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The indicator., 1904-09-24
IT TELLS YOU so.

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mer news,
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times,
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How the people now rejoice to see
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The indicator., 1904-09-24
poKs LOTS or REPAIR WORK

The Bessemer Novelty Works, at
3l6 Northern avenue, 10 having q
large trade In bicycle repair work.
Mr.. Chaplain has earned reputation
for efficiency In this line. and his
place Il kept busy Of late, sometimes
the room being crowded with Gus
ton ,rs. II pays 70 excel.
The indicator., 1904-09-24
WHERE IT TAKES GRIT.

It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like song;
But the man worth while
Is the man with a smile
When everything goes wrong.
Anon.
The indicator., 1904-09-24
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on the fourth Monday in October next, at
which time all persons having claims against
said estate are notified and requested to at
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justcd. All persons indebted to said estate are
requested to make immediate payment TO the
undersigned.
Dated This 18th day of September, A. D. 1904.
JOHN SroMMRL,
Administrator.
Sept. Acct. "a, 1904.
The indicator., 1904-09-24
6U9YNMy KfNT KxCUK1I0N

The Pueblo business men's excur-
sion will return today from H. kss
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The indicator., 1904-09-24
A1niaietrator's a Notioe.

Sept. i7-o<t. Is, iso4.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01
Color in the Eiqht.

From the Baltimore Herald.
 Judge Parker has red hair and Adviser Sheehan's is of like color The same is true of John Sharp Williams, Senator Carmack of Tennessee and Governor Mon tague of Virginia, all of whom are red hot Palxer men. Even the man who nom- mated Parker at St. Louis has red hair. Ex-Senator Davis hair is white, which will show up we'll by contrast, and of democratic red bald heads who will ap- pear on the stump there will be a regi- ment.
 The republicans are mostly blacks and whites, the Presidents hair being nearly black, as Is Senator Fairbanks, a part of which is used to cover a bald space. Uncle Joe Cannon's covering-what is left is as white as that of Senator Davis, and the number of bald pates in repub- lican ranks will push those in the demo- cratic pretty hard.
 And then there is the color line which always has a prominent part in politics in these days When the red heads, black heads and bald heads get all mixed up on the stump a mass meeting will be what the orators call kaleidoscopic. The red heads are. of course expected to make things warm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01
A BIRMINGHAM JUDGE.

From the Nashville News.
 Judge Feagln of Birmingham. is doing philanthropic work in his judicial ca pacity As youthful negroes come before him and are convicted of serious offenses, he offers them the choice of the chain gang or a term of service to some re- spectable negro farmer, who will under take to bring up and train them to work, reporting to the judge monthly.
 This scheme is likely to do much good and gives to the young negro criminal much more chance of decency and re- spectability than a punishment which in- wolves the most degrading conditions ard vicious associations. Something of this sort is needed in dealing with boy law breakers, white and black, and in many ways this plan which separates the young criminal from others of his kind has more to recommend it as a reformatory meas ure than reformatory institutions where such boys are all herded together.
 The Macon Telegraph calls attention to the difficulty of finding negro men fit to be entrusted with the Responsibility of a bound boy, and It Is a fact which car not be ignored that there is a streak of cruelty in the negro character which makes so much authority somewhat dan gerons. The Telegraph truly says:
 Where the negro character is not wei: known Judge Feagins plan will appeal to many but it is known in the south that white farmer would be more kind and lenient to negro boys bound to him than negro farmer would be.
 Allowing for all abuses and difficulties. however, Judge Feagin's plan offers more hope of reform and future usefulness te the young negro lawbreaker than does the chain gang, and Birmingham is to be congratulated on the possession of such man on her bench.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01
Do We Eat Too Much?

Professor Chittenden of Yale says we do. The war department loaned him not long ago some soldiers, and upon the starvation squad" as it has been called, the Yale professor con ducted series of experiments cover ing a year. He gradually reduced their allowance of meat and other proteid foods without increasing the starch and other foods. Meat was not wholly eliminated except in one case.
 Did the starvation squad grow thin or weak? No, indeed. They were In better health and strength than at the beginning of the experiments, and none of them weighed less. And yet they had been subsisting upon from one-third to one-half as much as the average man eats" In other words we eat two or three times as much as we need. We clog the system with unnecessary food. We eat largely be- cause we like to eat. Ages of training have brought us to this, and ages of Chittenden's may be required before we will confine our eating to what the body needs. We are creatures of habit, and we go on eating what we do not need simply because we have trained ourselves to a craving for food as some train themselves to a craving for drink or opium.
 Professor .Chittenden's tables will soon be published, and then we will have facts before us instead of theory. A revolution in eating these days Of high cost would help all but the pro- ducers and the millionaires, and the everyday consumers outnumber them two to one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01
Jeffersonlan Simplicity.

