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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19
When Everybody Coughs.

'1Iave you noticed those inexpllcable
fits of coughing that sometimes seizes
large assembly of people?" asked an
observant man. For no cause at all.
one person will cough, then another ana
then a dozen until there Is a chorus OIL
disagreeable hacking which not only
disturbs whatever entertainment may be
taking place but exasperates everybody
who is not similarly affected. A disturb
ance of this kind is particularly annoying
during the critical action of a play and
mars the strongest scenes. Similarly
people get to stirring around, shuffling
their feet, and making a score of other
little noises at the most unexpected
times Just why they do so is a question
hard to answer, unless perchance crowd
of people is very much like drove OF
sheep and when one sets the example
everybody else follows suit
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19
TRADE IN THE BOWERY
Is OF INFINITE VARIETY
rom the New York Commercial.

From the New York Commercial.
~ 1OUNTRY visitors to New York
~ find nothing more surprising than
- the Bowery. They expect to see
in that famous thoroughfare a succession
of saloons, dives and low theatres, and
they encounter instead hundreds of shops.
big and little, and a crowd in the main
as orderly as that of Broadway. They are
still more astonished to learn that one
may buy in the Bowery almost everything
from a toothpick to an anchor, from a
cheap dinnerpate to the complete outfit
of mammoth hotel.
Although the Bowery has been time
out of mind the favorite haunt of Jack
ashore when he seeks amusement, inno-
cent or otherwise, it is also his favorite
shopping place when he wishes to buy
other things than the necessities pur-
veyed by the waterside streets, says a
Sun STORY writer. 1t is likewise the
regular shopping place of many thou
sands of New Workers., for here are 10
he had articles of merchandise seldom
sold elsewhere.
There are conservative old folks VINO
believe that the Bowery is the cheapest
shopping place in town for some staple
articles, and there are those who will tell
you that nowhere else do you get so good
a cup of chocolate. Some carpenters al
ways go to the Bowery for tools, and per-
haps the largest collection of tobacco
pipes in New York is within sight OF one
of it's busy corners
Long Islanders of old business tradi-
lions habitually come to the Bowery 10
do their family shopping and refuse to
believe that anything is to be made by
venturing further into Manhattan. To
these people the Brooklyn bridge Is
chiefly valuable as an easy means OK
reaching the Bowery. You may see, II
you walk the Bowery with your eyes
open, these very Long Islanders in little
families parties shopping, taking lunch
con or perhaps indulging themselves IN
their annual sight of a play at cheap
theatre.
They come and go with no Thought OF
danger or discredit. The very name BOW
cry has two distinct connotations Tor the
East Side and the West Side, for the ten
ement houses and the abodes of fashion.
To the latter 1t cannotes distant and
unattractive quarter known, II at all,
from an occasional glance through thS
windows of car or from those OF a
coach bound on a Summing trip to the
Chinese quarter.
| To the East Side the Bowery connotes
both business and pleasure. 1t Is the
place to gaze in at windows full of dia-
monds, to see stirring plays at moder-
ate price. to dine. to buy alike necessities
and luxuries, and in specially hard times
to borrow money on whatever portable
goods one may happen to have. Its auc-
| tions. It's secondhand shops. its CONNER
| cial oddities of various kinds. are places
| to expect bargains.
| 1t is not primarily of vicious or criminal
association. but merely a broader. buster,
| gayer thoroughfare than the streets that
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19
IN HOTEL LoBBIES


The Colonial hotel on Twenty-frst
street. between Second and Third avenue.
which was opened few months ago, is
getting its share Of business,
It is said that no hotel in the south
between New Orleans and Louisville is
more deliberately furnished. It has only
about fifty rooms. but every one of them
is bright and attractive in every respect
The dining room is generously patron
lied by merchants as well as transients.
1t is understood that beginning some
time next month merchants lunch
win be served daily between L and 2
o'clock.
The Colonial was occupied for several
years by the medical college, but 1t was
built for a hotel. When Caldwell Brad
shaw bought the property and remodsled
it for an up-to-date hotel he spared no
expense and made 1t new from top to
bottom
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19
GIVE NE THE SPLENDID SILENT
SUN.

