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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09
Plenty of Advice.

From the Monroe Journal.
If the farmers do not improve their
conditions this year it will not be for
the lack of good advice. The columns of
both the daily and weekly press for
weeks have teemed with timely hints and
wholesome suggestions.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

The election of Representative Bran-
degree to the Senate is heralded as a
machine victory, but 1t was in fact the
installation of an additional machine
in a machineafflicted state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09
A. NJ. Brandon Dies.

Columbus, Ga, May s.-(Special.)-A. M.
Brannon, aged 70 years, one of Columbus
most prominent citizens, died today He
was druggist here tifty-one years. being
president of the Brannon & Carson com.
pany. He was a steward in st. LulSes
Methodist church forty wears
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

The women land owners of Bone
steel have formed 4 union to protect
themselves from importunate wooers,
The man who wants a wife out there
will have to work for her.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09
Still America.

From the Troy Messenger.
Since the door was open, in 1776 we
have had 22,156654 immigrants and still
it is America for the Americans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

Vassar is Desieged with applicants
for next session and it is barelyspos-
sible that the Marquis Oyama, who Is
a graduate of the school, is RESPONSE
Bile for the Vassar boom.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09
Hopeless Job.

From the Coosa Argus.
To avoid brainfog. don't try to estimate
the respective strength Of Togo's and
Rojestvensky' fleets until after the fight.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

roughshod over the stalwart machine
of his party in his state. 1t is a re-
markable case of individual power in
politics.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

An Ohio banker charged with en-
bezzement is pining away with grief
and may not be tried. 1t is strange
that none of the defaulters pine be-
fore they are caught.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09
Waterworks Men In Session.

French Lick Springs, Ind. May s.-The
twenty-hfth annual convention of the
American Water Works association began
here today with nearly 800 delegates from
all parts OF the United States present.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

The Sultan has conferred on J. Pier
pont Morgan the Grand Gordon of the
osmanli Order and has presented him
with vase from the imperial porce-
lain factory. 1t must be pleasant for
Pierpont to Get something now and
then without having to pay for it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

The Washin ton baseball team may
carry it's surprising joke so far as to
carry off the ponnant. A similar joke
is much noaded in other parts of the
country
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

Governor Lafollette is trying to
equip Wisconsin with good laws be-
fore he ~oc- to Washington to fit out
the nation with some of the same sort.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

President Castro of Venezuela is the
most audacious adventurer of his day
and there is a scant hope Of a revo-
luton that can put him out of busi-
paGa
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

Eighty-one new plays were presented
in New York last season, and only six
scored success, and three of them
were presented outside of the trust.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

Cuba is delighted at the engage
ment of Captain Hobson. 1t is pre-
sumed that the gallant captain Is very
well pleased himself.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09
ALABAMA PRESS
Spicy Time.
From the

From the Alabama Courier.
President Roosevelt has been having a
spicy time in his western hunt He killed
a cinnamon bear.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09
CRATER Shut Out.

From the Alexander City Outlook
Alexander City is making the proper
beginning BY owning its own waterworks
and light plant. This shuts out the graf
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

The bears who survive in Colorado
will celebrate the Fourth this year
with marked enthusiasm. They are
glad to be alive.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09
THE CLOSED DOOR.

Little Boy Blue did blow his horn,
And he Joined a circus band.
He Travelled long and he Travelled far,
All up and down the land.
But he did not visit Birmingham,
Though he longed to see the town;
For the council passed a license tax
That turned his circus down.
F1ammarion. the noted French astrono-
mer who thinks he knows a thing or two
about Mars, says he is positive that the
planet is inhabited. In addition, he thinks
that the climate is mild and MINDLESS,
with no rain. The Marian lassies who
trip down by sl1yscrapers are never both
cred with their skirts and the happy
Martians know nothing of the lunatic
who, gazing up at the leaking heavens.
asks, do you think it is going to rain?''
Picnics are always successful on Mars.
because the days are always fine and it
is presumed that there are no grafters
in Mars who draw salaries as weather
prophets.
Mr.. Pat Grove is an Illuminating ex-
ample of how easy it is Zoo keep away
from officers of the law if you will just
make up your mind not to be caught.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

