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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teethine, soften the gums reduces inflamma-
tion allays pain ,cureswind colo, 25c "a bottle
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09

The first steam railroad in opera
tion in this country was used by the
Delaware and Hudson Canal Com
pany in 1929.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09

MHnchuria. is gaining by the Russian
Japanese War.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09

Japan's gold production for the year
was S5QI6,OOO
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09

lam sure piso's Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago. Mrs. THOMAS Rob-
ERTs, Maple ST., Norwich, NY, Feb. II, 1900
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
AN OLD MANS TRIBUTE.

An Ohio Fruit Raiser, Is Years Old, Cured
ofs Terrible Case After Ten Years Of
Suffering.
Sidney Justus, fruit dealer, of Mentor,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
His Glass Eye.

Japan has never as yet been invaded by
Q foreign foe
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-01

auaintance with the erockery business
and the letters received from the large
number OF southern subscribers of the
Glass and Pottery World only proves
in a rather singular way this aeknowl-
edged fact. Every manufacturer Of pot
terry has more or less thirds ana these
inferior goods used to be dumped largely
into the south. where cheap dishes were
chiefly salable. Today all this is changed
The south wants the best at all the impor-
tant eenters
I'VE have lost our great market .or
thirds because the south is prosperous
Iron and coal have done wonders for Bir-
mlngham. and if the labor situation be-
comes clarified and you manufacture more
ironware and ship less raw material away,
the future of this city must show even
more rapid growth.
Beyond this, and even better, is the
fact of your wondrous agricultural re-
sources, the real strength of all perma-
nent prosperity. The deposits of southern
clay and sand are attracting closer at
tention every year from the scientific
men, who compose the bulk of oar men,
hership. No. I'm not one of that class,
but l can see the possibilities of the new
south without the aid of a microscope"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-01
Snow and Train.

"a railroad has hard time moving it's
trains when there is a snow Storm" said
Superintendent A. Grigss OF the A. G. s.
yesterday There are a number of little
matters which cause delays none of them
important In themselves, but together
they are apt to hold a train out for a
long time.
Take for instance the matter Of flag
gng. In good weather a hagman can go
back half mile and flag in ten or fifteen
minutes, but with heavy snow on the
ground it takes him about half an hour.
Then the tracks become blocked anc
trains do not move as well. The switches
and the sidings become covered or par
TALLY covered with snow, and this retards
trains. The main track is kept compare
lively we'll open, for travel is pretty reg
uar and frequent, but then train does
not run as fast with a little snow on the
rails as when they are dry.
"These are just one or two causes OF
the delay There are a number % others.
1 have railroaded in the north and know
what 1t means to have heavy snow storms
to deal with, and we had equipment then
to clean the tracks, but when 1t SHOWS
hard in the south the railroads are not
prepared for 1t, Connections are always
late when there is bad weather in the
north and east"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-01
Early Vegetables Here and Elsewhere

The season for the planting of Eng
potatoes is at hand. We are looking,
mind you, towards spring, for this is
the month of February, which some
times is made UP of warm, sunny days.
Other Februarys have left this i'm
press in the records of the weather
bureau, notably that one of 1899, when
the lowest temperature ever known in
Alabama occurred. But as a rule our
spring, and early vegetables can get
a start in it.
It should not be forgotten that all
vegetables in Florida and along the
gulf coast have been frosted and
killed, and if we are to have any, at
least reasonable prices, we must grow
them ourselves. There is no reason
why early onions, early beets and early
ChShSn peas cahnoe NC grown nerc
as well as they can this season along
the gulf coast. Good prices will pre-
vail, for the lower truckage districts
will have only limited lots to sell, ami
they will demand good prices.
The man who has a garden should
get ready for considerable seed plant
ing on or before the fifteenth day of
this month. The good old summer
time is coming when all will need
vegetables, which seem after all to
be the natural food of man.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-01
New Public Buildings.

