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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

F reports are to be credited there is H melancholy state of affairs in St. Louis, brought about by the probable lack of hotel accommodations during the fair. Hotel men are already preparing to fleece the public in most approved fash ion and some appalling predictions of the woe in store for people who visit the fair are now being made certain hotel proprietor in St. Louis has given notice to his patrons that after May the rates for rooms will depend altogether on the number of people who can occupy them. In other words. if a man desires a room for himself that will accommodate four he must pay for four. This is not very pleasant prospect for people who have lived at certain hotels for years, to be thus mulcted merely to satisfy the greed of their landlords If the present schemes for charging exorbitant prices are con tlnued all the hotel keepers In St. Louis will be able to retire after the fair and everyone else who has room to rent will be made rich. Indeed 1t would be a good idea for a man who has a residence conveniently located to move out of town during the exposition and rent his house to the public.
 It reminds one of days gone by to rRad of the Great White Father" at Wash ington giving paternal rebuke to the Ogalalla Sioux braves for throwing their money away on horse racing No doubt the chiefs had been having very good time in the capital and had placed a few bets on the ponies, but they were probably following the example of our esteemed congressman who do likewise. Because the Indians are simple and un- uttered President Roosevelt presumed to lecture them. He recognizes the futility of administering a rebuke to politicians who are too wise to be taught. Fifty or sixty years ago the Indians had great respect for the nations chief executive but now adays they do not regard him with such enthusiastic admiration. a state of affairs largely due to the treatment received by them from the hands of government agents. However the lecture of MT. Roosevelt to the Sioux was very nice, very proper, and probably impressed the braves as much as a talk on the same subject by anyone else would have done.
 It is reported that Mrs. Langtry the Jersey Lily" who has just returned to England after a successful season spent in this country, made neat sum on which to subsist comfortably while she Is writing her play to be produced in Amer iea next year. It Is said that her best week netted sl9,000 While this does not compare with the enormous earnings of Patti, and it is safe to assume that the average week of Mrs. Langtry fell far be- low the s19,000 mark, yet she was remark ably successful on her recent tour AL though old and broken, the famed Jersey Lily still retains traces of her exquisite beauty and her power to fascinate an au- dience is not greatly diminished
 About the newest and most original shopifter is the lady of bewitching ways who steals with her feet. She has just been captured and at present is explaining
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

matters to the court. so there will be no harm in disclosing her methods When this kleptomaniacally inclined lady saw a piece of silk or lingerie on the counter which she desired to steal she carelessy knocked it off on the floor and covered it with her skirt. Then using one foot. she gradually raised the stun and fas.. tened it to her garter. to which there wers a number of hooks attached. The method was very ingenious. but unfortunately the fair criminal was caught and her useful ress put to an end.
 Miss Rose Delmonico, head of the Del monico family and manager of the famoug restaurant interests of the Delmonicos m New York, is dead She was familarly known as Aunt Rose. She had been .n fuli charge of the Demonico restaurants since the death of Charles Delmonico in 1aaI, and managed them with all the caro that characterized Peter and Charles Deimonico who founded the house about seventy-fiye years ago. The name Dell nonico has become associated with sump- tuous living and expensive viands until HOW 1t Is typical of what young fellows call high life" get the excellence of tic service has meritcd ample returns. and the success the Delmonicos have achieved is evidence that the public is willing to pay high prices for good enter tainment.
 Marines in the United States navy arc much perturbed because their new trous- CTS have no pockets and their jackets are so short that the wearer looks like school boy. The man who has depended on his pockets all his life can realize the nIiebt which now confronts the marines. The average male animal is sorely harassed when a hole in one trousers pocket prevents him from using 1t for few days. What he would do without any pockets at all is a question to De de- lated. But the marines are not ordinary mortals and the absence of pockets will rrobably result in their presenting more businessllSe bearing. tnd they wil have to make the best of bad bargain
 It has just been discovered by the state chemist of Nebraska that commercial strawberry jam is not strawberry jam at all, but Is the veriest sham concocted ( pumpkin tinted with coal tar dyes, pre- served in benzoin, and with grass seeds instead of strawberry seed The taste was a trivial matter to arrange. Chemi calls can do the work of nature with very little trouble now. Shades of a happy youth Is it possible that a last fond delusion IS to be shattered by this coml mercial age? Jam las become associated with the top shelf in the pantry and pos abilities of spanking so long that it is positively saciilege to initiate the staple sweet of childhood Moreover, a defraud- ed public has been eating this stuff in the belief that 1t was like that mother used 60 make Just now the indignant populace would not submit to having t health crank come along and prove that pumpkin Jam is much more healthful than the real article, although we may have sneaking suspicion that such is the fact, F. ..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28
About Persons.

