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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
From the New York World.

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 M ENA, of the Hippodrome. had a
 O tooth filled yesterday, and she A-- couldn't have been more patient if she had been a human being instead of big hulking trick elephant
 Dr. Martin J. Potter was nearly ex- hausted by the operation He put $4s worth of gold into Lena's hollow tooth and received a fee of $50 besides the price of the gold But Lena is worth S6O00 to her owner, w. Powers.
 Lena Is the star of the Powers troupe of four elephants. In the sham battle Lena fires the cannon and carries the wounded from the field.
 For some time her keepers had noticed that she was growing thin and that she walked restlessly up and down They were puzzled, but veterinary surgeon finally discovered that she had an ulcer ated tooth. Dr. Potter began treating it and soon reduced the inflammation. but the cavity remained.
 An elephant has only eight teeth, about the shape of granite paving blocks. four inches square. and arranged two above and two below on each side. Lena,s aoh- ing molar was the upper front one on the left side MT. Powers says the candy she ate while with travelling circus did the damage
 After Dr. Potter had seraped the tooth ne cleaned the cavity and washed 1t with hydregen peroxide. The big creature seemed to understand and tried to make
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
Snroull Made Trustee.

Anniston August 27.-fSpecial)-Th election of J. C. Sproull as trustee of the estate of the Nichols Mercantile company of Childersburg by the creditors of the said company, was confirmed by a de- cision rendered by Referee MeCarty in the bankruptcy court Friday afternoon. The matter has been hanging fire In the bankruptcy court since last Saturday the court being in session on that day until II o'clock in the evening. The decision rem dered by the referee yesterday settles this question and MT Sproull is elected trus- taa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
THE AMERICAN YOUTH.

From Modern Mexico.
 The American youth is efficient, versa tile, clear-headed and ambitious; he is always a fervent apostle of up-to-date Americanism, and his capacity for work is great. He is not a plodder; he rebels at counter. as does a French, Spanish or German lad His instinct is speculative, his outlook wide-visioned. He is an em- pire-maker and there is nothing mug wumpish about him. In his heart he be- lieves, and his voice utters it, that the world and all that is on 1t belong by manifest destiny to the sons of Uncle Sami
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
Come and take choice of all my library And 30 begule thy sorrow.
 Titus Andronicus.
Birth Rate Declining.

We need not throw stones at France, for the birth rate is declining in this country, and the evil is of long stand ing, dating, says a recent bulletin, from 1910, when the country was very young. Tn 1910 one-third of the popula- tion consisted of children under twen- ty years of age; now the children are less than one-fourth of the population. After a while they will fall another notch becoming perhaps less than one fifth, and then we will not be far from the French ratio of births.
 Our population is increasing, but the increase is due more to immigration than to a high birth rate. The declin- ing birth rate is less marked in the south than In the north and west, but the drift even in the south is towards fewer children to each 1000 women. Massachusetts and the District of Co lumbia lead In this unenVlaDle moVe ment. There are fewer children born in cities than in rural districts, and native women are largely excelled by foreign born women. The negroes have a larger proportion of children than the whites, but the whites in the south have a larger proportion than the whites of any other section of the country.
 The census bulletin does not attempt to explain the decrease in births in this country, but it is no doubt due to the increased cost of living and to social ambition. The causes that are at work in France are felt in this coun- try, and if immigration did not come to our relief we would be shocked by the results. At present about mil lion of immigrants are coming to this country annually, and this hides and makes good to some extent the de- clining birth rate of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
TRUTH CRUSHED TO EARTH.

From the New York Tribune.
 A Kansas editor tried the experiment of telling the unvarnished truth in his jour nal for one week. He didn't get beyond the first day. This item appeared on Mon day: "Married-Miss Sylvia Rhode to James Carnahan, last Sunday evening at the Baptist church. The bride was very ordinary town girl, who doesn't know any more than rabbit about cooking, and never helped her mother three days in her life She Is not beauty. by any means, and had a gait like fat duck. The bridegroom is an up-to-date loafer. has been living off his old folks all his life. and don't amount to shucks. nohow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
TRAGEDY OF TRAMP
Brakeman clubsed Poor Fellow Who
 Refused to Divide Earnings.