The rivers and harbors are to get
the pork" to use vulgar Washing
ton phrase, and the new public build
ings are to get none. there not being
enough to go round. The public buil,i-
ings bill is stalled in the committee
room. 1t is really stalled because the
leaders have not decided that it should
be passed. If reported it would carry
about fifteen million dollars, and the
leaders are inclined to say that the
treasury cannot afford a drain of that
sort. Representatives who had ex-
,pected to please towns in their dis
tricts by presenting them with mag
uificent new public buildings are
doomed to disappointment, for all
such towns must wait until receipts
and expenditures run closer together
The fate of a public buildings bill is
not absolutely decided, and such a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-01
Rubber-Nec kers.

81 never witnessed a more disgusting
sight than one Monday night as 1 was
coming away from the Jefferson theatre"
said a prominent man yesterday. "At
the corner of Second avenue and Nine
tenth street the Johnnies, tin-horn
gamblers, loafers about the Florence no.
tel, and motley collection of rubber
necks,' lined the pavement three and four
deep on each side. and it was very en-
barrassing to ladies'
"At one time Chief of Police Wier had
this winter l notice that less attention has
been paid to it, and the crowds Of loaf
ers gather every night.
"Of course a few of those standing on
the corner are waiting for a street car,
but l am talking of the gang which COM
mences at the saloon door of the Flor
ence hotel and lines up the entire dis
lance to the corner. where they seem to
huddle together, making it almost impos-
sible at times to pass.
THE crowd stands there for no other
purpose than to gaze at ladies passing
and make remarks. 1 suppose they think
that they are clever and are attracting
attention, but If they could only see
themselves as other see them they would
soon become Disguised and go straight
home instead of converting themselves
into a bunch of 'rubber-necks. 1t makes
me mad every time l come by that COR
ner with lady and 1t looks as if Chief
Wier might instruct his policemen not
to allow anyone to stand on that corner
after the performance at the theatres"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-01

bill may yet be reported and passed
The chances in its favor are, however
growing less every day. Bessemer am
Selma will be temporarily disappoint
ed, and so will a score of other cities
in the country.
Mr.. Gillet of Massachusetts is chair
man of the public buildings commit
tee, and he permitted himself to be
outdone by Chairman Burton of the
rivers and harbors committee. If we
do say it, the rivers and harbors are
a trifie more important than new pub
lie buildings, and as Congress has 10
choose between the two it practically
decided TO open the rivers and harbors
ills year and put off the buildings to
another year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-01
TRADITION AND HISTORY.

Henry w. Jessup in the New York Sun.
Your occaci )nal editorials and frequent
ly published letters on the subject of re-
ligion are irtens ely interesting, although,
o. course, at times they appear to ex-
cite those at variance with your editorial
views or with those of your correspond
eats.
| have before me a copy of the Open
Court containing an article entitled rs
the Bible in Danger?" in which the sub
jeet of tradition is commented on in a
manner that leads me to suggest that
the real value of tradition is not appre-
ciated by those who have never lived in
the orient and are therefore unfamiliar
with the verbal accuracy of the story
teller, or, we might call him, the GUS
todian OF tradition.
l have frequently been at an Arab we'd
ding or other gathering where the story
teller is the usual, II not indispensab BILE,
entertainer. He tells the same old
stories His auditors understand per-
fectly whether he is dealing with a his
torieal tradition or an imaginative tale.
The young and old listen to him with abb
solute effectiveness and if he varies by
word, adverbal or substantive in his
account he is promptly corrected by the
older auditors. and the verbal identity is
thus preserved from change.
1t will oe readily perceived, therefore
that prior to the introduction of the news
paper with its chameleon-like change of
color, when news and tradition were
transmitted by word of mouth, this habit
which is more than local and more than
racial, and in fact is a Photographic de-
velopment of the impression on the mind
must have been of immense value, and
consequently an ''unchailenged tradition
handed down from one professional mar
rator to another, whose performances are
constant and public and always subject
to correction. has a greater value than
the occidental critic is at first Lush in
clined to concede.
1t might be extreme to urge that it has
a greater value than is now secured by
publications in cold type; yet every new
edition of an old work, even of the plays
of the Immortal VIII are put forth with
such emendations and corrections, and are
so subject to the so-called ''variorum, y
that the writer is almost tempted to say
that in respect of the skeleton facts OF
any oriental tradition, historical or pure
story. we may be satisfied that at the
end of any generation the story is still
repeated in ipsis verbs, as at the be-
ginning.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-01
Birmingham Theatre-eoers.

