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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
RUSH TO BE NuREs.

From the New York Sun.
 Free hospital training for women nurses has for so long been loked upon in the light of a right rather than a privilege that the possibility of having to pay tuition will come as a distinct shock to women contemplating going into the pro- fession.
 While no hospital has actually taken this stand as yet, several are considering the advisability of doing so. One of the superintendents of a big metropolitan hos pital, a woman, recently said:
 'The day Is not far distant when women wishing to study nursing must pay for their tuition One reason why this will be necessary Is that the field is over crowded and a second is there are too many mechanics and not enoesh artists.
 Lots of girls take up nursing be- cause they get their training free, not be- cause they have any fitness for the work or love for It. We must make the change in self-defense, and I wouldn't be sur prised if the change came in a very short time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
GETS UP POCKET UMBRELLA.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 A Minneapolis genius has invented a twenty-six-inch umbrella which will fold up, frame and all, into a little case to be carried in the pocket
 The handle and all the ribs consist of fine and strong steel tubes in sections, which telescope one inside of the other. The covering is of fine silk which takes up but little room. The wooden handle of the umbrella is hollow, and receives all the rest of the telescoping umbrella rod when shut mp. A small and light case. not too big for the pocket is provided to contain the whole. which is thus se- cured from irregular borrowers and the periis of exposure which always attend it's use.
 If it is a toy which the Minneapolis me chanic has invented. 1t is an ingenious one. If an article of real utility. the gen. eration of rainy daisies and all wet weather adventurous ought to rise up and call him blessed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

the chic. of police ci Reno, Nevada,- that is a northern state-ordered all negroes in that town to pack their
 duds and "get out" within twenty-four
 hours. It seems that deportation ln
 the northwest has become a legal GUS tom. If this were the first time ne.
 groes have been warned to leave a town north of "the line" it would per haps cause more comment. There seems to have been in this and other instances no discrimination as to char acter of tko men and women. It was only a question of color.
 In the south it sometimes occurs that bad negro is forced to move his citizenship and oftentimes to flee to the swamps, but as a race they are never deported. In fact, in the south the good negro is encouraged to re- main in these agricultural fields, and is protected fully in his property rights and in every deserving calling. His labor is in demand, and is a source of revenue not only to himself, but to the white man who owns the land, and who is interested in the de- velopment of these states.
 Here in the south white men not only protect the negro in his legal rights, but vote to tax themselves for the education of the children of the blacks. This is voluntary on their part, as the American constitution, with all of it's post-bellum amend ments, does not force them so to do. The truth of the matter is that the south is lne home of the American negro. Here he is fully understood and appreciated. But here the negro, as well as the white man, is made to behave himself and to obey the law. If he does not do so he is severely punished; but general deportation Is not a lawful punishment, and, there fore, never resorted to in the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
RIGHT TO ROLL PEANUT.
1t Must Be Done With Mir. Dain's Nose
 In Pttsburs Street.

Pittsburg Special to the New York Her.
 aid.
 James S. Latus. of No. 642S Pennsylvania avenue. has announced that unless Harry Moore, director of the department of pub uo safety, shall sign a permit to allow Joseph Dain to roll a peanut two squares with his nose, he will ask damages of the city.
 MT. Latus won this freak election bet from MT. Dain. and 1t was to have been paid yesterday, but the police had issued orders against the paying of freak bets in public, and the peanut rolling was stopped.
 MT. Latus took legal advice this morn ing and found that he might have the peanut rolled In a parade and he applied for parade license, in which he an- nounced that peanut rolled by MT. Dain would be one of the attractions.
 The permit was made out, but Director Moore refused to sign it, saying 1t was a plain attempt to evade the police ruling. Mir. Latus says the permit must be issued tomorrow or he will insist on his legal right to give harmless parade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
SIOUX MOTHER-IN-LAW
 IS VERY HIGHLY PRlZED

The agent says the letter was effective for. in deference to the customs of the
 tribe, policeman escorted the old sduaw
 to Black Moon. and Night Pipe again lived in peace.
 Marriage between the Sioux Indian wo-
 men and frontier farmers has been large
 ly encouraged by the fact that the Sioux
 Indian maiden carries with her neat
 little fortune. All of the Sioux have been receiving allotments from the gov ernment, and on several reservations
 heirship lands have been sold. The In
 dian girl who has learned English in gov ernment schools, and has associated with whites long enough to cast off the more
 offensive tribal habits. appeals to the
 average farmer as the sort of woman who can help him in the task or opening the new country. And when money and
 an invisible mother-in-law are added at
 fractions many of them yield and are proud of 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

