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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

Salaries in the Southern League.
 Mo and kayanaugh" have said 1t. and who can stand against such a combine! They have said that the Southern League shall have next year salary limit of $500 a month. At present the monthly pay roll of Mem phis' team Is ss700; of New Orleans, sSo0O; of Shreveport, s975o; of Little Rock and Birmingham, s2500; of At lanta, $24OO; of Montgomery, s22O0. and of Nashylne s17Oo In their ca- pacity as stockholders, the combine now declare that $500 is to be the limit in 1904.
 In the interest of good ball in the south The Age-Herald protests. The proposed action simply means that fast ball is no longer to be played in this section of the country, and that the Southern League Is to fall to the level of the Cotton States and other third-class leagues. At present the Southern League is outranked in fast ness by thu two big leagues only.
 The effort to establish salary at s1500 month would prove serious mistake, for 1t would put a damper upon the fine enthusiasm In favor of the sport that now springlng up in this section, and it would drive away excellent players in the league. It is in short a proposition to lessen the sport in order that stockholders may faten their poeketbooks.
 Baseball should like everything else be left free and open. Combines may be fashionable, but they are unnatural and un-American. Competition Is the life of baseball as well as of trade. Let each town procure whatever team it is willing to pay for. leaving the  pennant to the fittest. The survival of the Attest is the law of the world, and the combine do not like it because it carries out of their reach the covet- ed emblem. The league will quicker go to pieces through a lessening of in- terest in the game than 1t will through the payment of adequate salaries to men that earn them. The salary rock is no rock at all. The better the players the greater the interest in the game, and the proposition of the combine should be voted down in the interest alike of this section and the national game A limit is non-en- forceable anyway, and an open field is the only honest and legitimate method.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
ouestlon of Contamination.

"A man asked me tho other day If 1t were not m easy matter for the ely B water supply to become contaminated even after 1t has gone into the mainss' said water consumer
 He had seen tho mains exposed at q number of places. hnd used the large main on tho other side of Red mountain as a foot path. as many other persons. and had even seen slight leaks in the pipe where 1t seemed probable that contaminat- ing substances might wogk in. He said that in one case he had seen foul water standing over the pipes and thought 1t would be very easy matter for some of 1t to pollute the water inside the big pipes.
 Ut is absolutely impossible for any outside substance to work into these mains on account of the high pressure from within. There is a terrific pressure on the Inside of these pipes all the time and if there should be hole in one of them and polluted water should be stand ing over the pipe at the point where the opening Is located, none of the outside substance could get in for the pressure against it would be too great"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03
A PERMANENT EXHIBIT.

From the Des Moines Register and
 Leader.
 California has evolved an idea as to state exhibits at general expositions which the Iowa St. Louis commission might investigate with profit. It is proposed by that state to gather mineral collection which will remain at all future exposi- tions. Instead of being dissipated to the four winds and It's record only pre- served between the covers of a cheaply published official document which no one ever win read. the collection will be re- turned to California from St. Louis and here held for show at the next worlds fair. scheme which insures the largest possible benefit at the least possible ex- penditure of public funds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03
MODEL SALOON IN MIssoURI.
Nothing In It to Use In a Flsht-Poor
 Mans Money Not Wanted.

From the Kansas City Journal
 Down at walker, in Vernon county. Mo, is a saloonkeeper named Hook, who deserves wider reputation than he en- joys. Hooks place, which Is called the Gun c1ub.~ is unique because of the precautions its proprietor takes to keep within the laws and prevent brawls on his premises A strange patron is sur prised to have his beer handed out In 8 tin cup.
 If you read the newspapers" Hook explains, you must have observed that a large per cent of the fights in bar rooms originate over some imaginary in- suit, which is resented with blow with a beer glass. or a thrown beer glass which infiets a bad wound. You can't hurt anybody with a tin cup"
 There is not movable piec of furn- iture in the place, char table. stove leg, or anything else, that might be used as weapon.
 If anybody Is ever hurt in the Gun Club" says Hook, 1t will be with weap- ons brought in, or with natures own tools" On the walls are these notice !: 'Profane language will not be tolerated in this house" Minors viii not be serv- ed and cannot loaf in this room.' Both are lived up to- Hook will not stand profanity, and he will not sell to a mi nor. even though he has the parents legal consent.
 Furthermore. he never sells on credit he diseonrages men of small means rom patronizing nim, and he will not allow a confirmed toper on the place. The nlooel saloonkeeper seems at last to have been fpund
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03
Fighting Strength in Manchuria.

