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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07
COST OF CONSUMPTION.
By Eugene Wood in Everybody's Mag

By Eugene Wood in Everybody's Maga-
 zine.
 "One in three of all the deaths between the ages of 25 and 34 years is due to con sumption; one in four between the ages of B and fl. These are the years wherein a worker is at his best, when he repays to the community what it has spent upon him in his nurture and upbringing. Count 1t as you would count an investment. The average mans earnings in the work ing period of his life are about SIP. 600 The average earnings of a consumptive. taking into the calculation the short period when he earns full wages, the period when he can work only part of the time at what light tasks he can find. and the still longer period when all that he can do is to gasp for breath, a burden to bis family, and more than burden, a menace-the average earnings of a man that dies of consumption are no more than s4075, a loss of $s525 on every man. By large the land we live in loses just so much on every one that dies of this great plague, for I hold that a woman is of equal worth with man. It Is she that keeps the home. It is estimated that in the United States 16Ooo0 die every year of this disease alone. Leaving out of the calculation all that 1t costs Tor medicines and nursing, counting only the loss of | wages, we are out more than billion and a third of dollars every year by the l great white plague"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07

bama National Guards, is at the Nor g.
 Thomas ". Coleman. Jr., of Admission is at the Morris.
 ]. J. Hamilton of New York Is at the t. Nicholas.
 W. W. Lancaster of Eutaw is in the city.
 Robert c. Clark. ". c. Humphrey, Dr. Frank Holland, F. G. Byrd and Edward R. Austin of Atlanta are at the Hillman.
 man Sydney J. Bowie of An his, registered at the Hillman.
 c. Deans. United States marshal for the Southern district of Alabama, is at the St. Nisholas.
 Asa Cranford of Jasper is at the Nor ris.
 Prof. B. F. Giles, president of the Ala bama Central Female college at Tusca- loosa, is at the Morris.
 Oscar R. Hundley of Huntsville Is at the Hillman.
 G. W. Cannon of Atlanta is stopping at the St. Nicholas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07
The hearts meteors tllting In the face
 Comedy of Erros.
Education in the South.

Several southern papers discuss the recent educational conference in a rather unfriendly spirit, and even our own Mobile Register says:
 We recognize the generous spirit of most of those who have come to learn what we are doing and to advise us not with us for, as we said before, there has been no actual interchange of opin- ion between the visitors and the men of the south. and no conference worthy to be called such And we say, in sinceity, that we think it will be better for us, and for the child-race we have to care for, if thes outh is allowed some time longer to demonstrate that it knows what it is about in it's work for the negroes; or, at least, that 1t is try;ng earnestly to know"
 This is scarcely just or within the facts of the case. There were as many southern men in the recent conference as northern men--probably more, and it was in every respect gathering for the consideration of broad nation al subject. Except the impromptu speech of one old-time gentleman, whose name did not appear in the pro- gramme of the conference, there was not speaker who gave any offense to southern hearers. The audience called out the exceptional speaker, and it alone, not the managers of the conference, should bear the resronsi- bility.
 If tho recent conference was not one in which earnest men from the two sections met to discuss the edu cation problem, then 1t is difficult to see how one can ever be held. It is not business sense to discard aid in the execution of a stupendous task when that aid comes in unobjectiona ble form. The Register will find nc educator in this district who intertains any unfriendly views as to the recent conference. Tn a large gathering a few cranks or extreme theorists will ap pear. and the opinion of all observers in this city was to the effect that the conference was remarkably free iron such persons. Its utterances were h the main wise and disinterested, pa triotic and practical We regret thai a few newspapers, including the Reg ister, have regarded it's proceedings with an unfriendly eye, but this, we are sure, has been due to inaccurate information and to long-distance view.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07
RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.
aw York World

