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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28
ARIZONA RATHER
Was Too Much for Hindu Who Could
Charm Cobras.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
Saalleen Brandon, Hindu, who has
braved the terrors of plant pythons, boa
constructors. cobras and sundry other rep
tiles of the jungle with no other protection
than his glttering eye fell to a common
American "rattler'' at Coney Island yes
terday afternoon, and just now he is in
the Emergency Hospital with doctors hav-.
ing grave doubts as to his living to charm
another snake.
In an effort to save the life of the
snake charmer, DR.. Hall and other sur
geons literally drained his arm of almost
every drop of blood. through an inch and
a half incision. and then swathed the arm
in congresses of powerful antiseptics.
Saalien played with his king cobras, his
boa constructors and other snakes at the
animal show yesterday afternoon while
several hundred Royal Arcanum guests
looked on and shivered. He had trans
ferred all of the big ones back to their
cages, and as a final act brought forth his
prize Diamond Arizona Rather"
This snake is five feet long and has
fangs that make 1t most dangerous AS
he yapbed 1t about, the little American
snake sounded its rattles just once and
then struck.
Saalleen wasn't quick enough to avoid
the darting blow The fangs buried them
selves into his left wrist. Saalleen didn't
loose his head, but quietly put the RATHER
back in the cage. A few minutes later he
was writing on the floor of his dressing
room. DR.. Hall was called and hurried
him off to the hospital. It's only an even
chance that the Hindu will get we'll
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD

them from a watery grave. This scheme
resorts which the fat ladies in humor-
Gus publications seize and swing to I'M
I'll they are in turn seized by a crab.
While there are so many suggestions In
order 1t would not be amiss to solve the
excursion steamer problem by having a
substitute steamer to go along to render
assistance in case Of accidents. The
second boat would steam along behind
and If anything should happen to the
first boat 1t would be an easy matter to
transfer the crowds and continue the trip
without loss of life But after all the
only real solution of the problem is to
quit having excursions either on land
or water and of course the public will
not entertain any such notion.
Monsieur Lebaudy has given up his
transcendent dream of empire and has
retired to Brussels where he seeks to
be forgotten. For a time this ingenious
young Frenchman builded some fantastic
castles in the air and evidently enjoyed
the sport immensely, but his castles have
Jared as all other castles OF a similar
texture have Jared in the past The
dreamer has had rude awakening and
music hall dancer he has been forced 20
relinquish the ambitious project of estab-
fishing an empire in the sazArah. His
royal palace was no more tangible than
the mirage that so often deludes the wan
derer across desert sands.
Fat men among the West Point cadets
have been shut out Of the cavalry service
of the army by new method of making
assignments which is being tried by the
war department This is merely another
Illustration of the serious handicap of
having too much flesh. A moderately fat
man seems to enjoy life and always
looks as If he were having a good time
but the fact remains that he is much in
the way of less corpulent people who are
vastly in the majority. He delays traffic,
fills doorways and breaks the furniture
with an indifference 10 the comfort of
others that is surprising, and everybody
knows from the example of Falstaff that
the army has decreed that fat cadets
shall be put in the infantry service.
where they will have many opportunities
to walk off their surplus flesh.
Pitcher McGir nifty of the New York
National league team, who shares with
Birmingham's Vulcan the soubriquet of
the Iron Man." is an example of all
that is best in baseball. While MeGin-
nifty has not chosen a profession that
will lead to lasting honors and a great
name that will live IN any other litera-
ture than the DOPE he has neverthe-
less won the admiration Of the country
by his untiring efforts to make a sue
cess of pitching ball. Constant training,
steady habits and a careful regard for
health have perhaps more to do with Nc
Ginnitys success on the diamond than his
marvellous STRONG ARM that Is the adj
narration of every small boy in the land.
p. C.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
PhlIIppine Exhibit.

Descriptive pamphlets of the Philippine
exposition at the st. Louis fair have
been received and show this exhibit to
be most wonderful array of the re-
sources Of the new possessions of Uncle
Sam. 1t is possible for the visitor at
st. Louis to get a very good idea of the
people of the islands. their quaint Gus
toms and the surroundings IN which they
live when at home. All departments Of
the Philippine exhibit have been well
advertised and in fact is one of the most
talked about features or the fair. It is
claimed that this is the largest single ex-
hibit at st. Louis and It is certainly one
of the most interesting, especially to the
friends and relatives of young men who
have tried soldering IN the Philippines
ard have lived in the very land that is
so faithfully reproduced at the fair.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28
PREVENTS NAL DE MER.
Petroleum Safe and Reliable Remedy
In Seaslckness.

