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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
Prosperity in the South.

The long and short of the business situation is this, the south is prosper ous, and the rest of the country is ey- periencing the dullness that generally attends presidential years. To some extent the wheat-growing west shares our prosperity, but the east is unmis- takably dull. Good fat crops have rem dered the west and south compara- lively independent, and they no longer wholly depend upon eastern money or eastern help.
 The New York Financial Chronicle calls attention to the relative changes X of late among the sections. In the week ended March 5, for example, bank clearings were increased in the south 72 per cent, while they were decreased 31 per cent in New York city, 2S per cent throughout the middle states, and 12 per cent in New Eng land, below the corresponding week in 1903. The railroad earnings tell like story.
 And these results are not wholly due to the high price of cotton. That helps largely, but it is not all. The south IS doing a great deal of manufacturing. Bank President Lowery of Atlanta at tributes Georgia's prosperity more to her cotton and oil mills. Her cotton mills now consume annually about 350.- 900 bales, and her 125 oil mills turn out products worth s12,0O0,O0O. Alabama is blessed with great natural resources with lumber, iron, coal and naval stores, and she is exceptionally for tunate. But every other southern state is full of activity, hope, courage and energy.
 If the new crop of cotton should prove to be a record maker fully 65 per cent of 1t will be made by white labor, and this means that the work will be done, and well done at that. This means, too, that the south will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Mir. and Mrs Andrew Carnegie will re- turn from Scotland next September and will be accompanied by Mrs John Morley.
 Carolus Duran has just been elected to the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. For many years the artists election was op- posed by Gerome, who died recently.
 Mayor Mcclellan of New York has re- turned to his office from Lakewood, New Jersey where he has been suffering for several days with an attack of grip.
 Sidney Sears, a member of the St Louis police force, is the champion revolver shot of the United States. In recent contest he scored 12O out of a possible 12o shots
 Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and sons, The odore and Kermit, spent Thursday taking a trip down the Potomac river on the Sylph They were accompanied by Dr. Rixey.
 pr. Samuel F. Lewis has been appoint ed special agent in Washington for the John B. Gordon Memorial associations which will erect monument to the stin- guished Confederate leader at Atlanta, Ga.
 The Columbian Classical club held its fourth annual meeting last night in the main hall of Columbian university. Prof. Kirby Flower Smith of Johns Hopkins university delivered lecture on "A Ro- man Theatrical Performance"
 
 Prof Jesse Benedict Carter of Prince ton has been appointed professor of Latin in the American School of Classical studies in Rome for the year 1so4-lso5. He will be given a two-year leave of ab- sence from Princeton.
 Countess oyama, wife of the Japanese field marshal who is now directing the movements of Japanese troops in Korea, is d graduate of Vassar in the class of 1882, and spent number of years in the United States She is the daughter of one of the old feudal nobles of Japan.
 Senor Don Fernando E. Guachaela, en- yoy extraordinary and minister pleni- potentiary to the United States from Bo- liyia has arrived on the Kaiser Wilhelm from Europe on his way to Washington to notify the President that he will resign his post in order to return to lils country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
TICKER FAILS IN 1.-THE PIT"
Lackaye and the Assistant Electrician
 Save the Scene.

