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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-31
FRENCH PAPERS
ARE ASTONISHED

Paris. August 31.-The Paris morning
newspapers in commenting on the result
of the peace conference express still more
astonishment at its sudden and happy
termination, and ask whether the United
States has decided to return to her ira
ditional friendship for Russia or II Great
Britain has suddenly renowned her old
hostility to Russia, and whether the Pa
cihc ocean question will now be gov
erned by Japan, Russia and the United
States, or by Japan. Great Britain and
the United States. The Aurora says:
Fate has offered Emperor Nicholas an
unexpected chance in the marvellous re-
venge of justice and liberty
The Petite Republique says:
Japan has sacrificed her amour propre
and her financial interests to the adj
vancement of civilization
Gabriel Hanataux, foreign minister of
foreign affairs Says:
president Roosevelt has taught the
European government a severe lesson
The Gaulois says:
Peace has been signed at the twelfth
hour and President Roosevelt is greater
In his role as an advocate of peace than
Marshal Oyama is in that of warrior
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A Practical ArmistiCe.

No matter how long a time elapses
before the peace treaty Is signed, rati-
fed and exchanged, a practical armis-
tice should and.undoubtedly will exist.
The world is tired of carnage. Few
wars have been so bloody and any fur
Their waste of life would be murder out
and out No good to either side would
be subserved by it, and no doubt 1t will
be avoided.
A month must elapse before the
treaties can be perfected, and the
armies to be started homeward, and
common humanity calls for practical
IL not actual armistice in all Of that
time. Let not another drop of blood
be shed In this war between Russia
and Japan. The casualties, 1t is esti-
mated. already include 1876 Japan
ese and 329, 779 Russians-an aggregate
of 496,535 souls, and this is certainly
enough to satisfy the most bloodthirsty.
We give below the best obtainable sta
tistics of killed and wounded, as fol-
lows:
Yalu-Japanese 1899 Russian 239S.
observation-disclosures 146, Russian 300.
Observation-Disclosures 1907, Russian 1870.
Telisz-Japanese 1863 Russian 9270.
| enshwiling--Japanese III, Russian 450.
! Kaiping-Japanes 1853, Russian $50.
| observation-disclosures 299, Russian 1000.
| Kinatao-Japanese 423, Russian 1000.
Tashichiao-Japanese 1877, Russian 1000.
observation-disclosures $780, Russian 1850.
Yushulingtsz and Yang Tsz Ling-Japa-
| nese GAG, Russian 2000.
| Lao Yang-Japanese 176l5. Russian 25,-
| 900.
Shaho-Japanese 1850. Russian 69,201.
Forty-six acknowledgements 1000,
| Russian 1000.
skirmishes after shaho-Japanese 200,
| Russian 395.
luchwang-Japanese $50. Russian 500.
acknowledgements 5000. Russian 10000.
Skirmishes between Hekautai and Muk-
| den-Japanese $50. Russian 1926
Hukden-Japanese $500, Russian 1872,
| 500.
Chandtu-Japanese 100. Russian 800.
Fakumun-Japanese 80, Russian 240
"Reminiscences 70, Russian S00
Yingec'hing-Japanese 20, Russian 500.
Wsiyuantaumun-Jap 215, Russian
24o.
Port Arthur-Japanese $4,000, Russian
| 1900.
Naval casualties-JapaNese 1870. Russian
| 6000
These losses occurred in eighteen
months of fighting, and they should
sufice. No doubt steps have practi-
cally been taken to prevent any more
casualties. The world is stated with
blood, and any more losses would come
| to 1t as shock and surprise.
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Japan's Wisdom and Moderation.