By Walt Whitman.
Give me the splendid, silent sun, with all
it's beams full dazzling,
Give me the juicy autumnal fruit, ripe
and red. from the orchard;
Give me field where the unmow'd grass
grows;
Give me an arbor. give me the trellis'd
grape:
Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me
serene-moving animals, teaching
content;
Give me nights perfectly quiet as on
high plateaus west of the MIssis-
sippi, and looking up at the stars;
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of
beautiful flowers, where I can walk
undisturb'd;
Give me for marriage a sweet-breath'd
woman of whom I should never tire;
Give me a perfect child, give me aside
from the noise of the world rural
domestic life;
Give me to MARBLE spontaneous songs, re-
cluse by myself. for my own ears
only; NJ
Give me solitude. give me Nature, give
me again. o, Nature. your primal
sanities!
These demanding to have them (tired
with ceaseless excitement and rack'd
by the war strife);
These to procure necessarily asking, ris-
ing in cries from my heart.
Yet while necessarily asking still I ad-
here to my city.
Day upon day. year upon year, o, city,
walking your streets
Where you hold me enchain'd certain
time, refusing to give me up,
Yet giving to make me glutted. enrichd
of soul; you give me forest faces;
%, l see what 1 sought to escape, con-
fronting, reversing my cries;
see my own soul trampling down what
asked for)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19
ALABAMA NEWS.


]. Kahn & Co. will open a wholesale
and retail whisky establishment in Gads-
den.
Henry C. West, a well-known newspa-
per man in Alabama, is now editor of the
Lamar Democrat.
1t is reported that Major r. E. Steiner
will be captain of the new Montgomery
Mounted Rihes The old company is to
be mustered out of service.
Several spectators. including promi-
nent physician, his mother and several
guests, were burned by suffering torches
in one of the Mardi Gras parades at Mo-
bile.
A syndicate of Iowa, Illinois and Arkan-
sas capitalists have purchased forty miles
of railroad and $1,000 acres of land at yell
low Pine, which will be used for coloni-
cation purposes
The movement to secure public libra
ry for Huntsville and the adjacent coun-
ty has met with such enthusiastic sup
port that 1t Is feared there may be a re-
action in public sentiment
The Jasper Mountain Eagle tells of a
unique fine imposed by Mayor Crawford.
A charge of being drunk and disorderly
was made against a man named Mart
Swindle, who is something of a local
character and well liked by the mayor.
Swindle had been getting out poles for
the Jasper Light and Power company and
when he made plea of hard times and
lack of funds to pay his fine the mayor
assessed him the labor of providing ten
good telephone poles for the light and
power company.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19
DODGE IN HOUSTON.
Man Charged With Perjury Is in the
Hands Of Rangers.

Houston, Tex, February 1S.-Chas
F. Dodge, under arrest on charge of
perjury in New York in connection
with the Morse-Dodge divorce case,
arrived here today in charge of state
rangers. He declined to discuss his
recent trip down the Texas coast.
The habeas corpus proceedings, in
stituted at Beeville have been dropped
and the case is to go into the federal
court on the ground that there can be
no appeal on habeas corpus hearings
in chambers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19
Powell Signs Joseph Dolan.

Atlanta, Ca, February t,1S.-Joseph
Dolan, who played last year in the
Western league, has been signed by
Manager Abner Powell of the Atlanta
baseball club for the coming season.
BY an order of Secretary Farrell,
Pitcher Cribbins has been awarded to
the Atlanta club.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19
About Persons.


George p. Ide of Jacksonville is at the
Hillman.
L. c. Harrison of Selma is stopping at
the Metropolitan.
A. P. Fuquay of Alexander City is at
the Morris.
]. L. Thomas and E. T. Morton of
Paris, Tenn, are at the St. Nicholas.
j. L. Smith of Tuscaloosa is at the
Morris.
Ira Champion of the Montgomery Jour
nal is stopping at the Hillman.
The Hon. George II. Parker, a promi-
nent citizen of Cullman. is at the Metro
politan.
Louis Echois of Hartselle is stopping at
the Florence.
H. P. Gibson of Corona is at the Hill
man.
D. A. Clemments of Tuscaloosa is ar
the ST. Nicholas.
julius Sternfield Of Montgomery, assist
ant United States attorney and promi-
nent republican politician. is at the Met
ropoIitan.
Paul Fl. Easley Of Fayetteville is at the
ST. Nicholas.
Orlando Finch Of Russellvilie is regis
tered at the Florence.
t. H. Grimmett of Tuskegee is at the
Morris. -
The Hon.. Price Williams. Jr., of Mo-
bile, probate judge of Mobile county, is
at the Hillman.
A. Hill of Atlanta is at the st. Nicholas
W. j. Beggs of Gadsden is stopping al
the Metropolitan.
T. ]. Rutledge Of Montgomery. state
bank examiner, is at the Morris.
S. e. Bobo of Montevallo is stopping al
the Norris.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Sun.
A woman envies another getting her
name IN the newspaper, even II 1t is in a
scandal
The reason a woman hates to give a
man a secret to keep is because he goes
and does II.
A woman can almost break her heart
thinking what would happen to her II her
husband shouldn't love her any more.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

