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The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-08-03
LANHAM rs RENoMINArED
Other Texas officers Also Were Re-
nominated Today.

Houston, Tex. Aug. 3.-Governor
Lanham was unanimously nominated
for governor of Texas by the Demo
cratic state convention today. Other
state officers were also renominated.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-08-03

Mr.. and Mrs. George F. Wilson Of
Washington. n. c., are In the city.
Mr. Wilson is connected with the q.
s. Geological Survey.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-08-03
EMPEROR NICHOLAS HAS RECEI.
WE'D SOME ALARMING NEWS
FROM THE FIELD.
DETAILS MfAGfR

1t is Certain, However That There
Has Been Some Desperate Fight.
ing and That the Russians Have
Met With Great Losses.-A Gener.
al Engagement May Now Be in
Progress.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-08-03

This according to Mr.. Ogle made
the actual running expenses of the
are department for two months
$4,000. and this with the purchase
II hose, the repair Of the engine. and
the public collection secured for the
driver made total OF sl.O63.91 that
had been expended on the department
during the past two months.
The committee considered the exy
nanse Of the department out Of all
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-08-03
COUNCIL VOTES TO RE.oRGANizE
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
STRONG OPPOSITION

The Question Caused an Earnest Dis
cussion.-lmportant to the City's
Weifare.-The Meeting Of Last
Nights Session in Detail.-Wiil
Meet Again Saturday Night.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-08-03

Small refrigerator and platform
scales for sale cheap Hotel Shelby.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-08-03

Edgar Harrell is in from his ranch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Is a Hard LlfA.

Some people have a notion that be- cause a commercial traveller is always in a good humor and wears fine clothes he has an enviable time in life" said a knight of the grip last night. Now, I am here to tell you that this is a. mistaken notion. When fellow covers the same territory year in and year out, makes friends and builds up a good trade travel Ing is not so bad. but the man who has to get out and hustle for new business is up against hard proposition. As a rule he has to make the large cities. where new business is hard to secure.
 Then again the drummer has few op- portunities to enjoy home life. The mar rled man on the road is to be pitied, and it Is good thing for traveling men that most of them are single. Although drum mers stop at good hotels when they strike town like Birmingham and man age to have d fairly good time, often they have to endure wretched accommo- dations and right then is the time when they get tired of their jobs.
 Yet there is a great fascination about travelling that is hard to resist and many fellows go over the road year after year until their hair turns gray and they can travel no longer. Although 1t is a hard life 1t is hard to quit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-09
LoNDoN's HIGH RENTS.

From the Chicago Journal.
 He is indeed a lucky man who owns building property within the four-mile radius of London. for he can command small fortune in the way of rental for his houses. shops or offices. as the case may be- Singulary enough, 1t is not in the West End of London, as many people imagine where the highest rents are paid, street. Some time ago one room near the Royal Exchange let for between s10,000 and $15.000 q year. while a house agent who advertised certain properties in Throgmorton street asked s1200 yearly rental for each of seven telephone boxes. For suite of three rooms on the meg zanine floor s5co0 a year was also asked, and s10,0o0 required for six rooms on the first floor.
 For shops and business premises in the Strand gigantic rents are paid. although, of course, Bond street is the dearest thoroughfare in the world with regard to shops. Many shopkeepers between Char ing Cross and the old Lyceum theatre pay between s10.oo0 and si5,ooo rental, ex- elusive of rates and taxes. Perhaps one might be able to obtain very small shop for 5000 or s35oo per annum; but such a price would secure very indiffd'ent ac- commodation-prop only the one room which faced the street
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-09
Enemies of the South.

Baron Speck von Sternburg, the German ambassador to the United States. speaking at Sewanee, Tenn, did not hesitate to predict the great ness of the south when the Pacific trade is opened to this section by the digging of Panama canal. "Go South" is becoming, said the German ambassador, the password of able bodied men landing on the shores of the new world. The Baroness is a daughter of the south, and perhaps to her natural promptings the south is indebted for the flattering express ions of Baron von Sternburg.
 But if his predictions as to immi- grafton southward are to be main tained we must cease to promote i'm. migration to northern states by pistol toting and .ynching. Immigrants will not come to a section in which life is insecure The very men that Baron vol Sternburg can reach-the Ger mans and Scandinavians-are surely most desirable immigrants, but when our rivals can point to acts of law lessness in this section we cannot se- cure them. They go to northern states where pistol toting has been reduced almost to the European standard--to zero in short
 The worst enemies that the south has today are it's pistol toters and lyncLers. They stand in the way of immigration. We sorely need more labor We sadly need more farmers. We cannot get them because of acts of lawlessness in this section, com mitted by it's pistol toters and lynch CTS.
 No matter how many canals are dug, we canot become highly prosper ous while we harbor the pistol and the rope. Law must be made supreme, and the bulging hip pocket must be abolished before this section of the country can attain to it's plain possi- bilities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-09
Bicycle Races Exciting.