There Is a distinct feeling in many
quarters that big, staggering, auto
cratic Russia is not sufficiently pun
lshed in the peace terms for her greed
anl bad faith in Manchuria, but when
1t is remembered that she can not even
police hereafter her railroad line across
northern Manchuria to Vladvostok, 1t
will at once be seen that the real re-
suits of the war have been achis eyed
and secured.
The generosity of the Japanese In
waving indemnity is in line with the
action of the United States in the Phil
ippines. Our victory over Spain was
complete. We were in a position to
send a fleet to Spanish ports, and
action of that sort was feared by Spain,
and yet we paid $20,000,O00 for the
Philippines, after spending hundreds of
millions in the war that did not touch
our national existence. Japan was
equally generous. She has won at the
end the esteem of the outside world.
She has won the friendship of every
friend of humanity. She has placed
herself near the head of the advanced
nations of the earth. The glory of her
arms is now matched by her high
standard of civilization and breadth of
view.
Russia won no glory in the Far East
before the war. She won none during
the war, and she wins none at the end
of it. She sneaks out of the confer
ence partially unpublished, but she has
ut erly lost a commanding position In
the Far East and no one now in this
world will live to see her
regain 1t. Japan will grow In
strength and civilization the faster
OF the two, and she will start
aided by England stronger in the Far
East than Russia and Germany com
bined. The latter's turn to retreat
from that quarter of the world will not
be long delayed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-31
SHE DIDN'T KNOW BEANS,

From the Chicago News.
The class in botany at the Towson
High school this year was given soisaa
practical work to do. Each member was
required to plant some beans and report
progress.
Sometime after the beans had been
put into the ground the instructor called
on the class to tell what they had noted.
All went well until she came to one of
the young women.
"what have you to say Miss" asked
the teacher.
MY beans did not come up right"
said the schola1: they backed out of the
ground and pulled them out and buried
them again, LEI living the sprouts above
the soil. They came up as at first, and 1
put them insight again. but the old
things ba2et Sout again today, and I
don't kno1ire3ta to do with them"
1t wa9 hsime before the young
wdrsan Y Nassnnade to understand that
KkfJhattaf that the bean comes out
~ appears.
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oIA-NIPPoN's RISEN STAR.

From Puck.
Down Frisco street fees pagan Jap.
Encircled, like rat in torturing trap,
BY a ruffian Gordon of Civilized" whites.
Turn whittier he will. In his harried
flights. ARA
With a blow or a kick or shoulderblock
They buffet him round like a shuttle
cock
The while a helmeted limb o. the law
Betrays his glee in coarse guffaw.
Fierce imprecations in Nippon tongue
From the lips of the wretched quarry
wrung
But add to the zest of the gauntleting;
Nor yet do his pidgin pleadings bring
Aught save derisive taunt and jeer-
No sympathy's wasted on brown man
here,
For Jap's Chink in the western view,
And Chink's fair game for a hoodlum
crew.
Down a Frisco street struts a Japanese.
Chesty and dapper and quite at ease.
His naughty bearing and scornful eye
Bespeak the pride of the Samurai
And calm contempt for the lowly white.
Viewed humbled Saxon's Bonded knee,
He swells with a new-found dignity.
In recollection, the Wild 'Banzai!''
Proclaiming the brown mans right OF
way
Der cossack trench or embattlement
Sounds clear again He thrills content
with the passing throng's adniring gaze
Gone is the meekness of other days.
Avaunt! there. you of Aryan clan
Make way for the mighty Nippon man!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-31
TEN-CENT LUNCHES ARE
PROFITABLE IN NEW YORK

lunch, for the food alone. while the fold
ing boxes cost something less than " cent
apiece In quantities of a thousand or
more. The labor in the preparation and
packing of the box, and the percentage
which he must give the distributor bring
the total cost of the box up to I cents,
and leaves the manufacturer Of the lunch
the handsome profit of cents a box.
This in some cases, by competition, is re-
duced to 2h cents, but when the COM
pany Is selling from 1000. to 1000 boxes a
day the proprietor is reconciled to this
profit on the money and time invested
The Immediate profit on money and
time invested in the lunch-box business is
greater than in most business lines. Even
the novice who has contracts for but
two or three buildings or enterprises
which use but 200 boxes daily is still able
to make from 81 to So day clear He
can make more than that sum IL he has
the help of his wife, and makes the de-
liveries himself.
To start a lunch-box business calls for
little or no investment of capital beyond
the cost Of the first supply of foodstuffs
and folding boxes; and by purchasing any
SSfA
will find where the receptacle is made.
The lunch-box proprietor's main capital
is his ability to secure his initial orders,
for when he has reached the stage when
he can afford to employ a competent So
licitor who is familiar with the OFFICES
and manufactures of the city his business
requires little care other than the buying
of supplies. careful watch over the
checking of the finished boxes, and peri
odical trips around with his deliveries.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-31
Japs Make Attack.

