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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03
The Plano Trade.

April May and June are the best months in the year for piano business" said J. E. Shelby, "but December, the Christmas month, runs a close second. There is no special reason why these months should be better than others ex- cept that it Is house-cleaning time; and then, too, most people are more willing to assume an obligation just at the close of winter, when household expenses be- gin to become less. as the season pro- gresses.
 But it is really remarkable what a de- cided effect house-cleaning time has on the piano business. There is many wo- man that would no more think of putting a fine new piano into house that had not been thoroughly cleaned than she would think of donning a handsome new dress without first taking bath"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03
HYMN OF THE WEST.

By Edmund Clarence Stedmsn. (Offcial hymn of the Louisiana Pur- chase Exposition) O Thou, whose glorious orbs on high Engird the earth with splendor round. From out Thy secret place draw nigh The courts and temples of this ground;
 Eternal Light,
 Fill with Thy might These domes that in Thy purpose grew, And lift a nations heart anew! Illumine Thou each pathway here, To show the marvels God hath wrought Since first Thy peoples chief and seer Looked up with that prophetic thought,
 Bade Time unroll
 The fateful scroll, And empire unto Freedom gave From cloudland height to tropic wave Poured through the gateways of the
 north
 Thy mighty rivers join their tide, And on the wings of morn sent forth Their mists the far-off peaks divide.
 By Thee unsealed,
 The mountains yield Ores that the wealth of Ophir shame And gems enwrought of seven-hued
 flame. Lo, through what years the soil hath lain At thine own time to give increase The greater and the lesser grain, The ripening boil, the myriad fleece!
 Thy creatures graze
 Appointed ways, League after league across the lana The ceaseless herds obey Thy nano. Thous whose high archways shine most
 clear
 Above the plenteeus western plain' Thine ancient tribes from round the
 sphere
 To breathe it's quickening air are fain;
 And smiles the sun
 To see made one Their brood throughout Earth's green
 est space,
 Land of the new and lordlier race!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03
MORE SOUND THAN FROGS.
Wa sbington Times.

From the Washington Times.
 Mark Twain hasn't monopoly on frog stories. Representative John F. Lacey of Iowa. tells the following
 "A man asked a hotelkeeper If he would like to buy some frog legs. The hotel man said he would if he could buy them In large quantities. The frog seller agreed to begin supplying the legs at the rate of forty dozen a week. and started in search of the little croakers
 "In three weeks the fellow returned sheepishly to the hotelkeeper and offered him four pairs of frog legs. The land lord was surprised and indignant.
 l" But you agreed to furnish me forty dozen a week. he protested.
 Well. I thought from the way they were hollerin' l could, replied the frog man, but this was all could find
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

N NEW prophet has risen in Paris V and with tears in his eyes he predicts the dire fate that will soon overtake the capital. This man says that the home of fancy dancers and peo- pie who eat late suppers will soon been de- stroyed by fire as sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for their great wickedness. The prophet does not specify as to dates but he Is convinced that Paris is drifting to an early ooom that he is distributing circulars giving parti- culars. But such croakers of future evil have risen In Paris before and that joy ous town has managed to survive their depressing influence. The new prophet Is kind enough to exempt the outlying dis tricts of the city from destruction and perhaps that is the reason Parisians are taking his warnings so easily.
 The man who had a finger grafted on his face for a nose Is to be outdone by a Pennsylvania man who will shortly place himself under treatment in New York to have his features completed by the graft ing of a nose and an ear that were burn
  cess seems to have been a success, so there is no reason to suppose that the new operation will fall. Great is modern surgery, that can give man a nose when he has 1t not; can give him teeth; can color his eyes or give him glass optics; can supply him with missing limbs at any old price and thinks nothing of furnish ing dimples, eyebrows, eyelashes and various shades of hair.
 A timely" inventor has just come for ward with the announcement that he has perfected bouyant, non-sinkable ship which will float as easily up-side-down as on a level keel. However, the inven- tor does not give any particulars and the public will wait until he is able to specify just why his ship will not sink before bestowing upon him the honors which are his.
 The Pennsylvania Dunkards are stirred up over the question of whether the garb which has distinguished them for gener- ations shall be modified more in accord ance with modern tastes or whether it shall be permitted to remain unchanged. There seems to be a tendency toward modification, although the authorities of the church have accommodated sever al members for presuming to change their style of dress. It Is not believed that dress has very much to do with a mans religion. for the reason that he can be just as righteous fin rags as in the quaint Dunkard costume, or in fash ions latest creation, but the Dunkards have always dressed very neatly and sensibly and there is really no cause for them to get worked up over the dress problem.
 The public is familiar with the quaintly worded postscript that was formerly sub- pended to all death notices in country papers for "Blankville" or "Muddle- town" papers to 'please copy" The Baltimore Herald has just made an agreement with papers In the leading eastern cities which may be an after growth of this idea. The Herald has made arrangements so that death mo- tice inserted in its columns may be tele-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03
From the New York Times.

