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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
POSTAL AFFAIRS
 ID BE DISCUSSED
Will Occupy Attention of House
 This Week,
APPROPRIATION FOR TODAY
overstreet VIII Call Up the Bill, Which Will Probably Consume Several
 Days-The Hay Resolu-
 ton Will be Reported.

Washington, March 6.-Postal affairs will occupy the attention of the house for the better part of this week. MT. Over street. chairman of the committee on post offices and post roads, will call up the postal appropriation bill tomorrow and 1t is anticipated that several days at least will be consumed in its disposition. The minority will oppose vigorously some feat ures of the bill, and will also urge gen. eral investigation of postoffce affairs. The bill will be laid aside temporarily Tuesday, as by special agreement private claim bills which gave way last week to the Indian appropriation measure. have been made the special order for that day.
 Before taking up the bill tomorrow the postoffce committee will report the Hay resolution requesting certain information regarding the exercise of 'infuence' by members of the house to secure increase of salaries, etc. for postmasters. The committee will recommend that this reso- lution be laid upon the table. Unless some consent is obtained there will be no dis cussion in the motion ot table, but 1t Is indicated that an agreement will be reach- ed whereby brief time will be allowed so that some statements can be made on each side before a vote is taken.
 MT Martin of South Dakota. expects to request unanimous consent tomorrow, before the appropriation bill is laid before the house, for the consideration of his res olution directing the department of com merce and labor to investigate the causes and differences which exist between the cost of live cattle and dressed beef, on which the committee on interstate com merce and foreign commerce has ordered favorable report.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
Where the Money Goes.

From tho Saturday Evening Post
 A young couple, after living along for nearly year at the rate of $50 a week on an income of $25, reached the place where a sober, serious, heart to heart talk was imperative--a situation of the greatest delicacy, with the breakers upon the reefs of matrimonial disaster roaring in their ears. But they remained cool-headed and learned among other things, that during the preceding week they had spent $3.15 on just nothing at all, $740 by paying too high prices for necessities when a little thought and care would have pre- vented it, $2.25 for things they could have very well done without, $2 for which they could not account at all; total, S1480. They had spent in all during that week $34.o0.
 Subtract what was fooled away from what was spent, and you have s19.70-that is, they spent for value re- ceived $5.30 less than their income. The hint in this incident is as valuable to the single as to the married.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
ALABAMA NEWS.

The citizens of Lafayette are making an effort to secure Carnegie library.
 Marion people are agltatlng the ques- ton of building a cotton factory.
 The stationery engineers of Mobile have formed a union known as Raphael semmes No. A."
 The Educational Extension Library company of Chicago is establishing a branch in Montgomery
 It Is reported that Huntsville will short ly secure two new industries, which will be controlled by eastern capitalists.
 c. c. O'Neal has sold the Gurley Herald to Bartee & Williamson who will pulp fish and edit the paper in the future
 Night Captain Harmon of the Anniston police force has been suspended by Mayor Henderson on charges preferred by Pat rolmen Self and Dill.
 As the result of a wreck the dynamo for Ozark's lighting plant has been de- layed for more than month and the town Is still in darkness.
 Smallpox has become epidemic in Mar shall county. north of the Tennessee river. Forty cases have been reported but no death have yet occurred.
 It Is reported that A. J. Dine, painter of Montgomery, called on God to strike him speeches. if he ever used a certain drug again, and on yielding to the temp tation his tongue was paralyzed.
 Lieutenant Oscar Duncan of Gadsden, who Is il the United States army, and has been sick In the Brooklyn hospital is now regaining his health and has been stationed at Newport News with the rank of captain.
 An old Confederate veteran recently arrived in Selma who claimed to be member of the Third Alabama regiment In the civil war and said that he had walked all the way from New Orleans The old man was given money enough to carry him to Wetumpka, to which place he was enroute.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
THE ATHLETIC JAPANESE.