The best assurance that Russia will find some way of the Manchurian bus mess other than war is found in the plain facts. Great Russia is in no condition to fight little Japan in the far East There are many reasons why she is not She may have 100000 soldiers in Manchuria, and she may not have half that number but be the number what 1t may it cannot be considerably increased, because the Siberian trip is fourteen days long, over single track railroad, poorly constructed and poorly equipped.
 Japan can put in the field 632,OOO men, well drilled and well equipped, drawn from total population of 45.- 000,000 = all accustomed to Eastern food and Eastern methods. The bat ties would take place almost sight of Japan, and Japan's forces would be fed and handled without difficulty. The Japanese forces would be landed In Korea, and they could cross the Yalu in their own time and manner. If the Russians should march into Korea battles would take place that much nearer Japan and her base of supplies.
 At sea Japan's 164 ships would soon put an end to any naval force Russia has in Chinese waters, or can concen- trate there. Russia has PCT ships of al. classes, but it IS not believed any of them are well manned, or that they would be we'll handled in battle She Is absolutely without record in naval warfare, and Japan would make short work of her ships in case war is de- clared.
 When Japan had gained control of the sea her armies on the coast would be protected by her ships, and the Russians would assuredly lose all their ports on the Pacific, including Dalny and Port Arthur. What else Japan would be able to accomplish would be problematical, but it Is plain that Russia will not seek war with Japan when she is not ready for 1t. Five years hence she will be ready, and we may be sure she will in the meanwhile get out of Manchuria in a sense, ana that Japan will proceed to strengthen her position in Korea Japan will certainly assail Russia If she stays In Manchuria beyond Sep tember. Her people are hot to avenge the wrongs done Japan at the end Of the war with China at the ipstance oi l Russia.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03
Business Houses Needed.

T have been trying for some time to rent store for retail business in the central part of the city put nave been unable to find one" said well known man. II have offered to pay a large bonus if a certain firm with lease would vacate in my behalf, but 1t would not work.
 Stores are in greater demand here now than ever before. This speaks well for the prosperity of Birmingham, but It cuts me out of conducting mercantile ente, prise"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03
About Persons.

F. A. Heard, Jr., of Anniston Is stop ping at the IIiliman.
 A. J. Carter of Chattanooga is at the Morris.
 Joe Hunter of Attalla Is at the Metro politan.
 M. D. Roger of Chicago Is registered at the Hillman
 F. NJ McCleneghan of Knoxville Is stopping at the Morris.
 II. L. Williams of Washington is stop ping at the Metropolitan.
 A. W. Metzger of Cincinnati is regis tered at the Hillman.
 Alexander Troy of Montgomery is at the Morris
 a. C. Tunstall of Greensboro is stop ping at the Metropolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03
BRITISH RULE IN SOUTH AFRICA

