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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25
MT. CIeveland's Speech.

MT. Cleveland's speech of last week in Carnegie hall, New York, was blast of undefled democracy that should arouse the apathetic, and stimulate the patriotic So stirring an appeal in be- half of time-honored democracy assur- edly will not go unheeded.
 Mr Cleveland was twice elected by the democratic party, and he speaks with all the authority of that party and of principles that he has never betrayed He went into office a low tariff democrat, and he stands today infexibly opposed to the robberies of protectionism. He stands today where he has always stood, the friend of lib- .erty and the foe of oppression of all sorts
 He takes up in turn all the chief issues of the campaign, and he never fails to apply to them true democratic
 
 principles. He declares that the man. ner in which the canal zone was ob- tained was a departure from ideals that will return to plague us hereafter. Nor did the method In which the re- publicans are conducting the present campaign escape his attention. No one, he said, can recall a campaign "in which the advantages of present party control have been so palpably and un- blushingly used for it's perpeuation, or in which the functions belonging to the entire American people have been more insolently forced to do partisan service"
 MT. Cleveland did not fail to assail the administrations record as to trusts, asserting that the huge com binations still exist to the injury of the people. He exposed, too, the pre- tensions of the republicans. He ridi- culed their assertions that they give the country prosperity, or that "all the patriotism and all the governing abil- ity of our citizenship are found among the members of one political party"
 It is a speech that every voter should read before he goes to the polls, com ing as it does from the first citizen of the republic, citizen, too, who has ever carried democratic banner with no compromising attachments-a citi- zen who recalls the standard of Tilden and Jackson and Tom Jefferson in these degenerate days of colonies, and combinations, and robber tariffs, and extravagances of all sorts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25
FORTUNE
Made in Dance Halls VIII Be Spent in
 Trying to Break Into Society"

 New York Dispatch to the Cincinnati
 Enquirer
 Edward B. Corey, for a long time the proprietor of the Haymarket, one of the most notorious dance halls in New Yorkhas just bought the fine steam yacht, Reveille from Commodore Frede- rick Boone, of the New York Yacht Club, and proposes to spend the coming winter cruising in Florida waters His head quarters will be at Lake North, but he proposes to be on the go a great part of the time.
 Corey's career Is a remarkable one. Starting with nothing, he amassed a for tune running dance houses which catered to the worst element in the community. He saved his money and by judicious in vestment in New York real estate Is now credited with having considerably more than a million dollars most of which he has gained within the last ten years. Some time ago the police authorities made 1t so hot for him that he concluded that he would retire. He is now credited imitation to break into high society, the purchase of the Reveille being the first step in this direction.
 Corey's wife is said to be a most estim- able woman and for number of years ran a high-class dressmaking establish ment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25
In Class A.

The Southern league is in Class B, and thus the two major leagues and the combination of teams at the head of the minor leagues can decimate the ranks of the Southern league. The two big leagues do not draft as many play CTS from the Southern league as do the teams in Class A; and yet Manager Newt Fisher of the Nashville team is opposed to a promotion of the South. ern league to the top of the minor class.
 The avarice of Manager Fisher should not be allowed to stand in the way It kept the Southern league out of Class A this year, but it's work should be curbed as far as next year is concerned. The desire to use low priced players may suit the. Nashville lovers of the national game, but it IS misfit elsewhere. Every team except Little Rock made money this year, ard they will make more just in pro-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25
The RIaaest Fake.

aPerhans one of the most colossal swim dies that was ever worked on the pup lie is the wild man who has figured in so many sideshows and museums said a traveller. For a good many years these curiosities have been on eXhioltion and the public has gladly paid its money to see them devour raw beef and orlhK blood, yet I dare say that not one ol them was ever what he was cracked up to be- As a rule the wild man is very harmless individual who draws perhaps fifty dollars a weeK, if he is clever ana contrives to keep up his family ir some comfort. Of course there are all kinds of wild men. Some of them are better than others and the bast performers get the largest salaries AS rule the coored brother who officiates in this capacity is not very we'll paid and sometimes he is expected to make himself useful about the show when he is- off duty.
 There is something essentially ludl- crous about such fakes. To see the pub lie standing gaping before the cage and speculating on the wild mans appetite is enough to make that individual laugh in his sleeve. I have often wondered how those fellows managed to keep a straight face and at times l half believe that I see their eyes twlnkling with si- lent laughter. Of course the masses be- lieve this to be merely the ferocity oi his nature which Is lighting up his op- tic.
 But it talks an artist to be a suc- cessful wild man, and there is no reason why fellow should not earn his liv' ing that way if he wants to-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25
A Russian Victory.