John Alexander Dowie has such a
stirring effect ON the residents of Sgd
ney that he was forced to avoid 5000
of the towns enthusiastic people by
fleeing to his hotel. This is one prophet
that is not honored abroad.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Kindly remember, dear friends, how
long it took Uncle Sam to go from
Tampa to Santiago and do not expect
the Japs to go to Manchuria and fight
a battle in a weeks time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

The daughter of ex.secretary Long
is devoting her life to slum work in
New York, after having shone in Wash
ington society four years.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19
Fishinq Time.

at will soon be time to cast In the bait
for unwary members Of the finny tribe
said sportsman, but Birmingham fish
ermen have a hard time In following their
particular sport. There. is no good place
for fishing conveniently near, and II we
except East Lake, the chances for
days angling without some trouble and
expense are decidedly slim.
'If we are to accept the teaching OF
Grover Cleveland WHO may be consid-
cred the modern patron of all fishermen,
there is nothing better. nothing more
soothing to tired mortals and altogether
satisfactory in the end than fishing-un-
less 1t be duck shooting But there Is
difference between the two sports. The
latter Is often strenuous and exciting, es-
pecially If the luck Is good and ones
temper is Just as liable to go of at
tangent while hunting ducks as under
any other circumstances.
while indulging in fishing, however,
serenity and calmness steal over one
which nothing but strong pull on the
line can disturb. The less bites there are
the better 1t Is to fish In fact 1t Is said
that the men who get the most enjoyment
out of fishing never catch anything at all.
It Is merely a convenient excuse for loaf
ing One can get a flask of something
refreshing. a good book, become thor
oughly sleepy and nothing else remains
for him to do but to hunt place on the
bank where interruption from the outside
world are not probable. Then the fisher
man is in a position to enjoy life. Tt
matters not If there are no bites. He is
fishing and the restfulness and quiet abb
sorbed into his system will have benef-
cial effect for months afterMard."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

When men begin to wear corsets it
would not be bad idea to adopt leap
year regulations all the time and give
each side an equal chance to propose.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

If the car could make better time
on his railway he might be able to
keep the Japs interested.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19
Is Made Minister Of Finance.

i st. Petersburg, February 1S.-The
statement that William Kokvzoff, sec
rotary of the empire. has been appoint
led minister of finance. Is confirmed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Several more breakfast foods have
been put on the market recently.
Battle Creek, Mich, is thinking of get
ting out directory of the various
brands>
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

War has been declared ON the lurid
poster by persons of arc:stsc tempera-
ments who are offended by its glaring
treatment"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

cross it and most that parallel it, and in
the small hours it is recognized as a
good deal safer than it's deserted neigh
Dor, Broadway.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Queen Alexandra of England sets a
good example to all feminine shop
pers. She does not make life miser-
able for tradesmen, but is an easy
custmer and carries many of her
bundles when they are not too large.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Russia and Japan are now tuned up
to the European concert. Russia is to
produce the bass notes, Japan the
treble and China seems to be ready to
play second fiddle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19
Neutrality Declared.

Mexico City. February 1s-Mexico has
officially declared her neutrality In re-
lation to the war in the far east.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

The Japs are indeed imitators. They
are initiating Mr.. George Dewey in his
great act on Sunday morning in
Manila bay.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Instead of debating the treaty Of
peace the neutral nations will now try
to limit the field of war and keep China
intact.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Even the kaiser has fallen into line
and is footing tremendously on the
Hay neutrality concert.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Gotham has declared war on Bourke
Cochran, but the latter will no doubt
be able to talk back.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

