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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
SCHOOL OF MATRIM
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bills. electric liz bills. dresmakers' bills, milliners' bills, hair-dressing bills, grocery bills, doctors bills, and all the other bills and ills to which matrimony is heir. That will keep them from having heart failure the first of every month.
 Then they might take a few lessons in diplomacy and the gentle art of paying compliments. Why should one walk de- liberately over a buzz saw when there is a pleasant and safe way around 1t? There are precious few women who can be driven. and not a single one who can't be led, and yet how few are the husbands with tact enough to manage their own wives? It is pathetic to know how women hunger for a word of praise or a compliment from their husbands, and how seldom they get 1t. A school for teaching men to fiatter their wives ought to be endowed ly the government. and education in it made compulsory by law.
 slight course in dressmaking and mill linery would also be found most useful by these young men. In the present la mentable state of ignorance on such sub Jects, man is of little or no help to his wife about her clothes. He doesn't even know enough to tell her that her. hat Is on straight when it is on at an angle of 45 degrees, or why a thing that looks like a pancake and is trimmed with a fowl as big as a turkey and a bushel of blue. roses is a confection that is worth S45 and makes every other woman turn green with envy. Think what lovely heart-to-heart talks a woman could have with a husband who really understood chiffons and could help her design her clothes!
 And why shouldn't man study up on the fashions and the best way to drape cosy corners and other topics purely feminine? He would be just as much in- terested in them as the average woman is in prize fighting, or horse racing, or the stock market, yet half the wives one knows try to read up on those topics so as to be able to interest their husbands.
 Above all, however, the chief requisite for the man about to marry is to be wild ly, frantically, romantically in love. It doesn't make so much difference about whether woman is in love or not when she marries, for the chances are she will love enough anyhow but a mans love should be at a boiling point. He begins matrimony on all the supply of love he is liable to ever have. She coes business on constantly increasing capital of af- lection. A thousand things tend to wean him away from her. A thousand things tend to draw her to him; and so, while she will love on to the end unless he wi pH If love in his heart, he is apt to go broke early in the game. If he does this, if he loves her enough, all the balance matters nothing to woman, for love makes even a fool wise where the beloved one is con- cerned. Besides, if he makes mistakes she will forgive him for them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
WOLVES IN MISSOURI.

From the Kansas ity Journal
 It Is hard for people who live In the thickly settled parts of Missouri to real ize that there are sections of the state where wolves rsill abound, yet this Is fact. They have lately killed hundreds or sheen in Lawrence county. The west ern part of Lawrence county is almost one big sheep ranch. East of Phelps runs a stream called White oak' branch of the Spring river. The wolves lie in dens along the stream, from which they come forth at night and commit great depredations. few days ago big gray wolf ran across a sheep farm near Darby sc,oolhouse in broad day light, and was seen to chase lamb and make off with 1t. He was chased but got away. The number of the wolves seems to be increasing. and the newspapers Of the southern and southwestern parts of the state are agitating for an organized effort of the people to exterminate them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14

the dark and bloody ground of Ken lucky were as ch1valrous to their foes as these assassins who belong to the "best and most prominent families.p
 What's the matter with Kentucky?
 Here's a hint.
 When Lawyer Marcum was shot his wife saturated her handkerchief with his blood, remarldng grimly:
 T will keep 1t as reminder to my children of their duty until it Is per- formed"
 Their duty!
 The duty of hiding in the bushes in order to shoot some relative of their father, slayer; the duty of going back two thou- sand years to the law of an eye for an eye, life for a life.
 When Kentucky mothers teach their sons such "duties," when murderous hat red Is handed down through the mother milk to succeeding generations
 That's what's the matter with Ken lucky.
 Private war Is substituted for legal jus tice. It Is anarchy run riot And all this taught at a mothers kneei
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
Annlston Will Be HospItabIe.

