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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26
THE DANCE IN SPAIN
Is Still Universal Instinct With
 Spanish Women.

While the professional dancers most clearly maintain the ancient tradition. writes Havelock Ellis. in the Twentieth Country Home, dancing still remains a universal instinct with Spanish women
 The great annual Feria at Seville is largely an orgy of dancing. As evening approaches. everywhere one begins to hear the sound of castanets and to see the gracious movements of the segul- dilla, the universal Andausian dance
 But the fundamental instincts of the Spaniard for dancing, and the serious and profound way, in which it expresses the temperament of the people, are perhaps shown by nothing else so much as by the existence of religious dancing In Spain. At the time of St. Thomas of Nillaneuva, Bishop of Valencia. it was customary to dance before the sacred elements in the churches of Seville. To- iedo, JereZ and Valencia Religious dancing continued to be common in Catalonia and in Roussiion (the most spanish of the French provinces) up to the seventeenth century
 But real and unique survival of re- ligious dancing is the dance of the seises in the Seville Cathedral, when the choristers, wearing the same costume as they were 4e0 years ago, perform dance to the accompaniment of casta- nets In the space between the high alter and the choir.
 Dancing is something more than an amusement In Spain. It is part of that solemn ritual which enters into the whole life of the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26
Grip Prevalent.

T have never seen so much grip in Bir- mingham as there is just now" said a prominent physician yesterday. Tt seems to me that two-thirds of the calls l have are to treat cases of grip, and the other physicians tell me that they are having similar experience.
 "The weather we have had for the past month or two has been conducive of grip, and the people have fallen prey to the disease rapidly. I am glad to say that very few cases are proving serious. and practically none fatal.
 "One or two more quick and severe changes of weather conditions will, how ever, make the disease assume a very dangerous aspect as there are so many people who are Just getting out after an attack"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26
A PATIENT DARKEY.

From Golfers
 The Hon. John Sharp Williams, leader of the minority in the House of Represent tatives. says that one day while lelsurely driving down road near his home town in Mississippi, he observed darkey re- olining under a. tree near the roadside. The negro was gazing lazily up through the branches of the tree, and a hoe lay beside him. In the corn field adjoining the road there could be seen, Mr Williams states. many weeds impeding the growth of the grain.
 What are you doing there, sam?" asked MT. Williams.
 "Pse heah to hoe dat corn, sah" was the answer.
 linen what are you doing under the tree-resting?'
 Not exactly, sah. I aint hardly restln'. cause I ain't tried. I'm waitin' fo' de sun to go down, so I kin quit work E
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26
Shins of the Two Combatants.

The defense of the Port Arthur stronghold was expensive to the Jap anese in a most dangerous and critical way. The naval losses of the Japan csc at Port Arthur were, from first to last, as follows
 First-class line-of battle ship Hat suse, 15,000 tons.
 First-class line-of-battle ship Yash- ina, 12,300 tons.
 Coast defense ship Heiyen, 225O tons.
 Protested cruiser Sci Yen, 2350 tons
 Protected cruiser Yoshino, 41S0 tons.
 Unprotected cruiser Miyako, 1900 tons.
 Unprotected cruiser Kaimon, 1860 tons.
 Torpedo boat No. 36.
 Torpedo boat No. 4S.
  the effects of a collision. but the rest of the losses were due to mines. Not one was sunk by Russian guns or Rus sian torpedo boats. The injured in clude the battleship Asabi, the pro- tected cruiser Chiyoda, and the de- stroyer Hanuame. All of these will soon, however, be ready for service again. Including the Asahi, Japan has but four battleships, and yet she con. trols the waters of the far east.
 Thss control Is largely due to the lack of naval bases on the part of Russia If France were really neutral, no Russian fleet could reach the far east, and France cannot well permit Russis to find a naval base much longer in Madagascar. Without such a base the Baltic fleet would have no retreat or coaling station between Libau and Vladivostok, distance of about twenty thousand miles. Rus sian greed in the far east was not far sighted enough to secure a naval base on the long route from the Baltic 10 the China sea, and the Baltic fleet is now struggling against the fatuity of the bureaucrats. If France is doing her duty as neutral. that fleet is today In the Indian ocean without a landing place. It must stay at sea, ana a modern coal-burning navy can not do that very long at a time. The Russians have seven battleships in the Indian ocean, but they do not propose to send the seven against the four that the Japanese possess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26
Teleqraphic Connections.