D "s''ss U 's. si:sss" ss as.s s 's: ; men testify that there Is no wife like the Sioux woman, because there IS no mother-in-law like the Sioux mother in-law
 This is why many a ranger argues that the Sioux tribe will be assmilated by the whites. Facts confirm this prediction for reports from the reservations are that more than 300 Indian maidens became the wives of whites in the last year. A. J. Callandar. one of the squaw men and proprietor of large ranch, declares that he would not trade the dusky wo- man who presdes over his household Tor any white woman he has seen. Tt is one of the oldest customs of the Sioux Indians" he says, that the son in-law shall not look on the face of his mother-in-law, or communicate with her more than is absolutely necessary. The custom is probably the outgrowth of fam fly brawls arising from their crude way of living, huddled together in tepee and l wigwam. At all events, 1t is an invi- olable rule.
 Tn their own tribes. when in case of illness, or uren invitation. the mother in-law visits the family of the son-in-law a partition is usually made in the hut behind which the mother-in-law retires when her son-in-law enters the house. Here she sits silently and does nothing but remain behind the blankets until the man is gone. Since they have become more civilized they have not changed their habits. The white man marrying an Indian girl takes no chances or put ting up with grizzled old squaw. Men like myself, who have been smart enough to find a woman who can be married without marrying her mother, have peace ful households, It is the Indian wife for me. She is true to the last inch, quiet and usually capable"
 l A story comes from the Pine Ridge reservation illustrating the unanimity with which the Sioux Indians regard the moth er-in-law as an intoierable nuisance:
 Night Pipe. young bridegroom, lived on the reservation. and an invisible moth er-in-law was his only unhanpiness. AL though he never beheld her person, she insisted on sitting behind her blanket and scolding. The sound of her voice was a source of constant vexation to Night Pipe. He made several attempts to dis lodge the squw and send her to her home, lin another part of the reservation, but failed, the mother-in-law insisting that tribal custom gave her the right to sit behind her partition so long as she did not show her face.
 Then Night Pipe decided to appeal to the agent. and he wrote a letter. which is now preserved as curiosity. The let | ter said:
 "I have a few words to say to you now, and they are that I am sorry for myself. It is an old woman which makes me very sorry every day because she talks with bad language to me and never gets rested with her tongue. and I hate this thing. Will you send your police man to take this woman to her camp and Awe will be living happy again"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
JEWELS AND THE WEATHER.
The Up-to-Date Girls Fashion of
 Wearing Her Rings.

From the New York Sun.
 The up-to-date girl no longer wears her rings to match her costumes, but to match the weather.
 During the hot summer she discarded her diamonds and rubes for topazes, moonstones and turquoises She declared the more ardent stones made her feel warmer than the weather.
 With the nippy fall days she puts on her emeralds and sapphires. On bright, sunny day she wears pearls. but never on a gloomy day. for she says pearls are nothing but tears, anyway, and the com bination of pearls and clouds would be too depressing to endure.
 On rainy days she wears opals because they promise brightness and clear days to come. Her rubies, garnets and dia- monds she saves for winter weather.
 The diamond is a good cold weather stone, even if it is somewhat stately, be- cause it is constantly giving out flashes of brilliant color. Amethysts are always suggestive of thick clothes, and should be worn just as summer is changing into fall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
BLACK EYE ARTIST DEAD.
TenderIoin Character Repaired Beauty
 That Had Been MaItreated.

New York.-Thomas Kean, one of the characters of the Tenderloin. whose pro- fession was unique, has been found dead in his Sixth avenue office. hean was known as ''The Black Eye Artist. lie made a business of treating demaged op- ties by painting over the discoloration.
 The police took charge of the onice when his body was found and were Kept busy sending away callers. First came A rounder who had been on nights spree and been badly bruised in fight. Last came an apparently wealthy woman. heavily yelled. She had sustained black eye in an automobile accident, and was greatly chagrined because her beauty could not be restored so that she might attend the Horse Show,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AIabama,s Cotton Crop.

Latham. Alexander & Co., estimate ehs cotton crop of 1eo4-19O5 at 1i.8Oo'OOO bales. They claim that the compilation IS ar ranged from statements made by reiiaDie and intelligent cotton correspondents m every cotton-growing county m. the southern states. They place the Ala bama crop at 1.15OOOO bales which Is fourth in the list of cotton states. Texas and Indian Territory combined are to produce s,2Oo,0o0 bales; Georgia l'55O,Oo0 and Mississippi 100000. There are no other million-bale states. Aiabama's last season crop was exactly 100000 bales.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
Treatment of the Neuro.

