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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-18
GIRLS WHO LIVE WELL
 ON VERY LITTLE MONEY

there still remained 37 cents, which was counted in on pepper, salt, and any other little seasoning that was used.
 Tn case dinner invitation came, it was never accepted unless all three were included, and it is needless to say that friends soon understood the fact and fell into the habit of only issuing such invitations-which were usually accept ed with glee and put down to profit, which was usually invested in a salad or fruits. If people dropped in Just about meal time, the artist, who was always the spokesman, would gently but firmly in- form the guests that they were more than welcome provided they would do- nate some little thing towards the dinner. One young woman, more bountfully sup piled with money than delicacy. after re- ceiving the above information, hied her self forth, and returned followed by small boy laden down with a basket, which upon being opened disclosed a ham, mixed fruit, vegetables and canned deli cacies. Nothing was said, but a small amount of each was placed on the table When the guest arose to go she was pre- sented with the remainder of the viands, al given to understand that heavy line divided good fellowship from bohemian ism.
 They were brave. independent girls. vii. ling to deny themselves much for the sake of their chosen vacations, and for four years they stuck together, and are now in Paris.
 This is only one of hundreds of such cases Where men have the full priv ilego of the free-lunch counter, which saves them many penny, women must of necessity either eat at places which are nos cnly unappetizing in appearance, but disgusting to the -ecately reared or cook for themselves. Moreover, clothes are always a more expensive item with a woman than with a man. So "F J. A." who boasts of living on s10 a week. will have to admit himself routed by the three girls who averaged only $625 each
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-18
A CALM DISCUSSION OF
 PARKER'S STRONG POINTS

necessarily hasten to retrace its steps, h his protests against the substitution at Washington of personal for constitutional government the democratic nominee demonstrates in effect that if the powers that hold the reins of government fall to obey the organic law of the land. either in It's letter or spirit. their example ineyit- ably tends to create mobocracy and reign of lawlessness throughout the coun- try, by which every public and private interest is imperilled.
 Besides commenting himself to all thinking people for his timely deliver anee upon this burning question of the hour, Judge Parker has made an exceed ingly effective appeal to the people for judicious reform of our existing bar barous tariff enormities and excreseents for an honest execution of existing laws against understanding trusts, for the suppression of every form of organized despotism or lawlessness and for a sound colonial policy which will not contra dict the fundamental principle of our government and put to shame our boast of carrying free institutions to every land over which the American flag flies Com ing from some men, these utterances might be challenged as the artful and in- genious of an insincere and untrustworthy candidate for the highest office within the gift of any nation. But emanating from a man who has given magnificent proofs that he means what he says and says what he means and that If elected he will fearlessly carry out his pledges, the woros of the Esopus speech have everywhere warmed the American heart and prepared it to give Judge Parker the most at1en- tive and responsive hearing.
 The campaign had been marked by gen. era1 apathy until he spoke. No wonder For two years the advocates of MT l Roosevelt have been most strenuously ! pressing his claims and candidacy. until the people were tired out with their stale reiterations. Now the time has come for real issues In the white ligha of unbiased re-son and of temperate, honest contro- versy, which will illuminate the public mind. Every intelligent patriot irrespec- tive of party, will reJoico that in Judge Parker's candidacy, the country Is to be felicitated by the assurance of a safe and sane leader and that, in any case, we shall have for the next four years at least strong opposition-that indispensable bulwark of all good govern ment.
 Among the salient features of the cam paign,. as it is seen today, is the action of the Parker Constitution Club of New York, organized yesterday, under very high auspices, many of whose members were supporters of r1cKinley. but are now accentuating the demand for "Constitu- tionalism versus Imperialism" This Is but one of the many signs of a rising tide of popular enthusiasm for return to the historic principles and traditions which lie deeply imbedded in the hearts of the American people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-18
The Place for Vulcan.

The suggestion of Alderman Harry Jones that the board of aldermen CO., operate with the Commercial club in bringing the statue of Vulcan to Bir- mingham after the St. Louis exposition closes and placing 1t in the circle at Five Points is good. As Alderman Jones appropriately said last evening, it will stand permanently on the shelf of the mountain which furnished the iron to make Vulcan.
 At no point in Birmingham could this noble statue representing :hat which has made Birmingham, be so conspicuous. It is the highest avail able point in Birmingham for perfect display of the great statue. It is on three car lines, and is the place of all places for Vulcan to pose permanently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-18
Still Another Lynchinq.


