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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
VOTED FOR HITCH.
Military Commander Receives Votes
 for Governor of Georgia.

Atlanta, Ga, October 11.--A consoli- dation of the votes In the recent state election by. secretary of State Phil Cook reveals the fact that in Fulton county, of which this city is the county seat, thirteen votes were cast for Capt Robert M. Hitch for governor of the state. Floyd and Richmond counties gave Captain Hitch four votes each for the same office. Captain Hitch is now being tried in Savannah by a courtmartial on serious charges in con. nection with the recent Statesboro lynching.
 The total vote cast in the state cleo tion is estimated by Secretary Cook at about 70,0U0, which is much larger than usual, and larger than expected, in view of the fact that the democratic ticket had no opposition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
"The Tenderfoot."

Richard Carle will appear at the Jeff ferson theatre this afternoon and tonight In "The Tenderfoot," musical comedy that found favor in the east and comes here well recommended. "The Tender foot is guaranteed to be sprightly, en- tertaining and well presented by a com. pany of players who understand their business thoroughly. The piece tells in breezy fashion the adventures of a pro- lessor of a New Hampshire college out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
BLOODY BATTLE IS NOW
 RAGING NEAR YENTAI
(contlnue4 from First Paael

has measured them well. and is confident of his ability to overcome them. If Gen eral Kuropatkin possessed an army of half a million men lie could leave a suf- ficient force to attack the triangle while he moved with the remainder around the eastern and western Hanks. This is con- sidered in the best informed circles at the war office to be impracticable with the numbers now composing General Kuro- patkin's army, and a frontal advance is the only alternative. Operations, however, are likely to be marked by feints on the right and left. The Japanese probably will make similar movements until both armies become involved in death strug- ple
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Republicans Active.

Dr. G. R. Lewis, chairman of the beat republican committee, has issued a call to the republicans of Bessemer to con vene in mass meeting next Thursday night at the city hall for the purpose of organizing a republican club.
 The republicans. 1t Is stated, intend to form a strong organization. and begin a vigorous campaign, which will be kept up from now until the erection in No yember.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
New Brig Launched.

Portsmouth, N. H., October 1.-The United States brig Boxer" the first of her class, was successfully launched at the Portsmouth navy yard today. The brig is to be used as a training ship by the naval academy at Annapolis. She is 125 feet inches in length, with 2S feet 5 inches beam, % feet Il inches draught, and has a displacement of 450 tons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Red Men Organize Tribe.

A number of Bessemer Red Men went to Broolsside last night to take part in the organization of a Red Mems tribe at that place. The tribe starts. out with forty-eight charter members and bright prospects.
 follows:
 Sachem. M. E. Edwards; senior sag amore, C. w. Braswell; junior sagamore, w. J. Squires; prophet B. B. Painter: chief of records. J. T. Latimer; keeper of wampum, W. M. Parrot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
"Peck's Bad Boy."

It really seems that we cannot keep "Peck's Bad Boy away. This popular comedy will be seen here again next Friday afternoon and night at the Jef- ferson theatre. The scale of prices will be very low and fun for the masses is promised.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Will Continue Mld-Winter Limited.

Atlanta, October 1I.-At meeting here today of passenger officials rep resenting different southern lines, 1t was decided to continue the mid-winter limited train from Chicago and St. Louis to St. Augustine, Jacksonville and other Florida points. The exact date as to when the train will be put on is unsettled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Fleet Leaves on October IA.

Copenhagen, October. 1.-The Asso- ciated Press learns from an excellent source that the Russian Baltic fleet will leave Libau October IA. and pass through Danish waters October Is. High Russian naval officers have arrived here and will investigate the Danish waters before the passage of the feet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Lady curzon Has Relapse.