The cleaning out of an entire race of city's population by mere police order is unique procedure, and was never done in a southern town, city or county, and if it had been there would have been political howl that might have resulted in consequences quite serious to the place and the people who permitted it.
 But 1t is true that 2 few days ago
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
SONG TO CELIA

By Ben Jonson. Drink to me only with thine eyes,
 And will pledge with mine; Or leave kiss but in the cup,
 And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise
 Doth ask drink divine; But might l of loves nectar sup,
 I would not change for thine. I sent thee late a rosy wreath.
 Not so much honoring thee. As giving it hope that there
 It could not withered be. But thou thereon didst only breathe
 And sentst back to me; Since when 1t grows, and smells, swear
 Not of itself, but thee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
FAITHFUL.
From Harper's Weekly,

From Harper's Weekly.
 Representative Fitzgerald or Boston has story of an Irish couple in that city who despite a comparatively happy mar ried life, were wont to have violent mis- understandings. Nevertheless. the pair were devoted to each other and when the husband died not long ago the widow was inconsolable
 Shortly after the funeral a friend who had dropped in to see how Mrs. Milligan was getting on. chanced to remark:
 Well, there's one blessing, Maggie, for they do say that poor Mike died happy"
 "Indade he did" responded the widow .arhe dear lad! The lasht thing he done was to crack me over the head wid med icine bottle"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
Pleased at the Idea.

From the Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette.
 Tuscaloosa would be well enough pleased to have another connection with Birmingham. but hopes several desirable connections on the Mobile and West Ala Nbama railroad are not to be cut out on that account. One of the chief attrac- tions is that 1t lays open the virgin sec ton of west Alabama, where develop ment Is badly needed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
SUBWAY e4 YEARS AGO.
Underground Transit Was Planned for Manhattan Island In 1s4o.

From the New York World.
 Tt may not be generally known" said Randolph Guggenheimer, in speaking or New York rapid transit, that subway more or less on the style of that now per fected was planned for Manhattan island as long ago as 1S4O The scheme was seri- ously preached, and for time 1t seemed as though 1t would go through, as there were many complaints of the congested condition of the few business streets. But the city fathers evidently decided that. the size of the city did not warrant so great an expenditure.
 ''You see, the Astor House was then re- garded as too far uptown to be the stop ping place of fnen who came to New York only for business, and Fourteenth street was a picnic grove. Thus there was no es- pecially long route for a subway and the plan fell through.
 But an engineers drawing of the pro- posed subway of 1S40 Is still in existence. It depicts a transverse section, with queering dressed men and women on the stairs running to the street above On the street a stage of the old bob-talled variety is plodding along. while in the tunnel is a locomotive that looks as if it might have been drawn from Stephen sons original model, and attached to Il are four little box-like cars, ou: of whose tiny windows protrude the heads of sew eral men with smooth-shaven upper lips and long chin boards. These men were probably a visionary Investigating com mittee,' like those which travelled through our twentieth century subwa, while it was under construction. "There was no tube but huge vault that must have been eighty feet in diam eter. Small wonder our grandfathers Jeff such a structure unrealized!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
An Automobile Ride.

Eustis and Otto Marx took a short auto mobile ride of ninety miles on Sunday, visiting Springville. Ashville and other important points on the way. They car ried with them a delightful lunch. The roads were good most of the way, but the Jefferson county roads, which have been macadamized at heavy expense, are not kept in proper repair, and by neglect have been allowed to depreciate terribly.
 This is the report of the autoumobilists, and the attention of the county board of revenue is called to the defect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
Enns. MIX and Frost.

Did yod ever notice that milk and eggs are best after frost falls?" asked an epicure last night.
 Tt is true, and I attribute this to the fact that the price is higher. All things that are good come high, and things that do not cost much are not worth the buy ing. I hope the milk men and the egg producers will get rich this winter and my taste tells me that I shall aid them in doing so."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
The turkey trust is surely the iimi
Santa Claus is packing his baggage
REFLECTIONS OF A sAcHELo

From the New York Press.
 A wife is a powerful reason for never having a good time.
 When a womans photograph doesn't look like her it is sign 1t is her favorite one.
 What puzzles woman is whether angels put a towel on their head when they do their dusting.
 It's awful hard for a woman to see that there is any difference between play ing whist and croquet.
 A woman puts more faith in four leaf clover than a man does in box full of government bonds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

Whatever may have been said about the lamented Hanna. no one has ever dared to question Speaker Cannon's knowledge of poker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

Perhaps the reason Grover Cleve- land has nothing to say about the cleo ton is because his remarks would not look well in print.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

The experience of Chicago man who was struck by trolley car while gazing at a rabbits foot has probably shaken his faith In talisman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

All that Nan Patterson and Evelyn Nesbit have to do in order to make fortunes on the stage is to sign con tracts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

Tom Watson still thinks that Judge Parker should have cleared the way for him to shoot the chutes into the White House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

October was the dryest month on record in Kentucky. This statement refers to the weather. Anatomical irrigation still fourlshes in Kentucky.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

The foreman of Dowie's printing shops went to New York and got Trunk. His capacity was not equal to his religious fevor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

