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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16
Judge Cochran of Mississinni.

Judge Robert F. Cochran of the Tenth Mississippi judicial circuit is attracting much attention with his vigorous charges to the grand juries and his application of extreme penal. iien } criminals. His ultra express ions and rdlings are meeting with the appreciation of t,.ose who love peace and despise disorder with fear and trembling of evil-doers, and with the surprise of those who knew the genial man before he was clothed with judi. cia. ermine.
 No man in that state was a more earnest supporter of the candidacy of Major Vardaman for governor than was Col. Robert Cochran, and the can diCate had not a more enthusiastic and beligerent defender of his peculiar views on the negro, the mob and other matters than was this Meridian lawyer and politician, hence his appointment to the bench.
 Judge Cochran states to his juries and to the public that he never asked for the appointment, nor did he ever request any one else to ask it for him, therefore he is under no obligations to any man O. set or men and intends to follow the law in letter and in spirit
 This Mississippi judge, with the views he entertains of things evil in thu sight of God and of man, and with power to make effectual such views. appears upon the scene of jurispru- dence at most opportune time, and Lil vigorous course cannot fail to prove tightening up of the ways of courts, a check to crime, and more healthful conditions in general
 Judge cochran's charges constitute unique and yet wholesome literature, worthy of general publication. He rtrikes the keynote when he charges
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16
It Was Most Unseemly.
rom Inc New York Post

From the New York Post.
 It was almost inuecent of the Maine democrats to make gains in yesterdays election. Had they not been told plainly that the republican majority would be unprecedented" in any case. that their own canvass was absolutely dead" and that it was of no use for them to go to the polls? Yet the shameless fellows have actually increased their vote 30 per cent over that of 1900, and in a total poll much greater have cut down the republican majority " 5000 or more The marked democratic gains in Portland. Lewiston, and other cities seem to us peculiarly reprehensible, coming as they do on the very day of President Roose- velt's careful explanation that all good Americans should vote the republican ticket. He will be pained today to learn how many bad Americans there are in Maine. Meanwhile, impartial political ob- servers will set down the result for just what it is worth-a clear sign, namely. that the democrats are not the disorgan- ized and dispirited crew their opponents delight to make them out; that the pres- idental campaign Is yet to be fought; and that no man can tell what the de- cision of 100000 electors will be in No vember.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16
Beeaars Are Missing.

T wonder what has become of all the beggars in Birmingham" said a man about town yesterday. Can it be that they have been frightened away by the miners strike? I don't believe that l have noticed a beggar in several weeks whether because have just happened to miss them or because they are not on the streets, am unable to say.
 While cripples and afflicted persons are not pleasing to look at still they have become such familiar sights along busi- ness thoroughfare5 in cities that 1t Is rather lonesome without them. It has been months since I was approached by a mendicant with direct appeal for almsn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

northern Indiana and northern Ohio at all secure against low temperatures and nipping frosts.
 The corn in Kansas, Missouri, southern Illinois and southern Indiana and southern Ohio is out of harms way at the hands of Jack Frost. Per haps two-thirds of the crop is wholly made and out of danger, but it is the condition of the remaining one-third that determines the size of the crop. and 1ne price of meats, and the cost of living generally.
 The crop is late in the northern DOT tion of the corn belt, and killing frosts before October 1 would do great injury to it. Many of the farmers, says an official of Iowa, "are cutting corn be- cause they fear killing frosts. When the stalks are once severed from the lOoIo anu 6HoChtu lue Coiu 10 fSNt and although not thoroughly hardened, the ears are kept from danger of frost"
 The danger to which one-third of the corn crop of the country is now exposed is something that southern farmers do not have to contend with. No September frost comes to their fields, and, as rule, no October frosts, and by November all crops are beyond possibilities of harm by Jack Frost. Our Alabama corn was long ago made" but the corn along the north ern side of the corn belt always does have to contend with frost dangers, and never perhaps has there been more of the crop in the northwest ex- posed to September frosts than there is today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16
Confederate Pensions.

