The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
, OR reasons of economy three gen. tlemen who were drawing com
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. N4~AAA|h HttO 0CA6 LII dnAAaB COht- fortable salaries from the Phil- ippine Worlds Fair board for their ser vices in the Philippine exposition have been informed that they are no longer wanted. These officers are E. S. Fielder. executive officer; Albert C. Newell, chief of exploitation: and J. r. Compton. chief auditor and accountant. To anyone who has visited the Philippine exposition on a dull day 1t Is not surprising that these men have been removed. For some in- applicable reason the Filipinos do not draw the crowds like the Boer war and the Pike. although they are written about and talked about so much that the unin- itiated are apt to suppose them the most important personages at the big show. However. this publicity may be laid at the door of enterprislng press agents for, as matter of fact times are hard in the Philippine reservation, or have been until quite recently. The exposition has been erected on an expensive and elaborate scale, so that 1t is necessary to have large crowds every day in order to pay ex- penses, but these crowds are wanting. The American people should not neglect their brown cousins from across the sea Just because they do not wear modish clothes and eat a la carte dinners. Every body should pay the Fillpinos visit and thus help to pay off deficit which Is reported to have attained to substantial proportions.
 Another thrilling train robbery In Iowa reminds one of the pleasant days long ago mind in thra1l. If one remembers cor rectly the story opened thus
 'The sun was sinking like a red ball of fire behind the nnls as a solitary figure rode across the plain. Although his foam ing horse bore signs of fatigue and the face of the man beneath his wide son. brero hat looked ghast1y in the sunsets evening glow, he dug his spurs Into the flank of hisssteed and urged him on to- ward a goal that lay in the distance over a dreary waste of sand.
 Suddenly a shot rang out, echoing spitefully In the barren hills.
 Cherokee Pete slipped from his sad- dle and shading his eyes with his hand gazed back on the trail Not half a mile away and coming at furious pace our hero discerned three horsemen. Further flight was out of the question. Cherokee Pete would have to make his last stand but he would die game.
 "On came the riders until"
 Just here the small boy opened his mouth, fixed his staring orbs on the page and was lost to the world.
 Philologists are determined to have an universal language that will do away with much of the confusion of tongues inaugurated by that unfortunate incl dent at the Tower of Babel. Just now "Esperanto' seems to be the nearest solution of the problem. The world wishes the savants we'll in such an important undertaking for of all the awkward makeshifts upon which we of an enlight- ened age are forced to depend the inter- preter takes the first prize. We enjoy thousand conveniences but we have not yet been able to find a practical substi- tute for an officer who has been on con- tinuous duty since men of one nation first began to call on those of another l and he is still doing business.
 l It is reported that when the treaty between the British and the Thibetans was signed September ' it provided for