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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

cost thirty or forty dollars. The only hope for these ladies is for them to con- tent themselves with not being well dressed" and get along as best they can with one paltry fifty dollar affair, for which John" or Harry" or william, will pay. An affair in the last sem tence means a bit of wire, bunch of feathers, and some noisy velvet
 For awhile the papers in all parts of the country were filled with cartoons about the far east. Some were good, most were bad. and the rest were indif- ferent. But now the diminishing interest being taken in far eastern affairs Is shown by the disappearance of war car toons Artists, or rather cartoonists. are turning their attention to politics more and more. The democratic candidates are furnishing fruitful themes, and the republicans are caricatured frequently. The situation of affairs in New York city and state politics Is also being illustrated for the benefit of the public. Now and then we see Mormon cartoon, but even that matter has become old. The fa- nous Lid in Harlem is also seen often in print. If the latest cartoon on this subject is based on fact instead of fiction 1t would seem that the Lid Is in serious danger of being lifted"
 Over in London there seems to be a tendency to place household rodents on the regular bill of fare. Mouse a la Creole sauce" and "fricasseed rat will
 
 tain food authorities prove successful. Over in Paris the people have been eat ing horse meat for some time and like 1t. Now If London is to take up mice and rats as staple articles of food, America will have to follow suit. The chances are. however, that rodents will not become very popular over here as long as we have so much good beef. pork, fish and fowl. Fried sausage Is not in the same class with fried rat.
 A story comes from across the water of the discovery of the 'ideal' editor. He was found in the following way: A young author went to an editor with his first effort It was a formidable manu- script and enough to daunt the stoutest N1elueT Ol lne Dlue pencil. IHe etltOT took the stuff and said he would accept it without reading. He asked the author how much he wanted. The young man replied modestiy that $50 per thousand words would do nicely. The editor replied that he never paid less than $75 per thou sand. With the remark that he was sor- " that the story was not longer the edi- tor told the author to call the next day and he would be paid s22. 800 for his novel It is not related how the author got out or how he managed to stay on earth until the next day, but he did and when he went back to find that ideal editor he was told that the poor gentleman had been carried to a lunatic asylum. What a pity it is that all editors can not follow such a shining example without ending their careers where the London editor did! P. c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29
Examinations for Scholarships.

President Abercrombie has been notified by Dr. Parkin, agent of the Rhodes scholarship trust that examina- tions of Alabama boys will be begun on April IS, and the Alabama commit tee in charge of the subject will prob ably name Montgomery as the place where the examinations will be held.
 No American selections have been made, and the contest will soon be open to all American boys. It has been reported that an Alabama boy had been selected, but all such reports were erroneous. No .elections have. been made, and Dr. ParlSin has just arrived in this country to inaugurate the ex- aminations.
 Attempts have been made to decry the Rhodes plan, but it will surely re- suit in good, and cannot possibly do harm. It cannot do harm, because any bright American boy can gain at OK ford classical education that he will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29
ENelNEER's MISTAKE.
m the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post
 Lynn, Mass, was favored not long ago with a visit from Representative J. Adam Bede as a banquet guest there. He was facetious, as usual, and In the course or his post-prandial remarks spoke about the folly of Jumping at conclusions.
 Let me illustrate MT Bede continu- ed. 'I never knew but one locomotive engineer who had a long, flowing beard He was a friend of mine, and lived in a certain western state. One day he was running about sixty miles an hour with straight track stretching ahead.
 This engineer poked his head out of the cab and the wind whisked his long beard back in his face. Obeying his first thought, that it was haystack, he called for down brakes" and while his audience was laughing at this MT. Bede sprinted away to another ludicrous ob- SerVatiOn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29
Monument to Her Memory Erected
 Sixty Years Ago.

From the New York Times.
 After twenty years of newsgathering g in and around New York I am con- stantly running into odd corners I never heard of before" said the reporter.
 The other afternoon the trail of a man I wanted to see landed me in the little village of Somers, in Westcnester. While waiting for him at the Elephant hotel made some remarks about a monument on the green nearby. The landlord in formed me with a great deal of local pride that I was actually on the spot where the first elephant ever imported into this country initiated the nrst circus ever seen in this country. and that its owner had put up the monument sixty years ago in commemoration of the event.
 old Bet was the elephants name' and Hackaliah Bailey was her owner. His brother. who was a sea captain, bought the beast at a bargain somewhere on the Asiatic coast and brought her to New York on his sailing vessel in 1921. It was a long and wearisome journey of many months and Old Bet didn't receive as much care during the voyage as circus el- ephants receive nowadays. But she was
 
 York. Hackaliah Bailey bought her He made her walk all the way to Somers, travelling only at night and giving exhi- bitions in barns during the day at 10 cents a head.
 .I was told by the landlord, whose father had told him, that old Bet was the sensation of the hour. Crowds fol- lowed her at night, and greater crowds got into the barns by hook or by crook during the day. When Bailey reached Somers he rented lot, put up tent, and started circus with the elephant as his only attraction. She was on exhibi- tion for months there before he sent her on the road.
 But old Bet was overfed and other wise spoiled by her keepers. She broke loose and killed one of them, but as it was shown that the man had angered her. she was forgiven and permitted to live. In South Carolina, in 1927, she kill ed another keeper and started on run across country with mischief in her eye. The circus hands chased her for twenty miles before they got fatal bullet into her'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29
Beware of Underground Movement.