State Senator Fred l.. Blackmon of An nston is stopping at the Morris
 H. H. Robinson of Atlanta is at the Colonial. A. J. Pickard of Selma is at the Hill man.
 J. H. Coleman of St. Louis is registered at the St. Nicholas.
 J, A. Alexander of Rochester is in the city.
 w. B. McMath of Montevallo is stop ping at the St. Nicholas. Phil Painter of Decatur is at the Nor ris.
 E. S. More of Nashville is registered at the Hillman.
 Greoge R. Stewart of owensboro Ky. is at the Morris.
 H. E. Swain of Waltham, Miss, is registered at the Colonial.
 E. G. Hawkins of New York is in the city.
 H, G. Jones of Liverpool is at the Hill man. E. G. Bucklin of Baltimore is stopping at the St. Nicholas
 Sam Levy of Nashville is registered at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28
NEWS MUST BE SCARCE.
l nanntur Confinal

rom the Decatur Sentinel.
 The Morgan County Telephone com pany have a crew of men here who are doing all in their power to accomplish the stringing of tho wires and other lofty work without breaking their necks. Their position looks airy enough from the ground and 1t seems very reasonable that one of them might fall if only to give the paper something sensational to pub
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28
SOMETHING OF A HABIT.

From the Washington Post
 Representative Bartholdt declares that the republicans will carry Missouri this year. The republicans have habit of carrying Missouri every month in the year except November.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

The picture machine people are tired of At the present rate 1t will be some time before an engagement takes place in the hills of New Jersey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Telephone receivers should be boiled or scrubbed with disinfectants daily. They are germ distributors, but no one claims germ can be transmitted to the hello girl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

If the Indians must work few will be willing to be considered any longer as Indians. They will then become plain Americans
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Port Arthur gets its capsules free of charge. Carnegie denounces speculators, but no one has heard him denounce the Dingley gold-brek game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Prophet Dowie has leased Gods land'' for 1096 years. The public Is now trying to figure out why he made it 1o96 years instead of an even HOO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Port Arthur should select one particu- all will know what to expect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

That merger decision has boomed J. J. Hill's stocks, and he should ask for an- other from the five-by-four barrel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

The chief thing that Senators Burton Diedrick and Shoot need are vindications They are all republicans of the first dye.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Gold snuff boxes at s32, 500 per box do
 not appeal to the average mortal, but 1 such a toy has been just sold at Lon 1 don auction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

After the president of the railroad com mission is elected the people of Alabams will have time to discuss the next Pres ident of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Port Arthur is taking iron as spring medicine. It is administered by Dr. Togo generally in does before breakfast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Mir. Sully has experienced almost every thing. but still he has not been drama tized,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Granulated sugar Is becoming in Yer mont maple sugar without turning hair
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Reggie Vanderbilt considers himself above legislatures, but the half million he lost at canheld's is wholly beyond his control.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Young Rockefeller's Bible scholars keep one eye on intruetion lessons and the other on industrial schemes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Senator Burton of Kansas will be able to show how much of lawyer he is dur ing the present investigation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Indignant congressman are now accus- Ing MT. Bristow of distributing pie to members of his family circle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