Toxic, August 31.-Army headquarters
have made the following announcement:
I'm the direction of Hsingchang on the
morning of August q our forces attacked
and defeated the enemy's mounted infan-
try, several hundred strong, near Yuti-
angsu. thirty miles northeast of Hsing-
chang.
1.-The enemys infantry and one battalion
of four guns advanced the same morning
on Nanshanchentsu. They were immedi-
ately repulsed and chased toward Hok-
kuanhsing, some eight miles north of
Nanshanchentsu.
Another body of the enemy, one regi-
ment of infantry opened an attack on
Kushantsu the same morning and were
repulsed In the direction of Taolu our
force dislodged the enemy's cavalry at
Nantaikokou, some twenty miles south
east of Taolu. and occupied the place
Another force took Yushulin at noon,
making a further advance to Nienpanho-
ku, some ten miles south of Taolu.
another force advanced toward LANG
shuichentsu. ten miles southwest of
Taolu, dislodging the enemy's infantry
and one battalion with some guns, and
holly chased them northward."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-31
ONE PAPER PLEASED.
The Slave Takes an Optimistic View Of
Portsmouth Treaty.

St Petersburg, August 31.-(S:25 a. M
The Slovo this morning referring to the
cession of half of the Island of Sakha-
lin says:
1--WE have ceded to Japan half of our
penal colony. We never profited from
Sakhalin, but on the contrary 1t has al
ways been a source of heavy expense,
So far as the desire of Russia for colo
nization on the island goes, We have
plenty of chances in the northern part
We are of opinion that Russia issues
from this war without material loss, and
why should we consider 1t shameful to
have abandoned something which was
useless to us? 1t Is not the peace or
Portsmouth which is shameful, but in the
manner in which we conducted the war
which led to this peace"
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From the New York Commercial.
IN ERHAPS you are one of the many
~ thousands of busy persons who,
Instead of eating your MONDAY
lunch at the crowded restaurants, pre-
fer to get lunch put up in folding
box, which the news stands in the entrance
of the big office buildings sell for 10 cents.
At times you may purchase slightly
larger box lunch for Is cents, though the
quality of the food is no better, and
perhaps you wonder how 1t is that the
makefs can put up the lunch for the
price.
Your Decent lunch will contain. as a
rule, a bun meat sandwich, section of
pie fruit of some sort-either banana,
a peach, pear or plums-a pickle and
small cake or doughnut. This seems an
immense amount for 10 cents, and you
will find that the contents vary from
day to day. Everything in the box tastes
sweet and fresh, and in most OF the bet
ter-class lunches every article of food
Is carefully wrapped in paraffin tissue
paper with absolute cleanliness as a re-
suit.
1t is stated on the authority of d. W.
Frederick of Chicago that the sales of
these 1o-cent lunches in that city av-
ernge fully 10000 day. Seven or eight
concerns devote all their time to this
lunch-box industry. The largest lunch
box business in Chicago. 1t is interesting
to note, is managed and owned by
woman, who has operated 1t successfully
for nearly fifteen years.
An experienced and careful manager of
a lunch-box business figures that 1t costs
him about 8 cents to prepare single
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-31
Isolated Fever Cases.

The appearance of fever cases at
Pensacola and Natchez as the month
of August goes out need not alarm any
one. The treatment of first cases is
well understood, and the result is rea-
sonably certain Even at Mississippi
City, where the presence of the disease
was long concealed, all infection has
been or soon will be stamped out So
1t will be in Natchez and in Pensacola.
The mosquito theory guarantees that
much provided the discovery of cases
be prompt, and publicity follows I'M
mediately upon discovery. The disease
Vas permitted to gain an almost un-
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conquerable foothold in Louisiana. but
the story Of that state need not be and
assuredly will not be repeated else
where.
September is trying month IN yell
low fever epldemics, but the experience
already gained leads to the conviction
that screens will prevent an extension
of the epidemic beyond the state Of
Louisiana. Governor Vardaman and
his assistants have a difficult battle Of
defense before them, but they are very
alert, and the next twenty days VIII
no doubt bring them victory and some
degree of relief.
The work that has been done this
season In pursuance of the mosquito
theory demonstrates that an early dis
covery Of four cases Is all that is
needed in order to take steps that will
protect community The early screen
ing of suspects is the sole step to be
taken. The removal of suspects is not
at all necessary If they and the fever
mosquitoes are absolutely kept apart.
Until civilization copes with the task Of
destroying all mosquitoes the screen
must continue to be our hope and chief
dependence in battles against the yell
low scourge from the tropics.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-31
PORTSMOUTH, SHOCKED.
A Series Of Seismic Disturbances
Brighten the People.