The present prospects are for a large ly attended meeting of the Alabama Press association in Anniston next week, :" said J. A. Rountree, secretary of the association, last night.
 T notice that the new Alabama hotel will not be ready by the time the asso- ciation meets, May 21 and 22, but the An niston Press club has arranged to domi- cile the editors and ladies at the Annis- ton college. This building is one of the largest in the state and was erected at a cost of over s10O,00O. It was formerly used as hotel, and was famous as the Anniston inn.
 This building has about 150 rooms. They are large and command a grand view of the beautiful valley in which the city Is situated.
 AS this is so, really believe the edi- tors will enjoy being at the college more than at a hotel.
 q also notice the programme that has been prepared by the citizens of Annis- ton for our reception. Over $500 has been subscribed for our entertainment, includ- ing an elaborate banquet on the night of the 22nd. This feature will conclude a round of festivities arranged for the en- joyment of all who go
 "The meeting this year promises to be one of the very best ever held and l sin cerely hope every member of the associa- ton will go to Anniston nxt week."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14

guardian. The Pennypackers, in other words, say that he is non compos mem tis when cartoons are placed before his eyes. Is the cartoon then so all-pow- erful, or is it because the Pennypack- CTS are so vulnerable?
 This is a question that is not con hned to sluggish Pennsylvania, for it is the intention of the republican poli- tlciens to extend the Grady bill to all the states they control Senator Platt endeavored to pass a similar bill in New York, and now that the ice has been broken it will be attempted In other states. In every respect it is a muzzle upon Ae freedom of speech and the press. and it means that we are to be Russianized unless indeed the Amer ican voter makes known the fact that he is as capable of judging cartoon as Governor Pennypacker is himself, ana he wants no Pennypackerism in his political literature.
 The truth is, the cartoon is a great force, and instead of minimizing it, it sLould be encouraged and fostered, leaving the people to separate the good in it from the evil. Pennypacker- is1 insults every American voter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
New York's MIX Consumption.

New York Telegram to Cleveland Plain
 Dealer.
 A railroad official In whose department milk Is scheduled has compiled valu- able array of statistics as to the amount of this fluid New York absorbs each day of the year. The result, in round figures, Is 1130,000 quarts per day, or 42,000 OoU per year. This averages cents quart. or $2S, $40, 900, apportoned as follows: The farmer receives $1l. 400 GOO, freight charges s, 100000 profit s14,430,000.
 Milk Is brought in on one road from a distance of AT miles, and is kept fresh and sweet In the operation. More than $500 miles of railroad and water lines are now transporting the fluid to New York, and the limit of distance which 1t can be carried without damage is constantly in- creasing. The railroads are doing all that lies within their power for the develop ment of the business. The old-time bag gage car has given place to the refrig- orator car equipped with the latest and best apparatus. Regular milk trains are run on passenger schedules.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
sEMBRlcH's SAD SUSPENSE.

From the New York Press.
 The thousands of Americans who heard Mime. Sembrich sing last winter were not aware of the conditions under which she appeared. The thought of her young son kept her in perpetual suspense, for she knew his days were numbered. The boy had consumption, and last summer, when she returned to her Dresden home. the physicians told her his case was hopeless. The mothers distress may be surmised. She had signed a contract 10 appear in America in the winter, but she deter mined to break the engagement in order to be with her child during his remaining days. Her manager was in Paris and she went there. Her grief moved him deeply, but he showed her the winter schedule. She was featured" in all the cities. Her non-appearance would have caused a great loss to him. You may come to America or not, as you choose" said he. You must be the judge" After long silence Mime. Sembrich said: 'Very well; I shall go."
 Throughout the winter she waited in dread of the cable message telling the sad news. It was strain that few women could bear. But Sembrich triumphed In her grief, as in her art. and few of her friends knew of her sorrow. On the night she sang in Don Pasquale" a message was delivered for her. The manager in- tercepted 1t and ordered that she should not know until the end of the opera. Af- ter she had bowed her acknowledgements to the audience the call boy gave her the envelope. She entered her dressing room and shut the door. She did not come out for an hour. Then veil was draped across her face
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
About Persons.

