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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-07
Millionaire to Go to Prison.

San Francisco. Especially Griffith J..
Griffith, the Los Angeles millionaire who
three years ago attempted to kill his wife,
must spend two years in prison and pay
fine of 5000. according to the decision
of the State Supreme Court. which has
affirmed the sentence of the lower court.
Griffith gave park of 5000 acres to Los
Angeles and was named as Park Com
missioner.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-07
Another Carnegie Gift.

Berea, o. Especially "A gift of $4,000
has been received by Baldwin Univcr.
sity from Andrew Carnegie toward the
erection of a scientific building The
gift is on condition that like amount
be secured from other sources. Presi-
dent Rogers has already secured $4,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18
VISITING A LARGE CITY.

From the Rayville (Mo.) Enterprise.
 Last Wednesday there was an excur- sion from Rayville to Keokuk. III. There were four of the Rayville boys went. We came to large railroad bridge across the river at Keokuk. Part of that bridge had to turn around to let the boat pass through. The boat landed after it passed the bridge. By the time the boat put us on shore 1t was o'clock and only had an hour to stay in town. The crowd went up in town to see such a large city. The pop ulation of Keokuk was only 15.0O0 Street cars there as we never saw before. The hour passed away soon and never got to see half the town on account of the steamer leaving at o'clock, and then the mate had to go up in town and hurry some of them up, then part of them may of got left On the steamer there was beer and most anything you would want. Music and wa1tzing to who laid the chunk. As the boat was on It's way back there were several fights between the mate and the passengers. Two of the passengers got put down in the hull (as we call it). One fellow got beer bottle landed Up against the side of his head. When we got off the train here most every one thought we were drunk, they said. because we looked SO bad, which we cer- tainly did feel tuff. But all of our crowd reports nice time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18
HOW THE SUN RISES IN OHIO.

From the Gainesville (O.) Republican.
 It was at the feeble dawn of day. A gentle mist lay low in unmoved air, and through it's fading sheet of dimness the rays of la new days sun rent with penciled outlines the cloak that hid the face of green-eyed Nature from the refulgence of the torch of day. Moisten- ed verdure smiled in gladdened touch of June-time dew and the tiny beads of set tied mist glistened from lear and blade as pearls In the precious sands of the treasure land of imagery. The shafts of light sent gray edged streaks through the fieeting haze and changed to clearest air in the effervescence of the murkiness of morning. Then the earish veil of a gol- den dawn is lifted and the great fire ball beams in growing warmth to furnish forth a day of glory in the month of June. Not finer beckoning of a resourceful world could any one crave when leaving home town in grand old Ohio for a peep at the never ending charms of great, wide, won- derful America And as the rumbling wheels roll on the west, leaving the home scene in retreating glimmer, on over the continent of Gods fairest gift to the bil- lowed blue of the Pacific the grandeur of the Buckeye morning not forgot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18
The Fewer Situation.

"I do not consider the fever situation in New Orleans in the least alarming" said J. S. Black at the Hillman hotel last night Mir. Black Is the New Orleans representative of the General Electric company of New York, and has resided in the Crescent City for n number of years. He Is former resident of Alabama and was graduated from Auburn with first honors.
 While I have not been in Louisiana" said MT. Black. since I left the state shortly after the fever was announced my absence has not been caused by fear. Like many other business men I recognize the fact that I would be barred from other cities. where my company Is inter ested, If I should go home occasionally to see how things are moving along. For that reason I have decided to wait until the quarantine is raised before I return to the old town by the Mississippi. I am informed by private messages. as we'll as the daily papers, that the situation Is under the absolute control of the health authorities and I think the end of the present month will see the worst. Never again, in my opinion. will New Orleans be visited by the plague"
 Mir Black left last night for Jackson, where he will look after the installation of an electric plant for big corporation. He says he would go from there to New Orleans If 1t were not for the quarantine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18
SLoss-SHEFFIELD STEEL & IRON
Earning at Rate of sI4 on the Com. mon Stock.