From the New fOrk Times.
 N OBERT c. OGDEN and the guests !" he took with him through the - south, where they visited many industrial educational institutions in Vir- ginia, South Carolina, and Alabama, be- fore attending the seventh annual confer ence for education in the south at Bir- mirgham, Ala, returned to New York yesterday morning all enthusiastic over the experiences of their trip. When they started many of the members were unac- qualnted. but they parted with the regret of old friends. Before going their several ways the members of the party, many of them gray-haired after long years of education work, bishops and ministers, professors of the great colleges and schools together with their wives and daughters, gathered about the tall gray haired man who had been their consider ate host since the evening of April 19 to thank him for trip they could never forget.
 The party started northward shortly after midnight Thursday morning to complete their journey of N00 miles through the southland. There was the final cheer they had learned from a girl student at Winthrop, Rock Hill. s. C.:
 Rah! Rah! Rahl
 R. c. o.
 He's the man
 Who makes things go.
 The last day of the journey of 270o miles was spent In reminiscence and singing the songs they had learned from the negro, like Climbing Jacobs Lad- der.' "We Are Rollin'," 'Zekiel's Wheels" Freedom" Where Shall Be When the First Trumpet Sounds" Wake Up the Nations Underground" and the other favorites.
 There was no doubt in the minds of any of the educators that the work Of the educational industrial schools of the south is in the right line, and that 1t IS doing the greatest good for the soutn' where the states spend nearly half their revenue for the support of their schools. The impression was that the industriai features of the southern institutions might be applied with advantage in the north, even in the higher class schools, 1t being held that every girl should know now 10 sew ana cook. I1fSii i- S--~ -o-- never have to do either, she would kno" how to direct others. It was also peiieV- ed that 1t would benefit a rich mans son to know thoroughly some one trade
 This conclusion was arrived at after inspecting the schools of Hampton and ruskesee, the Whittier school the Win throp Normal and Industrial college, the College for Women in the state of South Carolina at Rock Hill, the State Normal college at Troy, the University of Ala bama at Tuscaloosa, and the Alabama Girls Industrial School at Montevallo.
 On four nights of the trip 1t had been arranged by MT. Ogden that the train should be side-tracked, thus giving his guests an opportunity for rest. and the side tracks chosen were invariably in some pleasant wooded place. rather than in a noisy railroad yard The reveille each morning was the growing of the roosters, while the croaking of the frogs answered flor taps. though the firefies declined to "out lights" evidently un- derstanding that the expedition was not being conducted on military lines.
 At every place where MT. Ogden and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03
TINTED GLASS BULLS LEAVES.

From the New York American.
 The colorings of variegated foliage plants cannot be intensified by the use of colored glass. A curious Belgian horti- culturist, after long series of experi- ments concludes that brillinat light fa- vors high coloration of foliage. Trees and shrubs with golden leaves, when poorly illuminated-that is. through eith- CT blue or red glass-became green, or in some cases lblanched.
 In no case did the colored glass have a months exposure. putting forth smaller leaves. less vivid In coloring. In some cases a very apparent stunting of the plants growth was observable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03
OGDEN PARTY DELIGHTED
 WITH ITS SOUTHERN TRIP

his friends stopped they were received with the warmest cordiality, and 1t was demonstrated that there was supply of bright speakers in each town.
 Among the speakers with the visitors, none was more popular than W. w. Stet- son Of Maine. who charmed his southern hearers by equaling their own people in story telling. Among his many other anecdotes he told of a visit to a country town in the far north where he asked the chief deacon of the place what sort of preacher they had. It was a long time before there was any answer and then the deacon committed himself and glorified his patience with the pastor, remarking:
 T ain't got nothin' to say except about the precipitation of the saints"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03
Changes at the Morris.

Thomas Horton. who has been night clerk at the Hotel Morris for the past four years, has been promoted to the position of chief clerk to succeed Judson Gordon. who has resigned to accept a travelling position with Cincinnati. house Mir. Gordon had been chief clerk of the Morris for the past six years and has many friends in Alabama who regret his departure from the city. w. R. Wom- ble of Baltimore, goes on the day watch. and Jule c. Wright. formerly bookkeeper of the Morris, goes on the night watch
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03
STRIKERS oUTWlTTEp.
Santa Fe Officials Close Shops Before
 Strike Is Declared.

