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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06
Business Prosperity.

q have been in business for thirty five years" said an old merchant yester- day "and have therefore passed through many years of proserity and many pe- riods of depression.
 'This is the first time that depres- sion following prosperity lasted practi- cally only year. thought the business boom which ended a year or so ago would be followed by at least three years of hard times, but the fact is the depression was hardly felt in business circles at all. We now see solid prosperity running and predict flush times for some time to come.
 "The big crops account in large meas- ure for this prosperity. The republican party is claiming the credit for good crops and good prices. but of course this is absurd"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06
MT. Davis Letter.
om the Baltimore News.

From the Baltimore News
 The letter of ex-Senator Davis, accept ing the democratic nomination for the vice presidency, Is a simple and unpre- tending document, In the main expressing sound and conservative views of public questions, though not In any way nota- ble for it's method of treating them Thoughtful persons who see in the con- tinued ascendency of the republican party with its present tendencies, and under the leadership of a man of President Roosevelt's temper, cause for grave solic- itude as to the future character of the republic may be satisfied to find in the letter of Mir. Davis, as in that of MT. Par ker, the expression of sentiments in full accord with their conservative views. Mere than this was hardly looked for from MT. Davis. who makes no preten- sions to the playing of any role other than that of capable and level-headed man of affairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06
A kIND-HEARTED QUEEN.

Some interesting glimpses of Queen Alexandra's personality are offered in a beautifully illustrated article on "Queen Alexandra's Gardens in The Outlook's magazine number for October. After de- scribing the queens charming gardens at Sandringham, Frogmore and elsewhere, the writer, Mrs. Douglas Shields, says:
 It may appear to some that we wander far when we look for Queen Alexandra gardens in the East End of London. And yet 1t is there that we find the gardens that are the truest expression of her. Not very long ago there was a flower show in the Peoples Palace at Whitechapel and the queen went to see 1t. The center of the hall was filled with splendid exhib- its sent by the king the duke of Fife and others. But 1t was not at them the queen looked. All round on tables and banked up against the platform, were flowers that had been grown by the very poorest dwellers in that sad-looking part of the city.
 Walking twice up and down the room, that nothing should be missed, she gave tiiC HtioiC ODe OI the DrOuQeSL hours of their lives. But this was not all that she did on that hot July day. There had been bazaar arranged in the garden of a rectory, also in the East End, for that very afternoon. The proceeds were for work among the people. but there seemed small chance of any when the crowds would be attracted to the palace not far away. The queen heard of this and sent word that she would visit the bazaar also. At once a large placard, '1ne Queen Is Coming" adorned the wall of the rectory garden. And sure enough, down narrow streets that had never seen such sight before, the red-coated out riders preceded the queen. and the rows of the poorest people in London saw her much better than Is possible in broad street lined with soldiers And the bazaar was a success
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06
Needs Confirmation.

From the Louisville Courier-JournaI.
 The report that Teddy Is Tiled at Judge Parkers letter of acceptance and that the republican campaign managers have all they can do to keep him from taking the stump needs confirmation. No bucking bronco was ever more completely broken Of his bad tricks than has the campaign committee succeeded In closing the lips of It's candidate In the utterance of his heterogeneous and conflicting political sentiments. They know too we'll that every time he opens his mouth he f1gura- lively puts his foot in 1t, and the pad lock will hardly be taken off. By this time they must see the error in having given such free rein to his voluminous pen. As far as the democratic party is concerned they could ask nothing better than to see him take the stump. There are many points on which they wish light. One will suffice for illustration. In his letter of acceptance he says, for instance: "Never has the administration of the gov ernment been on a cleaner and higher level; never has the public work of the nation been done more honestly and ef- ficiently." Yet in his message to congress in December, 1903, occurs the following confession to the contrary: While there may have been as much official corrup- tion in former years, there has been more developed and brought to light in the immediate past than in the preceding cen tury." Nothing which Judge Parker has said so courteously in arraignment of his inconsistency, calls more imperatively for explanation on the stump than this. Take off the bridle and turn him loose
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06
T. LOUIS, October 5.-(Special)- |1 We were glad to find something