T. Philip Terry in March Outing.
 In Japanese town one cannot walk far without being confronted by ath- letics in one form or another. In the streets you can rarely escape the painted and gaudily dressed tots, who turn baby handsprings, execute somersaults and do other infantile stunts in a wheedling ef- fort to secure the hairy foreigner's'' wealth. A Japanese matsuri were not the fair it purports without the be- spangled tight-rope performer, the bam- boo ladder climbing youngsters, the wrestlers, tumblers, spearsmen or fencers.
 So deeply rooted is the native love for the strenuous life that the national sports of other lands have been tried in Japan The mikado, with many of the imperial family. attends the annual spring races in Yokohama; but nothing in the line of imported sports so ap- peals to the Japanese as cycling and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
EXPECTS MORE AID.
Japan May Gall on the United States
 for a Loan.

Paris, March 7.-The correspondent of the Matin at Tokio says that a banquet given Thursday to the. American war cor respondents, the vice minister of for eign affairs. in thanking the American nation for the support hitherto given Japan, declared that the government reckoned upon receiving even more effec- tive assistance from the United States In the future, The correspondent says he has reason to believe that the vice minis ter alluded to the proposed loan, in con nection with which Baron Kansko, for mer minister of justice and vice president of the Bank of Japan, has gone to the United States.
 The subscriptions to the war loan open ed March 1, now amount to $395, 900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
The lrlshman Had His Doubts.

From Success.
 As is we'll known Rev Robert Collyer of New York City was blacksmith in Germantown, Pennsylvania, before he be- came preacher. Once, when there was little work at hand he asked a builder In his neighborhood for something to do. The latter replied that all he could give him would be a job carrying a bod.
 I'm your man." replied the black smith, promptly.
 Years afterwards, while an imposing edifce was being erected In Chicago for Dr. Collyer. he was standing among the beams. watching the progress of the work, when an Irishman came along with a nod of bricks. Dr. Collyer spoke to him and he paused.
 This Is har-rd wor. solr," said the Irish man.
 'I know that we'll" answered Dr. Coll yer; 'in my day I've carried the bod my self"
 "The Irishman stared at me an in- stant," said Dr. Collyer, in relating the Incident, 'and then went on his way mumbling something that sounded sus- piciously like, T wouln't a behaved tn parson was such liar"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
Mexican Mills Wlll Close.

Mexico City. March GA number of the cotton mills in Mexico have announced their intention of temporarily shutting down. owing to the increased price of cotton. The owners state that the in- crease which they would have to make in the prices of their goods would place them out of reach of the poorer classes of Mexico, and that the manufacture of cot ton goods in this country cannot be con- tinued on the present basis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
COMMISSIONERS LEAVE.
Mexican Officials Will Supervise Ex-
 hlbits at St. Louis.

Mexico City, March 6-The Mexican commissioners for the St. Louis exposi- ton will leave in a special tomorrow for that city
 Generad Director Nunez will take with him plans for Mexico's conservatory which has not yet been built but upon which work will be begun immediately on the arrival of the commissioners in St. Louis. The commissioners have ar ranged their business here with a view of passing a year in the exposition city. Eight carloads of exhibits have been for warded and a second lot will be sent forward about the middle of the month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
Dynamite Used Aaalnst Ice

Washington, March 6--Dynamite was successfully employed today in breaking up the heavy compact ice in the Potomac river, above the Three Sisters, several miles from the city. The work will be continued for several days with view to making the narrow channel reasonably clear, so as to avoid threatening floods at Washington when the thaw in the up- per river and mountain streams sets in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
SPARKS BODY IS
 DENIED THE CHUR CHI
NEGRO PASTOR REFUSES TO PREACH FUNERAL SERVICES OVER REMAINS OF NOTED NE GRO MURDERER.

Columbus, Ga, March 6.-(special.)- The big church funeral planned for Charles H. Sparks, the negro murderer, who was executed at opelka, Ala, yes- terday, did not occur, to the great dis appointment of hundreds of Columbus negroes. The body was brought to Co., lumbus, Sparks home, last night and taken charge of by Anna Hunley, his mother, who is known as "The Queen Bee of the Bottom"
 When the body was carried to the St. James A. M. F. church this after noon for funeral services, the pastor would not permit the remains to be carried in, saying that he could not preach the funeral
 Fully one thousand negroes witnessed the burial at the colored cemetery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
Austin Defeated In Tennessee.

