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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-01
SPECIAL LOW RATES VIA SOUTH
 ERIN RAIL WAY

EureKa and Hot Springs, Ark and re- turn. One fare plus $2 round trip Tickets sold only on Wednesdays and Saturdays of eacil-w week during the months of June, July August and September, limited sixty days for return
 St Louis and return, account world 8 fair. Season tickets, sixty-day tickets and fifteen day tickets are sold daily. On ruesdays and Thursdays of each week during month of June, coach excursion tickets will be sold to St. Louis at less than the 'one-way standard rate. limited ten days fol return.
 Atlantic City. N. Lone frst-class fare nlus S1 round trip, account Imperial Conn- oil Ancient Arabic Order Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine Tickets on sale July 10 and ii, limited to July 2S 1904.
 Fourth of July Rates-One anu one-third fare round trip. Minimum rate 50 cents. Tickets sold from all points on Southern railway. Selling dates July 2 and 1. llm- tied to July 8, 1904. For detailed informa- ton call on nearest agent, or address
 J, N. HARRISON,
 DlSsrict Passenger Agent. R. E. CREAGH Travelling Passenger Agent,
 Birmingham. Ala.
 6-11-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-01

The Age-Herald Engraving Depart ment makes good cuts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-01

After the show at Casino through cars leave at l0:30, IO:45 and Il o'clock.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-04
Tnnnnlna AprEA1.

That is touching appeal which is made by the Norwich (HSew York; Sun lat the request of the directors of the baseball association. Thus saith the Sun: If the young ladies who are help ling to entertain the members of the team have the best interests of the nine at heart, they will deny themselves and send the boys home early. This Is par ticuiarly necessary this week, as the team has five hard games ahead. We don't want to shut down on this entire Eiy, for we realize how the boys feel about 1t when they are with the girls, but unless something is done we shall have to go out of business. So it Is up to the girls to show their patriotism and see that the boys get their sleep"
 This appeal indicates the sad condi- tion of baseball in Norwich, but it may not indicate that the cause of the con dition is correctly stated. What is the inspiration Of sleep compared with the inspiration of love? If the baseball players of Norwich are driven away early by their girls will they go home? If they go home can they sleep while they think of the dear delights of which they have been ruthlessly deprived? And if they don't sleep and are mad with their girls besides will they be apt {, to play ban? The Norwich baseball di- rectors are desperate, and in their des- peration they have caught at the wrong straw. But 1t may all come out right
 We do not suppose that the girls will consider baseball more important than
 love. but perhaps. just to show what they can do. they will, while keeping
 the players up as late as usual, specially inspire them to do good work on the
 morrow.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-04
UNPArE IorIo E UssrANs.

It is impossible to tell what is going on in Russia, but it is evident that there isn't an era of good feeling there. For instance, the editor of the St. Pe-
 tersburg Viedomosti has created a na- tional sensation by charging the an- .cient capital of Russia, Moscow, with
 wholesale treason! The bankers and merchants there, he said, were not only indifferent to the war, but were sordid, selfish. disloyai and shameless enough
 to make heavy investments in Japanese bonds. This information came to the editor from good patriots who didn't
 want their names used, but were con-
 sidered by him to be trustworthy, The Novoe Vrenya is inclined to hold the
 St. Petersburg Stock Exchange respon- Isible because Russian securities have gone down since the breaking out of the
 war, It charges that the institution has shown a lack of faith in Russia, a
 miserable pessimism and poor quality of patriotism. This newspaper says
 that the stock brokers and financiers
 are level and iong-headed men; that
 they know Russia is not going to lose in the present fight, and that they ought to stand periodically together like wall to overcome the adverse in-
 fiuences of the foreign money markets. It does not think that the Bourse has
 done anything to counteract manifesto
 tions of foreign distrust, or that in the present crisis it has exhibited either pa- tience or courage. The exchange puts in no defence 50 far, but goes on danc-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-04
BoYs WHo crow COIN.

