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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-30
Prominent Educator.

Dr. Robert G. Patrick, president of tho Judson Female college at Marion, ar rived in Birmingham last night. Dr. Pat rick is accompanied by Mrs. Patrick. He will remain in Birmingham two or three days
 stltutlons of it's kind in the south. As we'll as any other college of it's class 1t serves the purpose of higher education among women. Behind 1t Is record of useful ness to the state and to society at large, and it's future is very promising. It Is reported that the attendance the coming year will be larger than ever before in the history of the college, great many young ladies from New Orleans, Louis- jana and Mississippi being already en- rolled as students.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-30
EARLY EGYPTIANS IN FRANCE.

From the London Globe.
 There has just been laid before the French Academy. of Sciences a well au- thenticated case of prehistoric Egyptian remains found among the prehistoric re- mains of ancient Gaul. The connection between Gaul and Egypt was established in this way: A card of cut fints of the Neolithic period was obtained from Egypt and a card of exactly similar flints found on Riou> Island, nine miles from Marseilles. was shown with them. At the spot on the island where these flints were excayatcd there were found lying nearest the surface some Roman pottery; below that Greek pottery, with Lgurian and Egyptian still lower, and below these again masses of marine shells pottery and flints different from any yet found. The remains found go back for at least 5000 years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-30
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
A comnetent Choir Master.

Leonard N. Bradley, who has come to Birmingham and will take charge of the choir of St. Mary s-on-the-Highlands, will certainly prove q valuable addition to the musical talent of this city" said the Rev. J. ". Canty Johnson, rector of St. Mary's yesterday.
 MT Bradley has had wide experience as director of choirs, and until recent ly was pupil of Roland Rogers, organist at Bangor Cathedral. He was himself a fellow of the London Guild of Church Musicians. MT. Bradley has wide experi- ence in school music A former principal of London school in speaking of his work as music master for three years said: During this time, in addition to his great success as a teacher of singing piano and violin, he has also conducted with equally satisfactory results classes in theory
 MT. Bradley will meet his choir for the first time on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the Parish hall, and he de- sres that all those who have sung in the choir in recent years meet him there. It is very probable that choir will be organized on that occasion.
 ''Mr. Bradley, with his wife and two children will make their home at 611 South Twenty-frst street."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-30
JAPANESE RAILWAY TRAINS.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 In Japan the railway traveller buys a first. second or third-class ticket; or, get ticket entitling him simply to stand on the platform. Many of the cars can be entered either from the side or the end. The principal difference between the first and second-class coaches is the color of the upholstery None of the cars are very clean. Many of the third-class coaches could serve, without much alter ation, as ordinary pigsties. This Is all the more remarkable when the incompar- able cleanliness of the Japanese home life, even of the humblest. is taken into consideration.
 An explanation of this may be that the Japanese have little regard for the clean liness of any place where they keep their shoes. or clogs. on. The European room, for example. which has been established In few Japanese homes, is the only apartment in the whole house that is not kept scrupulously swept, dusted, oiled and furnished So too, with the Japanese inns. Those that are maintained in na- tive style are sweet and clean; those that have become Europeanized are usually lit- tered with cigarette stumps, fruit peel ings and cores and other debris.
 An American Pullman, with its crowded and unavoidable intimacies. is a decent and polite hermitage compared with a packed coach in Japan. The floor of the third-class coach Is an unswept riot of flotsam and jetsam that usually follow In the wake of certain kinds of human craft the world over. A Bowery picnic crowd abandoned to peanuts, popcorn and ba- nanas, never marked more conspicuous trail than lot of Japanese peasants en route. Only, with the, Japanese, 1t Is all very solemn affair.
 Travel seems to afford fitting opportuni- ty to discard all kinds of personal wreck age. All forms of abandonfd odds and ends of things begin to idenqfy the itin- erary from the very start. ofNcourse, the foreign traveller who wades through this car-strewn waste does so to fIain experi- ence It is not pursuit of htppiness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-30
FAMOUS CAFE CLOSED.
Haunt of Epicures and Story-tellers for
 Half Century.

