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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-12
Dull Times and the Campaign.

While dollar wheat and high priced meats may cause the western farmers to smile, both will operate to increase the cost of living in the eastern states, where the campaign is to be fouClt out. Dear bread and dearer meats will not attract voters to the administration standard in West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York or Connecticut
 The entire east, and especially the middle west, IS beginning to see what Dingleyism is It neither maintains business prosperity, ensuring constant employment at high wages, nor does It keep the cost of living within req sonable limits. It builds up on the other hand monopolies that enhance the prices of almost every article con sumed in family, while it leads on to gluts in production that in turn create depression, inactivity, lock-outs, strikes and trouble of all sorts. The real inwardness of Dingleyism is be- coming apparent.
 The wheat crop of 1903 was 635, 5,000,- 900 bushels, from which we sent abroad 10,JOO,OOO bushels. The crop of this year will not exceed O,000,00o bushels, and it is plain we cannot spare for export over 50.000000 bush els, and in order to do that we must submit to dollar wheat at home. Tread is to be dear Meats are to be dear, although the corn crops will probably be immense. A trust, how ever, controls the prices of meats. Trade is dull, and all industries are running on diminished time, if at all. When the administration spellbind- CTS endeavor to explain the blessings of Dingleyism in the light of all these events, they will havo at least an up- hill task on their hands. The time has come to unmask the entire Dingley conspiracy for robbing the many to benefit the few.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-12
Work for Southern Democracy.

In the address issued yesterday by Gen. Charles M. Shelley, president of the recently organized democratic club in Birmingham, he points out very plainly and forcefully the work to be done by democrats of Alabama and other southern states in the present national campaign.
 Viewing solely the overwhelming forces of democrats in this state, it wonl6 appear that there is nothing to be done but to cast the ballots and deliver the electoral vote to Parker and Davis, and return the nine demo- cratic representatives to congress. But, as General Shelley points out, there is other work to do, and that work is to elicit the sympathy and support of our friends in the east and in the west in the effort on the part of the south to become a real part of the union, to tear down every line of sectionalism, to aid us in a preserva- tion of peaceful conditions and of that spirit of progress promised us under the present fundamental laws of these states-which things cannot be hoped for should Rooseveltism continue in control of the national government and carry out the policy of the republican party
 The business men of Alabama are closely in touch with those of the east and of the west in all matters which tend to material prosperity; and the community-ofinteres idea should ap- peal to the better judgment, the wis dom and the justice of the business mems vote of the east and west. It would seem that our friends in the doubtful states would appreciate the position of the south and lend their aid in behalf of these states which are continually threatened and har- assed by republican usurpation, and which Rooseveltism seeks to de- priye of power and representation once guaranteed by the federal con stitution. General Shelley starts out
  on the right line. Let the good work go on. The committee appointed by the president of the Parker and Davis club has an important mission to per form. It is to conduct campaign of education in the east and in the west.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-12
Liao Yano Another Waterloo.

Field Marshall Oyama has arrived at the front to take command of th5 three united armies operating against Kuropatkin at or near Liao Yang. Iiao Yang is fortified base, but if Kuroki is behind it-that Is to say, fl he has seized and holds the railroad leading to Mukden, then Liao Yang is no longer a base, but is simply for tiiied stronghold in which the Rus sians have found shelter from the pitiless fury of war.
 The sole question of interest re- lates to the railroad thence to Mux- den. If it has been cut-if it is held by Kurold commanding a large army an army larger possibly than Kuropat- hn's-then indeed is the war simpli- fled and clarined. The Russians are then shut up in Port Arthur and Liao- Yang, and endorsements cannot reach them over 1000 miles of single-track railway.
 Kuropatkin could perhaps swing clear of the railroad towards the northwest, hoping to reach Mukden or some other rairoad point in that way. But the task would be diff. cult and hazardous, harassed as he would be by the Japanese possessing secure base on the railroad
 If the Russians are shut up in Port Arthur and Liao Yang, it is not diff cult to see their ending, and the close of the war. The chances are nine out of ten that Kuropatkin will not escape Port Arthur will fall. What then? Will Russia go on fighting foe she cannot conquer? Common sense forbids, although Russian pride and ] fanaticism do not. Russia is sure that Omnipotence is directing her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-12
AN EXPLANATION.
rrom the New York Post.