". B. OtweH was president Of the Farmers Institute, of Maccoupin county, III. The thought struck him that if the raIner boys throughout his county could be induced to take an in- terest in the effort. Maccoupin county would produce the finest corn in the world. He persuaded the institute to offer a prize for the best ten ears of corn grown by Maccoupin County farm Ter boys Each boy made application to him, and received package of selected |seed-Yellow Dent and Boone County White Hundreds applied.
 In the fall the boys sent in their corn. A prize, bicycle, was awarded Mir. otwell went down to see the boy who n-expecting to find him the son .ot a prosperous farmer. The boy proved to be the fourteen -year-old son .of a poor widow inhabiting a little prairie cabin. All summer the boy had 'toted" water from the well to his corn patch in bucketfulls. His industry had been remarkable. He was invited to the next meeting of the Farmers Institute. MT. Otwell lifted him upon a table. This" said he, turning to the as- .sembled farmers. as he pointed to the little barefoot youngster in his blue jean overalls t'is the boy who won the prize The cheers that greeted the boy were louder than those which later on greeted the Governor of the State when he came down to make speech.
 For. when these contests had con- tinued several years, the Governor be- came interested. Mir. Otwell had con- ceived the idea of extending the con-
 test to the boys Of the State and show ing at St. Louis the corn they pro- duced. The Governor subscribed. So did others citizens. One offered $1,00O Holstein cow for first prize. Other prizes were offered-wagons and
 ploughs and windmills. Seventeen thousand boys wrote for seed and in-
 formation. Two farm wagons would not contain all the letters. The State went into wild enthusiasm over corn.
 And now return to the Worlds Fair Palace of Agriculture. In the Illinois section is a mountain of huge yellow ears of corn, row upon row, tier upon | tier, of litle symmetrical pyramids of ten ears each. Before each pyramid is l the photograph of the Illinois boy whose corn 1t is. The selected out of eight thousand Illinois boys is Represented. Can you imagine what l this means? Eight thousand boys aroused to pitch of enthusiasm for scientific farming. Seed corn enough l to plant the whole Illinois corn belt. If bountiful crop sprang from the fertile soil last year, more bountiful crop will Heap forth this year--M c. Cunniff, in World Work.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-04
SHALL WE KILL THE CATS.

It is with great pleasure that l see in different magazines and journals how many people are trying to protect the birds, especially the bluebirds and wrens These two birds are among our best beloved birds. Both need mans assistance, especially 50 the bluebirds. As the English sparrow pushes farther and farther into the country, occupy ing all the former nesting places of the blue-birds, and as old trees are cut down and orchards are trimmed and pryned, 1t becomes harder every year for bluebirds to find nesting sites. The bluebird and wren are characteristic of the American home. Every effort to save them from extinction is most praiseworthy.
 A great deal of the work of bird lovers. game protectors. bird magazines, Legislation, etc, is brought to naught by the multitude of cats that swarm in the country. The other day neighboi of mine said a friend of his in New York wanted to send him a dozen quail for stocking purposes. 1T replied, , continued my neighbor, that it was nc use, At the next house they have sever
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-04
THE sUBWAY TAVERN.

The action of Bishop Potter in "pre- sidingp or s'officiating at the opening Iof the Subway Tavern in New York will excite much discussion. It will not please the Prohibitionists. who believe that rum is such an evil that it should get no more tolerance from the good
 than the devil is entitled to. It will not please those who think that while the Subway Tavern may be well enough it did not need the open and hearty en-. Icouragement of bishop. And it will please those who believe that there is nothing essentially wrong about moder-' ate drinking and who believe that de- lcent saloons and good liquors are more needed than prohibition of all saloons and all liquors.
 The Subway Tavern experiment will be worth watching. The Tavern is well situated at the corner of Bleecker and Mulberry streets. Tn one room there is l a soda water fountain, and soft drinks of all kinds are served there. Beer, too, If ordered. The other room is the bar room proper. There drinks of all kinds are served. The management advertises | its purpose to be particular about the purity of the liquors, and to give more beer for . nickel than the unreformed, lnon-model saloons of the neighborhood. Tables are provided for the patrons and free lunch, and newspapers and picture lpapers. Women, minors and intoxicated persons are not allowed in the barToorn.
 After the payment of rent, bills, salaries and a per cent. dividend on the capi- tai (s1O,Oo0) the profits of the bar and Isoft-drink counter will be devoted to the opening of other reformed saloons.
 If such a saloon as the Subway Tav-
 ern is needed and wanted in New York the fact will soon appear. The claim
 for 1t is that 1t will encourage temper
 late and decent drinking, and the as-
 sumption is that there are many who
 would like to drink that way in the
 Subway Tavern.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-04
cONVENIEN1..