T. P. Lampkln of Jasper Is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 Antonio Rivers of Havana, Cuba, Is at the Morris.
 S. B. Davenport of Chicago is at the St. Nicholas.
 John McMoth of Montevallo is stopping at the Hillman.
 w. F. Slaughter of TaHedega Is at the Metropolitan
 w. w. Moore of St. Louis is stopping at the Morris.
 T. A. Doffron of Richmond Is at the Hillman.
 l.. A. Nein of New Decatur is registered at the Metropolitan.
 Judge Charles R. Roulhas of Sheffield Is at the Morris.
 ]. M. Bradshaw of Cincinnati is stopping at the Morris.
 Paul J. Murphy of Anniston Is regis tered at the Hillman.
 J. B. Paisley of Selma is at the Morris
 w. T. Brown of Ragland Is at the St. Nicholas. as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14


 A NEWSPAPER dispatch says that WN in small western town a num-
 Der of young men who are soon to be married have formed club for the purpose of studying how to be happy, though married, and preparing themselves for the new duties they are about to un- dertake.
 This is indeed cheering news, as 1t in- dieates that men have begun to realize that 1t takes something more than a we'd ding ring and enough bread and butter to eat to make a woman contented. Up to the present time most men have acted as II they thought in preventing woman from being an old maid they had not only done their full duty by her. but estab- lished a claim on her gratitude that only a lifetime of devoted service on her part could liquidate It Is, therefore, gratifying to learn that the modern young man pro- poses to do his part toward turning mar ried life Into a picnic.
 But how shall these conscientious young men best prepare themselves for the du- ties of matrimony? The morallsts will say by being industrious, frugal and econ- omical, by giving up drinking, card play Ing, smoking and staying out of nights. Undoubtedly these virtues are the sheet anchor of the home so to speak, but they do not pad the angles of domesticity Unfortunately the best men do not always make the best husbands. Mrs Carlyle warned girls against marrying geniuses, and the wife of many an austere saint would have been glad enough to have traded him off for a cheerful and genial sinner Moreover, while drunkenness. gambling and nicotine poisoning are great ly to be abhorred, the wife who is cut off from the use of the soothing cocktail, The quieting card and the amlability-in- ducing cigar has been deprived of three of her best weapons.
 To a woman, 1t seems that if these young men really are in earnest. the first thing they should study is the simple arithmeticai problem that it takes more to support two than it does one. The most deadly enemy that matrimony has ever known was the mendacious individ- ual who first asserted that a man could save money by getting married and that 1t desn't take any more for two people to live on than it does for one Millions of men have married on this theory and when they found out that instead of being savings bank, matrimony was dis bursting agency, they ve blamed the wife.
 There is no use in disguising the fact that matrimony is a luxury, and an ex- pensive one. It takes money to run house, and no man should marry until he is able to pay the piper. I would sug- gest as simple morning exercise that the young men class in matrimony sit down and repent over to themselves for an hour, each day, butchers bills. rent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
Shower of Meteorlc Dust.

Bethlehem (Pa) Telegram to the Phil
 adephia Press.
 A shower of meteoric dust. like fine black sand, fell on this place on Saturday evening from 10:05 to 10:oS. The shower could be distinctly heard falling on the leaves of the trees. There was no wind and no clouds. and the moon and stars were shining clearly. Prof. Joseph w. Richards of the department of miner alogy. and Prof. w. S. Franklin of the electrical department of Lehigh univer- sity, were on the street at the time. The former detected the phenomenon. and on brushing his hat found several grains of the black, highly magnetic dust. Since the area of the hat and brim was ll2 square inches. it showed that the fall in three minutes was equal to nearly $500 pounds on an area of a square mile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
GROVER CLEVELAND TRoD UPON.
College Boys Walk on Ills Feet at
 Baseball Game.