T was very much surprised at the edi torial l read in The Age-Herald of vest terday morning, showing the extent of the telegraphie connection of the Asso- eiated Press" said man who was once a telegraph operator.
 T have been Investigating the matter, and I find that it Is not once in six months that the weather conditions are such that the operator in New York can talk to New Orleans, Denver, Texas cities, Chicago, Washington- the South Atlantic coast cities as well as the in termediate points.
 q understand that the operator in The Age Herald office was able to talk direct to New York, to Denver, to Chicago, to Dallas and all of the cities between. Weather conditions have to be perfect for such long distance telegraphing."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26
A FAITH ER'S WELCOME.

By Wallace Irwin.
 t'The Little Father will hear us," said the mob marching to the winter palace) Not one among the peasant horde
 That trudged along with patient mind But breathed again the hopeful word, .'The Little Father he is kind.'' Not one among the tattered throng,
 Pouring from market place and square, But murmured, Though our woes be
 long,
 The Father will receive our prayer" Passing by Cossacks and dragons They saw the sabres and the knouts; Above the line of drawn platoons
 The cannon thrust their naked shouts; Fixed bayonets, in place to kill,
 Caught from the snows the wintee
 glare But through the throng the whisper still, ''The Father will receive our prayer" Now it Is over. On the street
 The undefending blood is she'd The troops move by with cadenced beat, The tumbrils bear away the dead. Butehered like cattle in the stall,
 Dying the death of slaves who dare Murmur against their rightful thrall- Thus has the Father heard their prayer Leeches of Russia, mark your fate, You who have lived by blood too long A giant hammers at your gate
 To right dynasty of wrong. And when the people. fearless grown, Swarm through the royal courts and
 tear
 The rotten timbers from the throne THEN will the Father near theiA < prayer?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26

the democracy needs. The party of the people needs man who knows how to do things for the greatest good for the greatest number and does them. The republican party is hope lessly tied and bound to Privilege, or the greatest gooo to its inside ring or campaign subscribers. The very op- posite Is needed by the democracy, and the eyes of the people are just now turned towards Douglas, Folk and Johnson in the hope that one of them will prove himself in office the leader they long have sought and found him nor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26
From the New York World.


 IGHT has been restored to the @N blind eyes of John F. -4artin O who for fourteen years could not even distinguish light from darkness. Martin says his sight was restored to him by miracle through the agency of a woman, Miss l.. A. Churchill, and Miss Churchill says it was the Divine Spirit working through her
 This much is certain, that Martin can see so we'll that he is employed at diff flcult and dangerous work in a bookbind- ing and printing establishment, goes about the busiest streets day and night un- aided by companion or walking stick and without the aid of glasses reads medium sized type distinguishes and names cor rectly the colors in a many-colored car pet. writes letter rapidly and in good hand and can tell the time by a watch. Martin Is the man who was hired as a substitute by the late Charles Broadway Rouss, the blind millionaire, to take all the treatments offered when he made his famous offer of 1000, 900 to any one wno could cure him of his blindness.
 In this capacity of substitute Martin
 
