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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT ALL SORTS OF
 THINGS OF LOCAL AND GENERAL INTEREST

candidate for the nomination himself will probably obtain the delegation from that state. Senator Allison will control 1owas delegation and Senator spooner can undoubtedly control the delegation from Wisconsin and perhaps several other northwestern states
 It is said that Mark Hanna himself will not be a candidate against Roosevelt, but that he is heading q movement to concentrate the opposition to Roosevelt on Senator spooner of Wisconsin. spooner has a fine record, is popular and is con sidered one of the ablest men in the senate. The chances are, therefore. that Roosevelt Is to have a very hard fight on his hands for the nomination. Unless his trip in the west strengthens him material ly the indications are that he will not be nominated to- succeed himself.
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 In the democratic situation the respee- tive booms of Judge Parker and MT. olney have in a measure collapsed and the tide seems to be flowing in the direction of Senator German of Maryland. The or ganized democrats, or better, the officials of the party selected to represent 1t in congress and In the various state legls- latures, are apparently overwhelmingly In favor of German. The opposition of MT. Bryan to German. however. is having some effect, and this it is which causes some of Senator Germans most ardent to get the nomination. Mr. Bryan Is not by any means in position to name the nominee, but it may be that his influence Is sufnciently great to prevent the nom ination of German.
 MT Cleveland is likewise looming up in the field and there are many who believe that he may be a candidate again. Cleve- land himself would oppose German wheth- CT he be. a candidate for the nomination himself or not The weakness of Cor man, therefore is in the fact that he seems to have the opposition of both Bryan and Cleveland, all of which is largely of aipersonal nature. German is, however the one man who seems to be acceptable to all factions of the demo- cratic party except those small. propor- tlOilS Mliltii hit ptloOlitilS seiAiANd to MI Bryan or Mir. Cleveland.
 - Another man who is sure to be in the race and who will have a good strong western following, is David R. Francis of Missouri president of the St. Louis exposition and former governor of Mis- souri. Francis is very smart fellow and is what is known as q western hus- tier. He is possessed of much personal magnetism and knows how to make friends wherever he goes; it matters not whether he be in the presence of an audi ence of Missouri farmers of New York bankers or of the crowned heads of Eu- rope. He is a fine looking fellow person. ally, tells a good story is possessed of a suave mapner and is an all round dlp~ lomat. Therefore it is safe to say that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05
WHEN ROCKEFELLER ARRIVES.
The City Man Tells His Country
 Friend About the Proceedings.

From the New York Press.
 Two men stood in the lobby at 2G Broad way, one stranger seeing the sights, the other his city friend telling ghost stories This is the home of the Stand ard oil company, the original trust,' l heard. 'It has made sixty-three million aires. the richest, John D. Rockefeller, having from $500, O,OoOOOO to Ss2o, 100000 His annual income is sl4OeO.O0O He gives away S16,000000 year. That officer in a gray uniform, sitting always at the inner door Is the guardian of this building. In his little box he has electric buttons and a switchboard connecting with every room. When Mir Rockefeller arrives at the entrance in his automobile at 3 o'clock the guardian announces him by touching button, and all the machinery of the great trust is instantly set in mo- tion. In order to see MT. Rockefeller you must pass thirteen men. The first is a colored doorkeeper and the last is MT. Rockefeller's confidential secretary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05
Can Close Break.

N. II. Sewall has just returned from a trip to the Hymel crevasse fin the Missis- sippi levee about thirty-tive miles above New Orleans.
 MT. Sewal has spent many years of his life on the river and has made a careful study of the question of leyee crevasses. He and his brother, R. II. F. Sewall, have a process by which they claim they could close Hymel erevasse for S4o,OoO, whereas the government has already spent $lOo,oOO on it and the ex- penditure of $1OO,OO0 more will be neces- sary before the work is done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Mobile Register: New vegetables, home grown, are coming in very slowly. The first Mobile county raised English peas arrived yesterday afternoon. eight bushels in all, and they commanded fancy price, the lucky bidder paying sS per bushel for them.
 Abbeville Times: The heavy rains in this section have put the farmers be- hind with their work, but they are get ting at it now in good earnest and will be in good shape
 Huntsville Herald: The wheat fields throughout this part of the state are look ing fine and promise a bountiful yield
 Scale Register: Report comes from diff ferent sections of the county that the prospect for a good oat crop is better than for many years past. We trust the acreage is large.
 Abbeville Times: The race for the town office is warming up. There are two full tickets in the field and each candi- date is working hard to win his race.
 Gadsden Journal; FThe young men and busy sportsmen of the city are enlkting new recruits to the recently reorganized Gun club of Gadsden, which has for its object amusement and improvement ir the use of the firearm.
 Huntsville Herald: The Alabama Poplar company has been organized at Pain Rock for the purpose of developing th' great timber resources of that section
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05
Dedicated to Miss Walker.

