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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
Maine a Beautiful Ship.

I noticed the other day that Admiral Rohley D. Evans had changed his flag from the Maine to the Kearsarge." said a travelling man, and 1 was especially interested because the dispatch state. that the admiral changed his flagship because the Maine was too smoky. It seems that the tunnels of this battleship are rather low and when the vessel IS going at full speed she is enveloped in smoke.
 However, I should think that the ad miral would be loath to leave so fine vessel even for the Kearsarge. The Maine is considered perhaps the best and most powerful battleship in the United States navy. She is a huge fighting ma chine and with all her ominous bearing is beautiful sight in Pensacola bay.
 The quarters of the admiral on board the Maine were also very comfortable to landubbers eye. The reception room of the admiral was elegantly furnished, while he was on board the vessel al though the apartment was simply adorn- ed. As for neatness and cleanliness-well, you have heard how spotless the tackles keep a man-of-war and the reports have not been exaggerated. Should you drop charred match or a flake of cigar ashes in the admirars apartments you would commit an unpardonable blunder."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
Honor We'll Deserved.

Tn naming the park near Lakeview for MT. William Halls, Jr., the City Council conferred an honor upon a gentleman who well deserves it," remarked one of the "old citizens yesterday afternoon. ''The act was peculiarly appropriate, too. for MT. Halls Is lover of children, and noth- Ing could touch him more than the though that his name is to be perpetuated by the sweet voices of the children who are to play in the park for the many years to come.
 'If home is where the heart is,' Mir Halls home is In Birmingham. Some of his best thoughts has been given to the development of the city. Few know what he has contributed in a financial way to the enterprises and moral agencies of Birmingham, for MT. Halls is very modest and will not have his benefactions pro- claimed from the housetop. It is well that his name is linked inseparably with the city for which he has done so much"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
RoJestvensky's Predicament.

Beyond reasonable doubt Admiral Rojestvensky is lying in kamranh bay, about two hundred miles north of Saigon, the capital of Indo-China, or Cochin China, as the province is some- times called It belongs to France, and Kamranh bay is directly west of Manila, about five hundred miles away. The China sea is bounded by the Philippines on the east, and by Indo-China on the west.
 The Russian fleet hopes to be per mitted no doubt to lie in Kamranh bay until it can be supplied with coal and provisions, and until the third days hence. Kamranh bay is triangu lar in shape, being sixteen and a half miles long. and from eight to ten miles wide. Rojestvensky is endeav- bring to make it Russian base, as he had previously made bay on Mad agascar, by anchoring just outside the three-mile limit. No doubt he can en- ter the bay and find good anchorage just outside the three-mile limit, but the bay would become just the same Russian base in violation of all neu. trality towards friendly Japan. The socialists in the French chamber of deputies are alert, and the chances are that Rojestvensky will have to leave s Kamranh bay without awaiting the arrival of Nebogatoff's fleet.
 The distance from Kamranh bay to Formosa is eight hundred miles; be- tween Formosa and Yladivostok. four , teen hundred miles of sea intervene total of twenty-two hundred miles. If Rojestvensl1y be driven out of Kam- ranh bay he will be foundering in hostile seas with fonl bottoms and with about eighty ships all told only five of which are adapted for battle against the smart and ultrapatriotic Japanese. Togo eudes him. Each recurring day he has less coal. and north of Kamranh bay he has no pos sjhle base unless he seizes some small
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
Work of Reaches.

q have solved a problem that has been worrying me a long time,' said A B. Freeman, travelling passenger agent of the Queen and Crescent route, yester- day. I had been troubled for a long time with the stamps not sticking, and it seemed that they had no mucilage on them. I could not understand what be- came of the sticky stuff on the back of the stamps.
 'I would put number of stamps in the drawer of my desk and they were all right When 1 started to use them few days afterwards 1 would find that all the sticky stuff had disappeared.
 ''rhe matter worried me considerably for a long time until finally l discovered that the reaches would lick the back of stamp and get every bit of the mucil- age off. I had to secure tin boxes to keep my stamps in, and now l always find mucilage the back of them, and the reaches have to go hungry. I watched the bugs one morning and discovered them in the act of securing their breakfast food at the expense of the railroad"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
Real Estate Situation.

