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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03
Ldars-Three Kinds.

Kansas City Star.
 The death of Judge Harry Lands Brookfield, Mo, recalls the time whel was an attorney of tho Linn county which was recognized even by tho preme Court as one of the strongeat the State. There was a distinct char teristic of the Linn county lawyers which one could distinguish them frs any other set of lawyers in the count They wore broad brimmed felt hats. foli coats and generous shoes which ran t&V sharp point. Their manner of speech was peculiar to Linn county. To tho weak they were kind; to womanhood as countrly as old time knights; to tho witnesses on the other side as fierce as q Kentucky colonel in a Tom" show. Tn those days Judge Lander was the nestof of the bar. Before the Civil War ha lived in Illinois and associated with Abra- had Lincoln, Leonard Sweet, Robert In- gersoll. Beckwith, Gowdey and others on tho circuit. Soon after the war he came to Missouri and settled in Linn county.
 In those days the almost universal cus- tom of beratlng the witnesses on the oth- CT side in vigorous language was recog- nized. Clients expected it and the law yers delivered the goods" With all pos sible veneration for the late judge. 1t may be stated that he never shrank from thia responsibility. There had been a railroad wreck at Brush Crock in which many uf the company's employees had been killed and many injured. All the claims except one were settled out of court. The road would not pay certain man the amount he claimed for injuries and decided to fight. Judge Lander had the case and it was tried at Linneus. Tho road put on many lay and expert witnesses and Judge Lander concluded that their testimony perverted the facts. In his speech to the Jury he called 1t ''the last of the Mohe- gans." meaning the last faction pending for the Brush Creek disaster. He said:
 Gentlemen of the jury. there are iu this wicked world three classes of liars, and I believe all who have followed tha defense's testimony will bear me out when say We have met will all of them at this trial. First is the commcn every day liar who lies for the fun of it or be- cause fl comes natural; then there is the damn liar who lies from a malignant heart for the purpose or wrongtng hia fellow man and blasting his good name. l now come to the most heinous division of the list the low down no count. thrice condemned being known as the expert liar-the man who knows he's lying and tries to explain by scientific reasoning non existent circumstances on which fo build his lies. He's the very worst in the deck, gentlemen.
 The jury believed so. too. and gave Judge Leandcr's client the verdict he sought.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03

His life has filled thine olden measure, Yet health delay the hand of snow Which numbing death extends at pleas
 ure.
 Today he reaps what he has sown
 At festal board and friendly meeting; The harvest of his life is mown
 And garnered in Q nations greeting. Voices and Visions by Franklin Bald win Wiley, Richard CT Badger Publisher, 194 /Boylston Street. Boston, SIPS.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03

From Jacob Steendam to ". D. How els many poets and novelists have had their home in New York. Same are fa- nous for other things, like Steendam, who bought black burned bricks, considered worthless, and by alternating the dark and light bricks. built the prettiest house in New Amsterdam. Some. like W. h.. Howells. born in Ohio. arc only New YorKers by adoption. Yet there are enough noted literary names associated with the metropolis to give concern even to Boston, our eastern Athens. Among the names associated with New York ave Philip Freneau. Thomas Paine, Joel Bal low. N. P. Willis. Washington Irving. Joe seph Rodman Drake, Fitz-Greene Hal leck. Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allen Poe. William Cullen Bryant. Bayard Taylor, J. G. Holland. John James Audubon, Richard Grant White and Richard Henry Stoddard One does not realize how large a part New York has played in our national literature until one reads Charles Hemstreets Literary Ne" York just published by G. F. Putnam Sons in a handsomely Illustrated volume, and sees how many literary shTines arc there besides Fordham Cottage. A seaSe of something unreal, like an echo from the Arabian Nights" comes over one nowadays as one hears about ''the home where Bryant lived when he became cd itor of The Evening Post, and from which
 he often walked around the corner to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03
RAlipiniis Rocks.