From c. S. Thompson in Public Opinion.
 At the Salvation Army lodging house in Omaha, I once chanced to meet a fellow
 who had just come out of an extreme
 case of clubbing at the hands of a brake man. The vagabond was a young swede of good understanding who had been
 working in the Kansas harvest fields
 His clothes and his manner lifted him
 out of the ordinary run of ''stakemen,'
 In fact he showed me letters and papers
 that gave him claim to some respecta-
 bility in Chicago, where he was going at
 the time of our meeting. He had been
 travelling east with a companion, but
 they had lost each other. and it was in relating this experience that he men
 toned the subject of clubbing.
 We got on a train in Western Kan
 sas," said the Swede, where all the
 brakemen carried clubs. They were hold
 ing up every one that had been working
 in the fields, demanding . dollar diyi-
 sion from each man. We paid our man
 Q dollar and when he went away
 climbed into an empty box car, while my
 chum remained on the bumpers. Pretty
 soon the brakeman came running back,
 and locking the little end door through
 which I had crawled. he began demand ing another dollar from Tom. The fel-
 low evidently got the idea we were com ing away with a good sized stake, and he intended to share in it. But Tom refused to give up, and what do you suppose the brakeman did then? He hauled out club. and standing above Tom. said he'd have the money or know the reason why At that he hit Tom clip over the head.
 I tried to break open the little end door, but that was impossible without any bar to work with and there was none within reach There was nothing, either, to permit my climbing to the top of the car
 out of the open side-door, and so I just had to stand and look on through a split in the end door Tom grabbed at the fellows legs to pull him down on the i bumpers, but he couldn't reach far 1 enough, and besides, every time he put l up his hands the brakeman clubbed his i fingers and knuekles Then the brute
 aimed for Toms head. and cursing him i for resistance. struck a savage blow. l Tom made another break to get on top ! of the car but the club smashed his fin- 1 gers and then dizzy, I guess from the l blow on his head he jumped for all that 1 I could see to his own death. l went back i looking for him at the next stop. dis l tanee of some twenty miles. but l could ] mt get any trace of him. and since then 1 I've been waiting for him here; but he l hasn't shown up, and I haven't heard any
 word from him either'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
Mrs. Guercio's Case.

The case of Mrs. V. Guercio, an Italian woman, possessing a baby. is exciting sharp attention in both Mem phis and New Orleans. She has yellow fever, but is doing well, and both she and her baby will live to tell another tale of two cities.
 Dr. Heber Jones, president of the Memphis board of health, together with the Memphis newspapers, seek to convey the impression that Mrs. Guercio's illness was not discovered until August 25, when the truth is she was taken II on the 17th day of the month. This is beyond dispute.
 The time when she left Memphis is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
WHITE RODE IN SMOKER.

Portsmouth, August 27.-When Baron Rosen had to give up the Magnolia au- tomobile trip M. Witte elected to go by train. Here, also, there was a hitch. It was found on the train that the chair car was full and that no place had been reserved either for M. Witte or for the secret service men who accompanied him. He had to make shift with seat in the smoking car, while the conductor, to whom he had been intrusted tried to carve out vacant seat for him.
 M. Witte's temper is a little short. He was not pleased, and showed it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
Obedience and Publicity.

The backyard cisterns in New Or leans number 10000, although the city has an ample water supply, taken from the largest river in the country. It is difficult to get rid of those cisterns, which are wholly superfluous, or even to compel the screening of them. In the wealthier sections of that city many will do no screening at all ex- ce. at the instigation of the law. The old aristocratic citizen in New Or leans does not accept the mosquito theory, and he proposes to cling to old methods wholly regardless of sci ence
 These facts show that the task is more difficult in New Orleans than 1t was in Havana where success crowned the efforts of the marine hospital ser vice. Havana was at the time under military rule Our soldiers and ships were there, and when a rule was pro mulgated it was obeyed, and the re- suit was sanitation of a high order, the death of the mosquitoes, and the disappearance of the fever
 New Orleans is not in the hands or the military, and no rule of any kind is universally respected or obeyed there. and that is why the fever was brought in-why it's presence was for long time concealed-why it cannot he stamped out as it was at Havana. l Havana was compelled to be obed1ent to sanitary regulations, and New Or leans to a great extent does as 1t pleases. This difference is all essential, so much so that the marine hospital service will need the aid of frost be- fore the scourge can be ended.
 But other towns need not despair. ! All that another town need do is to l screen and treat the first appearance of the fever thoroughly and promptly. The trouble that has arisen at Mis- sissippi City is due to culpable con cealment and concealment of the fever will work mischief wherever it is practiced. Montgomery set an excel lent example when it promptly dealt with and made public the Minnehett case. Montgomery's action is one to be followed and repeated wherever fever cases occur.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
POLICEMEN AS LUxURlES.

