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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
From the New York Sun.

N CCORDING to telegram from \PV Paris. based on information said
 to be authentic, the St. Peters burg government is resolved to continue the war until It's prestige shall have been thoroughly retrieved. Russia's resources for war purposes are alleged to be mex haustible, and 1t is further asserted that she can find all the money she would re- quire to carry on hostilities for several years to come.
 The assumption of Russias ability to sustain a protraeted contest at the fur ther end of Asia is not warranted by the only historical precedents applicable to the present situation. During the eigh- teenth century and the first third of the nineteenth warfare was incomparably less costly than it is today. The record, there fore, of Russia's experience at that per- iod may be disregarded. The Crimean war, which began in 1854 and ended with the peace of Paris in 1856, left Russia in a state of exhaustion from which many years were needed to recuperate. It is we'll known that the Czar Nicholas l. died of broken heart when the fact was brought home to him that his country was impotent any longer to offer effec- tive resistance to the French and English invaders. The Russian Turkish war of 1S77-7S was of brief duration, yet 1t lasted long enough to expose Russia.s Ineapacity to maintain hostillties for an extended period But for Rumania's timely as- sistance the main Russian army would and had the other Turkish generals oper- ating in the neighborhood been of the stuff of Osman Pasha and made sturdy defence of the Balkan passes Russia s projected advance upon Constantinople would have had to be renounced It was generally admitted at the time that Rus sia would have been unable to prosecute the war for another year, and 1t was knowledge of the fact that compelled the St. Petersburg government to consent to the suppression of the treaty of San Ste fano, after Lord Beaconsfield had sent British waters A study of that contest convinced military experts that Russia $ fighting capacity under the exacting con- ditions of contemporary warfare had been grossly overrated
 If this was the conclusion reached by
 competent observers of the Russian Turkish war in 1s77-7S, it must a fortori, be pronounced impossible for Russia to prosecute for years a war against Japan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

From the London Truth
 MT. Goldwin Smith has completed a monograph on Mir. Gladstone, which will be published shortly by MT. Fisher Un- win. MT. Goodwin Smith saw great deal of MT Gladstone at various times, so- cially and otherwise, and he was zeal ous supporter of the liberal leader at Oxford, and was In full sympathy with his public views until the home rule split of 1sS6. It Is understood that a consid- erable part of MT. Goldwin Smiths mono- graph is devoted to personal recollec- tions and to a criticism of Mir. Giadstone's literary work, a subject which MT. John Morley noticed very briefly. The book will be entitled, My Memory of Gladstone" and the writer's estimate of the great statesmans career is written in a cool and judicial tone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

makes this striking statement. He is com. pletely and absolutely within the facts when he declares that the city is freer from gamblers and gambling houses than any city of its size in America.
 What are the facts? During the past twenty years there has not been single open gambling house in Atlanta.
 Here there has been given practical demonstration of the fact that 1t is pos- sible to have a thoroughly progressive prosperous, up-to-date city without It's be- ing a wide open town" Here the lid is down. as they would say in New York, and 1t has been down for twenty years.
 Human nature here in Atlanta is not materially different from human nature elsewhere. Occasionally the police court records show crap game pulled; oc- casionally the police have unearthed what might be termed professional poker games in operation; occasionally some professional has attempted to run a poker joint and may have succeeded in doing SO for week or so before discovery; but the police force has been so vigilant that every such effort has been short lived. And the fact remains. as the Constitu- tion has heretofore stated, that in all this great city there is not now, nor has there been in years. single open gam bling house.
 In this respect Atlanta is probably unique among American cities of any size. This is one of the things about which Atlanta boasts and she has a right [. boast about her immunity from the pro- fessional gambling houses just as she has a right to boast of the efficacy of her early closing of saloons. She has fur- nlshed an interesting object lesson to those who have contended that city cannot grow and prosper unless 1t is wide open" and she intends going right on furnishing that lesson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
Books That Are Read.

'"The sales of magazin-5 and novels In Birmingham this summer are larger than any past summer" said a book dealer yes- terday. Fiction is .he hobby. and the lighter the novel the more salable it is. While the magazine publishers are en- toying a feast .nis is nothing unusual in a national campaign year as they pay so much attention to campaign literature and illustrations, an1 of course, politics are prominent in the min&s of the American people"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A man gets along beautifully with his wife by mall.
 Generally a girl has to be awful sus- picious of man to go buggy riding with him.
 The fine thing about being rich Is you can admit you are not without people saying you are a failure.
 The girl who first bleaches her hair seems to think she has done something almost as smart as the boy who smokes his first cigar.
 When you squeeze girls hand. either she thinks 1t was an accident and gets indignant. or she thinks you did 1t on purpose and she pretends not to notice 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
A Combination Alabamian.