From the New 1Ork POSt.
 Henry D. Clayton, the democratic na- tional committeeman from Alabama when asked what he thought of the act of the republican national committee in sending out extracts from Roosevelt s speeches and books under the frank of Representative McCleary of Minnesota. said
 Tt seems that that pamphlet contains what MT. McCleary begged leave to print, and not what was delivered on the floor of the house. You know you can frank anything in the Congressional Rec ord if you get leave to print'-even Roosevelts speeches and books. I sup pose that is the way the contents of this pamphlet got in the Record. But 1t is wrong to make these Roosevelt speeches part of the Record. because the demo- crats objected strongly and MT. McCleary did not get the unanimous consent re- quired We made fight against keeping the Congressional Record open after con gress adjourned, because we knew the republicans would work in such campaign documents as this pamphlet, but the re- publicans had the public printer with them and did as they pleased"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-12
FuIfiIIs Expectations

From the Chattanooga Times.
 The speech of Judge Alton B. Parker addressed yesterday to the committee appointed by the St. Louis convention to formally notify him O. his nomination by his party for the presidency, quite full fills the expectations of his friends and emphasizes the wisdom of his selection It marks the striking antithess between him and President Roosevelt and empha- sizes the general impression that the contest is to be largely between the per- sonality, the qualities of the two men judicial temperament against impulsive errancy; conservatism against radicalism; democracy against imperialism Judge Parker's address is a calm, studious and judicial presentation of the main issues between the two parties and a forcibe and unanswerable arraignment of MT Roosevelt himself-not by direct attack. but by the plain and manly statement Of what President of the United States ought to do and how he ought to con duct the business of his office and which is the opposite of the policy pursued by MT. Roosevelt since he has been the in- cumbent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-12
A Comparison.

Have you observed what vast differ ence there is between conditions that ex- isted in Birmingham during the big labor strike of about fifteen years ago, and the strike which Is now on?' asked an ob- servant citizen.
 During the first strike to which I allude weeds were growing in many of the prominent business streets of Bir- mingham. On First avenue the smoky and noisy dummy engines were puffng away, up and down grade on First ave- nue. and some of the houses of the town were inhabited by bats and owls, and things looked doleful. The military of the state was under arms here and the people were alarmed.
 Now how different. There Is perfect order and no soldiers are in evidence Bir- mingham life is normal. The streets are busy thoroughfares. and the splendidly equipped electric car lines are carrying thousands of people along the smoothly paved streets and avenues The bats and owls have hied themselves to their native haunts and the people are at peace."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-12
An Obituary Notice.

"A violent death occurred on Fifth avenue last night said a resident-on that street yesterday While the obituary of this citizen will be read with a great deal of interest by the people who reside on Fifth avenue. l do not think single tear will fall on his grave nor a prayer be offered up for the safe passage of the departed soul over the Stygian waters and it's ternal peace in Elysium.
 ..The people near whom he lived, who saw him every day and were each night torn ruthlessly from the sweet bonds of sumber by the jeremiads or howls of joy that alternately proceeded from his throat are not devoid of those fine feelings of humanity and sympathy for an unfortun- ate or grief stricken soul, that are ever antertained by a Christian people but thev have been so deeply sinned against that I fear they cannot forgive the dead canine. This dog was one of number tbat reside on Fifth avenue, and that have caused the people so much annoy ance.
 ., cherish a deep rooted enmity for n'.a,.v l'v member of the canine tribe. Much ,-,ss5ress and affection is lavished on some Ns tba animals that have home with sa,,,ies residing there Every genteel, re- aaaotable canine that stays at home, leads sts ceful, moral existence will be kind , ~. ttreated. and after death, have a grave s .,sa hack yard and a monument in the ,lrts ,i of the household. If they do not ,s,.a heed. however, from the fate of .ha,r departed brother, but continue 10 ',n,,,, Fifth avenue and the fullness there sx their days will be numbered They oa .a will fall before the prowess of the policemen"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-12
Lincoln and "LlttIe PhII."

From the National Magazine.
 Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, christened by his classmates Little Phil" was an irrepressible rocket who never came down like a stick. He was five feeet five inches scant, and weighed 142 pounds. He wore an unbuttoned soldiers blouse with mod est regulation sized strap bearing two stars. He had no sash. belt or gloves. He refused proffcred cigars = Did mt use 'em." Freshly in from his last great valley raid, MT. Lincoln hurried to greet him in tho presence of sherman and Meade. Looking down and seizing Sheri- dan's hand, he exclaimed
 General Sheridan, when this war be- gan everybody thought that cevalry@ man must be six feet and four inches.' - Still grasping Sheridan's timid hand and scrutinizing him from head to foot Mir. Lincoln dryly confessed, with mock gravi- ty:
 General, have changed my mind"
 Releasing Sheridan's hand the President turned upon his heel without another word and Sherman resumed his explana- tion to General Meade of his march to the sea-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-12
From the New York Times.