Topeka, Kan, May 2.-When the POGO Santa Fe machinists and workmen gath cred at the big railway shops in this city today to go to work they found the gates locked. The entire plot of ground of twenty-five acres is surrounded with a high oak board fence with few gates. These gates were locked and the men were told by guardsmen that "there was nothing doing" The Santa Fe. officials assert that they were simply anticipating a strike that would have come today.
 They said information had come to them that the men had held secret meetings Saturday night and Sunday and decided upon strike at o'clock Monday morn ing. There was no disturbance today, the majority of the men returning quiet ly to their homes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03
Autauaa and Baldwin.

The refusal of Judge w. s. Anderson to call special term of the court in Baldwin county is bearing quick fruit. 1t has embolden the mob spirit in Au- tauga county, and a negro was tied to a tree on Sunday and his body duly filled with bullets.
 The responsibility rests upon the last legislature which refused to au. thorize the governor of the state to call special term of the court to try lynchers. This refusal renders con- sistent policy on the part of the state against anarchy impossible. Tue plac- ing of such power in the hards of thirteen circuit judges answers the purpose in some circuits-in others, it does not. In the Thirteenth circuit it does not Governor Jellzs urged the legislature to vest the authority to call a special term on the chief executive of the state, but 1t listened to hidden influences, and the request of the states brave and far-sigbted governor was denied.
 If the lynchers of Autauga and Bal6- win are not brought to justice anarchy reigns again in this state, and the con ditions that prevailed in the lminis- trations preceding Governor JelEs' will be resumed. Law and order will be at a discount, and all the reputation gained for the state by Governor Jelks will be lost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03
LONG-LlVED ANIMALS.

From Harper's Weekly.
 It is believed that the whale holds the palm for length of years, A reliable cor rect computation puts the extreme age of the largest of fish at 400 years. It is said in India that elephants have been known to live over 300 years. Certain species of birds, as the swan and raven, pass the 10O- mark; camels sometimes live 50 years; horses from 20 to 30. Sheep, oxen and dogs have less vitality; it is seldom that A dog lives longer than 15 years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 It makes a woman awful careless of her feet to wear baby-blue stockings.
 It takes woman to weep to show her happiness and to laugh to hide her grief.
 When girl turns up her nose at an un- married man maybe she has her eye on one who Is married
 A bachelor may suspect what he has es- capped, but 1t takes a widower to know with convictions profound.
 It seems to a mother awful cold blood ed of boys father not to want to cry because the youngster writes he is home- sick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03
Development of Public Spirit.

"As Birmingham advances in material things there is, am glad to say, very marked development of public spirit" ob- served a prominent citizen. 'The people of this community have always been gen. erous in responding to calls for charity, but within the past few months they have contributed liberally to all sorts of funds and enterprises for the public good.
 "No city of Birmingham's size could have made a better showing in the way of opening the purse strings. Money for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03
General Black.

Gen. John c. Black, commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, and president of the civil service com- mission. who arrived in Birmingham Sun day. left for Washington yesterday af- ternoon. He and the party accompany ing him on his southern trip, were en- tertained by members of G. A. R. Gen eral Black said he was greatly pleased with Birmingham. In fact no city in the south had impressed him so favorably.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03
IT ALL DEPENDS.
From the Washington Times.

From the Washington Times.
 startling piece of news appears in this mornings papers, to the effect that three ex-governors of the state of Yer mont were discovered in a row in the senate yesterday. But the three old gem tlemen in question were seated most peacefully in the gallery, and nobody knew who they were till afterward. It all depends on how you pronounce the word s'rOw ''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

Old salts are laughing at Senator Hale because he spoke of ship turn ing over like turtle when turtles do not turn over on their backs unless some one helps them with stick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

Uncle Joe Cannon appreciates the kind words of his colleagues, but his appreciation does not extend to an ao- eeptanoe of the nomination for vice president,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03
ROOSEVELT AND CLEVELAND,

From the New York World. Cost of Roosevelt administra-
 tion...,. ....... ...... .....s2. GAG, ,OOO,Oco Cost of Mckinley administra-
 tion... ... ..... -. .... .... 2.s29. 100000 Cost of Cleveland administra-
 tion..... -. ,..... .... ...... 1,757. 100000 Excess of Roosevelt over Me-
 Kinley...... ..... ...... ...... 211 100000 Excess of Roosevelt over
 Cleveland. ..... .... ... ...... SSs,OoO, 900
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