From the New York World
 The report of the interstate commerce commission on railroad accidents in the United States is made the subject of comparisons with similar statistics for England, which are not to the credit of American railway management
 The mileage of American railways ex- ceeds that of the United Kingdom by about ten to one, yet there twice as many passengers are carried as here. In Great Britain in 1903 twenty-five pas sengers were killed in train accidents. as against 164 in this country, and 123 killed by other causes on railroads, as contrasted with 157 here The total num- Der of passengers injured on railways here was 6973, as against 26S1 there.
 In Great Britain there were IS cases of collision of passenger trains and 61 cases of derailment. In the United States the collisions numbered S25 and the derailments AZ. During the same year while we had 53i2 collisions and 4034 deraiments of freight trains, in the United Kingdom there were but B such collisions and only 19 derailments
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
To Visit the Old World.

Timothy Bryan who resigned his post ton as superintendent of the gas depart- ment of the Birmingham Railway. Light and Power company will spend the next six months in Europe after which he will return to Birmingham and make this city his permanent home.
 He will engage in no active business other than to look after his private prop erty inteIerts which in the past few years have beef quite extensive. MT. Bryan has been 7anected with the gas com pany foi ..e past seventeen years and during tle. time it has made wonderful strides and has fully kept pace with the marvellous growth of Birmingham.
 T will leave Birmingham for Hot Springs next week." said MT. Bryan yesterday. and after a short stay there will go to Europe by way of St. Louis It has always been my ambition to visit the highlands of Scotland and 1 shall spend considerable time there.
 "The great cotton .mills at Manchestev also have an attraction for me so strong that l cannot resist spending enough time to go through them. l want, too, to see linen manufactured and for that rea- son will go to Belfast Ireland for a time.
 From England I want to visit Ger many and France and I don't Intend to hurry myself for I want to enjoy the things that are there to see
 At the end of about six months I am coming straight back to Birmingham to live"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07
JEANNE D'ARc.

By Alfred Austin, in the Independent. Goddess of battles, with the maiden sword And blameless banner, when to France
 availed Not all her gallant manhood, helmed ana
 mailed, To drive from off her soil the alien horde' That over pasture, hamlet, vineyard pour
 ed, You with your unarmed innocency scaled The walls of war. and, where man
 might had failed, Crowping. enthroned the Anointed or the
 Lord. And should France yet again be called 10 The stranger from her gates, and hurl
 back thence Feet that would violate her frontiers
 fair, Not meretricious sycophants of sense, Rut the pure heart and patriotic prayer, Once more would prove her rescue and
 defense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07
Soudan Cotton vaIueless.

At recent meeting of French cot ton manufacturers in Paris one of their number, Gaston Sinette, admit ted that he had tested cotton grown in the Soudan, and that it was unfit for manufacturing purppses-that 1t never could compete wiSh American cotton. He went on to 3ay that no where else in the world could cotton be grown equal to that grown in the United States, and that manufacturers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07
MAURUS JOKAI, GREATEST
 NOVELIST OF HUNGARY

through the Russian lines and after many perils reached place of safety.
 After the war Jokai started a paper, in which he gave free expression to the national aspiration. For this he suffered Imprisonment and fines, but he had DOW erful friends and he became an influential member of the chamber of deputies. As a member of the Teleky party he advo- cated the restoration of IIungarys con- stitution by a reconciliation with Aus tria, and when Francis Joseph was crown ed king of Hungary, in 1867. was one of his chief supporters, though he in no way lessened his Hungarian sympathies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07
To Limit immigration.

A bill has been introduced by Rep resentative Adams of Pennsylvania limiting to S0000 the number of inn migrants that may be yearly received from any one country. This would cut down Italian immigration to an appre- ciable degree, for last year 230,622 Italians came into this country. The bill would also strike at immigration from Austria-H Hungary and Russia.
 Thus far Italian immigrants have tarried largely in the large cities, New York alone containing 1S2,24S Italians, besides 90,324 more born of Italian parents. But if the Italian tide is maintained it will soon begin to flow into the agricultural districts, and it is hoped that the cotton districts will be benefited by it.
 Southern members who appreciate the fact that the south needs more labor If 1t Is to make more than twelve million bales a year, will be |. pretty sure to oppose MT. Adams bill. There may be no probability of it's passage, but it is plainly bill that needs watching. The hope of the south is bound up(in Italian immigra- tion, so far as national increase in the labor supply is concerned, and MT. Adams should not be permitted to lessen that hope to the extent of two thirds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07
SALOON KEEPER.
Bank Employes Afraid to Claim Ac-
 quaintance With Him.