"Rumors regarding the new depot was the absorbing topic of conversation in real estate circles all of this week, said John A Sparrow who is well informed on the local realty market, yesterday afternoon
 "All eyes seemed to have been turned towards that section of the city which it is rumored will be the site for the new passenger station.
 "The residence property market. how ever, has been exceptionally good all this week, many deals having been con- sumated The Birmingham Really com- pany has sold a number ot residence sites on the North Highlands, and inquiries for lots in other parts of the. city for dwell ings have been quite brisk
 Real estate men of Birmingham seem to think that more residence property will change hands this spring and summer than ever before.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
Banking By Mail.

''I notice that some of the banks or Bir- mingham are pushing the system or bank ing by mai' said a gentleman at the Hillman last night, and regard 1t as sig nificant. It indicates that Birmingham is swinging into line with Pittsburg and Cleveland, those great industrial centers where banking by mail has been conduct ed for years with phenqnenal success The steady demand for money in Pitts burg and Cleveland enables the banks there to pay four per cent on deposits by mail, and l see that some 9f the Birming- ham banks are offering thesame rate, and for the same reason, of cpurse.
 Banking by mail is as safe and almost as expeditions as banking bver the coun- ter. I am told that a lafge number of depostors actually prefer to bank by mail. as it gives them time for that sober second thought before withdrawing their money. Be that as 1t mayl the depositor by mail can always get his money as quickly as he needs 1t in the usual course of business. Ills pass book lis practically letter of credit.
 Banking by mail was inaugurated by a Pittsburg bank in 1890. Since then the bank has handled millions of dollars in that way. and it's offices state that not a penny has been lost, coming or going. Fine tribute that, to the safety of the postal service.
 "The people in the country tributary to Birmingham ought to take kindly to bank ing by mail. II will give them a rate of interest which their local banks cannot afford to pay It Is good thing for Birmingham, too as it will biting to the city much money which can be used in the development of business and indus tries The financial independence of Pittsburg is due to the millions of de- posits in her savings banks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
EASTER DATES.

From the New York Sun.
 The late date in April at which Easter comes this year is very unusual. Only in three years of the last century was 1t as late or later-in 1886 on April 25, the latest possible date in 1859 on April 24, and in lS4S on April 2S. Nor in the pres ent century will it be so late again until 1916, on April 23. in 194S on April 25 and in 20O0 on April 23. As the central of the movable feasts of the Christian year the time of Easter determines the times of all the rest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
Gustav Kobb,

Gustav Kobbe in the New York Herald.
 @ HERE is a home behind the 9 scenes in which VI. h the ..ac'd.,s actress life-the dressing room, her professional home" it might be called Here she changes her personality so far as out ward appearance is concerned, to suit the character she is to interpret. It's door closes upon her, opens to let out some one else Julia Marlowe goes in, out comes Juliet! Disappears Mrs. Leslie Carter, reappears Adrea! Flits in Maude Adams, fits out Lady Babbe! The wiz ard has waved his wand, the rouge tipped hare's foot, and, presto! change 'Tis all part of the great mystery of behind the scenes" between which and the spectator the footights form a barrier of fire. It would scorch him if he dared attempt to break through. Only the lines the personal magnetism of the actress and the 'atmosphere.' of the play df it is lucky enough to have ''atmosphereo can cross it. and always from one direction only from stage to audience.
 Probably no actress on tho American stage is as we'll aware of the changes that have taken place in dressing rooms as Mrs. w. G. Jones, the Nanny of The Little Minister" the Nurse of Romeo and Juliet. and probably the most legiti- mate successor Of the late Mrs. Gilbert as the Grand Old Woman of the Stage.
 In 1887, before her marriage, she was member of a stock company in Philadel- phia playing at one of the leading the atres there. The. dressing rooms were small. stuffy affairs. without ventilation except over the transoms, the walls and floors bare. In those days the call boy did not go to the dressing rooms, knock on the doors and call the actress by name when it was time for her to go on the stage, but every member of the com pany was known by a number and he simply would sing out Number -
 Mrs Jones was married from the thea tre in which she was then playing. and after she left the company it was forty years before she returned to that house. When she went back. after that long lapse of time, she did not find the slight est improvement. Forty years had passed. yet the dressing rooms were still bare. without running water and without ven-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
SOULFUL.
From Life.