Birmingham audiences are so much
more enthusiastic when they like play
than those in cities north Of here" said
a visiting debutante last night at the
theatre.
when l am at home, which is several
hundred miles north of Birmingham, we
do not applaud or appear nearly so en-
thusastic as the Birmingham audiences
do. The people seem to enjoy the plays
so much, and they show their apprecia-
ton of clever work the stage.
Il live in a city about the size of Bir-
mingham, but the theatres never draw
anything like as large crowds there
as they do here, and such thing
as two theatres being filled the same
night is unheard of up there. / do not
believe that as many people would at
tend two theatres there the same night
as frequently attend one theatre in BIZ
mingham. No wonder Birmingham gets
better class of shows tht.t a great
many other cities of equal size"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-01
If you have not had the @grir," pop,

From London Tit-Bits
T is a curious link with long-gone CEN
turtles that the beleagued people in
Port Arthur have been using carrier
pigeons to keep in touch with the outside
world, just as the good folk of Modena
did not much less than 1000 years ago.
But the most interesting use of pigeons
in war was undoubtedly when they did
such excellent service during the siege
OF Paris a generation ago. The pigeons.
it may be remembered were sent out of
the doomed city by baloons-363 of them
of these 3O2 were liberated, but only sew
enty-three set foot again in Paris. 1t is
amazing, even in this age of miracles, to
think that a single one of these pigeon
postmen carried no fewer than 10000, each
containing on an average twenty words.
This means a grand total of 100000 words.
or the equivalent of half a dozen fairly
long novels as the burden of single bird.
How was it done? Part of the mystery
vanishes when we say that the weight Of
ali these dispatches was actually less
than a gram. about one-twenty-eighth of
an OunCcs anu tiidl liltN were
within a goose quill one and three-quarter
inc hes long, which was attached by silk
thread to one of the birds tail feathers.
The puzzle, however. remains how it was
possible to get over three-quarters of
million words within this tiny compass.
The secret of this seemingly impossible
feat was microscopic photography. The
messages were first printed in ordinary
type anu then reduced by photography
several hundred times. The photographs
were taken on thin films or pelicles of
collodion, each of which, though 1t was
less than two inches square. could thus
contain $4,000 words. OF these pellicles
out interfering with its comfort or speed.
and, as We have SEEM one bird alone
conveyed 40. 600 messages
But a pigeon has carried as much as
three-quarters of an ounce for short
distance The weight would represent
something like 100000 messages, or 16,oOO,-
900 words; SO that under these conditions.
it would be quite possible for pigeon TO
carry a small library of 120 volumes on its
till.
So impressed were army men generally
with the usefulness of the pigeon as dem
onstrated in the FraIco-German war that
1t was not iong before practically every
nation in Europe had its trained military
pigeons, and today there are more than
sixty mill airy pigeon stations In Europe.
We are among the last to adopt this
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-01
WONDERS PERFORMED BY
THE POSTMEN OF THE AIR