From the New York World.
 The standing white collars of Chicagos new de luxe' policemen, their neat black bow ties. polished footgear, creased trous- CTS and gleaming stars, cannot disguise the fact that they are about the most in efficient protection force that disgraees any city in the United States.
 The fact that Chicago policemen are ordered to present a good appearance call ed for an explanation from the chief eve have cleaned up the town he Is reported to have said, and now we are going to clean ourselves
 Only two days later lady from this city. a guest at one of the Chicago hotels, was held up. robbed of her jewelry and shot through the heart in one of the fash ionable residence streets at an early hour in the evening and in full view Of many people who were sitting on their porches.
 A swarm of policemen, presumably pol ished. burnished and creased, were soon on the scene The bandit eluded them by running through a dark alley ana mas easily kept clear of arrest.
 Chicago has accomplished it's "two-mi- lon" aspiration. but the malodrous repu- +for of having one of the worst-managed m,,nicinal households in the United States still clings to 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
He Thought He Was the Man.

One of Birmingham's more prominent lawyers was standing at Fourth avenue and Twenty-frst street late yesterday afternoon. admiring the afterglow.
 Across the street came one of the most beautiful women-in figure, feature and expression-ever mirrored by human eyes,
 As the phantom of delight" beamed upon the lawyers sight her face flushed exqulstely the lips parted in generous smile and the eyes spoke of joyous wei come.
 Stepping up to the lawyer, the Vision of Loveliness touched him on the shoul- der, and looking straight into his eyes, said, as the color fled from her checks;
 "Oh, pardon me-please! I thought you were the gentleman I met last night at Mrs Ills. I see you're not-pardon me, l pray you! You're not the one"
 "oh, yes! I am.s stuttered the lawyer. "Oh, yes. am. Pon my honor, I am the man-the very man. You've made no mistake. Believe me, you have not. l was there-at Mrs Hs-I am the man. Don't you remember? We had a tete- atete there in the window seat?"
 q remember nothing of the, kind'' said She of anglc beauty. Nothing! You're not the gentleman l met last night
 And with that the Twenty-first street seraph walked disdainfully down Fourth avenue.
 Thirty minutes later the limb of the law was relating the experience to some of his friends at the Hillman.
 "fm sure I Was the man." said he, "even though l wasn't at Mrs. IFS"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
BANK OF MONTE CARLO
 WILL NEVER BE BROKEN

It is obvious that if a player backs rec. there are 19 chances dS blacks and zero1 against his being correct. The fair odds are 19 to IS against him, but the bank only lays even money.
 The advantage of the bank does not end here, for when zero turns up the bank takes all stakes except those on zero, and the even-money chances The latter are put aside-'en prise" is the technical term
 If on the next. turn of the wheel the player on these even chances wins, his stake is released and he may pick it up, but he wins nothing.
 To win he must stake again, and thus when zero turns up it is at least two to one against a player on an "even-money" chance.
 The second reason why the bank must always win in the long run is the exist ence of the maximum
 The maximum (600O francs) is the high est amount a player can win on any one chance. If a player with unlimited re- sources could go on playing double or quits with the Casino indefinitely he would eventually break the bank in the full sense of the term. But you cannot play double or quits with M. Blanc for long.
 Starting with the minimum stake al lowed-viz., francs-and doubling your stakes each time, your eleventh stake, supposing you win or lose consecutively. would be over 5000 francs, and you could double no longer
 In other words. you would have come to a point at which you could not on one turn of the wheel either double your win nings or recoup all your losses.
 All systems are designed to nulllify the effects of zero and the maximum. If one could be certain that zero would turn up, as 1t ought to turn up once in every 37 turns, 1t could be provided against and the Casino, even with the help of the max mum, would be in a bad way.
 But no such certainty is possible, and, therefore, every system splits on this rock. And so with the maximum.
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stantial reactions. To this extent the mar ket is merely rehecting the extreme opp timism existing throughout the country as a result of the probably unprecedented grain harvests-taking them as q whole and the additional fact that instead of the former staggering under the load of his enormous crops because of the low prices at which he must sell, he has to- day the assurance of highly satisfactory tions abroad.s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
From the St. Louis Glohe.r

