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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-11
MUST PUT ON MORE STYLE.

From the New York World.
Some thirty customs inspectors are far
from cheerful by reason of an official
"call down." Treasury agents were sent
out to spot derelictions in personal APP
pearance and caught baggage examiners
who had apparently neglected to have
their trousers creased, coats pressed,
shoes shined and buttons polished.
Orders require the regulation blue uni
form, with brass buttons FURNISHED. and
cap to be worn at all times.
The special agents made their report
on Saturday. and as the result a score
and a half of inspectors have been sum
moned to appear today before surveyor
Clarkson and show cause why they
should not stand suspended for one day,
with less of pay.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-11
DECLINING BIRTH-RATE.

From the New York World.
The continued decline of the birth rate
in England has begun to arouse appre-
hension of the nations future. In 1865
the birth rate was 35.2 per 1000. BY 1900
1t had fallen to 1872 and by 1901 to 2s.5.
Attention was called to the matter in
the registrar generals last annual re-
port, issued in June, 1903, which pointed
out that the birth rate was then the
lowest on record, which infantile mortal
ity was startlingly high. DR.. Shardwell,
in recent lecture at Sion college,
showed that the decline especially per-
tanned to industrial centers. In England
generally 1t is among the middle classes
that the birth rate shows the most seri-
Gus decline. In Australia the working
classes are the pioneers of restricted
families.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-11
Will Seek Gold.

''The Alaska exploration party will
leave Birmingham Saturday, May IA over
the Frisco route bound for San Fran
cisco, from whence they will sail for
Alaska" said Thomas A. Brady last
night Mr. Brady will conduct the party
to Nome and win direct the work of
developing claims in the Yukon region.
THE remainder of the party from New
York will meet us at st. Louis" con-
tinued Mr. Brady, and we will then pro-
coed across the continent over the Rock
Island railway. The district to be ex-
pored on our arrival at Nome will be
that of the Anvil mountain, the Snake
river, northwest to Cape Rodney, after
which the party will go to Port Clar-
ence and will traverse the famous Blue
Stone district. / am armed with powers
of attorney which 1 will use in stalking
out claims.
ION the return to Nome the party will
go to ST. Michaels and then to the Kos
kokwin bay district thence to Bristol bay
up the Yukon to Fort Hamilton and then
to the famous Tamra hills. The party will
take along cages as a protection against
the armies of mosquitoes which infest
the Tamra river district
with the assistance of my partners
| have compiled number of charts of
the country we are to explore, which
will also include the Circle City district
and the famous Forty Mile district to
Fort Cudahy and the Belle Isle district.
| expect to return to Birmingham about
October IA The young men from this city
who are going with me anticipate a
most interesting trip. There will be plenty
fortune"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-11
YOUNGER Men to the Front.

81 was struck with the reasons given
by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
company for transferring some of its old
traffic officials to places where the work
is comparatively light and filling their
positions with younger men," said bus
jo< > urens@ y.
Younger men to the front in these
days of strenuous competition is the rule,
but many cases might be cited where
men of seventy are not only in harness
but are doing good work as they did at
thirty -fve. James ]. Hill, president OF
the Great Northern railroad is past three
score and ten and there is probably not
a man under him who accomplishes more
work every day than the old man. The
rule. however, for putting younger men
in the strenuous places seems to be In
the nature of things and practical from
common sense point of view"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-11
HAWAIps ouskY KINGS.