The Baltic fleet has sailed and it has also fought. It met a fleet of hated English trawlers in the North sea and opened fire on them at once. Two Eng lishmen had their heads shot off, oth- CTS were wounded, one trawler was sunk, another was bored through by seventeen shots, and the entire fleet was vanquished.
 Russia will make good with apolo- gles and money the mishaps of the renowned Wee Admiral Rojestvensky. A man with such name may not be accountable is Admiral John Smith would be, but England will see that ample reparation is forthcoming.
 But what shall we think of vice admiral, scared so much by reports of the possible presence of Japanese sub marines, that he did not know fish ing fleet when he saw it? What his next mistake will be 1t is difficult to imagine. The fleet is fully equipped with searchlights, but Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, weighed down by his name, could not tell fishing smack from a warship. What the Russians do not know about the sea would fill q book. What the Baltic fleet may do in sailing half round the world is sim ply beyond the imagination.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25
PASSING OF OR ICON SHEEP.

From the Portland Oregonian.
 From nearly all sections of eastern Or egon come rsports of the reduction in the size of the nocks of the sheep kings. whose extensive operations in the past have made Oregon famous as wool and sheep country. A few of the largest op- orators who took time by the forelock and secured title to vast areas of govern ment land while it was still cheap will continue in the business on large scale for a few years longer. The greater number of moderately large sheepmen, however will reduce the size of their focks and some of them will abandon the busine js entirely. This change has Leen brought about by the steady en- oroachment of the farmers on the lands where for many years the sheep have had free range without any cost to their owners The policy of the government in permitting these vast fiocks of sheep to wander at will over such a large DOT ton of the state of Oregon has often been criticised, especially by the cattlemen. who would have preferred to pasture their herds on portion of the land that was trampled into barrenness by the sheen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25
Dr., Baker,

The Rev. Dr. P. A. Baker of Columbus, Ohio, national superintendent of the Anti Saloon league, is the guest of his friend, Norman Morrison. pr. Baker is one of the prime movers in the Anti-Saloon league, and has visited nearly every state in the union, assisting In the organization of leagues. He was to have been in Bir- mingham when the Anti-Saloon league of Alabama was organized last week, but on account of a misunderstanding in the date, pr. Baker did not reach this city until yesterday. He thought that the league was to have been organized De- tober 24.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25
Set Down Iron Heel.

From the New York Post
 MT. Cleveland has lived long enough at Princeton to acquire something Of the "iron heel' which Dr. Holmes asso- ciated with that academy; and he set it heavily last night upon current repub- lican pretences. The remarkable enthu- siasm which marked his first public ap- pearance in the campaign was not more a personal tribute than bearing witness to the sound political doctrine for which he stands Grover Cleveland is the man above all others to resent and riddle the republican assumption of a monop- oly of the public virtues. What hypo- critical tongues are now saying of the inability of Parker and the demoratic party to give the country good govern ment. was said by them just as positive ly of MT. Cleveland in 1884. His eight years of office should have laid that call umny forever. On the tariff question MT Clevelands speech sought out again the republican sore spots which he knows so well. Bred in a clergyman's family, he knows how to hurl the scriptures at an opponent; and his characterization of the tariff Dives batting himself on the back because he allowed Lazarus the crumbs which fell from his table was as effective as apt. The whole speech, in fact, with the demonstration that MT. Clevelands peculiar hold upon the confi- dence and honor of the business interests of New York is undiminished, cannot fail to have a stimulating effect upon Judge Parker's canvass
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25
CLEVELAND'S SPEECH
Remarkable Spectacle.
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 To our mind, this man presents the most remarkable spectacle in the history of modern politics. The ovation he received in New York last Friday night exceeded in significance and impresslveness any similar demonstration in the annals of the republic-certainly any that has occurred within the past eighty or ninety years. We have never regarded MT. Cleveland as a great man. His strength, his integrity of purpose, his indomitab1e courage we recognize, of course. But he has not been the prime mover in any important na- tional event He has not appeared at the psychological moment in any national crisis or emergency. In the third year or his first administration he declared him self as the prophet of a purely economic gospel, and in the second year of his last administration he encountered a defeat. He has figured in no tremendous tragedy such as the revolution of 1776 or the civil war of 1861. He has encountered no sucn tragedies as those in which Andrew Jack son played an heroic part, nor does any thing in his public career compare with the tremendous drama that Zachary ray Tor dominated when-himself a southern man-he took the secession movement or his day by the throat and choxed 1t into helplessness. And yet, without having flashed in war or controlled any sensa- tional emergency, MT. Cleveland nolos the respect. the confidence, the imagina- tion of his fellow-citizens as no man, with the exception of Abraham Lincoln, has since the time of Andrew Jackson. The people believe in him. Party lines waver and melt and disappear under his amaz- ing influence. It is inexplleable, but 1t IS fact which cannot be ignored. Had the democracy been wise enough to nominate him as their candidate, not all the power of the embattled government, re-enforced by the persuasive eloquence of the Roots,
 the Lodges. and the Tarts. could nave
 prevented his election by an overwhem- T ing majority. He may not be the people s
 hero-as heroes go-but he Is their rock,
 their refuge and their citadel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25
o FAlREST OF THE RURAL MAIDS

