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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30
War Business and Peace.

Business will be quickened through
out this country by reason of Russia s
reverses in the Korean straits" said NJ
menting on the intelligence that Admit
raj Togo had defeated the Russian admi-
raj of unpronounceable name.
1.-THE defeat of the Russian Baltic
squadron was the one thing needful, 3"
continued MIR. Joseph. ITO insure an
early termination of the war The end
may now be said to be almost at hand.
Japan will emerge from the conflict buoy
ant and strengthened by the ordeal
through which the yankee nation of the
orient has passed. Japanese securities
will advance sharply in value, as is the
case in all countries that have been sue
cessful in international war.
Russia will face the inevitable sto-
ically, and, like Germany after the Ma
poleonlc wars and France after the
Franco Prussian war, will speedily re-
overwhelming disaster. Bureaucracy
throughout the empire will make place
for more popular form of government,
and civilization thereby will gain i'm
measurably,
Great Britain and the United States
will pulse with new industrial and COM
mercial life. Open markets will be Sc
cured for both nations in the orient, and
the south, especially, through the
increasing demand for cotton. will come
in the for the lions share of prosperity.
Stability in the business world is made
certain by Russias defeat"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30
Colonel Smiths Alma Mater.

Col. Tom o. Smith, vice president of
the Birmingham Trust and Savings COM
pany. is prouder of few things in this
world than of his alma mater-the Vir-
ginia Military institute, popularity known
as 1.-THE v. M. L." and called in some cir
cles the West Point of the Confeder-
acy." Colonel Smith was graduated from
the famous military school at Lexing-
ton, Va. In 1882, and IN these bright
warm May days, when mint beds are
verdant all over Jones valley, Colonel
Smith Yields himself TO the sense of re-
trospection anad lets his talk fall upon
incidents that have to do with the his
toric town in the Shenandoah valley, and
with men and women-once its residents
who In life won national and interna-
tional fame.
Gen. Robert e. Lee and "Stonewall'
Jackson are buried there, and there also
lies all that is mortal of one of the south s
most gifted daughters of song-Mrs. Mar
garet Junkin Preston. Though the two
great military leaders of the Confederacy
are long since dead, the town is yet
touched with their gracious and glorious
memory.
stonewalr Jackson said Colonel
Smith yesterday was professor at the
institute when the war broke out, and
If concurring reports be true, he was not
at that time a popular figure. Cavity In
physique and severe in discipline, he was
an object of something bordering on
ridicule In the student body. lie entered
the war a colonel; another professor there
entered the service at the same time a
brigadier general. The latter officer was
an imposing figure, given somewhat TO
a fondness for frills and gold lace, but
a man of reputed ability withal. OF him
great things were predicted. OF Jackson
little was expected.
'.The day Colonel Jackson left Lex
ington he rode a sorry-looking sorrel
mare that was as grotesque looking as
its rider. Indeed the animal was so
ugly that some friends of Jackson's made
him dismount and get on beautiful,
spirited horse specially purchased for
him. The moment he mounted the horse
threw him. jackson then call for the old
mare, and that faithful animal, homely
to look upon, carried it's rider till he fell
MORALLY wounded at Charlottesville.
Jackson said Colonel Smith, went
to the crest of battle and fell in the
arms of victory The gold lace brigadier,
of whom great deal was expected, made
an Indifferent record in the war"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30
MAMMALS LITTLE DARLING
DAUGHTER.

BY Mary Ware.
Mona! What sweet surprise
All the way from springs blue skiesl
And they say the angels brought her
Mama's darling little daughterl
But. oh, she is so very small,
And she cannot walk at all;
But they say that she will be
Just as tall and strong as we.
And she will be our Queen of May
And we will laugh and dance and play
o, we thank the angels, dear;
Thank them so for bringing her!
o, we know the angels missed her
When they lost our little sister.
And we think from all the lot
They stole the sweetest little tot!
We will bring her lots of flowers
And we will sing to her for hours.
We are four now. you see,
And before we were but three,
And we think the angels, maybe.
Knew we had no little baby:
And we are so glad they brought her
Mama's darling little daughter,
Birmingham, May 20. 1906.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30
Denver's "Clean.Up" Day.