 selves to have killed an ordinary man, and in the hands of quacks and humbugs his poor sightless eyes were so maltreated as to make it marvellous that anything but empty sockets remain.
 And the irony of it is that Rouss the millionaire who hired the poor, pennlless Martin to undergo the useless tortures he shrank from died as blind as a bat, while Martin. his vision restored still shudders when he recalls the fourteen years of darkness and suffering, but is so happy that at times he cannot express his joy in words.
 When asked to tell of his sensations when he realized that sight was being re- stored to him. Martin said:
 q don't think I can do that. You see you have never been blind" he re- marked. with unconscious pathos. No one who has never been blind can realize the condition of a blind man. You can't quite understand that he is in total dark ness and all the misery of it. Now. strangely enough, about all I can think of is the happiness I feel in being able to see again.
 .When Miss Churchill took hold of me I was hopeless Like Mir. Rouss I expect ed to end my days in darkness. You know I had been pretty nearly killed by ex- periments. I had been in the hands of about 1000 different people. Nickola Tesla had sent 100000 volts of electricity into me. my eyebaIls had been taken out and scraped, the muscles of my eyes had been cut, instruments containing scores of needles that pierced to the bone had been used on me. Another man had forced me to take a dose of medicine every five minutes for days, and Christian Scientists by the hundred had treated me. 1 guess there was nothing that could be Gone to man, except to kill him outright that had not been done to me-
 Did you have any faith in Miss Churchill?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26
This Year and Last.

People interested in cotton look to New Orleans today as they did twelve months ago." said a man who raises the great American product But the prospectus is different this week from January of 1904.
 Last year all was turmoil and excite ment and it seemed that reason had fled. sully, Brown and co-speculators had forced the prices to unreasonable and un- tenable heights. Rumor was rife the staple would go to 25 cents per pound. Fortunes were made and lost each day Business was disturbed throughout the country, and more than one strong firm was forced to the wall by the unnatural conditions.
 "The climax however, was near. Brown got out. reputed to have cleared several million The sale of Daniel J Sully's seat on the New York stock exchange last week was the finale in the speculative career of the greatest cotton bull the south has ever had. Sully was the figure head in the prosperity wave that lifted inc mortgage from homes and paid old debts all through the cotton states. and every planter in the south regrets the fact that unseated him and carried away his fortune.
 ..But now cotton is selling as much too low as the prices paid last February were unreasonably high. The greatest cotton convention of it's nature ever brought to-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26
Heavy Traffic.

There is very heavy movement of freight into the south from the east and north just at present" said F. ! Haylow, assistant superintendent of the South and North and Birmingham Mineral divisions of the Louisville and Nashville yester- day.
 The movement Is keeping all of the equipment we have In motion, and we have been rushing all the cars we could spare to the north to handle the business. A great deal of this traffic Is coming through Birmingham. Business is very good with the railroads, so I understand and we certainly have no kick coming"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26
Dissolvinq inc Peabody Trust.

The dissolution of the Peabody trust is an event of considerable import ance. It holds about $2,200,O00, and S1,O00,000 of this sum has been do- hated to the Peabody school for teach CTS in Nashville, and the remainder of the money is to be distributed at the October meeting.
 It is believed the entire sum will be given to southern institutions, al though the bequest permits the trust ees to give one-third of the fund to northern institutions. The remaining sum, something over million dollars, will undoubtedly be given where it is most needed.
 The gift of million dollars to the Peabody school at Nashville was based on a gift by Tennessee of an equal sum. This is an intimation that a like policy will be applied in the dis tribution of the remainder of the fund, and in that case institutions that want a slice of the Peabody fund will have to get up considerable sums.
 The trust has lasted thirty-eight years, and the trustees by a vote of II to decided that the time had come to dissolve it by permanently distrib- uting the money bequeathed by the old London merchant, born in Massa- chusetts. George Peabody's enduring monument will be perhaps the big school in Nashville for teachers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26
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AMERICAN SUCCESS
Due to the Ability of Men to Change
 Their Occupations.

From the London Express.
 In that place called Monte Carlo every time the wheels turns and the ball rolls Into its place 1t marks fresh condition of the game an absolutely new chance which has nothing whatever to do with anything that has gone before or is to appear in the future Each spin Is the year one of the bank. Therefore the bank wins.
 America has appreciated the year one, and that fact has not been unconnected with Yankee success. You will find that a man loses money as a farmer, a me- chanic, a book canyasser, and suddenly rises to wealth as a builder. The peg has found a hole at last.
 An Englishman, unappreciative of the year one. would have been chained to failure by the precedent of centuries. He would have argued that he had always been a farmer, that his father was a farmer and his uncle dairyman. There fore il was plainly impossible that he could ever make money as a builder In conclusion he would have quoted you that falsest of all false proverbs, "A rolling stone gathers no moss"
 I say false only In the English ap- plication of the ancient proverb. For otherwise 1t Is an up-to-date motto enough. The rolling stone of today re- mains polished and fit for business. The stationary stone is liable to accumulate such a quantity of moss that 1t is only fit for a cushion-to be sat on by all and sundry.
 There is fin America today an exempli- fication of the principle of the year one in newspaper proprietor with some fSO 010 tA htc Tp4I ha over 30 years of age he was farmer and not very efficient farmer at that. Then he started his paper and away he went on the road to success. How many of our farmers could change their trade after 502
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26
Wanted-A Leader.