Walmer Castle, October 12-(Mid- night) .-Tonight's bulletin merely stated that Lady Curzon's condition continued unchanged since morning, but it is understood that the patient had a rather serious relapse, causing considerable anxiety.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12

west. where he gets into all kinds of amusing scrapes and contrives to keep everybody laughing. There will be good music in abundance and the reputation achieved by MT. Carle is a guarantee of finished production. MT. Carle will have the support of a strong company and beauty chorus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Would Not Have Finger Amputated

St. Louis, Mo, October 11.-Rather than have his finger amputated by a surgeon today Alvin Scheiter, 50 years old, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Schreiter took the poi son while the surgeon was waiting for him to prepare himself for the opera tion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
MeddIer erlnqs s51, ,ooo.

New York, October 1.-The i'm norted stallion Meddler of the stud of the late William c. Whitney was sold tonight at Madison Square Garden to Matthew Corbett for $51, ,OOO This IS s20OO more than the late William C. Whitney pald for the horse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Hoods Jdrsdpdrill0
 and Pills

Which thoroughlycleansethe the blood, expelling all humors and building up the whole system. They cure
 Hoods Sarsaparilla permanently cured J. G. Hines, Franks, H., of eczema. from which he had suffered for some time; and Miss Alvina Wolter Box PIP, Algona. Wis, of pim ples on her face and back and chafed skin on her body. by which she had been greatly troubled. There are more testimonials ir favor of Hoods than can be published.
 Hoods Sarsaparllla promises to cure and keeps the promise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
ADJUSTMENTS.
AT THE JEFFERSON.

!, This afternoon and tonight-Rich- |
 } ard CarIe In "The Tenderfoot." 1 , Thursday-"Jn Old Kentucky" } Friday matinee and night-'Peck's { } Bad Boy" } Saturday mati:lee and night-''The ! . Fatal Wedding"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

A real estate transfer has been filed in the probate court conveying from R. K. Edwards and wife to an unknown grantee. lot at Fulton station. Wood lawn. the consideration haing S2260.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Beavers to Organize Dam.

The Beavers will organize a dam in Bessemer next Friday night. The new dam will be No. T. Over fifty names have already been given In to the organizers. A large delegation from the Birmingham and the Atlanta dams will be present to assist in organizing the new dam.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Erupti0nS

Dry, moist, sealy letter, all forms of eczema or salt rheum, pimples and other cutaneous eruptions pro- ceed from humors, either inherited, or acquired through defective di- gestion and assimilation.
 To treat these eruptions with drying medicines is dangerous.
 The thing to do is to take
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Convicted of EmbezzIement.

George Wilson, white man, was yes terday convicted of the charge of embez- element before jury in the first division of the criminal court. Judge Samuel E. Greene presiding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
ATTHE BiJOu. ,

' All the week, with matinees Tues . ' day, Thursday and Saturday-Billy . !. Clifford in How He Won Her." |
 | musical comedy drama. I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
GREEN 6 CO, UNDERTAkERs.

E. T. Shaw & Son. undertakers. 31. North Twentieth street. Both phones g.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12

Commencing Monday, Oct. 10th, South Bessemer cars will turn in 2Oth St instead of 2lst. St.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12

D. R. Moody and E. W. House left last night for a weeks sightseeing in St. Louis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
PERSONAL.

George B. Flint of Rome is in the city.
 William M. Hundley of Greenbrier Is in the city.
 Miss Ollis Halsey of Tuscumbia is the guest of Miss Carrie Pickens at West End.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
At the Jefferson.