Mayor Speer of Denver has desig-
mated May 20 of each year as a gen
eral cleanup day." and he has asked
the citizens to cooperate with him in
making Denver a "spotless town"
This year on May 20 the people of
Denver got togther, determined on a
crusade of improvement. Such was
their energy and enthusiasm that when
they finished marvellous transforms
tion had been wrought. The city set
good example by thoroughly clean
ing all downtown business streets and
alleys, painting the poles used by its
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30
ROJESTVENSKY'S LOG,

October 16-sailed from Lban, Rus
STA.
October 2o-sailed from skagen, Den
mark.
october sl-Attacked fishing fleet in
North sea.
October 23-Passed Dover.
3 October 24-Coaled at Cherbourg.
October 25-Arrived at Vigo, Spain.
October 30-One cruiser and torpedo
boat notilla arrived at Tangier.
November Flour battleships and five
cruisers sailed south from Tangier.
November 5-Cruiser and torpedo fio-
tilla under Rear Admiral Voelkersam ar
rived at Suda Bay, Island of Crete.
November 12-Battleship and cruiser
squadron arrived at Dakar, French West
Africa.
November 16-Second section of Baltic
squadron, under Nobogatoff, sailed from
Liban.
November Twice Admiral Rojestven-
sky, with batteship squadron, sailed
from Dakar for Cape of Good Hope.
November 22-voelkersam's division Of
two battleships, five cruisers and seven
destroyers sailed from Suda bay.
November 24-Voelkersam's division ar
rived at Port Said; second division sailed
from Cape Skagen, Denmark.
November 26-Voelkersam' division
passed through the Suez canal.
December - Voelkersam's division
passed Island of Perrin, sailing toward
Alden.
January 2-Rojestvensky arrived at
Madagascar joined by Voelkersam.
March 16-Entire Russian fleet sailed
from Madagascar.
March 19-Russian fleet sighted $50 miles
northeast of Madagascar.
March S0-sighted 500 miles south of Cey-
Ion.
April 7--Sighted 100 miles north of Singa-
pore, and 70 miles southwest of Penang
April S-Passed Singapore and entered
China sea.
April 17-Reported at Kamranh bay,
north of Saigon. Cochin China.
May 6-10-Joined by Nobogatoffs squad
ron.
May 2S-Battle begins with Togo In the
Korean straits.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30
Touo,s Victory.

Admiral Togo's great victory over
the Russian fleet in the Korean straits.
the story of which is told in the press
dispatches this morning, means that
the naval power of Russia is COM
pletely broken.
1t may be that Rojestvensky himself
has escaped the Japanese war vessels;
but even be this true, he will reach
Vladivostok with but small squadron
of his great fleet, and he will there be
as powerless as was the squadron at
Port Arthur.
Togo's victory would seem from the
news so far received to be the greatest
in the naval history of the world, even
excelling Nelson's great victory at
Trafalgar. Togo sent forward his tor
pedo boats under the cover of dark
ness in the Korean strait and practi-
cally destroyed all of the Russian yes
! sells, without losing a single battleship
or cruiser flying the Japanese flag.
His victory almost equals in complete
ness that of Dewey at Manila, though
of course his proportionate strength
WIS not to be compared with that of
the American admiral over his Manila
adversaries.
Togo resorted to strategy-he await
ed the proper moment and drove his
| torpedo flotilla like a swarm of bees
into the Russian fleet, apparently back
ing up the torpedo craft with the heavy
guns of his battleships and cruisers,
attracting the full attention of Russia's
great fighting machines, while the lit
tie torpedo boats sped among them,
1.echarging torpedoes and blowing
them from the water.
No other nation but Japan has yet
used the torpedo boat to advantage.
In her Yalu sea battle with China in
1894 she destroyed half dozen mod
ern Chinese cruisers by the use of
these waspish craft. Again at Port
Arthur she used them to advantage,
and in yesterdays battle of the Korean
strait the torpedo boat apparently did
IL work.
BY this victory the Jap proves him.
self not only master of naval STRAIT
egg, but that he likewise knows the
meaning of the man behind the gun"
In fifteen years he has learned 1t all.
Today he is the sea fighter of the
/ world.
| Togo was apparently outnumbered
in tonnage and guns by the Rojestven-
sky fleet, but evidently he has de-
stroyed or captured more than half
of the Russian vessels without the
| loss Of any more than perhaps few
torpedo craft of his own fleet.
! Apparently we must now look for
overtures of peace.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
When a girl looks as IL she wouldn't
firt it Is a sign she is waiting for the
chance.
There is no use In being so smart that
people suspect your jokes aren't your
own. r.
If a man didn't smoke and drink he
could spend twice as much money trying
to find some other pleasure to take their
place.
Girls are so funny about their looks they
won't have their photographs taken unless
they are wearing becoming garter I'D
hons.
1t makes woman awful sleepy to want
to stay awake and catch her husband IN
fb the next morning about what umo
he came home.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30
A Clergyman and the Color Line.