Birmingham's fame has been extended to Bridgeport, Conn, prosperous manu- featuring city of nearly 100000 souls. Miss Mary Ella Berry, student. is spending the season there. She was the favorite ac- companist of the Athletic club, and she has just published in Bridgeport '"Tffe Society Circus and Two-step," dedicating 1t to Miss Annie Kendrick Walker. Miss Berry's musical composition Is popular in Bridgeport, especially in the fashion able set of that busy Connecticut town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05
Straw Hats in Alabama.

New York and Paris and Panama dictate the form of straw hats that fashionable men must wear in hot weather, but they cannot dictate to Alabama men when they shall begin to wear them The when" is lati- tude question, and a man under he thirty-first parallel may don a straw hat much earlier than man who Is doomed to live ten degrees nearer the north pole.
 All in alL up one side and down the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 Honor is as honor doesn't get found out. Love thy neighbor as myself, unless he is a relative.
 Most people get wise in their grandchil- dren's generations.
 Maybe the reason 1t is heaven Is be- cause there is no marrying there.
 Where women get Into trouble is in try ing to be both the moth and the flame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

Max ORell in the New York American.
 It is not work, however hard, that makes people grow old and look old early. On the contrary, 1t is laziness and use lessness. Is there, for example, a harder life than that led by actresses who are popular and play leading parts? Yet look at them: Sarah Bernhardt, Ellen Terry Reiane-as many as you like. Some of them are 60 years old and even off the stage look hardly 40. Those who are over 40 do not look 30. I know what you will tell me: They take great care of themselves. Still they work like slaves, and society women who take of them selves all the care you like but do noth- ing except kill time seldom succeed in hiding their age like the scores and scores of well-known professional women whom l could name, and whom l do not, be- cause it would be very ungallant to name the women of 50 who still sing or play leading parts on the stages of America, France and England. Nellie Farren was 70 and Mile. Dejazet was nearly so when they played the parts of boisterous young tomboys in London and in Paris. Yes all these women keep young in looks and spirits, in spite of late hours,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05
Two Brave Deeds.

J. Lawler Darby. a confederate veter- an, said:
 "The two most touching, and real manly things that l recall from 1861 to 1865, are these: At the Wilderness, being wounded and going to the rear, I walked into the field headquarters of General Lee. He and his staff were dsmounted and rally ing the disordered troops. A boy was passing by weeping. The commander said: Go back my son and help your comrades; don't you hear them?'
 "T can't, I can't; l saw my brother shot dead by my side. =
 Go back and avenge his blood. said Lee.
 I can't; my heart is broken
 Then go to the rear. You shan't be harmed.
 "The other was at Appomattox. Colonel Lafayette Hobson, who went out at lieu tenant of Company D., Fifth Alabama Clark's company publishes Fl Comercio, regiment originally called the Greensboro Light Artillery Guards, was in command of Rhodes brigade al the surrender. Passing his regiment in line, he saw Private Ed Hutchinson, the only member present of his old company, ready for the fight. Dismount- ing he said:. Ed, take my horse to the rear. He wanted one of his brave boys lett. Hobson is dead, the soldier he loved is a worthy citizen of Greensboro
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05
Colonel Bush Returns.