From the London Doctor.
An Australian correspondent of the
Homeopathic World" makes mention of
petroleum as a safe and reliable remedy
for the prevention of seasickness, and one
which he can back up by personal expert
ence. "A few years ago" he writes, IT
had occasion to take a trip from Sydney
to the Hawkesbury river in the steamer
Newcastle. AS l had never been outside
of Sydney heads before l determined to
guard against unpleasant accidents by
providing myself with preventive
against seasickness. l decided upon Pc
troleum, TX trituration In 2-grain pow
ders. When the vessel got outside the
heads the fun commenced. I began to
feel bit queer, and a peculiar nausea
began to steal over me. Down went one
of the powders. Ten minutes afterward
took another, and the nausea disappear
ed. 1t came on again later on, but soon
vanished before those magic powders.
Whenever there was the least sign of its
return took powder and thus prevent
ed what might otherwise have been to
me very unpleasant trip. Several chill
dren who was In my charge at the time
were successfully treated in the same
way. Only recently lady and gentle
man whom l had supplied with a num-
Der of these petroleum powders to take
with them on a voyage, on their return
spoke in the highest terms of them, and
stated that they were quite satisfied that
seasickeness could be prevented. as on
other occasions they had always suffered
from that malady."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28
citizen Asks a Question.

IT wonder Why 1t Is that the street
sweeping force begins work on the bust
LESS thoroughfares in town before the
days shopping is over and then sweeps
the streets on the outskirts of the nusl-
ness district about two o'clock IN the
morning after everybody has gone TO
bed?" ssked a citizen. 1T seems to me
that il the street cleaning force must
start out early in the evening 1t would be
lust as easy for them to sweep the less
travelled streets first and then come down
into the heart of town later In the hlshl
when there is little traffic
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28
A DREAM OF ITALY.

BY Thomas B. Reed.
My soul today
Is far. away,
Sailing the Vesuvian Bay:
My winged boat,
A bird af1oat.
Swings round the purple peaks remote
Round purple peaks
1t sails, and seeks
Blue inlets and their crystal creeks,
Where high rocks throw,
Through deeps below.
Aduplicated golden glow.
Far. vague and dim.
The mountains swim;
While on Vesuyius's mistry brim
With outstretched hands,
The gayfsmoke stands
o erlooking the volcanic lands.
Here Ischia smiles
Ger liquid miles,
And yonder, bluest Of the isles.
Calm Capri waits.
Her sapphire gates
Beguiling to her bright estates.
I heed not, If
My rip1ing sSiff
Float swift or slow from clih to ctin;
With dreamfrl eyes
My spirit lies
Under the walls Of ParadiaA
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28
Japanese Victories on Land and Sea

No matter what the Russians at
tempt they are met and defeated by
their willy opponents who have an in
telligence or spy system that is con-
fessedly superior to anything that the
world has ever before known The
Russians confess that the Japanese
know all that is going on within their
own lines.
General Kuropatkin attempted to re-
lieve Port Arthur or at least to pre-
vent New Chang from falling into
Japanese hands, and he encountered
heavy defeats at vafangow and at
Simenting, and was forced to retreat
before General Oku's victorious army.
And when the Russian fleet left Port
Arthur to encounter the Japanese
ships 1t was torpedoed until one bat
tlaship was sunk, one more disabled
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28
Young Opera Singer.

Green Rayfeld of Talladega, young
baritone singer who has a bright future
before him, passed through Birmingham
Saturday en- route to Admission, where
he will sing in the summer theatre at
oxford lake. Mr.. Rayfield has peen de-
MED the advantages of thorough train
ing In his art, but possesses a voice Of
great range and depth and has been quite
successful on the comic opera stage. For
the past two years he has been touring
the west. in an opera company and has
appeared very creditably in THE Mika-
do
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28
Bells Disappearing.

"I notice that bells on the bicycles yet
remaining in service are rapidly disap-
pearing," said an observant man last
night. "There was a time when the bicy-
clist created wild pandemonium along the
streets and when you least expected 1t
your ear was smote by shrill clamor
that proclaimed at once the approach of
a scorcher and warned you TO seek
place of safety. But now few bicycles
have bells and the people who ride them
content themselves with whistling with
the lips when a pedestrian gets in the
way. Some of the bicycle bells formerly
In commission were so clamorous that
thew were decided nuisances, and am
glad that they have gone out OF favor
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