From the Chicago Post.
 A Chicago saloon-keeper stepped into the bank near his place" to get check cashed, but the paying teller gave him a cold stare. It would do the paying tel Ter no good with his superiors to recog- nize the salooon-keeper, for the bank was inclined to be particular about the You'll have to be identifed,p said the paying teller.
 What" cried the saioon-keeper.
 You'll have to be identified' repeated the teller calmlss
 Now, see here, Charlie" exclaimed the saloon man. If you're joking
 Don't block the way, please" in- terrupted the teller. If you'll bring in some responsible party who knows you I will be glad to give the money
 Some responsible partyl' repeated the saloon man. Why, I own the saloon at the corner"
 Then you ought to have no trouble about Identification" asserted the teller.
 Trouble! Identification! the saloon man fairly yelled. Why, anybody In the bank can identify me"
 His voice carried far, and the way all the clerks in the place 'got busy was most extraordinary. There wasn't one of them who could see him, although he tried vainly to attract somebody s-any- body s-attention. Then the teller leaned forward confidentially.
 Get the president to identify you,' he said. Hes the only one who can af- ford to do it.
 A few minutes later the matter was strengthened out, but as the saloon man counted the money he remarked rathe: bitterly to the teller: ''fhe next tune you want something with little bitters in 1t put on the slate, you'll have to be identified. Don't forget that. l never saw you before myself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07
Manly Sports.

F. G. Byrd, one of the largest dealers in sporting goods in the south and a member of the Atlanta Golf club team which is here to play Anniston and Bir- mingham. talked interestingly last night at the Hotel Hillman on manly sports in the south. He said:
 There Is more interest in good, healthy sports in the south this year than ever before in its history, Every outdoor game, and there are half a dozen is well patronized. Baseball golf and ten his are especially popular.
 Interest in golf is greater than I have ever known it before. In Atlanta there are more players on the links, and they all. show increasing interest. The class of play Is also better I under stand that the same is true here, par tialy due to the fact that there are new links, but due mainly to the general interest manifested throughout the coun- try"
 Mr. Byrd has done mucn In Atlanta to work up interest In sports. He has offer ed various prizes for golf. tennis tourna- ments, indoor baseball handball and basketball in the Atlanta Athletic club, and he was also instrumental in organiz- ing city tennis league there which has proven very successful. He is considered one of the best informed men on sports to be found in the south. He is very proficient in all of them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07

like himself were at the mercy of the
 American cotton growers and specu-
 lators.
 This is but confirmation of the tes-
 timony of all who have investigated the subject. Moisture from the gulf
 and from the sea starts and estab- fishes the American crop It is min gled with ample sunshine, and no other land is so blessed Egypt does grow, it is true, cotton, but it is grown on irrigated lands by cheap labor and it must ever be limited by the sands of it's deserts. Outside of Egypt this country has a practical of the commercial crop. India, like China and Japan, consumes its crop, and upon America is thrown the task of supplying the rest of the world And this will ever be the case.
 This is why we should grow more cotton. The world needs today twelve million bales a year, and at the end of five years it will demand fifteen million bales a year-and the south las not labor enough to meet the de- nand. The subject is absolutely na- ional in its bearings, and the federal government should aid the south in at .racting to the cotton fields additional abor. As things stand Italians are preferable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07