From the Wall Street Journal
 The quarterly statement of Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company reflect ed the prosperous conditions that pre- vail in the iron industry. The net profits for the quarter ended August Si, am i.t- ing to s391, ,423 were 79 per cent greater than in the correspondirs period last year when the earnings were exceptionally small The profits for the past quarter also exceeded those of the same quarter in 1903 and 1902 by small margin.
 The announcement that the directors had declared, in addition to the semi annual divined of 2Iz per cent on the common stock a stock divided of 3s 1-3 per quarters that such was being considered. The bulk of the common stock is held by comparatively few individuals who have been In control of the company ever since It's formation. The surplus earn ings for the nine month after preferred dividends amount to s653,O91 This amount is applicable to dividends on the common stock, and equals 6Ia per cent on the Si0OO0, 900 of this Issue which will be out standing after the scrip dividend is paid.
 If these earnings are maintained for the remaining three months of the fiscal year the results for the common stock for the twelve months would be be about sI4 per cent. The dividend on the com mon which began last spring, Is at the rate of per cent yearly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18
Revision in the Next Congress.

The stand-patters have their trou- bles. They know that the late William 1lcKinley was an avowed and open revisionist, and they believe Theodore Roosevelt is also They know, too, fully one hundred members of the new house are at heart revisionists, leav- ing but one hundred and forty sure stand-patters in the house. They know, also, that Massachusetts in the east and Iowa in the west are full of disaffection, and that really every re. publican who is not a Dingley benefi. ciary feels that the tariff should be revised. The pronounced attitude oi the Pittsburg Gazette, a republican paper 120 years old, in favor of tariff revision at the coming session of con gross, also gives ;hem pain. '1f," the Gazette says, "the Fifty-ninth Congress does not do this, no man can say who will be called to do it."
 But the stand-pi 9
 means in stamped
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18
Growth of New York.

The totals of the state census in New York are not ready. Those for the big city have been completed, but those for the upstate districts are still incomplete. It is known, how ever. that the state has over eight millions of people, and that over one half of them live in town.
 The population of New York city was 3,457,202 in the year 1900; it now holds 4,14O,622 a growth in five years of 20. 5 per cent This growth of five years induces sanguine New Workers to anticipate in 1910 population of 5,LOO,O0O. After 1910 Brooklyn may become more populous than the orig inal city on Manhattan island.
 But the interesting question relates to the comparative growth of London and New York, the two biggest cities in the world. London had in 1901 a population of 6,5S0,616, and it is estik mated that in 1911 1t will have 7,670,- 900 people New York will have at that time not much over 5,00o,000, un- less. indeed, the million in New Jersey be counted, as, indeed, they should be. This would give New York about 100000, as against London"s 7,670,- 000-all this in 1910 or 1911. It VIII, therefore, be seen that New York will have to wait about twenty years longer before it aspires to exceed in population mighty London town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18
PREPARING FOR CHRISTMAS TOYS

From the Philadelphia Press.
 Toys, except in one or two shops de- voted exclusively to them, used to be sold In this city only during and shortly before the Christmas holidays. For sev- eral years they have been handled around Christmas time by large depart ment stores and many other establish ments, but it used to be the practice to clear them all out as soon as the season was over, so that in such a place 1t was impossible to find toy except during the holidays. Nowadays toys are kept on sale constantly, and the stocks are replenished all the year through. dealer in explaining this change, which has come only within the past year or so. says it is largely due to the toys themselves, which are more and more becoming miniature reproductions of real objects and articles, and have an educa- tional value Many of the toys we played with when I was a boy" said the dealer yesterday, ''were merely pret- ty to look at, and, If limitations of some- thing real. they were only limitations, without practical working parts. This the American child of nowadays will not have. Realism has gone into toyland, as elsewhere, and nothing less Is now &C., cepted except in the way of rattles and such stuff, which are for babies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18

