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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

patches here and there; some of ths graves are obliterated, others are washed out of all semblance to their original form and still others are newly made. In all that throng of sleepers few could be named by the curious stranger who hap pened upon the spot. The rest are simply numbers. You stoop down and read in wrought iron letters, "No. 1Os6." What does it mean? You only know that be- heath the earth rests the remains of a being who once lived and breathed among his fellows. Whether it is a man or a woman you do not know Perhaps no one could tell you the name of the person who rests here without first consulting the asylum books How utterly and com pletely lost! And there are many other graves. dreary array of them. wrapped in the same oblivion. A kind pro- vidence has made the short mounds few in number. Insanity is not a menace of childhood.
 sermon on life and death here awaits the casual stroller or the dreamer who wends his way through the trees and stumbles upon the graves almost before he is aware that he has entered an abode of the dead. The pitiful futility of hu- man life is revealed This hosh that sleeps unknown in unhonored graves once har- kened to the whispers of vaulting ambi- ton; once the pathway of life lay bright and shining before them. There wa hap piness and there was hope but they fell by the wayside. Darkness came over them. Dreams they had not dared to summon to the halls of imagination stayed ever with them and they walked in twilight until they rode over the hill toward the Warrior in plain pine box. Many of those who sleep here once had health and beauty. no doubt Life was full for them and their minds responded eagerly to the wooing of music. enter tained the sciences or vibrated with the inspiration of art It was a fearful trag- edy when the organism of their brains was deranged, when reason tottered from his throne and in the chambers where graceful forms once mingled there was a riot of hideous figures.
 Insanity is a thousand times worse than death. It is living tomb to which unfortunate humanity is consigned until death come like benehcent visitor The horror of such state neither pen nor tongue can tell. As you stand musing in this secluded burial ground, with thoughts depressed and sad of mein, you pity the sleepers beneath these mounds who lived and died fin vain Some of them may have accomplished much but most of them died. as they lived. in obscurity. You wonder if there is an all-seeing eye which takes notice of these who were SC sadly handicapped in life's race; if some- where, in resplendent halls they walk again, with reason restored and smiles Illuminating faces once hideous with the vacant stare of imbecility. The world seems small place, the struggles for fame and fortune appear little in your eyes. You are confronted with the vast problem of immortality, the enigma of the soul. the question of an after life. Com muning thus you depart with bowed head and the bright old world soon brings back your cheerfulness
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
SMOOTH TRICK
Worked By Hotel Crook, Who Secured
 New Clothes and Money.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
 ''I saw smooth game worked on hotel keeper in Chicago, although at the time the trick was done none of us sus- pected that there was anything wrong" " said Charles Hammond of Springfield, O., at the St. Charles. "A man came in late one night, wearing a long cravinette rain coat which covered him from his neck to his heels. He registered and was given a room.
 "In the morning the bell from his room rang and when the boy answered 1t ne asked for the manager. When the man ager went to his room he complained that some one had stolen his clothes. His overcoat was there, his underclothes col lar. necktie and shirt were untouched, but his suit was gone.
 "There was nothing for the manager to do but make good the loss. The man said that the clothes had cost him $4O He was loaned suit of clothes to wear while he visited clothing store, where he bought suit for 90. The Nhotel gave him S15 to make up the difference and he left the place completely satisfied.
 "A few weeks later the manager of the hotel, who is a personal friend of mine. received telegram from Omaha which said that the man had been arrested there for working the same game, and asked if he had worked his hotels The fellow would go to hotel completely dressed except for a suit of clothes. The tightly buttoned overcoat hid the lack of clothes and the rest was easy. Before he was caught the fellow had worked the game about once every two days for several months"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Great Marble in the state.

.aThe Alabama marble is the greatest in the world, and none that have ever seen equals it." said signor Moretti' the well known sculptor, who was in Birmingham yesterday.
 We organized a company recently 'o quarry this marble and we will soon pc shipping it to all parts of the country are putting in our machinery a' ene quarry near Sylacauga now and U "iii rAouire about two months for us 10 pe- gin getting out the marble in sniilcie"' quantities to make it profitable.
 ..t have been firm believer in Alabama marble ever since I saw the hrst plece nearly two years ago. But since nave moved to Sylacauga I have become more firmly convinced than ever that It VIII supplant the Carara marble for all statu- ary in this country, and l believe the tune will come when it will replace the famous Italian marble in the work done py all the famous seulptors.
 aThe largest dealer in New York has al- ways handled Carara marble exclusively for statuary purposes, but he is anxious to become agent for our marble, and says that he will gladly give up the agency Tor the imported marble if he can represent the Alabama stone. This agent is the larg- est importer of marble in the world, ana Is considered one of the worlds greatest experts and he told me recently that the Alabama marble was much higher grade than the Italian marble, and better adontad to statrarv work
 "It is pretty lonesome at sylacauga, and long to get back to Birmingham to live, but I am doing a large amount of work and expect to make a big exposition in New York this year.
 "The work l am doing now will be the best have ever done, and I think that the Alabama people will be amazed when they see what can be done with this stone, the value of which has only been discovered in the last year or so.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