Portsmouth. N. H., August 30.-A
series of earthquake shoks, the most
severe ever experienced In this section,
was felt here late this afternoon
Buildings trembled perceptibly, dishes
were shaken from shelves and In many
cases people rushed in terror from
their houses into the streets. There
were three distinct shocks, and in each
instance the tremor was accompanied
by sound like distant explosions.
The first shock was felt little be-
fore sos p. m, and the other shocks
followed soon after. Each of the three
shocks continued for several seconds
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From the New York world.


E0HN p. Holland. the submarine
(o1l boat inventor. has received from
the navy department at Washing
ton the results of tests made with model
Of new craft designed by him. and
which he expects will relegate all existing
submarine boats TO the junk heap.
This latest product of the submarine
wizard will, Mr.. Holland claims, surpass
boats of the Plunger type in speed, in
safety and in facility of manipulation.
The inventor has been working out his
new ideas since he severed his connec-
ton with the Holland Torpedo Boat COM
pany in April last.
The report of tests with his new model
by the navy department, Mr. Holland de-
clares. demonstrates that he can pro-
duce submarine greyhound, capable, at
the lowest calculation, of maintaining a
speed of twenty-five knots an hour, I'M
der water. This estimate Is conservative
he says. as the tests conducted by Naval
Constructor e. w. Taylor, at Washington
show
The results obtained by Constructor
Taylor were shown by Mr.. Holland yes
terday in his draughting room at No. IS
Newton steet, Newark The various
stages of the tests were indicated by
photographs and a chart
The model used in the tests was ten
feet long, and represented a boat eighty
five feet in length by eight feet six
inches beam, with a draught of seven feet
one inch.
THE result of the tests was quite up
to my expectation, said Mr.. Holland.
II may say the test was even better than
l anticipated, for my purpose in. setting
about to design this boat was to get lines
upon which, with the highest practicable
horsepower, she would reach a speed of
twenty knots submerged. The tests show
that a boat constructed on the lines OF
the model cain attain nearly. If not quite.
thirty knots an hour submerged with en-
gines of 1900 horsepower.
There is one feature of the tests that
may seem to be peculiar, but which is as
much certainty as scientific calculation
can make 1t; that is that the boat when
completed will after attaining a certain
speed travel faster submerged than when
running light on the surface, and still
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-31
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
No man was ever made worse by being
married.; no woman better.
II a woman takes a ride on a ferryboat
she speaks of having been away for the
summer.
1t seems as If they could discover cures
for everything on earth except just being
plain fools.
No matter how pretty a man tells girl
she is, she doubts II she ought to marry
such a conAervative fellow.
Fashions re always devised to cover
UP thinness Ind make fat women look
NIKE freaks tss e as as Ss .dss
of n ~~-> Y
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JOHN P. HOLLANDS. NEW
WONDER TOOUST PLUNGER

more so when running awash. The tests
proved that at a spec of less than six
teen knots an hour my boat will be cap
able of making greater speed above than
below the surface. At sixteen knots the
re assistance is exactly the same, based on
the amount of horsepower expended. But
above sixteen knots the resistance is less
under water. until. at a rate Of twenty
nine knots, there is an expenditure of
eighty horsepower less submerged than
when running above the water.
The reason for this is that while the
boat Is above water the friction depends
upon the. amount of wetted surface, and
when submerged. although the increased
amount of wetted surface produces in
creased friction up to a certain point
say sixteen knots-after that the water
slides past and there is no wave produce
tion."
Mr.. Holland has not begun the con-
struction of his world-beating submarine.
His plans recently sustained a check
owing to the disappearance of Edward T.
Duffy, a Newark broker. who with the
inventor formed the company that was
to produce the craft The inventor said
yesterday that. while 1t will require about
nine months to build his boat, he is not
In hurry He has been negotiating with
a large shipbullding concern, and it will be
definitely known tomorrow whether he
will go ahead under this management.
Mr.. Holland wants $125,0oo to start with
and guarantee of 100000 before he will
proceed.
My craft will revolutionize submarine
boat construction" said Mr.. Holland.
There is'not a submarine today that can
travel more than eight and half knots
an hour. Boats of the Plunger type are
practically worthless. They are too broad
and too short They are tubs, in short.
and while they were built on lines that
prepared, with some improvements,
they are all worthless. protested against
their contraction.
1.-The most material changes have
made in developing the new submarine
continued Mr. Holland, have been in get
ting a greater length and a lesser di-
ameter. There will be a total eradication
of sluggishness in movement in this new
boat, which. l am confident will perform
satisfactorily all that a submarine can be
required to. do"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-31
When Frost Falls.