From the Chicago News.
William N. Armstrong. who was at
torney general under King Kalakaua of
Hawaii, has written an amusing volume
about that monarch. He says in It; ut is
singular trait of the Hawaiians to
avoid the use Of English when sober. but
when drunk to use 1t with much volubi-
ity. The kings immediate predecessor on
the throne, Lunalilo, when in liquor would
often refuse to converse with his native
relatives in the native language, but adj
dressed them in English. and d.
rected an interpreter to translate his
speech; and. on the other hand, required
translation into English of their con-
versation in Hawaiian. The kings re-
markable memory furnished him with a
considerable vocabulary of uncommon
words; alcohol seemed to open that part
of his brain where they were stored, es-
peeially when, like the moon, he was at
the third quarter ana coming to the
full On one occasion the use of the
words hippodramatic performance Sc
cured to him the prestige of learned
man"
When Kaakaua went around the world
in 1881 he called first on the present MI
kado of Japan. Mr.. Armstrong thus pic
lures the two rulers: The emperor and
the king now rose and stood beside each
other. The emperor was slightly above
the average height of his race; his COM
plexion was dark and his face an open
one; his forehead was unusually high; his
eyes black and penetrating; nor did he
look like one who would put himself en-
tirely in the hands of his ministers. His
dress was a European military uniform
and the breast of his coat was decorated
with orders The king with a complexion
unusually dark for Hawaiian, lowered
above him, graceful, imperturbable. The
contrast was striking, but the inscrutable
face and the eye of the emperor disclosed
the stronger character"
While Kalakaua was out riding the day
after meeting the mlkado, says Mr.. Arm
strong, "a flock of crows flew up and, with
much cawing, settled in the bushes. The
king, who was half asleep from the re-
action and strain of the previous days
extraornary excitement, listened, and then
uttered to the imperial prince by his side
this aphorism: The noblest aspiration Of
man is to hear birds sing The prince
was no doubt surprised, but like true
eourtier, he bowed and replied. Your
majesty it is true The kings head be-
gan to nod again in peaceful nap, and
the crows gave him a screening en-
cora
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-11
Judge Feauln's Probation Work.

Judge Feagin's probation plan as to
hayward boys, especially negro boys,
has worked well, and the number of
monthly arrests of juvenile offenders
has fallen from sixty in December
last to none in the month just ended.
Each intervening month brought a
handsome reduction. quicker and
more striking condition of the proba-
ton plan could not be expected in all
reason.
From the depths of his broad expert
ence and great heart Judge Feagin
now proposes to extend the probation
plan to the women Migrants of the
city, especially fallen white women.
The plan to be followed will place the
vagrant woman on probation after the
first arrest, securing for her, II pos
sible, home in the country. II she
be arrested the second time she is to
be placed in Jail for one year. Judge
Feagin needs the assistance of good
women to act as probation officers
and assistants, and it will be strange
indeed If such ali be not forthcoming
in a Christian city.
There is not in this country any
deeper student of social reform than
Judge Feagin, not one; and whatever
he advises can be safely followed.
Fortunately, too, he possesses ample
power over the unfortunate creatures,
and IL he can have needed assistance
in the procuring of country homes,
great good will be accomplished. Pos
sibly a story can be told in the course
of months as favorable as that about
hayward boys. The city has been
practically freed from yagrant boys,
and 1t can be freed from vagrant wo-
men IL Judge Feagin is backed up and
supported as he should be.
These humanitarian efforts of Judge
Feagin are not demanded 81 him "
the routine of his egiSIdl duties. They
bring him nriy trouble and expenses.
They spring from his sense of human
| ity and kindness of heart, and the
people of this city should be grateful
that they have such a man as police
! Judge, and they should express their
| gratefulness in acts of cooperation
and assistance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-11
The sdage must be verified,
That beggars mounted, run their horse
70 death. 3 King Henry vi.
Mukden and Hardin.