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-13

philosophy On the other hand, the late
Henry Seton hartman left a fortune of
more than $3.50, 600. He left legacy of S25,-
600 to Evelyn Beatrice Hall, lin token of
my gratitude for her continued assistance
and literary advice, without which l should
never have been able to have made liv-
ing by my PEN.
Mr.. Herbert Spencer's autobiography
will appear in May He calls it "a natural
history of myself" which will certainly
prove to be a misnomer. The only natural
history which any man ever wrote of him.
self was "RousSeauS Confessions" and
that was not truthful enough from begin
ming to end to deserve such a title. But
Mr.. Spencer's autobiography will be inter-
eSting and valuable even if il is not sci
entificaly true and exhaustive, and it will
be looked for with unusual interest.
Miss Hildegarde Hawthorne, whose new
book, "A Country Interlude," is published
this spring is a daughter of Julian
Hawthorne and a granddaughter Of
Nathaniel Hawthorne. She was taken
abroad as a baby and lived in Eng
land and on the continent for a dozen
or more years. Since then, she has led
more or less wandering existence mostly
in America, but spending two years i'm the
Island of Jamaica and another year In
France and Italy. Miss Hwthorne is now
living at Yonkers on the Hudson, and the
scene of her story is laid at a country
place on this river. She has previously
been known through her short stories and
poems which have appeared in many Of
the leading magazines.
If Japan has not always been discrim-
mating in it's tastes for American and
English literature, it AT least is far ahead
of US in one regard, if a writer in the
March Critic is to be believed. He says
until recent years at least, novel writing
has not been looked upon as respectable
profession in Japan; that the public
would not permit it TO be called gentle
mans work" and that il was regarded
IAN objectionable diversion OF unworthy
proGigies. Herein, ii must be believed,
is TO be found one of the chief elements
of Japans strength and greatness. Strong
and able-boded men have not been per-
mittod 10 write best sellers and still
be called gentlemen; nor gentle girls to
write $50 shockers. and still be called
ladies'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-13
The Books We Read.


Boston Transcript.
In the current number of the Bookman
appears list of twenty-six works OF fiction
and each one of them has rounded the
hundred-thousand stake in the race for the
largest circulation. Some of them are in
the 10000 class. and David Harum" heads
the procession with 727.OO0. All the we'll
known names are included, those titles that
we have all become perfectly familiar with
even If we have not read the books. from
the advertising pages preceding the reading
matter In the magazines. where month after
month by the alluring aid OF the miniature
reproductions OF their covers, we have been
impressed with the remarkable qualities of
the books "as advertised"
We have no intention OF booming the
truth that IL pays 10 advertise, though
doubtless some of the popularity of these
great works OF fiction has been made, or
al least fostered. by Their attractive an
nouncements- Nor are we inclined TO COM
pare the relative values of the books as
representing religious, everyday. or roman
tic themes. What strikes us prominently
Just now is the immense amount of oDti-
mism that these $780, COO books have scat
tered throughout the land. That is approxi-
mately what they add up to- And III we
reckon three readers 10 each book. and then
note that almost without exception the tone
OF the books is cheerful. or idealistic, or of
the "hard-tusSle-buf- end-Weli" variety we
must stand not aghast but strongly i'm
pressed with the fact that some twenty
million readers have assimilated at least
from these
creations of contemporary American au-
thors.
Optimism has been naturally a very
strong motive force in the world A his
torian OF literature or civilization will trace
with much pleasure and ingenuity the prog
ress of things resulting from the com
bats of optimism and nessimism But of
the two-and we have TO choose one view
OF things-we are inclined TO cast the vote
decidedly for optimism. Pessimism like the
poor. Is always about us We do not. in
choosing optimism, champion sugar-and-
water literature. summer reading. the cup
and-saucer comedy. the romantic novel as
our best forms Of literature or even the
most helpful, Il me public can assimilate
more serious literary pabulum. But being
optimistic. We are encouraged at this enor-
nous output OF optimistic fiction Ii is dis
tinctly needed. IL would not be bought
and consumed.
Some time ago We sided strongly with the
librarians that believe in the Open shelves
and liberal supply OF fiction. Of which the
public may make unrestricted use These
six million copies or more mentioned above
are more proof that fiction Is needed. IL
may be because the everyday life is so
hard or miserable. or because I'm our cheer
ful belief that Its all coming out right
enjoy the confirmation that the stories
give Us.
OF course we recognize the dangers of a
day-drea ming optimism. but that Is not the
kind that the American public gathers
from It's reading. We recognize also that
far more vital and serious themes In life
might be the subjects OF thought OF these
millions Of readers. but 10 offset that lack
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-13
Youths Companion.