Besides the annual tax on each one hundred dollars of taxable values, Alabama will next year add special appropriation of $25O,OOO, and this ad- dition will bring Confederate pensions in this state up to reasonable propor- tions Heretofore the average veteran has received but a small sum; here after he will be the recipient of sum that will be credtable to this state.
 Every state that seeded has a pen sion system, but Georgia is the most liberal of all O. them. In 1903 Georgia paid to her pensioners sS57, AIS. Since 1865 she has paid them over eight mil lion dol ITS. There are over fifteen thousand enrolled pensioners in Geor- gia. The indigent receive $60 year, and the disabled receive pensions in varying amounts up to $150 a year. The widows of Confederate soldiers also receive pensions. Not only does Georgia pay her veterans over $50 a piece each year, but she exempts them from the payment of poll and license taxes. A Georgia veteran can peddle goods, or act as an insurance agent, or keep a billiard table, or the like, without the payment of license tax. That generous state maintains, too, a soldiers home, to which, any old sol 1ier may go. 1t is maintained by the state.
 Mississippi appropriates $200,0O0 an nually to, her veterans, and South Car olina gives like sum each year. The appropriation in Louisiana is but S75,- poo 9 year; in Arkansas it is $55,0 900. Texas votcs to the veterans $250, ,O0O a year. Florida sets aside tax of one 1hill to the pension fund. Tennessee ,pensions her old soldiers, and main- tains soldiers home. Missouri, Ken lucky and Maryland provides homes fer Confedera 3 veterans.
 It will thus be seen that Alabama will not do more than some of her sis- ter stases ere doing even when the extra appropriation becomes available, and it is sac to say the appropriation for pensions will not be lessened in this state. The veterans of the war will need elp more and more each year during the rest of their honored lives, and this state will gladly pro- vide for their welfare while they re- main with us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16
REPUBLIC IRON AND STEEL.
yall Street Journal.

From the Wall Street Journal.
 Philadelphia-The Amalgamated Associ- alton of Iron and Steel Workers employed by the Republic Iron and Steel company have accepted the result of the arbitra- tion of their differences with the com pany reducing wages from 12 to IS per cent
 Chicago-The Republic Iron and Steel plants in Illinois have resumed with 15 per cent cut in wages.
 Through the reduction in the wages of its employees the Republic Iron and Steel company expects to maintain it's recent aggressive attitude in seeking business.
 Interests associated with the company say it will not be held in check where business is to be secured through disre- garding prices
 The wage reduction secured approxi- mates over 10 per cent, affecting most the highest priced workers. whose wages next year will be 13 per cent below the sched- ule of this year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16
OYAMA TRAMPED IN SNOW
 WHEN A BARE-FOOTED BOY

From the Louisville Courier-Journal. \ WAWO OYAMA was born in 1S41, samurai or noble of the Kagoshima ! clan. Form his earliest infancy he was brought up as a soldier. At four years of age he was separated from his mother and began to learn the lessons of hardihood. He was never allowed to vince for pain or complain of hunger. He was compelled to go barefoot in the snow in the winter to tougher him. In wintry winds he wore but the thinnest clothes to keep his skin from being ten der. His days were spent in the prac- tice of arms and physical exercise; his night in studying the bushido, or old Japanese code of honor which taught the samurai that life was nothing as compared with the glory of his daimio or leader. Little Oyama was of sturdy stuff and could stand the training which killed many who are devoted to 1t.
 At the age of 10 he had killed bear unaided, and the same year took part in his first battle with the retainers of a rival daimio Young Oyama at this time was passionately devoted to his cousin, the great Saigo, the head of the Satsuma clan.
 After tke period of the civil war in the Cos, when the new regime was firmly established. the young Oyama was sent to France as military attache to study the organization of modern armies, ana had the opportunity of observing modern warfare during the Franco-G German con- fct of 1870
 He remained abroad three years ana on his return home was appointed gen. eral in the imperial army.
 At the outbreak of the Satsuma re- bellion, headed by his cousin Saigo, and in which his own brother look leading part, Oyama found himself in painful dilemma; his loyalty to the central gov ernment and to the person of the em- peror triumphed. however. and he took the field against his clansmen, and as commander of the flying brigade" fought bravely and successfully until Saigo's fall.
 During the ensuing ten years of re- construction, which Marquis Yamagata devoted to establishing and perfecting
 
 the standing army and to fortifying the whole country General Oyama was his right hand man. Without him the task could hardly have been accomplished, for, after Saigo's death, Oyama had be- come to be regarded as the representa- tive of the Satsuma cland and defender of their interests, and he used all his influence to secure the cooperation of the still powerful Satsuma element.
 To his credit it must be said that he never took advantage of his position to obtain political power. Tn the army he has been steadily promoted and he has, alternately with Yamagata, occupied all the importan posts. Twice-from 1SS5-90 and from 1891 -92-he has been minister of war. During the war with China he was ordered to Manchuria as commander-in- chief of the second army. In 1895 at the end of the war. the title of marquis was conferred on him, and in 1893 he was made a marshall and the following year succeeded the late Prince Komatsu as chief of the general staff.
 Marshal Oyama is almost the only one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16
campalan Funds.

q read the other day a newspaper dis patch which said the democratic national campaign committee would call on south ern democrats for contributions to the Parker and Davis campaign funds" said an old champion of democracy.
 This is as It should be. Years ago when the south was poor no national campaign funds were expected from this section, but today there Is a great deal of wealth in the south. Southerners arr dently hope to see Judge Parker elected and they should not walt to be called on for campaign money, but should vol untarily make contributions to the com mittee treasurer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16
London Doctors Strange Story.