great quantities, and as soon as 1t Is in operation the builders of the plant propose to break the iron market in New York. It would not be surprising to hear next that the wonderful MT. Sholes of South Bend, Indiana. had learne1 from the literry fellers of that literary state how to make iron without the use or intervention of ore. which at the best is clumsy and cumber- some article.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

if satisfactory, go further than any thing else towards expressing discon- tent in Russia. If Russia can be tran quilized, Berlin, Paris. Brussels, Am sterdam and even London and New York will assist in floating a peace loan for Russia. The money markets of Europe all hinge on the Russian war indemnity, for all European markets have become convinced that Japan's bill will be heavy, and that 1t must be paid by the conquered country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
Cotton Here and Elsewhere.

So far as acreage figures are con cerned everybody engaged in the cot ton industry is at sea. The doctored figures of the agricultural department are not accepted, for it has simply split the difference between the figures of the Southern Cotton Growers associa- ton and the Holmes figures. It had nothing to base the split upon. It was and is just mere split-a mere guess, as all its acreage figures long have been. The Cotton Growers association says the acreage is Is per cent below that of last year, while the department says it is but 14.9 per cent less. Holmes figures showed a decrease of 11.4 per cent. The cotton buyers and sellers do not know what to believe as to acre age, and as long as acreage figures are indeterminable all crop estimating is paralyzed. The planters, the mill men and the middlemen are each and all at sea-
 This results perhaps in a waiting market, but as prices are tending to- wards il cents no one in the south will be apt to complain. Any market that carries cotton to Il cents will be well comed in this section of the country.
 The New Orleans Times-Democrat presents letters from all parts of the cotton belt relating to growth and de- velopment of the plant in July. It judges from those letters considered as a whole that the situation is criti- cal Perfect weather and late frost, it says, must be had to avert disaster. But the letters from Alabama are optimistic, nearly all of them present. ing betterments in the condition of the E: ywing crop The Livingston core spondent says the cotton crop has been improved in west Alabama. It is late, but the plant is healthy and Is fruiting nicely. Decatur reports an improve ment of 20 per cent throughout the Tennessee valley. Selma admits an improvement of 15 per cent. Dadeville thinks the betterment is about per cent. Opelika reports an improvement
  of 8 per cent. Union Springs says the improvement is perceptible. Huntsville is enthusiastic over the outlook, and tuscaloosa says the weather conditions promise a fair crop.
 Looking over the entire cotton belt the conclusion plainly is that at pres ent it presents spotted appearance. The promising and the unpromising sections are intermingled. To some e.-tent this is the case in Alabama, but in this state the promising counties outnumber the counties without prom i,, of an average crop. The crop grown last yoar in this state was nearly l. 500000 bales. The new crop will go to a million bales at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
\ GEORGE ALEXANDER, the we'll 4 known English actor manager,
 gives in the Theatre Magazine

gives in the Theatre Magazine some excellent advice to young women who are resirous of adopting the stage as profession. MT. Alexander says:
 Don't-unless you can rough itl
 Don't-unless you can waitl
 Don't-unless you can eat your hearti
 Don't-unless you can weep-and wini
 Save you can accept as your portion disappointment, delay, weariness, travel, and travail opposition, malice. neglect. the heartache and the thousand natural would din it into you, donti If you can and will-tben, here's luck to you!
 If you would be an actor, study nature! Learn to hold up the mirror-that is the whole duty of acting. Study her in the street. in the drawing room. In the assem- bly; get at her secrets and her manifesto tions of them; learn to demonstrate them, to reproduce, repeat them; go into the solitude and mediate them. practice her expressions, remember her accent make her live in you again! Perfect the ma chinery-learn her myrid ways of walk ing, of talking, of being, and of doing! Let nothing seem too trivalr nor too hard. Realize her every way and seek how best to express her! It is in the nearer ap- proach to natures great self, great in all large and all small things that the joy. the full-fowing joy of acting lies, and only they who can feel this can ever hope to succeed. And I myself doubt if there be any exaltation so great as that of the supreme moment of the actor.
 The greatest artist, and the closest to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A man has more principles. but wom- an more conscience.
 It takes a man of 90 to be as big fool over women as he thinks a young man oi 25 Is.
 A girl of that kind has awful red mar unless she has money to make IL see" auburn.
 Every woman ought to have an allow ance SO she can tell her husband no" much too small it is.
 A woman would bc very happy. over her husband going to church without making row: about 1t if 1t didn't H'AHe her so suspicious about what he was suFs to be planning to do as an antidote.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
aollanders Will Celebrate.