T. LOUIS, October 5.-(Specia1.)- @N We were glad to find something O that was not marked please do not handle" and that was the reason we gazed long and lovingly at the Alaskan totem poles. Some exhibitor could make great hit at this exposition by labelling everything he had to exhibit please handle this" The strain Is telling on John. He likes to handle things The privilege of feeling things Is as grateful to him as lot of fresh mud to a bevy of children.
 But even the big locomotives and heavy railway iron over in the Transportation building are labeled please don't ham dle." In a part of the building we saw a very comfortable looking bench with a nice back to 1t, but 1t bore the words. This bench is not to sit down on: it is for the display of steel rails" The big model of the Pennsylvania railway sta- ton to be built in New York was labeled don't handle" John vows he will pick doesn't wear a don't handle tag. even If 1t is one of the Indian squaws on the Pike.
 The totem pole, 1t seems, Is the Alas kan family tree.' It is a record of the doings of his ancestors. If a great, great grandfather died. got married or was hung a new notch was cut in the totem pole or a new figure carved. These totem poles which surround the native houses on either side of the Alaskan building are the first ever brought to this coun- try and were only obtained through the influence of Governor Brady. They are highly prized, some of them having been carved by the aborigines many years ago. After looking at these ancestral monu- ments we took a trip all through Alaska, up the great Yukon river, the second largest river in the world, to Dawson and the Klondike region. We took a journey on dog sleds climbed a great glacier and went up the White. We did all this and more with a young man and biograph while seated in comfortable chairs in a sort of theater in the Alaska building.
 The biograph, which shows a series of beautifully illuminated and lifelike pie lures, is extensively used in the exposi- tion. We come upon young men lec- turers everywhere who use the biograph to illustrate and demonstrate processes In great manufacturing industries Preaching to the Worlds Fair visitors in pictures is in happy accord with the spirit and purpose of the exposition, which is to show how things are done. No other kind of an exposition would go in the state of Missouri anyway. The Missourian asks questions. And after you have answered him he will ask the same question over again. When the guide in one of the cars of the Ferris wheel says, Now if you will look over to your left you will see Jerusalem and the Philippine village in the distance" every Missourian in the car will look to the right and very soon will ask, Where did you say Jerusalem was?" On every hand we hear the trite remark. I'm from Missouri you have to show me-
 have just solved question that has been bothering me ever since Japanese woman lectured before our club on Jap
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06
EVERYTHING IS TAGGED
 AT THE ST. LOUIS FAIR
BY DOLLY PING.

anese art She told Of the extreme sim plicity of the Japanese home and it's furnishings, how averse they were to luInbering up the home with useless fur niture and bric-a-brac. wondered why people so artistic and so slxillful at making things should be satisfied with a screen and a footstool with blue cup and saucer on it and few toothpicks as the only furnishings of a room. The reason Is plain. I priced a screen in the Japanese section of the Varied Industries building and found 1t would take s75O to induce them to part with it. A vase was marked s25o. After the frugal Jap has
 bought screen and vase he has reached the limit of his purse. Ills home Is furnished. He needs no chairs or ta- bles so long as he has a screen and vase
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06
Attends international Meeting.

Dr. c. c. Jones of East Lake left Tues day for St. Louis, where he goes to at tend the International Congress of Tu- berculosis, which Is in session at that city. Dr. Jones is president of the Ala bama Medical association and goes to the St. Louis meeting as a representative from that body. He Is the surgeon at Howard college and is, perhaps, one of the best known men in the state. While in St. Louis he will read paper before the international congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06
Germany's Trust Troubles.

The German cartell system Is essen- tially monopolistic. The weak pro- ducers of a given commodity are com bined with the strong, creating a com plete monopoly. The cartells have varying prices for home consumers, discriminating against those nearest the plants, and they sell more cheaply to foreigners than to home folks. Their determinations in prices are very arbi- trary and very unjust, even exceeding in some cases the c..pers of our trusts under the provisions of our sacred Dingley tariff.
 The German government has here- tofore let the cartells alone, believing that they would promote the export trade of that country. The govern ment owns nearly all the railroads. anu 1t has granted to the cartells spe. cial export rates. It has fostered, rather than restrained them.
 But the socialists, rapidly increasing in number, have shown up the cartens and their discriminatlons in prices un- til the government has been compelled to take steps to curb them. An im- perial commission has been appointed to investigate the operations of the cartells, and the jurists are discussing them.
 Either there must be in Germany a standardization of coal mines and like industries, or else a Sherman act will be passed by parliament. The German people do not propose to pay two prices for articles that the foreigner secures for one price. It is the American fight against trusts closely repeated. The cartells are doing no more injustice than our Dlngleyized trusts are doing, put the American people are not as alert against such robberies as the Germans are. A change will be worked out in Germany, and there will be a change in this country if the democrats are recalled to power-not otherwise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06
\ FREDERICK AUGUsTE BAR / tholdi. the noted sculptor. who
 lies dead in porga 1,,git he ~a,,,a,,,