The public is waiting in trembling ex- pectancy for the first joke about Easter bonnets to appear in print.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

The Japanese are not so committed to a vegetable diet as to despise bear meat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Guntersvile Democrat: When was the Montgomery Advertiser appointed censor for the democratic party ?-Age- Herald.
 Never appointed. Just 'growed" into it..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

1t is feared that scout of the boil weevil army has been found in Alabama
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Cotton is going up again, but the shirt waist will appear as usual in the good old summer time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

A modest boom for Gen. Fitzhugh Lee for President is arising. but it Is moving along gently and without aggressive ness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Slagtown's poet laureate is holding a confab with the muses and the public is waiting his first effort
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Total ..... ..... ....... 8 5<0. 0oo.0 .0W
 The Russian empire has . total pcpuia- tior Of l2S.isl on O. net enise t;:rse times as many as Japan Tf.s Aozn1nsors of the Russior smpi-c embrace . sokA. e A- s7sooe souAre miles. or afty-Ave une as much as Japan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Now that Edwin Arnold Is dead, Alfred Austin is convinced that he Is monarch of all he surveys.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Montgomery Advertiser: The race prob lem Is getting awfully troublesome when 1t can make an old seadog like Admiral Dewey side-step.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

April Fools day and it's pranks are near at hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Among other things scientists might tell us how long mosquito bills are going to be this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28
ALABAMA PRESS.

Dothan siftings: Where two or three are togethered sometime create an impress sion that the district Is solid for their man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Sir Edwin Arnold might have been a great journalist. He does not know what he missed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Sully knows how to keep a secret. but he did not know how to keep his money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Union Springs Herald: According to story, a certain county candidate while on a canvassing trip cleaned up the yard of his host. No doubt more such exploits would be welcomed by the farmers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

The Easter bonnet Is getting ready to assert itself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Winter endeavored to play return en gagement yesterday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

sulIy squares his shoulders in coura- geous way but finds it hard to square his accounts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

The Russians are still hindered by their sheepskin winter clothes,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

The czars mind Is easy now that, Kuro- patkin has taken charge at Mukden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Perhaps the Russians are observing Lent and will attend to the Japs after Easter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

What Port Arthur does not know about falls is not worth knowing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

The way to get rich Is to go to St. Louis and take lodgers during the fair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

It has just been discovered that there are hen-pecked men In China.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

There will be no musical comedies 1T the good old summer time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Pension Commissioner Wares poetry is a good excuse for his vacation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Bathing suits will soon be full of girls
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

If the Indians must work few will be willing to be considered any longer as Indians. They will then become plain Americans
 Reggie Vanderbilt considers himself above legislatures, but the half million he lost at canfeid's is wholly beyond his control
 --s- A modest boom for Gen. Fitzhugh Lee for President is arising. but it Is moving along gently and without aggressive ness.
 Young Rockefeller's Bible scholars keep one eye on intruetion lessons and the other on industrial schemes. Indignant congressman are now accus- Ing Mir Bristow of distributing pie to members of his family circle.
 -s--- The public is waiting in trembling ex- pectancy for the first joke about Easter bonnets to appear in print.
  Slagtowns poet laureate is holding a confab with the muses and the public is waiting his first effort. Cotton is going up again, but the shirt waist will appear as usual in the good old summer time. Now that Edwin Arnold Is dead, Alfred Austin is convinced that he Is monarch of all he surveys. Among other things scientists might tell us how long mosquito bills are going to be this year.
 Sir Edwin Arnold might have been great journalist He does not know what he missed.
 suly squares his shoulders in coura- geous way but finds it hard to square his accounts.
 Perhaps the Russians are observing Lent and will attend to the Japs after Easter.
 The czars mind Is easy now that Kuro- patkin has taken charge at Mukden.
  Pension Commissioner Wares poetry is a good excuse for his vacation.
  The way to get rich Is to go to St. Louis and take lodgers during the fair,
  It has just been discovered that there are hen-pecked men in China. Thibet is almost as bleak as Greenland, and yet three nations want It.
 -----s--------- There will be no musical comedies in the good old summer time. What Port Arthur does not know about falls is not worth knowing f- s The Russians are still hindered by their sheepskin winter clothes.
 