Capt. ". D. McCurdy of Lowndesboro arrived in the city last night and is regis tered at the Morris. Capt. MeCurdy is one of the states most progressive far mers and a lover and breeder of fine stock. He is also largely interested in hotel property. being one of the lessees of the Southern at Meridian, Miss. For a long time Captain McCurdy moved among us in Birmingham where he held valuable real estate, and was a lessee of the state convicts. All Alabamians know favorably and well Captain McCurdy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
From the Chicago American.

iOill lilo 0iliCdBO AIneTlCdn.
 N PHILANTHROPY of the kind that " abhors almsgiving and sees in the physical and moral improve ment of employees direct business bene- fit is the explaining reason for the s75, 900 mems clubhouse for which ground has been broken by the Mccormick branch of the International Harvester company. When the structure Is thrown open to the six thousand employees of the corpor- ation next December it will be the hand somest and most combplete building of It's kind in the United States
 In 1S0 by 70 feet of area the buildings three stories and basement will contain all the attractive features that were deemed advisable after a correspondence that covered the world in hunt for ideas.
 The structure will face on Blue Island avenue at the end of the car line. The most space for any one purpose in the building has been devoted to the kitchen, serving room and dining rooms, in which 300 persons can be comfortably seated at one time on its forty by sixty feet of floor. These rooms are on the first or srouhu Hoor ana meals VIII De served there at cost
 From four to eleven cents each is the estimated cost of the meals that will be offered the toilers at noon and after their days work is finished. The idea is that there should be economy in the prepar- ation of large number of meals at the clubhouse, in comparison with the total cost in time and materials when the lunches are prepared separately at homes or by boarding house keepers
 The aiming room Is two stories high and Is so arranged that it can be easily con verted Into a meeting hall or theater At one end are footlights and a stage. where
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
THE APOLOGY.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

By Ralph Waldo Emerson Think me not unkind and rude
 That walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the God of the wood
 To fetch his word to men. Tax not my sloth that I
 Fold my arms beside the brook; Each cloud that floated in the sky
 Writes a letter in my book. Chide me not. laborious band,
 For the idle flowers l brought; Every aster in my hand
 Goes home loaded with a thought. There was never mystery But 'tis figured in the flowers; Was never secret history
 But birds tell 1t in the bowers. One harvest from thy field
 Homeward brought the oxen strong; A second crop thine acres yield
 Which gather in a song.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
POSTMASTER GIVES ADDRESS.

From the Louisville Herald.
 Some time ago." said special pension examiner yesterday, T had an inquiry from the postoffice department concern ing a pensioner who lived somewhere in Hart county, and wrote several of the postmasters to ascertain his address.
 "rhis is the reply I received from one of them:
 Mr. A. Barnes dose not git his mail at this office don't know his rost office. He is oead I beleave his post office is Sulphur Lick"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
NO GAMBLING IN ATLANTA.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 For selfish purposes they are willing to have it published to the world that our city Is filled with gambling houses and gamblers. 1 am sure that this city is clearer of this class of houses and peo- pie than any city of its size in the Uni ted States.-Mayor Howell's message.
 The mayor gives voice to what every body else has been thinking when he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
Burned to Death in Mil.

Columbia, Tenn. August 1S.-John H. Frazier was burned to death here this morning in fire which destroyed the blaming mill plant of the N. F. Vaughn Mercantile and Manufacturing company. Frazier was cut on while attempting to save tools stored in the mill. The property loss is $10.000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
John w. Wall Is Dead.

Huntsville. August s.-tspecial)-John W. Wall. aged GA years, died today after a lengthy illness. He was a justice of the peace. warm Knight of Honor. a member of other societies and a promi- nent citizen. He leaves a widow and three grown children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

Massachusetts grand old man is passing away, but he retains his sense of humor, and he bids fair to go over the Divide with smile on bis lips.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

Uncle Joe Cannon is to be the guest of the secretary of the navy at New port, and the two will put up at gov ernment vessel the expense to be charged to the ordnance account, of collrse
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

All the parks want the Big Iron Man, but the Five-Point circle seems to have the inside In the contest. While We put up high school on Northside, let us award to Southside the typical figure of the district. There should be . fair division of spells.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