simple and efficient method of carrying
messages in time of war, but now we
have excellent lofts at Portsmouth, Eart-
mouth and elsewhere, where birds are
nef.
In the Portsmouth lofts which are in
the Royal Clarence Victualing Yard at
Gosport, is an office where the official
log books are kept with the utmost detail
and precision There are stud registers
and report books in which the doings of
every pigeon are chronicled; one volume
is devoted to record of times of liberia
ton, another to pigeons homing at the
loft, and in another volume the various
messages carried by the birds are pasted.
Among these it is intresting to notice
many that have been sent to the lofts by
members of our royal family when cross
ing the channel The moment a bird en-
tiers the loft it is automatically shut into
box by the dropping of a noiseless slide.
and an electric bell summons an attend
al to take the message it has brought.
The speed and endurance of these birds
are 4NOl lOuS dSO Il -fS-y rdf-OiQ
bird flew 100 miles in America, through
several storms of hail. rain and WING,
while distances of 800 miles and over are
fought comparatively little of. Every
year 2eo0 or 5000 pigeons compete in a 800
lie flight, which is usually accomplished
in q single day, for prizes given by the
king and the Comte de Flandres.
What pigeon really can do was DEM
onstrated as long ago as 1850 When Sir
John Ross started in the Felix in search
OF Frankln's last expedition he took
with hin. four homing pigeons belonging
to a woman in Ayrshire intending to re-
lease two of them when he laid up his
vessels for the winter and the remaining
pair when, If ever, he found Franklin.
The first pair of pigeons he liberated in
Melville Bay on October Z, and six days
later one of the birds reached it's cote in
Ayrshire, though unfortunately it's mes
sage had been lost during the journey.
The distance between Melville Island and
Ayrshire in a direct line is 2400 miles.
and that is the astonishing journey the
pigeon had made in half a dozen days.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-01
As Another Sees Us.

81 am astonished at the changes of the
past few years In Birmingham" said AL
fred s. Porter of Chicago at the Hillman
last night.
Mr.. Porter is here as the representative
of the Inland Architect, the Glass and
Pottery World and the National Builder.
81 knew" he continued, that the census
of IS. 900 people in 1900 had been greatly
increased. but that there IS population
of 90 900 in this city and immediate SUI
burbs is a piece of news which every at
tending member of the American Ceramic
society will carry home.
FRANKLY, l expected to see evidence OF
boom methods here. There is everything
to the contrary. The width of the streets.
the simple numbering plan, the solidity OF
the buildings and the reasonableness OF
goods in the stores are things that have
caught my eye
The south is today easily the most
prospero.,s section of the union. My ac-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-01
Stumbling night.
king John.
Extensive Custom Houses.

We have, it appears, just about fifty
custom houses in which customs eX
penses outrun customs receipts. In
the Chattanooga custom house, for ex
ample, 1t cost last year s519 to collect
S91. AT Vicksburg it cost s6761 to col.
lect 1882. But Beaufort, S. c., is the
leader of this lot of custom houses, for
at that port it cost $1509 to collect last
year s155!
None of the custom houses named
are located on the frontier where
smuggling has to be looked after and
guarded against. Chattanooga may be
in the moonshine district, but it has
no smugglers or pirates. Scarcely one
of the custom houses in which it costs
more than a dollar to collect a dollar
is located on a frontier. The Atlanta
custom house was formerly in this list,
DuJ IL has IlSeu III punt VI DuSluSSo
so that its collections Offset it's ex-
penses.
Mr.. Towney of the ways and means
committee stated in the House that
his committee would soon report a
bill for the reorganization of the GUS
toms districts, and the fifty unprofit-
able ports" will then no doubt pre-
sent joint protest against ruthless
action. Mr.. Towneys bill certainly
will not be passed by the present Con
gress, and probably not by any sue
ceeding Congress. The fifty ports
consider that their custom houses
have become vested rights which they
should not be deprived Of The men
employed at the Improbable ports"
are convinced that the best interests
O. the country do not call for any
sweeping and arbitrary action on the
part of Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-01
Prosperity in the Iron Trade.