From the New Ork IlIlleS.
 N Y its situation on the highest plat ENA eau on the planet. LHasa is the N most inaccessible of capitals. Fewer travellers have been able to visit and describe it than have ventured to any other inhabited spot. That this remote and forbidden place has not only been visited but invaded is vindication of the persistence and indefatigability of Col. Younghusband and his mission" It is also a proof of the persistence and inde- fatiga bility of the British commercial spirit in seeking new markets from which not even the Germans, those "cuckoos of commerce. as the indignant British mer- chant calls them, can dislodge him. For, at the bottom of all the fine and vague pretenses with which the invading "mis- sion is disguised it appears the practical object it has been dispatched to accom- pish is the opening of a new market for Indian opium and Cingalese 'brick tea
 The political results that were vaguely expected to follow the boarding of the Dalai Lama In his lamasery are not like ly to be of any importance. For although In way the titular head of Buddhism, the Grand Lama by no means occupies the position of pope toward all the hundred and fifty millions of Buddhist believers. In Japan, as in Ceylon and Siam, and in Burmah, where it will be re- membered that MT Kipling's Tommy At kins found the cult of the great Gawd Bud" in a very lively condition, the Grand Lama exercises no sort of sway, spiritual any more than temporal. It is only over the northern Buddhists of the Asiatic mainland, over the Chinese and Mongolian and of course Thbetan faithful that his influence extends.
 All students of institutional Buddhism have been struck by the curious analogy which is historically traceable between the Catholic church and the Buddhist however, the Grand Lama, elected by curious kind of lottery. is apt to be the puppet and creature of his cardinals called Chutuktus. And they form ring of no higher ethical character than any secular ring. The temperatures are looked after with great care and sue cess. In fact the first serious attack upon the temporal power of the Bud dhist pope Is this present British inva- sion.
 Institutional Buddhism resembles lnsti- tutional Catholicism much as spiritual Buddhism resembles spiritual Christian ity, and 1t is no wonder that the first Christian missionaries in Thibet should have imagined that they had found country in which the devil for his own purposes, had produced an imitation of the religion they came to teach. But it is unlikely that the British invasion will work any change in the relations of the British government with the mass of Buddhists, who will neither care nor even know that the Grand Lama is a British prisoner. The insult to British dignity concerning which British journalists con- trive to talk with straight faces, will be avenged. and British opium and brick tea will be sold to the Thibetans. That is all that is likely to happen in conseauence of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-12
Native Brown Stone.

"It seems to me that the people of Birmingham have overlooked or under estimate the value of the immense de- posits of brown stone which lie right near our corporate limlts, said Max Blaeh of J. Blach & Sons.
 This stone is handsome in appearance, easily quarried, and susceptible to high finish for building purposes. There Is nothing superior to 1t in the United States and it has always appeared singular to me that our builders ship stone from In- diana and other states at the heavy cost of frelghtage, when we have such su- perior quality at our very doors.
 You ask me if l am interested person. ally, and my answer is that l have pur- chased a tract containing quite a large amount of this stone, and have samples on exhibition which will convince anyone who sees it of it's great value I bought it because l knew 1t was valuable and believe that it will yet be used extensively in Birmingham and elsewhere"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-12

three battleships, having in reserve a considerable squadron, and he will en- deayor to ascertain why the Porte does not meet and satisfy Secretary Hays demands, and especially why the sultan refuses to grant the Amer iean minister an audience whenever he desires to press or present a claim or other subject. Abdul Hamid is not prompt payer of bills or granter of concessions, and it has become the rule to give him plenty of time.
 The exact aggregate or nature of the American claims does not appear, but they doubtless relate to losses or limitations of the missionaries in Ar menia, or perhaps in Macedonia, or to the graduation of their various schools. Nor does it appear why we have a right to force our countrymen on the Turks, unless it be because other foreigners are permitted to establish themselves in that country and are protected.
 The present demonstration proba- bly has a jingo side to it. It is in- tended for use in the present cam paign. At the most the claims in question are small, and tho entire mat ter scarcely justifes a big naval dem- onstration at Smyrna or elsewhere. The graduates of medical or profes- slonal schools who desire or need pro- tection in Turkey are few in number, and a naval display at smyrna seems out of proportion and out of every thing else except a flavor of jingoism and the campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-12
Auoust Meteors.