From the London Daily News.
 We can suppose anything of this gov ernment. They have sanctioned a griev- ous tax on the natives of the Transvaal, who are now taxed four times as heavily as the natives of the Cape Colony, and with far more severity than in the time of MT. Kruger. They are bringing natives from Central Africa. There seems to be no infamy which the government may not perpetrate in obedience to their lords and masters the mining magnates of the Rand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

not. The contract Is ofen the result of necessity, and an employers con science Is not relieved by It's unjust terms, This ls why the Buffalo law firm gets nc sympathy on account of It's lusses, and tho Buffalo case ls but H typo of many more of similar na- ture, The underpaid are rarely loyal and faithful. and thus the law of com pensstlons works out it's own re- xangea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

 advances himself in the public estima- ton by performing it. Arbitration has never failed where the issues have been committed in time to men capable of handling them. The policy is really pop ular. The spirit of fair play is strong in the American people, and any man or set of men refusing to submit a case to arbitration, or to abide by a decision of arbitrators regularly rendered after full hearing, would forfeit both sym pathy and respect. And every appeal to arbitration which succeeds is so much
 to the good in the fight for lasting
 agreement between capital and labor
 whereby both may benefit. The seats of
 the arbitrators are the seats of the mighty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03
What Some People Think.

'.The word is full of people who think that they are not properly placed said eray-haired man yesterday. If it is not one cause of complaint against fate it is almost surely some other, and l have about come to the conclusion that tho Mark Tapley's have all departed to a better land
 "The most pathetic cases are the young and old who feel that they are fitted by nature. education and lineage to shine in society, but are kept outside even the fringe of the frolie by cruel fate. They absorb the social columns of the news papers and are more familiar with the doings of Mrs. Moneybags and Miss Got FOX than even those women themselves. They miss most of the enjoyment of life trying to peep over the fence into their neighbors rose garden, not realizing that the roses are sometimes only cabbages, and that the owners of the gardens are craninG their necks to get d peep at the park beyond.
 We have all met the poets, musicians and other geniuses whom the world fails to appreciate. but none approach in pa- thos these poor women who strain, strive and grow old clutchlng at the coattails of uppertendom.
 Whenever I find people bewaillng their lot I think of what I once heard Peter Cooper say: Every man who has health can be rich Live on one dollar per month less than you earn and you are rich. Always feel that what you have is the best and you are happy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03
swooien Hands After Walking.

Did you ever notice said physician, that when you come in from long walk that your hands feel as though they are swollen? As a matter of fact they are if they have simply been swinging at your side during the walk.
 ''The constant sameness of position for an hour or two causes the circulation of blood to be slow and gravitation and the centrifugal force exerted on 1t by the constant swinging of the arms causes more blood than usual to go to and remain in the hands. which, of course, makes them larger If stick or some object is carried or if by any means the hands can be kept active the circulation will be normal and they will not seem stiff and swollen when you return from yoar walk"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

R. H. wnhOyte of Sheffield is register ed at tho Morris. A. D. Graham of Greenville is stopping at the Morris.
  George LeBaron of Pensacola is in the city on business trip.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

The Kearsarge steamed across tho sea and had four hundred tons of coal left ou board. The effete mon archies or the east should make a note of this.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

The plan of the conclaye should be tried on our legislatures. Shut them IL until they transact the business in sig, and shut out the lobby.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03
AcE-HERALD's INDUSTRIAL RE
 VIEW.

Scottsboro Citizen: The industrial edl- ton of the Birmingham Age-Herald' pup lished last Sunday was superb num- Der. and showed the wonderful industrlal development of that city in the past few years. The Age Herald is a wide-awake, progressive paper and keeps pace with Birmingham's rapid growth
 New Decatur Advertiser; The Birming- ham Age-Herald is an ideal newspaper edited with scholarly ability and With fairness which almost lifts 1t out or the rut of a partisan organ. It graces 1ss sixth anniversary.by the issue of maga- zine edition of twenty four pages. which IS a credit even to itself and which con tains an admirable write-up and history of its own town Even the editor and proprietor of the paper can hardly feel better pleased at the success of theh en- terprse that does the editor or the Ne" Decatur Advertiser.
 Sheffield Reaper: The last Sunday issue of the Birmingham Age-Herald was llke Birmingham itself-a good deal of it. fifty six pages filled with descriptive reading of the business and industrial life of the Magic City. Great Is Birmingham, but greater are her papers.
 Florence Times: The Birmingham news papers are continually doing large things in special editions. This time it is The Age Herald, whose Sunday edition made up ffty-slx pages including it's annual In dustrial Review, which was gem in typography and a valuable compendium of useful knowledge.
 Hartsel1e Herald Sundays Birming- ham Age-Herald was special industrial number of tifty-slx pages, with beautiful supplement in magazine form, giving the most complete and graphic review of Bir- mngham's wonderful progress during the past year we have yet seen. The matter is arranged ie a neat and attractive typo graphic form which adds much to it's value.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