Mills. mines and furnaces in this
district are run nowadays with all the
force end continuity that a known de-
mand can provide. Every mine can
sell more coal and ore than it can
turn out, and the product of every
stack and mill is sold far ahead. In the
depths of winter the demand Is steady
and strong, and prices are well main
tanned.
If the Sloss-Sheffield company
should begin this year the erection 81
steel plant and rail mill, the steel
stage of this district would be well IN
augurated. AS pig iron yields nne
profits when turned into steel forms,
particularly in rails, it is reasonable
to conclude that the Sloss-Shefneid
company, always shrewdly managed,
will erect a steel mill The announce
ment of such an intention would be
glad news throughout this district. 1t
would almost create a boom, for It
would be taken to mean that the days
of marketing pig iron are almost
ended in this district. What the steel
mills would not take our foundries,
rollins mills, machinery shops AMI
structural plants would consume, and
the outside world would have to look
elsewhere for foundry iron. 1t could
in that event no longer use us AS
makers of pig iron and carriers OF the
crude.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-01
NIGHT.
yss'he Shelley.

By Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Swiftly walk over the western wave,
Spirit of Night
Out of the misty eastern cave,
Where, all the long and lone daylight
Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear,
Which makes thee terrible and dear;
Swift be thy flight!
Wrap thy form in mantle gray,
Star inwroughtl
Blind with thine hair the eyes of day!
Kiss him until he be wearied out;
Then wander DER city and sea and land,
Touching all with thine opiate wand!
Come, long sought!
When l arose and saw the dawn,
l sighed for thee;
When light arose high and the dew was
gone
And noon lay heavy on flower and tree;
And the weary Day turned to his rest,
Lingering like an unloved guest
l sighed for thee.
Thy brother Death came. and cried,
''Wouldst thou me?'
Thy sweet child, Sleep. the flmy-eyed,
Murmured like a noontide bee
Shall 1 nestle by thy side?
Wouldst thou me?" And l replied
No, not thee.
Death will come when thou art dead,
Soon, too soon.
Sleep will come when thou art fed;
Of neither would l ask the boon
| ask of thee, beloved Night,
Swift be thine approaching flight
Come soon, soon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-01

I'm the court this month the number
of cases for carrying concealed weapons
was only one-half of the number for jan
uary, 1904" said Judge Feagin yester-
day.
This is an excellent showing, as 1t
would indicate that only one-half as many
men carry pistols now as they did a year
ago, and a corresponding decrease next
year would diminish the number Of ar
rests to four. Last January there were
sixteen arrests and convictions for carr
ing concealed weapons. and this month
there have been only eight arrests and
convictions for the same offense.
This decrease is a credit to the police
department in its efforts to keep down
the carrying of weapons, and it also tends
to lessen the number of murders in the
city. IL the men do not carry pistols they
are less apt to quarrel and less apt to
kill. A pistol in his pocket materially
stimulates to a mans courage, especially
when he has been drinking. and he will
draw a weapon and shoot man because
he happens to have a pistol in his
pocket"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-01
Beef Trust Decision.

The chief effect of the decision or
the supreme court in the cases brought
against the big Chicago packers Is
the definition of all really interstate
business regardless of technicalities.
The court refused TO consider the Chi
cago facts as controlling. Title to 4
carload of meats might be passed IN
Chicago or Kansas City or Omaha, but
IL those meats were destined to an.
other state for consumption, they be-
came parts of the commerce among
the states, and therefore subject to
federal control. Justice Holmes, speak
ing for the court, even went further
when he said:
But we do not mean to imply that the
rule which marks the point at which
state taxation or regulation becomes per-
missable. necessarily is beyond the scope
of interference by Congress in cases
where such interference is deemed neees-
sary for the protection of the commerce
among the states. Nor do we mean to
intimate that the statue under consider
alton is limited to that point"
This means, it is plain, that the
power of Congress over commerce is
almost unlimited, and this is the chief
meaning of the new decision. The
practical agreement or action OF the
big packers in abolishing competition
brought them within the terms OF the
Sherman act after the court had de-
clared that their business was com
merce among the states.
The meat trust will be troubled in
deed to find a way to maintain their
scheme of abolishing competition and
avoid the penalties of the Sherman
law. The court seems to have been
unanimous in its decision and its
opinion is too broad and sweeping to
admit of loopholes. The beef trust
must now begin to respect the Sher-
man law.