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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-30

become vacant. and the Western Union,
urging them TO put Julius in there Al first the
Ncw-iOrk office thought it was Joke and laughed
about II over the wire, but when they found that
the joke was absolutely serious. they thunder
struck. The idea Of putting a hoy Of fourteen In
as manager OF an Office did not appeal TO them.
They began telling Mr.. Under various things over
the wire. julius was there and hearing the con
versatioh, concluded to take hand in 1t himself
and sat down at the key In fifteen minutes he
convinced the Now York Office of his ability.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-30
DENIES BROOKLYN THEATRE PANIC,

David A. Weis manager OF the Columbia The
a're. In Brooklyn. yesterday denied that there
any fire panic there Wednesday night. caused
by the firing OF pistol in the duel scene OF ''RU-
pert OF Hentzau.' was reported in the news
papers yesterday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-30

The political life and adventures OF ID. Cady Her-
rick the Democratic candidate for Governor of New
York In next Sundays Tribune
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-30
JUSTICE APOLOGIES.
GooernOr Bates Sends Papers in
Quincy Case to WASHINGTON.

Boston, Sept 29-Expressions Of regret by Gov
ernor Bates and by Special. Justice Phelps of the
Municipal Court. Lee Mass. that want Of
knowledge OF international law had resulted in the
imposition OF a fine by Justice Phelps on Hugh
Quincy, third secretary Of the British Embassy.
have been forwarded to the State Department at
Washington. Secretary Quincy. Monday was
adJudsed guilty OF exceeding the laws governing
the speed Of automobiles and Of contempt Of court
in refusing 10 plead 10 the charge gainst him.
was fined $50 lie protested. and the case was
called TO the attention OF the State Department by
the British Ambassador with thu result that
Governor Bates was asked 10 make an investiga-
ton. Prompt action vas taken by Lieutenant Gov
ernor Curtis Guild, .r.. in the absence OF the Gov
ernor and by Governor Bates on his return to the
State yesterday and several letters bearing on the
case were sent TO Washington yesterday
The Governors letter 10 the State Department
follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-30

ADMIRAL RAE'S WORK. - Rear Admiral
Charles W. Rae, engineer in chief Of the navy
has returned from the Pacific Coast where he IN
spected the engineer work at Mare Island Bremen
ton. Seattle and San Francisco. He has taken up
with Assistant Secretary Darling plan for re-
organization of the Bureau OF Steam Engineering
which will provide for considerable increase in the
force of draughtsmen and clerks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10
Money Plentiful.

''The Birmingham banks contain large amounts of money now-most of them far larger deposits than they did one year ago; and all are on a solid basis" re- marked a prominent official of one of these institutions yesterday Likewise the banking Institutions of the smaller towns and cities of Alabama are in sound and solid condition.
 "The banks of towns in the agricultural sections of the state have flourished this year; and while they are carrying sub stantial balances they have made heavy loans to the farmers whose present condi- ton enables them to furnish gilt-edge security; and they have applied both en- ergy and money to the crops of the year. If these crops of Alabama give the yield now promised the farmers of the state will be in better condition than at any time since the war, and the bankers will enjoy with them the fruits of their labors and of the liberality extended upon con- fdence reposed in their efforts to restore agricultural persuits to the position held by that industry before the blighting ef- fects of war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10
BEAUTY OF THE FRENCH
 WOMEN PROVED A MYTH