From the St. Louis Globe-Demoerat N RuLY, hope springs eternal in Wy the human breastr' How many
 inventors have gone to Monte Garlic with infallible systems it is impos- sible to say, but probably they are to be numbered by millions, and not one of them has returned the victor.
 Mr. Wall, with his calculating machine, may "break the bank" as the expression is commonly understood. but not one will ever .'break the bank at Monte Carlo in the true sense of the phrase.
 At the famous gaming rooms there are not one, but many, tables at which players may stake.
 Each table starts play for the day with a capital of 100000 francs, and when th.. sum is exhausted, the bank at that paT- ticuar table is broken, and play is sus- pended until fresh bank of GOO francs is brought by the attendants-a matter of a minute or two.
 But to break the bank in the true sense would be to exhaust the entire capital of the Casino, and that will never happen, for three simple reasons.
 The first is that the banks lays unfair odds to the play. This I will illustrate as simply as possibly
 At roulette, the most popular form of gambling there are 37 numbers-from to 36 inclusive and or zero It is plain that the fair odds against player correctly picking one of these 37 numbers are 36 to But the bank only lays 35 to l.
 Hence the bank has always, roughly speaking, a per cent advantage over the player To put it another way: If player backs the same number 3I times he ought, according to the fair odds, to come out exactly square, but at Monte Carlo he can not do so-he must lose point.
 This advantage of the bank applies to all the other chances, besides the mum. bers on which the player may stake.
 Take, for example, the so-called even chance of red or black. Of the S7 num- bers IS are red, IS black, the thirty-seyen zero, having nominally no color.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
New Trains Delayed.

Anniston. August -(Speeial)-The date for the inauguration of the two eX- tra trains on the consolidated Birmingham and Alabama Mineral divisions of the Louisville and Nashville railway has been postponed until Sunday week. September g. The two trains were to have been put on today. but the Louisville and Nash vile officials were unable to arrange a convenient schedule
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
HAMS REcTlTUDE.

From the Washington Post.
 J. Ham Lewis was offered a bribe of $lOO, 600 to frame an ordinance for a street car company. and he spurned it just as indignantly as he would an offer of S1,00o- O0O to have him shave his sunset rasbu- tanS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
POINTS ITS OWN MORAL.

From the New York Herald.
 On the heels of the announcement that the bookmakers at Saratoga have clean ed up' big fortunes in the betting ring comes the exposure of one trusted clerk who stole $4O,0oO to play the races" And there are othersl
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Nj. Witte does not hesitate to say there are millions of Russians who do not know their country is conducting a war in the far east. Ignorance is not confined to Darkest Africa by any means
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From the Wall Street Journal.
 The seaboard Air Line, Southern rail way and Louisville and Nashville have denied that they have any intention of purchasing he Tennessee Central.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
SIEEPIESS RAFAEL.

From the La Jara (Colo) Chronicle.
 Rafael II. Trujillo went up to the noun taihs this week to look after his sheep. Mir Trujilo is quite a busy man, and is always at worl-a regular casearet.
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Rockefeller is all right in his Kniepp- cure frolics as long as he does not tread on Ida Tarbell literature as he promenades up and down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28

Castro is buying ammunition, and he may have determined to catch this country mapping, But he will not be apt to attack New Orleans before No vember, for he is non-immune.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28

Boies Penrose is to be busted from the Senate, although he was ostensibly appointed for life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28

The ultimatum stage of the peace conference has been reached, but the first ultimatums do not ultimate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
Vice President schumacher Here.

G. Schumacher, second vice president of the Central Foundry company, arrived in Birmingham last night from New York on one of his frequent trips to this city. Mr Schumacher is here on business con nected with his company.
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Every available furnace stack is to be put in blast, and the production of the last quarter of the year will be a record breaker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28

King Oscar is beginning to see that the slick thing to do is to slip one of his idle sons on the Norwegian throne
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28

The gulf stream is running unusual ly swift and is unusually aggressive along shores this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28

President Roosevelt will never con sent to become father-in-law of one of his own subjects.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28

The dove of peace lacks a chance to alight and she hasS been very patient.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28

Gov Folk and Carrie Nation have fallen out. Reformers do not always agree.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28

The differences between a minimum and a irreducible minimum is one of use-the latter being a better bluff than the former.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28

Washington is now Altering typhoid germs out of it's drinking water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28

The next mutiny in the Russian navy will necessarily be limited in scope and extent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28

This country cannot be considered bomb-proof while it harbors stegomyia mosquitoes If need be. the banana must go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28

The Russians who have been whip ped in every battle now say they will not give up a foot of territory or a copeck of indemnity. How much of a whipping do they need?
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REPORT DENIED.

President Roosevelt keeps at least one eye on the bird of peace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28

Or. Osler is unheard of in England. He may have been chloroformed.
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The Taggarts may yet seek the stage rather than throw away so much good advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28

The peace conference has life in it so long as it can adjourn from time to time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28

They will have a hard life while they live together" The editor is still in the hos pital.
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It is up to Memphis to clear itself of the charge of harboring loaded stegomyias.
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The Russians are finding the Japa- nese as much at home in diplomacy as in war.
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The North Pole is no more genial than it was a thousand years ago. Same old pole.
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ing to Canada. It has had too much of him.
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Entered at the Birminrham, Ala, post office az second-clasa matter under act of Congress March s, 1879.
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