Messrs. Harper & Brothers report for the Christmas season a large sale ct books of religious tendency and inspira- tion-especlally pr. van Dykes Story of the Other Wise Man"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03
New Tdltion of TYesper.

The Harpers announce that they have in press a fresh edition of 'Hesper," Ham1in Garland's new novel of the West the previous editions being nearly ex- hausted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03
stavsnso, for Children.

It is interesting to find it noted that an illustrated folio of Stenvenson's 'sChild Gar den of Verses. published with the imprint of R. II. Russell & Co.,, is having large holiday sale. The illustrators are E. Mars and NJ. H. Squire.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03
RurlinDton 1darazine.

The Macmillan Company will publish hereafter in this country The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03
CAN'T SPOIL sTRArFoRD.

shakespeare's Native Place is the raunt of Innumereble Falxirs and Even His House is Vul-
 garized by Fakes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03

make m evening carl on his near neigh- Dor and friend, J. Fenimore Cooper" 1 Mir. Hemstreet's literary guide-boolx has one error made curious by the uncon- scious commentary that follows It. Says he: Another who sometimes spent hours at Pfaff's was George Farrar Browne, but few will remember him by that name. 2 Most people. indeed. will remember Arte- mus Ward by the name of Charles.
 With Richard whiteings new story. The Yellow Van" among the ''best sell. ing books" 1t is interesting to hear the authors view az to the province of the novel. This Mir. wh.teing expressed at q dinner of an English literary club recent ly, when he said that the novel performed service to society analogous to that of light cavalry, Tt went forward, saw cv- erything, did not probe all, but showed how thing was affecting the hearts and minds of simple men and women, and what they were thinking about. once that was put before the people. they were on the way to reform" And then the author of No. John Street" went on to say that he doubted much whether the technique in fiction was ever so good as 1t is today"
 A good story Is told by Marion Craw'- ford on himself. He was introduced to a young woman recently and hearing that he was a novelist. she said: And have you written anything that will live after you're gone?'
 T don't know" he replied. "You see. what I am after is something that will enable me to live while am here." When the newspapers told. the other I,x S. A caped assassination at the hands of . iunatic. in his office at the Bank of Eng land. many folk who had read Tho Golden Age' and Dream Days learned for the first time that their author--in his unliterary hours-played an important part in the management of the ''Old Lady of Threadneedle Street." On the other hand. many Londoners were surprised to find that tho MT. K. Grahame" with whom. in his capacity as secretary of the i bank, they had done business over and over again, was Kenneth Grahame, the author. of whose children's stories they had heard if they had not read them. Jekyu and Hyde Pictures. We doubt If the nineteen pictures con- tributed by Charles Raymond Mscauley to the new illustrated edition of Steven sons "Dr. Jekyll and MT. Hyde," (New York Scott-Thaw Company, will greatly assist the imagination. Stevenson s thrilling and wonderfully sustained mar rative is enough, without pictures. Yet these drawings never shock ones sensi- bilities. They are in keeping with the tale. and are well executed. The book. large octave, is beautifully made. The setting is worthy of the subject. Among the authors to bring out books through Doubleday, Page & Co. in 1904 are Ezra S. Brudno. Miss Carolyn Wells. Robert Shackleton, Mrs. John Van Worst, Mrs Burton Kingsland. Miss Mary E Burt, Miss Blanche ostertag, and Mrs. W. T. Talbot. The last named lady has sent to the publishers the 'Life of Gen. Samuel c. Armstrong;" her father, who began the modern movement for manual tram. ing and started Booker T. Washington on his career.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03
Personal.