M. FREDERICK AuGusTE BAR lies dead in Paris, will be remem- bered in after years for three or four works of patriotic character, chief of which is Liberty Enlightening the World. This colossal figure is no doubt Barthol- dis most noted achievement, and the fact that 1t was a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States to cement the treaty of 1S48 will make its designer remembered with a feeling of friendship In addition to the admiration which he has evoked by his genius Bar tholdi was born in Alsace-L Lorraine, April 2, 1884. In the beginning of his artistic career he studied painting under Ary scheffer in Paris, but afterwards devoted himself to sculpture, an art In which he won conspicuous success. Ee began to exhibit his works in 1S47 and from that time until the day of his death his was a name familiar in the art circles of the world. The best known works of Bar tholdi are the Curse of Alsace, LaFayette Arriving in America and Liberty Enlight- ening the World. The crowning achieve
 
 commander of the Legion of Honor Lib erty Enlightening the World, or the Statue of Liberty, as it Is called, was unveiled in 1886. The base was paid for by popular subscription by the people of the United States and the figure itself was the gift of the people of France. Re- gently the statue was thoroughly remod- eled and has been put In condition to weather many more years of storm and sunshine in New York harbor.
 The crusade against the curtain call seems to be bearing fruit in the land. There are numbers of people who have already made their presence and thir common sense known by protesting against such a useless and altogether un- | satisfactory custom. Every one Is fa- miliar with the argument that nothing so tends to mar the continuity of a per- formance as a speech delivered during the intermission between two intensely in- teresting acts. As rule the average | Thespian Is about as poor a speech maker as one could find, when he at- tempts to utilize his own Tines" It is
 
 through one, two or three acts in order to create the impression that he is | superb creature. endowed with all the heroism, nobility and wit his part calls for, to drag him forth and force him to make fool of himself by attempting to talk The curtain talk Is dreaded by most actors, and not few have given the pub lie to understand that they won't respond no matter how stormy the applause may be. Instead of making an actor reveal himself in his true light after he has created the impression that he Is some thing else, why would 1t not be feas- ible plan for him to walt until the close of the performance, stand at the main entrance of the theatre and hold levee as the President does at the White House? The only objection to this plan is that matinee idols would be mobbed by their feminine admirers.
 The old agitation in favor of phonetic spelling is not dead yet although at times
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06
October Advance.

The October number of Advance is out and is well worth the publlc's attention. Features worthy of special mention are the cover illustration and humorous drawings by Blackman, a story by the Cruise of the Skull and Bones, and a story by John Sparrow entitled "The Tel ephone Hold-up." Advance seems to be getting on a solid foundation and has all ready made numerous friends who wish for 1t continued prosperity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06
Laughing at the Wrong Time.

"1t Is remarkable how some people show their stupidity or their i'll manners in laughing In a theatre just where the most tragic scenes In play are being presented" said an old theatre-goer Nothing so detracts from the effectiveness of a per- formance A. to have some one snicker when the actors are endeayoring to por- tray the most powerful of human emo- tions. It Is trying on the nerves of the audience and l have my suspicious that it Is very dlscouraging to those on the stage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Being in public life consists chiefly in being a target for everybody to shoot at
 Good poetry is something about whose meaning everybody makes a different guess.
 It isN almost as much fun being able to do a thing as seeing somebody else not able to do 1t.
 People don't have to know very much to get along if they only won't talk their ignorance.
 It's awful nice the wey girl can blush over what would have happened to her if she had tipped out of the hammock instead of staying in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

ation very interesting. The Roosevelt managers are deeply concerned. They find enough up in that state to interest them. and they are doing their utmost to prevent a general bolting of the re- publican electoral ticket by the friends and supporters of MT Lafollette.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06
THE AGES.

