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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Customs in Japan.

while very few people are not famil-
lar with the progressiveness of Japan.
few of them know anything of the Gus
toms in that country" said a traveller
yesterday. did you know that In Japan
such a thing as bed or a chair Is hardly
known? Outside of the large towns and
cities the people never heard of such
things. In calling on a Jap 1t Is proper
to enter his house with your shoes off
and sit down on your heels. The people
do not sit with their legs folded under
them as do the Turks, but they kneel
and then sit back on their heels. The
toes and the knees support them. 1t is
gross insult to go in Jap's house
with your shoes on. II is very much the
same as going into home in this coun-
try and keeping your hat on Over there
the shoes and hat must both be removed.
THE Japs usually sleep on rug and
use a little wicker mat for a head rest.
The girls sleep with their necks on the
handle of a little basket affair which
very much resembles a sad iron in shape.
The high class hotels in such cities as
Toxic and Yokohama have rooms for
foreigners fitted with small beds and
chairs.
AT state dinners In Japan guests are
required to wear Prince Albert coats,
and If the person invited doesn't happen
to possess such coast he must have one
made Immediately. Whether foreigners
or not visitors are required to sit ON their
heels at dinner"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
Steel Frames in Baltimore.

In the burned district of Baltimore
there were but few stee-frame build
ings, but the few were enough to test
modern construction in fierce heats
and uncomfortable flames. AS a gen.
eral statement 1t may be said that
steel stood the test excellently well,
although the heat rose as high as $500
degrees Fahrenheit
The Continental Trust building, six
teen stories high, stood in the path of
the fiercest flames. It's architect, ID.
II. Burnham, has examined what re-
mains of it, and he declares in signed
statement that the steel cage is as
good as on the day 1t was put up. The
supporting columns, the Orders, the
joists and the structural part of the
floors are each and all in sound con-
dition. The intense heat did warp
some apron beams and the sills OF the
windows. The warped parts can be
supplied without taking down the
main frame.
Like reports come from the other
steel buildings in the path of the fiery
tornado. 1t appears in short that
each and all would have stood intact
If they had been supplied with iron
shutters. The fire came through the
windows to the inflammable interior
contents, and all were burned out, but
the frames stood, and the comparative
safety against fire of modern steel
frame buildings is considered estab-
lished. Some of the steel frames were
uninjured and the injury to the others
was not material Not one of the
steel frames will have to be taken
down or replaced.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
ALICE ROOSEVELT WENT OUT.
Offended by Remarks Made In the
Senator's Speech.

Washington dispatch to Boston Herald.
Miss Roosevelt had her feelings hurt in
the senate Friday The President has
taken a course which would have cost
the king of Great Britain his crown, il
not his head" When Senator Carmack,
who was reading Senator Morgan's
speech, Numbered out this sentence, there
was a movement in the diplomatic gall
lery, and Miss Alice Roosevelt. accom-
panied by several other young women,
arose from front seats they had been
occupying and departed. Miss Roosevelts
face was slightly flushed. and she held
her head high in the air. Her friends
followed, laughing and joking her on her
anger. The sentence quoted was the eli
max of quite TRADE which Senator
Morgan had directed against President
Roosevelt. AS the Alabama senator was
unable to make himself heard, Senator
Carmack was reading his speech No
senator on the minority side arraigns
the President more bitterly in his
speeches than does Mr.. Carmack himself
and consequently he read these words
with great gusto. Miss Roosevelt had
brought some friends to the capitol. and
they were, of course, unaware that they
were to hear one of the strongest person.
al criticisms of Mr. Roosevelt in the sem
ate this year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
Not a World Wide War.

The inclination at this stage of the
Russo-Japanese war to magnify wax
complications and possibilities is
ural, but the chances are nevertheless
that the war will be confined to the
two present combatitants. and to the
lands above or east of the Yellow Sea-
France is full of sentimental friend
ship for Russia, although they have
nothing whatever in common, but
she canot afford to bring upon herself
the naval weight of Great Britain.
The moment that France aids Russia
in actual warfare that moment Great
Britain is by solemn treaty with Japan
obligated to strike, and the kaiser says
there would not be a French ship
afloat thirty days after England de-
clares war. Besides France and Eng
land have come to a good understand
ing, and it may as well be accepted
that Frances friendship for Russia in
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
IN TECHNICAL TERMS.