Positively Brutal face is my fortune, sir" she said. Well" he re- piled, poverty is no disgrace, but it's lawfully inconvenient at times. Chi Icago Daily News.
 Remember, always exhorted the preacher, ''that whatever you SOW, that also you shall reap." Not always" re- ipIied Subbubs: mot if your neighbor keeps chickens. Philadelphia Ledger Good speed.-"I made a thousand l miles in ten minutes once. Guess that was going some'' Get down to facts.' ; 1T played another travelling man for a mileage book and won. Detroit Free Press.
 There seems to be disposition on
 both sides to apologize for the vice pres lidential candidates" Well, you know, Iit's as hard to get satisfactory vice presidential candidate as it Is to get a satisfactorily cook. Brooklyn Life. I T declare" remarked the Arctic ex- Iplorer, 1t can hardly be said that you Ipeople live on the fat of the land.'" That's so," replied the intelligent IJohAAIo1 we 1lRS Otl IuG LHL or the sea,
 mostly whale blubber and such things Philadelphia Ledger.
 My impression" said the physician who was testifying before the BiIlville leoroner's jury, lis that the man was shot in the early hours"
 That's funny said the coroner. 'This here other witness has done swore he was shot in the ."-Atlanta Con- 1 sfitution.
 Progress. s.-"The last time saw Rie- Ger he told me he was studying three foreign languages and could speak fair ly.well in all of them. Is he still at it ?' "Yes, but he has improved wonderfully. He was telling me only to-day that he
 knows enough now to keep his mouth shut in all of them. Philadelphia Press. '--.--essr.- ,.~ -s Squire (to rural lad)-tNow, my boy, tell me how do you know an old part ridge from a young one.'' ~~ Boy-"By teeth, sir" sss.> s'~ Squire" Nonsense, boy. You ought to know better. A partridge hasn't got jany teeth.''
 Boy-"No, sir; but have. ."--London Tid- Bits.
 She'd Say NO" Then.-Miss Elder
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-04

number of birds squirrels. rabbits. ehipmunks, quail. etc. their cats can kill It has been carefully estimated that the cats Of New England alone kill two hundred and fifty thousand birds a year. But recently neighbor came to me rejoicing in the fact that their cat had just killed a wren. Another neigh Dor brags of their cat and how she brings in a rabbit nearly every day. A cat that could kill hermit thrush should have a medal and a pension. The ladies Of the Audubon societies that cry out against wearing feathers. in hats will keep supply Of cats thats do more damage than all the miliiners in the country. Every spring thous.. ands of city families go to the country to spent the summer that at once get a brood of kittens. All summer they make delightful pets, being fed on cream and carressed and kissed by the children of the family. In the fall these people return to the city. turning their pets. adrift without a thought. It Is cruel to the cats-those that escape starvation live on birds and game. bringing up broods of wild cats the next year.
 It is rule here among the quail hunters to shoot all cats on sight. If all the hunters of the country would take this up great good, no doubt. would result. Dead falls. of the con- mon figure four" type. set under hedges. etc, would exteEninate many cats. Poisoning is dangerous and not to be thought of-John Burroughs in August Outing.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-04
THE CURE oF DRUNKARDs.