The constellation perseus in the northeastern sky apparently supplies each year a display of fireworks last ing from August 10 to August 16. The favorite hours for display are the hours after midnight. The August meteor display has been observed over a hundred years, and every year has produced it's meteors, sometimes as many as 500 being seen in single night, all apparently coming from the Perseid center, These meteors are as a rule of the swift sort, that leave a streak in the sky.
 The meteoric showers are as much a mystery as they were when first observed and noted. There are the ories enough, but they are mere theo- ries. The theory of widest acceptance assigns them to tails of comets. Be coming detached they swing around the sun until at height not exceeding one hundred miles they come in con tact with the earths atmosphere and by it are heated and burned away. A few burst and a shower of rocks on the earth's surface follows. Nearly all astronomers believe they were parts of comets coma or tail. It is not known what detached them, but the suns heat may do it. Certain 1t is that the shooting or falling stars which may be seen almost any night when the sky is not obscured by clouds are less than 100 miles from the ground. When seen by the naked eye they are nearer to us than any other heavenly body, much nearer, the moon being 225,000 miles away
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-12
Condition of Cotton.

What of the present condition of cot ton?" was asked prominent dealer yes- terday.
 "To much rain, of course. and this is always discouraging to the cotton planter; but my judgment is that the cotton crop will be a large one-perhaps record breaker.
 Theodore H. Price in his last report calls attention to the fact that during the past fifteen years, with only one excep- tion, viz. last year, the crop has always deteriorated during the month of August
 Price further tells us that the cotton trade in all it's departments, spinners, spectators, distributors and consumers, are today short of cotton to an extent almost without precedent It has been patiently waiting the maturity of a mammoth crop in the hope that the re- quirements will be fully met at moderate prices, but it is my belief that once that crop is really available, the demand to be met will prove amazing in its dimensions. There is a story told of a farmers boy, which aptly illustrates the present situ- ation. His father, who provided but frugally at home, took his son to dinner at nelghbor where an especially gen. erous meal was provided In the course of the dinner the father whispered to the son, John, you must eat for today and tomor- row, too.' But the son replied, Hold on, Dad, am not through eating for yester- day, yet So it Is with the cotton world. High prices, short time and strikes have created and are creating a vacuum in the worlds supplies, the extent of which will be surprising before it is supplied, and the demand thus in prospect may force an unwarranted advance. unless 1t be conservatively satisfied in moments of weakness like the present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-12
Clear and True.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 The speech of Judge Parker's accept ing the nomination for the presidency rings clear and true in its expressions of democratic principles and its presentation of the issues of this years campaign. It is admirable in every line and every word. The excellent impression which the demo- cratic nominee had already made upon the party and the country is sure to be strengthened upon the reading of his speech of acceptance. and the democrats will enter with enthusiasm upon the cam paign, confident that in Judge Parker they have a nominee whose candidacy will grow steadily and certainly with each passing day until 1t finds consummation in victory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-12

armies in the field. She is sure she has holy mission, but she Is counting on assistance that is intangible. Napo- leon uttered a great truth when he said that Providence fights on the side that has the strongest battallions, and Japan has the battalions, and will continue to have them because she is near at hand. She has, too, superior intelligence. Her soldiers can read and write, and her artillerymen shoot straight Russia is whipped, and Liao- Yang and Port Arthur will perhaps rub the fact in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-12
Is Characteristic.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 Judge Parker's acceptance speech IS characteristic of it's author. The leadlns questions involved in the campaign are fdealt with in 1t in q frank, lucid ana manly manner. without the least evasion or circumlocutien He first informed the committee that he had resigned the office of chief judge of the court of appeals in order that he might accept the responsi- bility that the great convention they rep resented had put upon him without pos sible prejudice to the court to which ne had the honor to belong, or to the emi- nent members of the judiciary of the state, of which he was justly proud.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-12
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Sheffield Is erowIno.

sheffield is in good condition" re- marked Dr. c. B. Ash, one of the live men of that town, who is on a visit to Birmingham. While there Is nothing like a boom upon us, and real estate trans fers are not numerous Just now, a good deal of building Is going on. Our excel lent electric car system, connecting the cities of Sheffield, Florence and Tuscum- bia is q thorough success, and has uni ted three cities closely and in a way profitable to each town and to the com pany that had the wisdom and foresight to invest in the enterprise
 "Our rolling mills are running full time and all the furnaces except two are in blaste