From the New York World.
Perhaps Wall street is to be congratu-
lated on the fact that the country at
large is taking very little interest in it
just now The popular attention had
been unhatterng and a little ominous for
some time.
1t must not be assumed that absolutely
nothing is doing in the stock market.
Something is doing; but what it is pretty
we'll represented by the technical COM
parison made In our news columns yes
terday by that veteran observer, John w.
Gates:
ut reminds me of a poker game at 5
o'clock in the morning after all the win
ners have cashed in and gone home
This means that the stakes are not
likely to run high for while but that
patient industry may yet hope for its
modest reward
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
DECLARES FOR WILLIAMS.
His Private Secretary Heartily Sup
ports the Mississippian.

From the Washington Post.
The pussy footed campaign for Repre-
sentative John Sharp Williams for the
Presidency goes merrily on. According
to Mr.. Williams own statement his pri-
vate secretary has unreservedly pro-
nounced for him, and he believes that he
has almost persuaded" Mr.. Charles A.
Edwards. clerk of the minority committee
to come out In his favor.
From the latest reports. according to
Mr.. Williams. Sucarnooche, Oktibbeha,
Oktoc. Toccopola. Tocowa. Tacaleeche,
Thyatra, Tillatoba. Yalobusha, Nittayu-
ma. Nanachehaw. Noxapater, Oklahoma.
Tishamingo. all of which are in Missis-
sippi. have declared for the well known
minority leader of the house.
Graball and Newmore are expected to
hold conventions next week and pass res
olutions instructing their delegates to
stand by Mississippfs favorite son to the
last ditch.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
HIGH School Graduates.

The graduating class of the Birming-
ham High school this year is the largest
since the organization of the school,
said Principal j. B. Cunningham last
night. 1--WE have thirty pupils enrolled
in the Senior class and this is considered
quite large number. Eight of the mem
bers of the senior class are young men
and the others are young lady students.
"of the eight male members of the
class four of them are non-residents.
only four Birmingham boys will gradu-
ate from the school this year. We now
have about forty nonresident pupils in
the four classes at the high school AL
most every one of the suburbs are rem
resented in the school,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
Shop Windows.

There is a strange fascination about
looking in shop windows" said a gentle
man at the Morris last night. Few per-
sons can resist the temptation to take a
fleeing glance at some particularly pleas
ing display and on Sunday nights. espe-
cially, the attraction is strong. People
have time to devote to careful inspec-
ton on Sunday night when they would
feel impelled to pass on during the week
l do not see very many gazers into Bir-
mingham shop windows on week nights.
That is because this is a hustling town
and its citizens have very little time for
lettering along the streets. On Sunday
nights, however, little groups can be seen
standing about looking wistfully at beau
tiful things on display.
ut is said that gazing in show windows
was one of the diversions of President
Grant while he was President. The great
chief magistrate was accustomed to slip
out in the evening and spend an hour
or two inspecting the windows of the
big stores in washington. 1t was queer
recreation for man who could have
commanded almost any pleasure he wish
ed. Yet 1t was an index to the character
of one of the most remarkable men who
has left an impress on the history of this
country.
fortunately. it has never been consid-
cred bad form to gaze in a shop window
and those who stop are not laughed at
for their 'rusticity. although they would
certainly be the target for amused
chances If they shoul pause to look at a
particularly handsome equipage passing.
shop window gazing is a harmless and in
expensive amusement. 1t costs nothing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.