 The utter brutality of Statesboro, Georgia, was not repeated at Thomas ton, Alabama, but law and order were alike trampled under feet at both laces-unnecessarily so in one place BIS in the other. At Statesboro two negroes convicted of murder were taken out of jail and burned at the stake; at Thomaston a negro accused of burglary was taken out of lock- up and his body riddled with bullets. The negro lynched at Thomaston had harmed no one, had taken away no property, but he stood charged with the act of burglary.
 Where is this course of mob law to end? Between the refusal of circuit judges to call special terms and the non-action of the executive arm of the government from solicitors and sheriffs to the governors office few arrests are made, and no trials take place. The plain effect is seen in repeated lynch ings. Last year but two lynchings occurred in this state, and only two in 1902. This year there have been thus far six or more, and few of them relate to the one crime that is utilized to justify lynching. Nothing can justify a resort to disorganizing policy that leads directly to anarchy and brutality.
 The methods of Georgia and Mis- sissippi will follow, and burnings at the stake will soon become a stand ard amusement in the back districts. The Statesboro trouble arose over mur- ders not complicated with the name less crime. The Thomaston case re- lated to an incipient burglary. In the latter case a negro was arrested and held on fiimsy evidence, and as the curtain falls his body is riddled with bullets. Law is thus ignored, the courts abolished, and every boy is taught that he should do likewisea All this means anarchy. It means in many cases the killing of the innocent. Judge Parker denounces such acts in his speech of acceptance, but nothing will put an end to such frolics except keen detective work on the part of sheriffs, who can under the constitu- tion of 1901 pc held up to their duty, followed by speedy trials.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-18
THE GOVERNORS SALARY.
l the Montgomery Times.

From the Montgomery Times.
 The Times is reliably informed that the state of Alabama is paying two salaries on account of the office of governor. Act ing Governor Cunningham Is drawing monthly, as he should do. his pay for discharging the functions of the office to which the illness and absence of Gov ernor Jelks accredts hhn. Governor Jelks Is drawing monthly, as the Times thinks he should not do, the same salary that is being paid Acting Governor Cunning | ham. The prescribed salary of the gover- ! nor Is s50O0 per annum. During the in- term of Governor Jelxs absence the tax payers of Alabama are paying at the rate of s10.OOO per annum. for the privil- ege of maintaining the dignity of the chief magistracy of the state. This is wrong. Whether it is constitutional, or legal, the Times does not know. The Times does not concede the right of Gov ernor Jelks to draw salary that he does not earn. It says this In due recognition of the fact that the absence of the gover- nor from the state Is prompted by causes providential in nature and that appeal strongly to a popular sense of sympathy and appreciation. In an ethical sense there can be no rational objection to the governor paving his monthly warrants In the sum of $416.66 promptly honored in recognition of his titular right to that amount: in a practical business sense there can be very emphatic and clearly defined objection. The Times for one reg isters it. In doing so 1t has no desire or purpose to do injustice to Governor Jelks It Is inspired by no object of crit icism than the governors course in ac- cepting a salary for unrendered services itself does not express. The Times is not familiar with any provision of law that permits or favors a double draft on the state treasury for requiting services per- formed by the governor of Alabama. Pos- sibly there may be one. One might pre- sume so under the circumstances. It is d matter upon which the states attorney general might enlighten the people, and upon his failure to do so. they will be left to form their own conclusions on what appears to be a singular course of admin istratiye procedure
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-18
Pensacola and Birmingham.

Birmingham ought to feel interested in Pensacola and its wonderful progress" said w. c. Jones, secretary of the cham Der of commerce of that city, "and surely Pensacola is interested in Birmingham. The two cities are not far apart. The one must depend much upon the other. Our city today has a population of 22,500.
 "We have thirty feet of water on the bar at the mouth of the harbor. The value of our exports in the year 1903 was $l5,Sl4794, and 1t required 156 sailing ves- sells of 132.10s tons register and 266 steam ships of 5O5,4 tons register to carry the freight. In this list of freight was in- cluded 262.S97 tons of coal brought down from the Birmingham district.
 Your people should come down and see us grow. and then consider what is ahead of us when the Panama canal is opened"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-18
Henry Gasssway Davis Accepts.