The plumbers, gcs filters and steam filters are losing valuable time by being away from home, although August is a dull month in their remun- eratiye callings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
COMPLETE CLUB HOUSE
 FOR COMPANY EMPLOYEES

entertainers can find ample space, or am- ateur actors can present dramas for homo audiences.
 The same floor also contains reading, liv- ing, billiard, game and office rooms. The finishing is to be in red oak, with whito maple floors. Every room will have a large brick fireplace.
 Bowling alleys and shower baths, with a plunge bath, will be located in the base ment, where is also to be the heating plant. On the second floor will be four large rooms suitable for meetings or in- struction of night classes.
 The officials of the Mccormick Har- vester company intend to provide teach CTS for a variety of subjects and to en- education. On the top floor are two large rooms, where 1t is intended to offer man. ual training for those who wish to ac- quire a technical or specialized Knowledge outside of the "rut'' of ordinary labor.
 The walls will be composed of brick and the slls will be of stone, the whole presenting handsome appearance. Over the ornamental entrance will appear the title "Men's Club.'
 The hope and expectation of the stock holders and officials whose money Is go- ing into this building is that 1t will prove a magnet to draw the employees from saloons and other places of resort where waste of money and weariness of flesh are the penalties that add to loss of time.
 Both the women and men employees of the company are enthusiastic advocates of the clubhouse, although 1t has been planned primarily for the use of the men toilers alone. However, there will be many special occasions when the women will be welcomed, and they will find pleas ant and ample rooms for their sole use.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

If the steerage rate falls much lower, managers of poor houses can board their inmates cheaper by send ing them to and fro on the sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

Candidate Fairbanks continues to neglect to resign his seat in the sen ate. He never lets go of a salary un- til he nabs a new one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

MT. Cortelyou is almost as sacred and retired as captain of finance or mummy from Egypt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

The name of the torpedo boat de- stroyer Ryeshitelni should have kept off the Japanese.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

Chicago would like to swap a pros pectiye baseball pennant for a settle ment of the meat strike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

Judge Parker is urged to go on the stump in the doubtful states. now that he Is no longer hampered by judicial etiquette.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

The Russian fleet in the Far East exists now in harmless fragments, scattered all along the coast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

Japan threatens to fill Port Arthur full of lyddite shells if the Russians sink their ships at Port Arthur.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

From the New Yorker.
 Barber-Does that razor pull sir?
 Customer-Yes, but go ahead. I've been pretty hard pushed lately. and thls'll even up things a little.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

The plumbers need not meet in con- vention to protect their rights, for one of their bills can do that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

Bishop Potter knows an ecclesiasti- cal cyclone when it hits him full and square.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

Auto smashing is as popular in the effete east as broncho busting is in the woody west.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

The demand for harvest hands and pickers outruns the demand for spell. binders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

The Russians retreat as readily at sea as on land. It is chronic national failing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

Russian chips are safe at any rate in the Black sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

The Higdon-Kyle controversy re- fuses to stay dead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

The three days battle at Little Rock will make or break the combatants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

Young Aleck Romanoff Is guarded by a thousand Russian soldiers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

The American-built battleship, the Retvizan, is still alive to tell the tale.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

The Japanese are almost in Port Arthur's midst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

The Ryeshitelvi should never be per mitted to become an international is sue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

The campaign is apathetic except where Champ Clark has his knife out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

Our national Turkey hunt resulted in a bag full of game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

The rising populist in Missouri is Will l. Dockum, a sawmill boss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 Clara-What do you think of stella's escapade?
 Maude-Why what did she do? Clara-she eoped with her fathers coachman last night
 Maude-Well, her future Is assured. Clara-In what way?
 Maude-He has stable income
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

Washington Bureau Age-Herald. 142l c Street N. W.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

From the Philadelphia Press.
 Yes said the summer man of 1908, "she said she loved me with all her heart"
 "Ah A subterfuge" replied his friend. Apparently you do not keep posted upon surgical matters. Do you not know that her heart was removed this spring?p
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

T should say he was Why. he never uses an irregular verb if he can help if
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

The Russian grand dukes feel like 30 cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
THE JoKERS.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 T never knew 8 man of more regular
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
Like the lily.

The Only Daily Newspaper in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
GOODWIN SMITH ON GLADSTONE.

The czar's favorite bird is the storls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

There are rainbow chasers in both parties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19