o many wild reports Of war in the
% far east have been printed
- by the papers that readers
are becoming decidedly skeptical.
The yellow journals excel In SEN
sational accounts and SO many have been
later discredited that big headlines are
losing much of their potency. One dis
patch will state that the japanese scored
an overwhelming victory, while on the
very heels of this will come report from
st. Petersburg or London that the first
account had been strictly censored and
in reality the Russians had inflicted in
jury on their foes. The climax was reach
ed when a southern newspaper announc-
ed in huge black letters that 1000 Rus
sian troops had been captured by the
Japs.
The most widely divergent statements
seem to emanate from the special CORE
spondents. Each of them apparently
sees things differently and has a differ
ent source of information
If one is to be believed the Rus
SLAMS are making a very poor showing
against their antagonists and If another
is given credence 1t is the Russians who
are merely toying with their opponents
and waiting for good opportunity to
sweep the over-confdent Japs off the
globe. So far the regular news agencies
have been tolerably reliable but 1t must
be confessed that the news dispatches
concerning events in the far east have
been sadly muddled on one or two occa-
fsions
~
Among all the American newspaper
poets none stands higher, perhaps, than
Frank L. Stanton Of the Atlanta Consti-
tuition. Mr.. Stanton's lines are widely
copied in all parts of the United States
and are quite popular abroad. It is his
genial optimism that appeals to every
one so strongly and then in his serious
moments there is a beauty about his
verses that raises them above the ordi-
nary routine work of newspaper writer
ihaeeo Mr.. stanton may be justly called
one of the leading American poets. Rob
ert Loveman, another Georgian, has won
fame by his graceful little poems. and the
two men are representatives of the south
In addition to his talents as a poet
Mr. Stanton is almost as widely known
as humorist and depicter of darky char
aeteristics. In fact this feature of his
daily column attracts more readers among
all classes than his more serious poems
Mr. Stanton occupies a warm place in the
directions of the southland, and he Is
everywhere admired as a singer of south
ern melodies that are appreciated in the
north, east or west almost as much as
they are on his native soil. 1t can be
truthfully said that a Sip of Stanton
every morning is an excellent tonic on
which to begin the day, for 1t will do
much to efface cares that are not pleas
ant company.
Another Arctic explorer has shared the
tate OF many who have preceded him
into the frozen north. This man is Baron
Toll, Russian who undertook to reach
Bennett island in the summer of 1891. but
was turned back and forced to make his
winter quarters on Kotolnoi, one of the
New Siberian group. In the following Nav
he started out for another attempt. ac-
companied by an astronomer and two ma
tives. Since that time he has not been
heard of, and it is supposed that he per.
ished with all his companions. Such is the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Maine is ice-bound, and she does not
like the situation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Mr.. Edison has just celebrated his
9th birthday anniversary. May he
live long. and be a wizard all the time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

St Petersburg now claims she ex-
pected sea reverses.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Thermometers continue to display a
tendency to hunt the bottom in certain
parts of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Admiral Cervera is reading with in
terest the reports that are coming in
from Admiral Alexieff
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Russia has one feet that is safe
the one the sultan of Turkey is guard
ing in the Black sea.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

The war from the Far East is SO
engrossing that even President Roose-
welt and his active boys are over
looked.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Korea's emperor has hundreds of
wives, and he will need whole ship
when he moves his family.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

A new use has been found for salt
water. 1t will put out fires in addition
to drowning unwary bathers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Secretary Hay should let 1t be under
stood that his circular note is not a
bit academic
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

New Jersey proposes to tax all sign
boards erected off the premises of the
advertisers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Novelsts are being converted into
war correspondents with ease and dis
patch.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Russia is not hopeful when she takes
steps to suppress all news that she
controls
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

1t is stated that District Attorney
Jerome would like to be governor of
New York.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

We are exporting apples at the rate
of three million barrels year =
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Cotton is still live proposition, and
the boil weevil also.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

The various Russian fleets are bottled
up, and it is lucky for them that they
are.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Our own beloved Schwab is forgot
ten in the war hurlyburly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

1t is Say-oul, with the accent on the
last syllable, and not "Sool."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

In Korea there should somewhere be
a town called Plying Pyong.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

The reichstag seriously objects to
the kaiser's tyranny over German art.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

After all Japan simply says Asia
should be for the Asiatics.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Be patient and the battle of Ping
Pong will be pulled off in good time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

Even Russians can freeze in Siberia.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19
ACCIDENTAL PRESIDENTS.

All is not quiet on the Yalu.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

J. Kahn & Co. will open wholesale
and retail whisky establishment in Gads-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

1t is reported that Major r. E. Steiner
will be captain. of the new Montgomery
Mounted Rihes The old company is to
be mustered out of service.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-19

advertisers.
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT

Lady Curzon. the vicerine of India, will
probably pay a visit to her paren1s in
Washington before the winter season