From the New York Sun.
 Old John Sutherlands has closed It's doors For over half a century Suther- old style raconteur and epicure. John Sutherland, now in his eightieth year. established the restaurant just fifty-three years ago, near Broadway on Liberty street, and he ran 1t until a few years ago when 1t was turned over to 'Old Man Thorn" almost as we'll known to old timers as Sutherland himself
 Sutherland's was known in the old days all over the world and shared the fame of the lower Delmonico's and up- town Parker's. To recall the list of John Sutherlands patrons is to recall the names of some of the most famous men of the country. Among them were: General Grant. General Burnside, Major
 Robert Anderson of Fort Sumter fame,
 Gen. George B. Mcclellan, father of
 Mayor Mcclellan; General Forrest. Gen
 eral Bsauregard. Gen. Thomas s. Harris,
 Sam Ward. the bon vivant; From" Ochiltree, the raconteour; George Law, Lester Wallack, Edwin Booth, William Henry HurIburt A. Oakley Hall, Tom
 Murphy. the Rev. Morgan Dix, Chester
 A. Arthur, Charles A. Dana, Horace Greeley, Henry J. Raymon, the elder
 James Gordon Bennett, Sunset" Cox, Algernon s. Sullivan. Tim" Campbell,
 Roger A. Pryor. Samuel J. Tilden Leon ard Jerome and Larry Jerome, father of the present District Attorney; Will liam R. Travers. for whom the latter Is
 named; Col. Robert Ingersoll, Judge Morgan J. O'Brien and J. Pierpont Nor
 gan. These and many more whose names are enrolled in the honor list were regulars" at Sutherand's.
 Foreigners were as frequently seen
 there a couple of decades ago as they
 are at the Waldorf now. Lord Rosebery and the present Duke of Marlborough,
 husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt, fre-
 quently lunched at Sutherland's.
 It was at Sutherlands that the plans
 and ways and means for building the
 elevated railway were drawn and dis
 cussed. The plans were laid out up-
 stars, and no one was allowed to see
 them without permission of Cyrus w..
 Field, who at that time practically had
 his headquarters in the old restaurant.
 De Lessups, the Hmous French pro-
 moter, after taking trip over the ele-
 vated road, was entertained there at
 luncheon, and, referring to the turn at
 One Hundred and Tenth street, made
 the remark that the road was mot con-
 structed on scientific engineering prin-
 ciples. but was put upon simply a
 damned American audacity."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-30
HOW KITCHENER WON HIS
 UNCOMFORTABLE EVICEROY

Sir George Elliott, the military mem- Der of council, having equal powers with the commander in chief, refused to sanc- tion several of the reforms proposed by Kitchener. Lord Curzon sided with Sir George Elliott.
 Sir George Elliott resigned his post in council as a protest against Kitcheners action. The cabinet under MT. Balfour was called on to choose between Lord Curzon and General Kitchener, and had to let the vacancy go, being afraid of popular opposition if Kitchener resigned and came home.
 Lady Curzon made efforts to get the Man from Egypt" into her social whirl at the viceregal court when he first went out, and, for time. 1t was rumored that he had been caught, but his iron will was proof against the attractions of Indian society In Kitchener's dislikes there are two things which have always stood forth in strong light. Those are women and newspaper correspondence
 Lord Kitchener is an enthusiastic sol dier, with an inordinate capacity for work. Five hours sleep out of twenty four sufficed for him through the South African campaign. He sent home from the Boer war more than 400 officers for incompetence and other reasons.
 He is great organizer does not make favorites, and has the faculty of being able to pick out good men. All his in- structions to the commanding officers are typewriter. and copy is filed in the office for reference As a general he Is be- loved by all the officers who are earnest in their profession and feared by the drones who depend upon social influence. The rank and file like him because he makes the officers work. When he suc- ceeds the Duke of Connaught as chief at the war office in London in 1907 then the reform of the British army will com mence in earnest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-30
THE SARATOGA SEASON.