From Iife. e
 Slender Sarah saw sandy simon sitting sadly. simon said, Sweet Sarah, so sunny, sing something soulful" So sarah sang sweet hearts stili," simnitane- ously simon sang stentoriously.
 Suddenly Sarah stopped singing. She saw snakes slowly sliding sidewise. she screamed, Snakes, simon! Strike strong ly," Simons single shot struck sauareny' Sarah snudderingly said, "Saved! Skill full Simonr' simon simply said. Serving Sarah seems sweet, Sara. simpered. simon stood .stupidly staring. Sarah sa. tirically said, "Sappy simon, so silent! Skip! Simply scoot.'' simon shrewdiy scorned scooting.
 Suddenly Simon spoke suppilantly' ss- lutinr Sarah's sunny strands. Sarah s senses scattered, Simon stafnmered, Speak. seraphic sarah! Sarah shyly succumbed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23

pass-taking and pass-giving practice should be abolished, so far as public officials are concerned.
 Heretofore minor officials could so- lace their consciences with the fact that Presidents accept favors from the railroads, but they can do so no longer, for President Roosevelt has established a new policy, and that pol icy takes the President of these United States out of the pass-taking plaee
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
Tip for Lane.
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From the Limestone Democrat.
 We notice that Hon. Charles Paul Lane of Huntsville has announced his candi- dacy for the republican gubernatorial nomination, and declares he Is going to educate the people of the state on mat ters political. We fear the brilliant Huntsville editor had best begin on his own party, so that they will have the in- telligence to recognize his ability and present him with the nomination. Those benighted brothers might overlook MT. Lanes good qualities and nominate some republican more in accord with the ma- chine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
PeIl City.

M. M Smith of Pel City. a prominent attorney and leader in county and state politics, was in Birmingham yesterday. He said:
 "Pell City Is growing very rapidly and is enjoying a most prosperous season of business activity. The cotton mill in my town is one of the best mills in the state and has possibly the finest equipment of any in the south The very best machinery to be had was installed at the time the mill was built three years ago.
 We have a fine agricultural section and the farmers are generally prosper ous. The question of the county court house at Pell City which has been before the supreme court for some time has not yet been decided, but it is the general opinion of the people that it will be all lowed to remain"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
The Stock Market.

Henry Clews' Wall street letter of Fri- days date says:
 "Unless we are mistaken. all Indications point to a renewed strain upon the com munity of interest plans. Mir. Hartman has been left out of the Northern Se- curities directorate. and facts, if not ru- mors, point to friction between the Hill Morgan and Hartman interests. Of course conflict will be avoided as far as possible. since the. consequences are too serious to be invited; but the street has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
THE MESSENGER 5oY."

From the Alexander City Outlook
 The Birmingham Age-Herald is now sending out a special newspaper train over the Frisco line to deliver it's morn ing edition before the bird even sees the worm This Is stroke of wonderful newspaper enterprise, and if the All keeps up it's fast record it may run into something really metropolitan and like wise sensational. and then its Messenger Boy" will be better known as the "Yel- low Streak"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
SPRING.