Ex-Secretary Gage and MT. Rocke- feller, Jr., are trying to prove that a man can make million without being a robber. It is a vexed and difficult question, with two or three sides at least to it, the third being the peo- nle'S.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

Sarah Bernhardt wants it distinctly understood that she is boss of her own theatre and she so informed an actor who wanted his name printed on the play bills in type as large as that which heralded the name of the divine Sarah
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

President Roosevelt no doubt ad- mires himself immensely for being strenuous enough to touch button in Washington and start a great fair in St Louis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03
OPEN TO DOUBT.

From the Washington Post
 A burglar in New York broke into bank with a can-opener. It Is hard to say whether the bank officials or the burglar should be considered least scien- tific.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

Chicago scored last year 2000 street car accidents, or more than the tigers in India.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

The Japs have shown the Russians that they are as formidable on land as on sea, and they did not have any torpedoes or mines to help them,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

Flammarions wife cuts his hair and stuffs sofa pillows with it. The sofa pillows ought to be very good, but the quality of the haircut is questionable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

The late session of congress expects to be known as the canal session.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

Since Prince Pu Lun began to give away royal souvenirs he has been ex- ceedingly popular with the matrons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

The Lawson-Rockefeller fight is to be to finish, but it is not stated whose finish it will be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

The Japanese are alert in everything except music. They are not moved by sweet or soul-stirring strains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03
Wealthy Brewer Commits Suicide.

New York, May 2.--James H. Strobel, iS years of age. a wealthy brewer, com mitted suicide at his residence on West Eighty-fifth street, today by inhaling illu- minating gas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

"Bedelia" survives, alas, among whistlers despite the photograph fire in Philadelphia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

MT. Lawcon of Boston should equip his torpedoboats at once before the Standard company can mass It's oil.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

If Thomas W. Lawson does not crush the Standard Oil, he will transform his sword Into plowshare, or words to that effect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

Compulsory swimming for our sol diers in the Philippines is advocated by Gen. Leonard Wood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

Mir. Hearst may not be 8 self-made man. but he is certainly a self-made candidate for President-made by his own barrel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

Some men claim to be agnostics in order to emphasize their alleged deep insight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

Now that the fair has started off so auspiciously, 1t is very poor taste to spoil everything by calling 1t an "exnop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

The Igorrotes have been so well ad- vertised that they will do big busi- ness with the St. Louis crowds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

The Mormon church Is a trust, but it cannot well be called a religious trust in view of recent evidence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

Bourke Cochran gained as much rep utation in congress as Dalzell lost, and that was gaining some.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

Thomas w Lawson is stripping for his fight with the Standard Oil.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

The rapid automobilists are fined ten dollars in some cities, and 1t is fashion that should be extended to all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

A man named Reed A. Bible regis tered at a Chicago hotel the other day then waxed profane because the clerk laughed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

When Judge Parker begins to talk he will be a good subject for press bulletins.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

Congress has adjourned and summer has come, and we may all be happy yet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

A $500 torpedo can sink an $s,0OO,OOC battleship without turning hair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-03

France Is the come-on in the case of the Russian war loan.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-22
AD1UDeED INSANE.
Jacob Adams Commitment to insane
Asylum ls Ordered.

Jacob Adams Commitment to insane
Asylum Is Ordered.
A commission in lunacy was con-
vened Wednesday afternoon for the
purpose of examining Jacob Adams as
t. his sanity. The board was compos-
ed of w. %. Parker, chairman Of the
board of county commissioners, and
Doctors Baxter and Chapple.
Adams was the nan who was ar
rested something like a week ago by
a couple of ranchers residing south
of the city and turned over to the
sheriff because of his strange actions
and the fear that he would carry out
his threat to kill some one, he labor
ing under the hallucination that he
was being pursued by men bent OIL
taking his life. After Incarceration
the insanity of Adams took a different
turn. Instead of a man hunter he
became the object of the most alb
ject fear and continually besought the
jailer to protect him from imaginary
enemies. Toward the last he thought
the jailer was trying to poison him
and at times became quite violent.
Adams answers to the questions
put to him by the examiners were
lucid at times, but he admitted that
he occasionally "got his dates mixed
He said he had three brothers at
S%helbyville, Ind, the only relatives he
knew of.
In the opinion of the board he was
a dangerous man to be permitted at
large and his commitment was or
dered.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-22
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