Thirty new musical comedies have
been produced during the theatrical
season that is now drawing to a close.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

Togo is wearing out Rojestvensky's
. rain tissue by keeping him guessing,
and he is also wearing out his coal
SupplV
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

It is possible for any plebian in
Birmingham to rent an automobile
now and feel wealthy for a few hours.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

Pat Grove is as elusive as weasel
He seems to come and go regardless
of the police or detectives.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

At the Presidential dinner in Colo
RADIO all wore mutt or lounge clothes
flannel shirts, in short.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

Jimmie Hydes favorite camera pic
ture is the one taken in knee breeches.
e is a krse-breeches tinancier.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

Chicago is repeating the scenes OF
nineteen yea.c ago, when the hay
market riots occurred.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

There is a hen in Massachusetts
that signs her own eggs with two mi
tials and thus avoids the expense of a
coDyright.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

The railroads are using snowplows
in the northwest, but agriculture goes
on Just the same.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

Jimmie Hyde hires himself, and is
not bit worried over the retention
of his job.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

Oyama is edging into the limelight
again. 1t is impossible to keep a good
general back.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

Mr.. Rand will play the heavy viii
lain to Nan Patterson's heorine II
they decide to go on the stage to-
gether
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

The Hyde-Alexander battle is be-
vond the powers of even an umpire.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

me malaria microbe at the isthmus
is no respcc,or of persons.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

Innocent Outstanding in Chicago is
Lone by lie simple minded only.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

II is rumored that the Kaiser now
has healthy tan. He is rushing the
season for tans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09
ENTITLED TO A. HARP.

When Bilkins reached the pearly gates,
Saint Peter said, make way;
This man dined in boarding house
On stewed prunes every day."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

The Rojestvensky-Togo scrap still
hangs fire.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD.

Of the diplomatic affairs in Washington
but there is no denying the fact that
future full of strange surprises is opening
before this pioneer of the great west. now
being carried to the capital by President
Roosevelt as a souvenir of his western
hunt Skip is a dog-not much for
looks, but good dog, valiant hunter
that knew no fatigue when the President
called to the chase, and never quailed be-
fore the worst bear that ever infested the
Rockies. Skip is to be rewarded for
his faithfulness and will reside in Wash
ington Skip is a small black and tan
terrier and his most striking trait is
"strenuosity."
History relates that a bridegroom up In
New Jersey named Lockhand-a very
suitable name for bridegroom to wear
started out to get married, but went fish
ing and forgot all about the ceremony.
Mr.. Cleveland has not yet passed on the
culpability of Mr.. .Lockhand or the extent
to which he was justified. 1t is presumed
that Mr.. Lockhand is a devoted disciple
of the rod and, rejecting that he would
probably have very little time for angling
after the wedding, he decided to try his
luck one more time ere he assumed the
cares and responsibilities of married life.
The evils of the Easter bonnet have not
been exaggerated. girl slew herself in
San Francisco because her sister had a
prettier Easter hat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

Washington Bureau -Age-Herald, 1871 @
Street. N. w.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

not destined to shine in the halls of Con-
gress, nor will he be in evidence at any
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09
From the washington Post.