the worlds foremost men of letters,
 When the jubilee of Maurus Jokai was celebrated at Pesth, in 1894 to mark the fftieth anniversady of the completion of his first literary work, Hungary honored its one great living writer with the most enthusiastic demonstrations. Members of the royal and imperial family sent him autograph letters, he was created a member of the house of lords, addresses were showered upon him, and deputa- tions travelled from all parts of the coun- try to make him speeches and presents. The Magyar nation has not been ungrate- full to the patriot who. in the dark days of 1S4S was one of the small band who made the last stand for the independence of his country. and who, in the course of the next half century, took leading part in realizing after that defeat true national life In politics and literature
 Jokai stands to Hungary much as Wal ter Scott to Scotland the one great novel, ist of his country. His literary activity has been stupendous, as more than three hundred volumes have come f4om his prolific pen. He was writer of pro- digious industry, with extraordinary rapidity and ease of production, able in spite of the distractions of an active po- litical life, combined with journalism, to write novel after novel in which the his torical. descriptive autobiographical and humorous clements intermingled. He drew with master hand the scenery of Hun gard and the character of it's inhabitants, conjured up its romantic past and gave inspiration to a high spirited. passionate people. Ten years ago Jokai had received during the fifty years of his literary ca reer about two miollin forins H.0Oo00o) for his works, but his generosity was such that he was frequently in embar- rassed circumstances and the national gift took the form of a present of s75,0oo as a. recognition of the generosity which was as superabundant as his genius.
 Maurus Jokai was born in 1925 at Ko- morn on the Danube, of a good family. Before he was 12 years old he was left an orphan. but by his own exertions he managed to continue his education, and at the high school he attended had as his schoolmate Alexander Petofy, the impassioned poet of the Instruction, and one of It's martyrs. Petofy was engaged to one of the most beautiful women of Budapest On his tragic death he in- trusted his last message to his friend. It was thus that Jokai first met Rosa Laborfalvi. Hungary's greatest actress, his dead friends betrothed. She became Jokafs wife, though she was 13 years his senior. Her courage soon saved her young husbands life. for when. at the equalization of vilagos, in August, 1s49, Jokai had serious thoughts of committing suicide, she arrived secretly and unex- pectedly from Pesth. She had brought two suits of peasants clothing. and, dis kuised in these. Jokai and his wife passed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07
BLoWN-UP GEESE.
,m the New York Sun.

From the NeW 1OTk pun.
 Did you ever see blown-up goose?" a health board inspector asked a friend.
 No? Well. I find them occasionally on the pushcarts around the East Side. The dead geese are filled with air to make them look fat, plump and large. They put the end of tube between skin and bone and blow. and the things done. It's against the sanitary laws. but the pedlers take the chances for the sake of making a sale.
 T can usually tell a blown-up goose the minute I see it. I jab a knife into the inflated bird and then there's a report like a tirecracfer as the air Is released and the skinny thing collapses to Its ratural proportions.
 "Oh, yes, we conflscate all such birds and sometimes arrest the peddler."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

F'rcm the New York Press.
 The chief raw material used by the devil for his product of sin is envy.
 It is very shabby of a woman to be handsomely dressed when the woman with her isn't.
 G.Ies n long while a girl actually fails in love for the first time when there is a reason for It.
 When a girl coughs it is not so much sign that she has a cold as that she thinks somebody Is looking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07
IS GAINING FAVOR.

From the Canebrake Herald.
 The attention of our readers is called to the articles from the Birmingham Age Herald and Mobile Register on the fifth rage recommending local taxation for schools. This idea Is being taken up by the state press, and is rapidly gaining fay or with the people all over the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07