From the st. Louis Post-Dspatch.
IT He following key to the pronuncia-
w ton of Japanese, Chinse and Ko-
rean geographical names was
prepared by Hajime ota, the Japanese
worlds fair commissioner: Japanese geog-
anese with little accent, as rule. The
vowels are spoken broadly-"a'' as "ah,"
"e'' as long "e," az" as short "e," 90
generally as 90" but sometimes as "aw,'
and ~" as 900
There is little slurring of sylables; the
the final letter of a syllable and the first
letter of the following one retain their
distinct pronunciation.
This leads Americans frequently to sup
pose that another sound has been intro
duced between the syllables. Take the
name Toxic" 1t is pronounced TO
ko"-the 10 in the first syllable and
the tx" in the second being given such
Individual pronunciation that when spoken
rapidly it sounds to the unaccustomed
ear much like the "Toa-kyoh.'
e. is not spoken distinctly when 1t
begins the first syllable and is followed
by "u,' as in Fukuoko. This word Is pro-
nounced "Foo-kwoo-o-kah," the sound be-
ing much as though it were "fKwoo-o-
kah"
Here are some of the Japanese names
most frequently met with in the war
news:
Tokio-Toa-kyoh.
Nagasaki--Nah-g ah-sah-kec.
Hakodate-Hah-k o-dah-teh.
Kagoshima-Kah-go- she-mah, a slight
accent on last syllable.
Shimonoseki-She-mo
Fukuoko-fKwoo-o-ok
Sasebo-S ah-say-bo,
Northumberland (The af-
fix. 'shima." frequently found in Jap
anese names, signifies island" Thus,
''sHe-ro-island."
Tokushma-To-koo-s he-mah, ito" as
tow in ''towboat"
Takaoka-Tah-kah-o h-ka.
Nanao-Nah-nah-oh.
Tsuruga-Eroo-roo-g ah
Niigata--Nzhe-zeh- gah-tah, the double
q" taking the sound of ''zhe-zhe." The
word has slight accent on the third syl-
liable.
-Fkvah-mah; slight accent
ON the first syllable.
Sakata-Sah-kah-tah.
ri--Eesh-e-kah-rey Ga bay)
Osaka-Oh-sah-kah.
Shikoku-She- ko-koo.
Kiushu-Kyu-shoo. the first ''u'' given
its full sound.
In many respects Korean and Chinese
names are pronounced after the same
rules as Japanese. although many have a
decided accent on the final syllable.
Among them are:
Yalu-Yah-loo. river dividing Korea
and Manchuria.
Chemulpo-Chee-m weel-po, accented on
the second syllable.
Masampo- accent on sec
ond syllable.
Mokpo-M ok-po. accent on first syllable
the "k'' being sounded much like the ''ch''
In the German ZACH"
Chefu-Chee-foo, accent on last syllable,
as in the following Instances:
Wiju-wee-shoo.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
WHAT TIME is 1T IN JAPAN?

From the New York World.
STANDARD time has been adopted by
Japan. by Europen residents in China
and by the telegraphs and railways of
that country.
A clock in Toxic would point with its
minute hand as clock in New York
would. The hour hand would. on a
twenty-four- hour basis, be fourteen hours
fast.
The naval action at Chemulpo which
began the war opened at 1:4O a. M, Jap
an time Tuesday, February g. That was
the equivalent of $40 p. m. Monday, Feb
ruary s, in New York.
Any operations in Manchuria would
come under Asian coast time, which is
thirteen hours faster than New Yorks.
The line where time changes" where
a ship loses a day going west and gains
one going east-is drawn irregularly
down the Pacific east of New Zealand
whose time Is nineteen and a half hours
faster" than San Franciscos.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
HOW WAR NAMES OF THE
ORIENT ARE PRONOUNCED

Yongampo-Yong -ahm-po. the ''ng'' be-
ing sounded as it is in French.
Observation-Disclosures the first two syl-
tables being practically only ole.
Seoul-Soo1.
Fusan-Foo-sahn.
Nonson-W ohn-sohn.
ongchin-Song-cheen
o-Cheen-nahm-po.
Yang-Y ang-Y ahng-yahng.
Koseing-Ko-seng.
embellishments
Chungju-chwang-z 'ju' signifying
WILLIE" as "Chung-vile.''
Tientsn-Tain-shen
n-Tah-leen- VAIN.
Chinwangtao-Sheen- wahn-tau.
Weihaiwei-Wee- high way.
Kiaochau-Kwawchaw
Pechili-Pee-chee-lee
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
ALABAMA NEWS.