This is the day when Hollanders throughout the earth celebrate the anni- versary of the birthday of Her Highness Emma Won Waldeck-Piermont. the mother of welhelmina. the gracious Queen of the Netherlands. In Birming- ham the mother of Hollands lovely Queen will not be forgotten. The colony of Hol- flanders here is not large, yet it's quality has sensbly impressed the life of the community. The occasion is likely to be interesting to ali members of the danger girdled race.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
ACTOR MANAGER TELLS
 HOW TO BE AN ACTRESS

nature. was Shakespeare. Steep yourself in Shakespeare. gain acquaintance with his men and his women. Conceive them afresh-give them new beingi Walh apart and voice them, and gesture them. and act them to yourself! He touched the noblest and the meanest; and in him your will find all secrets.
 Then get all the practice you can! Act whenever and wherever you see the slightest unpromising opportunity; Never mind your friends; don't let them deter you! Treat home critics with contempt and grumbers with disdain Heat grows by friction-so will your enthusiasm; and therell be plenty of friction, don't you fear for that And as the parts get big ger and the performances more frequent so will the friction become more intense and the enthusiasm more glowing Noth- ing divides a household so much as pri- vate theatricals. That is one of the sacri- fees demanded by art, and when the muses beckon, papa" must take a back seat. Yes, be diligent in your ill-doing. Weary them with Shylock and Portia estrange them with Hamlet and Ophelia, sadden them with your humor, lighter them with your tragedy-only go OH. Drama means doing" Do your friends. So much the sooner will you be able to do the public-successfully. When you have practiced in private all the greatest parts of all the ages; when you have forfeited your friends indulgence and your rela- tions' 1ove. when vou feel that only op- portunity stands between you and great ness. go to some actor r-managcr-other than myself-and get a banner to wavel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
OUGHT TO BE POPULAR.

From the Kansas City Journal.
 The Ladies Aid society of the First NJ. F. church of Broken Arrow gave 'Bloomer' social for the benefit of the church Wednesday night The secret of how to interest the young men in the church has been solved at Broken Ar row
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
The RIqht Man.

Chief Engineer Stevens is highly spoken of by the numerous civil and mining en- gineers. "He showed his good sense,' said one of them yesterday. when he decided be rendered habitable. There Is no sense in working men under circumstances that mean disease and death. MT. Stevens says he will not do it. and this is the sense of the situation"
 MT. Stevens promises" he added ito be the right man in the right place-the man that the government has needed from the outset. He is at the isthmus. and there he purposes to stay"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
NOT NEEDED THERE.

From the Girard (Mo.) Press.
 Little Ethel had dislocated her wrist and suffered greatly before the physician could be summoned. After he had attend ed to 1t she said: Suppose I had died before you got here, would l have been a>crippled angel?"
 'Oh. mo- he replied, you would have been doctored in heaven"
 Why" queried Ethel surprised, "dc doctors go to heaven. too"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

M0AF all sad spots in the world none
 " IS more depressing than the
 burial ground of an insane asylum. The ordinary habitats of tba dead oppress ones spirits, but in the lone " acres devoted to those who suffered a Tar worse fate than death there turks an atmosphere of tragedy and gloom that harasses the very soul. On inc soutb bank of the Warrior river, lust ahove Tuscaloosa is lonely cemetery in the woods where the unfortunates who died, while patients of the Alabama Bryce In- sane hospital, are buried These probably had no friends or relatives who cared enough for them to inter their bodies in family plots or else poverty denied them the empty consolation of resting place at home. There they lie sleeping in their numbered graves marked by plain iron stakes stuck into the ground Of montI- ments there are none and but a handful of the cheapest tombstones rise above the mounds. This silent company lived and died under the cloud of insanity Death came to set them free. Then they were brought out here in the woods ouiicu lOTBOtlen.
 There was no funeral pomp when the last rites were performed. Few, if any. mourners attended the simple funerals The world did not know, perhaps, that there was one patient less in a ward of the great institution where hundreds of men and women, with reason dethroned are gathered together. In many cases no tear was shed anu there was no friend or relative to be informed that the race of life was ended. The spark went out that was all. 4nds one dreamed he was king, that one poet, another that the secrets of science were locked up in his poor added head. Happy were they whose vagaries took a pleasant turn for the less fortunate shuddered and groaned in the presence of fears conjured up by their diseased brains.
 It is quiet out there in the asylum graveyard It is summer. The green foliage of the trees, stirred by d breeze murmurs pleasantly in ones ears; there is num of insects and birds sing cheer l fly all about. Down at the foot of a gen. tie incline which begins it's descent at the boundary line of the cemetery beau i tiful blue river winds it's way, the ceru- lean hue of its water at this season of the year rivaling that of a picture lake The sun is shining in clear sky, the incense of woodland flowers is waited to the nostrils and nature is smiling at her best. Yet behold the desolation of that scene! Scores of humble mounds stretch away in every direction-deaths s harvest during many years, while the asylum bell tolled off the passing days and the funeral wagon wended it's way often over the hill to the cemetery, bear ing silent passenger. Here you will find no green sod, no gravel walks no flow ers-none of those evidences of a tender care on the part of the living for the dead. You do not see visitors here, for none come to mourn over the neglected and forgotten graves.
 All is sadness unrelieved. The mounds seem to nestle together as if lonely in the still woods. Grass grows in ragged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

