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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02
Kenneth Bailey Dead.

Kenneth Bailey treasurer of the Gras- seli Chemical company, died Tuesday at his home in Cleveland, o. The deceased was at one time a well known resident of Cincinnati, but of late years has made his home in Cleveland. He was familiar figure in Birmingham and had number of friends and acquaintances who will leaxn of his death with sincere regret.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

A truce of ten days has been granted by the union drivers of Chica- go in order to bury the dead from the theatrical disaster. Perhaps the truce may lead to permanent peace between the combatants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Omahas board of education is pushed to keep up the supply of schoolmams on account of the frequency of mar riages nowadays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Young men in Chicago are utilizing the drivers strike to put their best girls on the trolley cars when they take them to the theatre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Melancholy Is the nurse of frenzy.
 Flaming of the ShreW.
Remember the Corn Crop.

Fertilizer dealers report unprece- dented sales. although they are asking two or three dollars more per ton. From all sides come reports that the farmers are preparing to plant cotton very available acre, and if the m be favorable no doubt big will be raised. But no one ex- even two or three big crops-al- an impossibility-to carry cotton low the cost of production again. It is doubtful indeed if cotton will in the next five years drop below nine cents. \This year has rubbed the lesson of de- Id supply in, and the world will forget it.
 uch cotton cannot be grown, title corn can be. There are orn cribs everywhere this Alabama, and this is one
 the farmers of this state feet again. we would
 the Selma Times, 'to see of central Alabama raise n crop next year. but we b see plenty of corn raised. crib is like bank account, leck on it at all times. We ee Dallas planters raise a lon crop and get a big price 1t we do not want to see the eas, potatoes and other food
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02
Southern Opportunities.

puthern Field for January calls htion of the young men of the the possibilities that surround speculations in western lands a thing of the past, and the watered securities is ended, young man of today should n all such things to the actual developed resources at hand, in Alabama. Here we have: fields and ore beds in abund- Alg development.
 forests that in twenty
 made productive of valu- )1ber.
 Cement rock enough to fill the with the finest grade of Portland are certainly opportunities The other day, says the Field, in the senate chamber hington, the geographical situ- Id commercial outlook of Ala deposits of cement rock were d with reference to the con of an isthmian canal, and Allison of Iowa declared that k thus located "is of the utmost nce to all of the people of the States." The Iowa senator is
 He, but in this matter he l0ut limitation of any kind. Southern Field well says, the istles with opportunities for ep.. The young man of some
 seizes upon either of the
 mites mentioned, looking
 |e, will surely win, espe-
 bring to the task energy, Ind faith in his country and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Uncle Sam's marines will not be hit on the isthmus by anything unless they get in the way of the mosquitoes that thrive in that climate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

The grief over Dowie's departure at Zion City is mixed affair, and difficult to analyze. Some of it does not come under that head at all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

In the glad new year Birmingham will stand before the people at St. Louis giant over fifty feet high. This is simply prophetic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

President Roosevelt need not resolve today to lead more strenuous life. He is too strenuous and impulsive al ready
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Clyde Fitch is at present producing six dramas a month. He counts that week lost which does not'see one play finished and another begun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

It has been suggested that Frau Cosima Wagner could get even by pro- ducing "A Texas Steer" at Bayreuth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

If turkeys can be fattened on boil weevils, the latter will come to be re- garded as by-product
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

The reciprocity treaty is in force, and there is no reason why Cuban cigars should hereafter come from Connecticut
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Senator Fairbanks hopes to attract a bolt of Vice-Presidentia lightning. He has abandoned all thoughts of the other sort
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

The Jersey Lily has promised to play one uay in Langtry, Tex. a town named in her honor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Santo Domingo is conducting three revolutions all in a bunch, and the na- tive pays his money and takes his choice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

A third revolution has broken out in San Domingo, and the natives do not know wherc their heads are glued the most securely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

King Peter of Servia is content to reign without ruling. He has no desire to make any grandstand plays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Ida Tarbell is telling the truth re- gardless of the Standard oil crowd or their schemes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Adam-Zad is in one of his worst moods, but he does not like the ap- pearance of the Japanese ships.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