There is no reasonable doubt of the fact that Hearst barrel campaign and Cleveland still hunt are moving side by side throughout this state, per meating every county, and endeavoring to secure delegates wherever delegates are to be selected.
 The Alabama voter who desires above all else the defeat of Theodore Roosevelt in his attempt to win four more years of autocratic and un- checked and eccentric power, would do well to steer clear of both of these movement. An absolutely unpledged, unDlased set of twenty-two men is what the disinterested voter wants-the man who has no axe to grind, who shares in no barrel, and expects no office.
 But this is what Alabama will not secure unless the Alabama voter is alert and cautious. The air is full of the still hunt and the barrel, and both are so disguised that it is difficult to detect them. Let all candidates for delegates to the May convention be interrogated, especially as to the still hunt and the barrel. Ask them if they will vote to send twenty-two men to St. Louis who are absolutely open to conviction. Ask them if they are at heart supporters of the Princeton statesman or of Hearst. The fashion of the day In this state is to pretend to be in favor of an unp1edged delegation while attempting to secure one that will nominate either Cleveland or Hearst.
 Alabama should send an uncommit- select a nominee that can carry con tested states Not member of the delegation should go to St. Louis biased in favor of any aspirant, because he should go there to consult with the del egates from the contested states. Ala bama is noC a contested state, and 1t would be manifestly impolitic on her part to dictate a nominee to the states upon which the contest will hang. Let the contested states have their choice, thus putting the full responsibility upon them. This is what Alabama should do, and every honest voter should be on his guard when he votes for delegates to the May convention in Montgomery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29
RUN OF BALL STUDIED.
By Harrison Power at Monte Carlos
 Roulette Wheel.

London.-That E. Harrison Power, who, originally haling from New Orleans, has for many years been a leading member Of the American colony in London, did not succeed in breaking the bank at Monte Carlo Is due not to any want of daring or any failure of the marvellous luck that has attended his play at the tables, but to an indispositon on the part of the Casino authorities to permit him to go beyond the maximum for roulette. which is eight louis on each number.
 For the third time MT. Power has given the propretors of the French gam ing tables cause to remember hs exploits at roulette and red and black. At Trou- vile thre years ago he walked away with sioOooO, and his first success at Monte Carlo resulted in winning of $37 GOO. And now he confesses to the modest little sum of s75.O00 cleared at rolette during his recent stay of four days at Monte Carlo.
 "These are the figures as near as I am able to reckon them.' he said. T don't want to convey the impression that I went to the tables with any studied sys- tenn My winning this money was due only to accident.
 Mir Power thus explains the accident" He watched the series of F ('douzames') He found that the ball rather favored the first series, which runs from 1 to 12, and he placed the maximum there. When he found that the ball was shifting to the second series. from 12 to 24 he transferred his play to this section; thence into the third, back to the first and so on.
 You will sec he said that there was no definite system in this, nothing but simply following the run of the ball which favors each series in turn. It seems as though I could not play wrongly, and, like any amateur in similar circumstan- ces I followed my luck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29
Artistic Posters.

"Of all the attractive and artistically designed show bills that have adorned the boards in Birmingham during the past winter, l do not think any of them com pared with those which heralded the coming of The Girl from Dixie ' said theatregoer. Perhaps the subject ap- pealed to my southern sentiments more than usual, but the idea introduced was particularly effective. Of course you mo- ticed them, but maybe you have forgot ten just how they looked. The stars and bars of the confederacy were prominent in the foreground displayed along the fingerboard of huge banjo. On the drum was a bewitching face and that was the girl from Dixie Above the banjo was row of grinning pickaninny faces. The blending of southern scene and senti- ments was very striking and the whole made a pleasing showbil. I assure you.
 Speaking of showbills reminds me that there are styles in these Autographs as in everything else. The old custom of laud- ing the merits of a play in extravagant terms has almost entirely disappeared and the stars merely announce in huge letters that they will appear in certain thea tre on a certain night. The public is ex- pected to know all about their distinguish ed careers and pay accordingly. usual- ly we see merely the name of the actor and the date By a careful scrutiny 1t is possible to discover just what particular play this superior being is presenting. It is said that when Beerbohm Tree was playing "The Darling of the Gods" in London his playbills bore the legend. Tree; The Darling of the Gods That was sufficient to draw the crowds.
 ''I have often wondered what artists re- ceive for designing showbills. They ought to be well paid for they seldom produce anything that is not a success both from lithograpic and an artistic point of view"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29
Items for Alabama.