Knoxville, Tenn, March 6.-Returns practically complete from the ten coun- ties of the Second congressional district. show that N. w. Hale has defeated R. w. Austin for the republican nomination by a majority of one thousand votes. Six counties are for Hale, three for Aus tin and one doubtful Austin may appeal to the national congressional committee on the ground that hundreds of his sup porters were disfranchised by means of an injunction in Campbell county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
Revenue Officers Make Raid.

Knoxville, Tenn, March 6.-Revenue officers returned tonight from raid made in the mountains of Polk county, where they destroyed a fifty-gallon illicit dis tflery. and arrested James Penland and James Williams while they were at work. Penland was Spanish-American war soldier. serving in the Sixth Immunes, volunteer infantry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07

baseball. Cycling clubs are scattered all over the empire. thousands of American bicycles spin across the island and the foreigners experience difficulty in keep ing even a few of the records and tro- phies out of native hands.
 The Tokyo baseball team is an efficient organization. and it frequently drubs the teams from other ports and cities At the Yokohama cricket grounds excellent and sharply-contested games may be wit messed occasionally between the Tokyo native team and the Yokohama foreign organization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
Removed from Military Control.

Mexico City. March 6.-The telegraph lines in Yucatan have been removed from the military control, and are now open to the public. The lines were turn ed over to the Federal Telegraph com pany and comprise lines built for mili- tary purposes during the Maya upris- ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07

,.sks1s fz,-. There Is no dis-. .Sez putting the fact that
 mans heart Is often
 reached through the stomach. Happy the housewife who can please her husbands appetite with we'll cooked food for the table. Many man is grouchy, ugly, nervous, suffering from dis2 tress after eating, heart palpitation, and all through the overworked stomach
 Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. which helps the digestion of food in the stomach, assists the blood in taking up the proper elements from the food, helps the liver into activity, thereby throwing out the poisons in the blood and vitalizing the whole system This assimilation helps in the oxidation of the red blood corpuscles, the poisonB in the system are eliminated the heart gets the right kind of blood and the person feels invigoTated and stronger in consequence. As a tissue builder if is. far preferable to cod liver oil or any sloo-I holic compounds or toniee, because It gives the blood and the tissues the food clements they require and maintains a person 'sI nutrition by enabling him to eat retain, digest and assimilate nutritious food. It overcoines tue gastric iFritability and symptoms of indigestion. Because of the good effects from tising Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery upon nutrition and the building up of the tissues, catarTh, con- sumption, weakness or debility and syInp- toms of fever, night sweats, headaches, etc, disappear.
 UI believe that It Is generally conceded that Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Is the best medicine for A man to take suffering from indigestion, kidney trouble or any of the aflic-l tions resulting from overworlk or neglecting al coldn writes ]. Russell Fill, of 3sa Barrie Street, Kingston, Ontario. Recording Secretary Impe-l rial Knlghts' Federation League of Kingston.i VI have used 1t several times during the past few years and have always found that 1t gave me Immediate relief IL expeis excessive uric acid In the system, due to improper digestion, l relieves the kidneys from congestion, drivesi headache and boekache away, induces appetite and tones up the general system. I consider 1t 0 fine remedy for young or old men, sure to build up a rundown condition of the sYsten.p
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
A MODEL FACTORY.
Many Comforts for Workmen In Ger
 man Dye Works.

