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From London Answers.

W
az Q . be valet to beggar sounds an
Wy impossible way of earning a liv-
ing. Yet in recent police court
case in London 1t transpired that man
named Webb acted in that capacity to
man without arms, who begged in the
streets. Webb stated that his master was
most perticler' had to be shaved every
morning, and had his teeth brushed
three times day. Webb's wages were
$40 week
The man who bites dogs tails for lv-
ing is a well-known character in parts
of England.
The north country miners have super
stltlon that, if their puppies tails are
shortened" with knife instead of in the
old-fashioned way, their fighting qualities
will be injured. Only recently a man
named Grahame was sent to prison for a
month for exercising this peculiar call
ing.
An equally odd and cruel profession
has been allowed by an East End man
in London for the past twenty years. lie
buys bad meat, and doctors 1t up in sucn
fashion that it will pass muster when
exposed for sale on the costers' barrows.
He carves off all bad portions of a joint
of beef, and washes what is left with
solution of permanganate Of potash. This
has the effect of removing the Smell of
faint and enabling the meat to pass mus
ter until some poor woman has taken 1t
home for dinner.
Until recently wooden-limbed man
n cd To hriz ell I'm,
ondhand legs.
Whenever a wooden legged man or other
cripple died at the hospital close by where
he lived, O'IIara promptly bought up the
props and crutches, Z the relatives were
willing to SELL These he dispod,d of to
other poor patients who were unable TO
afford the surgical instrument makers
prices.
Wearing the stiffness out of new boots
is another peculiar calling: yet London
bootmaker has a man who, for a consid-
Grafton, Is prepared to do this for wealthy
customers. He is kept busily employed,
too, averaging twelve hours tramping
daily in and about Hyde park.
Even this occupation however, is sur
passed in novelty-at all events, in its
mode of carrying out-by that of the man
whose profession is teaching gentlemen
how to shave.
Some years ago this man lost fairly
good situation by reason of disfiguring
BARRIERS itch, caught at the hands of an
uEcleanly barber.
He got rid of the complaint at last
and took to shaving himself; and now
Barber stands at BARRIERS doors-the
mans name, curiously enough. is Bar
ber,-delivering handbills. headed why
catch the itch? Learn to shave yourself"
and offering a course of lessons in the
art at a nominal fee He gets SIS a week.
Some commercial travellers earn their
incomes in novel ways. None more so.
perhaps, than the gentleman whose line
is selling to the natives Of Africa the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24
Chances in the Senate.

The roll of the new Senate will con-
tain many new names. Mr.. Hemen-
way, promoted from the House, will
be there. and so will Mr.. Burkett of
Nebraska, who ran against William
jennings Bryan for Congress, and is
now a member of the House He is
but SO years old, and he will be the
Senate's baby.
The unknown men of the new Sen
ate will include Flint of California,
Sutherland of Utah, Nixon of Nevada,
and Buckley of Connecticut The
lastnamed was, however, governor of
the state at one time. Among the new
men only one strong name appears,
namely, Isador Raynor of Maryland.
The other new Senators are either I'M
known men. or professional politi-
clans like Tom Carter of Montana.
Four legislatures are deadlocked, or
else will act this week. The Delaware
legislature is deadlocked so fast that
the upper house cannot be organized.
The eternal Addicks is of course at
the bottom of the trouble. In Wiscon-
sin Governor LaFollette is master of
the situation, and it is thought he will
select Isaac Stephenson, ex-lumber-
man, to succeed Senator Quarles, who
bet on the wrong" horse. Senator
Foster of Washington is the victim of
strenuous opposition, and he may be
defeated. The Missouri problem still
hangs fire, and Tom Niedringhaus
may find nomination an empty
honor. Old Boss Kerens in that state
is fighting New Boss Niedringhaus.
Until Missouri, Wisconsin, Washing
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and before the year ends I hope to see
the sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron COM
pany breaking ground for a steel plant.
The Alabama Steel and iron company
is operating a new steel mill at Gadsden
successfully. and If the Sloss-sheffield
decides to erect steel works the Blrming-
ham district will make record breaking
strides in prosperity"
About Persons.
W. w Crawford of New York is at
the Morris.
John P. Pill Of Carbon Hill is at the
Morris.
J. c. Jones of Huntsville Is at the Nor
ris.
Paul Rapport of Montgomery is at the
Colonial.
W. M. Wilson of Louisville is at the
Colonial.
Henry Thompson of Johns is at the st.
Nicholas.
w. o. W. Paine of Valley Head is at
the st. Nicholas
]. T. Davis of Nashville is at the Hill
man.
Robert D. Allen of Admission is stopping
at the Hillman.
Maj. w. A. Handley of Roanoke is at
the Metropolitan.
Fl. c. Fulton of Gurnee is at the Met
ropolitan.
F. ]. Wright, Jr., of Roanoke is at the
Metropolitan.
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is JAPAN PRosPERous7
Minister Griscom's Report on the
country's Finances.
From the New York Evening Post.