From the New York Times
 It amused the audience when the tape gave out last night in the most exciting scene in "The Pit" Wilton Lackaye was fevrishly reading off the quotations 'es the tape rolled out of the glass case The white paper broke. That wasn't on the programme Lackaye couldn't go on reading numbers off, for the audience could see there was no tape coming out. It was necessary for him to devise some escape from the awkward situation He got up, went to the exit on the left, and called the electrician by name.
 Come in and fix this tape" he said, as if it were part of the play II can't tell what the markets doing
 But the electrician was not an actor. He refused Then the assistant was called. while the audience was more amused. The assitant was not bashful. He fixed the tape in a minute and the play went on after an uncomfortable pause
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD
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services will be strictly for the circus people. but outsiders will be admitted if they so desire. The chaplain belongs to the United Brethren faith and comes from the west, where he was pastor of a church for time. He afterwards be- came an evangelist and then a lecturer on natural history. It was primarily as a lecturer that Mir. Sneak was engaged by the circus management. as 1t was be- lieved that interest in the menagerie would be greatly increased by having some one familiar with animals tell about their habits while the spectators are watching them In the cages. This is an innovation that will be appreciated by people who go to a circus to study the animals, as the educative features will thus be strengthened. As pastor for the big circus MT. Sneak will also be able to accomplish much good.
 A story comes from New Jersey of how working man was driven to madness and death by the brutal testing of his so-caled friends This man was bitten by a dog short time ago. He had the wound cauterized and thought little about it until in an evil moment he told his companions of the accident. Immediately, with that brilliant originality which dis tingushes certain clowns among the spe- cies, these men began to make merry of their comrades hurt, barking like dog, asking him If he could still drink water, and counting the days until he would be- gin to foam at the mouth. The unfortu- nate man bore their taunts In silence and gave no signs of the effect this treatment had upon him. although he was seized with horror at the possibility of be- coming mad. Gradually his fears weighed upon him until he developed signs of hydrophobia and shortly after died in agony. Physicians are confident that the mans own imagination. colored that the mans own imagination, colored by the thoughtless jests of his compan- ions, had brought on hydrophooia when he might have escaped. Here Is merely another example of mans inhurnanity to man.
 Now that the negro roustabout Is said to be yielding his place to his white suc- cessor the question Is often asked wheth- CT the white men will stand as much pro- fanity and abuse as the negroes have been subjected to by steamboat mates Profanity has become so closely associat- ed with river life that it will be impossi- ble to break mates of the habit until an entirely new generation springs up. CUTS
 ing was found to have good effect on the negro roustabout. It quickened his pace and made him work harder. There fore river men became artists in profan- ity unequalled even on the high seas. It is quite certain that they will not quit their favorite means of exhortation at any time soon and the white roustabout has a hard proposition before him. For tnnately many of the new recruits under stand little English and win pay scant heed to the streams of profanity directed at their heads. f.Cs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 An ugly husband makes a faithful one.
 man can get a great reputation with a woman by opening a telegram just as if it wouldn't bite.
 The only way to get a boy to take castor oil cheerfully is to give him the choice of that or Sunday school.
 No woman can. wear another womans S rubbers without pretending that she has to slide along on her feet to keep them from falling off.
 What woman likes about buying a thing on the installment plan is that if she died before 1t wSs paid up she would be that much mone,~.n.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
ALI About the War.


 'The news boys of your city, said visitor. 'are sadly deficient in originality and invention I came here several times during the spanish-Ameriean war, and have been here even since the Russo Japan war started and still I hear the same old cry every morning and evening" All about the war In other cities the boys cry out the particular event that has happened. Japanese capture Port Arthur Russian fleet sunk Great bat tie between the Russian and Japanese soldiers, Great Russian victory etc Some of them even go so far as to pro- nounce Japanese and Russian names or men and places, all of which gives va riety and novelty to the news-cry Your boys are active and intelligent but lack originality. or else some one of them would have broken the monotony before now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Japan has adopted the best plans of warfare based upon the successful cam paigns of the world. It has gone about it practically and quickly. Russia had Port Arthur and Viadivostoek on the east as ports of defense and operation from which to operate in acquiring control of the far east. Vladivostock harbor is frozen up nearly half the year. Japan fought for Port Arthur in it's war with China in 1894 and 1895 and captured 1t, when by an al lance with France and Germany and trade with China. Russia took 1t from her. the details of which wrote several week ago.
 Port Arthur is Russia's stronghold in the far east. Therefore Japan's fight for it. Tn the war with China Japan landed troops on the Biaotung peninsular north of Pert Arthur and captured 1t from tha land side. as the United States troops were compelled to take Santiago in Cuba in the recent war with Spain.
 Now the Japs are fighting to take Port Arthur from the Russians, knowing that its acquisition will end the war. If Port Arthur is taken and held by the Japs, iNuSSid VIII nave HO southern OuIleL s1n the far east and consequently Southern Manchuria will be of no value to her It can certainly be none from a military point of view. If Japan can take and hold Port Arthur 1t will be in position practically to make terms of it's own with Russia, as Port Arthur practically com mands Russias' outlet to the South.
 Just what the practical plan of the Japs Is to take Port Arthur has not yet been thoroughly demonstrated. The rigid press censorship on the part of both the Japa- nese and Russians has prevented the out side observer from keeping up with the campaign Of course we know that Japan has been vigorous In her naval attacks upon the fleet and forts at Port Arthur, but 1t has been thoroughly demonstrated to them, as it was to the American navy at Santiago, that ships are no match for modern land batteries, and 1t Is now re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