Col. T. G. Bush, president of the Ala bama Consolidated Coal and Iron com panv, returned to Birmingham late yes terdav afternoon after an absence of a little more than three weeks.
 He has been to southern California, visiting Los Angeles, Pasadena and San Diego. He states that while California is a delightful place to live in so far as climate is concerned, he is glad to get back to Birmingham.
 My trip has been very enjoyable one," he said and l am in excellent health. While in California l saw num- Der of Birmingham people and Mobilians. It Is said they are having more rain in the state of sunshine and flowers than for three generations previously
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05
About Persons.

D. w. Nye of New York is at the Hill man.
 J. B. Pairley of Selma is registered at the Morris.
 P. R. Burns of Chattanooga is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 D. A. McGregor of Jasper is at the St. Nicholas.
 W. F. Weak of Chicago is at the Hill man.
 President Edward Flynn and National Executive Board Member W. R. FairleS of the United Mine Workers of America left for Indianapolis last night to be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

present at the meeting of the national executive board in that city tomorrow morning.
 S. Ashley of St. Louis Is registered at the Morris.
 L. J. Clarke of Chicago is at the Metro politan.
 L. R. Goodman of Richmond is regis tered at the Hillman.
 George Laurie of Montgomery is at the Morris.
 Lucien Schloss of Paris is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 J. B. Shobert of Rollins is registered at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05
As Bad as They Make ,Em.

From Brooklyn Life.
 Knicker-Why do you think Jones the meanest man afioat?
 Bocker-He keeps 8 collection of plug ged coins to put in his trousers pocket at night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05
Pleased Too Soon.

From Tit-Bits.
 Barber (testing razor)-Do hurt you, sir?
 Bard-No; not so badly as the last man who had me in his chair
 Barber (highly gratifeeJ-Who was that?
 Bard-The dentist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05
CateaoricaI.

From the Yonkers Statesman.
 Bacon-I see the adjutant, or mara. bout, tall bird of India. of the stork species, will swallow a car whole.
 Egbert-Suppose it has to swallow it nine times to keep it swallowed. how
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

Frank Munsey has sold the New York News, and Thomas Wanamaker, who runs the Philadelphia North Amer lean, is said to be the purchaser.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

The big teams are not getting all the training and hardening as they go along. They leave some of both in the home teams.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

The cloud that breaks up baseball game should be taught better by one of those weather cannons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

William Winter has analysed Rich ara Harding Davis play, and he has left it shot full of holes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

Uncle Sam picked up bargain one hundred years ago on the bargain counter, and the event will be cele- brated next year in St. Louis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

Admiral Dewey is unpopular in Ger many, but popular at home. He is con tent with the situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

Grover Cleveland holds that third terms are harmless if intermissions are properly intermingled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05
Music at HilIman.

CaImans entire orchestra will render the following programme at the Hillman hotel tonight:
 March - "Rialto Belles." Overture "Banditenstreiche' Selection-"Sally in Our Alley" Waltz-"Charmense." Selec- ton Moclsing Bird" Intermezzo-"En- chantress." Cornet solo-''The Palms. Selection-"Goyernor Son." Prayer from Rienzi Wagner. Selection medley-"The Climax" Morcean-"Jewel of Asia" Se- lection-"Daughter of the Regiment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

President Roosevelt attracts atten- ton because the baseball season has not been opened.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

The horsefeed dinner based on Chi cago gas certainly takes the cake through an oversight in the fool killer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

The great Frank Smith will soon be nearer the home base than Sheridan, drunk or sober, was at Winchester.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

Snobbishness reaches high water mark in relation to the coming Wander bilt wedding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

The egg remedy should not be con fined to Irish caricatures Some of the musical comedies need a few doses of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

Ex-senator Simon of Oregon seems to think he was defeated because ne was a Jew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

Despite the Lowell triKe there will still be plenty of material to be turned into shirt waists. A shirt waist fam inc would be almost as bad as a coal famine in winter time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

Judge Murphy of Buffalo seems to have been a student of the immortal Dogberry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

The Lowell strike will not affect the hosiery output at the beaches this sum- mer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

Society wants a new game to take the place of ping pong, now on it's last legs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

"Undigested securities is the new name for water of the stock market sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

The press agent may be the man behind "McFaddens Flats" after all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

The professional pugilist always goes into the box once too often.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