From the New York World.
 At the great aniline dye factories in Germany, employing upward of 15,000 men, consideration for the working mans comfort has been carried out to a notable extent.
 The works at Ludwigshafen, where 7500 men are employed, form a unique industrial community Scattered In the neighborhood of the works are col onies of model houses where the work men live. Each family has two rooms. a kitchen, two cellars and 120 square metres of garden. The rent of a lodg ing iss less than 50 cents per week.
 Eight kilometres from Ludwigshafen the company has founded another col ony of it's workmen, and morning and evening it runs them into the works in special trains free of cost. A huge dining room containing 600 seats is at their disposal, where diners consisting of half a pound of meat and one litre of soup are supplied for 20 pfennigs and half litre of coffee for pfennigs. For married men whose wives or chill dren bring them their dinner com modious hall has been erected where the men may dine.
 The club house is a splendid estab- ment, with restaurant, reading rooms, billiard rooms, a large hall for enter tainments and a well-equipped library. There is hospital kept up by the company, home for convalescents, a bathing establishment for the work mems wives and children, home for lying-in women and a school in which wives and grown daughters are taught how to keep house, cook, wash, iron, how to grow vegetables in the garden, how to sew and use the sewing ma chine, how to market and how to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
More plphtheria Cases Develop.

cases of diptheria have developed among the apprentices on the United States training ship Monongahela. There are seventeen cases now in the hospital and the departure of the vessel has been in- definitely postponed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
At Bacon Ridge.

From Puck
 Postnlaster-'Yes, sir, an that married Mrs. Fresh was watching me with one eye an flirting with Zeke Crossby's hired man with the other"
 Farmer Ryetop-"Do tell I swan, these postoffice scandals are getting worse every day."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
Three More Bodies Recovered.

New York March 6.-Three more bodies were recovered today from the wreck of the Darlington hotel, making the total number of fatalities twenty. These are believed to be bodies of workmen employ ed on the structure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
NEIL MULL|N SHOT
 IN THE STEEL CITY
Fatally Wounded in Difficulty
 With Dave Laws
MEN QUARREL OVER BEER
Stated That Laws Demanded Payment of Mullin and Then Fired Twice-Wouded Man Dy-
 ing at St. vincent's.

Ensley. March 8.-(Specia1) )-Dave Laws shot and fatally wounded Nell Mullin last night at twelve o'clock in Laws saloon, Avenue D and Twenty second street. The difficulty, it is stated, was about the payment for tour glasses of beer purchased by AfullIn Laws was arrested by Officers Tethrow and Pattie and carried to Birmingham this morning by Deputy sheriff Clinton Flu bank on a warrant sworn out by Chief Camp, before acting Judge Fred G. Moore of the inferior court. MT. Mullin was carried to St. Vincents hospital and is in a critical condition.
 According to some eye-witnesses to the tragedy Mullin, Laws and two other friends were drinking together at Laws saloon They were standing at the bar. After the beer had been drunk, Mullin started out without offering to pay the bartender. He was called back by Laws. A heated discussion began.
 Lie Is Passed.
 Some vigorous language resulted, and the lie is aid to have passed between the two men, At this juncture Laws is al- legged to have passed behind the counter and procured a revolver. He pointed the weapon point blank at Mullin and fired twice One of the balls took ef- feet in Mullins arm and the other in the back, piercing the kidneys. The wound is an ugly one and the bullet has not been located.
 officers Pattie and Tethrow arrived on the scene a short while afterwards. Laws was taken into custody and lodged in the city jail. He was removed to the county jail this morning at Il o'clock.
 Laws Refuses to Talk.
 Laws refused to make any statement whatever. When being removed to Bir- mingham this morning he asked Chief Camp what they had arrested him for, saying that he didn't recall that he had committed any offense. The warrant sworn out charged him with manslaugh- ter. MT. Laws is about 95 years of age and has been conducting a saloon in this city for some time. He Is unmarried.
 MT. Mullin lives at Wylam. He is a mine worker and is very popular He is a single man and resides with his moth CT at Wylam, and is about 40 years of | age
 All hope having been abandoned for the wounded man. Judge Moore. who has been apointed judge of the inferior court during Judge Mandys and Clerk Bells absence in Mississippi, with two of MT. Mullins friends, went to the hospital to- night to take the wounded mans dying | statement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
Four Japanese Spies Arrested.