The new Russian parliament will be convened soon after peace is secured It will not be. however, a parliament based on manhood suffrage and is not therefore finality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

Even the Czar and his mother and the Czarina were in the Yalu timber scandal. Russia is a good deal like the Equitable-the more you probe 1t the worse it smells.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
Immigration In North Carolina.

T was highly Interested" said Frank V. Evans, the assistant commissioner of the Alabama Immigration and Industrial association, maintained by the railroads '''in conversation had with Governor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

Secretaries Taft and Root are the powers behind the throne, with Sec. retary Bonaparte acting as the um- pire. Senator Lodge has been wholly dislodged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

If the two peace parties had to walk log across a creek tt would be tick fish matter to decide which should start first. International etiquette is poser in the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

It is an il wind that blows nobody any good The yellow fever scare will prove an effective incentive to sani- tary work in southern towns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

Just out of curiosity the world would like to know if General Linevitch would really make a better showing against the Japs than General Kuropatkin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

When life insurance companies take in two dollars and pay back to the in- sured but one dollar, they should pay death claims promptly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

The stegomyia fasciata is in Bir- mingham, but his presence is no excuse for panic until he gets a chance to bite a yellow fever sufferer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

The unpublished "Fads and Fancies' is making trouble. The paid-up sub scribers, including Chauncey Depew, want the goods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

It's a long time until frost, and if New Orleans stamps out yellow fever she will prove ,hat science is master of yellow jack"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

What Senator Depew knows about Pads and Fancies is immaterial; what he knows about the Equitable Lie Assurance soclc.y is worth learn ing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

Senator Clark says he is the inno- contest man who has absorbed public lands. His trial will, however, proceed unchecked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

The fact that neither the Kaiser nor the Czar has disclosed what they said during the recent conference does not prevent the guessers from getting busy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

Japan considers herself as good as Germany, which was billion-dollar country at the end of the war with France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

Town Topics Mann fought in the civil war, but that kind of fighting did not qualify him for a tussle with Dis trict Attorney Jerome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

The musical comedy queens will be- gin their .hearsals for the winter sea o son this month and chappies are on the qui wye.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

"Fads and Fancies" is to contain more personal allusions than even the Congressional Directory. Neither, how ever, sticks to facts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

Czar Nicnol,j seems desirous of playing to the grandstand, with the ambition to become a hot favorite of the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

Secretary Wilson says he will not re- sign, no matter how rotten his de- partment is proven to have been under hls alleged direction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

|. Planked chicken is a new gastro- homie joy and culinary masterpiece. Dc wn in Dixie fried chicken is still good enough.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

Oregon is about to lose it's political boss. and applicants for the place should present the testimonials at once.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

A peace conference may yet have to be called for the benefit of the gov ernors of Mississippi and Louisiana.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

The rattling of bones in the closets of the other life insurance companies points to more investigations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

Colonel Mann's strong box of scan dals is operating as restraining force on the smart set
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
Between Friends.
From Puck

From Puck.
 Edith-Papa gave me this watch on my eighteenth birthday.
 Ethel-Does it still keep time. dear?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

The peace envoys understand the art of bluffing at any rate in the prelimi- nary stage of the peace proceedings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

Two of Birm,ngham's prominent citl zens no doubt recognize that the san' tation crusade Is no joke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

The dummy director has been m vited into court, where he must show his hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02

Secretary Wilson would like to have a little of the Japanese secrecy applied to his department this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
A FAREW ELL.
Ry Alfred Tennyson.

By Alfred Tennyson. Flow down. cold rivulet. to the sea. Thy tribute wave deliver: No more by thee my steps shall be, Forever and forever. Hut here will sigh thine alder tree. And here thine aspen shiver; And here by thee will hum the bee. Forever and forever. Flow. softly flow. by lawn and lea, rivulet, then a river; Nowhere by thee my steps shall be, Forever and forever. A thousand suns will stream on thee, A thousand moons will quiver; But not by thee my steps shall be. Forever and forever.