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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
DON'T SNUB SPAGHETTI.
One Way to Cause Surprise in an ltaI,
 ian Restaurant in New York.

From the New York Sun.
 When a customer enters an palian restaurant in New York, he is supposed to have bestowed himself upon that par ticular establishment for the purpose of procuring spaghetti. The experienced patron yields to the requirements of the restaurant and enjoys /the spaghetti when he gets it, though there is no posi- tive assurance in an Italian restaurant at what point the spaghetti will appear any more than there Is when the cheese or salad will be served. It is no unusual thing in an Italian restaurant/ for dinner to be begun with salad and cheese. grated and served in a saucer, is generally brought in with the soup instead of at the end of the repast.
 The unsophisticated patron df an Ital- ian restaurant in New York, high or low, expensive or cheap, celebrated or new. can in one way only cause surprise bor- dering on bewlderment. to fthe conduc- tors, employees and patronslpf the estab- lishment alike, and that ifF by declaring with firmness at the proper moment;
 T don't care for spagaetti. Take it away" L
 such declaration. sddom made and never repeated in the Pme restaurant' hoe tha same effect on he business done in it that an explosiq0 or polier mas on a locomotive. ItMrings everything to a full stop It endd pruptly the popu- la,;t, af tha natron re. He pays his soors ard dsnarts not until he has done so is serenity pred.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Senator Edward Winston Pettus, of Ala bama. is the Nestor of the United States senate In his eighty-third year he is still vigorous in mind and body, active in debate, and while pronounced in his views on all subjects. so courteous and respect ful to those who differ with him that his friendships know no political bounds. With no personal ambition beyond that to serve his state and country well. he is always direct and plain in speech, and unswerved in the utterance of his opin- ions by any possible effect their expres- sion may have upon his future political fortunes. He is. therefore, never trim mer. but always speaks in terms which the most obtuse can understand. In late interview on the presidential question he illustrated this rare feature among pol iticians. Questions as to his choice for a candidate for the presidency he said he had no preference and if he had, he would not tell it. ''It might cause. said he, .some friend to wonder why I do not de- clare for him." Expressing his regard for the several leading candidates pro- posed, he said that if Bryan would stay over in Europe until after the convention is over, and if Cleveland would go over there also, it would be better for the dem- ocracy. But the most philosophic wisdom expressed by him on the occasion was in reference to the choice of the republicans. He expressed himself as altogether in fa- vor of Roo7evelts candidacy on the ground that " President is distrust
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
5 EASY TO

or degenerated tissue in which it had managed to effect a lodgment
 Medical officers or 1an institution of this kind can do so much to spread a knowledge of the importance of light and air in the home and in the workshop. of sufficient food, even though plain; of the danger of prolonged periods of overwork. except in the case of the very strongest, and of the importance of rest, during which the organs and tissues of the body may not only be built up, but may get rid of the waste material that accumu- lates so rapidly during periods of active exertion
 This brings us to very important question indeed. Although I have every faith in sending patients who can afford it to places where they can comfortably remain in the open air and where there is plenty of light I think there is danger of overlooking the fact that the open air treatment may be carried out at the pa tient's home, and that it is not so much a. matter of getting a good climate as of getting pure, fresh air for the patient. over the difficult and dangerous periods of be.
 "All acknowledge that a santarium treatment is of inestimable value in tiding over the difficult and dangerous periods of the disease: but it will be still more valu- able just in so far as it teaches the pa- tient to carry out in his own home the principles and methods adopted in the sanitarium. It always seems to me that a patient will be much more likely to have faith in the efficacy of the methods used if tried in familiar surroundings and un- der conditions of climate, etc., to which he is usually exposed.
 ''The closer you can bring your patient to his every day manner of life during treatment the more likely he will be to carry out your instructions after dis charge from the sanitarium."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
DIET AND CANCER.