all proportion That she is wholly charm ing is the highest tribute possible to the taste. the vivacity, the dash of her per sonality, and, above all. to her artistic mastery of the toilet, which enables the plainest little worlxwoman as well as the grandest of 'grandes dames, to wear always the right thing at the right time in the right way. That rarest of feminine nority of American women. So the Paris ienne need not fear that the end of her reign among the women of Europe is at hand because she has heard at last the tiful.
 She never has been beautiful From the grisettes of Gavarni to the mondaines of Hellu the types chosen by the draughts- men of their contemporary countrywomen are idealized into semblance utterly for eign to Paris. No Parisian before Provost confessed it, but history long ago proved the lack of French beauty. From Mary Stuart to Marie Antoinette the women worshipped in Paris for their beauty were seldom native born. They decapitated some and poisoned others, like the sister of Charles II, but not until the fair out flanders had been crowned queens of beauty. The French woman is often worse than beautiful" But Provost has spoken~truth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10
CHANGE IN THE NEWS.
Facts Are Not Wanted by Readers of
 Today.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
 News is different now to what it was in the old days" unused the old news paper man, gloomily Times mutations have wiped out the old landmarks, and the old way of saying and doing. and measuring things. Fact has given away to fiction. Facts real facts as the po- lice reporter would put 1t, are not want ed The demand is not for the common place, but for the extraordinary, the unique, the striking, the phenomenal, something that doesn't square with the common everyday experiences of man. kind Time was when the newsgatherer busied himself with collecting the ordinary happenings of the day. The newspaper then was merely a concise history of yes- terdays and today's happenings. It Is something more now. 1t seeks to mir TOT the spectacular, the chimerical, the grotesque oddities and abnormalites of the day. The normal thing is a bit too tame to attract more than passing notice. l was glancing through a lot of cables the other day, and was utterly amazed at the stuff men now send out to en- certain, instruct and edify the public. The fact is that much of the matter ca- bled from one country to another. across vast stretches or water, ana rela1d to be sent across vast stretches of land, would rot rise to the dignity of a good local story, and would be turned down by any first class city editor in the country if reporter should hand 1t in. Somehow there are many newspaper men now who are inclined to go off on rabbit tracks, if you will permit me to use a vulgar Ism. They will seize upon the smallest most insignificant and most inconsequen- tial of things and immediately write 1t cut in large letters. Mark you. I have no objection to the novelty story. It IS good thing when discreetly and dis. criminatingly handled. It is a break in the dull routine. But what l do object to is the tendency on the part of some news paper writers to subordinate the larger events of the day in an efort to force the spectacular thing on the public. But am musng just for the sake of musng for I can no more check the forces which make the spectacular stors' possible than l can check any of the other forces which now make this old world a world of striking oddities"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10

terial should not be shipped from gulf ports.
 It is a pity that the cement rock of Alabama cannot be turned to good ac- count also. Alabama could make on navigable rivers cry pound of ce- ment needed at Panama. Me have plenty of labor for the making of ce- ment at low rates, and every barrel of it could be placed at tidewateri on barges. No cement could therefore undersell Alabama cement at gulf ports, and no cement could be more satisfactory in quality. Professor Smith of the university has abundant ly demonstrated these advantages, and the business. men of Alabama should at once take steps to interest capita. in the development of our immense deposits of cement rock. We have more and better cement rock than either Pennsylvania or Michigan holds, but it is largely undeveloped Every mill can be placed on or near a navi- gable river within easy reach of Ala bama coal. The opportunity should be explained to capitalists. It offers unsurpassed advantages, both during and after the construction of the isth- milan canal.
 The cement trade of Pennsylvania and Michigan is dull at present, but 1t will be duller when the Alabama cement rock is developed, as it assur- edly will be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10
Trouble at Both Ends.

Russia is in trouble at both ends of China. L'Hassa has fallen, and Port Arthur soon will. The Anglo-Saxon is in the Holy City of the Grand Lama, and the Japanese will soon be in the stronghold of Manchuria. Tibet and Manchuria must be handed over to the enemy, and Russia must confine her land-grabbing schemes to Persia. She Will retain Siberia, but Saghalien Island off the Siberian coast will be restored to Japan, and the Japan sea will be dominated, not by Russia, but by Japan herself.
 The occupation of LHassa would be consi cred a momentous event if the war in the Far East were not absorb ing public attention. It means that L'Hassa will become a center of Brit ish influence, and that the western end of China will be protected against Rus I and Tibet are the frontier provinces of China, and if England dominates them China will be secure against Russian aggression in that quarter.
 China must become for a season the ward of England in the west and of Japan in the east, and the occupation of L'Hassa is almost as important as the occupation oI Port Arthur later on will be. Altogether the integrity of China seems pretty well assured. What the vast empire needs is twenty years of peace in which she can, led by Ja- pan, put her army and navy on modern footing. She has the same ancestor worship that inspires the Jap anese to fight to the last man, and military experts do not doubt the power of China to defend herself if she can once be modernized, and the Japanese can teach her what to do and how to do it.
 Colonel Younghusband Is making history fully as fast as Kuroki and Togo are doing, a-d if the Grand Lama and his councillors are stub born, Colonel Younghusband will sim ply stay the longer. Al British resi- dent will doubtless be fully established in the Forbidden City, and this means that British influence will be felt in all of Tibets foreign relations. The Russian intriguer will be dismissed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10
Cotton Seed Meal.

