The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-02
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD

, sisted The publishers have been forced
to yield to the power of trade journalism
because the scope of their paper is not
understood and is misleading to many
people The Observation-Disclosures Is not
strictly a trade journal, but Is In reality
adapted to a wide circle Of readers. Also
the newsboys objected to calling out such
a long name, and will henceforth bawl
Globe" with greater facility. In addition
| to a change of name the Commercial-Ad-
vertiser will also be reduced in price from
2 cents to l cent, and will enter the
fight against metropolitan penny papers
with renewed vigor. There is something
almost sad in the changes which have
come over one Of the grandmothers OF
newspaperdom, but nowadays progress Is
the watchword and old ideas must yield
to the new
It has been suggested that popular
subscription be started to wage war on
tuberculosis and the idea seems to be
meeting with popular approval. Never
before in the history of medicine has
such a general fear of consumption been
ease in the large cities and the hopeless
struggle of physicians to Withstand Its
advance has attracted the attention OF
the entire civilized world, until now
scientists are experimenting in many
lands to find cure for the dreaded
white Death Although new cures
are announced almost every day they
prove inadequate in the end and 1t yet
remains for some absolutely certain rem
edy to be disclosed. Every year the
germs seem to be spreading more rapid
ly in the land and unless some concerted
action is taken to withstand consump-
TONS march the results may be far more
serious than most people now suppose.
Great advancement has been made in
treating the disease, but what the suffer-
er wants is certain cure and this is not
yet within his reach.
Philadelphia has at last tasted the joys
of "Parsifal" and the staid old town
feels that she can rest comfortably in
the classic association of Boston. A
party of Philadelphians went over to
New York on Thursday to hear the cele-
wagnerian music in large quantities, but
also solved the dress problem. That is
the men did. What the ladies wore is not
stated. but their escorts carried along
suit cases, and after the first act they
changed to evening attire. Gotham was
pleasantly surprised at this evidence of
Philadelphia's progress and the newspa-
pers have INDUCED in certain amount
of chaff at the expense of New Workers.
who did not conform to the dictates of
etiquette, and do likewise.
Daniel ]. Sully is reported to have
deal in cotton when July touched 81.
Six hundred thousand day is not a
bad income for any man, and when it is
remembered that Mr.. Sully has already
made several millions on cotton one can
not but wonder when the mans phenom-
email luck will cease However, If experts
are to be believed there is no danger in
losing money on the staple until the
new crop arrives, except the profits man
may throw away by selling out before
cotton goes higher. All kinds of extra
VACANT predictions have been made re-
garding the future, and 1t is confidently
said that we may expect to see the 1s-
cent mark reached in a very short time
Twenty-Five and even 50 cents has been
predicted, but that sounds almost too
good to be true. In the meantime one
big firm has gone to the wall as a result
of the rise and more houses may be ex-
pected to follow the fate of Baxter &
co. P. c.