From the London News.
 Of the 27,4s7 who died of cancer in England in 1901 probably the majority were operated upon by cutting out the diseased parts. The expectations from radium and the X-rays will end in dis appointment because the sources and maintenance of cancer lie in the impuri- ties of the blood, and can only be con tended aginst by a process of purifica- tion Cancer Is not formed when the blood is pure. and will wither away when it's impure sources are removed. Pure diet and not too much of it will cure cancer This assertion is ustained by case described by MT. Sidney Beard of Paignton, Devon, of a lady who eighteen months ago was cen by two consulting surgeons, who declared that she was suffering from typical un- doubted cancer of the breast An operation having been declined the pa- tient was induced to adopt an exceed ingly limited and Unitarian diet. Gradu ally the activity of the growth ceased, absorption and the wasting of the tis- sues slowly occurred. and today it's site is marked by a scar-like nodule of ma terial presenting none of the signs of an active malignant growth The surgeons are of opinion that these results are due to di, tetic treatment alone.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
JAPAN.

From the Boston Transcript.
 One can hardly contemplate the pie ture of the empires wonderful progress since its recent war with China without being reminded of how much greater 1t would have been had not Russia, the arch marplot, directed Japan's subsequent ef- forts and resources into the channels of war instead of into the industrialism of peace. It was the full intention of the islanders to use the great indemnity ex- acted from China for the promotion of industrial enterprise, and had it not been diverted to the purpose of composing the revenge which has since been rank ling in every Japanese breast, the shores of eastern Asia, instead of being blighted by the Upas tree of Russian aggression would have witnessed a revival of tradal energy and prosperity such as would have reused the orient from its sleep of cen turies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
From the New York World.

fToHl tne NeW York World.
 N\ ONTROL of the United States S steel corporation Is now complete1
 ly and absolutely vested in the Rockefeller group of capitalists and Henry Clay Prick, the enemy of Andrew Car negie. Formal announcement of this fact may not be made in set words but the effect of the change from the control of J. Pierpont Morgan will soon be made evident John D. Rockefeller and Mir. Prick nave fully worked out their plans. These provide for the complete elimination of the Morgan-P Perkins -Schwab- Carnegie parties from active leadership in the af- fairs of the steel corporation.
 Standard Oil methods are hereafter to be employed from top to bottom in the management of the steel trust The first to feel this will be the men who are draw ing salaries of from $12, 900 to $25, ,O00 year. These employees under the new regime must either stand for a reduction in sal aries or get out. The new plan is to run the corporation for it's owners the stock holders, and not for the personal friends of the controlling interests. No employe will get more than the actual value of his services. A Pittsburg man, friend of MT. Prick, in describing the salary question under the new regime, said yes-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
PoLlTlco-socIALIsM WANING.

From the New York Commercial
 Socialism in Massachusetts, a state in which this movement made some politi- caNheadway for spell during recent years, has met with a decided setback. In municipal elections that have lately been held the socialist vote was cut down 25 per cent and not a socialist mayor was elected in any of the nineteen cities in which elections occurred, although in nearly all of them socilist tickets had been put in the field.
 The socialist movement would proba- bly, never have reached the dimensions that it did in the Bay State had it not been for the encouragement that it re- ceived from certain class of educated people. It grew largely out of the pub lication of Edward Belamy's Looking Backward dreamy. impracticable story that obtained considerable vogue about twenty years ago. The story was plainly intended to propagate sociaIstic notions, and a number of intelligent peo- pie in Massachusetts became infatuated with it's theories. Bellamys doctrines were echoed for time in the pulpit and the press and presently they were talk en up by the ever-enterprising .1abor'' politicians and used as lever for secur- ing public office. Both Bellamy's book and name are now almost forgotten and the political movement that they in- spired is naturally dying out. Bellayism has evidently had the same brief day in the Bay State that Henry Georgeism had in New York city and it is now passing to the same limbo of dead "fads"
 An extended period of good crops, busy mills and wide demand for labor, sucn as this country has been enjoying of late years is fatal to visionary schemes for revolutionizing society. It has dealt solar plexus blow to Popuism and 1t is not strange that Christian socialism as Bellamyism has been impiously chris tened, should be meeting a similar fate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
PROFITABLE CORN CROP.
Worlds Distinction in Addition to the
 Pecuniary Profits.