 Winter endeavored to play return en- gagement yesterday.
 
 April Fools day and it's pranks are near at hand. The Easter bonnet Is getting ready to assert itself.
  Bathing suits will soon be full of girls After Easter come the bills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Thibet is almost as bleak as Greenland and yet three nations want 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Eufaula Times: General Grosvenor de- clares that when he carelessly looked into the muzzle of the postoffice committee report, he hadn't the slightest idea that if was loaded
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

After Easter come the bills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-28

Mobile Herald: The state of Virginia has evidently been pestered with some bbulously inclined pedagogues. There Is now pending before the legislature of that state bill to prevent schoolmasters from drinking.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-17
UNDER WHEELS
instant Death Of Jos
Wi||ette at Bangor.
Was at Work in Yard and Fell
Under Car Wheels.
Mo Fault Attached to Road-Was Aued
20 Years.

Bangor, NJ, Oct. lf.-(SpeciaD.-
Joseph J. Willette. aged 20 years. of
Great Works. brakeman in the west
ein yard Of the Maine Central. was
run over ard instantly killed, shortly
after A. NJ, Saturday. At the in
quest, i'll the afternoon, the jury re-
turned Il verdict generating the rail-
ro"d and lis employees from all blame.
Willette had just begun his days
work when the accident occurred, and
was engaged in the work of cutting
up," that is. sorting out the cars OF
train Il, which arrives in this city at
an early hour from the West Instead
of using the lever designated for un-
coupling the cars, Willette attempt
Cd t. reach between tie baggage car
and passenger c;,.' and "trip the coupi-
ing by drawing on the lever chain. 1t
is supposed that H. vas trying to save
time and that he slipped and fell be-
tween the cars. One wheel of the bag
gage car passed over his body. fractur-
ing the spinal column and innicting
other injuries.
About IL year ago two of his younger
sisters were burned to death in a fire
which destroyed the home Of his pa
rents i'll Great Works.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-17
kUROPATkIN'S REPORT
To the Gar Admits That Japs Have
the Victory. ,-

~ Petersburg. Oct. 16.-Tnder date of
, oct. Il. Gen. Kuropatkin sent the fol-
lowing telegram to the Emperor:
"On the night of Oct. H. large forces Of
japanese attacked the corps drawn UP in
line at Shakhe. on the great Manda rim
road. Several attacks were repulsed but
the last succeeded and the corps was
broken.
AT that moment fighting began on the
right flank with neiGhborng section.
The possibility was that with the rup-
ture OF our center our whole formation
would be threatened and that the neigh
ho1inS troops might force a retreat.
IN order TO support the troops on the
great Mandarin road several battalions
were rapidly pushed forward. The troops
were thus enabled to take the offensive
AMI succeeded in retaking the village OF
Shakhe. reoccupying the first positions.
Reinforced by reserves, the Japanese
dislodged again from the village or
Shakhe. Then the advanced reserves and
troops defending the position resumed
the offensive and after a stubborn fjght
we succeeded in reoccupying Shkhe re-
pulsirg the Japanese and driving them
back two kiometers from that place On
our right wing the position was for some
time very alarming. The troops were
attacked from the front and by turn
ing movement on their right flank. The
chief of a detachment advanced the
troops set apart for last rally. they
ha ring attacked the Japanese from tho
flank in their turn. Several villages were
retaken by us. The right wing MAIN
CONTINUED on page 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-17
FIRE At WATERFORD.
Timothy Woodward Loses His Farm
BJiidings-Had No Insurance.

farm house of Timothy Woodward was
burned about : A. NJ. Saturday. Mr.
Woodward and his brother We're alone
in the house at the time. Mrs. Wood
ward having gone to Limerick on IL
visit. When they discovered the IRE it
was under such Roadway that they
could do nothing toward putting it out.
None of the furnishings Were saved.
MIR. Woodward carried no insurance
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-17
AGED 1914 YEARS.
Mrs. Saome Sellers Celebrates That
Anniversary of Her Birth.