Kronstadt,. March e.-Four Japanese spies are said to have been arrested here. Admiral Biritief has inspected the ships which are here preparing to be put into commission.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
Office Building Burned.

oswego. N. Y, March 6-The general office building of the New York Central railroad was destroyed by fire involving los of more than sloO.OOO today. The building contained in addition to the gen eral offices the American Express com panys office, four stories, and the Lake Shore hotel, which was recently vacated. The origin of the fire is unknown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
FAR EASTERN WRTUosoEs BUSY.

From the Washington Post.
 While Japan is seeking to make a col lection of rare specimens of old China, Russia Is securing an assortment of Jap anese jars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07

For a persistent cough, Piso's Cure for consumption is an effectual remedy. All druggists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07
She Held President Eliot Responsible


 From Success.
 Perhaps the attitude of Harvard men toward President Eliot Is best illustrated by negative-there are but few anec- dotes current about him. Here is one of the few. A mother wrote to him. as moth- CTS often do, asking how her son was progressing. Did he have his lessons? Did he keep his clothes In good condition? Was he respectful to his teachers? There was nothing In President Eliot's reply to indicate that her boy was not under his personal supervision. Yet the mother visited the university in the stress of her worriment. She found her way in his room, his clothes piled about on the chairs, and his feel on his desk-smoking a pipe. What she said to him Is unim- portant but what she said to the presi- dent has lived.'
 Il sent my boy here, thinking you would take care of him-and see what I findp" The president explained the elaborate system of personal supervision through advisers, But of what avail was that? The system had failed In the case of her boy It was inefficient. What could he say?
 Madam, we assume, in a large measure. that the men here know why they are here and can care for themselves. If your boy is not capable of this, he is not ready for college.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07

TO CURE A. COLD IN ONE DAY. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets All druggists refund the money if 1t fails to cure B. w. Groves signature is on each box. 8c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-07

The Age-Herald Engraving Depart ment makes good cuts.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-12-17

why, Daisy, One would think you
Lad been caught under the mistletoe!"
Daisy had moved around to the opposite
side of the tree, and her face could not
lie seen as she answered:
II have been. | thought Dan was gone.
but he was out there. and he kissed me
under a splig of the mistletoe which the
boys hung out there. He said it made
him do it, and | want to thank you for
bringing it. / am happier than | have
been for year. You see i would not
promise to marry him." she went on in
burst of happy confidence, because | was
Offered the Mayville school. and [ couldn't
give up the best position / had ever had
offered me, to marry, and had Just grad
uated from the normal. That is the way
so many girls do after spending so much
time preparing themselves for Il work
and / had always said that | would not
do it. | told Dan Just that, but he
couldn't see why if l loved him it wasn't
my duty to marry him instead of crush
ing my heart and his, too, 'nuder my
feet as he expressed it. His talking
about duty made me angry and we quar-
relied about it, and then every day from
that time to this | have been sorry that
decided that way And now l shall
bless you and your mistletoe all my
days"
Mildred went to Daisy and putting her
arm about the younger woman, said:
How much alike we women are; so
blind to our own good. I am so glad if
the mistletoe has helped you to your hap
piness. 1 am sure you will not regret
this days decision A professional life
/ a 70 T1f1G So "a
of ones finer self, as well as of those we
love and who love us, and the reward.
the petty praise and fame, are not
| worth it."
| Neither had heard Robert come in and
he stood in the doorway listening to Mil
dred's words as though he had right to
| hear what he knew was not intended for
his ears. When she finished speaking his
heart was beating tumultuously. He had
an insane desire to shout, but he didn't
10 it. Instead he stepped back into
the hall and shuffled his feet to warn
them OF his presence. As he went in
Daisy, who knew that her face was too
tell-tale to be seen, made her exit through
another door With his old time assert
i've confidence Robert strobe to AIildred's
side, took her hands and led her to where
the mistletoe hung, and as that other
time he kissed her. not. however, upon
the cheek, but full ON her lips.
1T is the privilege-the mission, of the
mistetoe,' he murmured. Il heard what
You said TO Daisy and /, too, shall bless
it all my days, for through her happiness
| has come mine"
And mine" whispered Mildred, tremu-
lousy happy.-Elcnora Elizabeth Reber
| in Prairie Farmer.