The sundry civil bill will be consid- cred in the house this week. This bill contains in the absence of a rivers and harbors bill and public buildings bill, several items of interest to this state. The dams and locks in the Warrior and Tombigbee rivers are to have the bene- fit of $25,000, which is to keep them in condition til next year, when a rivers and harbors bill will come to their relief The sum of ,250 Is to be voted to the Selma public building, and $15,000 to the Anniston public building. These sums will start the two buildings, and the public buildings bill of the short session will provide for their completion.
 These Alnbama items in the sundry civil bill are not record breakers, but they go to show that our representa- tives are watching our interests and are getting what appropriations they can in these days of republican con trol.
 The postponement of an appropria- tion sufficient to open the Tombigbee and Warrior to Tuscaloosa is regretta- ble, but the house is in the hands of men who do not live in Alabama, and we must take what we can get, and wait for the rest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29

cherish all his lifelong No one de- spises classical education except per haps MT. Schwab, and he has no per sonal knowledge of an education of that sort. No one despises a liberal education who has It.
 Alabama will send boy to Oxford, and that, boy will come back we'll equipped for the battle of life. It is idle to diGparage Oxford. Even in tech nical education Oxford offers great in- dueements to boys who are willing to take advantage of them under the Rhodes bequest. Alabama should send the right boy, and that task comes to the committee on selection which will soon meet. No boy in Alabama is barred from the contest by the terms of the Rhodes will.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29
HUeLE SONG.

By Alfred Tennyson. The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story; The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps In glory. Blow, bugle. blow, set the wild echoes
 flying. Blow, bugle; answer echoes. dying. dying.
 dying. Oh hark, oh heari how thin and clear. And thinner, clearer. farther going! Oh sweet and far, from cliff and scar. The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens re-
 plying! Blow, bugle; answer, echoes. dying. dying.
 dying. O love. they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field CT river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow. bugle. blow. set the wild ecnoes
 flying. Blow. nugle; answer echoes. dying, dying.
 dyiug.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A woman is content to tell herself she is good; she wants somebody else to tell her she is pretty.
 The only instruction the devil gives to his advance agent is to hand to every wo- man he meets an inventory of the things that other women have and she hasn't.
 The only objection woman can see to being a royal princess is that 1t would not be proper for her to sit down and have a good cry whenever she felt like it.
 Probably Adam growled over his coffee when Eve asked him to stop In at the orchard on his way to business and see if he could match the color of her fig leaf.
 It's awful hard to make a woman un- derstand that when her husband has had to sit up all night with sick friend 1t is natural for him to throw his watch on the floor. and put his shoes undar the pillow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT

Richard S. Palmer, who was made fa- nous in sensational literature as Dead wood Dick, Is dying in the county hos pital at Cripple Creek.
 The eulogies of the late Senator Marcus A. Hanna will be heard in the senate Thursday. April ', instead of March Sl, as previously ordered.
 The widow of Sir Edwin Arnold is said to be the only Japanese lady bearing an English title Translated it means Jew els of the Dark River
 The engagement of Miss Elsie Whelen of Philadelphia to Robert Goelet of New York has been anonunced. The two fam lilies concerned are prominent in the soci- ty of both cities.
 When Senator Dick, the new senator from Ohio was sworn in the United States senate his desk was heaped with roses and lilies which had been placed there in honor of his debut
 An adontoglossum crispin. belonging to E. A. Ashworth, noted orchid grower of Chesire, was sold at a recent auction in London for s1700 This is said to be the record price under the hammer.
 Sir Henry Irving and his company Of eighty-two players have sailed for Eng land on the Atlantic Transport liner Me saba. He contemplates touring the pro- yinces in Thomas a Beckett" but will soon return to this country where he was unusually successful during the past sea- son.
 It has been definitely announced at the White House that President Roosevelt will not attend the St. Louis fair. He will make no more engagements to leave Washington until after the election. MT. Roosevelt will make only one trip away from the capital and that will be to at tend the Gettysburg memorial day exer- cises. The date for this was arranged months ago.
 Dan Daly, the well known comedian and manager. is dead in New York as result of hemorrhage. MT. Daily had been a sufferer from consumption for two years but had not left the stage. He made quite a reputation as comedian during the palmy days of musical comedy and was a comic opera star. On account or his strict discipline he was unpopular among the men and women whom he employed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29
Candidates Are Numerous.