~ OR several weeks past we have
III noticed evidences of a quiet, all
most imperceptible but ominous
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09

"hoodoo" doctor has just been fined
s1S and it is question whether the Judge
was trying to break" the "hoodoo" or
the doctor.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-02

On the 18th ult., at Ft Worth, Texas,
w. j. Moore, one of Denver's popular
and highly esteemed 1young men was
very royalty entertained at banquet
given in his honor by Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Foster, cor. Ind and Harding
streets. Covers were laid for twelve
with plate cards of hand-painted carna-
tions. Those present were Misses Birdie
Foster, E. j. Hughes; Mr.. and Mrs. j.
Foster; Mrs. Moore; Messrs. r. L. Fra
zier, Thomas Moore, Alexander, G. w.
Franklin, d. Davis, Ash Wood, w. J.
Moore. After very pleasant repast OF
which all participated freely, Mr.. Moore
entertained them at few of his magic
tricks. w. j. can do some mighty clev-
err work and can fool all the people the
most of the time.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-02
Forced Morality on Sparta

the World" volume 2, page 585, says:
'To render the state dependent only
on its own territorial products and to
prevent any individual from accumu-
lating an undue amount of wealth he
Uycurgus) prohibited the use of any
money except an iron coin, with so
small value in comparison with its
bulk and weight that the necessity OF
using it as a medium of exchange
would make it difficult to carry on
trade, especially foreign commerce. By
subjecting this iron coin to a process
rendering it brittle and unfit for any
other use Lycurgus endeavored to de-
stroy every desire to hoard it as a
treasure"
Rollin, in his Ancient History"
volume 1, page 6S7, says: First he
tEycurgus) cried down all gold and
silver money and ordained that no
other should be current than that OF
iron, which he made so very heavy
and fixed at so low a rate that a cart
and two oxen were necessary to carry
home sum of 10 minae $500 French
livres. about $8S.S0) and a whole
chamber to keep it in"
This was done for the purpose of
sapping the foundation of avarice-
From the above quotations it would
seem that while iron was much more
valuable than it is now, still it was
not SO valuable as to justify its being
coined into money. 1t seems that
team of oxen could haul about sSS
worth of coin. 1 presume the same
sort of team might haul one-fifth that
value of iron at the present date.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-02
Undoubted Proof That Roman
Workshops Turned Out Coins
of Bituminous Material That
Did Service as Money.

Coal was once used as money, but
it was long time ago and in Eng
land. The coal money was in the
shape of disks, approximating coins
in size, and was from homan work
shops, where articles of ornament
were made on lathes. A writer says:
"On the Dorset coast, in the isle OF
Purbeck, to the west of st. Adams
Head, an outcrop occurs of bituminous
shale, which extends more or less for
some miles. AS a source of fuel this
shale, or coal, has been worked from
very early times and is to the present
day used by the cottagers of Kimme.
ridge. Some of this shale is of so
compact a texture that it is capable
of being worked into ornamental ar
ticles, taking high polish, similar to
jet, The Romans, when occupying this
pait of Dorset, discovered not only
the properties of this deposit as a
fuel but also it's capabilities of being
turned in lathe into rings, beads and
armlets, which were no doubt readily
purchased by the ladies in the i'm
portant town of Durnovaria (Dor-
chester) a few miles distant. Some
estimate may be formed of the magni-
tude of this industry by the number
of disks which have been discovered
from time to time in the neighbor-
The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-02
Fac h Had His Speciality

body much better suited for the school
board than John. He's elected unan-
imous every time.
"And there's Jim Rawson. What
d'you say? I'm. Well, p'r'aps he
isn't as bright as some, but l tell you.
he keeps that schoolhouse in fust-rate
repair. and fixes up the grounds too. /
guess 'tisn't every school board has
got man on it that'll single the roof
half-price, put in window glass when
needed, tinker up the desks and so on
spring and fall, and fetch down lawn
mower to run over the grass once a
month during vacation.
Nov suppose you're going to light
on me about Billy Lane, the young
Teller, but l tell you we couldn't keep
a schoolma am in district in the dead
O. winter if 'twasn't for Billy. Hesssa
good Judge O. schoolma ans, and he
rides 'em out sleighing and keeps EN-
chirked up through the hard weather.
and come mud-time he puts GA his
high boots twice week evenings and
calls on 'em. guess if you're talking
about valuable men, you'll have to put
Billy pretty high up.
Take it by and large, I don be-
lieve you'll strike better board than
ours in the whole state O. New Ramp
shire" Youths Companion.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-02
American History Is Hard