By William Cullen Bryant.
 O fairest of the rural maidsi Thy birth was in the forest shades; Green boughs, and glimpses of the sky Were all that met thy infant eye. Thy sports. thy wanderngs when child Were ever in the sylvan wild; And all the beauty of the place Is in thy heart and on thy face. The twilight of the trees and rocks Is in the light shade of thy locks; Thy step is as the wind, that weaves It's playful way among the leaves. Thine eyes are springs, in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook. The forest depths, by foot unprest. Are not more sinless than thy breast; The holy peace that fills the air Of those calm solitudes is there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25
SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENT.
From Town Topics.

From Town Topics.
 The south, stimulated by the most pros porous year in its history, is now devot- ing earnest attention to the problems of development For over century half of our country has been dominated by black labor, with the resulting evils of slav- cry, civil war, bloody emancipation illit- crate suffrage, race prejudices, outrages riots and lynchings This is as if all the white workanen in the north should be suddenly replaced by yellow Chinamen with the right to vote. Leading citizens and papers in the south now agree that the solution of the negro question will be found in Caucasian immigration. The Farmer and Breeder of Kentucky, indors- ing the position of the Manufacturers Record, says frankly: What the south most needs is immigration from the west
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25
Election Bets.

The use of "odds" in alleged election bets is an old political device. It IS used as a means of influencing public opinion, and there is no telling how far the republicans will carry it. It was used against William J. Bryan, when bets of to 1 were freely offered by Wall street brokers. The republi- cans have not this year reached their level in 1900, but no doubt they will if thereby voters can be influenced.
 The New York Evening Post recent ly investigated the reported betting in New York, and it does not hesitate to say that not over $20000 has really been wagered. The rest of the re- ported betting has been of a fake nature, especially that part of it based on big odds. This is done to carry the impression that the republican candi- dates will sweep the country.
 The professional bookmakers who place large sums of money on presi- dential contests will not open their books before November 1, when there will still be eight days to operate in When the registration lists are anal. yzed the betting men will be ready to stake their money. They are in close touch with political leaders, and they will ascertain as nearly as may be the situation. The fake betting of the past month will not be regarded at all.
 Bettors are, however. sometimes mistaken. In 1892 at the end of Octo- Der the odds on Harrison were 8 to 1, and yet Grover Cleveland was an easy winner. No one need regard the real betting of the period as conclusive, and the fake betting simply shows how desperate the republicans are and how well equipped they are with funds. They have money to throw at the birds of betting rings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25
A Clarion Gall.
the Boston Post.

From the Boston Post.
 Grover Cleveland's address in Carnegie hall Friday evening, at the mass meet ing held under the auspices of the Busl- ness Mems Parker and Davis associa- tion of New York, was a ringing call to American citizenship to assert itself against the influences making for degen- ation.
 It Is not narrow partisanship, he said, which prompts the appeal to hold fast and sure our independence of thought and courage of judgment; to remember that the true glory and greatness of our nation cannot rest upon wealth which finds 1t way to the few at the expense of the many, nor upon expansion in disregard of our national mission, nor upon achievements which put in ques- tion our national morality. This is pa- triotism, Amercanism. This is what AL ton B. Parker represents In the present election.
 What the country needs is the enforce ment of democratic doctrine and the &C., ceptance of democratic conservatism and steadlness. Thus will our national great ness and the well-being of our people be put beyond jeopardy.
 Let us hope" said MT. Cleveland, that the day is near when all our peo- pie, having a correct appreciation which God has vouchsafed to them, and ami mated by the spirit of true patriotism, may see their highest duty in continually guarding and defending these institutions against the decay which comes of neg feet, the weakness which comes of un- dermining materialism, and the perver- sion which comes of disobedience to the laws of our national life and health
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25
Captain Hobson.

