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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-10-10

81 hear you fellows in the Thirty
first ward have nominated prize
fighter for alderman
That's right"
"You ought to know prize fight
err cont be elected to any Office in
that ward. He'll be beaten, sure
Maybe, but he's never been
counted out"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-10-10

"What do we stand for in this
campaign" asked the noisy orator.
your speeches" replied the man
who hadn't been expected to reply
to the question.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-10-10

Notwithstanding the fact that the
custom in that city is against it,
Philadelphia has candidates this
fall who are running.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-10-10

Cleanse your system OF all impur-
tiles. Now is the time to take Hol-
listers Rocky Mountain Tea 1t will
make you well and -AW. ~
keep you well. 35cHUk[12kAlzlL6zN
Tea or Tablets. " "
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-10-10
Special Rate Los Angeles and Re.
turn Via o. r. G. N. for Con.
vention Women's Chris
tian Temperance

Union.
Rate s52.95 round trip, on sale
October 10 and 20, limit December
20. Stopovers allowed south of
Portland. Particulars at o. r. & N,
office, $50 Riverside.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-10-10

Crowds In st. Petersburg cheered
when the body of a general killed
at Port Arthur arrived in the city.
Those Russians seem to know who
is entitled to cheers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-10-10

ooh, things hev changed about
And everything is new;
| don't see how they dew it
But they dew"
old Song.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-10-10
Pure Malt Whiskey

fifty
and
recommended
chls
Of
the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11
Excursion for MInInn Enoinee RS.

The American Institute of Mining En-
gineers will leave New York June 90 for
an excursion trip of forty days to Alaska
Truman II. Aldrich of Birmingham will
be one of the party Mr. Aldrich left
birmingham last night for Washington
where he will join Mrs. Aldrch, and to-
gether they will go on to Chicago, meet
Ing the the special train there that is con-
veying the company across the conti-
nent From Chicago the party will go to
st. Paul and thence over the Great North
ern railway to Spokane and Nelson
From Nelson the special will proceed
to the mining country near Rosland,
British Columbia, Marcus, Grand Forks
and Seattle. At Seattle the party will
take steamer for Victoria In Vancouver
and thence to Skaguay, White Horse and
Dawson. Returning to Vancouver they
viii go to Glacier Field, Laggan, Banff
Calgary, Moose Jaw and Portal on the
Canadian Pacific, reaching st. Paul July
%, Chicago July % and New York
July 80
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11
DRAFTING and Its Effects.

All the teams in the Southern league
have played in Birmingham except
Little Rocks, and the nature Of that
team is well known in advance. The
close observer has not failed to ex-
perience disappointment, for it is
indeed question whether the general
standard has been kept up to that OF
the previous year. The teams are
well balanced, and the sport is excel
lent, and the interests In the contests
will no doubt be well maintained to
the end of the season, but feeling
of disappointment exists In the inner
circles of balloon.
The fielding and the batting are not
better than they were last year. An
errorless game is now rarely played.
Boobies are no longer exceptional.
They come freely sometimes in fiocks,
and the fan who desires to see a
game of rare skill is often disap-
pointed.
All the teams show up much alike
this season, and the loss in fine and
fast playing is due to the merciless
drafting that the big teams insist
upon. The time Is fast coming when
the depletion of the minor leagues by
the big leagues must be stopped. The
tyranny of the big leagues is becoming
simply intolerable, and even II the
Southern league were advanced TO
Glass A the situation would even then
be unsatisfactory. Every good player
could still be taken from our teams
against our will. We would not be
consulted, and we could not by paying
money retain a favorite and desirable
player. The tyranny of the big leagues
is too trust-llke, too autocratic, too
presided and unfair. 1t cannot last,
and it should not be tolerated even
during another year.
While drafting by the two big
leagues and Glass A is permitted 1t is
useless to expect that baseball can be
rendered any better in the south than
it is at present.. The more serious prop
osition relates to the maintenance Of
Tie present standard. The standard
has not been advanced this year, and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11
Peace and Russian Reform.