T was in Atlanta several days ago and witnessed the bicycle races there Bicy- cling is truly the greatest sport I know It is wildly exciting to see the riders go- ing at breakneck speed around the track and then have them come whizzing by almost too fast for one to distinguish them.
 If the track here is as fast as the Atlanta track the people of Birming- ham will have some excellent sport. The champions of the world ride on this cir cult, and therefore Birmingham will see the very best that can be secured.
 "All the people in the city who have seen a cycle race behind the puffing mo- tors will go out to see the races here the opening night, and all those who have not seen such a contest and want excite ment should travel to the stadium The programme announces good events for each of the three first nights and I pr.- dict some new records if the track is in good condition"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-09
Learn to Swim.

All sorts of lessons have been drawn from the Slocum disaster, and perhaps the best one relates to the importance of every person learning to swim every person, men, women and chil- dren. Little care is taken in cities to teach children how to swim. They are taught nearly everything else, but the one thing needful in case of trouble on water Is rarely taught
 Scores of hildren-thousands in fact-are growing up in this city with out learning to swim. Even boys in Birmingham do not seem to be ambl- tious to acquire the easily-learned art. In a months time a boy can learn to swim, and there are not many boys in this valley of small streams who cannot find water enough to secure to themselves the accomplishment. The | pools in the Athletic club and in the new Y. M. O. A. should revive this branch of athletes in this town.
 In advanced public schools are pools in which every boy is compelled to learn to swim. Competent instructors supervise the instruction. In the new high school this would be possible in this town It is a subject that de serves attention in an almost water less valley. In the public schools oi Brookline, Mass, no boy or girl can be graduated until he or she can swim a certain distance within a cer tain time limit.
 If all on the Slocum had been able to swim the loss of life would not have passed one thousand. It would not, perhaps, have exceeded one hun | dred. We have no tidal streams in Jones valley, but no one knows where the boys and girls of today will spend their lives No one knows what risks they will have to face. The long and short of the story is-all should learn to swim, and in no town is the ac- complishment more neglected perhaps than it is in this good town of ours in Jones valley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-09
Outlook for Next House.

The task before Chairman Cowherd is to gain fifteen seats. As there are but fifty-six members who hold their seats by pluralities of less than two thousand votes, and as thirty of the number are democrats and twenty-six republicans, his is not a light task. The truth is, tne next house will be controlled by the republicans, if Theo- dore Roosevelt carries the country and it will be controlled by the dem. ocrats if the nominee of St. Louis sweeps the field.
 The gerrymander is in active oper. ation in many of the states, and as a rule it was put in operation by the republicans. But in spite of the ger. rymander there are a good many close districts in the northern states, and this number will be sweled by the split in the republican party in Wis. consin. The present delegation from Wisconsin is solidly republican, and it will no doubt be divided in the next house, for the split has developed feelings deeper than party lines.
 In New York city there are three districts in which a change of 269 votes would revolutionize politically, and all three will perhaps be carried by the democrats this year. but on the other hand the democrats hold at present five districts by small plural itiee. MT. ScLdder of Long Island, for example, was elected by 107 votes, and the celebrated non-user of railroad passes, Robert Baker, had but 466 plurality. Massachusetts has three
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-09

H HH south is still crying for mag " azine that will be national in
 character. Although there are scores of minor publications sent out every week and every month from south ern cities none of these has achieved a reputation that entities it to considera- tion among such masterpieces of maga- zinedom as Harper's. Scribner's and the Century. It is true that the country is overrun with hundreds of good maea- zines but the south is practically ignored and the very fact that so many period lcals are already proving paying ven lures should offer sufficient encourage nient to southern publishers to induce them to start another. The history of the past shows discouraging array of fail ures. Magazines for the south have been started again and again, only to fall by the wayside after a few months or at best a few years. Perhaps it was the very fact that they were too sectional which mitigated against them, but there can be ittle doubt that none of them was started right. In the first place plenty of capital Is needed and that is usually lacking. Next an able staff, a well equipped plant and an editor who knows hos to get out a national publi- cation. There is no reason why a south ern maga zine should not command the contributions of the ablest writers of the day if they are paid enough. If q great publishing company could be organized with unlimited capital, a company that would not be afraid to risk enormous expenditures for the first year or two with sn al returns, the venture would undoubtedly prove a success under the proper management. Unfortunately the men who are most capable of undertaking such venture hesitate and we are lost.
 It is certainly a choice collection of de- generate and dispicable humanity which Has assembled to wrangle over the new lands in the Rosebud reservation in North ern Nebraska and South Dakota. Ad- venturcrs sie there, gamblers and thieves ate much in evidence, and 1t is to be fear ed that the benevolent doctrine of Love fly reighbor as thyself'' has been forgot ten while Look out for Number One" is much in favor. In the meantime the mo- ble red man steps aside and views in auiet siiS ohocehiS aSSidiilDle HIS lands among his white brothers who are brothers only in name.
 