Miss Marie Manning whose second novel, Judith of the Plains, has made an emphatic hit, sailed for Europe on the 18th to spend the winter in Italy. Miss Manning will stop for week in Algiers en route for Rome. It Is her intention to devote the winter to work on her next novel, the scenes of which will be placed in New York.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03
The Frog That Made Mark Twain
 FamonR

Famous.
 Harper & Brothers announce a new specially illustrated holiday edition of The Jumping Frog. by Mark Twain. with pictures by r. Strothmann, which will be published on November IS. As will be re- called, this Is the story which first made Mark Twain famous as d humorlst, but 1t has never before been published as a book. The author has recently made ad- ditions to the original story. and the Strothmann illustrations are in keeping with It's Irresistible humor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03

Famous Books in New Dress.
 Harper Brothers are publishing Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Pudd' d'nhead Wilson in new editions uniform with their red-and- gold edition of Mark Twains works
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03
Where "old Chester'' Really Is.

Mrs. Margaret Deland, author of old Chester Tales and pr. Lavepdars People, has frequently been asked the real iden- tlty of tho village of Old Chester, which is becoming as familiar as Cranford in the annals of fiction. old Chester itself, the author says, is founded on the real town of Manchester. Pa, and the "Mer- cer." alluded to fin the Tales, is Pittsburg, Mrs. Deland is a native of Allegheny, of which old Manchester is a suburb
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03
THE CENTRE OF TRE|
 SHOPPING DISTRICT.
ABSOLUTELY FIREpROCF l.

The Only Hotel in Manhattan fronting on Broadway and Fikth Avenue.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03

| W Hllo lS1Co DAOOlu
 MT. Wiley is we'll known to many thou sands of readers as the literary editor of | The Ladies' Home Journal and a con | tributor of both prose and poetry to the magazines. as well as tho author of several books Voices and Visions" is his second volume of verse. His first one, according to pr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, was full of pleasing poems.' and this new collection Is much more comprehensive in scope and more varied in theme and treatment than that one was. | It is, as the subtitle states "a collec- tion of verse. chiefly occasional" for its author writes poetry from impulse and not with any set purpose. and his poems thereto possess freshness and spontanei- ty that more studied efforts are ant to | lack. Sweet, and strong and spirited" is the comment of one well-known author upon them and prominent critic writes that he read them with unfeigned pleas ure" Others have found in them fer tility in diction. taste in imagery. sweet ness and facility of expression and much that indicates real poetic fire" The collection embraces a wide range of subjects. and includes much fine des- criptive verse. some humorous efforts, and a number of charming love poems.
 My wiley's Intercession on Oliver Wen dall Holmes Seventieth Birthday, is full of good feeling:
 Touch gently. Time. his heart whose flow | Has filled the years with strains of l sweetness
 Whose morning flush. whose monday | glow
 Melt into evenings bright completeness. His fading ioeks-O tell US, Time, Thy frosty breath this change has | wrought 'em,
 But that beneath the crusted rime. Repose the ripened fruit of autumn.
 And thou. kind Nature. though wa knoU'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-05
Insurance Business.

The field of insurance offers many op- portunities to the young man w,-o c-n stand adversities" said a state manager of a well-known insurance company, yes- terday. ''When entering the insurance wor, one must make up his mind to bear all kinds of disappointments during the first three months.
 T had been a salesman prior to the time that became an insurance solic- itor and for the first few weeks I lived upon one meal of Boston baked beans a day. After I became familiar with the business my success was most gratifying and in eleven months l was appointed state agent, having made a record second to none ever registered by any agent of our company If l had given up after the first months labors, in which time I had not accomplished any tangible re- suits I would have recorded another one of the many failures that have been made in the insurance field.
 If an insurance solicitor manages to pull through successfully during the first three months of his labors, it almost in- variably follows that he Is assured of at least a salary or net income of from szOoO to 5000 year during the remainder of his insurance career"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-05

the prohibitionists are counted we cannot account for the discrepancies in the democratic vote. That vote is short at least one and half million, and these votes must be accounted for, and they will be when all the fig ures are before us, as they will be early next month.
 Let Us postpone then until next month the reorganization of the demo cratic party. The great historic party of the country must be conducted next year on progressive or retrogressive lines, but 1t Win be full early to say what those lines shall be when we know where we are at--when we know what struck us. At present we simply know that Roosevelt's great pluralities were due either to stay-at-homes or to wanderers from the field, but we car not at present locate them. Let us be patient, for the entire truth will be told.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-05
EUROPE IN THIRTY HOURS.