know that Stand.patter Joe Cannon will again be in the speakers chair, and that Senator Rockefeller Aldrich will continue to dictate affairs as the head of the Senate finance committee, and they expect that delay and skill ful obstruction will do the rest.
 It will be difficult to down reciproc- ity in the coming Congress, for there is feeling that the promotion of mo nopoly at home should not be carried so far or so long as to deprive us of markets in other countries. It Is know that Germany, France, Austria Hungary, Russia and Canada do not admire our Chinese wall, and each and all of them are inclined to adopt meas ures of retaliation. Dingleyism builds up trusts at home, while it operates to keep our products out of foreign mar kets. It is working ruin in the two directions, and it is difficult to say which is the worse of the two.
 How much longer will the sacred device be permitted to weary our pa tience? This is a big question that the Fifty-ninth Congress must answer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18
Our Southern Cotton Mills.

Manchuria Is B cold province, and the Manchurians need the thick, coarse cotton goods woven in southern mills. The war operated to reduce our cot ton goods in Manchuria, and Russia put restrictions on our trade before the war was inaugurated. Our trade in China fell to minimum, while the trade of Great Britain rose to a max imum.
 The treaty of Portsmouth opers Manchuria, and by implication the rest of China, to our .lillJ and merchants, and they should at once get ready to utilize the opportunity thus presented. The boycott will not interfere when our goods are ready for export to China.
 The open-doo. policy Is guaranteed in Manchuria by the treaty of peace, and our southern mills should exert
 
 themselves as they never did before to regain their lost Chinese trade. The best of it will be sought in Manchu- ria.
 True, Japan will become a strong factor in Chinese trade, but the mills amid the cotton fields should be able to compete with Japanese mills, that buy their raw material in this coun- try. We certainly can compete against British spinners, and we should endeavor to meet the Japanese spin ners in Manchuria, and we can do this by making for the Chinese what their tastes call for. They know what they want. and 1t is our business to meet their peculiarities. In this way we can perhaps outdo the Japanese, who will soon become warm competitors in Manchuria :. d throughout the re- mainder of China.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18
Rev. Thomas $. Gregory in the New York

Rev. Thomas 5. Gregory in the New York
 American.
 H HE French government is face to NY face with the most serious prob
 lem it ever had to deal with.
 France is dying from alcoholism. |" or will be pretty soon, unless something 2 Is done to prevent it, and that something the authorities are trying hard to do.
 All France is being placarded with large posters describing the evils of aI- cohoHsm, and fmploring the people to re- frain from the use of all alcoholic Hquors
 Tracts upon the blessings of temper ance and the evils of the drink habit are being scattered throughout the re- public; the clergy are preaching upon the ravages that alcoholism is working among the people, and the whole force of the government is being centeFed in the one grand effort to save the nation from the destruction with which 1t is threatened.
 Let It be said just here that the trou- ble in France is not that of drunkenness. as that term Is generally understood. The claim, long made with pride by the French people, that they are nation of LII AihhctS iS pSfIcCIfy COT- rect one
 It is this moderate drinkinz"-aot Drunkenness, but continuous, respectable aieoholism, the screwing up of nerves and heating Of blood, day and night, year in ana year out-that Is today threa tenina the very existence of the French na- tiont
 A drunken man, other than foreIsner. IS q rare sight in France, and yet whns very few Frenchmen drink excessivelv. nearly all Frenchmen drink moderatetvs with the result that they are being ac- tually threatened with national extinc- tion!
 It Is an open secret that, for a xeuer- alton or more, France has been losing It's vitality. It was only little while ago that the fact appeared that the decreased vitality was due to alcoholism the pois- oning and weakening and general de- mora:izat'on of the system by the steady. though moderate. use Of spirituous liquors
 That France is in a most dangerous way is clearly shown by the statistics gathered by her own government off, cials
 Suicide, insanity. tuberculosis, diabetes. Brights disease. epilepsy and idiocy are aiarninsiy on the increase.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18
THE POETS TOLL.

