhaps Tus-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06
When Plus TX Died.

Tn speaking of the disquieting news about Pope Leo's condition, an old lay man said: When the Holy Father passes away the church In the United States will be officially notified through the papal delegation at Washington. This will prob- ably be a day or two after the sad event takes place.
 When Plus TX. died 1t was several days before the official announcement was made There was no papal delegate in this country then. Cardinal McClosSey, archbishop of New York. was living and the present Cardinal Gibbons was then archbishop of Baltimore, but was not cardinal. The archbishop of Baltimore ranks over all the prelates in the United States and while Cardinal McCloskey doubtless received private cable an nouncing the pope's death the American hierarchy received the announcement through Archbishop Gibbons. And the archbishop was notified in what struck me in peculiarly round about way The dean of the Sacred college directed the papal nuncio at Paris to cable Archbishop Gibbons with instructions to him to pro- mitigate the notice of the pope's demise Upon the receipt of the cable from the nuncio Archbishop Gibbons sent telegrams to the archbishops who in turn telegraph ed to their suffragan bishops.
 "rhe death of Leo XIII. has been ex- pected for some time, but when the below ed pontiff does pass away the news will come as a great blow to the Catholics of the whole world"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06
Hotel Men.

Said an old hotel clerk: "A good hotel man can always get along ard make a success of his business. Every one nowa- days Is so prosperous that even the much abused actor on his travels is able and willing to pay for the best-and he wants 1t.
 Speaking of successful men in our busi- ness, I saw Loui Hart a few days ago when he was passing through Birmng- ham on his way to Gadsden. where he has gone to take charge of Hotel Bellevue on Lookout mountain. He has been man. ager of the Bellevue for the last two or three seasons.
 Hart seems to have made a great sue cess of his hotel, for I am told that last season it was necessary to engage rooms in advance, and even then it was a mat ter of good luck to be able to get one.s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06
nEPENnENT ENGLAND.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 If tariff wall of fire were built about England so hot and high that she could receive no food products from other eoan- tries, she might survive a whole months siege. but the chances are many and great that her people would starve to death in that time or grow hungry in three days if left to their own resources of fields and slaughter houses. Even if England drew upon all the countries of Europe, of South America and her col onies, she could scarcely get from all of them enough of the necessaries of life to fill the stomachs of her people; or If she received a sufficient supply of the necessaries of fife apart from this coun- try she would have to pay so dearly for it as to render it's purchase impossible to millions of her poor. To. feed her peo- pie at possible price England must have the products of Americas farms-the grain. the beef and the cotton She could do without these three things only with little less suffering than she could do without the air her people breathe.
 Consequently, if MT Balfouf and Mir. Chamberlain should succeed in cutting a club thick and heavy enough with which to attempt to force the United States to yield to England's new retaliatory policy. they would undoubtedly find that they could have selected no more ineffective weapon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06
conventIon CitY Next Year.

There are many aspirants among the cities for the honor or privilege of Rheltering the national conventions of next year. Baltimore pleads prece- dent. In the days of the whig and anti- bellum democratic parties Baltimore was a favorite convention city, but westward the star of empire has taken its way, and Baltimore Is left with the other eastern cities far to one side of she weight of population or politics. The capital is, 1t Is true, on the At lantic slope, but because congress meets on the Atlantic slope it is not necessary that the national conven- tions should meet there. Congress IS tied to the federal buildings and plant, and the national conventions have no such limitations. No national conven- ton will be held next year or any other year east of the Blue Ridge.
 sNThe heart of the country lies west /and south of the Blue Ridge, far west of it, and St. Louis Is undoubtedly the most central of the large western cities of the countryside cities that contain over half of million of people each. St. Louis will be an especially good convention city, because of the worlds fair, and beyond all reasonable doubt the national desire to help on the great fair will carry the conventions of both the great parties to 1t. It is hot city in June or July, but the campaign will be hot one also, and the politicians can become seasoned there. The two big conventions will follow the multi tude next year, and both beyond doubt will be held in St. Louis.
 The population center Is located in Indiana, and the political center will be near it next year. At any rate the plea of history and precedent Is no longer good. Popular conventions should follow the people and the mass of the people of this country now live on the sunset side of the Blue Ridge. Baltimore and the other eastern cities are not in the running, and the only city that can cut St. Louis out of the coveted honor is Chicago, and 1t can not bag the democratic convention, whatever it may be able to do in cap turing the Roosevelt ratification meet ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06
Lynching is now national shame.
ELECTRIC FANS FOR TUNNEL

From the Baltimore Sun.
 Huge electric fans are to be used to clear the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel under this city of the smoke and gas. Plans drawn by the companys engineers have been submitted to builders for esti- mates
 The designs show that the tunnel will be tapped near North avenue by smoke duct of stone about ten feet in diameter and roofed over by layers of concrete about twelve feet fin depth. This duct will connect with the fanroom in the building where enormous wheel fans, driven by powerful electric motors, will form a violent suction and drive the bad air and smoke up a huge stack about sixty feet in height. The vacuum caused in the tunnel itself will make the air at the other end rush in to supply the absent air pressure. and as a result, in addition to the fans, high pressure draught is expected. which will keep the air in the tunnel free from gas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06
FORGIVENESS.