Youths Companion.
Talking of novels" said a young jour
nalist who had fingered after the club meet
ing with half dozen friends. reminds me
Of Ethel. l dropped in at my sisters yes
terday and found Ethel-who is twelve
with her eyes red and swollen. / didn't
like to make inquiries for fear it was a case
OF family discipline. but presently her
mother turned to the child.
Ethel, she said, 1 really can't let you
read John Halifax" any longer. or you will
have no eyes left And Ethel lifted her
oh, please let me. mammal I'm through
the crying part now. truly 1 ami"
A ripple OF laughter ran round the group,
and then confessions began. One woman
a physician of high standing, acknowledged
that when she was ten she had cried her
self TO sleep over the death of Uncas in
THE Last of the Mohicans"
Another, a brilliant society woman, said
that she took out a certain old-fashioned
Sunday-school book once month regularly
for year for the exquisite sorrow of weep
ing over its heroine's pious death.
Scottish Chiefs" THE old Curiosity
Shop, Little Women and "Evangeline''
had. 1T appeared. each claimed it's quota of
tears; and when one woman declared that
she wouldn't not have cried for anything"
the sentiment met with unanimous though
merry acceptance. Although tear-compell-
ing fiction was not to be recommended in
unlimited quantities. yet the sweet sor-
row" of those blurred pages of childhood
was remembered tenderly by these women
to whom the years had brought griefs and
duties that dimmed the power of romance.
There are two sides to the question, of
course-there always are-when there are
not more. To become so absorbed in the
sorrows and fortitude of some beautiful and
unfortunate heroine that one forgets to set
the table or darn the stockings has not been
unknown. Yet in general il is under the
influence of these same herones that the
child, unskilled as yet in reading the secrets
of the lives in her everyday world. begins
crudely enough. but honestly, to build her
ideals of courage, sweetness and patience.
For after all not even twentieth CEN
fury curriculum can contain all the courses
in the school of life, and many a child has
for months or years a teacher not down
upon any pay roll. The child does not speak
of her often, but in her thoughts she is
honored with capitals. She is She-her
Heroine
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-13
New York Tribune.

New FORK Tribune.
The scene of Mr.. Joseph Conrad's new
>story, "Nostromo,'' is South America 1t
is said concerning this author that he was
born in southern Poland and lived there
through his childhood on a farm. He
served in the French navy and was present
at the bombardment of Caracas; and when
he joined the English mercantile marine at
twenty-one he knew not one word of Eng
lish- His dropping into literature is
thus described by T. p. IS Weekly:
He worked his way in LOwestoft coal
ing schooner from boy to able seaman
passing from that by way of being night
Waterman in Sydney harbor to mate of a
collier bound for Bangkok, reading Whyte
Melville, Darwin, Renan, Tame. Daudet
Dickens, Addison, Tennyson, Miss Braddon,
reading omnivOrOusly as sailors read, and
nearly first of all the English Bible that
given him by colporteur in Ratcliff
highway. In his first voyage as an officer
his ship was on fire Gas we may read in
YOUTH. and he saw the East for the first
time a boy in charge of a dingy. He
sought for gold up Malay. rivers in canoes 4;
he commanded wool schooners on the Goa st
of Australia he in charge of steam
ers and caravans on the Congo. His health
broke down. At a railway bookstaIl in
Switzerland where he making cure
he saw the small yellow covers of a once
famous series of English short stores The
idea into his head that he might
write"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-13

Philadelphia Press.
THE Call of the Wild is strong with
in some men," said a member % the
Philadelphia Club the other day. az have
a most gnawing desire right at this mo-
ment to go to Korea and see the fight
ing and get into the strenuous life over
there. And / have heard a dozen men
express the same wish in a sort of whis-
per with a PARKWAY look in their eyes
We take out our call in going on an
nual hunting trips. but how can that
compare with being in the midst of a
warlike scene where men are the game
that is hunted. l envy Dick Davis. John
Fox. Marion Wright and the rest of those
lucky war correspondents with my whole
soul
THE story of the disappearance of LAT
cadio Hearne, the writer whose new book
of japanese fairy tales is soon 10 appear
in this country. does not astonsh any
one who knows him, and he is we'll known
in Philadelphia. Every now and then the
Bohemian in him gets the best of him
and he simply disappears. IL is the Call
of the Wild No ties are too sacred for
him TO break and he is over sixty now
At one time he drifted to Japan and mar
Tied a Japanese woman. That was where
I first met HIM. His father was an Irish
man of good birth ana his mother a Greek
When he was Il lad ne was sent To May
nOOth College. in England but disappeared
and lived sort of gypsy life for years"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-13
Literary Notes.