"I had no idea that candidates were so numerous in Birmingham until yes- terday." said young newspaper man. T was hurrylng down the street, full tilt, after a good story and bumped into stranger also hurrying in the same di- rection. in the very natural and pardon able way that people often bump together on the street. I remarked, Excuse me- The other man said, Excuse me- smiled stretched out his hand, and said, C. is my name. Then with the deftness of long practice and while holding fondly to my hand, the stranger reached around to his hip pocket and pulled out pack of neatly printed cards. Immediately scented a candidate. Sure enough the bit of pasteboard placed in my hand stated that Mir. c. was calling on his friends to elect him to a county office. As soon as his campaign literature was in my hands the candidate bowed dropped be- hin and button-holed another unfortun- ate whom he happened to know in ad- vance.
 Well, 1t Is astonishing how many men seeking office one finds during the course of day. They are everywhere and all ways ready to present their cards at moments notice. Perhaps if my friend had known that he was introducing him self to newspaper man he would not have released me so soon and would have insisted on an interview. It Is hard to escape the candidates now and 1t is a bad idea for a newspaper man to stray |. evening" for he is sure to be grabbed by some candidate who will take up an hour or more of his valuable time telling him just how many counties are solid for that particular candidate who is doing the talking. They are the most optimistic set of fellows I ever saw"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29

N REMARKABLE example of the V success that comes to but few
 magazines in the infant stage of their existence is afforded by the Burr Mcintosh Monthly, which was launched into the world of periodicals a year ago, April Fool day. A clever pictorial month ly was much needed among American publications. The demand was recognized by MT. Mcintosh and his associates. They went to work to issue a monthly that would please the public and the result is that they have won phenominal suc- cess. The Burr Mcintosh Monthly has been on a paying basis since the Novem- Der issue, an achievement that probably breaks the record for twenty-five cent periodicals. For the past six months 5o,- GOO copies have been printed and dis tributed every month, while the circula- ton Is increasing rapidly. It is to be hoped that the success which has already characterized Burr McIntoshs efforts will be continued in the future. first-class pictorial, designed and printed in an artistic manner, is always welcome, and especially in this country where such publications are few in number The illus trated periodicals and pictorials of Lon don and Paris are known the world over Such fame is to be striven for by the publishers of the Burr Mcintosh Monthly
 Another ingenious theory advanced for the prevalence of appendicitis is that the disease is caused by riding in trolley cars. The public extends it's thanks to the physician who makes this discovery but feels like remarlxlng cynically that when it is a case of trolley cars or pos sible appendicitis the former will win. While we can all get along famously without appendicitis or even appendices, for that matter we cannot live in com fort without trolley cars, and unless the authority in question can devise. some means whereby the appendicitis tendency of such travel can be eliminated he would have done better had he not made his discovery at all.
 Ten years ago last Friday Coxey's tat terdermalian army marched on Washing ton. There were seventy men in that army and all they got out of the ex- petition was lot of notoriety. However, Coxey did not have the true dramatic instinct, for he did not go on the stage and just how big a name he made for himself is evidenced by the fact that he is never mentioned now. Like Mother Jones, who came after him and followed in his footsteps to a certain extent. the former General" soon became a woeful back number.
 According to the decrees issued by fashion authorities, the number of hats required by a well dressed woman this spring is ten. This pronunciamento is cruel for those poor danes who were fig uring with might and main to get just one new hat for Easter. even If it did
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29
Comfort for the HomeIy.
| he Philadelphia Inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 Every girl that is dissatisfied with her self should remember that she is better looking than the kindest of looking glasses bid her believe. A mirror cannot hatter face that is in its natural state-that Is, not made up.- Even the very best plate glass has a pale green tinge which reflects color a trihe less clear than the original. Hair also has always more glossy sheen than the glass shows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29

night for Nashville, where he goes to attend a meeting of the Hymnal commit tee of the Southern Baptist convention.
 w. H McNei1 of Louisville is registered at the Morris.
 w. w Ragland of Helena, Is at the St. Nicholas.
 w H. Lane of Talladega, is at the Hillman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29
About Persons.

Capt. J. M. Falkner of Montgomery. Is at the Hillman.
 J. E. Preffn of Helena. is at the St. Nicholas.
 A. c. McMillan of Atlanta, is at the Morris. W. w. Thompson of New York, is in the city.
 w. A Metts of New York, is stopping at the St. Nicholas.
 Priestly Toulmin of Lehigh, prominent coal operator. is at the Hillman.
 George N. Hunt of Atlanta. is at the Morris.
 The Rev. pr. A. c. Davidson left last
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-29

A trench scientist has made some tablets which are guaranteed to keep the Russian soldiers strong and pre- vent their freezing. A dose of fighting powder is the only thing now lacking.