Princeton, N. J., May r.-somebody stepped on Grover Cleveland's foot dur ing the excitement after the baseball game with the University of Pennsyl- yania this afternoon. No very serious in- jury was done, but Mir. Cleveland, 1t is said, didn't like it, and said so so loudly that many people around him heard it. He was just coming out of the row in which he had been sitting into the aisle leading down to the field, when an ava lanche of college youths came down from the seats above. They were Pennsylvania students, and most of them wore heavy shoes.
 Two, and maybe three, of them stepped on one of MT. Cleveland's feet. MT. c1eve- land is reported to have said something about the recklessness of youth and the inconvenience of having feet which are in the way. The boys didn't hear him. or, at any rate, they didn't stop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
Mrs. slnnlae,s Concert.

All music lovers are looking forward with great pleasure to Mrs Sinnige's con- cert next Monday night for the benefit of the Orphans home at East Lake.
 Many tickets have been sold, and the Jefferson theatre, where the concert is to take place, will doubtless be filled to overhowlng. Seats may be reserved at the box office Saturday without extra charge
 Mrs. Sinnige was never in such fine voice as she Is now, and the programme arranged for next Monday is exceptional ly brilliant and varied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 Marrying for money is hazardous in- vestment.
 You could never make woman believe that P hat which costs s45 was not becom- ing to her.
 When a man pays back personal loan it is a sign he Is planning to borrow more from you.
 A woman considers that she has no clothes at all if some other woman has more than she has.
 Matchmakers who say that two can live as cheapiy as one forget to mention that when the babies come along it Is half a dozen who must live on the income of one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
From the Washington Times.

From the Washington Times.
 LEVEN-YEAR-OLD Charles Will l") lett will extend a cordial well % come to pr. Adolph Lorenz, if the distinguished Austrian surgeon comes meetings of the American Surgical asso- ciation.
 Charles Willett is the little patient up- on whom Dr. Lorenz operated for club feet when he visited Washington in De- cember. Yesterday morning Dr. J. Ford Thompson. assisted by Dr. E. L. Mason and Dr. J. H. Holland, removed the plaster casts from the boys feet at the childrens hospital, and found that bloodless surgery worked a complete cure.
 Before Dr. Lorenz treated the child's feet they were so crooked that he walked only with great effort. Now they are as straight as the feet of other children, and are in such perfect condition that it Is likely that the surgeons will not find 1t necessary to place them in casts again.
 The boy will not be allowed to walk until after next week. He will appear before the American Surgical association next Tuesday, and 1t is hoped that Dr. Lorenz will be present before that body to discuss his marvellous cure with the leading surgeons of the United States. After the child has appeared before the surgical association it is likely that he will be allowed to walk with his feet untrammeled by casts.
 
 amined the childs feet that 1t would be necessary to incase them again to in- sure that they will not again go back
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
Kniqhts of Columbus.

The Birmingham Council of Knights of Columbus will hold a largely attended meeting next Sunday Seventy candidates will be initiated. and between seventy five and one hundred visitors will be present from Alabama and other states. The order of Knights of Columbus is growing rapidly. The local council Is less than two years old, but it has nearly 300 members.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
Beans Deadly Missiles.

Baldwinsvile (N. Y.) Telegram to the
 New York World.
 Andrew Baldwin, the 10-year-old son of Leonard Baldwin, was killed today by the discharge of a gun loaded with beans.
 Andrew was playing with some children at neighbours house. They found shot, gun charged with dry beans which had been used for shooting rats that over-ran the place. While playing with the weapon 1t was accidentally discharged. the load striking Andrew in the left tenn pie. He died in a few hours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
Just Rumors!

From the Springfield Republican.
 Sensational rumors'' of the hour: First, Arthur Pue German and David Bennett Hill have enthusiastically de- clared for MT. Cleveland as the next democratic candidate. Second. William Jennings Bryan has been seen in the streets of Lincoln wearing a Cleveland button, labelled. Our only hope" Third, Josiah Quincy's temperature has fallen to 20 below zero from cool thinking about this sudden and most amazing revelation of harmony in the party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
National Theatre.