THAT Is surely an illuminating story
on the race question that comes to us
from New Orleans and Philadelphia
said a Birmingham man last night at the
Hillman, who lived the first thirty years
of his life in or near Boston
mo? you haven't heard itf' he went
on, somewhat surprised.
We'll, 1t seems that noted and exceed
ingly popular clergyman who has been
at work in New Orleans for the last ten
years. hesitate to call his name-recent-
iy went to Philadelphia to take charge
of a most important point in the city
of Brotherly Love. This clergyman, mind
you, was a northern man by birth, rear
ing, education and marital ties He mad
welded a representative northern woman.
Soon after the clergyman arrived in
Philadelphia, the wardens OF the church
there handed him a list containing the
names of persons In the parish whom
'twould be well, they said, to cultivate
some of the more prominent personages of
the congregation.
"A day or two thereafter, the clergyman
received the cards of two callers at the
rectory. He examined the cards and found
that the names of the callers were on the
list handed him by the wardens. He
promptly communicated the fact to his
gracious helpmate. and together they went
downstairs, ready to show the distin-
guished callers every courtesy. When they
entered the drawing room they were con-
fronted by two mulattoes-a man and a
woman.
THE call ended, at length. the clergy
mans wife excusng herself before It
closed. When the clergyman had showed
the visitors out he returned to his study.
there to find his wife in tears. A few
days thereafter the clergyman resigned
the rectorship of the church In Philadel-
phia and returned to New Orleans, and
thereby hangs a tale that is highly Sig
nificant."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30
A Word About Father coyIe.

There goes one of the simplest, most
natural and most scholarly men that ever
preached the gospel in this town. saio
a member of the Protestant communion
yesterday as Father Coyle of st. Paurs
went striding by the Hillman.
I had often remarked the man before
| met him, and / had about MADE up
my mind that he was representative OF
what university men call the spirit OF
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

dent of the New York Life be paid
twice the salary of the president of
the United States? Is part greater
than the whole? The President of the
United States is paid $4,000 a year
chiefly because he cannot live on less.
and 1t is claimed his expenses annu.
ally exceed $4,000. The president of
the New York Life might live. II he
liked, on thousand dollars year He
is under no obligation to live in anv
particular manner.
Nor does the payment of big salaries
insure company immunity from mis-
takes. President McCalps predecessor
in the New York Life was paid about
$1oO,OOO year, and yet he was falIible.
The steel trust started out with a
snowy president drawing a fabulous
salary, and the trust soon became anx.
ious to get rid of him and to secure
In his place quiet, almost obscure
business man, who doubtless draws a
modest salary. The 100000 salaries
IN the Equitable Life have not been
productive of anything but trouble AS
the big sums are extracted from the
limited pockets of the policy holders,
1t is plain some way should be de-
yised to keep officials from paying
themselves excessive salaries.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30
IN HOTEL 1oBBIEs
cunnlnaham,s Chances.

John II. Wallace of Huntsville the
Tennessee valley and the state of Ala
bama, with his literary and political nom
ors blowing fresh and full upon him,
stated yesterday that DR.. Russell M.
Cunningham will be the next governor of
this state.
You will felicitate me enormously" said
the Senator from Huntsville, with his
usual scorn for the monosyllable, IF
you will announce to an expectant cleo
torate that the Tennessee valley Will
arise individually and collectively and
pronounce most emphatleally in favor of
DR.. Cunningham for the gubernatorial
office
According to the logical sequence OF
political eventualities. DR.. Cunningham is
the inevitable candidate for the office of
chief magistrate of the commonwealth.
He will be successful, outstripping all
competitors and winning with his char
acteristic urbaneness and facility.
1T does not escape my notice." con-
Guided the statesman from the Tennessee
valley, that Mr.. Braxton Bragg Conner
may become a candidate for governor.
He will make the race. The railroad
commission, by attempting to repress Mr..
Conner is focallizing attention upon him
as a political entity. This action of the
committee is the most monumental piece
of political asin.ne architecture ever erect
cd In a free commonwealth. 1t will give
Mr.. Conner an opportunity to appeal to
the 'peepul, and he will not ignore the
chance But it will avail nothing what
soever. Dr. Russell M. Cunningham will
be elected If the red necks' and the
'peepul could vote 1t might eventuate
differently, but they can't vote nowadays
because we've disfranchlsed pretty near
ly all of them. That's one reason why
Cunningham will win"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

The Florida Times Union says that
If the actresses who are paid $1,000 a
week were producers instead of anus
ers they would probably get So or So a
week. The Times Union mentions no
names, but certainly tells the truth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

1t is Ambassador Reid, remember,
and he is now on his way to London.
Happy Hooligan, Gloomy Gus and
Montmorency have been there for
some time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

Russia's last hope has been taken
away, and she must now make choice
between peace on Japanese terms,
or more defeats.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

1t is much too early to say that this
is to be a cool summer. 1t may be
hotter than Tophet inside of forty
eight hours
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

The striker and the stricken are still
keeping the Strike City from stagna-
ton. The innocent by-stander has no
chance to stagnate long.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