By John Greenleaf Whittier. My heart was heavy, for it's trust had
 been
 Abused it's kindness answered with foul
 wrong; So. turning gloomily from my fellow-men, One summer Sabbath day I strolled
 among The green mounds of the village burial
 place; Where. pondering how all human love
 and hate Find one sad level; and how. soon or
 late, wronged and wrongdoer. each with meek
 ened face. And cold hands folded over a still heart. Pass the green threshold of our common
 grave, whither all footsteps tend, whence none
 depart. Awed for myself. and pitying my race. Our common sorrow, like mighty wave, Swept all my pride away. and trembling
 forgavei
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06
WOMAN LIVES TO THE AGE
 OF 1O3 BY EATING PIE

the yew are now within reach of the Joseph, Mo, was 103 the other day She walks mile a day. Without spectacles she can see to read much better than most young folks of this myopic and astgmatic age. She Is as sound as a bell and why? What is her preservative? With what curious meat or cordial does, she prolong her days and need no amend ments to her constitution?
 Sarah Shook eats pie Beats 1t early and often. for breakfast. luncheon, tea, dinner. supper and between meals. For three generations she has thrived on pie. Pie has been the strength of her youth, the companion of her middle life, the staff of her old age If there are any older pie eaters, it is because they have eaten more pies.
 So everything brings us back to the praise of pie, that solid elixir of life that fortifying mama of the strong that builder of enduring nerves and brains, pie, the strenuous and the staying. It may be said, even faithful pie eaters must go at last upon the irremeable voyage. And whose fault is 1t? Is 1t not notorious that mistaken affection interferes with the diet of the old and deprives the sea. soned stomach of the habitual food? GIdHupd WhttS pie. N1lNe H1Iu Bruel. lie doesn't know what he wants Pie Is bad for him. You shudder at the impious piety of those tribes that eat their old from considerations of love and affection. Is 1t any better to take pie from the pie eater? The case of Sarah Shook should bring remorse to many persons who imagine themselves to be highly scientific and shame to many persons who affect to despise the sterling and hardy American dish Pie is the grand secret; and even frivolous souls who hold that better 20 in Manhattan than 100 in St. Joseph, can not afford to neglect Mrs. Shocks dis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06

kegee is the best place in which to study the Tuskegee plan. Perhaps the plan and all it's ideas and methods can best be transplanted by those to the manner born, after patient study of them under the eye of Booker Wash ington himself.
 The spreading and acceptance of the Tuskegee plan will thus become in ternational. and no doubt an institute similar to the one at Tuskegee will be established at some central point ip the land of the Boers, and the work of industrial education among the blacks will go on simultaneously on two continents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-06

From the New York Sun.
 Next in number to the receipts for the banishment of warts, are the recipes for the attainment of long life The philoso- pher who buys an annuity and resolves to have length of days is bewildered by the multitude and variety of the means of reaching that end. Early to bed. late to bed; plenty of exercise. none at all; no smoking allowed, smoke all yon please; water from the brook, the drink of Israels champion, whisky in moderation; stick to diet, eat what you like; avoid tea and coffee, swig tea and coffee freely; live op1 cereals. live on vegetables, live on meat or milk; be as regular as clock work, be as irregular as Old Parr or the crankiest verb; you can find among the centenarians examples of almost every system and schedule and want of them.
 We knew a fine old fellow of 97 who used to preach to his grandchildren the necessity of avoiding worry" Every rainy day he would walk on the railroad track. He was deaf as an adder and his grandchildren used to do the worrying. Another patriarch of our acquaintance has drunk hard cider out of tin dipper, before breakfast for years that outrun memory. Perversity or genius; who knows? Sometimes it seems as if these secular worthies had some incommuni- cable charm, as if they had put death to sleep or bound him tight for a period, as Player Jack did In the follxtale. They cannot be expected to publish secret which would make old age common and deprive them of their distinction.
 But the grand discovery has been made o+ ,a.+ aad tl,a vaars of tha whale ar