From the New York Evening Post.
The report on Japan's condition by
Lloyd Griscom, our minister at Toxic,
submitted to the State Department. and
given out by 1t last Sunday, has a bear
ing of real consequences on the finances
OF the day. To investors in Japanese
bonds of which there are very many
i'll this country, it is clearly a matter of
concern whether Japanese Industries re-
main in good shape or not. In a larger
w1v, Japan's continued prosperity would
have an important bearing on the whole
war question; for the theory confidently
advanced, in French and German banking
circles. is that, before Russia is tired
OF fighting. Japan will break down under
the financial strain.
Mr. Griseono's most important state
mont js that the agricultural crops of
Japan. during 1904, were so abundant, and
were sold at so high prices, as to be worth
S22,s000O0 more than in 1903. Presumably
though the report does not say so, the
rise in price is largely due to government
purchases, for most of Japans agricul-
tural III oducts are consumed in the coun-
try. 1t has never exported more than
$5.0G0.000 worth of rice for instance. Mr.
G;isconi's figures prove that the farmer
must lie pIcspering, but they leave the
question open, how the tadesmen and
laboring class will be affected by the rise
in food. The statement, however, that
bank deposits have been continuously in
creasirg. does not indicate weakness
of cold ehnmr, Nv This State
Department report, are in line with what
our own time-to-time trade returns have
shown; but one statement, at first glance
very perplexing, makes its appearance.
During the first nine months of 1904. ex-
ports of specie and bullion increased S41,-
400, 900, and, between the years beginning
and the month of May. the Bank of ia
pans specie reserve declined S24, 437, 000
Yet between May and August, Mr.. Girls
com adds-after the first foreign war
loan had been placed at London and
New York-the specie reserve ran up
again S246O3, O00 Where did this new re-
serve money come from? The British
Beard of Trade statements, show, that
up to September 30 not a penny's worth
of gold was consigned last year to Japan
from England. and our own bureau of
statistics shows that in the same re-
Rod none went out from here. The only
obvious explanation is that the Japanese
bank was counting, as part of it's reserve,
the proceeds of England's half of the
Sj0,0O0,00O loan, which was deposited in
the Bank of England. This, very prob
ably Is the gold for which Japan is draw
ing on New York this week.
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Probable Effect Of the Revolt.

The unpopularity of the war against
japan in h-ssia itself and the desire
for constitutional government must
nave weight, and probably results, in
the near future. Assuming, as we
have right to assume, that 5O'ooO
soldiers can restore order in st. Pc
tersburg and repress the workmen.
what will the government do in rela-
ton to the war?
1t cannot increase its unpopularity
by settling the war; and 1t cannot win
any victories by continuing 1t. 1t can
get no recruits except by CONSUMPTION,
and it dare not send its ships to fight
Togo in the open sea.
On the plea that Japan caught Rus
STA unprepared for a great struggle,
it is more than probable that the Gar
and his advisers will say to the people
that Russia needs time in which to
build a powerful navy and to reorgau-
ize the army, and that peace is there
fore desirable Peace will come on
Japan's terms, and those terms will
be by no means light. In some way
Russia must pay Japan's expenses in
the present war, and she must e -
up. not only Korean dreams, but
Manchuria and Saghalien
The bureaucrats will then, perhaps,
endeavor to conclliate the Russian
people by offering them some form OF
constitutional government. But the
greater need in Russia is education OF
the masses. The chief crime of the
bureaucrats has consisted in keeping
the masses illiterate. No imperial
public school system exists in Russia
today, and no bureaucrat has ever
made an effort to promote the estab-
lishment of public schools. An eff
cient army must be based on public
schools, for men that can read and
write can Outright those who cannot.
This is seen in the war in the far east
The literate there are steadily whip.
ping the illiterate.
1t seems probable therefore that
Russia will soon seek in some round
about way peace, and the bureaucrats
will no doubt then endeavor to
strengthen themselves at home in ono
way or ano.-er. The grand dukes and
the chiefs of eleven departments, to-
gether with M. White, are committed
to what they are pleased to call "the
principle of autocracy," but the jolt
they got on Sunday may open their
eyes to the real situation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