The democratic party needs a leader, and it does not know where at present to find one. It has tried the magnetic Bryan and the commonplace Parker only to encounter deep and still deeper defeat. It needs a new leader "a man of action who not only stands for something but who can also do things-a man that possesses the con- ndence of the democracy and of all other just and honest men.
 Three men are today on trial, and the next four years will disclose their mettle and their capacity for Presi. dential leadership. Those men are William L. Douglas, governor of Mas sachusetts, who is an unyielding op- ponent of Dingleyism; Joseph w. Folk, governor of Missouri, who Is the active prosecutor of boodleism in high places; and J. A. Johnson, governor of Minnesota, who hits Privilege wher- ever he sees it. All three were elected despite heavy republican pluralitis in their states Douglas reversed re- publican plurality of 92,076; Folk, a republican plurality of 25,137, and Johnson, a republican plurality of ISL. AGA. The records of the three men are fiawless-what will they do?
 All three are hampered by republi- can legislatures, but this fact has not kept Governor Douglas from securing a settlement of the Fall River strike; it will not stay the hands of Governor Folk in the pursuit of boodlers, and Governor Johnson can bring Privelege to taw by keeping it's vile work be- fore the people.
 one of these mes may be the leader
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 The harder person tries to tell the truth the easier a little lie looks that would settle it.
 A man can't be too careful not to inn agine his wife will stand from him what others will.
 No matter what happens to a girl you can make her feel better about it by telling her it will not spoil her beauty.
 When a good many women play with fire and burn their fingers they seem to think the way to soothe the pain is to burn their whole arm off.
 Women seem to think the way to show men how easy a time they have running their business is to tell them all the troubles about running the house when they come home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26
Weiuht of Bread.
not.

The weight of the standard loaf of bread is sixteen ounces less the water dried out in the process of baking. At the most but an ounce and half can be taken out of it in the oven. The merchantable loaf then should weigh not less than fourteen and a half ounces. Loaves that weigh down to twelve ounces are short-weight loayes, and in well-regulated, well-goyerned cities they would be so labeled wher- ever found.
 The loaf should be maintained at standard weight If the bakers cannot afford to sell full-weight loaf at five cents, let them charge an adequate price. Let the price be six cents, if need be. But at any rate do not at tempt to get six cents in a surrepti- tious manner. Deal with consumers openly and above board. No one ex- poets the bakers to do business with out profits, but all do desire them to get tleir dues in a plain and fair nlau- ner. In cutting down the weight tn- stead of advancing the price of loaf they are indulging in the indirection and secrecy of Dingleyism, and this they should not do. No fair man will indulge in Dingleyism at the expense of his best friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26
Vulcan is our White Elephant.
FACTS ABOUT ST. PETERSBURG.