-WENTY- ONE husbands who re- lp side at Bayonne N. J., have or
 ganized the Married Mems Anti Euchre and Home Preservation society with the avowed purpose of bringing about needed reform in the conduct of their wives. These gentlemen have come to the conclusion that their wives are induleing entirely too much in progress sive euchre: so much so that the happi- ness of their homes Is blighted and they are permitted to languish neglected and all foriorn while the ladies who draw their salaries are rislsing said salaries on flip of the cards. A man most happi- ly named Kicks has accepted the presi- dency of this unique organization and In receiving his high office he made the fol- lowing pathetic remarks:
 Tt is high time we asserted our man. hood and made a determined effort to down this habit which threatens to wreck our homes. Many a night I have had to walk the floor with the baby until or o'clock waiting until my wife re- turned from a euchre party. It has got so that the clubs meet every afternoon and evening and are now talking about playing on Sunday"
 Verify this reads like story from Puck.
 Just to show how providence takes care of people when they are not able to take care of themselves a story is go- fr.or aIr- ot. man who shutters. He is also something of plunger. so the other day he started out to place some money on Alice Lloyd, favorite entry on the local race track. The betting was against Mary Lasca, another entry, to 1, and the young man decided he would go with the crowd and back Alice Lloyd. but when he tried to tell the bookmaker what he wanted he began to stutter. The crowd was surg ing behind him. and after appealing to the man behind the stutterer the book maker decided that his client wanted to place S4O0 on Mary Lasca. Ac- cordingly he handed out a ticket for s3200. The plunger tried to explain his mistake but could not get the words ouI anu was puSHeu away. turtner re- marks are unnecessary. Mary Lasca was an easy winner while Alice Lloyd came In number six. The young man who shutters for one time in his life thanked his lucky stars for his affction.
 Up in Chicago the genial citizens man age to die violent deaths at the rate of 266 In single month That Is not poor record for a town even as bad as Chicago and Is another excuse for New York to make unkind remarks. The cor oner naively explains that the people are too fmprudent and negligent" This ex- planation Is most satisfactory and does great credit to the coroner.s intellectual ity. Of course 1t is imprudent for lone pedestrian to get rapped over the head with sandbag or stabbed in the hack with knife, but sometimes these little mishaps cannot be avoided.
 revolution in hairpins has come about through the instrumentality Of a genius who has invented a corRscrew variety that is guaranteed to stay where put and will open a bottle of wine when neces- sary. Heretofore no one has been able to say just what becomes of all the pins and hairpins that are lost, but 1t matters
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07

A disciple of Mother Eddy commit ted suicide rather than take medicine, but as he was dying anyway he merely took time by the foreock, and showed that he had the courage of his convic- lions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07

The Age-Herald's monkey is not be- lieved to be on a diplomatic mission to this country, although he is well informed regarding affairs in South and Central America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07
Like the Iilx.

From the Philadelphia Press.
 What's your new servant girls name?"
 Della, believe, but we call her Lily Like that better, eh?''
 "No, but it's more appropriate. She tolls not neither does she spin
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07

A Connecticut man at the age of so years has just eloped with his mother in-law. It is to be hoped that he has reached the extreme limit of matri- monial bliss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07

"o-Gi-Maw-Kwe Mit.I-Gwa-Ki, the Queen of the Woods, has been dramat- ized by Michigan man and will be put on the stage. It will be necessary to build larger billboards in order to advertise the production.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07

It has been discovered that Potomac water is fatal to piscatorial life. The same water also proved disastrous for Prof. Langley, although he did not give 1t chance to prove fatal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07

Horrors of War. From the Houston Post. The Jap marched down to the rivers side, l think 1t was the Yalu's, And the Russian forts he quickly eyed, And he said; II will bet my shoes They will fight like sin if we dare the
 tide.' But a friend said: "Well, Yalus!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07
ONLY STRAWBERRIES,

From the Cullman Democrat
 The amount of stuff shipped from here to Birmingham causes us to wonder why more people from the smoky city don't move nearer the base of supplies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07

Those who are feeling sorry for poor" SchwaD would cheer up a bit if they had the money that is still in the coffers of that gentleman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07
A Considerable, Advantage.

From the Chicago Post.
 Whats the particular advantage in having no snakes in Ireland?'
 Why when you see them you know it's an hallucination. of course.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07

Whenever the Philadelphia police want a junket they induce some one to apply for the liberty bell.