In a quiet, business-like manner MT. Davis accepts the democratic nomina tion for vice-president, and he pro- ceeds straightway to show that the democratic principles of today are sane, safe and sound.
 MT. Davis, true to the instincts of a business man, presents some telling figures. He makes plain the fact that through extravaganza on the part of republicans in office deficits have sup planted surpluses, and the deficits are growing in size. The per capita cost of government has been increased from S201 in Buchanan's term to ST 10 In the term of the Rough Rider. One result of extravagance and misrule is seen in decreased prosperity. -Four years ago." says MT. Davis, factories, mills, mines and furnaces were in active operation, unable to supply the demand, but now many are closed, and those that are open are being operated with reduced force on short hours. Then wages were high, labor was scarce, and there was work for all. Now work is scarce, many wage earners unemployed, and wages re. duced." MT. Davis very correctly and pertinently says that the business sit nation demands a political change.
 MT. Davis calls attention to the fact that he is the first nominee from the south who has been placed on na- tional ticket of the two great parties since the days of civil war. He con siders the act by the St. Louis con vention step towards the obliteration of all sectional differences.
 He comments Judge Parker as man of calm judgment and fine per sonality--just such man as the American people preferred in the con
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-18
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
 T INDEPENDENT and close observers
 of the present political campaign must have noticed that If the din of battle has not yet begun. the popular mind has been profoundly stirred by the new democratic standard bearer.
 In any attempt to anticipate the final result of the great contest, regard must chiefly be had not to the frothy and noisy surface indications, but to those resist less undereurrents of public opinion which often find startling expression only at the polls. Difficult as it Is to guage these deep, silent currents, they are like ly to work results before November which will immensely surprise those who have hastily assumed MT Roosevelts election as a foregone. conclusion. The late Sen ator Conkling, who was a far-seeing poll itlcian, often quoted at the opening of such campaigns the familiar lines:
 The shadows murmur.
 But the depths are dumb.
 Judge Parkers introduction to the vast majority of the people was his own cleo trifying message wired to the St. Louis convention announcing his firm and ire vocable adherence to the gold standard "a message which thrilled the country with admiration, as the act or man and a sagacious statesman. But, his speech l on accepting the nomination though calm and devoid of everything ornamental ar sensational was fitting and logical se- quel to his splenL-- gold standard tele- gram. Delivered with transparent sim cerity his utterance has viddly outlined the grand issues of the campaign in no uncertain phrase and so 1uminously that every American can by its aid, as in the l light of sunbeam, determine under what political banner he should enlist Judge Parker's critics strongly call his speech tame. Every speech of the kind must be more or less labored and tame. But the resonses that have now come up from every part of the country indicate un- mistakably that 1t has made a favorable and profound impression which cannot be effaced by an army of orators and l spellbinders.
 This fact. so well attested by the cur S PASSs AePollS' dusuIs an early ln- crease of activity and a most spirited ef- fort to press home upon all the people the 1 strong points presented in the Esopus speech The time was ripe for Judge Parker's masterly plea for a return from l the dangerous paths of standardization, miltarism and autocratic imperialism to l the honored and historic principles of constitutional government established by the fathers of the republic and jealously I guarded by all the great statesmen of America until comparatively recent years. If in an evil hour the country has de- parted from these principles, it is only a temporary alteration, from which, if it Is to continue the worlds chief exponent
 of civil liberty and progress, it must
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-18
Inspires Absolute Confidence.

From the New York Staats Zeitung.
 Nobody can sheer now that the demo- cratic candidate has nothing to say. He has spoken. and in imposing, convincing and plain language he has announced his right to the leadership. The warfare against tariff and trusts and against cor ruption is not the main issue. More i'm portant is the fight against such a spirit which leads to adventures, and which wants to disregard law and right The doctrine that a strong fist Is alone pow erfu and that the weaker can be disre- garded and pushed aside. that war and battle are the most honorable occupation of mankind-such are the greatest dam gers which threaten the republic. We must fight against these, without inter- ruption. and with all our power Alton B. Parker has fully recognized these dangers, and in place of a hysterical de- sire for aggrandizement, which does not permit one to think of the consequences, we shall find calm consideration, cool judgment and the reign of law. Such IS the sense of his speech, and therefore 1t inspires absolute confidence, and, for that reason. his speech will bring to him the hearts of thousands who were waiting for the moment when he proved himself to be the selected leader of democracy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-18
That Injunction.

Relative to the brief item in yesterdays Age-Herald wherein f was stated that Christian F. Ems len and others would probably petition the court for injunction restrain ing the mayor and aldermen from repay ing Highland avenue. MT. Enslen last night said:
 Quite a respectable number of property owners on Highland avenue are opposed to repaving that thoroughfare in any manner whatever Just now We are or ganizing movement to file a bill of in- junction against such useless expendi- ture and heavy tax upon our property and propose to defend ourselves against such useless extravaganza. We feel that that the chirted driveway which we now have and for which we have paid is good enough. In fact. with proper mainte- nance and occasional sprinkling in dry weather, it cannot be improved upon with wooden blocks, asphalt macadam, brick or stone for the purpose for which 1t Is used
 Eighty thousand dollars Is no smal sum to be imposed as an additional bur. den upon tho propertyowners of the limit ed part of the city under consideration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-18
About Persons.