 Never before in the history of the world were there more opportunities for rapid advancement and quick reward offered to the budding literary genius. There was a lime when the man who wrote poems. essays or novels had to wait and york laboriously for recognition, while his stoii aoh craved food and his coat fell away in tatters. but now the young stripling who sits down and dashes off composition in few hours makes a hit is sent large check by some magazine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-09

close districts, and so has California, and in New Jersey are three districts that the democrats will gain if they carry the state. Maryland has four close districts, and the democrats ex. pect to carry all or them. But they may lose districts in Chicago, Detroit, Omaha, Providence and Minneapolis, thus balancing the account.
 All in all, it seems scarsely proba. ble that the democrats can score a net gain of fifteen seats unless their candidate TOT president win. The house will doubtless be close if Roose- Velt be elec,ou, but the chances are that it will in that case contain a small republican majority. If MT. Roosevelt be defeated a democratic house is a certainty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-09
,. About Persons.

President Jones G. Moore of the Bir- mingham Southern railroad returned yes terday from St. Louis. where he went to look in upon the democratic national con vention. J. D. Collins has returned from St. Louis where he visited the fair and the democratic convention.
 J. II. Probst, a prominent citizen of Pickens county, is at the Metropolitan.
 N. P. Renfro, a prominent banker of opelika and N. P. Renfro. Jr.. are at the Morris. They are returning home from St. Louis where they visited the fair and attended a few sessions of the democratic convention. A. B. Freeman, travelling passenger agent of the Queen and Crescent, was in Tuscaloosa yesterday arranging for the comfort of the Tuscaloosa lodge of Elks on their trip to the national meeting in Cincinnati. Virgil Griffin, secretary of the Ala
 bama railroad commission, is at the Metropolitan Judge James T. Greene of Anniston was visitor to Birmingham yesterday.
 
 Harvey P. Hughes, formerly chief clerk at the Hotel Hillman but now room clerk at the Piedmont hotel at Atlanta, is at the Hillman. George Brooke of Portsmouth, Va, is stopping at the St. Nicholas. w. T. Edward of Talladega is registered at the Colonial. c. M. Littleton, a we'll known business man of Brewton, is at the Hillman. Harden H. Fitts of Mobile is at the Metropolitan. l.sgsa A. S. Appleton of Centre is at the Nor ris.
 1T. E. Mcclure of Columbus, Ga. is at l the Colonial. H. H. Draper of Oxford is stopping at the Morris. q. H. Wentzburger of Cincinnati is reg h ;stered at the St. Nicholas. Wv. E. Marx of clanton is at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-09
ALL FOR A BIRD.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 The driver of rickety express wagon was the first one to see it. It futtered out from under his horses hoofs and tumbled over itself in the gutter. T''It'' was a fledgling sparrow which had att tempted flight off the roof of two-story frame, building at Halsted and Madison streets yesterday afternoon.
 The driver stopped pushing on his lines and his horse immediately ceased it's att tempt at motion. The hedglng made several vain efforts to get itself out of a puddle in the gutter. The driver look ed to the top of the roof and there was the mother sparrow, anxiously twisting her head from side to side, looking with agony and alarm at the plight into which her offspring had fallen.
 Then a beer wagon drove along and the driver, large and husky, as is the rule with beer wagon drivers, saw the fiedgling and the mother on the roof. He stopped. Both drivers got down from their seats and the little bird made one gigantic effort, succeeding in getting un- der the sidewalk.
 From the lower floor of the two-story house emerged the wife of the Madison street shopkeeper who had his place of business there wondering at the sudden interest displayed in the curbstone in front. Two children were clinging to her apron. The drivers explained the situa- ton. pointing to the roof, and then the beer wagon driver knelt and succeeded in dragging the smart bird from beneath the sidewalk.
 Up on the roof the mother danced about on one foot and then on the other, nearly wagging her head off in an attempt to wagon driver put the bird in the express wagon and the woman ran for basket to put over it.
 Then they looked about for ladder. This also was produced by the woman and the beer wagon driver planted it against the side of the house. The ex- press wagon driver took the bird from under the basket and climbed up the lad der.
 The mother could not be blamed for be- ing suspicious, but she hopped to the corner and watched proceedings even more anxiously. The express driver placed the nestling carefully on the roof, back far enough from the edge to prevent 1t falling off again. Then he climbed down laboriously. The beer wagon driver took the ladder inside the shop. Both drivers lifted themselves back to their seats. The beer wa gon man swore at his horses and made up for lost time by dashing down the street. The express wagon driver pushed at his lines again and stirred his horse into action. The woman was left on the curbstone looking up at the roof, where, doubtless. the mother was lec- turing on the sins of disobedience
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-09
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post
 N CORRESPONDENT of The Post, P whose communication is in femin-
 inc handwriting invites attention to the scenes of ove-making in the public parks and wonders if the matter ought not to be taken into consideration by- the local authorities. It seems tha. our one of the most frequented squares during early nightfall, and she encounters num- erous swains with their sweethearts. They coo like irtle doves" she says, "and hold each others hands,
 Here is a state of affairs, sure enough. We confess our utter inability to know exactly what to advise under the circum- stances. It will not do to appeal to Major Sylvester. He is the guardian or law and order, the uphoder of public morals, tht strict and censorious conservator ol everything that is rigid and straight-laceo. He would have no sympathy In h1s suuI for the young men and maidens who wear their hearts upon their sleeves in full view of the electric lights Neither car we invoke the aid of the commissioners. They have grave affairs of state to en- gross their attention. They must lay pave ments and dig sewers and daily deal with gross and material things What do they know-unless, indeed, Colonel Riddle is the exception-of huttering hearts, just be- ginning to respond to the promptings or first love? We need a poetic nature to deal with the conditions of which our cor respondent complain. No one with cold and sluggish blood will treat the lovers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-09
pIsAPPoINTMENT.