From the London Daily Mail.
 An extraordinary story of the imposi- tion of one will upon another was told before the psychological section at the British Medical association at Oxford yesterday
 pr. Edridge Green said that he was talking to patient on the subject of hypnotism The patient, lady of more than average force of character, said she defied any man to send her to sleep and make her do as he wished.
 T told her it was not necessary to send her to sleep said the doctor, and added: You will wake at o'clock to- morrow morning and will send me postcard despite your own wishes to say so.'
 T got that postcard. It was somewhat to tthis effect: I have been trying not to write to you, but I did wake at D.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16
About Persons.

Charles H. Scott of Montgomery, na- tional committeeman of the republican party from Alabama, is at the Hillman.
 James T. Beattie of Coal City is at the Hillman.
 J. w. Manning of Alexander City Is stopping at the Hillman.
 Major William T. Tebbets collector of customs of the Mobile port, is at the Hillman.
 W. L. Gillespie of Coal City is at the St. Nicholas.
 L. II. Brooks of Atlanta is at the Hillman.
 G. c. Duncan of Oklahoma City is at the Colonial
 Henry c. West and Miss Hattie West stopped few hours yesterday with their brother, John West, at the St. Nicholas. en route from Russellville to their home at Vernon.
 Frank s. Moody of Tuscaloosa, for merly state senator, is at the Morris.
 D. G. Moss of Sheffield is at the Nor ris.
 A. D. Rodgers of Cincinnati is at the Colonial.
 J. M. Williams is at the Morris.
 Wallace c. Adler, editor of the Clanton Union, is at the Metropolitan.
 Allen J. Roulhac of Sheffield is at the Antrnnnlitnn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16
First Touch of Winter.

Tonight we are experiencing the hrst real touch of winter" said professlonal man. q have kept my office windows closed all day and I expect to haul out a blanket or two when ready to retire. For large part of humanity the chief ad- vantage of cold weather is the fact that sleeping Is so much better From now until warm weather comes again It VIII be just about twice as easy to over sleep yourself as it was when heat flies and mosquitoes conspired to disturb your slumber.n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16
Marion Military Institute.

The faculty of Marion Military institute announce convocation exercises, which will be held September p. The Rev. Dr. A. J. Dickinson, pastor of the First Baptist church of Birmingham, will make the convocation address, and Prof. Collins Denny of Vanderbilt university will de- liver the convocation sermon. The mill tary institute is one of the most flourish ing schools in Alabama and it's prospects for this session are remarkably bright.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16
Wanted Further Particulars.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 "At this height" said the guide as they paused on the mountain side to look at the valley far below. people with weak hearts often die
 ''Ho- oftes>" azked a deeply interested listener. 's~- I'll ss4lD te e'- hefore they stay dead ?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16
EXPERIENCE.

w. D. Howels, in Harper's Magazine The first time, when at night went
 about Locking the doors and windows every
 where, After she died, I seemed to lock her out In the starred silence and the homeless
 air, And leave her waiting Tn her gentle Way All through the night, till the discohso-
 late day. IJpon the threshold while we slept,
 awake Such things the heart can bear and vet
 not break
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16
Killing Frost and the Corn Crop.

Jack Frost is expected almost any night in e western corn fields, espe- cially in northern Iowa and southern Dakota-perhaps, too, in western Wis consin, Minnesota and Michigan. Nor are Nebraska and northern Illinois,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

MT. Roosevelt took credit in his let ter of acceptance for nearly every thing. He overlooked the fine fall weather, however.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

Grover Cleveland fishes and says nothing, and William Jennings Bryan is wasting valuable time. There must be a general October rally.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

The immensity of Uncle Sam's do- mains may be judged by the fact that $1500 pipe organ has been lost be- tween Pittsburg and Chicago for two weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

Japan continues to order with judg- ment and calmness armor plate. She means to control the waters of the Far East indefinitely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

The criminal instinct has been re- m zed from an Indiana boy by the use of the surgeons knife under his skull. If applied in time a strap would have had the same result.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

Dowie will soon be proclaimed First Apostle with power to pick eleven more, all however subject to him, for he is treasurer of the entire concern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

Empires have a hard time in life, but two New Jersey arbiters reached the limit of their woe when the mem bers of Dall team stole their trousers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