| From the New York Commercial
 | Saratoga finished the season without a sensation. That Is, barring those mild overnight follies that hardly ever out | lasted the breakfast coffee or extended beyond the evening teacups. And yet it
 was very interesting season at Sara toga- Millions of dollars changed hands.
 Most of it changed but once. The pal | aces of chance" and temples of fortune were open without intermission. The roulette wheels went round at night and | the horses went round in the daytime. | Men brought money with them. If they didn't have the currency, they had the | cheque book; and the national banks and l faro banks were always obliging and
 ready to handle paper about which there
 was no question.
 | It was a period of uninterrupted enjoy
 ment for men who wear alternately the
 terms, of "sport' and sportsman" For
 the gamblers and crooks who hang on
 the fringe of this money-scattering crowd I like oamp-followers on the trail of an
 army the reward has been rich. Gener-
 osity was on the quarter deck and reck-
 lessness often at the wheel. Men who came to loiter and play knew their
 chances and took them. It would be fol- | ly to point moral or adorn a tale with the doings at the Spa.
 | Once there was spasm of virtue, but 1 the small ripple settled Into the calm again and the yotaries of the clubs went | to their nightly wooings of chance un-
 disturbed. It was generally understood that New York required the brief respite of restraint afforded by this temporary Monte Carlo, and the candle burned on at both ends. The chief gambler, Rich | ard Canfield, 1t Is estimated. cleared | S25O 000 on the season. Others ran high
 into the thousands, if not into the hun dreds of thousands and the bookmakers return with fat purses. The coterie Of American sporting men who make Sara | toga what 1t is during the races had
 money to risk with unusual readiness
 It is flush year. Most all of them.
 it may be said. were frightened of their burden. Some made big wilmington the | horses, If not on the gambling games
 Others, and the smaller fry, will remem-
 Der Saratoga with the faint conscious
 ness of illusion that a man remembers living spring. when he stares at a
 mirage in the Painted Desert sky. But what matters 1t? The Saratoga season
 was a glorious success. Voila!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-30
WOMEN IN OFFICE WORK
 COMPARED WITH MEN

same employers who have taken her in protestingly have -saany times kept her thankfully.
 There is at least one head of firm in this city who adds constantly to his feminine force because he has found the weaker sex more courteous more pa tient more reliable and more accurate than the stronger.
 Very few women bookkeepers have ever been known to embezzle funds. Very few falsify their accounts. Of course. there are pin-money workers. and there are girls who like positions because they keep them, in a measure, in the lime light of publicity, but these are few, and. being easily pleased, soon marry and vanish into commonplace matrons of the middle class.
 Almost all women wish to marry. AL most all would be willing to try to live on the small salaries that the men they admire earn. It's the men who feel that they cannot give up their tobacco and their cocktails. and put the money used for them to the account of bread and cheese
 And surely even the chief of this bu- reau wouldn't have women marry men they detested just for a home. Surely the world owes them at least enough of living to keep them from that awful fate.
 Perhaps the women who are in the gov ernment employ are of a class to them- selves In which case 1t would seem that Senator so-and-So and Representa- toive This-and-That are responsible for the class.
 The idea of blaming the creature for its Creators faultsl It is but another example of Adams cowardly "the wo- man tempted me and I did eat"
 Whatever the faults of woman in the government employ. this is at least true that so far as has been discovered she hasn't sold the reports of the cotton crop, she hasn't whitewashed any indicators and she hasn't given any rebates She seems to have some idea of honor, after all. And still the slogan is ''The woman did it, Lord,' and they are all going to put her out of Eden and the civil service lists if they can.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-30
POLICEMAN AND PREACHER.
The Lid Is of the Saloons of Kansas
 City, kan., On Sunday.