All feel that unless Japans terms
are too heavy and exacting the futter-
ing of the wings of the white dove
of peace will soon fall on welcome
ears. When one army is obstinate,
and the other army devotedly patri-
otic, slaughter almost interminabe
follows until the humanity of the out
side nations is aroused. All naturally
desire peace. All hope it will come
before Oyama sets his relentless
armies in motion again.
But what effect will peace have
upon the internal affairs of Russia
This is alike a difficult and an import
ant question. Will peace at the pres
ent time check or promote the swell
ing movement in favor of constitu-
tional rule in the big country?
Peace would not come at all If the
Romanoffs were not satisfied that the
Cossacks and the rest of the army
would stand by them. They seem 10
think they can now depend upon the
army to preserve the dynasty, no mat
ter how humiliatlng the terms of
peace may be. They seem to think
they can proceed to pacify and regu-
late affairs to suit themselves, and
Trepoff has been made dictator for
that purpose.
All this renders peace the more
probable, but it furnishes no assur-
ance that reforms will be instituted in
Russia. 1t holds out no guarantee
that ''the principle" of autocracy will
be abolished. 1t brings no comfort to
the people, because no invitation goes
with it to the people asking them to
share the responsibility of govern
ment. 1t offers them no voice in their
own affairs.
1t is, however, too early to say what
the effect of peace on Japanese terms
would be in Russia. The all-Russian
zemstvo congress recently held in
Moscow has spoken, and its demand
for a national assembly is distinct and
uneouiyocal The education of the
masses in Russia has gone forward
rapidly, and it may be that the peace
demanded by humanity would not put
damper on the hopes of the Rus
slams who are demanding the partici-
patton of the people in the govern
ment. The war in the far east will be
robbed of half its value if it does not
usher in better government in Rus
STA
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11
KATHLEEN MAvOURNEEN,

BY Louise Mccartney Crawford.
Kathleen Mavourneenl the gray dawn IL
breaking
the hill
The lark from her light wing the bright
dew is shaking
Kathleen Mavourneenl what, slumber-
ing still?
o, hast thou forgotten how soon we must
sever?
o. hast thou forgotten this day we
must part?
1t may be for years, and it may be
forever
0, why art thou silent, thou voice Of
my heart?
o. why are thou silent, Kathleen Ma
yourneen?
Kathleen Mavourneen, awake from thy
slumbers
The blue mountains glow in the suns
golden light;
All. where is the speel that once hung on
my numbers?
Arise in thy beauty, thou star Of my
night!
are falling,
To think that from Erin and thee I
must part.
1t may be for years, and it may be
foreveri
Then why art thou silent, thou voice OF
my heart?
Then why are thou silent, Kathleen
Mavourneen?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11
A Decree in Verse.

In 5s6 a decree was rendered in the
chancery court of Tallapoosa county. Ala
bama, divoreing Ellen Berry from Orange
Berry, and allowing Ellen Berry to mar
ry again but refusing that privilege to
Grange Berry" said a lawyer yesterday.
Recently Orange Berry filed a pathetic
petition to be allowed to marry again,
which concluded as follows:
Your petitioner has lived sad and lone
ly man;
But in this state as long as he can.
Now IL Your Honor will permit a decree,
Tor me to marry the first girl l see,
Who will consent to marry me,
OH how happy | will be-
'On consideration of the petition the
following decree was rendered.
Elk Parte, in Tallapoosa Chancery
Court-Orange Berry. At Dadeville. In
Vacation.
This cause was regularly submitted in
rhyme,
1t would seem not improper therefore,
to reply In kind.
The petition Is in due form, and the evil
dence while brief,
Convlnces the court that the petition
merits relief.
1t is therefore ordered, adjudged and de-
creed
That petitioners earnest application to
be freed
From the thraldom of her who was once
his wife,
But years ago ceased to bless his life
And to be permitted, If he wishes, once
more to try
The Ito HIM tickle state of matrimony
BE granted; ana that he be allowed once
more
To woo, and If he can to wed, as he did
before
He met Ellen whom the law by its stern
decree
Released from him and set her free
But In order to- quicken his appreciation
/ OF the happiness that may LIE his in a
new relation,
and to insure him from again therefrom
recedlng,
1t Is decreed that petitioner ray the
cost of this proceeding
Before the Register l. required to enroll
this decree
Which will set him free-Forever free.
Done at Chambers Admission, Ala. this
the 10th day of February, leo2
RICHARD Is. KELLY.
"Chance1lOr
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11