General Reyes should go home and calm down his constituents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

The ear of retrenchment is ended, and the year of sensible and reasonable recuperation is with us at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

All leaves have been turned over and some of them have Tipped back by force of habit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

The White Star line is building a steamer 755 feet long, and New York does not know where she can be docked
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

A good many are going around just now wearing-in their minds-sprout- ing wings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Webster Davis has decided that New York city is about his size, and he will enter politics there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

From the Frederick News.
 There is an Ann in Brooklyn who is 1o7 years old but she is not Mary's sister.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

The proposed war in Panama will be of the comic opera class.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

We are shipping canned corned beef to Russia, thus showing our friendship for Japan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

The Parker boom and the Olney boom are the featherweights of the campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Russia takes our canned roast beef and Japan our flour. Japan looks a winner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Panamas financial plaster for Col ombia will not help wounded honor much down that way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Coney Island comes up smiling in the glad new year with trolley Black Maria"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

The Missouri mule begins to hee- haw for long sea voyage to the orient.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02
NOT MARY,S SISTER.

Hand shaking is still practiced in rural politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Japan and Russia are simply bulls in our wheat and canned goods marhe,s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Underground New York will soon be an essential part of the great city [.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Calceum lights and gas tanks should be abolished in theatres by law,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Revolutions are less dangerous in San Domingo than the ordinary street riot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Colombia will not recognize us, and Panama will not recognize Colombia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02

Mayor Mcclellan is a bigger man than Congressman Mcclellan ever was.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-02
About pe,sons.

Congressman J. H. Bankhead and Mrs. Bankhead stopped at the Metropolitan
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-08-13
Queer Korean Food.

The Korean is omnivorous. Birds OF
the air. beasts Of the field. and fish
from the sea--nothing comes amiss to
his palate. Dog meat is in great request
at certain seasons, pork and beef with
the blood undrained from the carcass:
fowls and game-birds cooked with the
lights, giblets, heads. and claws intact.
fish, sundried and highly malodorous--
all are acceptable to him. Cooking is
not always necessary; species of small
fish is preferred raw. dipped into some
piquant sauce. Other dainties are dried
seaweed, shrimps. vermicelli. pine seeds,
lily bulbs and all vegetables and cereals.
Their excesses make the Korean martyrs
TO indigestion.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-08-13
/. A SELF
7QUARANTINEN


HE inhabitants of the little noun
tain town of D. were thrown into
mild excitement one day over the mys-
terious doings OF stranger who had
suddenly made his appearance in their
midst.
He had paid one months rent In ad-
vance for tiny vacant cottage in the
center of the town and had moved into
1t, ordering from the one big store below
a cot. an easy chair, table, few rugs
and small invoice of paper, pens and
ink.
An order was left at the little depot
restaurant for three meals day for q
fortnight. to be delivered on the porch
of his cottage, and this bill also was paid
in advance.
The man was said to have been by
those who saw him young and extremely
good looking and accompanied by bull
dog. old and extremely ugly. Within 10
hours after taking possession an enor-
nous scarlet card swung from the
strangers cottage door.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-08-13

Many years ago. before the production
of grain was equal to the demand. wages
CT farm hands were high. but as produc-
ton increased. the prices lowered faster
than the rate of wages.
A farmer employed an industrious
Irishman for five years. at the rate of
$50 q month "and found"-board. lodg-
ing. washing and mending. At the end
Of the term. he said to his man:
II can't afford to pay you the wages
I have been paying. You have saved
money, and have saved nothing. At
this rate you will soon own my farm. >
Then I'll hire you to work for me- .
said the other. ''and you can get your
farm back againi"-Success.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-08-13
HIS DREAM THE REAL THING
Mr.. johnson, of New Jersey, Plunged
Downstairs, But Continued
Sleeping.