Carrie Nation Is dazed by the sheer audacity of the subway tavern, and she hesitates to visit it in profess sional capacity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

N THIS season Of the year poets NPV feel called upon to make a few appropriate remarks about the melancholy days that have come and are generally conceded to be the saddest of the year. It is all very graceful and pretty, no doubt, to sing pensively of the autumn leaves that are turning to gold. of the blue haze upon the mountains, of streams that wend their way down through flaming woods and the first wireless message of King Frost in the air. Such fancies appeal to imaginative minds and help us to forget the worlds trials. Moreover, when they are paid for by editors they serve to keep the wolf away from the poets brown-stone front but there are some individuals who cannot lose sight of practical mat ters In burst of poetic efrusion and to these autumn brings reminders of coal bills. of warm garments to be pur- chased, and last years underwear that must perforce be raised from the cav ernous depths of chest and trunk where it has reposed all through the gladsome summer time with only moth balls for company. The poets overlook this dis agreeable aspect of approaching winter, and perhaps 1t Is just as well in the end that we are not reminded of the colds to which flesh is heir to or the remedies therefor.
 A dramatic version of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" was recently pre- sented at Allentown, Pa, and is said to have been very favorably received. The play was written by George c. Hazel ton, who may be great dramatist or not It depends on what you think of his press agent. According to report the comedy scenes are excellent" It Is hard to imagine how even the most en- terprising playwright could infuse any real comedy into such solemn and mag niicent effort of the human intellect as The Raven,' but a serious version of the poem might be rendered very pow erful in capable hands. At least dram- atization of the poem without any com edy element would be rather interesting to witness.
 We are told that Nat C. Goodwin re- gently dropped the small matter of $25OO at game of cards during his trip over to the United States on the Kronprinz l Wilhelm. The beneficiaries were two gentlemen who would hardly be trusted in the safety deposit vault of any bank if the door were open and there were no one on guard. This little incident merely reminds us of the strenuous ne- cessity which actors labor under of all ways keeping themselves in the public eye by means both spectacular and pe- | culiar. Of course MT. Goodwin, being a man of the world, was probably playing the game in this instance for the fun that he expecte. to get out of it, but the fact that an army of fertile-brained wri- ters are employed -A large part of every year in weaving stories about the "stars'' who happen to command their services at the time, leads to the belief that stage folk are either the most original people in the world or else press agents crush Truth to earth and stand on her with both feet. Some marvellous tales are told of the doings of this player and that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

The National Laundrymen's asso- citation elected officers at Kansas City, and there is not a Chinaman's name in the whcs list Something is wrong here
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

The Pickens County Herald is the name of a new weekly paper that has been started at Carrollton. Smith and Johnson are the publishers and the first issue is very creditable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

Tom Watson is at present furnish ing. all the. ginger of the campaign, but Tom Taggcrt will soon show what he can do in that line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

General Uribe-Uribe continues to be among the lost, strayeo or stolen. Chatfield-Chatfield Taylor is, however, still in our midst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

Senator Fairbanks compared ring of smoke to halo crowning the re- publicans' fifty years of usefulness. The aptness of his simile is apparent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

The third battle of Bull Run will add some pensioners to the swelling fed eral list.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

New York consumes four and half million punches of bananas a year, but it is not known how many people slip up on the peels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

The Baltic fleet still has twelve thousand miles or blue water between it and Togo, who is another name for trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

The subway tavern has non-union bartender, and it's troubles are about to set in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

Candidate Tom Watson should come out openly for Roosevelt and Fair banks. He is no gumshoer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

Paramount issues remain to be named. The voters will make the se- lection with accuracy and dispatch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

The Baltic fleet is awaiting news from Port Arthur. Discretion is the better part of valor in it's case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

Wall street is booming again, en- ploying as basis the big crops in sight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

Inhaling gas i5 a popular way of committing suicide, and exhaling gas is sure way to commit political sui eide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

It is muddy at Mukden, but mud will not interfere with shooting on the part of the Japanese when they are ready.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

With wheat at $2 the western far mer win have no cause to envy the southern farmer his cotton patch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

A Chicago society girl has just proved her indifference to the yellow peril by marrying a Chinaman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

Kuropatkin begins to think there are too mans' on his coaching lines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

Frank V. Evans and R. L. ONeal, IT, are the only authorized travelling repre- sentatives of the Age-Herald in it's cir euiation department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

Ills time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
 -PericIes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

J. M. Williams is at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

Washington Bureau Age-HeralG. 14n c Street, N. w,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-16

A. D. Rodgers of Cincinnati is at tt Colonial.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-16
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-16
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