That illusion has been dispelled by
the blood of the slain-by the blood
shed by order of the Gear and of the
s. item behinu him, This Is what the
revolt of Sunday has accomplished.
The Gear and his system will now
stand or fall together, and in the long
run both will have to go. So runs the
history of the world. The people
through mech tribuatlon come into
their own, aud in Russia that event
will not be long delayed.
When autocracy, rotten to the core
as 1t always is, because It is without
check or hindranee-when It falls in
Russia, It's stronghold will be gone,
and II will wholly disappear from the
earth long before the present century
Is ended. 1t will linger while in
China, in Persia, In Turkey and In
some of the dark corners of the earth,
but Il is doomed. The truth is, autoc.
raey in China is chiefly theocratic, and
in Turkey 1t will go as soon as
dread of Russia disappears in other
countries. Autocracy IS
playing its farewell engagement on
this worlds stage. It is a bloody
tragedy in Russia today, but the NOR
row will bring relief, and the martyrs
of today's revolt will be the seed CT
tomorrow's revolution. Agitation and
unrest will go on in geometrical pro
portions.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24
Successful Railroad Official.

M NJ Rchey, assistant general SUI
perintendent of the Southern railway, is
ir many ways a remarkable man." said
a railroad. man yesterday. II happen to
know that Mr.. Richey has spent less than
one week all told at home in the past
three or four months, probably longer.
He is always out on the line in his
private car and wherever he goes an
Improvement is sure to follow.
Mr. Richey came to the Southern when
1t was tied UP with a sad lack of freight
equipment and could not move its ship
ments for days after they were received.
He has Strengthened out the entire wes-
tern district, and the road is able to
supply the demand for cars at all times.
and places, and also to move its ship
ments with regularity and speed
Mr.. Richey is a thorough discipline
RAM He will not allow drinking by the
employees of the road, and he fired sew
eral hundred of them in quick succession
for that cause. He asks no more of any
employee In that line than he exacts from
himself. He is 6 total abstainer.
VERY few men are as energetic as Mr..
Richey. He handles all his business with
dispatch and never allows 1t to accumu-
late for an hour. There is not a mile of
track on the western road that he does
not know, and he has very remarkable
memory Few men could have taken hold
of the road in the condition it was in and
made a success of it as ne has done.
with all the work he has to do he
IS always pleasant to visitor and will
frequently tank few minutes or half an
hour on general matters OF interest. In
dealing with the employees of the road
he is very kind but business like and does
not overlook the least failure to obey
orders. His temper is rarely ruffled''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24
SOME STRANGE METHODS
OF MAKING A LIVELIHOOD

idols turned out in such quantities by
we'll known Birmingham firms.
The commonest way to dispose of
god is to square" with the witch doc
tor. The savage holds a 'palaver'' at
which he declares the gods" want pro-
pitiating, and this of course, takes the
form of a new god.
Another way of booking orders is to
steal quietly into the sacred grove of
village and set up an idol unobserved.
When the natives see it they are par
alyzed, and wonder how it got there.
Their first act is to fall down and wor-
ship it.
Then the smart traveller comes along
with explanations, and leaves the village
with another sale to his credit
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24
TOBACCO IN ALABAMA.
: Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
I'm addition to being a state rich in
coal and iron Alabama promises to be
IL the front rank in the porduction of
tobacco within a few years. said Mr..
r. V. Sanders of Perry county, Ala, last
night at the Ebbitt.
about a year ago." continued Mr.. San
ders, Representative Underwood of the
Birmingham district. had the Agricultu-
raj Department make soil survey in my
county. 1t resulted in the discovery of
the finest kind of soil for the raising
of tobacco. Some of the leaf has been
returned to us in the manufactured form
and you could hardly wish for better
cigar. Quite a number of our farmres are
going to plant tobacco next year."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

ton and Delaware act the list of the
new Senate will be incomplete, but 1t
is already known that no men have
been or will be elected who will fill
the shoes of Hoar, Hawley, Cockrell
and other retiring senators. The new
Senate will contain more millionaires
and politicians, but 1t will show no
gains In statesmen.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
hi the Nav York Press

rom the New York Press
girl knows exactly what she wants
when she acts as though she didn't.
Any woman would like to sing in the
choir for the sake of the rows they have.
man can love a woman almost forever
and forever If she only will not marry
him.
A woman would almost refuse to be
rich If 1t meant she would have to give
up going to bargain sales.
A man is very foolish to insist upon
his wife doing a thing when she would
do it If she insisted upon her not do
ing It.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24
Our Industrial Progress.