and one cruiser badly damaged. What
ever they do, by land OF sea, they en-
counter defeat. True, the Vladivoktok
fleet did slip out in the fog, but what
did it accomplish? 1T attacked some
defenseless transports, and destroyed
three of them. A single gunboat could
have done as much.
Whenever the two forces meet In
equal or nearly equal strength, the
Japanese are victorious, and this fact
must soon tel upon the morale and
spirit and dash of even stolid Russian
troops. for soldiers will not fight
month after month an enemy that
simply will not be whipped.
Did the dash of the Port Arthur feet
Indicate the fall of the city itself? We
shall soon know, for General Oku has
turned back to Port Arthur, and op-
erations against that city will soon
be resumed. The fleet in its harbor
has been reduced to repaired ships,
and they are of doubtful efficiency
The rainy season is near at hand,
and during its continuance the Jap
anese will doubtless pay their conf
pliments to Port Arthur, and its early
fall is expected on all sides. No mill
tary critic believes it can be held
against the Japanese.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28
About Persons.

The Rev Dir. Robert G. Patrick, pres
ident of the Judson Female institute at
Marion, is at the Tillman.
e. c. Clark of Cincinnati is stopping at
the st. Nicholas.
George T. Burke of Montgomery is at
the Morris
Col. Thomas L.. Bulger of Dadeville,
member of the legislature and one of the
leading figures In the last constitutional
convention, is at the Metropolitan.
c. A. Greene of Bocton is registered at
the Colonial
7. c. Bailey of Demopolis is at the
Hillman.
j. w. Higgins, one of the leading bus
mess men of Corona, is at the Morris.
Ira Sandifer left last night for Char
louisville, Va. to pursue special study
in law during the next three months.
Mr.. Sandifer is one of the best known
young men in the Birmingham district
During the late contest for the special
school tax measure he was secretary of
the committee that so successfully con-
Quoted the campaign.
e. c. Thomas of Garnsey is stopping
at the st. Nicholas.
DR.. Shirley Bragg. state convict inspec-
tor, came up from Montgomery last night
and is at the Metropolitan. He will spend
the greater part of this week inspecting
and classifying the states convicts Of
this district.
Charles B. Dunn of Blocton is at the
Morris.
Theodore P. Mccantey of Lexington,
KY, is at the st. Nicholas.
George w. Jones of Montgomery, as
sistant district attorney for the Louis
Vile and Nashville railroad and mem
Der of the state democratic executive
committee, Is at the Hillman.
A. ]. Kertz of Montgomery is registered
at the Colonial.
S. e. WATSON of Florence is at the Nor
ris.
Prof John D. Alternately, superinten-
dent of the public schools at Columbia,
is at the Metropolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

croscopical laboratories. Fame and for
tune await the diseoverer of a cure for the
most virulent ills that afflict mankind.
The relative Importance of the latter is
shown in the index of the seventy-ninth
volume of the New York Medical Journal
and Philadelphia Meieal Journal CONSOLE
ated, just issued. which contains lis refer
ences to tuberculosis or consumption IN
its various forms, g items on cancer, 81
on Bright's disease. the same number on
typhoid fever. % on appendicitis, and 80
on pneumonia Radium is discussed II
times. There are but nine references to
smallpox, vaccination having annihilated
that scourge wherever general enligh-
tenment prevails.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

1t is rumored that Tom johnson OF
Cleveland has sprouted the hope that
he may be nominated for the presi-
dency in case of deadlock, but the
hope has not yet gotten beyond the
sprouting stage.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28
A NECESSARY DISTRACTION.

From the Philadelphia Press.
This sort of weather." began the
chronic kicker. hopping his brow makes
enc wonder what on earth 1t was Great
ed for
Doubtless replied the mild cynic,
its intended to give one something to
complain of beside ones luck or ones
neighbors.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
1t takes great deal of argument to
convince yourself you are a fool to argue.
When a man has an idea that every
body is crazy but himself they would be II
he was sane.
It's terribl disappointing when you go
to kiss a girl right behind the ear to get
a mouthful of hair.
It's the man who is always sneering at
woman's notion about business that
goes and drops his last cent in the stock
market.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28
Tho invasion Of China.