J. M. Frank of Nashville is at the St Nicholas.
 A. J. Springfield of Chattanooga Is stop. ping at the St. Nicholas.
 A. W. Sykes of Syracuse is at the St Nicholas.
 Peter Curley of Cleveland Is at the co. lonial
 W. II. Burt of Tuscaloosa Is at the Morris.
 John F. Evers of Atlanta Is at the Morris.
 E. Wilson of Memphis is at inc co. lonial.
 John A. Ezzell, D. V. sevier. Jr and A. r. Pettree are at the Morris
 Gen. George P. Harrison of ono,,,. is at the Hillman. He is in the citv look ing after business interests and viii leave today for Albertville, where he hoe o,, a,, gaeement to address reunion os co,,fed : crate veterans at that place.
 A. F. Fox of West Point. Misc ,s .t the HilIman.
 President John w. Abercrombie If 1rn,- versity is at the Hillman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-18
Good Judqment.

From the Baltimore Herald.
 We waited for Judge ParlSer's speech of acceptance. and we have read and re- read it with increasing satisfaction. Those persons who are writing or saying slur- ring things about 1t either have not read it or are purposely misrepresenting it. We invite our readers to remove any doubts they may have by another dili- gent perusal of this most excellent docu- ment. They will find there are not. only sound thought but high thought, not only common sense but uncommon judg- ment. There Is a line in an old essay which says: Judgment for the most part, ripens very slowly; fancy often expands her blossoms all at once" We have here the distinction that explains why the thoughtful people of the coun- try are turning to the new democracy They prefer the Parker ripeness to the Roosevelt blossoms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-18
Watson and Tibbles.

Today in Cooper Union in New York the notification services of the popu- lists will take place. Just why Thomas E. Watson should leave the peach orchards of Georgia, and Thomas H. Tibbles should desert the cotton fields of Texas in order to receive the news of an empty nomination in the heart of the enemy's country, does not ap- pear. There are precious few populists in Wall street, or elsewhere in the big state. It Is a state full of almost every sort of people except populists. In the entire state but 16,000 populists were found in 1892, and the. number has been steadily decreasing ever since. There may be 5000 all told in that state, and they will be found in the back districts of the back coun- ties. And yet Watson and Tibbles and ex-Senator Allen of Nebraska and other orators of an anticipated politi- cal faith will be there, and the event is to be made if possible as spectacular as it certainly will be vociferous.
 It is well to carry the war into Africa if any portion of Africa be willing, but it does not appear that anybody of any interest in New York stands ready to cooperate. The pop ulist nominees have no considerable following in the south or the east or the middle west. Their field Is in the west beyond the Mississippi. There they can poll some votes, but nowhere can they reasonably expect to reap any electoral votes. Not one of the latter will go to their credit in the final returns. They will get a thinly- spread vote that will suffice to place them among "the scattering" among those who also ran.
 MT. Watson is bright man and MT. Tibbles is a spellbirirr, but all their affectation of Jeffersonianism Is but veneer Thomas Jefferson was a landed aristocrat in his day and gen eration. If he rode to his inauguration on horseback, he did not hitch his horse to corner of real fence, for there was no fence at all near the capitol in those days. Jeffersonian simplicity is a myth, and Mir Watson is no more Jeffersonian than Judge Parker or any other straightforward democrat MT. Watson has no lesson to deliver no mission to fulfill, unless it be to promote to his utmost the election of the republican ticket.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-18

tests between Jefferson and Burr, Jackson and Clay, Lincoln and Doug las, Grant and Greeley, Cleveland and Blaine" As a rule, says MT. Davis, the people have preferred man of sound judgment to an orator or a man of letters.
 MT. Davis has full faith in the sue cess of democratic principles and the democratic ticket. A spirit of deter imitation pervades the rank and file, and such a spirit has generally been the forerunner of victory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-18
VILLAGE TYPEs-THE SINISTER.

Horace Seymour Keller in the New York Sun.
 Her name was Lucinda Brown, The prettiest in all the town
 At least twas so reported when
 She won the prize at the glass show. Perhaps her graces blinded men
 Some thirty years or more ago. Her features they were regular. Her satin cheeks bore neer a mar An. then they used to rhapsodize'
 Those poet singers of the parts. Who praised her beauty to the skies While Cindy only smashed their
 hearts. Demurely she glanced over all The swains who came at beck and call. She'd bnggy-ride with them all day.
 Or lean with them upon the gate, When they talked business she'd stay Their fervor with: Its growing
 late Her mein. so said, 1t was a thing To win the rapture of a king. Her dainty head. in equpoise
 Upon her shopping shoulders. won The ardency of all the boys
 But Cindy only called it fun. The sweetest old maid in the town Her name is still Lucislcy Brown. She courts the sunny side the street
 Where little children romp and play. And in their laughter, gay and sweet She hears the songs of yesterday.