Mary Anderson de Navarro evidently is not money grabber, for she has refused an offer of S275,0OO to give readings from Shakespeare, Tennyson and Longfellow for ffry-fye weeks in America. Our quondam Mary seems to be out of Hetty Greens class.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

The securities of worlds powers are not selling at high rates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

The big Mississippi is lording it over tie Louisiana lowlands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

THE AG Mary Anderson de Navarro evidently is not a money grabber, for she has refused an offer of s275,oOO to give readings from Shakespeare, Tennyson and Longfellow for ffry-fye weeks in America. Our quondam Mary seems to be out of Hetty Greens class.
 -s----- Despite the Lowell triKe there will still be plenty of material to be turned into shirt waists. A shirt waist fam inc would be almost as bad as a coal famine in winter time.
 --.s----
 Frank Munsey has sold the New York News, and Thomas Wanamaker, who runs the Philadelphia North Amer lean, is said to be the purchaser.
 -------.---------- Uncle Sam picked up a bargain one hundred years ago on the bargain counter, and the event will be cele- brated next year in St. Louis.
 
 The big teams are not getting all the training and hardening as they go along. They leave some of both in the home teams.
 The egg remedy should not be con- fined to Irish caricatures. Some of the musical comedies need a few doses of it.
 The horsefeed dinner based on Chi cago gas certainly takes the cake through an oversight in the fool killer.
 
 The great Frank Smith will soon be nearer the home base than Sheridan, drunk or sober, was at Winchester. The cloud that breaks up baseball game should be taught better by one of those weather cannons.
 
 Grover Cleveland holds that third terms are harmless if intermissions are properly intermingled.
  William Winter has analysed Rich ara Harding Davis play, and he has left it shot full of holes.
 ----.s.-
 Admiral Dewey is unpopular in Ger many, but popular at home. He is con tent with the situation. President Roosevelt attracts atten- tion because the baseball season has not been opened Snobbishness reaches high water mark in relation to the coming Wander bilt wedding.
 Ex-Senator Simon of Oregon seems to think he was defeated because ne was Jew.
 Judge Murphy of Buffalo seems to have been student of the immortal Dogberry.
 Society wants a new game to take the place of ping pong, now on it's last legs.
 The Lowell strike will not affect the hosiery output at the beaches this sum- mer.
 "Undigested securities" is the new name for water of the stock market sort.
 The press agent may be the man behind "McFadden's Flats" after all The professional pugilist always goes into the box once too often. The securities of worlds powers are not selling at high rates.
 
 The big Mississippi is lording It over tae Louisiana lowlands. The lowlands are rapidly acquiring the crevasse habit.
 .-------- ----------' May cotton is again ten-cent cotton.
 
 EBURNE AND LAWRENCE. From the Moulton Advertiser. Losses and gains in population by eoun- lies. according to the last census. IS again being discussed by The Birming-
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The lowlands are rapidly acquiring the crevasse habit.
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B. R. Whitthorne, Jr. A. D. Glass ana ". II. Kavanaugh are the only authoriz- ed travelling representatives of The Age Herald in it's circulation department.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-01-14
Why Leaves Change Color.

A leaf is composed of a great
number of cells, the walls of which
are brown. In the spring and sum
mer these cells are all filled with
fluid, colored with minute grains of
red. yellow and other pigments,
which, mixed together, appear
green. In the autumn, through the
cold, oxidation and other changes
take place in the leaf cells, destroy
ing more or less rapidly certain OF
the color elements. As soon as one
of these elements is gone the leaf
no longer appears normal green,
but assumes the shade Of the re-
mainder of the color elements mixed
together. When only the red Gle
ment is left, the leaf is red; when
the yellow alone remains the leaf
is yellow, and when all the coloring
matter has gone the leaf is brown.
Frost is not the sole cause of the
changes of color, but it Is an impor-
tant cause. The more gradual the
changes of temperature from sum-
mer heat to winter cold the greater
will be the variety and brilliancy in
the coloring Of the autumn leaves.
-Woman's Home Companion.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-01-14
Musical Insects.