By James Russell Lowell. Slowly the Bible and the race IS writ' And not on naper leaves, nor leaves of
 stone; Each age, each kindred adds verse to
 1t, Texts of despair. or hope, or joy or
 moan. While swings the sea, while mists the
 mountains shroud, While thunder's surges burst on cliffs of
 cloud, Still at the prophets feet tho nattona
 sit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06
CIRCUS ALL THE TIME.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 Birmingham is threatened with A cir- GUS famine, and 1t is intimated that none will visit the. city this season It Is only comparative loss, however, for Bir- mingham always has some kind of circus going on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06
MISTAKE CORRECTED.

From the Florida Times Union.
 The Birmingham Age Herald announces editorially. that that town is to have mo circuses this year." Our esteemed contemporary is mistaken. So long as Richmond Pearson Hobson remains in circulation all Alabama will have a cir GUS of It's own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06
A LA MEREDITH.
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune
 CHAPTER I. Twill you be mine, Felica?" For how long, Albert?' For fifteen years. dearest?" No. but I will for ten years" Cant you make It twelve?' "No, ten Is the limit.' "All right. Here's the ring. Take good care or 1t, for I may need 1t again.
 CHAPTER IT. Do you promise to take this woman for better or for worse for ten years? ''Yes-subject, of course, to renewal of contract"
 Do you promise to love. honor and obey?"
 ''Yes, up to September 20. 1s14'' T pronounce you man and wife. Let no man put asunder In the meantime"
 CHAPTER III.
 CTen years later) ''Well, Albert, your ten years are up to- day. Do you want an extension of the contract?"
 ''No, thanks, dearest. I'm booked for the next ten years with Fanny Bishop. Her contract with Charley Bishop expires soon, you know"
 '.Why, of course. How stupid of me to forget. In that case I'll accept Arthur Bridgeport for five years. His contract with Adelaide is up next Friday at noon"
 CHAPTER ".
 Give years later) ''Whose little boy are your" I'm Uncle Sans little boy" Where are your parents, my lad?" "Papas doing six years with the late Mrs. Bishop and mamma, I understand. is married at present to MT. Bridgeport. Her contract expires some time next month. though, she having failed to get a re- newal. Mamma's getting old, you know"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

South Carolina's sensation is the lynching of a white murderer at Ker- shaw. There is no logical limit to the lynching business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

George Ade persists in believing that Indiana will go for Roosevelt by 4O,- 0,J majority. He knows more about slang than he does about politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

The archbishop of Canterbury in Boston will almost imagine that he 'ome again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

Grover Cleveland and Joseph Jeffer- son can now fish together the year round, and no one has a right to ob- ject.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

The straw vote is as harmless and meaningless this year as it was last year or any other year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

Russell Sage will give the word when the straw hat must be fully and linally retired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

The defenders of Port Arthur now see prospect of dying on the spot from old age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

Harry Lehr has abandoned monkeys, and is now devoted to dogs. His dog dinners are destined to go ringing down the corridors of time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

It is reared that the visit of MT. F. banks to California may damage the fruit crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

May Irwin has decided that she will stick to the stage. This means that she will be a sister to David Bennett Hill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

Candidate Fairbanks is making his justly celebrated speeches way out in Idaho and Wyoming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

People are too busy to read eleven column paragraphs, such as Editor Pulitzer writes by proxy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

The champion snorer resides in New Haven, Conn.,, and he has just snored his wife from her happy home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

A crazy man thinks he owps akron, O. He may be boodler e,d Is speak ing the truth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

The immense business of the Si- berian railway will not boom the gross receipts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

There is no apathy in the Wisconsin campaign, and the New York campaign Is warming up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

The Baltic fleet sails almost as often as Patti farewelled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

Barney Oldfield will probably keep on racing until he acquires a broken neck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

Tom Watson is doing his utmost to drive General Apathy out of the cam. paign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

James Brown Potter should stay married this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

Pack mules are being served a Ia carte in Port Arthur.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

The dust cannot be raised in a cam. paign which has no whirlwind fea- lures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

The spit ball" promises to reyolu- tfonize baseball.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

Schuman-Heink, the mother of nine Is the comic opera s.ar of the season
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

Grandpa Bryan Is one of the proud. est men in the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

The matinee girl in Birmingham goes to the play wearing summer c-othes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-06

Fat frying and commercialism are the giant evils of politics.