Gilbert Johnson, a resident of Huntley
N j.. had a dream which came near cost
ing him his life. Mr.. Johnson dreamed
he was walking along a narrow plank
which spanned a sickening chasm.
When he was in the middle of the span
some one moved the plank, and Mr..
Johnson fell-down, down, down.
About five o'clock in the morning Mrs.
Johnson was aroused by the sound of
heavy breathing. and, going to her hus-
bands room, discovered his absence.
Peering down the stairway, she beheld
her husband with his head resting be-
low the last step, and his feet perched
above him on the stairway. sound
asleep. Mrs. Johnson aroused her 15-
year-old daughter, Gladys, and they
awakened Johnson, who, although he
had apparently fallen head foremost
downstairs, was not in the least injured.
He had walked from his room to the
landing and plunged downstairs with
out awakening.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-08-13


The American Jewish Historical so
ciety. whose object is to collect and
publish data relative to the achieves
ments of Jews in this country, held
the first session of its twelfth annual
meeting in the vestry-room Of the
Spanish and Portuguese congregation,
at Seventeenth street and Central
Park. West.
DR.. Cysur Adler. the society's presi-
dent, introduced William B. Hacken-
burg, of Philadelphia. who told of the
increase in the jewish population OF
America, and of the efforts made to de-
termine accurately the numerical
strength of the race. He said that thir-
ty years ago it was found that 100000
Jews were affiliated with religious or
CARNATIONS on this side of the water
and that, allowing for those not assoc
c.ated with any religious body, their
population at that time was probably
about 250,000. Now it ranged some
where between 1 1.000, 900 and 1000, ,O00.--
N. Y. Times.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-08-13
LOUISIANA
noox FOR THE OLD HORSE YET

Though the trolley goes buzzing along the
highway
And under the blossoming trees.
And past the broad fields where the scent
of the hay
Floats lazily out OF the breeze;
Though IL nils the red steed with suspicion
and fear.
And causes the gosiings TO fret,
Lnd zipps up and down through the once
quiet town,
There is room for the old horse yet.
Though the automobile whizzes over the
scene
That once was 50 peaceful and stIli
Leaving dust in its wake and the scent OF
benzine.s
As IL disappears over the hill;
Though its zipps and its jolts give alarm to
the colts,
Let US not for a moment forget
That. In spite Of mans need o. excitement
and speed,
There Is room for the old horse yet.
thousand inventors are busy to-day
Building ships TO be sailed inthe air;
BY Tomorrow the eagle may futter away
From the gay people soaring UP there:
The chicken may squawk. seeing men as
they flock,
As high as the birds ever get ~
But In spite OF the things we may do with
our wings,
There is room for the old horse yet.
Though the lightning express. with it,
rush and J is roar,
Remains but moment I'm sight;
Though the trip that took months in the
wagons of yore
Is easily made In night;
Though the engines wild toot causes heif-
ers TO scoot, !
And the country lies under a net
Made by long rows OF steel for the steam
driven wheel.
There is room for the old horse yet
IS. T.. Kiser. In Chicago Record Herald.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-08-13
Ancient Tasmanians.

When we read of the men who inhab
tied the caves CT Europe at a time when
mammoths dwelt on that continent, we
seem to have gone back to period SO
immeasurably remote that we can hard
ly picture in the minds eye the appear
ance which the representatives of our
race then presented. Yet. according to
Prof. E. B. Tylor, the natives of Tas-
mania remained within the present
century representatives of the immense
ly ancient Paleolithlc period" Recent
studies Of the relics of the Tasmanians
who became extinct when brought into
touch with modern civilized man. show
that the workmanship of their rude
implements was below that exhibited by
the drift and cave men" of Paleolithic
times.-Boston Budget.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-08-13
1.-THE PIKE" At ST. LOUIS.
Worlds Fair Thoroughfare Has Many
Attractions for the Visitor
From Abroad.