Miss Mary Johnston, author of Audrey"
and ITO Have and To Hold plans to sail
for the Mediterranean this month and ex-
poets to spend year or more in Sicily.
The last book of the late Charles Godfrey
Leland is coming out in London. 1t is
entitled THE Alternate Sex, or the Female
Intellect in Man and the Masculine in
Woman"
Mr.. w. Clark Russell's new novel, "Aban-
doned,' has a curious plot. 1t turns upon
the aversion which a sea captains wife con-
ceives toward her husband on the very day
of their marriage
Ancient MSS. arc still to be found. The
archivist of Montecassino has just discov-
cred in that famous abbey a parchment
containing historical matter of Importance
hitherto unknown, and bearing upon the
period of the struggle between Gregory
VII and Henry "
Within the last few years a number of
valuable books, most of them in a fair
state of preservation, have been found in
the book stores and secondhand stores of
towns in Indian Territory. The latest re-
ported is a second edition of Dean Swifts
Tale of a Tub printed in Dublin in 1863
From ST. Moritz comes word that Hall
Caine, who fled to the Riviera recently TO
recover from nervous breakdown, is de-
cidedly better. The novelist. however, is
not yet up 10 doing any literary work. and
lne appearance OF MS new mover, ne
Prodigal SON is likely to be delayed for
quite a while
DIR. Samuel Smiles the author of self
Help and kindred works. is now very old.
but he maintains his interest in literature.
For man of his venerable years 10 be
still active is indeed remarka bic In his
ninety-second year, he is about 10 publish
a new book so far removed from those with
which his fame is associated that it deals
with the relations between chemical con-
| stitution and physical properties"
The estate of the late Herbert Spencer
| has been valued at something slightly over
$4,000. So much for the returns of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-13
The Unread Books.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson. in the March
Atlantic.
The only knowledge that involves no bur
den lies. il may be justly claimed. in the
books that are left unread l mean those
which remain undisturbed. long and per-
haps forever. on students bookshelves:
books for which he possibly economical
and 10 obtain which he went without his
dinner; books on whose backs his eyes have
rested "a thousand times. tenderly and al
most lovingly, until he has perhaps forgot
ten the very language in which they are
written. He has never read them, yet dur
ing these years there has never been day
when he would have sold them: they are a
part Of his youth. In dreams he turns TO
them In dreams he reads Hebrew a.ain:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-13
The Last Page.

1t is 'womanlike.' we know
Yet when we pick up a book
We read but page or 50,
Then we take a quiet look
At the last page-at the end
And we fear no wild alarms
That the subtle plot may send
If he has her" in his arms.
Then we start 10 read again;
Chuckle at the heros woes.
AT his struggles all in vain:
Laugh because he never knows
That the damsel young and fair.
Who his vows of love has spurned,
VIII be meekly waiting there
When the final page is turned.
And the villain-all his fun
Would be rendered fiat and spoiled;
All his schemes, so well begun,
Would be very tamely foiled
II he knew the secret. too
Knew the truth his heart TO Haunt;
What the heroine would do,
How she'd tell him to "AvauntI"
Often when the hero seems
Just about 10 leave the race
Thinks his hopes are idle dreams.
And the odds too great TO face;
or the heroine-when she
Wanders round, full OF despair
We turn 20 the end. and see
How il winds up, happy, there.
Fathers rage. or mothers scorn;
Scheming shrcwd adventures;
Make the hero all forlorn.
And it's ticklish. you'll confess.
But we inwardly advise:
Cheer up, This viii soon be past"
For the last page makes wise
There he murmurs: Mine at lasti''
w. D. Nesbit. in Chicago Tribune