More than 5000 persons in ia
pan make good living by breeding,
training and selling what are known
as Singing insects" Like crickets
these insects are and their japanese
names are kusa-hibari and suzu-
mushi.
The music which they make re-
sembles that of silver bell and,
though rather monotonous, Is very
clear and sweet. The japanese keep
the insects in tiny bamboo cages
and take quite as good care of them
as Americans take of canaries or
other pet birds. Some of them pre-
fer the music which is made by a
certain species of frog, known as
kajika, and they are always ready to
pay high price for frogs which are
well bred and well trained.
These they can generally obtain,
according to a foreign journal, for
several persons spend their entire
time breeding and training frogs
and insects, which they offer for
sale every year at fairs held during
June in Tokyo and other large
cities
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-01-14
Social Etiquette In Italy.

Mr.. Luigi Villari in his book,
CATALAN Life In Town and Coun-
try" says that social etiquette is in
some respects laxer, in others more
rigid, than in this country.
When hostess invites her friends
to luncheon or dinner, she is not
tortured by anxiety lest the number
of men should not correspond ex-
actly to that of the ladies. The lat
ter do not get up from the table be-
fore the gentlemen, but the whole
party rises almost Immediately aft
er dinner and adjourns to the draw
ing room, where nearly every one of
both sexes smokes. At parties the
servants hand round cigarettes with
refreshments to ladies and gentle
men alike. At a ball a man is not
obliged to stick to his partner
through whole dance. One or two
turns are enough, after which he
may favor some other damsel with
out causing offense to the first.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-01-14
A BURMESE IUGGLER.
The Simple Method by Which He Put
His Victim Asleep.

A Burmese juggler recently gave
an exhibition Of his powers on board
a steamer proceeding from Moul-
mein to Rangun. The subject was
q native servant of an officer, and
the experiment took place on the
deck Of the ship. There was no col
fusion between the experimenter
and the subject, for they were stran-
gers to each other and were sur
rounded by the passengers and the
crew. Indeed, so impressed with the
juggler's powers were some OF the
lascars that in alarm they took to
the rigging by way Of securing their
safety.
The subject was a native Of Ma
dras, and the illustration given was
presumed to be one of the manner
in which the dacoits of Burma rem
der their victims insensible. Wheth-
er this be the case or not, the prac-
tice of the juggler was eminently
successful. lie seized the neck of
the patient with his thumbs, one on
each side. Then he compressed the
soft parts of the neck below the
Jaw. In a few moments his subject
became insensible and fell like a log
on the deck Of the ship. There was
much alarm naturally created, but
the juggler was equal to the occa-
sion. A handkerchief was tapped
across the face of the insensible
man, and he quickly recovered, al
though for time he was in dazed
condition.
What the juggler did was to com
press the big carotid arteries which
pass up one on each side Of the neck
and by thus limiting the supply OF
blood to the brain induce uncon-
sciousness. This is an experiment
which was certainly known to the
ancient Greeks, and it bears rela-
tionship to theory of sleep which
for long found favor in the eyes of
psychologists, who believed that
Sleep was due to the withdrawal of
blood from the brain.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-01-14
Fratefnal Orders.

Mountain City Lodge, No. 81, Ancient
York Masons. meets End and 4th Mon.
day nights at Masonic Hall, }: VIII
Moore, w. NJ. A. 7. Shields, Sec'y.
Rockbridge Lodge, No. So. |. y: U; r.
meets every Thursday night, at ODD Eel
ows' Hall A. w. Manspile, N. G. >. "
Grinstead. Sec'y.
Lexington Lodge, No. Sc, X, OF ?,
meets every Tuesday night,at ODD Eel
lows Hall. w. s. Hileman, Z. Z. j. "
Grinstead, X. r S.
Natural Bridge Council, No, -92O. Royal
Arcanum, meets list and Bird frlday
nights in each month. W. H. Beeton,
Regent James Withrow, Seey,
Lee jackson Camp, No. s., Junior Or
der American Mechanics, meets every
2nd and 4th Friday nights at Odd Fellows
Hall. F. s Johnston, councillor. u. b.
Radford, Sec'y.
Liberty Lodge, No, 2, Daughters OF
Rebekah, meets every Monday night at
Odd Fellows Hall. Miss Anna A..
KIause, N. &. Mrs. NJ. f. Crigler'
Secy.