have treasured up this crude, unlack-
eyed martyrdom.
Even the great personality of Lin
coin, now potent in so many individual
lives, intimate and familiar of SO many
of our hidden moods, was not yet
fully revealed to his fellows. 1t was
the emancipation only that had fallen;
the leader and shepherd of men. Out
wardly at least his experience was linn
tied as theirs was. Dying in the midst
of multitudes, master of armies and
of navies, he was still of the frontier;
as, indeed, all our American life was
still, in sense, only the frontier and
western fringe OF European life.
True, Lincoln also leads our
thoughts back to the princes whose
peer he was. but we can pass from
his deathbed with no irreverence, no
sense of shock or change, to look out,
in the plain light of day, upon the
whole wide field of work and strife
and progress which was always in his
thought, and glimpse the attitude and
state of the republic when his sum-
mons passed, like an angelus. across
the continent.-Willia m CARROT Brown
in the Atlantic.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-02
Taken All In All. Town Probably
Had the Best School Board
That Could Be Found in
Whole of New England.

The qualifications for membership
on the school board in a certain New
England town were carefully ex-
planned to visitor who was interested
in education and who had remarked
to her host on the way home from the
closing exhibition at one of the
schools that she would like to know
why four men of such apparent dull
ness had been chosen for the board.
"Well, now, you take Abe Ransom"
said her host, lightly Ticking the whip
on the backbone of his stolid old
horse, hes a good choice, fust-rate.
He never made much of boast of
book learning, but he keeps good
assortment O. paper and pencils and
ink and all such in his store, and sells
'em reasonable, and it sort O. makes
him patron of education, as you
might say.
"Then there's John Willett, he's a
free-handed man as ever was, and he
hauls a good mess o. wood for 'em fall
and winter, and never charges a cent
for teaming, and puts the price on the
wood low, too. l guess there isn't any
The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-02
Tender Sentiments Have Had
Little to Do With the Great
Events That Have Marked
the Country's Upbuildins.

Our history is hard and masculine;
colored with few purple lights; too
little related to our tenderer senti-
ments and deeper passions. When
older peoples have paused, as we did
then, they have looked upon far diff
ferent scenes. Fairer companies have
stood about more stately figures of
triumph or of tragedy than that Amer
lea and the world now gazed upon.
The common chamber, the gaunt, pale
President, the strong, bearded coun-
sellers at his bedside-this was unlike
scenes which European peoples have
fixed in their memories. Charles | and
Mary Stuart on their scaffolds, the
barons and the King at Runnymede,
Maria Theresa appealing to the no.
bles of Hungary to take up their
swords for her child, Marie Antoinette
and Mirabeau, and many another pa
geart Of human love and sacrifice are
fractured up by other peoples as we
The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-02
Literature and Tobacco.


Somehow or other we associate to-
bacco with literary men, but not all
writer's are 10, ers OF the weed. Goethe
hated tobacco intensely and never
lost chance to attack it. Heinrich
Heine had the same dislike.
Balzac, who lived on black coffee.
preached wisely to the young about
The vice of smoking. and Victor Hugo
and Dumas were equally opposed to
the practice. But the list of French
smokers comprises many great names,
such as Alfred de Musset, Eugene
Sue, Paul de ST. Victor. Prosper Mer.
imee-Beranger and Baudelaire.
Nine. Dudevant, better known as
George Sand. often INDUCED in cigar
between the intervals of her literary
ahors.
The poet Bloomfield wrote sweet
pastoral rhymes with a cloud of to-
bacco smoke making fog around bis
head. Campbell Moore and Byron
delighted in its temperate use and
rennyson was great smoker.
One of the quaint scenes il the
realm of letters is that of carlyle and
his old mother sitting together by the
chimney corner each smoking a
'dark-brown pine anil chatting earn
estiy the while"
The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-02
Lycurgus Made Currency of Coun-
try So Bulky and Compare
lively Worthless That Induce
nent to Hoard Was Lost.