The postoffce scandals are to be covered up until after the presiden- tial election, and the statute of limita- tion has got in it's work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

Wheat harvesters in Kansas have not even heard of slump In Wall street, and if they should read about 1t they would at once conclude to let that street rock It's own boat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

fense. These things are disloyalty. in the opinion of professional negro agita- tors. They do not want the negro ques- tion solved-they live by it.
 Perhaps that is too hard a saying to make concerning the majority of those who have been unwisely led into disap- proval of Washington. Very likely his failure to insist on the sacredness of negro rights and the necessity of con tending for them does appear to many a weakness unbecoming a prophet and leader. They miss. in his sagacious, practical counsel. the 'rousement' which they are accustomed to accept as the sign of earnest purpose and the certificate of divine commission. They suspect him, therefore,; they fear that they are listening to advocacy uttered by the lips of betrayer of the black mans cause.
 The negro character is such that it was impossible that a man like Wash ington should long be the unchallenged leader of his race. It is evident that there is afoot a determined purpose. directed by professional negroes, but participated in by many of the less en- frightened to antagonize and repudate | him. The fact Is most unfortunate, for Washington is far the wisest leader his | people have yet developed in America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

&A N EVIDENCE of the progressive P1A ness of the modern newspaper man has been forcibly given since Rome became the center of interest for the civilized world. and especially since the cardinals entered the eonclave behind the 'impenetrable" walls of the vatican. Although this is probably the moet august assembly the world has ever witnessed and the results of its deliberations are guarded with the utmost care, all the not keep the correspondents from finding out what Is taking place. While the pope was i'll every word, every gesture was heralded to the world. Yesterday was the first day of the conclave. As soon as the sitting was finished Associated Press dispatches were sent out from Rome an- nouncing that there had been no election and giving the votes cast for each of the candidates. There are so many attend impossible to prevent rumors from leak ing out and the correspondents are stand ing with cooked ears just when such in- formation is to be covertly dispensed. It Is not related how the newspaper men manage to get so much inside" informa- tion. but 1t is quite likely that more than one servant has profted by the desire of the world to know what Is going on within the vatican With all it's boasted secrecy and mysterious splendor the con- clave cannot keep it's affairs inviolate. 
 The agitation in regard to the Hon. Reed Shoot has completely subsided and but for the occasional action of a Presbytery in having him removed from office he is resting securely in the United States sen ate. On account of his Mormon principles Senator Shoot was the target for a storm of abuse and criticism when first elected and for a time it seemed that he would lead veritable dogs life, but the tempest has passed over now without doing any one harm
 It is reported in Washington that Gov ernor Odell of New York has been offered the presidency of the Union Pacific rail- road. Hartman seems anxious to have him accept the place and it is said that tHc 6ONVi HUT ID BlNll5 Nut Audtttt SeIlOuS consideration. This windfall wll be very acceptable. as 1t is probable that Odell will lose the republican nomination on ac- count of his recent troubles with Boss Platt, which have put a auietus upon his future political career. Governor Odel is now in the west It is expected that he will meet several officials of the Union Pacific al Omaha and give them a definite answer The Union Pacific is one of the great railway system of the United States and from present indications Governor odell would do well to accept its presi- dency.
 That there is money in tobacco is illus trated by the life of John Doerhoefer of Louisville Ky, who is reported in a dying condition. MT. Doerhoefer, forty-four years ago, was a stemmer in a factory at twenty-five cents week Now his fortune amounts to millions. The tobacco kings are not so powerful or so much talked about as the coal and oil magnates but they are potent factors in the commercial life of this country. The enormous sum annually expended for the weed in it's vari-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03
BE WISE.