From the Nashville Banner.
 The demand in the democratic platform that public officers, from the occupant of the White House down to She lowest of them shall return as nearly as may be to Jefersonian simplicity of living, :" means well as means of promoting economy and honesty in the public ser vice, but the reference to Jefferson's sim plieity of living Is based upon Q rather overstrained theory In regard to the sim pie manner of life of the third President Of the United States. Jefferson avoided pompous display in office. but he was something of a high liver in his time and extravagant. Mir Thomas D. Watson, ir. his Life and Times of Thomas Jeffer- son." says that with salary of s25.OOO 8 year, MT. Jefferson during his term of eight years got in debt about $20O0O, and woke up to the fact that he could not get away from Washington without bor- rowing $7O0O or $sOO0." Says MT. Watson The truth is that he had some expensive habits which he could not shake off He loved to have friends around him, and this meant lavish entertainment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01
From the New York Mall.

From the New ork Mall.
 S MEXICAN political caricature. Y1 like so many other modern cam
 paign customs, including "the hurrah canvass" torch-light processions and nominating conventions dates from Jackson's time. It had it's origin. accord ing to Mir. Joseph B. Bishop, in his inter- esting volume on Our Political Drama (Scott-Thaw company) in the opposition need of "a new and more graphic weapon than any previously used" to combat Old IIickorys picturesque personality. The Jackson campaigners did not endeavor to meet caricature with caricature,' and perhaps it was just as well, for the first cartoons were ''crude in drawing and sometimes coarse to the point of inde- cency."
 These carlcatures were based on Eng fish models, and indeed followed closely after the Italian, French and German schools. At first they were not issued as part of a periodical or newspaper, but appeared in the form of Autograph sheets nailed upon walls or passed about from hand to hand. New York city was their chosen home. One of their peculiarities was the numerous figures employed. An other was the use of "the loop" issuing from the mouth of the figure caricatured and inclosing some sentiment he is sup posed to be uttering. There were no back grounds in these early cartoons, and the loop was needed to make their point un- mistakable.
 It was first abandoned in England, but the American public kept on demanding it. even after the backgrounds had been so elaborated as to make it's "artful aid' superfuous For humorous purposes It still persists. In 1856 third characteristic was introduced. "The Mustang Team brings in the figures of Greeley. Bennett and Raymond the chief editors of the time. This" Mr. Bishop says, was the forerunner of the oft-repeated cartoon of the present day, in which editors or OUT great journals" are made to figure-a GUS tom not so common by the way. as it was a score of years ago.
 The second stage of political caricatures began when the illustrated newspapers took them up; this speedily killed the lith- orraph sheets. The founder and chief de- veloner of that school In America was Joseph Keppler, the young Yiennese ar fist. and his work which was more or less experimental between 1868 and 1879. when more than one color or tint was first used, reached its eliminating point in the campaign of 1884. Probably no more terribly effective series of political caricatures" Mir. Bishop thinks, was ever issued than that which Puck put forth in 1884; they literally struck ter TOT to the supporters of Mir. Blaine wher- ever they appeared" He believes that Puck and Judge" exerted an influence on the politics of that day greater than all the daily press combined. That in fiuence. however. ''has waned within the past five years so rapidly that very little
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01
NATIONAL POLITICS.
Republicans at Sea.

From the Chattanooga Times.
 One of the encouraging signs of repub- lean demoralization is indicated in the promptness and volubility with which re- publican editors are jumping on Mr. Thomas Taggart, whom they regard as being very practical politician, with no regard whatever" says one, flor the ethics of the controversy" Seeing as how Senators Hanna and Quay are dead, Post master Payne and Inspector Rhett Clark son are handicapped by some unfortun- ate disclosures in connection with depart ments of which they are the heads and MT. Cas- Addicks is embarrassed some what as to influence by his too free hand in eorrupting American suffragists it would appear that our republican friends are a bit shy this time on effective, prac- teal politicians. but the fact doesn't at al. detract from the highly amusing char aoter of the attacks upon MT. Taggart. From these manifestations of republican uneasiness and alarm democrats are feel ing more and more satisfied that the national committee made no mistake in it's selection of a chairman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01
The Ostrich.

From the Boston Post
 MT. Roseovelt, in his speech of accept ance, buries his head in the sand of the past as a protection against the hastenipg and imperative issues of the present which are pursuing him and pressing upon his party.
 What do the American people care about the 16 to issue which was fought out eight years ago? What do they care about the deals which Hanna made with protected trusts to bring in Mckinley in his first election? These are all outlawed by common sense.
 What the people want today is relief from the system which taxes industry for the profit of monopoly which in- creases the cost of living while decreas- ing the wages of labor, which makes an honest dollar equivalent to hardly more than 50 cents in the purchase of the rec essaries of life as compared with what 1t bought under the democratic administra- tion of Grover Cleveland.
 MT. Roosevelt lodges the point alto gether This is no time to stand pat but to look ahead and go ahead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01
Maine and Vermont.