Plutarch says: Not content with
this (the equal division of the lands,
etc., of the Lacedaemonians) he Uy-
curgus) resolved to make a division of
their movables, too. that there might
be no odious distinction or inequality
lett among them; but finding that it
would be very dangerous to go about
it openly, he took another course and
defeated their avarice by the follow
ing stratagem: He commanded that
all gold and silver coin should be
called in and that only a certain kind
of money made of iron should be cur
rent. A great weight and quantity
was of little worth, so that to lay up
twenty or thirty pounds there was re-
quired pretty large closet and to
remove it nothing less than a yoke
of oxen," according to the Scientific
American. with the diffusion of this
money at once number of vices were
banished from Lacedaemonia, for who
would rob another of such coin?
Who would unjustly detain or take by
force or accept as a bride a thin :
which was not easy to hide nor
credit to have nor indeed of any use
to cut in pieces? For when it was
just red hot they quenched it in vine
gar. by that means spelling it, and
mate it almost incapable of being
woi ked."
Clare. in his Universal History OF
The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-02
Coal Tokens as Currency

hood, as they are without doubt the
cores or centers left after turning ar
ticles of ornament.
These discarded disks have beer
invariably found, carefully hidden
away under the surface of the ground,
at depth of about two feet, some
times with or in Roman pottery and
sometimes between two fiat stones
placed on edge, covered with a third
stone at the top. That they were
carefully stored and hidden away is
beyond question; hence they must
have represented some value to the
possessor. 1t would appear reason
able to conclude that they were used
by the ancient Britons as tallies, or
money. The turning lathe of the ell
lightened Roman was an instrument
unknown to the natives AMI these
waste disks, bearing the tool marks
of the turner, would have been as i'm
possible to counterfeit by the savage
Briton as a minted coin.
"That they have been known from
early times as coal money is we'll au-
been found together in one place, but
always protected by. covering stones
or pottery. In size they vary from
one and three-quarters to two and one
half inches in diameter and about one
half inch in thickness, with holes to
secure them to the mandrel of the
lathe. They are all strikingly SIM
liar in apnearoncen
The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-02
ONE CAUSE FOR DRINK HABIT.

Expert Traces lntemperance to I'm
proper Feeding.
There Is a cause for the drink hab-
1t which even good Christian parents
do not understand" says a writer in
What to Eat. "They cannot realize
why their children, with beautiful sur
roundings and daily Christian infiu-
ences. sometimes go far astray, be-
coming sadly immoral, and in many
Instances drunkards. When they, as
well as many of the physicians, shall
haxe exhausted all other efforts to 10
cate the cause of the trouble, let them
look to the stomach-the poor, abused
stomach-and they will. in all proba.
bility. find the source of the evil.
From infancy many Of the little ones
are given food beyond the capacity of
their digestive organs. As soon as
several teeth have appeared, meats
are frequently part of the bill Of
fare. These. as we'll as the other ar
dcles of food. are necessarily swal-
lowed without proper mastication.
Pepper, mustard, Worcestershire
sauce. vinegar and highly seasoned
salads also find their way into these
young and tender stomachs until, as
the result of such a diet, fermentation
sets in and a little distillery is created
in these youthful temples. Under
such conditions child becomes irri.
table. quick tempered. untruthful, and
1t would be surprising II 1t grew up
to noble manhood"
The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-02

Rev, G. w. Ward, D. D.. pastor of
18th Street Baptist church of Coving
ton, KY, also Commander in Chief of
colored department of G. A. r., will
preach at Central Baptist church to-
morrow at 8 p. M. The church will be
decorated with National colors and
special music will be rendered by the
choir. At IL a. m. the pastor will
preach special sermon to the. G. A.
R. The public is invited to each SER
vice.
CHAs. d. DOUGLAS, Pastor.