alized that Port Arthur must be attack ed bosk from the land side as well as from the sea- Whether she Japs will en- deavor to march their troops from Korea across the Yalu river and around through Manchuria down the Laotung peninsula to Port Arthur, or will attempt to land troops northeast of Port Arthur, just north of Dalney, Is yet problematical If depends upon the number of troops Rus sia has already concentrated along ths coast line of the Liaotung peninsula Ger. tain 1t is that the Japs are determined 10 take Port Arthur if that be possible Once they get Port Arthur, with theii naval strength, and the Russian fleet de. stroyed. as was Ceveras fleet at Santiago, \ they can concentrate troops there and hold 1t from the land against all Russia's army. Having Port Arthur and great army concentrated on the south bank oi the Yalu river to prevent Russia's ad- vance into Korea. will mean victory for all that Japan has contended, and 1t will mean Japans dominance over China and her control in large measure of the Orient
 It will mean the opening up of all the Orient to the trade of the world; but Eu- rope and America will have the Japanese manufacturer and tradesman to contend with They are shrewd in trade as in war
 Naval experts of Europe rather sneered at the credit given Japan several years ago for her naval victory over China on the ground that the Chinese had not been trained to man modern ships of war. The Japanese fin this contest have demon strated that they have the man behind the gun. In their fights at Port Arthur they have shot straight and their shells have told. They have further shown superiority in naval warfare over the Russians. It seems that the Russian ships have not been competently manned nor equipped. The Russian is apparent ly brave but he Is not schooled. The Japs on the other hand, from the com mon sailor to the admiral are trained In every detail They have practically been on a war footing for ten years past, and have been as thoroughly schooled and drilled daily as though war was in pro- gross every moment They know the de- tails of their ships and have exercised the very best judgment in fighting them. So 1t is with the land forces. Their troops are thoroughly drilled and perfectly equipped. Every preeaution is taken to keep them in perfect physical condition and to make of each soldier an athlete. Their arms and ammunition are the best, and Japan has gone into this war with the firm determination to win. It looks like she will be successful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

main with us it should become the duty of all to care for them. and the estab lishment of state institution at Noun tain Creek renders that duty compar- atively easy. Any city or county can send veterans there by paying to 1t $120 per capita each year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE JAPANESE
 RUSSIAN WAR AND sJAPAN'S2 PURPOSE

T o the American, whether he be of (0 the north or of the south, the
 term Yankee means the shrewd citizen of money-making propensities who gets up early and earns sufficient to buy his breakfast before hunger gnaws- or the early bird out for the worm at whatever hour the worm may turn over and begin to think of breakfast him self
 The Yankee is the up and doing fel- low; who thinks out his plan of cam paign and acts upon it quickly, wisely and we'll He is wise and willy in com merce, diplomacy and war.
 Thus introduced the Japanese nation is presented These people are the Yan- kees of the universe. In trade, traffic, diplomacy and war they are out-gen- eraling all the world. They are the stu- dents of the globe. Broad minded, and brilliant of breed among their leaders, they have been taught to study and to adopt the best thought and practices of the world. For generations they have been taught the cultivation of body and mind Compulsory education exists in the country. Physical exercise, bodily cleanliness, daily baths and perfection of physical and mental culture have all be- come the teachings of the nation A re- ligion likewise Is required, be 1t Chris tian, as our own missionaries teach 1t. Confueianism or Buddhism. Christianity Is rapidly gaining the ascendency as are all other correct and proper things, in Japan. This is by virtue of the broad in tellect of the Japanese leaders who would absorb the best of the worlds learning. Forty years ago or more. under sugges- ton or tutelage of American and English naval, mercantile and missionary minds seeking new fields the Japs began to send their young men, at government ex- pense, to modern business and Christian lands to learn their methods and teach- ings. Those they thought good were adopted. In business affairs, in army affairs, in naval affairs, and in moral teachings the gates were thrown open and all were presented with freedom to the people of Japan Each young man sent abroad returned and was encouraged to tell of the things he had learned and present them to his people Thus 1t has been that Christianity has gained so great a stronghold in Japan, and thus the adop- ton of modern army and navy practices.
 I write the above to demonstrate why Japan occupies the position it does today in it's war with Russia.
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 With Japan this struggle is one of life or death. Japan must drive Russia back or suffer itself obliteration from the map of nations as has been the case of the Transvaal Republic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

become increasingly rich and prosper ous, and if tue price of cotton stays above ten cents five years the south will be at the end of that time the richest section of the entire country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
HARD TO ExAGeERATE.

From the Canebrake Herald
 We copy a portion of. the Age-Heralds writeup of Uniontown. This section is in- deed blessed and it would have been hard for the correspondent to exaggerate its advantages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
Street Musicians Scarce.