The day has passed when the aduIi
human male needs to take the children
as an excuse for going to see a circus.
People recognize that 1t is good TO see
things with child's eye. Therefore.
says Woman's Home Companion, one
need not apologize for having spent an
exciting day on The Pike of st. Louis.
suppose 1t was really the Tyrolean
Alps that begun it. They catch the eye
nrst on the approach to the grounds. and
they hold out direct invitation with
their tall, snow-dotted peaks and long
reaches OF green hillside. You can al
most pick out the precise spot where you
lay In the shadow on certain hot
August day when you were on that foot
tour In the vacation. There is an old
town. too, with its Rathhaus and its
kirche. all to the life. Of course, the
whole thing is of boards, plaster, and
paint, but 1t is wonderfully realistic. It
creates the Illusion. You are back in
the tall hills again. or resting In the
Burgkeller; you imbibe things that one
usually imolbes in Bavaria; you swap
serman phrases with a bare-legged
nun'er, or make eyes at the buxom mad
cnen VINO wears her black corset outside
ner dress Who could fail to enjoy Z?
What would The Pike be without the
Streets OF Cairo! The black-faced Arab
with the white turban and the blue
mother-hubbard is the same that you
saw at Chicago and at Paris and at Buff
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-08-13
CAMPAIGN LITERATURE.
System of Circulation Employed by
Political Bureaus of
the Cities.

The watchword of the campaign
committee is publicity Mr. Day AL.
len Wiley writes, in an article or
Running the Campaign" in Pearson's
To get this 1t tries to catch both the
eye and the ear of every voter who is
not Of its party, but who may be sn-
fiuenced by the zen of the writer, the
pencil Of the cartoonist, or- the tongue
of the orator. This is why one of the
first steps is the creation of bureau
to provide literature, and bureau tc
furnish speakers.
with the field of action plotted out
the bureaus which are to enlighten the
masses as to the virtues of their side
and the sins of the other, get ready fof
business. The press bureau organizes
with chief, and enough assistants &C
examine and edit the mass of copy re-
quired from the staff of writer's en-
ployed. Editorials. reviews, statisti-
cal articles, witty hits directed at the
opposing party, even poetry, form pari
of the product of this literature fac.
tory to be spread broadcast over the
country-some of it printed by the bu-
reau in leaflet and pamphlet to be de-
livered directly to the voter, some OF
it to reach him through the medium Of
the newspaper.
Excluding !, the newspaper copy
which each party furnishes on so very
liberal a scale, the press bureaus pui
out material, ranging from pamphlets
to posters. by the ton, and sometimes
the carload. 1t was not uncommon foi
/ it to be shipped by freight from Chi.
cago during the campaign of 1900"
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-08-13

Some experiments recently made in
Belgium tend to throw doubt on the
truth OF the assumption that insects are
guided to flowers by the brightness OF
their colors Brilliantly colored dahlias
were covered so as to show only the
centers. and butterflies and bees sought
these flowers with the same eagerness
and frequency as those which we're fully
exposed. The conclusion reached that
the insects were guided by the sense OF
smell rather than by their sight seems
conclusive.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-08-13
co THE PAWN SHOP ROUTE.
Many Now in Comfortable Circum-
stances Have Been Com
PEELED to Travel It.

Have come to the conclusion that
most people have been hard up at some
time in their lives remarked the city
salesman, to Chicago reporter. my
reason for thinking so is the post gradu-
ate course in pawn shop ethics that two
thirds of the people whom you meet
seem to have taken.
This pessimistic view of the financial
condition of mankind was forced upon
me several months ago. Since then
have improved every opportunity to
sound men ON the pawn shop question
and in almost every instance the result
Of my probing has borne out my theory
Only last night overheard conversa-
tion in the lobby of an uptown hotel
that demonstrates it to perfection.
~ There were ten men in the group
that did the talking. All are now in COM
Portable circumstances and some oi
them were piling on airs with a trowel
but in spite of all their manners and evil
dences Of afiiuence every last one oI
them fell into the pawn shop trap and
gave it away that they had been worry
ing along at ebb tide before striking il
rich.
There wasn't big city in the coun-
try, from Portland to San Francisco
whose prominent pawn shop was not
known to at least one man in the crowd
In many cases they didn't know much
else about the towns mentioned; they
couldn't tell the name of the principal
hotel or the biggest bank or the swellest
church, but they could spot the most
popular pawn shop every time. 3
This universal knowledge may, Of
course. be mere coincident and may
not mean anything in particular, but to
my mind it is rather significant fact
that in every group of ten men that you
meet there are at least half dozen that
are interstate pawn shop directories
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-08-13
Radiation Of Sounding Bodies.