philadelphia Correspondent New York
 Sun.
 D. Gold, a retired naval officer living at 54O7 Girard avenue, says that next spring the worlds mode of travel will be revolutionized by the appearance of the Gold new explosive airship, with a speed of 100 miles an hour, and it's pro- peller going 5000 revolutions minute Europe in thirty hours. Chicago in ten. says Mir. Gold.
 He has a model built, but will wait till winter is over to go up in It. All he needs to spring the airship on the world Is the confidence of few millionaires.
 'I have served seventeen years in the navy, and have studied the wind" said Gold today. "The wing shakes of the condor and Australian crane. the fastest birds, do not exceed 100 per minute. My propellers will revolve 5000 times. can sail away from anything except greased lightning.
 "In the place of the usual silk bag will be one of aluminium. Every part of the air ship must be stiff and rigid. The ship will be 100 feet long and thirty feet in breadth. It will provide accommo- dations for motorman, a sky pilot and six passengers with refreshments"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-05
Openinu of the Seaboard.

This is Red Letter day in this town,
 for another great railroad system will
 begin today to run regular trains In and out of it. The Seaboard system covering all the South Atlantic states from the Potomac to the tip end of Florida, will be added to our trans portation advantages. The addition is in every respect valuable, material and noteworthy.
 It means that we must mine more coal, make more iron, and add to our cupolas, which now number nearly seventy-five. It means that we must diversity our manufactures for the en- tire southeast is now open to us.
 We may be a little hardened to the incoming of railroads. All sys- tems in the south are either here or coming, simply because the tonnage we offer is nrivalled-unapproa ble-in the rest oI the south. Our tonnage exceeds that of the entire cot ton crop eight times. We do not mean seven times or six times, but eight times, and tonnage is what attracts railroads. There may be much net money to be earned in the south in the carrying of passengers, but there is money in the handling of the twenty odd million tons of freight that this district furnishes. It Is this that has caused the Seaboard to build over and through a series of hills to this town. and the Illinois Cen tral and many other systems will soou follow suit. All railroad managers have faith in the Birmingham district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-05
Local Insurance Rates.

The report of the Southeastern Tariff association was some time in coming, but it Is here at last. It will be con sidered without delay by the Mayor and Aldermen, the Board of Trade and the Underwriters association.
 Every individual and every firm in this city which carries fire insurance is deeply concerned In this question, and the general desire is that Birming- ham shall be restored to first class insurance basis. The Tariff associa. tion makes its demands as a condition to first class rating for Birmingham, and these demands will be duly weighed.
 The matter should be carefully con sidered by every property holder, and The Age-Herald invites full expres. sion from all of them as to the South edbIeIu Idlln
 The man thing to be considered is whether or not the demands of the association are excessive. It Is neces. sary that Birmingham should have modern and ample fire protection-at least protection equal to that main tained at reasonable cost by other southern cities now on a first class insurance oasis. But Birmingham should not be called upon to make expenditures in excess of those which have been made by other cities of like population now on first class basis. All Birmingham desires is simple jus tice. The city officials and parties at interest will immediately consider the tariff associations demands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-05
Stock Market.

Henry Clews in his Saturday letter on Wall street conditions. says:
 ''The attitude of the large bankers to- wards the market is easily explained and logical One or two years ago American railroads needed large sums of new cap ital in order to enable them to carry out important improvements demanded by the countrys growth. At that time the stock market was suffering from effects of the trust craze and the collapse of the boom In September. le02 It was impossible to place any securities. even of the better class. among disgusted or impoverished investors These Improvements being im- perative the only recourse was to short term borrowings. and the result was the placing of hig amounts of railroad paper hy the leading bankers. These notes be- iEg nrst class security were readily taken By l-stituflons. and were an admirable sxp=siisnf for tIding over until conditions =<rered their being turned into fixed form Many of these obligations are now maturing and more will follow.
 Tes great improvement in financial and susin-ss affairs affords an excellent e1po-z unity for these funding schemes. and eur big bankers find it good policy Go keep the market in an optimistic mood rrff such operations are completed. This explains the part taken by big financial interests In the market. Fortunately in vestors show an eagerness for good secm- ities-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-05
From the New York world.