'eThe greatest fact announced last year
concerning the Birmingham district was
the commercial success of the Tennessee
Coal. IroI and Railroads steel plant at
Ensley," said prominent engineer. JEFF
ferson county's greatest fact this month
is the start made by the Tutwiler COM
pany on a new blast furnace at Wander
bilt.
"A large water supply for the indus
tries OF this county is practically assured
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24
He SHOULD KNOW HOW.

From the Columbus Journal.
Mr.. John d. Rockefeller has never
sought public office. but it is understood
that he might be perdsuaded to accept a
place in the proposed commission to reg
iilate trusts
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24
ROUGH ON HER.

From the Fort Worth Record.
wasn't she offended when you asked
her to kiss you goodnight. and you with
a two days beard on your face?'
"A little; but she came to the scratch
before l left"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24
Postmasters Appointed.

Washington, January 2s.-(speciai)-
Postmasters appointed Eliza. Jackson
county, Elizabeth Livermore: Kavlin.
Dekalb county, William II. Young; Rush
ton Chiffon county, Oloff s. NVilders.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24
THE DANGEROUS MAN.

From the yonkers Stateman.
"A little learning may be dangerous
thing, - remarked the observer of events
and things, but the man with a little
learning is not nearly so dangerous as the
man who knows it ALL"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

The statue of Miss Frances E. Will
lard may keep green the fashions of
her day, for 1t is not thinkable that
the statue will appear in the dress OF
the Venus de Milo.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

The Cossaeks and Uhlans who shot
down women and children in st. Pc
tersburg should be given an oppor-
tunity to shoot down Japs in the far
east. But that would be a horse of
another color.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

Governor Pennypacker is angry be-
cause the newspapers refuse to con-
slider him seriously.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

The job of bossing Russia as an
autocrat is not what it has been
cracked up to be.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

In these days of Tom Lawson's
monthly broadsides, lambs are scarce
in Wall street.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

The inaccuracy of the Russian be-
hind the gun loaded with shrapnel
saved the Cars life.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

1t is possible that out of the Mis-
souri, middle honest Cockrell will win
the senatorship.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

All Mormons are not polygamists,
nor are all polygamists Mormons-not
by large majority.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

The principle" of autocracy was
nearly frightened out of its boots on
Sunday in st. Petersburg.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

The man who bombarded the Fred
erick the Great statue is needed at
st. Petersburg, where his kind of bus
mess is not overdone.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

Tom Lawson says ten men will own
the country in the next ten years.
Rockefeller is one of them. but the
other men are not in the lime light.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

Stoessel is considered by some
hero, by others a gutter. He does
not know where he is at.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

The Gopon plan Of seeking justice
is very pretty in theory, but in Rus
STA it will not work The man with a
gun is needed there.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

No vodka will be dealt out when
Rojestvensky skirts Dogger bank on
his return trip.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

Oberlin college should, says a west
ern paper, confer upon Carnegie the
degree of G.. A.-Good Angel.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

What the revolutionists need most
is a few straight shooters from Oya-
mas army.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

Mukden and st. Petersburg are rival
war centers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

Mr.. Plat (not Tom c. and Hannah
Elias should have arbitrated their diff
ferences.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

When the zemstvos are heard from
then 1t will be possible to measure
public sentiment in Russia.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

Governor Pennypacker boasts of his
daily act of no. reading the news
papers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

Mr.. Bryan admits that the President
is trying to steal his thunder.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-24

Colorado has almost as much poll
tics to the acre as Indiana.
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Car Nicholas may be a man who
can take a Gopon hint even If it is not
loaded.
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Both the Gar and General Stoessel
know what it is to be bombarded.
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Senator Smoot says he is no polyga-
mist, and never has been.
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Millionaires never tell the truth to
tax assessors.
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The Gar was born to rule in siren
uous times.
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No communication will be published
without its authors name. Rejected
manuscripts will not be returned unless
stamps are enclosed for That purpose
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China is neutral, but the Boxers are
not.
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Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, post
office as secend.oIass matter, under aot
of Congress, March O. 1879,
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Washington Bureau Accelerate. l42l q
Street. N. w.