From the Bostcn Transcript. Never answer a fool according to your folly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

The heir to the servian throne has been pronounced a degenerate, but this fact will not disqualify him from doing the royal act.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

Governor Yates has returned from Yurrup, but he considers Danyille a closed incident in Uncle Joe Cannons jurisdiction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

The conclave will find Leos sue cessor, but It perhaps cannot find his equal In many respects.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

In Louisiana they now lynch ne- gresses. The Jurisdiction of Judge Lynch is boundless.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

Wheat harvesters in Kansas have not even heard of slump in Wall street. and if they should read about 1t they would at once conclude to let that street rock its own boat.
 ---.----s- -------- The Kearsarge steamed across tho sea and had four hundred tons of coal left ou board. The effete mon archiea or the east should make a note of this,
 The plan of the conclave should be tried on our legislatures. Shut them IL until they transact the business in sis--, and shut out the lobby. The postofhce scandals are to be covered up until after the presiden- tial election, and the statute of limita- tion has got in it's work
 
 The heir to the servian throne has been pronounced a degenerate, but this fact will not disQualify him from doing the royal act
 
 Governor Yates has returned from Yurrup, but he considers Danyille a closed incident in Uncle Joe Cannon s jurisdiction
 The American mosquito has arrived in London to avenge the previous ar rival of the English sparrow in this country
 In four months oberlin M. Carter will be released from prison, while Mrs. Maybrick fingers on in durance vile.
 The conclave will find Leo's sue cessor, but It perhaps cannot find his equal In many respects.
  In Louisiana they now lynch ne gresses. The jurisdiction of Judge Lynch is boundless.
  The latest army rifle Is deadly at h-o miles, but it will not shoot around a corner.
 Prof Langley still fingers on earth. The other world has few attractions for him.
 Cartoons are enjoyed even in Rus sia, where Pennypackerism is un- known.
 Bulls are badly treated in Wall street. Their innings are short and thin.
 Mother Jones' cohorts still finger at Coney Island, preferring it to Oyster Bay.
 A smell-less and jar-less automobile will soon be demanded Small slumps In spots are now the fashion in Wall street.
 
 The wool crop ol Wall street was never shorter
 
 A compromise ticket for 1904-FollS and Bristow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03
Waaes for Thousands.

"All the United Mine Workers will be busy getting out coal this week and the hum of industry will be heard all along the line," remarked a railroad man last night. Comparatively few people re- alized. perhaps, how many men were af- fiieted by the suspension of work at the mines in July. The fact that 1900 mine workers were out was understood of course, but the further fact that thous- ands of other men were idle on account of the suspension was not generally known. Three or four thousand railroad men were thrown out of employment. think it is reasonable to say that fully 1s.OoO wage workers were affected.
 ''The resumption of work at the mines will be followed by the resumption of coal and iron traffic on all the roads op- erating in the Birmingham district. The month of August will find everybody busy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

The American mosquito has arrived in London to avenge the previous ar rival of the English sparrow in this country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

In testing a watermelonN there is but one good rule-plug 1t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

The latest army rifle is deadly at h-a miles, but it will not shoot around a corner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

In four months 0berlin M Carter will be released from prison, while Mrs Maybrick fingers on in durance vile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

Prof. Langley still fingers on earth. The other world has few attractions for him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

Cartoons are enjoyed even in Rus sia, where Pennypackerism is un- known.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

Bulls are badly treated in Wall street. Their innings are short and thin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

Mother Jones' cohorts still finger at Coney Island, preferring it to Oyster Bay,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-03

? A smell-less and jar-less automobile
 will soon be demanded.