When Feng wanS Cheng, a walled
and fortified place, was evacuated it
became plain that General Kuropatkin
did not have a sufficinet number of
troops to withstand the Japanese
south OF Lao Yang, and probably not
south OF Mukden. The situation looks
more like a concentration of Russians
at Hardin than like anything else.
They are fleeing from New Chwang,
and, unless they can hold Lao Yang,
a great battle may be fought at Muk-
den, the capital of Manchuria. To
the non-student of maps it may be
well to say that Mukden, Lao Yang
and New Chwang are all points lying
in order on tk railroad line that con-
meets, or did connect, Hardin VAN
Port Arthur.
In the meanwhile Port Arthur, con-
tanning many guns and notifications,
and the remnant of feet, and
garrison OF about $4,000 men, is com
pletely Isolated The Japanese armies
are swarming 1t will over the Lao
Tung peninsula, with no prospect Of
finding the Russians south of Lao
Yang, which is fully 200 miles north
OF Port Arthur
General Stolssel is shut up in Pot
Arth"r-s-"a-he-may be left therr' un-
disturbed save by the 1eet consid-
cradle time, tie Japanese having more
important business to attend to near
Lao Yang and Mukden. These two
points on the railroad to Hardin are
tho two points of chief interest at
present
Port Arthur promises to lose it's
popular interest. The Russian ships
can not co..e out, and the garrison of
Port Arthur is powerless for aggres-
sive purposes. Ihe point of the PENN
sula Is in cher words sealed, await
ing the convenience and pleasure of
the Japanese. II may not be taken at
once, but its capitulation will follow
naturally as the war goes on. Much
more important business than 1t seiz-
ure Is going on in the neighborhood
of Lao Yang and Mukden.
The weakness of Russia in the Lao
Tung peninsula consists in part in the
lack of feet anG in part to the lack
of men sufficient to cope with the
Japanese. No uoubt Russia has, or
soon will have, men enough at Har-
bin, but while she is gathering a
large army at Hardin the fate of Lao
Yang and Mukaen will be decided,
and II Japan conquers then she will
be able to hold them against the Rus
sian armies, and she will hold with
them all Of Manchuria that she should
desire to hold. A deadlock may en-
sue, Russia bel; secure at Hardin,
and Japan at Mukden.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-11
National Aid TO Education.

President Alderman of Tulane Uni
versity stands up sturdily for national
aid to public education, as outlined
and discussed in the recent educa-
tional conference. The government is
the agricultural and mechanical col.
leges. This aid amounts to millions
of dollars annually, and 1t is given IL
rectly to the state authorities. Mr..
Alderman goes on to say:
Now l would like to see the same prin-
ciple applied In the same way to the
tremendous problem of the public school.
l would be glad to see under the pro-
visions of such bill money distributed
towards the wiping-out of illiteracy in
the north and south, east and west 1t
should be given not BADLY, but upon con-
sideration of the raising of a certain
amount by the communities. 1t should
cease after a certain period-say twenty
years. 1t should grow increasingly less
A certain portion of 1t should be used to
stimulate local effort. Now, 1 believe some
such law as this could be framed that
would obviate the danger of paternalism
or pauperizing or diminishing local intia-
tive. do not believe in paternalism. 1
do not believe that the government should
do for the people that which the people
can do for themselves, but I believe that
it should help them to do those essen
tlals things which they can not do"
Mr.. Alderman says the task of re-
ducing illiteracy in the south is m
possible on the part of the south in
the next two carnations. This is due
in part to agricultural conditions, but
chiefly to the social problem forever
necessitating separate schools, there
by increasing the cost of puol:e .du-
cation.
Mr.. Alderman unhesitatlng,y says
the negro should be educated because
he is human being and an econor.ic
factor in our life TO tie ourselves, ="
he says, ito body of ignorance is
something inconceivable." Put the
negro was freed by the nation: he was
made voter by the nation, and Mr..
Alderman says his education should
become a national problem This
could be and should be done without
bringing in direct federal Interference,
federal schoolmasters, or fedora.
boards of control, but none of these
things are applied in the agricultural
and mechanical colleges, and they
need not be in the public schools.
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retired army officers who wish to get
back In service under the law which gives
them fun pay and allowances according
to their rank. Such stare Of affairs is
not surprising. for in this strenuous age
nothing is more fearful to contemplate
than the period Of forced retirement when
man Is deprived OF his iire's work and
has nothing to do but wait for death.
In many walks Of life It mas become the
exception rather than the rule for a man
to retire before death removes him from
the field of his activities. but in the army
Uncle Sam is not so considerable.
According to the bulletin Of Commission
er Wright on wholesale prices for the
past thirteen years the cost of living
is climbing upward and yet nearly every
body manages to get enough to eat. OF
course all cannot banquet on the fat Of
the land, but 1t is very satisfactory to
know that there are comparatively few
people in the United States who do not
manage to dine after a fashion. In view
of this state of affairs it is rather bad
taste to harp on industrial depression
Just because the high pressure of today
have been since 1896
lee on the Yukon Is reported to b
breaking. This is glad news for adven-
turers who are waiting impatiently for
the season to advance enough for them
to begin their trip to Alaska. Many
gold seekers will sail from San Francisco
in June and the chances are that few
of them will strike it rich" 1t Is re-
ported that sluicing in Klondke creek II
now in full swing and the cleanup
will reach $10,00OOOO, which will be
brought to the United States by steamers
during the months of June and July.
William Randolph Hearst is said to be
a very sensitive man, especially when pol
tiles are mentioned, despite the fact that
his newspapers would easily lead the
public to think otherwise Mr. Hearst
has never made speech in congress and
his personal demeanor is in conspicuous
contrast to the vociferous tone adopted
by the Hearst publications. Mr.. Hearst
has about six followers in the HOUSE..
through whom he carries on his cam
raign against the trusts. 1t is said that
he is Interested only IN those depates III
the house which deal with labor prob
lens and combines.
President Roosevelt's campaign hat has
been petrified and is now in the hands
of railroad officials at Omaha, Neb. Al
ter the campaign of 1900 the hat was Sc
cured by officials of the Burlington road,
who sent 1t to the mineral springs at
Thermopolis, Wyoming There the hat re-
manned for several months in hot spring
and was coated with the mineral So
luton found in the water. 1t now weighs
15 pounds and is a stone hat of the most
improved Rooseveltian style. 1t is not
believed that any attempt has yet been
made to petrify Mr.. Roosevelt's glasses.
although his smile is believed to be 'froz-
en-" to his features L. Z.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-11
BOOT AND SHOE FACTS.
he New York World.