Birmingham is fortunate in having no permanent hand organs on the street cor ners.' said a visitor "Tn some towns the lame. the halt and the blind create an unearthly din with their instruments, prominent among them being the wheezy hand-organ. but here there are few street musicians of any class Occasionally one sees a lonely violinst saving away and a negro with his accordion makes a lot of racket sometimes, but the majority of local mendicants sseem devoid of talent in this direction. Perhaps they prefer restful place on the pavement to the labor of producing strains of music for an unappreciative public and perhaps they can get just as many or more nickles when they do not play. At any rate the musical beggar is outnumbered in Bir- mingham by the beggar who does not perform.
 Returning to the question of hand organs, there is nothing more wearing on the nerves than to hear one of these in- struments waiing and wheezing for hours at time This statement has been made often before and is, therefore, not particularly startling. remember a hand-o that was formerly heard at certain hours of the day about the post office and I am dreadng that the ap- proach of spring will bring 1t out again. This instrument is about the only hand organ that has worried me especially In Washington, 1 am told that the lives of residents are made miserable by street musicians, and in this respect Birming- ham has the advantage"
 About Persons.
 R. T. Hayes of Tuscaloosa is at the Hillman.
 Jacob Marks of New York is stopping at the St. Nicholas
 H. E. Swan of waltham. Miss. is at the Colonial.
 D. A. strickland of Corona is at the Morris.
 A. W. Whitley of New York is in the city.
 J. E, Penhall of Garnsey is at the Hill. nan
 
 c. D. Gillian of St. Louis is registered at the Colonial.
 J. w. Wood of Sayre is at the Morris. A. H. Mark of New York is stopping at the St. Nicholas. George B. Worth of New York Is in the city.
 J. W. worthington of Sheffield is at the Hillman.
 E. P. Gilbert of Nashville is registered at the Morris. l.. H. Vaughan of Roanoke, Va. is al the Colonial. pr. F. F. Buchuer of the University oi Alabama stopped at the Morris few
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

The channel at Port Arthur has been closed many times on paper, but the alert Japs seem to have closed 1t at last in earnest and for keeps. This bottles up one fleet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Judge Parker's colorless record is bringing him supporters Too much record Is oftentimes an encumbrance For example, MT. David B. Hill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

The Dingley tariff restraints competi- tion and enriches the few, but it Is of course sacred and constitutional, and the barons so consider it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

President Roosevelt counts that day lost whose low descending sun does not see the names of some delegates added to his list
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

A Chicago man has issued an injunc- tion to prevent wife from playing the races, and possibly woman may yet be enjoined from going shopping
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

The baseball reporters at Port Ar thur are turning their attention to the scores made by the shells fired from Japanese ships.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Governor Pennypacker is so unpopu- lar at home that the republicans of Pennsylvania are trying to nominate him for vice-president.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

The snowfall of Boston last winter was S3 inches, and it's people still shudder enAthey recall it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Prof. Langley is still hopeful, but he must hereafter pay for his own air ships. Uncle Sam is no longer easy or hopeful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

The war in the Far East is product i've of more rumors than blood Few are killed, but many are to be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Snow dri4ts six feet In North Dakota are warning to Boston that its late esteemed winter may return.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

March is now trying to go out as lamb-like as it came in. Give it credit for good intentions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

from Russellville, where he attended teachers institute.
 T. K. Rosemond of Adger Is stopping at the Hillman.
 J. W. Little of Atlanta is in the city
 A. T. Smith of Cincinnati Is registered at the Hillman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Panama has reduced it's standing army and is now down to the five com pany basis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Society in Port Arthur is observing Lent, and watcnlng the Japanese fire works.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

The flowers that bloom in the spring can be caught in the very act just now
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Port Arthur will a any rate be we'll shaken before taken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Spring showers bring May flowers, and also March cyclones.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

MT Bryan is no longer the boy orator. for he is A years old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Port Arthur is the takingest town in the Orient at least
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Port Arthur has not yet heard that it has fallen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Mayor Mcclellan of New York has re- turned to his office from Lakewood New Jersey, where he has been suffering for several days with an attack of grip.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Russia is as slow as North Pole glacier.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Sidney Sears, member of the St. Louis police force, is the champion revolver shot of the United States. In a recent contest he scored 12O out of possible l2o shots
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Carolus Duran has just been elected to the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. For many years the artists election was op- posed by Gerome, who died recently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT

Mir. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie will re- turn from Scotland next September and will be accompanied by Mrs, John Morley
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and sons, The odore and Kermit spent Thursday taking trip down the Potomac river on the Sylph They were accompanied by Dr. RXey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

0 the American, whether he be of the north or of the south. the
 term Yankee means the shrewd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

pr. Samuel E. Lewis has been appoint ed spe cial agent in Washington for the John B. Gordon Memorial association' which will erect monument to the 'stin- guished Confederate leader at Atlanta, Ga.