"A public meeting is to be held in New York for the purpose of discussing the proposed national theatre" said an ac- tor. "The meeting will have one result at any rate. The debate will bring out bewildering variety of opinions as to why 1t should be established, how 1t should be run and what the outcome would be- I do not think the project is feasible. The National theatre will not be built in this century,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
FAULT OF THE SURGEON.

From the Boston Herald.
 And so it seems that congress made a specific appropriation for probing thingf in the postofice department at Postmast- CT General Payne's request, and the pres ent surgical operation there is in accord ance with previous arrangements Mean while the patient hollers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
MANILA NEEDS coFFINs.

From the Washington Times
 Cases of plague are very frequently ap- bearing in the city, and, owing to the att titude of the natives, who. 1t seems, are adverse to cremation, Major Carter has found it necessary to make a request of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
Rather Big "varmlnt."

From the Singapore Budget.
 Wild elephants have recently been dis porting themselves round about Kechau. Mir. Whiting, while walking along the path from his house to Lubok Belida saw five of them in the jungle the other afternoon, but they did not. luckily for him. see him. A few days later herd of them partly knocked down the bunga- low that used to be in the occupation of MT. Broadbridge, former Kechau man ager,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
HE THAT LOVES A ROSY CHEEK

By Thomas Carew
 He that loves rosy cheek
 Or coral lip admires. Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and steadfast mind. Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combined, Kindle never-dying fires; Where these are not, despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
Dr. Phillips Returns.

Dr. J. H. Phillips superintendent of the Birmingham public schools. has returned from Montevallo. where on Monday morn- ing he delivered the principal address of the commencement season of the Girls Industrial school. A large audience heard Superintendent Phillips on the subject of Laws of Development" Senator John T. Morgan was expected to make an address. but was not present at the exercises.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14

The union workers ol Omaha evi- dently think that injunction sauce for the goose is also good for the gander, and they have procured one little more ridiculous lnan all that went be- fore
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14

Breathitt county, Kentucky, had but 14,322 population in 1900, and 1t has less this year. Those that have not r,.n away are in the cemeteries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14

The new Warrior viii not have a fifty-foot channel one day and nine foot channel the next day. It will do the minimum six-foot act the year rCund
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
DIR. LORENZ MADE THE
 PATIENTS LEGS STRAIGHT

into their former shape. The feet, how ever, are in such excellent condition that further precaution may not be necessary.
 They don't hurt bit" the little pa- tient remarked joyfully yesterday morn- ing, as he proudly held up the small feet which have been encased in plaster since December. All the children in the ward where the convalescents live at the Chill dren's hospital gathered around the little patient and shared his joy at being free of the heavy weight he has dragged about the hospital for months.
 Charles is Il years old, but small for his age. He is an unusually active child. and has walked almost constantly since his feet were operated upon. He played about the hospital grounds and used his feet so much that the two-inch thickness of plaster and bandage on the bottom of his feet was worn through on the bottom and let part of the soles of his feet touch the ground.
 When Dr. Lorenz treated the little fel- lows feet at Providence hospital last De- cember he kneaded them between bags of sand and tore all the muscles and lga- ments loose from the bones which were held in an unnatural position. After the feet had been made piant Dr. Lorenz and his assistant, Dr. Mueller, worked them Into normal shape and restrained them in the casts.
 Eileen Callahan, the little girl upon whom Dr. Lorenz operated at Providence hospital for congenital dislocation of the hip, is still wearing the cast which was placed on her by the Austrian surgeon and his assistant Until this is removed 1t will be impossible to tell whether her deformity has been cured
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14
MORE TROUBLE.

From the New York Telegram.
 A Chicago woman has a scheme for liv- ing on 10 cents day by the alo or science. This will work all right until a trust raises the price of science
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-14

The fact should be recalled that Booker I. Washington and his white neighbors in Macon county get on well together