From the New York World. Population (census 19os). 1,5s4,OOo Greek Catholics, S5 per cent Protestants (chiehy Germans and Finns), 10 per cent. Roman Catholics, per cent. Jews, per cent Unable to read or write (adults), 36 per cent.
 Peasants. 4o.7 per cent. Burgesses (householders), 20 per cent. GLASSES IN PROPORTION TO POPU-
 LAYTON. Workmen, In 8. Servants In 10. Scholars, 1 in 12 Soldiers, 1 in 25
 Officials, 1 in 250. Policemen, in POS. Surgeons, 1 in 6Os Advocates. In 1261. Lawyers. 1 in 27OO. Apothecaries, 1 In 153S Pawnbrokers, 1 in 1s46. Savants or ltterateurs l in 2121. Mobiles, 12.3 per cent Merchants. 2.4 per cent. Foreigners, 31 per cent. Employers and their families (census 1SS1), S7376
 Clerks and their families, 20,S32 Workmen on wages (233 4Os) and fam lilies (esS50 S02, ,262. Workmen, independent (s7,29Ol families (22,272). 59.566.
 Churches, 425. Theatres (statel. 1. Railways. [. Area (dry), 19,s6S acres. Area (under water), 1880 acres. Manufactures-Gobelin tapestries, porce- lain, glass, surgical instruments, articles of malachite, embroideries, textiles, leather paper, copper iron. sugar, ma chinery, etc. Health-Lowest mortality of any Flu ropean city. Average temperature (Janu- ary), 15 degrees above zero.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26

gether Is assembled in the southern metro- polls to adjust the perplexed matter of price. present crop and future production. Theirs Is an heruiean task. To them the people interested in cotton turn, hoping from their deliberations will evolve some practical, business like settlement of this question pregnant with such importance 4o 4l,o aottar balf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26
FIRST COST OF WHITE HOUSE.

From letter to the New York Evening
 Post.
 A Washington special dispatch in your paper of yesterday entitled Millions in Public Buildings'' contains the following statement: Repairs and Improvements OH the White House have cost s1,752.- 2ss 21 since 1907, but there Is no record in the architects bureau of the original cost of the building.
 I extract from D. B. Wardens "A chorographical and Statistical Descrip- tion of the District of Columbia" Paris. 1S16 the following concerning the public buildings of Washington:
 'The Superintendent of the Public Buildings, in his report dated the 29th of October, 1874. gave the following state ment of their cost down to the date or their destruction:
 North wing of the capitol, in-
 cluding the foundation walls
 of both wings, and of the cen-
 ter of main building and of
 alterations and repairs. .......... 457,3SS South wing of the capitol. ...... 329,774 Presidents house ................. 334 334 Public offices ...................... 93,613 IIOtal ........................'. '.9l, zlolVS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26
QUEEN OF DIAMONDS.

From the New York Sun.
 Queen Guinevere had just flung the diamonds into the river.
 What a lovely lost jewels ad this will be- she exclaimed.
 Fastening to her press agent. Tennyson she had 1t stuck into the "Idylls of the King"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26

Boris, G. D., and his chorus girls have not been heard from in the cur rent unpleasantness in his own be. loved city. He is no longer at the front in the far east.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26

The Czar has placed his capital in state of siege. and has put over 1t General Trepoff, who is expected to act more strenuously than Alexieff or Kuropatkin ever did.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26

Tom Lawson should name his other nine oyerlords and owners of America. Rockefeller Is No. 1, and he may con elude to push the price of Kerosene up two or three points and be the other nine himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26

The Russian army has won vic tory at last. The victory of St. Peters burg over the common people is their first and only.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26

The impeachment of Judge swayne has shelved railroad rate regulation and the statehood bill. It is an III wind that blows no one any good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26

The Cossacks fought well the con- mon. unarmed people at St. Peters burg. It was their only chance to wade through blood to imperial favor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26

The Philadelphia Inquirer thinks the Czar should be called "Young- Man Afraid -of-His- People"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26

Governor Bell in Vermont is trying to hang Mrs. Rogers in the teeth of thousands of remonstrants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26

Father Gopon Is the new apostle of liberty, and he seems to be rising to the occasion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26

You are not In the swim unless you have the grip, which is It in this dis trict at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26

The Russians have won one victory at sea ana one on land-the first off Dogger bank, and the other in st. Petersburg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26

The building and the blowing in of stacks goes on in this district without cessation or diminution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26

Let's unload Vulcan on the govern ment. What are governments good for that cannot be loaded up?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26

Mir Bryan called on Mr Roosevelt, but there is no record of a call by him on the late MT. Parker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-26

The paving stones in St. Petersburg were frozen fast, and the people could throw Up but few barricades.