Nell Cotton and Roper Harris, two men
injured by a boiler explosion at Ironaton
last Saturday, died of their injuries We'd
nesday.
Lee county has reduced the salary of
the county treasurer from $1,000 to $3.50
per year and still there are applicants for
the place.
Cothran & Co. of Birmingham, have
opened a stock exchange at Admission,
which will be under the management of
]. w. Frazer of Tupelo, Miss.
1t is reported that local capitalists of
Montgomery will organize a company to
be known as the neutrality-suspicious. Oil
company in a few days with a capital Of
5000. 600.
The telephone facilities of Florence
have been greatly improved and there are
now 800 subscribers to the local exchange
1t is also proposed to spend $4,000 on i'm
provements.
The American National bank will open
it's door in Montgomery March l. The
place of business will be 20 Commerce
street. William Berney is president of
the new institution.
William Duggan of Admission, walked
off the rear platform of a rapidly moving
passenger train near Helm while asleep
and was uninjured. When he awoke he
caught freight train and returned to
his home.
Candy" Alice. an old negro woman
who has been character in Montgom-
cry for nearly twenty years. Is dead. She
was a survivor of the old slave days and
made comfortable living by selling
"Alce's candy in the households of the
capital.
The congressional contest now being
waged between Captain Richmond p
Hobson and Col. John II. Bankhead Is at
tracing general attention in Alabama
and Is dividing honors with the race for
the presidency of the Alabama railroad
commission.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD

until they get home and will swear at
the cook. maybe. but they will pollute the
refined atmosphere of-.rolley cars.
The Olympian magazine OF Nashville
is dead for lack Of support. This was a
high class publication and compared IA
vorably with the magazines of the east.
In the list of contributors were names
well known in the literary world, while
the general style of the Olympian was
such as to command attention. Yet this
| excellent periodical shared the fate Of all
its predecessors and has drifted on the
rocks from which 1t is probably destined
never to be rescued. If the southern peo-
pie had given hearty support to such an
ambitious effort there is no reason why
1t should not have prospered. In fact.
merely a part of the patronage given
freely to northern periodicals would have
sufficed to keep the Olympian alive, but
it was not Forthcoming and the south
has lost another opportunity to have a
creditable publication.
The career of the modern editor Is not
one that affords opportunities to make a
noise in the wrold The editor of the
average daily is fairly well known in his
home town and possibly in his state but
for the rest of the world he is a compar-
alive stranger although his paper may be
a power in the land and may sway the
opinions of many thousands of readers.
Often the editor of great daily is un-
known to a majority of his fellow towns
men. With the exception of Henry Wat
terson and William Randolph Hearst,
what newspaper editors now living are
known far and wide over the United
States? Able and powerful men are at
the head of the great Chicago daies,
but who knows their names? Very few
people in the south, certainly. Yet the
profession of a great journalist has at
! fractions all its own.
There is a strong sentiment evidenced
just now against fence lads and highly
autographed posters. Perchance this is a
result of artistic cultivation are perhaps
reformers are merely seeking new worlds
to conquer. At any rate war has been
declared on these landscape adornments,
with what success remains to be seen.
Just why people object to the harmless
poster, that contains no suggestion of
yulgarity, is rather hard to see. These
pictures and their relative lads" offer
variety to the weary traveller and help to
while away the tedium of a ride on the
cars or a trip across the country in
carriage. Often they are witty and anus
ing. In fact they have to be SO in order
to be valuable, and the world would be a
dreary place IL we were not confronted
on every side by the CHEEKY greetings of
Sunny Jim or the polite query, Have
you used IS soap?' Now. since faces
of pretty girls have become so popular
for advertising purposes the art has been
rendered doubly attractive and one does
not mind the commercial aspect of the
case if he can catch a glimpse of beau
tiful face for his pains. Outdoor signs,
billboards, and posters are here to stay,
whatever the reformers attempt but in
stead of being allowed to go without de-
tenders the public should come to their
support. PC
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
THE IRONY OF FATE.

From the Washington Star.
II you should strive with all your might
To lead mankind to clearer light;
III you evolve some mighty plan
To benefit your fellow man,
And spend your days in earnest toll,
And nightly burn the midnight oil,
The chances are-'tis sad but true
That no one win take note of you.
But If you venture out some day
When ice and sleet beset your way,
And travel with incautious feet
Adown the treacherous frosted street,
And of a student take bump.
A gruesome, ignominious thump.
Then people laugh-'tis sad but true
Most every one takes note Of you
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22