By Maria Gowen Brooks. The bard has sung, God never formed
 soul Without it's own peculiar mate, to meet Its wandering half, when ripe to crow
 the whole Bright plan of bliss most heavenly, mos
 complete. But thousand evil things there are thai
 hate To look on happiness; these hurt i'm
 pede, And leagued with time. space, circum
 stances and fate. Keep kindred heart from heart. to pine
 and pant, and bleed. And as the dove to fat Palmyra flying From where her native founts of An tioch beam, Weary, exhausted, longing, painting
 signing. Lights sadly at the deserts bitter stream. So many soul, OCT life's drear desert faring, Love's pure congenial spring unfound.
 unquaffed, Suffers. recoils-then thirsty and despair
 in Of what it would. descends and sips tho nearest drsnghts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-09
GIBSON GIRLS.

From the London Chronicle.
 As regards the original of the Dana Gibson Girl.' the suggestion that. in spite of the many claimants to the honor, the artists own wife is the legitimate one is only half the truth. To any one acquaint- ed with Mrs Dana Gibson and her sister seven or eight years ago. when this type tional institution in America. it must have been obvious that the artist sometimes took the one and sometimes the other for model. As regards looks. there was It, tie to choose between them. and in other respects they were, and probably still are.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Iress.
 A woman could have lots more fun brag- ging about her trip to Europe if she could do it without going.
 The way to convince a crowd you are right is to get a man in an argument with you and let him do the talking.
 A woman always has an idea there is really something deceitful about man who will go to church without swearing over it.
 You can generally tell by how poor the cigars are that man smokes how good are the ones smoked by his son whom he supports.
 There's lot of money lost every day trying to find little.
 A girl can't help thinking what nice shirt waist a tennist net would make run through with ribbons.
 The first year man is married he is looking for happiness; the second for content; the third ne is satisfied to keep out or rows. r&
 It's girl who writes a graduating es- say on the higher life who spends the rest of 1t trying to find a sure cure for collie in children.
 A girl can always fill up a shirt waist in way to fool everybody, but when she is in bathing suit it has got to tell the truth about her if she goes in the water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-09
Testing Flour at Big Mills.
Milwankee Sentinel.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
 Tt is surprising to note the difference that exists between the various brands of four said O. D. Hutchinson, the rep resentative of one of the big mills in Minneapolis. Minn. Tt all depends on how the flour is milled and on the kind of wheat from which it is made. Flour made from hard spring wheat will give from twenty to forty more ioaves of bread per barrel than that made from the softer winter wheat. It contains larger percenetage of gluten and absorbs more water The mills are exceedingly careful about the kind of flour they send out, and the testing department is one of the most important branches.
 After the flour is ground comes the crucial test. A sample is taken and made up into bread. We have four bakings a day, and from twenty to thirty loaves are baked each time. each one represent ing a sample of flour. After the test has been made the bread is turned over to the Associated Charities.
 You may have noticed that the color of flour is no longer marble white. but a creamy white. This comes from the fact that the rich portion of the grain. right under the woody coating is ground into the flour What is left can hardly be called bran, for it is only the coarsest part of the outer fibre"