Kansas City Special to the New York Sun.
 Because its chief of police is a fhinistef of the gospel. with appointments to i'll the pulpit of a Congregational church, the saloons of Kansas City, Kan, the largest city in the Sunfiower state, run wide open every Sunday. in violation of the prohi- bitlon liquor law.
 The Rev. Vernon J. Rose, the chief of police referred to, Is now fighting move- ment to oust him from office and to select some man who has no ministerial duties to take up the time for which the city would pay him. The leader in this cam paign is Myron A. Waterman. a banker, brother-in-1aw of the Rev. Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka. who wrote -"In His Steps" and undertook to run a daily newspaper for a week 'as Jesus would"
 MT. Waterman will appeal to Governor Edward W. Hoch, who refused to permit his daughter to use wine in naming the battleship Kansas. to help him put on the lid in Kansas City, Kan. The assistance of the Rev. MT. Sheldon will probably be invited also
 In that case the situation would be novel, even in Kansas Many Kansas clergymen have been active in state poli- tics, but never before has one of them stood as defender of the saloon interests. That a preacher should be chief of police in city of S0,O00 inhabitants is in itself unusual
 The Rev. MT. Rose resided until short time ago In a buffalo grass country near the Colorado line. Three years ago he was the democratic candidate for Con gressman from the Big Seventh district.
 In his campaign be introduced methods which he had employed successfully as an evangelist, imploring republican sin- ners to seek forgiveness at the mourn CTS bench. But 1t was in that year that Victor Murdock, then nominated for the first time by the republicans. organized the red headed men of the district in his own behalf and sailed into Congress by majority which broke all shotgrass re- cords. Murdocks heir is the color of fire. The Rev. MT Rose boasts of no hirsute covering whatever.
 The line dividing the Kansas Cities the one in Missouri and the other in Kan sas-is a street When Governor Folk started in to enforce the Sunday closing law in his state. bibu1ously inclined Mis- sourians crossed the street and quenched their thirst in the Kansas joints.
 The mayor of Kansas City, Kan. blind ed to the increased revenue going into his city. protested and sought the chief of police. He did not know that on that very day the Rev. MT. Rose was stand ing in the pulpit of the Congregational church at Greenwood, Mo, warning sin ners to flee from the wrath to come. Naturally. Mir Rose was unavailable for police duties. -
 My religion" the Rev MT. Rose says, lis the religion of pure democracy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-30
From the New York Times.

From the New ' ork Times.
 @ HE resignation of Lord Curzon, IVY on Monday, had been expected
 since October, when differences between the viceroy and Lord Kitchener reached an acute stage. When the general returned to England from South Africa in July, 1902. the war office was in quandary what to do with him. Popular opinion as expressed by Lord Rosebery demanded for Kitchener control at the war office to carry out the badly needed reforms in the organization of the British army.
 St. John Brodrick feared the result of a Kitchener regime as too drastic for the cabinet and his own comfort as war sec rectary, the portfolio he then held. Brod- rick. accordingly. passed the strenuous general over to India for five years under the plea that the Indian army first need ed bringing up to date.
 When Kitchener's. appointment was offi- ciaily gazetted as commander in chief of the Indian forces, a number of military pets at Calcutta immediately asked to be called home. They knew that under the regime of Kitchener of Khartoum, the old polo-playing, whisky-and-so drink ing, hunting and dancing days were over. The new commander was a worker, who made it his business to see that every officer under him did his share.
 The Indian army had got into bad state and the discipline was slack. The moral status at Simla and Calcutta was very low and the divorce courts in Lon- don were kept busy with Indian army scandals.
 General Kitchener set to work to rem edy this state of things and give employ ment to the court idlers. He curtailed the military equipment of the yiceroy's rel atives and drew up drastic plans for the reorganization of the Indian army.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-30