LET us not expect" said Chief Wier
yesterday. ito have frosts before No
yember Ii, for that is about the average
date in this valley and latitude. Frosts
have occurred here In October, but they
were strictly exceptional. AS rule they
cannot be looked for until the early days
OF November.
81 speak of course of killing frostsl
for they are the only kind that kill mos
auitoes and malaria. Light frosts may
fall earlier than November. but the mos
auitoes do not respect light frosts. The
medicine they need is killing frost and
you may safely assume it will not fall
here until about November II.
Until then" added the chief, this city
should be left in the soundest sanitary
condition, and no harm will be done If 1t
s kept that way the year round"
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DIAZ WILL LEAVE.
Minister From Uruguay VIII Return to
His Country.

Washington, August 9.-senor Doctor
Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, minister from
Uruguay, is about to leave Washington
for Uruguay and 1t is doubtful IL he will
return to this city. He has called upon
Acting Secretary Looms to say fare
we'll. and will sail In a day or two from
New York.
Senior Diaz came to Washington in
1904, being the first minister to represent
his country here for a number of years.
Probably revolutionary troubles in Uru-
quay made it expedient in the judgment
of the government of that country to
have an active representative In America,
but peace has been completely restored,
and it is improbable that Senior Diaz will
be Immediately succeeded In Washing
ton
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Getting Pesslmistlc.

81 am getting pessimistic over the situa-
ton In the south regarding the railroad
business" said w. A Moody, manager of
the Alabama Car Service association, yes
terday 'I believe that the yellow fever
will effect traffic considerably this fall
and that it will materially hurt the move
ment of freight.
people all over Louisiana and por-
tions of Mississippi are getting more and
more demora1ized and are leaving those
states in great numbers. Whenever the
people leave a state 1t naturally hurts
business to a large extent and that has
Its effects on the movement of freight
1.-THE prospects two months ago were
exceedingly bright for the south. L
thought that the freight movement would
be unexcelled in the history of the south.
However yellow fever has had an ad-
verse effect.
Another serious proposition arising
from the yellow fever situation is that a
great deal of the cotton III the delta coun-
try will not be picked. Labor is extreme
ly scarce all over the south and much of
II has been heightened away from the
heavy cotton producing districts along. the
Gulf coast. This means that the cotton
will not be picked as rapidly as usual,
and | am afraid that much of 1t will not
be picked at all.
Then the labor question In Birming-
ham is having it's effects. The scarcity
of all kinds of labor is effecting the rail-
road business to some extent. Scarcity
of labor Is the serious question with
which the south has to contend at pres
emit.
1.-THE cotton crop will fall somewhat
below the estimates made recently.
Rains have effected it according to the
information l have received"
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WILL RESUM e.
The Chicago Board of Trade Restores
"Puts" and "CalIs."

Chicago. August sO.-Trading In puts"
and calls" is to be re-established by the
Chicago Board of Trade. BY vote OF
the members of the exchange, resulting
in 500 affirmative and 254 negative ballots.
the resumption of this form of trading
was decided upon today.
privilege trading was abandoned
here some time ago when the board Of
trade began crusade against bucket
shops. An amendment providing for the
expulsion of any member who enters into
contracts II aware that he is insolvent.
was also voted upon. The question of the
re-establishment of puts" and calls"
was raised by believers in that system
who caused the amendment to the rule
to be submitted to vote by means of
petition.