By Jane Dransfeld Stone in the New York Times. In earth's dark Tartarus. the mighty
 trees, Bound like Prometheus, have for cen
 turies lain To give us fire; nor doth the sea dls-
 dain Interminable toll to wear in spheric ease The toughest adamant. All forms that
 please Have but slow and gradual strength, in pain Brought forth, though original in heav-
 enly strain Of purest joy. The poet should from Learn patience. Songs imprisoned in the
 heart Arc but with skill in sweetest measures
 caught To hide in covert of the common speech And visions that like snow white sea-
 gulls dart Across the souls wide sky are slowly
 brought To tenant forms within the human
 eSs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18
MODERATE DRINKING IS
 DEPOPULATING FRANCE

The physique of the French people is being undermined. Their blood Is turning white Moderate drinking is killing them.
 For decade or so the birth rate has been abnormaIIy low. as compared with the death rate. The 'desire to nve'' and to perpetuate one's self is losing It's hold upon the French mind.
 Government, alarmed by the steadily decreasing birth list, is obliged to offer rewards for maternity!
 There are here and there in France a few spots that are unalcoholized, and in those areas the human animal is still strong and vigorous, as he was in Cae- sar's day, as he was even So late as the time of Napoleon the First.
 In the unalcoholized departments there are not only a great many more chil- dren, but a much greater percentage who reach the adult age.
 The comparatively temperate depart ment of Gers loses annually but ninety one children in their first year; the Nord, strongly alcoholized, loses 2S4 out of the same number; the Seine Inferieure 256, anu so on in proportion.
 And so, it appears, the moderate drink ing of the great French people is slow ly but surely destroying them. Brilliant, affable. generous, brave, among the oldest of the friends of liberty and of man, with past that is glorious to reflect upon, the French people must soon do one of two things-wipe out their alcoholism. or at the hands of that alcoholism perish!
 We of America would do well to care fully note one of the posters that are now being placed throughout France. It reads as follows:
 No one requires alcohol either as food or tonic.
 Alcohol weakens a mans self-controi while exciting his passions, hence the number of crimes committed under It's influence
 Whisky rapidly produces alcoholism, but milder drinks, such as beer and cider produce after time, alcoholic poisoning with equal certainty
 'The sins of alcoholic parents are visited on their children. If the children sur vive infancy they are threatened with idiocy, epilepsy and consumption.
 'lH short alcoholism Is the most fer rible enemy to personal health, to fam fly happiness and to national prosperity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18
DON'TS FOR WOMEN.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 Don't alight from car when it Is stationary. Wait until it Is going some and then jump off backward.
 Don't look appealingly at man, ex- pecting him to give yon his seat. Sit on his lap.
 Don't hand the conductor anything less than $1 bill. It might jar him into in- sensibility.
 Don fail to occupy one of the three rear seats. The smokers can walk.
 Don't rise to depart until the car has come to a full stop, especially If 1t Is crowded. The other passengers are in no hurry.
 Don't stare at the young men in the car You have no idea how embarrass- ing 1t is to them.
 Don't swear or blaspheme or other wise misconduct yourself Remember there are usually one or two old sports or ribald young men on the car, and 1t would shock them terribly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18
AN INSTANTANEOUS MAN.
the Kansas City Times.

From the Kansas City Times.
 I'm up against the banner absent minded man of my life,' said George Moser, the clerk of the Coates house, this morning. He went away last Tuesday, and we found, of all things in the world, that he had left his evening dresscoat and prayer behind him. Wednesday we received a wire. Send left luggage my hotel, but he didn't say where it was and he left no address when he went away Yesterday I got an indignant let ter protesting against our carelessness, but 1t was written on plain paper and contained no address So the dresscoat and prayer-book are still undelivered and we can't find their owner"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18
Mikasa and the Maine.