R. E. Rose, the state chemist of Florida, demonstrates In an article that the value of cotton seed meal either to stocl1men and dairymen or as B fertilizer depends upon the nitrogen It contains-in other words, the pro- tein product, which is simply the nitro- gen multiplied by 6.25. Nitrogen, am monia and protein are interchangeable terms. Consumers should know this, lest they be deceived by labels when they purchase foodstuffs or fertilizers. The Florida law says the entire pro- tein product shall be expressed as am- monia alone, and this should be the law in all the other states.
 Prime bright cotton seed meal con tains about per cent of ammonia, which is equal to 41.20 per cent of pro- tein. Adulteration comes in, however. and oftentimes reduces the ammonia to AZ per cent, or possibly to per cent. The demand for cotton seed meal is very great. and adulteration is correspondingly probable. The adul- terating material consists of rice hulls or other valueless material. All such material is not only yalueless as a fer tilizer, but 1t is valueless in the pro- duction of flesh or milk. It is actually harmful to the animal that eats it. Buyers should accept no meal that does not contain at least 7.50 per cent of ammonia, and they should disregard all percentage on labels as to protein or nitrogen, for the ammonia percent age includes them. Unless a guaran. tee of 7.50 per cent of ammonia can be procured meal should not be pur- chased. Each sack should bear that guarantee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10
Character in Shoes.

T notice an advertisement of a Birm- ingham shoe merchant in which he refers to a certain make of shoes which possess among other virtues character re- marked a man in the lobby. Now, pray tell me how can shoe possess charac- ter?"
 Ut isn't the shoe that possesses char acter," replied bystander, but a shoe generally marks the character of the man or woman-especially the woman who wears 1t. You will seldom see it fail Let me casually see woman's shoes, as she passes along the thoroughfare, which I of course seldom do, and I can come pretty near guessing whether she is a married woman, an engaged woman, a eoquet or a flirt. I dare not describe the styles of distinction for if I did 1 would give away my secret"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10
ALABAMA VIEWS.

Mobile Item: Uncle Russell Sage passed his eighty-frst milestone and Is still toll ing for money, refusing to take a vaca- ton from his labors. Some day the old man will wake up to the realization that he must take a rest, or find himself in location where warmer and more stren- uous activity will be required of him.
 Anniston Star: The fall of Port Arthur has been announced several times. but not during the whole war has Port Ar thur had such an excellent excuse and such an excellent opportunity for falling as 1t has right now.
 Huntsville Mercury: Judge Parker has resigned as chief justice of the supreme court of New York and is now a private citizen for the first time in thirty years. This action of Judge Parker was the prop CT thing to do. and only again empha- sizes the fact that he Is a man who always observes the properties and does the thing wise, able and great man will do. The American people will have anoth- CT proof that the democrats made no mis- take in nominating for President Alton B. Parker.
 Gadsden Times-News: The people of the United States have had enough of Rooseveltism and Rough Rider style of running the government and will give Teddy a rest next November by electing Judge Parker, who is safe and sane.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Notlfyinu Nominees.

"The present manner of notifying nomi- nees by committees In person and all the formalities accompanying is of modern origin" said a student or political events in the lobby, land I, as an old-time plain democrat like the old way much the best. In truth we Americans are becoming too formal in all respects.
 For many years such notices were sent by mall. Touching this matter let me give you bit of history which may have led to the personal notification idea. When General Taylor was nominated by the whigs in 1s4s the chairman of the national committee was instructed to mo- tify the nominee and did so by writing him letter on which he failed to prepay postage. General Taylor had been receiv- ing so many unpaid letters that he in- strncted the postmaster to to forward all such to the dead letter office and the presidential notification letter went to Washington with the others. Later. when the cause of the non-receipt of an an- swer was discovered a second letter of notification was written and the postage was prepaid.
 At the time of Lincoln's first nomina- tion the chairman of the convention and a few prominent republicans went in per son to notify him. He made a brief yer bal reply and in few days wrote a letter of acceptance, consisting of 100 words. Grant was notified by letter in 1868 and in 1872 by the same method. Hayes accepted in letter of some length, and Tilden in Q1letter much longer. Collax was the first candidate to adopt the lengthy method of communicating by mail his acceptance and his views"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10
Isthmian Canal Trade.

Already New Orleans feels the work of construction at Panama. The ship ment of 100000 feet of lumber had not been completed, when hurry call for two million more feet of cypress and forty thousand pieces of piling was received. No amount of pull" can transfer orders for cypress from the south, whatever it may do when pine lumber is called for. Lumber and timber of all sorts can be pur- chased and handled on better terms in the south than elsewhere, and there is DO reason why every foot of such ma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10
Nothing pIscouranlno.

Dr. G. B. Grove. president of the Ash ley Brick company, and laxgely interest," ed in coal and ron lands in this district. was asked his views as to labor condi- tions in the district. "1 do not think. D said he, that the suspension in coal min ing will be of long duration. The difficult ty is one which will adjust itself in nat nral way; and there will be no violent disturbances. Employees in other branches of labor than coal mining seem to be busy and eontented; and there is something do- ing all along the line"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10
CROSSING THE BAR.