zen is not injured by a careless neigh
Dor He proposes to hold each one
up to his plain civic duty.
1t is no easy task, and every good
citizen should aid him to the fullest
possible extent. Public spirit should
be aroused, or rather a desire at this
season of the year for all that is clean
and wholesome. We must have
clean city regardless of cost, trouble
or vexation. 1t is worth all 1t costs,
and no regulations can be too strict
or severe that call for 1t and secure
it. Many little life can be preserved
If street, alley and backyard can be
purified and cleansed, and all will
gain from a general cleanup addition
al vigor and power for work. We
must have It, 1t may come high, but
we must have it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11

Production has been going on Of
late at the rate of nearly wenty-four
tons year, an aggregate far beyond
anything In the history of the indus
try in this or any other country. But
between the refining of stacks and
other needfu repairs there Is a feel
ing-just a feling-that production
will be cut down during the hot
months.
While furnace stocks have been in
creased, 1t is certain that consumers
stocks have been decreased, so that
the total on hand and in sight is ac-
tually less than it was on the first
day of May. Consumers are still pur-
suing the hand-to-mouth policy, but
If they see that stocks are actually
decreasing and that iron is not going
lower, they will begin to buy, and the
market will become firm again. 1t
is the old issue of bulls and bears.
The bears have adopted Fabian tao
ties, but the bulls possess some con-
fdence and that confidence is based
on a lessened production of pig iron
in June, July and August.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT LOCAL AFFAIRS
AND PEACE PROSPECTS in THE FAR EAST

Birmingham splendid mayor. There is
nothing of the fakir about him. He is
man all the way through.
Speaking about city affairs, there is a
good ordinance now pending before the
Board of Aldermen. 1t is to the effect
that the gas and electric light companies
shall each month leave with the house
owner a duplicate copy of the reading of
the meters in order that the property
holder may verify the same if he cares
to before paying the bill. This is good
ordinance and should be adopted. The
man who buys electric light and gas is
as much entitled to verify his bill by
actual examination himself as is the pur-
chaser of groceries to get a duplicate
slip from his grocer of each purchase
made In order to compare the same with
the bill rendered on the first of the month
Every man has the right to verify the
figures of the seller whenever he is pay
ing for the commodity
Birmingham at the present time is suf-
fering seriously from a lack of labor.
Contracts are going begging because con-
tractors can't find men to dc the work.
Carpenters and brick masons and miners
and furnace men are in great demand
Every man IN the Birmingham district
who wants work is getting it, and there is
demand for fully one-fourth more men
than the district can today supply. There
is little common labor here Though
there be thousands of negroes around
Birmingham, railroad contractors. bull
ders and other people who want this class
OF labor can't get it. This is why the
railroads and corporations are taking up
so actively the matter of importing labor
into this territory. Though wages are
high-higher than in any other section of
the south-it seems impossible at the pres
ent time to supply the demand. The
problem is indeed a serious one and 1t
would seem now that the importing of
Italians and other foreign laborers is the
only solution of the problem. There are
not sufficient negroes who are willing to
work to supply the demand.
President Roosevelt is being severely
criticised in some quarters for requiring
the Russian warships which ran into the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD
Aas1,srs-