Can drunkards be cured by hypnot- ism? is an interesting question. At meeting of the Society of Hypnology and Psychology in Paris the other day an interesting report was read from pr. Korovine. of the Moscow Asylum of Inebriates, where experiments for the cure of drunkenness by hypnotic sug- gestion have been carried out, upon a considerable scale, for three years. Dr. Rorovine claims 22 per cent of radical cures out of some 300 patients. He says that out of 323 patients hypnotized S4.4 per cent. did not drink any alcohol for a week, 60.2 per cent. abstained for two weeks, 3S.S per cent. for three weeks, PIT per cent. for more than a month, but only S.1 per cent, for the whole time of the treatment-t is to say, for six months. He thinks that in more serious eases hypnotic sugges- tion to be effective must be associated with indoor treatment under restraint. Commenting on these facts, Dr. Beril- lon of Paris explained that when
 drunkards ask to be hypnotized they are generally very amenahle to the in |fuence of suggestion, but often they suddenly change and it Is no longer pos-
 sible to hypnotize them. In that case
 they have been drinking, and it is nec-
 essary to wait until they are quite sober and to treat them fasting. It is
 said that Dr. Forel, of the Zurich Lun- attic asylum, one of the best hypnotic
 authorities in Europe, no longer directs
 his suggestions against the drink itself,
 but against the habits and companions
 of the drunkard He holds that it is not of much use trying to prevent q dipsomaniac from drinking until a rad- ical change has been effected in his so- cial surroundings.
 Perhaps a drunkard can't be cured
 by anything until he is willing and anxious to be cured, and then perhaps
 he can do much to cure himself.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-04
BOTHER ABOUT ETHICS.
Men Who Get There" by Fair Means
 or Foul.

Men Who "Get There" by Fair Means or Foul.
 ''He says the way to win campaign is to win it, and he proceeds on that theory without bothering about the eth- ics of the game"
 This is written concerning success ful campaign manager, who win have much to do with the management of the presidential campaign of this year.
 He is politician of the get there school. When he wants a thing he goes after it. If a doubtful state is to be captured he would think nothing of putting two or three million dollars where it would do the most good, and to win the state"
 This was said of another noted poli- tician, whose name this year will be on every ones lips. We do not mention names, because we are dealing now, not with individuals, but with principles.
 The words we have quoted were writ ten not in criticism. but in admiration.
 A large part of the world reserves its applause for the men who "get ther, :" who achieve results, who do things and it does not much care about the meth- ods employed to achieve these results. A politician who can elect his candidate by buying a state, is a great man. Hurrah for hiril Make him a cabinet officer. Give him a fat contract, Put him at the head of the party.
 This spirit is by no means confined to politics. It prevails to a large extent in the financial world. The way to do things Is to do them and 1t is not nec- essary to bother much about the ethics of the game" That is a law of one school of politics. Is there franchise to De got? Buy it. Is there a com binatian 10 re fomed? Form It. Is there competitor who must be crushed
 crush him. Is there chance to make big deal? Make it. Never mind about methods, or laws, or ethics or justice, or religion. Think about them afterwards. Results are the things now. Let your wife look after the religion. Give the man you have ruined employment in one of your de- ipartments. Violation of laws can be at tended to by your corporation lawyer. .Aildlity yE IUNGIp " et 4lluAtAIttuC& oA StiAol found college or hospital or build a church. m
 Now there is nothing more diabolicAl than such theory and practice as that. It means anarchy. It spells na- tional ruin. Results" are indeed what l the world is slaboring for, but results that are the achievement of graft, of violation of lagiref injustice, oppression land deceit-such results are worse than failure. Those people who live fair play and straight dealing are becoming more and more impatient with results that ] do not square with the fundamental principles of morality. The men who do things without bothering about lethic" are sowing seeds. the harvest of which may some day be revolutions.
 Wall Street Journal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-04

 T am sure he means to propose to me this evening" Miss Pert-"I' Indeed? And will you be married this fan or in the spring2n Miss Elder The idea! It doesn't seem to occur to you that I might say No" Miss Pert-'sThat's .so. He may say: Have you any objec- tion to marrying me?' '-Philadelphia Press.
 Drama.-'Your race is runl" hissed Harold de We're, in the last act.
 The villain drew large bottle from his pocket. ..--,e-sz-t
 Think not I am unprepared!" said he.
 "Poison!"
 "Sterilized dust!' exclaimed the wretched man, with emotion, and pour ed out quantity which he bit at the crack of the avengers pistol.-Puck.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-04
SENDING EGGS TO PUGET souN