1 HE proximate causes of failure of SD power in old age are now coming
 to be fairly well understood. Everybody knows that the different parts of the human organism daily die and are renewed, that the scarf skin loses the vi- tallty necessary to protect the true and peels of, and that even the cells of the bones are exchanged for new ones. until it may be said that the man who lives beyond maturity retains no part of the body that he was born with
 Hence. it was at one time taught. says T. P.'s Weekly, that the signs of seniLty were due to failure on the part of the repairing cells to perform their functions. But this is now seen to be fallacy. Such hair as an old man retains on his head grows with greater quickness than when he was young. On the limbs, within the nostrils and ears, hair gets more abund- ant and stronger; and with the Mongolian race hair does not appear until very late in life. The finger and toe nails, which are formed by the same secretion as the hair grow faster in olu age than in youth. Plainly. therefore, it is lot the repairing cells that are at fault.
 The true cause of senility must there fore be looked for deeper, and it seems that we find it in the voracity of certain wandering cells always present in our bodies. Some of these cells, which physi- ologsts class together as macrophagi seize upon the coloring matter of the hair and make 1t white; others devour the contractlle tissue of the muscles, while yet others take from the bones the mineral substances necessary for their healthy existence, and reduce them to the brittle condition which makes falls and other injuries so often fatal to the old. Meanwhile, similar cells are at work upon the liver and kidneys.
 Can nothing be done to arrest these giant cells in their Regan-and Goneril- like attack upon the parent who gave them life? Professor Metchnikoff, whose researches upon the subject have lately attracted much attention, thinks that there can. He suggests the use of coun- ter-poisons. either in the shape of atten- uated cultures of the very bacilli in ques- tion, or by direct antidotes, among which he mentions milk treated with a special ferment coming from Bulgaria, which stimulates the secretion of tactic acid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-05
Election of City Officials.

There Is always an air of general un- easiness around the city hall Just at this season of the year." said a politician yesterday. "The city charter requires that the city council shall on the first Wednesday night in December in each year, elect the heads of the various de- partments for the coming year Early in October the incumbents or the would-be city offce-holders start to work. The city council consists of nineteen members-a mayor and eighteen aldermen-and this means that the candidates for office must visit each of the members of the council at least three times before election night comes around Of course, the mayor and the aldermen must listen patiently to the claims of each of the candidates.
 T have often heard incumbents in office say, Well, I do not intend to ask a single member of the board to vote for me-if they want to re-elect me, 1 will appreciate 1t, but If they do not see fit to do so, I will say nothing That may sound all right, but I always observe that the offceholders who are reelected do not wear the same expressions on Thursday morning after the election as they did several weeks previous"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
sazsrao and His Cocktail.


 ''sazarac, the inventor of the New Or leans famous cocktail. was probably one of the most unique characters in Louis iana." said a traveller from New Orleans last night. "This man owned little saloon not far from the present site Of the St. Charles hotel and the cotton ex- change. and began studlously to mix drink that would catch large trade. He worked for a long time with all the vari- ous kinds of cocktails and finally con- ceived the idea of rinsing out the glass with absinthe before pouring the mixture In this way he struck the secret to his success. Within a few months sazarac had a national reputation and his busi- ness had increased wonderfully. He died rich man.
 Not many years before he died Sa- zarac established a free lunch counter in his place and 1t drew large trade. Since that time his place has never bought any more expensive furniture, and 1t Is a landmark In New Orleans. He was so pleased with the free lunch idea that he made provision in his will that free lunch should be set In his place as long as 1t existed"