rolled up to their elbows. They promise to
be numerous in the southern cities shortly
and in other parts of the country later
In the season. The picturesque customs of
the Willies may have some connection
with their fondness for loud refreshment
parlors, although the relation has not vet
been established by science.
An ornithologist in Massachusetts has
taken a bird census. 1t would be impos-
sible to count the human birds" BECAUSE
the double life is so popular nowadays.
The youth who palmed himself off as
the son of the vice president of the Penn
sylvania railroad and got a special train
placed at his disposal deserves credit for
his gall. Nowadays. the man who has
what is vulgarly called nerve a word
that has variety of meanings, is hard to
Keep down, whether his business be that
OIL cracking safes or dispensing soft
drinks to sweet thingsn'
IL surgeon offers to administer chloro-
hydrate of dimethylamine- benzolpenta-
nor as an anaesthetic. wave him aside
and tell him you will take the count in
some other way.
IL is question-this business of where
to spend the summer. Still it would not
be SO difficult of solution if spending the
summer were not equivalent to spending
money The Hall Room boys will no doubt
pass the season impressively but not every
one is blessed with their resourcefulness.
however, If you are getting Sc week il
Is not advisable for you TO visit Newport
until your salary is raised to slo
PAUL COOK,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11
Clean Streets Paw.

Clean streets mean clean affair
free from foul smells, and foul smells
mean lower down rot and disease
germs. Cleanliness in this climate is
the price of freedom from disease,
and we cannot keep strong and well
except by keeping street and alley
and backyard clean.
All this goes without the saying,
and yet there are many who think
they can pile up filth in thickly-set.
tied districts and escape the penalty.
They cannot do It. Mayor Ward
knows they cannot do it. and he pro-
poses to see that the thoughtful citi-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11
After Twentv.seven Years.

n. E. Smith of st. Louis representing
the 81. Louis Car Wheel company, is in
birmingham to inspect industrial plants
mere with a view to getting suggestions
as TO machinery and methods used In this
district In his line Of business. Mr.. Smith
Is a native of Athens, Ala. and began
his career in Birmingham thirty years
ago. Since that time he has advanced
rapidly. This is his first visit to Birmng-
ham in twenty-seven years
Il was simply amazed when | got off
the cars here" said Mr.. Smith last night,
to find the beautiful and progressive city
that has been built In less than thirty
years. l had heard reports of Birming-
hams development but I had no IDEA
that so great a town had grown up here
since l left the place. Everything was
new to me except the people. These are
the same delightful, hospltable compan-
ions l knew when / was here as young
man. To use a homely phrase the people
or Alabama are what we used to call in
Athens, my old home, folks 1t does
my heart good to get back here and to
renew my old acquaintanceships. | never
come south that do not wonder how 1t
Is that man ever leaves this section OF
the country. 1t is truly Gods own coun-
try and Gods own people surely inhabit
1t. My visit here has made me twenty
years younger"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11
EVEN LIBERTY is WEAK.
Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
we often hear of eavesdropping among
women who have telephones on party
lines" and of women who read postal
matter which passes through their hands;
but who ever dreamed that the Statue of
Liberty in New York harbor, simply be-
cause 1t CHANGED to be fashioned in the
form of woman, would be so curious as
to actually defect the wireless messages
which are sent to the stations on the
shore from ships at sea? Yet that is ex-
actly what that collosas and inanimate
dame has been doing, according to the
testimony of the electrical experts.
What's to be done about it? Well, that's
different
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11