St. Louis, Mo.-By cultivating a patch of corn all last summer three Missouri boys earned not only the handsome sum of $415452 but the distinction of having the fruit of their industry selected to be one of the features of Missouris exhibit at the Worlds Fair. The commission will place their photogra phs in a place of honor in the Missouri building.
 The boys are John, George and Joseph Christian, aged eighteen, sixteen and twelve years sons of c. A. Christian, of Tarkio, Atchison county. The work was all done between May 1 and November l. and the boys are now In school.
 The boys accepted an offer from MT Rankin, who is the most extensive cattle feeder in the world. MT. Rankin has 30.- 900 acres of land, and each year he raises corn on fifteen to twenty thousand acres.
 When the Christian boys applied for land on which to raise corn MT. Rankin promptly turned over 450 acres and agreed to pay the boys twelve cents for every bushel of corn they raised
 Htching six mules to a lister. the boys went to work. This machine ploys, har- rows and seeds at one operation. They worked like Trojans and soon the 450 acres were planted. Then the boys had a breathing spell. When the corn began to grow another task was theirs. Three times the growing corn had to be culti vated. Again was a requsition made on the Missouri mule and six were attached to each of the three two-row cultivators. The weeds were kept down and the soil losened.
 The grain grew and ripened, and when November rolled around the harvest was begun. When the corn was gathered into MT. Rankin's great bins it was found that the boys had grown 3f,621 bushels of grain. At twelve cents a bushel this neted $4,154.52, and MT. Rankin gave them a check for that amount.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
EAVED.
es Whitcomb Riley.

By James Whitcomb Riley. Let me come in where you sit weeping-
 aye, Let me, who have not any child to die, Weep with you for the little one whose
 love
 I have known nothing of. The little arms that slowly, slowly loossd Their pressure round your neck; she
 hands you used
 knew.
 May I not weep with ysu? Fain would I be of service-say some
 thing, Between the tears. that would be com7
 forting- But ahi so sadder than ourselves aL- l. Who have DO child to die.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
Sweet mercy Is nobiIity's true badge.
 Titus Andronicus.
Americas Interest in the East.

If war come between Russia and Japan In the Far East the people of this country cannot possibly be disin- terested spectators. The United States owns the Philippines, and we are thus actually in the Orient. Nor is this all We have treaty rights in Manchuria, always provided the negotiated treaty be ratified by China. This treaty pro- Scalls for an open door throughout all Tanchuria.
 If Russia gains undisputed control of 1nchuria an ''open door" ciere would Iome delusion and snare. Rus lould by one device or another shut
 coarse cotton goods, thus strilI-
 blow directly at our own southern
 Other mills engaged in other
 of inoustry would suffer, and we bt therefore look on the war, if it D, with unconcern.
 )r is this all. Russia is fighting not for the control of Manchuria, but he domination of the Orient, for a her division of China, and for sil- acy in the world Napoleon pre- Dd that in a century's time the d would be all Cossack or all re- |lican, and he saw ahead to events turing before our own eyes. The great promising nations of the d are Russia and the United States. ussia fights Japan she will be fight for first place, for whoever controls na will secure first place in the rld's list of nations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
Mary Anderson.

''The appearance of Madame de Ma yarro, formerly Mary Anderson, the ac- tress, on a stage in London this week was a notable event" said an old theatre goer. This beautiful and gracious wo- man was one of the most successful art fists who ever adorned the American stage When she married Mir. de Navarro Miss Anderson retired from tn. footlights. She declined fabulous offer recently to play one season in the United states. But money would not tempt her
 "She gave scenes from Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth this week and had quiet ovation Mrs. de Navarro has been devout Catholic all her life and she gave the entertainment in London at the re- quest of Father Vaughan, who vas rais- ing money for the poor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
LAST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE.