Captain Richmond Pearson Hcbson spent a few hours in Birmingham yester- day. leaving in the afternoon for Altoo- ma, where he addressed a democratic meeting at that place last night Last Saturday Captain Hobson and Congress- man Banknead addressed a large demo- cratic rally at Jasper.
 After the f. UT joint debates with Prof. J. T. bldk more, the republican eector- at-large, Captain Hobson will probably go into sGlne of the western states and make several speeches in the interest of the democratic nominees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
} New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 A married man can be very happy away on a business trip.
 A woman thinks she is broad minded when she isn't suspicious of her hus- bands breath.
 woman's idea of frankness is to admit her husband is a genius when she thinks he Is a block of wood
 The way a girl can wriggle her waist into a mans arm you would suppose she thought it was something to wear.
 When a girl threatens to tell her mother when a man kisses her she means that she would deny it, even is her mother saw her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

If the plans of certain brain specialists do not miscarry the time will come when instead of sending a man to the peniten- tiary for robbery or hanging him for murder, he will be sent to the surgical room where an operation on his brain will be performed and he will be made a good citizen. Science informs us that our system of dealing with criminals is all wrong, that pressure of blood on the brain and accidents liable to befall this delicate member largely account for the wrong people do. A man who has not lively blood corpuscles Is lazy and crim- inal, and in fact. crime Is disease. Now what the foxy scientists propose to do is to treat mans brain when he goes wrong, and instead of turning him over to the warden he will be turned over to the doctor. We have all heard the story about the transposed stomachs that re- formed a drunkard and ruined good man, but it is not any more exciting than the new theory for treating crimi- nals. P. C.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

and north, from Ireland, Scotland and Germany, of hard-worknng, self-respect- ing people, who will aid the present resi- dents both by raising a diversity of crops and by creating a stronger public senti- ment for education" But how Is this i'm migration, hitherto shut out from the south by the black barrier, to be obtained and utilized? The answer is simple and practical-by advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

J. Pierpont Morgan has just leased matter of 5000 acres in England which he will use for shooting pur- poses, but he hasn't leased the birds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

A German steel magnate says he learned to speak English in three days, out the chances are that his conversa- ton is extremely broken and does not include any slang.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

William Jennings Bryan has just been awarded medal by the St. Louis exposition for his exnlDit of rye. It was a silver medal, too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

Indians are not needed in order to get up an appreciation of Indian sum- mer. Pale faces can furnish the need full applause.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

A wagonload of horses passed The Age-Herald office yesterday afternoon, but they were wooden horses and were riding down to the street fair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

General Stoessel should ask Kuro- patkin to furnish guarantor to his statement that he will be at Port Ar thur in three weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

Young Rockefeller is depressed be- cause under his instruction, in his own Bible class, an embezzler was devel- oped, and he confessed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

The politicians on both sides regard Indiana as perfectly safe."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

When Marconi called on the Presl- dent he wisely refrained from giving him any wireless tips concerning what will happen in Indiana.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

A Nebraska school principal has been discharged for kissing the pretti- est teacher in town. Surely the esteemed board of education could not expect him to kiss the ugliest one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

A South Dakota couple have been married sixteen years and have fifteen children. No one could expect them to do much better than that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

General Grosvenor declines to break Ia apathy with a simple prediction. His arithmetic is not working, and he is evidently looking for surprises.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

The Odell rad upon the registration lists of New York swelled them by about fifty thousand votes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

The trouble with most female suf- fragists is that they want to vote for the best-looking man, regardless of party affiliations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

Thomas w. Lawson is an even bet ter hair curler than Miss Tarbell He does up new heads of hair each month
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

An Indiana girl says that skin graft in5 costs 5000 q square foot. That is more than Birmingham real estate is worth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

The Emperor William is fighting Hottentots at present, and he is not having a walkovcc by any means.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

The lightning that strikes the Wash ington monument wishes it hadn't come. It gets the worse of it every time. The monument really does not mind such trifies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

Joe Cannon should not be confound- ed with the canon they are moulding in the Boston general convention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

There is no apathy in Port Arthur They do not know the first letters of the word.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

Governor Garvin's proclamations against bribery in Rhode Island are true and justified, but the evil is too deep to be cured by poclamations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

No one has risen up to deny Ad- dicks statement that he is a self-made man. The statement stands undis- puted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

Paris says the American handshake is brutal, and some of our Presidents are inclined to think the same way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

The question of whether a girl of 16 should marry or not depends a great deal on whether she is asked
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

The Fairbanks-in-1908 people should take a trip to the north pole as pre- liminary preparation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

Kuropatkin still th,nks he is not licked. although he is not advancing rapidly to the relief of Port Arthur.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25

The Japanese and 'he Russians arc IL W sponging between the rolnds