Deer Isle. Me, oct. 16.-Mrs. Salomc
Sellers. who is said to be the oldest
woman Ill Maine. celebrated her 1o4th
birthday, Saturday. Following a Gus
tom inaugurated when She became IL
centenarian, members of the Martha
Washington Society and Woman s
Christian Temperance Union called up
on Mrs. Sellers in a body. a picnic
dinner was feature of the days excr-
ciSeS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-17
BANGOR-BREWER BRIDGE
To Have New Steel Spans and Electric
Car Track.

Bangor. Me-. oct. 16.-After an eXcit-
ing session, the common council voted
10 concur with the board of aldermen
concerning the two new steel spans
needed to replace the present wooden
ones in the old gor-Brewer bridge
and to close a contract with the Pub
lie Works Co. to allow electric car
tracks across the bridge at an annual
rental of $780,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-17
e,IE. CONANT & CO., Auctioneers,
OFFICE, LOWELL, MASS.
Extraordinary Sale OF
REGISTERED JERSEYS

q,. clns.,g out of the Randolph Farm
MA - ". Lewis OF Eanfirll h. Maine.
4. Huc.-' Farm Herd &C.. |. P".leyJ "t
v4,.aIboro, thu Weston Lewis Herd Of
+, .riu,r. and Cunsignn"ntS from Elm
l,r, Farm GJr. Mnulton and t 5.
E!a,rhard, Cumberland centre. Maine
,,a. u h,aI IN al. pledged t. absolute
al. regard. - OF value or weather. at
Randolph Farm Randolph. opposite Car
r.r.r .i,r. TIL RSDAY. Oct. -. 1904
I~gluing promptly AT half PAST ten
o,o,k In Tia" forenoon. Gardiner is on
t main I'M. between Portland and Fan
IN .l-n WI the KeUnebcC Steamboat line
.ro,l Boston. The cattle are an Unusual
j.. ragged lot 81 Jerseys. of stout cnnStf'u-
ion, arg. sIz-, handsome conformation.
,Iiuw Skins and fine finish: richly bred
In tar most tam"2s prize winning St.
Ianl. It strains a. well as the most
popular ana fashionable strains Of the
present time The strains that won 1T
The World Fair 1T Chicago in 1879. at the
Pan-American f.Xn"sitiGn ct Buffalo in
I.l. and at tho Louisiana Purchase i1&po-
Il ion at St Louis this ycor, predominant.
Catalogues il detail can Ec had upon ap-
pIiration ~ the nfiic" Of the auctionc Is.
This is undnuhlcdIy the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-17
Conditions and General Forecast

Washington, oct. 16.-Fair weather
continues in Hll larts Of the United
states except southern Florida. whrr.
high northeast wines with rain have
prevailed. Ii will be warner in New
England. The Winds along the New.
~.agIand and middle Atlantic coast will
lac mostly light westerly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-17

Germany is overrun with doctors.
There are 90. 200 Of them, or one to every
soo neo,le. It is estimated that in
Berlin 46 per cent. of all doctors nave
taxable income below 500. twenty
seven per cent have an income between
$500 and $500. Thirteen per cent nave
an uncertain income. Five per cent.
have no taxable income at all.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-17

4 gutta pe'cha and rubber manu-
featuring company, Of Toronto. has
made a belt for the grain elevator Of
the Intercolonial railway at st. Johns,
which is one Of ;he largest ever pro-
Guced. II is of rubber and measures
3.259 feet. Its weight is nine tons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-17
FAIR WEATHER,

Washington, oct. 16.-Forccast for
New England: Fair, Monday and Turs-
Jay; light 10 fresh west winds.