The Japanese will remember the Mikasa as long, perhaps, as the Ameri- cans will remember the Maine. Both wont down suddenly, but there the parallel Is ended. When full accounts are received of the sinking of Admiral Toga's historic harbor battlesbip in a peaceful harbor no mystery will re- main. At present full particulars are lacking.
 The sinking of the Maine, on the other hand, is one of the mysteries of l. world, and perhaps ever will be. The sinking of the Maine changed the map of the world in several important respects, but no one knows how it came about. Some think Spanish offi. cers did 1t. Some think shrewd Gu. bar did 1t to drive the United States to fight Spain. All that was proven in the investigation that followed the sinking of the battleship was that she was sunk from an explosion from the outside.
 This was the result of the investi- gation that reported in April, 1898. In September, 1895, we know no more than we did then, and probably the sinking of the Maine will remain a mystery forever. It Is perhaps best that it should.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18
Q Century Magazine.

'a century Magazine.
 1 HERE seems often to be such a NY lack of reasonable human mo-
 tive in the actions of men com- manding large fortunes, and manipulat- ing financial enterprises and movements, that the curiosity of the ordinary mortal Is aroused
 This ordinary mortal is. perhaps, en- gagged in the common struggle of man kind to earn his own and his family s three meals day, with something to the good for the condiments of life, includ- ing his fun fads and altruisms, as well as a bit over for sickness and old age. He looks with astonishment and perpiex- ity upon the group of old men who, on the crumbling brink of the grave, are still strainfng their brains, frames and consciences in the frantic accumulation of unnecessary millions.
 One of these persistent accumulators. who was also a congenial miser, was asked once by a friend of ours why he kept on thus unreasonably piling un- needed millions upon millions. You can't eat them or drink them, you have
 
 why do you work so hard in your old age gathering them together?" said our friend. The old miser retorted, Did you play marbles when you were boy?" Yes" Could you eat them or drink them?" No" "Why did you do it?" For the fun of the game" That's why I do it!' triumphantly cried the old fellow, that's why I do it!'
 ''The fun of the game" accounts for good deal. But there Is another phase of the matter which continues to puzzle. How Is 1t that supposedly honorable men"-often men not without certain chivalry even. and who are far from being chased by their acquaintances as among the depredators or degenerates-do things in their function and capacity of finan- ciers which shock the consciences of the average honest citizen, Is 1t that the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18
REPUBLIC IRON AND STEEL
Company Is Not Buying for Control of
 Property.

From the Wall Street Journal.
 The advance in Republic Steel preferred was accompanied by report that certain directors were buying for control. An interest of the company says there Is no basis for the report There has been some good buying of the stock on the increased business of the company and large earn ings. which are now said to be in the neighborhood of s4OO.OOO per month. John w. Gates has returned from Chicago. Alexis w. Thompson, president of the company, is also in the city. It is under stood that the question of back dividends came up for discussion at meeting held in Chicago few days ago. The com mittee soliciting proxies for the annual meeting next month consists of Messrs. Thompson, Gates, Guthrie, Rubens and Sch1ev
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rom the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 A cloak of charity is often a misfit.
 Love frequently begets hate, but hate never begets love. Somehow people never like to take ad- vice from a poor man.
 Narrow minded men seldom travel in the straight and narrow path. Health food Is so called because a heal thy person can eat it with impunity. A woman seldom says what she thinks when she hits her thumb with ham, mer.
 It sometimes happens that a foolish woman mistakes her disagreeable dsposi- ton for a proud spirit. When q girl under fourteen is ambitious to become an actress it's up to her mother to get busy with her slipper.
 It Is simply a waste of time to argue politics or religion. The other fellow knows you are in the wrong just as we'll as you know hs isn't in the right.