The ten leading states named con tain 23,200,000 spindles out of 25, 300, ,0O0 in the country. The other states are scarcely in the running.
 Alabama is the tailender, but no other state Is crowding into the list of ten. North Carolina promises to pass Rhode Island thus becoming the third cotton manufacturing state If all the Alabama towns would pull together-if all the counties in this state that have no cotton mills would lend helping hand, Alabama would soon pass New York and perhaps Maine, thus gaining eighth place. This state now has in round numbers S0O,OOO spindles, and she needs million spindles in order to gain the eighth place in the list of leading states in cotton manufacturing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-30
Birmingham yesterday afternoon.

Birmingham yesterday afternoon. w. F. Turney of Anniston. Is at the Morris.
 c. H. Wilson of coneevine,4 is registered at the Morris.
 G. G. Vaughan of Selma. is in the city. J. H. Landman. Jra of Huntsville, is in Birmingham.
 II. E. Nash of London, Eng, is reg istered at the Hil1man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-30
Wonderful Prosperity.

Birmingham was enjoying uncommon prosperity when I left early in August for vacation, and on my return l find business in splendid condition, said A. l.. Fulenwider yesterday.
 Everybody here agrees that this sum- mer has been record-breaker from s prosperity point of view. Business is at high tide in every part of the coun- try. Crops are big and prices are high. and of course Birmingham comes in for its share of activity in all departments of business-industrial mercantile, bank ing and real estate. Wages are high and every one who wants to work finds em- ployment This will be the greatest year in Birminghams history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-30
New Crop in the New Year.

Tomorrow night the cotton year will be ended, but the spectators in the staple have not waited for its ending before attempting to settle the value of the new crop. The farmer and the spinner should in theory determine prices, but as matter of fact neither is very potential in that direction-cer- tainly not the farmer. It Is the middle man in the great exchanges who busies himself with the task-he who perhaps never saw a cotton patch or even a cotton mill.
 But before the new year has run its
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-30

Wilkes-Barre President Roosevelt has henceforth the form Wilkes Barre. and not Wilkesbarre.
 Perhaps the President before issuing his order to the postoffice department would have done we'll to consult MT. Henry Gannett, the distinguished and erudite chairman of the board of geo. graphic names. This board was created by an executive order of September 4. 1890. which is yet in force. We quote from the official text of the order or ganizing the board and defining It's pow CTS:
 That uniform usage in regard to geo. graphic nomenclature and orthography shall obtain throughout the executive de- partments of the government, this board Is constituted. To it shall be referred all unsettled questions concerning geo. ments, and the decisions of the board are to be accepted as the standard au- thority in such matters"
 The then unsettled question of Wilkes barre or Wilkes-Barre went In regular course to the board on geographic names. The decision of that board, final as to official usage in the postoffice and other departments of the government, Is thus officially recorded:
 ''wilkesbarre; city, Luzerne county, Pa. (Not Wilkes-Barre.)"
 Who can doubt that MT. Roosevelt was ignorant of the fact that he was not only exercising a function specially as- signed to a commission of experts in geographic nomenclature. but also actu- ally overruing their final and binding decision in this particular case?
 The last half of Wilkes-Barre Is pro-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-30
A Greek Word.

Prof George c. SYearenger, former professor of Greek at Mllsaps college in Mississippi, says the word stegomyia is not a Latin word at all, said phy- sician yesterday. "The stegomyia mos quito Is one that seeks dwellings in which l. delights to stay and to ply it's voea- ton and also its bill. The name of the insect means in Greek a housefiy It comes from stegos, house, and myia, a fly.
 Coming from the Greek as it does it may be pronounced as one prefers. It is perhaps best to consider 1t word of four syllables, ste-go-my-ia, and If the accenu be placed on the antepenult-on go the word will have a pretty smooth sound. It will sound much better than the insect does when it's gets busy"