harbor at Manila in disabled condition
to be informed. As a matter of fact
President Roosevelt could do nothing
else They sailed in the harbor of Ma
Mia to escape the Japanese warships
While there in a disabled condition. the
United States is protecting them. and
1t would be folly and an injustice on our
part to say to the Russian ships: You
can remain here, repair your ships and
guns, supply yourselves with ammunition
and coal, and then go out and fight the
Japs again." Such action on the part
OF the United States government would
be nothing more nor less than supporting
Russia in her war with Japan. The
President and Secretary Taft are emf
nently correct according to international
law and justice and right.
NOW that both Russia and Japan have
agreed to President Rooseveltis sugges-
ton to appoint plenipotentiaries to meet
together and arrange terms of peace IT
Is entirely probable that the war will
soon end. As soon as these p1enipoten-
tiaries are appointed, there will undoubt-
edly be a cessation of hostilities pending
the conference
All the world is now Specializing upon
the demands Japan will make upon Rus
STA. just what Japan will get remains
to sbe seen, but it is a we'll known fact
that Japan desires a money indemnity
of one billion dollars. She wants Man
churia given back to China and recoe-
milton of her own suzerainty over CO.
rea; the removal of Notifications at
Vladivostok and the opening of that port
to the nations of the world. She also
wants Russia to surrender to her all
the warships now informed in far east
ern neutral ports.
Undoubtedly Russia will fight vigor-
ously against paying any money indem-
nifty. The other portions of the demands,
however, she may coneede.
The chances are that the conference
will be a long one before an agreement
is reached. But the war is now prac-
tically at an end.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
what Became of the Emperor


Capt. Frank p. o'Brien. accompanied
by Mrs o'Brien. leaves Birmingham to-
day for Loretto KY, to attend the COM
meneement exercises to be held at the
famous Catholic convent school there
Tuesday. Among the graduates OF the
school this year are two of Capt and
Mrs O'Brlens adopted children After
leaving Loretto, Captain o'Brien will 90
on to Louisville as a delegate to the Con-
federate Veterans reunion.
Il have been in the habit OF going to
Loretto for number of years. said
Captain o Brien last night, and l always
highly enjoy my visits to the school, As
ISOLATED with 1t are some of my most
interesting recolecdons. 1t was there that
l met for the first time Father Edward
de Bourbon, who was until his call to
Rome head of the Trappist order OF
monks In America. Father de Bourbon Is,
as is well known, the Bourbon lleir to
the French throne. He was an exceedingly
handsome man-'every inch king in
manner and eharacter-and he left a last
ing impression upon the community at
Gethsemane where a branch of the Trap
pist order Is situated.
"One story he told me | wildly re-
member. You know 1t is rule or the
Trappst order that its members are kept
in seclusion. being forbidden to know any
thing of the outside world. They can read
no secular literature. speak to no per-
son outside the order and their only
salutation to one another is, Remember
death, brother, as they meet and pass.
In the order at Gethsemane was a
man who had at one time been a men,
Der of Napoleons body guard. After the
rout at Waterloo he came to America
and became a Trappist monk. He re-
manned In the order for more than thirty
years and until his death. AS the end
grew near he was, as Is the custom, per-
mitted to ask a few questions He had
only one inquiry to make az he lay at
the point of death Bracng himself
against the pillow, the poor fellow looked
up and asked:
What became of the Emperor?
He was told Of Napoeon's last days
on st. Helena, and listening ntently to
the end of the story, he turned his face
toward the wall and died."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
Philosophy is the way you pretend to
feel when you feel directly the opposite.
What a woman likes about yachting
trip Is the clothes she has to buy for 1t.
II girl wasn't jealous of somebody 1t
would be a sign she was the only person
in the world.
Sometimes it's just as well to go home
early to make your wife suspicious about
your health.
If man had to work as hard to get his
living as he does to get his fun he would
become an anarchist.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11
Racing and Health.
FROM the Atchison Globe.

From the Atchison Globe.
1t is found that there is so little sick
ness in Louisville annually at this season
of the year as to be remarkable, and the
fact is attributed to the races. Excitement
tends to keep down great deal of sick
ness. This is an established fact among
physicians all over the world. The people
get excited and interested and forge.
their aches and pains. One reason why
old age is attended by SO many ills is
that as one grows older there is little
going on that excites or interests In
Kentucky towns where there are no races
there Is as much sickness at this period
as at any other.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11
Birmingham Wins.

From the Opelika News.
Birmingham is winner and will have
a new passenger station. It is said the
plans will call for an expenditure of about
N,WO'ooo. Well, we have not had our
claims here allowed yet, and we are
not after one to eestsa million, but we
want one that will. be a credit to the
city and will keep III the fight until we
get it.