No state elections take place until September, when Maine and Vermont in accordance with ancient usage will hold elections. Both will be watched with interest as indications of what New York above the big city will do.
 Whenever either falls below 25,O0O republican plurality, especially Yer mont, the democrats expect to carry New York state. It was so when Til den was elected, and also when Cleye- land twice carried the country. Yer mont lies alongside upper New York, and if her republican plurality falls below 25,000 we may feel secure in claiming a democratic plurality in New York. At any rate lessened plu- ralities in either Vermont or Maine would be reassuring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01
Declines Chicago Dinner.

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
 Judge Parker exercised more wisdom than at first appears when he declined to attend the demonstrations to be held in Chicago.
 Let Bryan, Harrison. Hearst and Hop kins fight themselves into harmony
 Then Judge Parker might have been taken for strike breaker and mobbed
 Then Judge Parker might have been fed on embalmed beef. Mrs. Leutgert sausage or Hammond horse hams because of the packers strike.
 Or the lady managers of the world 8 fair might have shipped him away to St. Louis and have taken the judge down the Pike into the camp of the leahess Eyes from Mindanao.
 There are besetting dangers In Chicago that prudent man should avoid. The west Is no place for ! democratic presi- dential candidate. He must look to 4he east and south and the south needs no looking after.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01
Gin. mat. Was Cordial.

Cincinnati is one of the most hospitable towns 1t has every been my good fortune to visit, and the people did themselves proud in their entertainment of the Elks who recently convened there,' said How ard s. Schuessler, member of the mer- cantle firm of Schuessler & Son, at La fayette, and prominent Elk "The en- tire town was thrown open to us and can assure you that we had royal time. Even the ladies joined fin the enthusiasm and everywhere we went we were greet ed by the cheery Hello, Bill
 Cincinnati is a great town to have a good time in, because it is so cosmopoli- tan in character and there Is so much wealth among the citizens. When Cin- cinnati sets out to entertain visitors there is no limit to her hospitality. All the EfAs are delighted at the cordial recep- tion rendered them and are sorry that the next convention cannot be held in the same place, although 1t is predicted that Buffalo. where we meet next year, will be able to make Cincinnati look to her laurels as a hostess"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01

Philippine situation in glowing colors, but the truth is, the islands are full of discontent and comp aints. The to- bacco growers are with the sugar pro- ducers in eondemning the American congress, and Americans in general. Capital is withdrawing and nobody is going to the archipelago to stay ex- cept a few American offceholders.
 The entire governmental scheme is a failure It costs too much, and the needed revenue through a tariff is des- troying the industries of the islands. A lower insular tariff. or the removal of all American duties on Philippine exports would create a deficiency that would have to be met by direct taxation, and the internal taxes are already high.
 The truth is, we are governing our colonies on 100 extravagant a plan. Official salaries are high, and the en- tire scheme is beyond the means of the colonists. The official eXploiters thrive, hut no one else does. The non, official carpetbaggers are leaving at every opportunity "The population Of Manila is decreasing, customs falling off, importations O. famine rice in creasing'-so writes the correspon- dent of the New York Journal of Com merce, which is a non-partisan news paper.
 The Americans on the spot agree in saying that the hybrid colonial sys- tenn of the administration is failure, and that the ans should either be- come American territory with free trade to and from the mainland, or else they should become self-goyern- ing in the Canadian sense. They say at any rate that present conditions cannot endure without rendering the islands economically helpless. Bad as business is, it Is plainly becoming worse, and there is hopelessness in every part of the archipelago Our plan of colonial government are mis- fits, and changes must take place if the islands are to be kept from poy- erty stricken condition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01
China and Our C0ttOns.

China has been buying the light grades of goods, but the demand for heavy weight fabrics is increasing rapidly The far eastern buyers are seeking drills and sheetings in the American market, and the New York Commercial says that "a number Of southern mills have booked enough business on Chinese accounts to keep their looms busy well into the next year. deliveries to be made between October and March"
 The Chinese orders were accepted on the basis of 91s cent cotton. Home buyers have been insisting on goods based on 71a and cent cotton. Those who look for low priced cotton are de- creasing as the time for the shipping of new cotton draws near The ma jorty of buyers and consumers now concede that cotton will sell at the outset for nine or ten cents. All see that large crop is probable, but no one can see how more than eleven and | half million bales can be picked by the present supply of labor.
 If the demand from the far east for our cotton is maintained, there will be no trouble in selling the product of southern mills at good prices. Al. together the expectancy of cotton be- low nine cents has not much founda- tion There is greater probability that cotton will command ten cents than there is that it will fall to nine cents, and eleven cents as a ruling price far outruas as a probability & cent cotton. Ten cents is the breaking point. A great crop and an exceeding ly favorable picking season might carry the .rice below ten cents, but nothing less than that combination will do it. When far eastern buyers are willing to buy cottons to be deliv- cred up to next March, on the basis of 9ia cents, it is plain that the rul- ing price of the season will approxi- mate if it does not exceed ten cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01
A Rural Vehicle.