By Andrew Lang. Now the bright crocus flames, and now
 The slim narcissus takes the rain. And. straying o'ers the mountains brow
 The daffodilles bud again.
 The thousand blossoms wax and wane On wold. and heath. and fragrant bough But fairer than the flowers art thou,
 Than any growth of hill CT plain. Ye gardens. cast your leafy crown, That my loves feet may tread 1t down,
 Like lilies on the lilies set: My love. whose lips are softer far Than drowsy poppy petals are.
 And sweeter than the violet!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
RgFLEcTIoNs OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 Speculation Is when you lose; invest ment when you win
 When girl has been kissed 1t is a sign she will deny it.
 There is a lot of guessing. with an oc- casonal hit, in being a person of good judgment.
 woman has a great head to be able to get into all the queer clothes she wears without losing herself in them.
 It is the man who talks most about his wine closet that goes home and hunts through the cellar for bottle of beer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Easter Sunday.

Today will be the most gladstone Sum day in all the year. In Birmingham Me sun will shine bright and the air will be balmy and sweet with the odor of howers' From every Christian pulpit will come notes of hope and joy; from every Christian choir will be heard halleluiahs. for Christ, the Lord is risen today
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
The Best Way.

From the Russell Register.
 The most practical way to get a canal, across the isthmus is to use picks and| spades instead of red tape.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23

Another college professor puts the starting of senility in the average man at forty-fodr years. It probably begins to strike in ten years earlier with college professors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

AID boil weevil: "To march or @0 not to march; that is the ques- N tion. Whether I will fare better by staying on this side of the Missls- sippi or put to sea on a chip and cross the stream. And when 1 have reached Louisiana what waits me there but q lot of colonels, whose conversation will irk me with it's emptiness? What boots it that I should expose myself to malaria in low country when by staying in Texas l can live the high life freely? Yet, will l cross that yellow stream called the Papa of Waters. and give the farmers conniption fits for planting big acreage and playing low down on their neighbors. In faith, if l don't reduce the crop they never will. Starvation will stare them in the face. I laugh sarcastically at the experts who would put me out of business. sdeath! my peo- pie will dip their nippers in the stormy Atlantic cons after these entomoIogists have ceased to exist. Ha Ha! I will not be stayed In my progress. l will across to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. I will make the experts yield to the jiu-jitsu of my attack I will put the one-crop farmer cut of the running Verify l will make him look like the price of chile con carne. These Amer icanos don't know me. l come from Mexico. The blood of old Spain and the sun-kssed south courses through my veins l am here to stay until I get ready to go farther. A bas with the agri- cultural department and the jingo ex- rfct tarium graduates It's me to the cotton fields of the sunny south. am not yet ready to do the Kuropatllin act or raise the white rag. Umphl
 Society" had not ceased to discuss the engagement of J. G. Phelps Stokes to Rose Harriet Pastor, the Jewish so- cial settlement worker and writer, be- fore another thunderclap announced that the favorite niece of Andrew Carnegie had been married to coachman for over a year. It will be recalled that the rela- tives of young Stokes congratulated him handsomely, regardless of the fact that he was allying himself to a poor Jewish girl, who had worked herself up from the people and was still devoting her lowed suit by defending his niece in gall lant style. He asserts that he would rather have q coachman for a nephew than a worthless duke. Regardless of the fact that MT. Carneges opinion that his niece has not disgraced herself is not indorsed by the girls mother he has made himself solid" by his sensible view of the affair. "Andy" had to hus- tie himself in his younger days, and at one time in his career the dignified posi- tion of coachman to a family of wealth must have appeared dazzling in the ex- treme.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
Will Be Light Affair.

From the Mobile Item.
 There is suit now against the match trust. Of course, from the view of the trust this will only be a light affair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23

Frank Comerford did not care whether the grafters in the Illinois house of representatives stood up or sat still when he was sworn in. He Is in his own seat, and the boodlers will soon hear from him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23

Some men may prefer tapeworms to tuberculosis, but there will be others who will prefer tuberculosis to tapeworms as steady companions in their midst
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
What H. Rider Heard.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 When Rider Haggard declares that America is country of loud noises'' it shows that he has been attending some of the conventions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23

The bakers, S5,00O strong, may keep on baking, but they are doing good deal of thinking over the decision of the United States supreme court
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23

A man who goes out with gun or a fishing pole generally becomes for time being untruthful, and it is not known that presidential hunting par ties are an exception to the rule.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
ALABAMA PRESS
Hard on Church Festivals.