From the New York World.
New England makes two-thirds of the
boots ane shoes produced in this country
The value of the shoe output of New
England ,enters amounts to $175,000, 900, a
sum exceeding by s40,ooo,ooo the worth Of
all the geld and silver money coined an
nually by the United States government.
In its making the modern shoe passes
through the hands of from one hundred
to two hundred people, and the processes
of not less than fifty separate machines.
American shoes go to every part of the
globe. and in whatever place men want
to make shoes by modern methods they
must come to America-and to New Eng
land-for the machinery.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-11
AN UPTOWN MINT FARM.

From The New York Commercial.
An upper West Side market has Pc
culiarly fine grade of fresh mint to sell
with spring lamb, which attracts many
buyers. This mint has an interesting his
tory fer many years ago woman who
lives In an old frame house in that dis
trict. planted bunch of it in the clothes
ward. where 1t fiourished remarkably. A
couple Of seasons ago, when finances were
rather ow, a visitor gathered some Of
the mint, and on the way home stopped
at the market to buy roast of lamb to
go with It, The market man observed
the mint and finding where 1t came from,
promptly arranged with the woman to
supply him; and since then the clothes
yard has become mint farm. and yields
a fair revenue.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-11
SOME LIVELY TIMES IN
THE BRONX ANIMAL PARK

taken into the desert for the purpose On
the way out twenty-seven OF the frail
creatures died. Those put into the Euro
pean ZOOS by Mr.. Hagenbeck have either
died or are expected to die.
So sure were the directors Of the New
York park that these two specimens
would die that in the park bulletin OF
January, 1903, a notice was published
advising those who wished to see them
to do so at once before they expired.
Today they are the healthiest animals
in the park.
There was a strike on the monkey
house yesterday. 1t was a hot, sultry
afternoon, the monkeys had not been
fed for several hours. and all were more
or less out of sorts when through the
door came woman with boy baby.
He looked up at the monkeys and,
raising his chubby fists In the arr, cried.
"Oh, oo-chr-r-r-r"
Now, as every monkey mouse guard
knows, this is the food call OF the mon
key tribe, and the effect was instanta-
neous. Every monkey in the mouse took
up the cry and it rang down the cages,
repeated over and over by excited little
hairy people, who were all attention at
once. The baby, delighted with the sem
sation he had made, kept up the cry:
"Ch-r-r-r-rl O-oo-chr.'
The monkeys. thinking that feeding
time had come again, swarmed over
each other and chung to the front net
ting screaming, blinking and grinning.
The monkeys kept calling for dinner
till they realized it was a false alarm.
and then began to sulk. In five minutes
everything was as still as a mouse, and
the erstwhile very amusing little hairy
people were squatting in the corners
chewing the rag of rage and refusing to
entertain visitors.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-11
RAT cArcHERs IN HONG KONG.