From the New York Tribune.
Here 10 a woo-Sung milk lad" from
the Shanghai Times: I'VE open at Woo
Sung in the south of the telegraph COM
pany for sale the foreign milk. the taste
are sweet, the milk are pure. and the
price are just. We havn't put any water
in 1t. il examine out, won't pay a single
cash. If you want to. buy so you will
know the foreign cows cnop. Gen Sung
Kee.'' Wouldn't that curdle you'll
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28
THE SOURCES OF DUMAS
COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

you something to eat twice a day. but
for each meal you must pay me twenty
five thousand francs"
The prisoners cupidty proved stronger
than his hunger He underwent such
acute suffering without yielding that his
captor saw that he had gone too far, and
at last, aroused to fury, he threw him
self upon Picaud and stabbed him to
death,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Senator Spooner says there will be
but one republican electoral ticket in
Wisconsin, but Senator Spooner may
not know. He represents but a minor
ity of his own party. Governor La
toilette presides over the rest of EN-.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

College youths who do not care to
cultivate the vacation habit may get
employment at 50 to $3.50 per day
in the wheat bei-, where $1,000 work
ers are wanted
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Governor Penaypacker is not pick
ing any quarrels with newspapers, or
stopping any cartoons. Under his car
toon bill Pennsylvania cartoons are a
trifle more personal and keen than
those of any other state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

There is distinction between the
light housekeeping referred to in the
Ladies' Home Journal and keeping a
lighthouse. Mr.. Box is not an author
ity on the latter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Candidate Fairbanks comes from
the literary center OF the country, but
he is not afflicted with that complaint
himself He is too dressy and self
seeking to be literary.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

The President has decided to call
halt on the glad hand" business, and
from now until the time when he
leaves for Oyster Bay the mere con-
gratulator will not be received.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Mascagni can teach a London organ
grinder how to play "Cavaleria Rusti-
cana" but he was unable to teach
American hotelkeepers to realize that
genius and bills are very dissimilar.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Mr. Roots injunction on the beef
trust must be a weakling, for prices
are put up in concert by the big
four" packers from time to time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

John l.. Webster of Nebraska, and
Webster Davis OF Kansas! There is
something in a name after all, and
that something spens defeat
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

A Philadelphia woman lives with a
bullet in her heart, but the poets can
point to hundreds of instances where
young people have lived quite while
with arrows in their hearts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

When the expected stork visits the
royal family of Italy the king will set
free a number of duelists and editors
who are now innabiting his prisons.
Ordinary criminals will not be par
doned and the editors will all be back
again before one, so there is no dan
ger of the wardens losing their jobs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

There is no choir left. All are gone
church, choir and Sunday school"
We're ever sadder words spoken than
these upon the Gen. slocnm disaster!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Profit" Dowie has returned to his
dear America in very mild mood and
a wiser prophet than when he departed
for junket to foreign lands.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

While there is some difference of
opinion as to the expedieney of four
more years of Grover, democrats are
unit in desiring no more years of
Teddy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Bin" the button man, is not poll
tician, but he has an eye for business
and thinks he will declare a dividend
on his German buttons.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Candidate Fairbanks is worth 3d.
100000. His popularity in the republi-
can party stands explained.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28
Prevalence of vlrulent Diseases.

There are certain diseases. which receive
unrenitting attention of physicians. not
only those who attena the sick. but those
working exclusively In chemical and mi
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

"Uncle" Joe Cannon has touch of
malaria, and has gone for sea trip,
where he is sure to have an attack of
NAL de mer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

The enthusiasm worked up at the
last moment in the Chicago convention
was strictly per order.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

The wild man of Morocco, Mr. Raj
suli, has released his stock of Ameri
cans, and he will now step back into
the obscurity of the desert.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Fairbanks was put on the ticket to
equalize its magnetism. He carries
none at all. =.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

The coyness oil Candidate Fairbanks
was too artificial to deceive the locker
on in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Hit missed it in Chicago, because
he was too i'll to put up good fight
on the spot.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Judge Parker has discharged his
stenographers, and ordered out his
telephone.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Theatre managers think the time
has come to forged the Iroquois the
atre, and to remember the Gen. Slo-
cum +"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Aguinaldo refuses to talk The Par
ker complaint as becoming worldwide.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Kansas cries aloud, not for spell
binders, but Tor wheat binders.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Perdicaris is hesitating between a
book and lectures. 1t is matter of
dividend with him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

The arrivals OF marked-down immi.
grants are still unusually numerous.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Paul Morton, the new secretary of
the navy, is no doubt judge of prairie
schooners.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Secretary Shaw is the advance agent
of the meat trust.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Frank Y. Evans and r. L. O'Neal, Jr..
are the only authorized travelling repre-
sentatives OF the Age-Herald In Its cir
cuiation department.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

Col. Thomas L.. Bulger of Dadeville,
member of the legislature and one of the
leading figures In the last constitutional
convention, is at the Metropolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

c. A. Greene of Blocton is registered at
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-28

The Rev Dr.. Robert G. Patrick, pres
ident of the Judson Female institute at
Marion, is at the Hillman.