The so-called N-rays, the new form Of
Invisible light, discovered by Blondlot,
IN France, is found to be given on by
bodies under strain. as in compression
Of bending. Hence vibratory body.
such as tuning fork or bell, which is
undergoing rapid alternating strains, is
source of the rays, which also emanate
from the vibrating air surrounding so-
norous body. The rays are detected by
their property of increasing the bril-
liancy of a phosphorcscent substance
When the revolving disk of siren is
made slightly phosphorescent. it is seen
to shine out more strongly every time
The instrument is sounded.-Success.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-08-13
Buttons on women,s Clothes.

Attention was drawn by DIR. James
Shaw at the Afnbidextral Culture So
ciety to the singular fact that the
buttons of feminine clothes are on the
wrong side-or, rather. since women
may maintain that it is mems but
tons which are wrong, that mems but
tons are on the right side of the wear
er. and women's on the left. This pc
culiarity, DR.. Shaw sscribed, not to
feminine perversity, but to the fact
that those who set women's fashions
were supposed to have maids to dress
them. for whom t>is position was more
Observation-Disclosures News.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-08-13
HERO OF HUDSON TUNNEL
One of the Kind of Men Who Have
Given to America Much Of
Her Honor.

The Hudson river tunnel was recently
opened with much ceremony and re.
joicing, and fitly so, for there is prob
ably in the world no more signal
triumph of mechanical skill over appa-
rently unconquerable obstacles. But
the present generation has quite forgot
ten very different struggle and victory
which took place in this same tunnel
writes Rebecca Harding Davis, In Sue
cess.
In the summer of 1880, q leak occurred
in the main shaft Twenty-eight work.
men in an instant found themselves fac
ing certain. horrible death The river
was bursting in on them. They saw nc
escape. But the head of the gang, Peter
Woodland, Dane, who was in q smaller
chamber, saw that, IL the glass bulls.
eye in its door were broken, the water
would be turned into It and most of the
men would have time to escape. His
own death would be certain and instant.
He hesitated. He was young and we'll.
educated man, and he had . wife anc
children.
One of the survivors said, afterwards
Il saw his face as he looked at us
through the glass. II was ghastly pale
He gave the order. Break the bulls.
eye!' We did 1t. The majority Of the
men were saved Woodland and -four
others were drowned"
We have been chanting, for ages
M came n fho uroof hor<,o q, ~ a ~ ~v1<3s 4
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-08-13
WRONG TRACK


Even the most careful person Is apt
to get ON the wrong track regarding
food sometimes and has to switch over.
When the right food is selected the
host of ails that come from improper
food and drink disappear, even where
the trouble has been Of lifelong stand
ing.
From a child / was never strong
and had q capricious appetite and |
was allowed to eat whatever fancied
-rich cake, highly seasoned food, hot
biscuit, etc.-so 1t was Eot surprising
that my digestion was soon out Of or
der and at the age of twcnty-thrce I
was on the verge Of nervous prostra-
tion. had no appetite and as l had
been losing strength (because l didn't
get nourishment in my daily food to
repair the wear and tear on body and
brain) l had no reserve force to fall
back on. lost flesh rapidly and no
medicine helped me.
"Then 1t was a wise physician or.
dered Grape-Nuts and cream and iIaw
to 1t that gave this food (new to mel
proper trial and 1t showed he knew
what he was about because l got bet
ter by bounds from the very first. That
was In the summer and by winter l
was IN better health than ever before
In my life. had gained in flesh and
weight and felt like a new person all
together in mind as well as body, all
due to nourishing and completely di-
gestible food, Grape-Nuts.
This happened three years ago and
never since then have had any but
perfect health for stick to my Grape
Nuts food and cream and still think
It delicious / eat It every day. 1
never tire Of this food and can enjoy
Z saucer Of Crape-Nuts and cream
when nothing else satisfies my appe-
tite and ft's surprising how sustained
and strong = small saucerfu1 will make
one feel for hours" Name gwen "
Postum CT. Battle creek. Mich
True food that carries one a1one
end ~theSefg : reoeon" Orore- -Nuta
- 6oS1 rfoves bIr thfqrR