'I saw a quaint equipage come clatter- ing down the street tonight that reminded me of my boyhood days in the south' said a drummer. "A delapidated sulky. drawn by raw-boned horse and contain ing two Darktown belles in broad-brim- med straw hate and red calico gowns came swaying and ereaking down Nine teenth street at a rate that threatened momentary demolition. The occupants were clearly anxious to get through town as quickly as possible, for they kept their steed going at a lively clip and were greeted with many laughs as they passed along.
 'It has been some time since l have seen one of those old-fashioned sulkies' with a basket bottom end precarious seat I believe that they were formerly quite popular in some parts of the south but they seem to be going out of use now and 1t is seldom indeed that one of them is seen in town"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Crops Are Promisinc

"The prospects for crops in Alabama are better than they have been for years, said Eugene Ware a well known sales man, who has just returned from a tour of the state. Everywhere l went the farmers were feeling elated over their success and are looking forward to one of the most prosperous years they have had in long time. The late rains have greatly benefited corn. while the out look for cotton is very promising. There is an era of good feeling in Alabama that argues well for the business men during the approaching winter. If the price of cotton is forced up again this winter, to- gether with the abundance that Is on every hand, Alabama farmers will be contented set of men when Christmas rolls around"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01
ESCAPING JURY DUTY.

From the New York Herald.
 MT. Ewing expressed the opinion that the juries fail to convict partly because of the refusal of men of character and position to serve on the jury There is doubtless something in this view. We know that there has been a disposition in our own state and community for "the best citizens" to escape jury duty when ever 1t is possible.-Charleston (S. @ News and Courier.
 The point made by MT. Ewing. a Bir- mingham clergyman, was that one incen- tive to lynching is the failure of juries to convict and that this failure in turn is due to men of social standing lodging their jury duty The complaint of our esteemed contemporary about "the best citizens" we fear is as true in New York as it is in Charleston-"and pity tis true"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01
THE cHAMsERED NAUTILUS.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes. This is the ship of pearl. which, poets feign,
 Sails the unshadowed main
 The venturous bark that filings on the sweet summer wind it's purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
 And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. It's webs of living gauge no more unfurli
 Wrecked is the ship of pearl
 And every chambereG cell. Where its dim dreaming life growing shell.
 Before thee lies revealed Its irised ceiling rent. it's sunless crypt unsealed Year after year behed the silent toll
 That spread his lustrous coil;
 Still as the spiral grew, He left the past years dwelling for the Stole with soft step its shining archway through.
 Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee.
 Child of the wandering sea.
 Cast from her lap, forlorn From thy dead lips clearer note Is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horni
 While on mine ear 1t rings. Through the deep caves of thought hear voice that slngs:- Build thee more stately mansions. O my soul,
 As the swift seasons roll
 Leave thy low-vaulted past. Let each new temple. nobler than the last. Shut thee from heaven with 9 domc mere vast Till thou at length art free. Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01
Discussing Extra Session.

"Members of the Birmingham bar are taking a lively interest In the proposal to petition the governor to call an extra session of the state legislature for again passing the Lusk bill" said a lawyer yes- terday. "It is believed that session lasting six days, which will be the time required for making the bill constitutional without question, will cost the state about $6oOO or 5000 day. This will in- clude all expenses and mileage and it is pointed out that 1t would be cheaper for the state to have an extra session of the legislature than to go to the expense of fighing the matter out in the courts.
 Birmingham is vitally effected by the I.usk bill and legal affairs will be in a turmoil if it is declared unconstitutional The Birmingham bar is contemplating taking steps to have the governor call the special session. A petition will prob- ably be presented to that effect, as q great many lawyers are of the opinion that the Lusk bill is not constitutional"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-01
A Wise Decision.

From the Charleston Evening Post.
 Judge Parker has decided that he will not go to Chicago to make an address to democrats on the invitation of Mayor Carter Harrison. Instead he has invited Mayor Harrison to visit him at Esopus. That is better. The meeting to which Harrison had invited the judge was to be largely favored with Bryanism, and it would have been very unfortunate had the campaign for Parkers election been opened under such auspices. If Harrison or Bryan himself goes to Judge Parker, that is all right. Any democrat will be welcomed under the cover of the restored party habitation. But the head of the house mustn't go about the fields chasing company.