From the New York Commercial.
The extraordinary measures that have
been taken to stamp out bubonic plague
in Hong Kong, where this scourge has
been a problem almost from time imme-
mortal. If the situation were less serious,
the experience of the British governor
of Hong Kong in this connection would
be very amusing. He has MADE a report
to his government, In which he tells OF
the bounty paid In that city for the cap
ture of rats. These animals. as everybody
knows. are responsible IN large measure
for the persistence of bubonic plague. and
strenuous efforts have been made to get
rid of the rats, and at the same time to
trace the Infection to its source.
In Hong Kong the authorities pay
bounty of 5 cents for every rat brought
to the health office. 1t is required that the
location of the houses in which the rats
are caught shall be given In each case.
for it is through a meteorological examin-
alton of the animals that the authorities
try to locate the source of the plague
infection. If an infected rat is caught, the
health officers Immediately proceed to the
house where the animal came from and
disinfect the premises. Now, Chinese resi-
dents do not like to have their homes dis
infected, and the bounty system has led
TO collision between the householder and
the rat-catchers in some cases, and to the
persecution of the householder by rat
catchers In other cases. Moreover. the
governor Of Hong Kong finds that rats
are being imported into the city from
other Chinese cities and towns. the boun-
ty of cents well repaying the rat-catch-
ers for their trouble.
A tag is always attached to each of
these Imported rats. but 1t always gives
some house in Hong Kong as the place
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-11
Romance of Diavolo.

IT am told that Arthur Holden, the
young man who Topped the loop for the
Mundy Amusement company when the
Orphans Home carnival was in progress
in Birmingham, is young college man
who is performing his daring trick to in
crease his supply of cash. said a BUSH
ness man last night. He acknowledges
that he Is new at his dangerous trade
and in appearance would easily pass for
a collegian, although l am inclined to
believe that many of the stories told
about the young man were the veriest
fiction, which did very well for advertis-
ing purposes. perhaps, but were lacking
foundation.
''If Holden is really college man out
of a Job, 1 am inclined to think that he
has chosen a profession in which he
stands an excellent chance to break his
neck, but as he is young and seems to
enjoy the applause of the multitude, in
addition to drawing a big salary, he is
no doubt able to console himself for the
risks he takes 1t is said that the fall
he received while in Birmingham was the
worst that he has yet experienced"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-11
Lost Historic Treasures.

From Flinders Petrie's Archaeology"
Every year sees wiped out the remains
which have lasted for thousands of years
past. Now in our own day the antiqui-
ties of South Africa and Of Central and
South America have been destroyed as
rapidly as they can be found. Elsewhere
engineers of every nation use up buildings
as quarries or wreck them for the sake
tive and European, tear to pieces every
tomb they can find in the East and sell
the few snowy proceeds that have thus
lost their meaning and history. And the
casual discoveries that are made perish
in CHASTITY manner. The Saxon regalia
OF Harold, the treasures of Thomas A.
Becket's shrine. the burial Of Alfred. the
burial of Theodore and the summer pail
ace Of Picking have within modern mem
Org all gone the same way as the wonders
that persisted in the French sack or
Rome or the Greek sack of Persia.
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The lew price of cotton lands may
soon become but a memory,
In trade and manufacturing circles
there is still much hesitation. Bank
exchanges have been decreased, and
In wide sections of the country rail-
road earnings are not satisfactory.
Speculation is a lost quantity, and
all branches of business are down to
normal. As q whole the market is In
q hating waiting condition. and there
1t will stay until the size of the grow
ing crops can be foreseen. The iron
and steel industry is no exception to
the general rule.