SENDING EGGS TO PUGET SOUND.
 The Springfield Republican, in re-.
 cent issue, comments upon the fact
 that dealers from Puget Sound are buy ing eggs and butter in large quantities
 in the Eastern market. It states that
 nearly s2,000, ,0O0 was sent across the
 continent from the north Pacific coast
 for these products last year, and that
 the demand this year promises to be higher. The Republican does not under
 stand how this condition can exist in la State which exports grain in large quantities.
 The situation is an unfortunate one, but time will correct 1t. The growth of the State of Washington has been ex- tremely rapid. It is the first step in the growth of any new agricultural
 State, especially in prairie, to go into |grain production. Diversified farming |comes later. The most extensive farm ling portion of this State is in a prairie,
 or at least a rolling and an untinbered country. Grain has been the mainstay lof agriculture in the past, but diversi- lied farming is coming in Western Washington the greatest growth has been in commerce and manufacturing Agriculture has been profitable, but 1t has not kept pace with the growth of other industries. The cities and towns have grown far faster than the sur- rounding country.
 We import eggs and butter from the
 East in large quantities, while we have infinitely better facilities for producing both at home. No other region on earth has the advantages for dairying pres ent on Puget Sound, where grass is green for twelve months in the year. land where meadows produse three tons Iof timothy hay annually for twenty wears without reseeding. But the same | is true as to hundreds of other staple products. We use thousands of tons of iron products on Puget Sound monthly, while beds of a fine quality of iron ore remain untouched, and coking coal is produced and sold to other States. Eastern codfish is found in every grocery store in the State, while fresh lcod, caught in the waters off cur coast, dI0 ShlPpCA ATDfl p6diLlS HI ISLIiSEEdLOE cars, to be consumed in the city of Bos- ton, where a gilded codfish adorns the State House. We wear clothing made in Eastern factories and occasionally in sweat-shops. while the product of our local wollen mill is sold in Chicago. h short, we buy enormously of what we could, and what we will some time pro- duce at home, and which we have all of the facilities for producing at home.
 Everybody here is so busy doing some
 thing else which he finds profitable that
 dozens of other possibly profitable en- terprises are left for the moment un- touched, or are so little developed that they do not produce sufficient to meet the local demand.
 It is these facts afford the strongest possible proof of the claim that the State of Washington offers the greatest inducements to immigrants of noder-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-04
The Happy vegefarian.

I am, a vegetarian,
 No heifer fed barbarian; I live on things agrariaE,
 But never fool with meat. I'm one oe those that like, you see, The grass that lines the pike, you see; And so this packers strike, you see,
 To me is quite treat. I laugh to think of those who eat That horrid, germ fraught stun called All now a-shake from head to feet
 From fear of rising prices No odds to us if beef should be Two-sixty five pound, for we Don't eat the dirty stuff, you see,
 But live on grains and rices. I thought this morning, as I lay And hungered for my breakfast hay, How, ere. the closing of the day,
 The price of pork might rise; I pitied all who didn't know How nicely ragweed pork chops go When one is tired bit: and Oh,
 The taste of pecan pies! We oft eat roasts of who knows what, Served up to us all piping hot And steaks" consisting ofsa lot
 Of weeds we cannot name. A consomne of maple limbs, A puree made of Watte's hymns These soups delight our fats and slims
 And eke our halt and lame. While they who long for flesh are gaunt Because of meat there is want, Our sirloin cabbages we Haunt, And liver made of radish; We stuff on sausage made of oats Instead of fragments saved from shotes; On string bean hash each veggy dotes-
 Some people say we're faddish. Head cheese we make from barley polls, From cowslips we construct veal rolls That you could not, to save your souls. From real meat discern. In brief, to make long tale short. We don't eat naught we hadn't ort: And If no meat should reach our port We wouldn't yearn a yearn, Baltimore American.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-04

cats. the next five. another two. another twenty odd and So on.'' Here in the Hudson Valley in winter one sees more cat tracks than anything else. Set a trap for mink along the loneliest brook or for skunk in the farthest field, and you are more than likely to catch cat. The very people who would have you arrested for shooting a day out of sea- son. and who speak Of hunting as wanton slaughter. will rejoice in the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-04

ing up and down with the market like cock boats on Neva's tide. and with as little power to regulate it's movements one way or the other.
 Probably there is some lack of burn ing patriotism fin Russia and. so far as outsiders can judge. there is reason for