From the New York Sun.
 Macbeth started and shuddered.
 'Is this dagger that see before me? ?" he muttered.
 Yes" rejoned his spouse, "and you're seeing 1t mighty cheap. The rest of the audience had to buy their tickets from the spectators"
 Unable to take this consoling view he continued his blank verse complaint
 Lear had just been driven out in the storm
 I'm sure I couldn't help it." explained his daughter, 'the weather report said Fair"
 Feeling that the blame lay with the gov ernment she counted herself vindicated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01

He is en route to Montgomery from Ok lahoma City. where he was called on ac- count of the serious illness of his broth CT. He speaks. very interestingly on nearly all subjects except politics, which he evades at present.
 
 w. c. Craig of Pensacola was an ar- rival of the Hillman last night. A. B. Henry of Jasper passed through the city last night en route to Mobile, where he will make his future home. Robert Russell of Knoxville is stopping at the Morris
 w. A. Meglemery, travelling auditor of the Louisville and Nashville, with head quarters at Louisville, is at the Metro poritan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
Pneumonia EpIdemics.

FEom all sides cc---- reports of pneu- monia epidemics, or rather from all directicns north of our latitude. For tunately the disease that the doctors do not know how to prevent, or how to Ahandlo when it does come, is not very Ievalent in the gulf states. We have hough of it, however. Since Novem- vber 1 in Chicago there have been TAO deaths from pneumonia and 33S from consumption. By far the more dread full disease of the two is pneumonia. ' Consumption's advances are slow, as a rule, while the germs of pneumonia go 1 to work almost without warning, at tacking the strong as well as the weak, and completing their ruionous course \ wiftly. Medical science is practically powerless before this enemy of man.
 tt is our national scourge at p the winter season, being good
 Epart of typhoid fever in the
 \,appths of the year. Between
 mortality rate is kept at
 ans have no advice ap-
 pr as against pneumonia
 ping up oI the vitality
 slstance and the avoid
 changes in temperature.
 ther words, from a tenn
 inside house to one of
 unless well protected by
 hing. Avoid cold cars, even
 Nave to walk. Avoid over heoeed houses. Avoid all extremes and all sudden changes. Beyond this the doctors do not go. They, in fact, know no moro about the prevention or treat aent of the disease than Hippocrates the other ancient doctors did twenty-five hundred years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
N HILADELPHIA, December SO.- y '-"Consumption is one of the
most curable of diseases. .

" - Consumption IS OHe ol tue most curable of diseases"
 This was the message brought by Dr. c. Sims Woohead, professor of pathology in Cambridge University, England who delivered a remarkable address in Wither- spoon Hall this evening.
 The meeting was held under the auspices of the Henry Phipps Institute. Dr. Wood- head is one of the world recognized au- thorities upon the great white plague"
 His vist to Philadelphia is part of the worldwide campaign of education on tu- berculosis that is being made by Henry Phipps
 The address. which was admirably illus trated was in part as follows:
 T am here to speak as a pathologist, and it is even probable that some of you may be of the opinion that I claim too much for my subject; but of this I am convinced that the more closely the path ology of tuberculosis is studied in the cases that come under the observation of your physician the greater will be the influence of the work ultimately done by this institution.
 The cod liver oil treatment, so long the most successful of all, had it's founda- ton in the belief that this substance serv- ed some special nutritious therapeutic purpose, as result of which the tissues were strengthened and were thus enabled to resist the attacks of the disease-pro- ducing factor. The present-day treatment of tuberculosis Is founded on a similar be- lief Fresh air, good food. rest opportu- fO.. lN,,s1 41.. will supply energy with the least draft on the tissues, will enable those tissues to withstand the attacks of the tuberce bacillus in the first place, to kill it in the second, or, at any rate, to render it harm- less, and finally to assist in the removal not only of the bacillus. but of the dead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
About Persons.