From the Talladega Reporter.
 Oh, the Strawberries the frost got that the church festivals were going to havei
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23

The press agents of the warning Equitable factions should remember that while readers can be led up to the trough they cannot be made to drink.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23

A hat pin was found imbedded in a mans thigh. He thought he had ap- pendicitis, when it was hat pin, and he now thinks he got it on ladies day at the exit at the baseball ground.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
FAITHLEss WRETCH.

There was a young lady in Schoharie Who decided that she would marrie
 But the groom ran away
 On the appointed day,
 And the poor girl raised old Harrie.
 Science says that when the ice caps about the north and south poles melt, some millions of years hence, it will be easy to locate either one or both Of these much sought after localities. Such information can hardly inspire Com mander Peary with hope, since at best ha cannot live longer than Hiram Cronk
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23

Thus far the dissolute holders of titles across the sea show no signs of revolt against American heiresses loaded up with tainted money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23

Good beginnings in baseball need not have bad endings later on If the entire team will pull together, and never Sul...
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23

Whatever else the Coal Barons do or do not do, they should at any rate employ every device to trim Newt. Fisher to the hoodoo limit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23

unpiring baseball games. but it event. ually landed him in jail. Thereby hangs a tale too sad for vulgar relation.
 Kuropat1in's salary has been reduced from s72,o0O a year to s54,OO0, despite his protest. NEven a s10-dollar-a-werk clerk can appreciate the painfulness of having ones salary cut down. but Kuropatkin should console himself with the reflection that he still gets $4OO0 a year more than the President of the United States, and does not have to work half as hard.
 To read about the achievements and the tainted money" of John D. Rocke- feller, you would think him person of considerable power, whom it would be dif- fcult to defeat on any proposition in which dollars and cents are concerned. That shows now little you know about the walking delegate and union labor. A man who Is often spoken of as the richest man in the world has been forced to sur render to the union painters of Cleveland, and non-union men employed in building his new sky-scraper there have been dis charged. This little tilt between organized labor and a plutocrat should be choice morsel for the proletariats. The United States government does not seem to be 'one, two, three" in comparison with union labor when it comes to making our millionaires toe the mark.
 THE ABSENT-MINDED SAvANT. Way off to the land of Ballyhoo
 The entrancing land of Ballyhoo,
 A doctor went in search of bugs
 He carried over fo-ty tugs
 In which there were lot of jars.
 Little nets and shining bars.
 The doctor sailed for many mile
 And he was seasick all the while.
 He reached the land of Ballyhoo.
 The entrancing land of Ballyhoo,
 And when he stepped upon the sAore
 With fainting heart and feeling sore,
 There were the bugs in sticky masses But the doctor had forgot his glasses.
 
 party of railroad officials were seat ed in a hotel lobby trying to decide which road in the country is most happily named. A long list was gone over, includ- ing the Burlington, the Seaboard the Rock Island the Alton Road. the Santa Fe the International and Great Northern, the Southern Pacific, the Union Pacific, the Northern Pacific, the Denver Road, the illinois central, the Frisco, the South ern, the Baltimore and Ohio and many others. Railroad systems as whole and the names of their composite lines were considered, but it was agreed that no route was more prettily named than the Queen and Crescent" route from Gin cinnati to New Orleans-from the Queen City to the Crescent City. Close after this line the Sunset Route which is the Southern Pacific from New Orleans to San Francisco was favored. Among the trains, the Katy Flyer of the Mis- souri. Kansas and Texas railroad, the Sunset Limited" of the Southern Pacific, the Palm Limited" of the Atlantic Coast Line. and the Empire State Express of the New York Central were compli- mented for possessing distinctive names.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23

Orville Hitchcock Platt was a stall wart figure in the Senate. and he was not a multi-milionaire.