By Alfred Tennyson. Sunset and evening star And one clear call for mel And may there be no moaning of the bal When I put out to sea But such tide as moving seems asleep Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out tn,
 boundless deep
 Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell When I embark. For tho from out our bourne
 Place
 The flood may bear ma far, hope to see my Pilot face f When I have crossed the b
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Living in the suburbs is terrible temp tatlon to miss the last train.
 When a woman takes her first Turkish bath she has a sensation or wondering if anybody is peeking.
 It's good deal easier to kiss a girl and get forgiveness for it than to get for giveness for iaring to ask her.
 A woman can defeat the coldest logic that ever was thought out with two tears and a pocket handkerchief.
 It makes a woman very miserable to think how queer it would be If she had been born a man with all lae nice clothes she has to wear
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10
On the Central of Georgia.

General Passenger Agent J. c. Halle of the Central of Georgia railway was in Birmingham yesterday looking after the Interests of his company at this end. Asked as to general conditions along his line MT. Halle said:
 "Close observation cheers me with the belief that the entire section of country through which our lines pass is in most promising and, l may say, prosperous condition As you know the Central of Georgia traverses the rich cotton, corn. sugar cane and fruit-growing sections of Georgia and Alabama. besides the im- mense forests of timber and the iron and coal lands of the northern parts of Geor- gla and Alabama; and all along the lines the people seem cheerful. hopeful, indus trious and happy.
 "The peach crop of Georgia has been the largest ever grown in the state, and our friends in the peach belt are in ex- cellent financial condition. As you know the Central strikes the very heart of the peach growing country, and our company has always encouraged the industry. Now we are sharing the profit in the heavy traffic the crop has afforded.
 ..The season is new about over, or will be within a short while, and then comes the marketing of what promises to be a very large cotton crop"
 MT. Halle left for his headouarters in savannah on the Central at D. m. ves- terday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10
From the New York Mail.


 A T LAST a Frenehman has been V found who admits that his coun- trywomen are not beautiful Marcel Provost, chief rival of Paul Bourget for the primacy in fash ionable fiction making, bravely if not gallantly, stands sponsor for the fact He modifies his statement by adding that plenty of them are pretty; you never see plain Parisienne. but the prettiness Is of the toilet"
 This is no new thing. Parisian beauty has never been anything but a tradition Beauty has always abounded among the bare-footed peasant lassies of Ireland and the fresh-faced girls of the English coun- tryside, before they reach the parting of the ways that lead French women either to beefiness or cancellation. There Is real beauty among the Viennese, and faces and figures not to be forgotten are found in Italy and Spain. As for our own country, 1t Is not necessary to watch Fifth avenue parade or an opera night. Every department store sends forth every afternoon more beauty among its shop girls than can be seen in mon Il on the boulevards or in the Bois.
 The Parisienne is sallow, she is Usually squat of figure, and, in the matter of fleshy curves, nature is generous beyond
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10
USELESS BUTTONS.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 Why are there two buttons, or even one, on the sleeve of coat? The writer took a census of his buttons and found that sixty of them were unnecessary. He is particularly anxious as to the two buttons behind on frock coat. Taking survey of the whole human family he finds that there are SO0,0OO0OO buttons worn, all of them useless. No one has discovered the necessity for fourteen or sixteen pockets concealed in mems clothes. This is the limit of superhuity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10
Cost of Firing Cannon.

From Leslie's Weekly.
 Modern naval warfare is one of the most costly things that can be imagined, and a combat between two fleets means the expenditure of vast sums of money Some idea of the high cost can be ar rived at by taking a Japanese warship like the Kasuga or Nysshin and cal culating the number of shots she would discharge, say at Port Arthur. The first named ship carries four cannon which cost $SO000 each. One of these guns can ire two shots per minute, and every shot costs S4oo; thus in five minutes these four cannon can discharge forty bombs at cost or $l60O0. The smaller cannon cost each sls,O00, and every shot they fire means an expenditure of $70. They are very rapid and 1t is estimated that in i've minutes the twelve cannon could dis charge shot to the value of nearly s35,0oo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10

From the Memphis Comnercial-Appeal.
 A northern editor says the negro is real ly the most intelligent citizen in the south. This entities the aforesaid editor to be considered the most intrepid liar in the north
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10

A man is alive and healthy after shooting a bullet through his brain. Either there is something wrong with his brain or something wrong with the medical professions knowledge of that delicate organ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10

Charles M. Schwab refuses to leave the center of the stage. He has just returned from six days tour of Yur- rup, bringing back the biggest auto- mobile in this country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-10

A man in New York named Casey drank nine quarts of whisky in four days, and noI he IS dead. He could not live up to his name.