the present war will be strictly aca-
demic
The sole and only chance for a wild
ening of the trouble is to be found in
Germany, where a War Lord thinks
he sees an opportunity to ALLEVIATE
Russia from France and to get slice
of China himself The people of
Germany are somewhat divided. The
socialists are warm friends of Japan,
and so are many other Germans, but
the ruling clique would dearly love to
dissolve the dual alliance, to minimize
both British and Japanese trade in the
Orient, and particularly to bring out
a disintregration of China, and the
gathering in of a good slice of it by
Germany. But all these things are
mere dreams of Imperialism. Secre-
tary Hays note pledging the nations
to respect the integrity of China will
operate to keep Germany out of the
war, and the Balkan unrest will have
a like tendency, and the fussy War
Lord will have to be content to stay
out of it. No other nation will try to
get into it, and it is safe to conclude
that it will be fought out by Russia
and Japan in Manchuria and Korea
and in the waters that wash their
shores. All stories of a worldwide
struggle are strictly imaginative.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press.
It's never any trouble for a woman to
make it.
Being in society is trying to get where
you aren't
When a girl is wearing her very best
clothes 1t is sign she will call candy
bon-bons.
There is a whole lot of difference be-
tween the girl who gets up to read love
letter at late breakfast from the man
she is going to marry and after she has
dcne 1t gets up early to have late
breakfast ready for him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
Fourteen Lives Are Lost

Paris, February 21.-Fourteen en-
ployes of a celluloid comb factory at
the corner of Boulevard Sebastopol and
the Rue Eteinne Marriott, lost their
lives in a fire which was started
by an explosion of gas. About twenty
other employees were injured.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
Mems Fashions.


According to the DEGREES of fashion
tan shoes are again In favor and II Is
announced that the shirts this summer
will have cuffs that cannot be detached"
said a haberdasher. There was time
when tan shoes were all the rage and
no one thought of wearing any other kind
except on dress occasions, but about three
years ago they began to wane in popu-
larity and recently they have been worn
so little that a man who puts on a pair
now looks rather odd. Personally, I pre-
fer a black shoe on all occasions, but
of course most people are going to fol-
low the style. A black shoe wears bet
ter than a tan, as a rule, and always
looks better, for no matter how much
1t is polished, the lustre is undimmed,
while in the case of a tan shoe repeated
polishes are apt to discolor 1t and make
a once stylish shoe look very much the
other way.
'As for shirts with non-detachable
cuffs, they will be a nuisance to office
men and anyone else who has anything
to do in addition to dressing and walking
about, In the first place 1t will be hard
to get sleeves of just the right length
unless the shirts are made TO measure.
and those who cannot afford clean shirt
every day will be greatly embarrassed,
since the life of pair of clean cuffs is
usually less than twelve hours. Again
it will be impossible to throw OFF the
cuffs when settling down to desk work.
and that is a luxury the average man will
give up only after a protest"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22
About Persons.

Hon. w r. Wood of Meridian spent
EN- route home from a business trip to
Pittsburg.
G. E. Roulhac of Sheffield is at the
Hillman
Lieutenant Hilary williams of the Unit
ed States navy is at the Morris
j. C. Wilson of Montgomery is stopping
at the Metropolitan.
w. W. Crowder of Nashville is at the
st. Nicholas.
Peter Smith of Coal CITY is at the Flor
ence.
DR.. A. n. Steele, prominent physician
of Annistion, is in the city.
Gordon Mcdaniel of Atlanta is at the
Morris.
j. II. Pate, well known business man
of Lafayette, is at the Metropolitan.
p G. Dunlap of Adger is at the Morris.
]. e. Wright of Montgomery is stop
ping at the Florence
Isham Dorsey and d. T. Hudmon prom
inent business men of Opelika, are reg
istered at the Himan.
w. c. Tunstall, Jr., of Admission a well
known young attorney, is at the Metro
politan.
Thomas w. Brown of Louisville is at
the Morris.
D. Boyd of scottsboro is at the Metro
politan.
j. x. Harris of Johns is at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22

Bishop MackeySmith says power,
money and leisure breed sin. Few peo-
pie have the first, and only those who
have a great deal of tn esecond can
have very much of the third and live.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22

A French consul has been slapped in
the face by an American and there will
be no duel, although the Monsieur can
get another slap if he wants 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22

1t now begins to look as if every
nation has a private kennel well filed
with dogs of war, and when the time
comes they will all let loose.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-22

When Nassau street in New York
gets its arcade that city will be three
stories high-one under ground, one
on the surface and one in the air.