The Hon. J. w. Watts of Montgomery is stopping at the Metropolitan. R. A. Harris of Gadsden was an ar rival of the Morris last night. The Hon. Frank Fitts of Tusca loosa is stopping at the Florence. Lieutenant Gill of the United States navy has returned to Washington after visiting for several days in Birmingham. G. w. Hodge of Opelika. ex-sheriff of Lee county and a prominent business man, is at the Metropolitan J. A. Child of Tuscaloosa was an ar rival of the Hillman, last night. S. T. Mayfield, a popular traveling man sof Nashville. is registered at the Metropolitan.
 nhtional com
 can party for
 the Hillman
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01

By Prof Henry Drummond.
 Speech whether by written or spoken word, Is too crude and slow to keep pace with the needs of the now swiftly as- cending mind. The mind is feeling about already for more perfect forms of human intercourse than teegraphed or telephon- ed words. However little we know of 1t however little we believe it-telepathy theoretically, is the next stage in the ev- oution of language.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01

The table shows that the speculative movement has been lessened, but that the volume 'of general business is well maintained. It Is estimated taat the disbursements of dividends and inter- est for today will be about $134 100000, an excess of nearly two million dollars over like disbursements one year ago. Boston disbursements of like nature will be increased fully three million dollars These facts together with the expectation that money will rule fairly firm for a half year, go to verify tie statement that general business is act lively maintained.
 Very much of course depends upon impending events in the Far East. The best informed consider Russo-Japan- csc war inevitable, and if it comes it will be fierce and long maintained. U will leaa to an active demand for our provisions and breadstuffs, and mules, and whatever war material the law of nations will let us export
 The commercial outlook at the be- ginning of the year is therefore by no means so dark as it has been painted. The west and south are full of faith in the future, ana they are also full of products, or of their equivalent in cold cash. Under such circumstances they decline to take Wal-street view of the situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
ro.n inc New York Press

From the New York Press.
 The only remedy for badness is wig.
 It takes more courage to admit one is afraid of his wife than to pretend not to be.
 It's very foolish of a woman to lace so tight that when she gets hugged it doesn't seem any different.
 What worries a girl almost to death is what people think about the things they bught not to think about You couldn't get woman to go North role expedition without loF ,bwn. in case she had to go to tybn there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
ROCKEFELLER NOW HAS
 UNITED STATES -STEEI

terday: 'These men will be able to live comfortably in Metuchen, N. J., or Plain- field, and not ill style on Fifth avenue"
 Like all movements by the Rockefellers control of the steel corporations was ac- complished quietly. It has been In pro- gress for more than six months The ulti- mate purpose is to put the steel corpora tion in the same class of management as the Standard Oil company, and to attain that end none of the necessary surgical operations in finance will be spared. The work is to be taken up in spirit that is absolutely hostile to everything done in the past by MT. Morgan, Mir. Perkins and MT. Schwab. The Rockefeller policy has always been to make the payment of div idends secondary to the accumulation of a huge surplus for offensive and defensive purpose.
 Whether the change in control will also bring about a change in the presidency of the corporation is not known. w. E. Cory the president, is a Carnegie man. The breach between MT. Carnegie and MT. Prick is just as broad and as bitter now as it was in December, 1899. Under the new regime MT. Carnegie is not to have any say in the management of the corpor- ation, and Is to be simply on the same basis as other bondholders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
Trade in the New Year.

The Springfield Republican presents table showing the differences in spec ulative activities between Christmas week of this year, and the like week of last year. Quitting 00.000 from the bank clearing figures and % from wheat and corn exports and share sales, the table is as follows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-01
Revengedl Mankind.

From the Chicago pune.
 1,,,,+or onra,.ed the insolence of his hox An,;on ,o he youngster across his ,,raa ana vi usly applied one of Hebe's old slipI
 .Confound hi .huttei eu <Nlnpi'oil' as ,,;tb na,n on bbing himself. 'I'll get even for tbi he day!''
 cuhsso,en kmphion invented music
 .srbint os trouble that will make for son,s,S he exclaimed, with saw ago s,oo link of 'Hiawatha,' the Stein Son Ind saving the Chicago or chestra."