The skin of the lambs in Wall street
is a pathetic spectacle. They have
gone to reinforce the derelicts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

The Russian fleet is pretty well
broken up, although few ships may
slip into Vladiyostok. They will be
bottled up there.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

The race for the Kaiser's cup lacks
the shouting and boat ramming of the
bogus races off Sandy Hook.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

Miss Alice Roosevelt should study
Tagalog instead of Spanish, for few
speak Spanish now in the Philippines.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

Two men besides President Roose-
welt are leading the strenuous life, and
these are Mayor Dunno and Mayor
Weaver
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

ut Is BETTER" said Rabbi Messing,
ito be first-class man than fourth
class postmaster" Some, however, are
both.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

The steel trust has taken but one
foot out of the trough, and 1t is plan
ming to keep the other three in it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

Father Gapon is still Russian ter
rorist, but he is no longer on the active
list and he is not In Russia.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

Togo at any rate is not suffering
from nervous complications. He is
serene to the limit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

The scientists have accomplished q
good deal, but they have not produced
an onion with the fragrance of bed
of mint.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

The new director of public works in
Philadelphia is not Pat Grove. His
front name Is Alexander.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

The straw hat has an uphill fight in
northern cities, but no doubt it will
win In the end.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

The two battleships which the jap
anese captured will enable them to
round out their fleet to its original
size
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

Underground architects are needed
in oklahoma, where the most active
industry is the building of cyclone
cellars.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30
Life Insurance Salaries.

1t had become known that Mr.. Hyde
and Mr.. Alexander of the Equitable
Life drew from the pockets of the
policy holders 100000 salaries, and it
was also known that other officials of
that company heavily overpaid them
selves, drawing the money In each case
from the policy holders, but as a rule
the salaries of life insurance officials
have been concealed from the policy
holders. The New York Life has, how
ever, concluded to tell the entire story
of its extravaganza salary list, as fol-
lowe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

Pensacola and the Pensacola Jour
nal are in the throes of a municipal
campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

The wabbly Balfour ministry will
yet fall all over itself.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

The man who rocks the boat has
been reinforced by the reckless hand
Ter. of gasoline.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

The crop of June brides will be very
large this year, and the harvest will
begin shortly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

Mayor Weaver is plainly the right
man in the right place.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

The mighty west is accommodating
crops instead of politics.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

Togo has not yet hung up his busy
day sign.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30
END OF A SOLoIsT.
He sang song so very rank
The people had no choice;
They hung him from a hickory limb
And thus destroyed his voice.

The old problem of aerial navigation
will be tackled again at the Portland fair,
which, by the way opens next Thursday.
Captain Baldwin, Roy Knabenshue and
several others will participate in the con-
tests for a prize of $4,000. The task Of
learning to fly cannot be undertaken too
enthusiastically, and while it is not to be
expected that the Portland flights will
greatly discredit those made at ST. Louis,
improvements will be noted and our air
ship jockies will no doubt appear in bet
ter form than heretofore. Aerisl naviga-
ton seems to be one of the most elusive
problems that our scientists are at pres
ent chasing. 1t is plain that they are
going to keep up the chase, as the goal
may be reached sooner than most of u
anticipate
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30
THE WASHER.

THE MASHER.
He ogles here, ogles there
With a brazen face;
Saunters up and down the town
With a careless grace.
Thinks he is the cynosure
OF the public's eyes
And the very Willie boy
That the ladies prize.
If he had a grain of sense
He would quickly see
That the masher needs a tEump
Tween the eyes, b'gee!
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE. WORLD.

Judge Randolph of Montgomery county
is dead. 1t is not surprising that he
came to violent end and yet it Is sell
dom that one finds SO many remark
able traits of character embodied in one
man. The career of Judge Randolph
might well inspire a novel, although the
story would be one in which the shadows
would predominant.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

A Pennsylvania preacher found that his
larder was in need of replenishment and
resumed his trade of a blacksmith to exc
out his income. Now great many divines
belong to the anvil chorus" figuratve-
ly speaking but few of them can WELD
a sure-enough hammer. II some of the
pulpiteers who spend so much time
knocking affairs in general would fol-
low the example of the Pennsylvania par
fer,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

We are informed that the motor car
has mission. It's menace is such an
exciting topic that few people realize
that it has a mission.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

Authority, though 1t err like others,
Hath yet kind of medicine in itself
That skins the vice o. the top.
Measure for Measure.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-30

1t begins to appear that Nan" Patter-
son will not be cordially received in one
or two places when she makes her debut
as a star" There are rumors of indig-
nation meetings and public protests that
may have a damaging effect on the box
office receipts. just now, these storms are
incipient, but they mayI possibly result
in real disturbances.