N HE country was on the qui vive lCD for a new sensation to be sprung
 by a member of the University of chicago's irrepressible faculty and it has not been disappointed. This time we have a learned. or presumably learned seer who says: Away with willie boy lteraturel Give us the strenuous tale the blood and thunder tale. the tale in which the hero rides across the plain and kills his man on every page. but al- ways because he is rightr Professor W. D. McClintock says that the mush and milk style of literature for growing boys is all wrong. What a healthy boy needs is something heroic. something that will fire his zeal and make him pant to follow in the footsteps of those stout young men who have more adventures in minute than it would be possible to ex- perience in a lifetime. The professor thinks that love story now and then would not be amiss, something simple and conventional, but his chiefest delight is in considering the blood and thunder story. There's life, there's inspiration and the very meat that youth should
 
 of devout persons who regard the '.stren- uous" class of literature. which can be bought for five and ten cents an in- stalment with something akin to horrorl There is absolutely nothing that a Uni versity of Chicago professor will not dare.
 A party of enthusiastic young men from Harvard met an equally enthusiastic party of youths from Yale last Saturday at New Haven. while large part of the country's sober citizens came near to tearing their hair in order to learn the result. It would take the fall of Port Arthur to occupy more space in certain of the eastern papers. and 1t is probable that more people were interested In the struggle between the crimson and blue elevens than would be interested in the equalization of General Stoessel. Indeed, football and politics are about the nvest subjects that the American people con sder in the winter time.
 The possibilities for humor at the ex- pense of the Russians have been found VI antiquated jokes have already accumu- lated on Kuropatlin at the front, on the czar going to the same place, on the Russian navy and the names of the Russian officers and a number of other subjects that have been well thrashed over. Life would be very dull for the paragraphers were it not for the rich vein of Russian humor that thes- have discovered.
 Few there are who can resist the spell of a brass band. Even drum has pow CT with its dull monody to awaken enthu- siasm, or at least interest, but when the bass drum, the snare drum and all the horns, big and little. strike up a lively tune the blood begins to course more swiftly in the veins, one catches himself beating time with his foot or tapping on a desk while calling up radiant visions of the past when he ought to be attend ing to business. The magic power of a brass band draws people on the streets puts life into scores of small boys and fairly make the air scintillate. No mat ter how cold and blase a town may be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

The Russians and Japanese may pull off an engagement on Thanksgiving Day that will make gridiron contest look like Sunday school candy pull ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

eastern and the western waters. All Atlantic steamers must and will stop at Mobile for coal.
 Birmingham can best obtain full benefit of the Panama canal by aiding tLe work ot improving the Mobile har- bor. It will mean a transfer of the pig iron and finished iron and steel productions of this district from ex- pensive trans-continental railroads to waterways through the port of Mobile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

New York people complain about the subway as naturally as If they had been riding in it all their lives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

The project to move San Francisco's Chinatown should be combated by all tourists who dote on local color
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
ALABAMA PRESS.
Two of aKInd.

From the Mobile Register.
 The Old Man with the scythe and the automobile travel together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

President Roosevelt will have a reg ular circus of an inauguration, and 1t will also cost a lot of money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

The campaign cigar was prominent in Birmingham yesterday. It was bet ter to look at than to smoke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
uaeless ouestlon.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 Should boys hght7' asks the Ports mouth Star. Should ducks swim? IS about as pertinent question as the other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

People who intend to reform after the first of January are now putting in some good licks enjoying them selves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

A bargain day rush Is the last place in the world for woman to faint, but a case of this kind has just been re- corded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

The Congressional Record is the only publ. -ation that loes not have to Loom it's circulation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22
About Persons.


 W. E. Craig of Pensacola is at the Hillman.
 J. H. Wilson of Mobile is at the Hill man.
 W. A. Love of Atlanta is at the IIill- man.
 O. B. Burk of Boston is at the St. Nicholas.
 John P. III of Carbon Hill is at the Morris.
 T. s. Oliver of Troy is at the Morris. Ross Hunter of Atlanta is at the Metro politan
 W. J. Byram of San Francisco is at the St. Nicholas.
 Congressman John H. Bankhead oi Fayette is registered at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

The President does not dare to have his picture done in oil for fear that somebody will accuse him of boosting a trust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

If President Roosevelt desires to come south the latchstring is always hanging outside the door.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

The remains of a Viking ship have been discovered In Norway. AS the vessel is something like a thousand years old, it is not believed to have been sunk by the Japs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

There is an opening for skyscraper in Birmingham. There is still plenty of sky that could be used for building purposes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

Alaska is not going to be left out In the cold. Thanksgiving Day will be duly celebrated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

Perhaps the reason for Judge Par ker's defeat is that he did not kiss enough babies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

Secretary Morton has learned enough about his job to want big appropriation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

The Pike will probably get the best of the censors in the last week of the fair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-22

Port Arthur is not yet for rent, al though the Japs are eager to be ten ants.