  Candidate Fairbanks continues to neglect to resign his seat in the sen ate. He never lets go of salary un- til he nabs a new one.
  Judge Parker is urged to go on the stump In the doubtful states, now that he is no longer hampered by judicial etiquette. Japan threatens to fill Port Arthur full of lyddite shells if the Russians sink their ships at Port Arthur. The Russian fleet in the Far East | exists now in harmless fragments, scattered all along the coast.
  The plumbers need not meet in con- vention to protect their rights, for one of their bills can do that.
 -s.-- Chicago would like to swap pros peetiye baseball pennant for a settle ment of the meat strike.
  MT. Cortelyou is almost as sacred | and retired as a captain of finance or mummy from Egypt
  The name of the torpedo boat de- stroyer Ryeshitelni should have kept off the Japanese.
  Auto smashing Is as popular in the | erete east as broncho busting is in | the woody west The demand for harvest hands and | pickers outruns the demand for spell. binders.
 Bishop Potter knows an ecclesiasti. | cal cyclone when it hits him full and square.
 The Russians retreat as readily at | sea as on land. It is chronic national | failing.
 The Ryeshitelvi should never be per mitted to become an international is | sue. The American-built battleship, the | Retyizan, is still alive to tell the tale. |
  The campaign is apathetic except | where Champ Clark has his knife out. |
  The three days battle at Little Rock Will make or break the combatants.
 --s.- Young Aleck Romanof Is guarded | by thousand Russian soldiers. The rising populist in Missouri is Will l. Dockum, sawmill boss.
 ----.s-- Our national Turkey hunt resulted | in bag full of game. The Japanese are almost in Port | Arthur's midst.
 -----------ss--- The Russian grand dukes feel like | 30 cents.
 There are rainbow chasers in both parties.
 --------es----- The czar's favOrite bird fr fha ctorIr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

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Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-05-04
WISDOM OF NovELIsrs.

There Is no man so cautious about
money as your reformed spendthrift.--
G.. II. Bnrgin.
Men who stand much upon their dig
nifty have not, as rule. much else 90
stand upon.-Seten Merrlman-
The virtues OF our loved ones we al
mhrc. Their failings we would forget
But over then follles we love 10 liuger
smiling. jerome b. Jerome.
Any fool can get notion. IL needs
training TO drive thing through
training and conviction. not rushing
after the first faney.-Rudyard Kip
ling.
Sometimes n chance remark. which
has very little significance for the per-
son who makes IL. Is like an aperture
that lets In light on the whole chsrac-
ter.-Sarah Grand.
Superstition. i'm it's essence. Is merely
a recognition OF the truth that I'm a
universe OF mysteries and contradic-
lions. like ours. nothing conceivable or
uncomfortable is impossible. - Henry
uarland
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-05-04
HOW TO LIVE LONG.
Eat SparinEly and n Life WaneS En-
sim More SparinEIy.

Eat SDarinEly and n Life Wanc~ Eat
sim More SparinEIy.
That most men DIG their graves with
their teeth has seldom been pointed out
more fOrcibly rhan is done i'm the Cen
fury In an article 10y Roger :. Tracy.
entitled How 10 Live Long" The
threescore and ten limit to human life
is pronounced q fallacy Death from
old age. occurring ar seventy-tve or
eighty. is a misnOmcr Comparative
PSYCHOLOGISTS, we are told. have set the
natural years OF man ut 100. even
sometimes at 120. and the reason why
the overwhelming majority fall short
Of normal life is comprised I'm one sen
tence-we all eat too much. He. then.
who would live 10 be old. retaining
sight hearing and some digestion, not
relinquishing the power Of healthy en-
joyment, has but 10 follow a simple
rule. Eat Sparingly. Refrain from
clogging the system by an oversupply
Of food. Never entirely satisfy the APP
petite. and make ii a habit occasionally
10 omit meal or two altogether.
If were 10 assign any one thing as
especially conducive 10 long life from
a study Of the habits Of ccntenarians.
1t would be semistarvation." says one
authority quoted. and the example is
cited Of one Luigi Cornaro. who. hav-
ing lived the pace that kills. amended
his ways when death threatened and
so recognized his enfeebled body by a
life of temperance and restraint that
he lived 10 be 100, although the doctors
had given him up NJ forty. In middle
life, from thirty-ive TO forty-tve. ac-
cording TO Dr. Tracy, there comes 4
waning OF the powers The effects OF
overindulgence in eating or drinking
are no longer vigorously thrown of as
in youth. If the fact is not recog-
nized and the same habits are kept
up as heretofore. there is trouble
ahead But If the individual adopts a
new regimen Of diet, diminishes his
meals and regulates his existence as
becomes his sOberer years a sort Of
rejuvenatiOn follows, and if at the sec
ond climacteric, occurring somewhere
between sixty and seventy, there is a
further pull up in the food supply,
regulated by the slackening powers Of
assimilation, hale old age is extreme
u likely 10 ensue.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-05-04

One OF the best stories of Judge Par
~. famous English jurist. related to
a feeble looking man who was rebuked
for supporting n ridiculous claim made
by his wife. Il tell you candidly. |
don't believe word OF your wife's
story" said Judge Parry.
yer may do as yer like" replied the
man mournfully. but I've got to-"
1t was once the doubtful privilege Of
Judge Parry TO overhear the com.
ments OF two men against whom he
had decided. les n fool. but e did
is best" was the verdict OF these dis
appointed suitors. Zone might sleep
under an unkinder epitaph," was the
philosophic comment OF the Judge