The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-08

,ssfM,as quito investigation in New sey. and the usual editorial ano shorter articles. including discussion of the presidency ol the Carnegie Institution of Convoca- tion Week at the University of Pennsyl- vania, of the United States Department oI Agriculture and an obituary notice of the late Thomas Messinger Drown, Pres ident of Lehigh University
 In letter in the January number of The Era Magazine W. J. Bryan com inenting on an article, The Coming Pow CT in National Politics." by John W. Ryckman. published in that number, gives g. new Idea of the basis of MT Bryan's belief in the future success of the democratic party. lie says: T am anxious to see the reform element en- couraged m all parties. In 1886 the so- called conservative element m the democratic party helped the republicans to win victory and 1 believe the time Is not far off when reform element of the republican party will help the demo- crats to win victory while the new parties will be helpful not only in lndi- eating the tendency of radicalism, but ir calling the attention of the people to tho evils of present republican policies" In the third of the series of articles | exposing the giant graft Of the life in- surance "combine" Henry Shedd Beard sley describes in detail the exact methods by which the men who are entrusted with the money of millions of policy holders have used these millions for their own private enrichment Other articles of note in the January Era are The Crowned Toilers,' by Fritz Norris stories of royal persons of European courts who are engaged in practical em- ployment; The Restoration of the Opera" by Wm. Armstrong, with a new Nordlea incident. and a description of Caruso's strange superstitions. Included in the fiction of a charming romance of the South seas by Rose K. Weekes; a thrilling story of adventure by Joseph Keatng; a clever tale by Gertie de s. Webster; a humorous story by Owen Oliver; with other fiction and special articles. The issue is bountifully illus trated
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 There is one New Years resolution that will prove a pleasure as wei as a profit. For, besides the manifold entertainment iu It's nine stories, it contains articles timely and pleasing. two of which are unique and helpful contributions to twd of the most vital problems that American citizens will have to face in 1905 Lynch ing in the South' by Ray Stannard Baker, will do more than many an act of Congress to break down the barriers Of sectional misunderstanding on the negro problem. 4Neither academic nor partlzan, 1t is the work of trained jour nalist seeking not to argue, but to show the causes of recent outbreaks Although himself a northerner, ne finds that the south has no lessons to learn from the north concerning lynching. In Huber culosis, the Real Race Suicide" Samuel Hopkins Adams states, no less author- tatively than starthngly, the horrors of ''Ihe Great White Plague" He shows that modern science could alleviate and prevent the dread disease were it not for tho ignorance, prejudice and greed of many in our midst--ineluding even a large class of the medical profession.
 Heart-beatB of our great nation, grave and gay, arc galvanized into life by the cunning hands of several story-writers in this number. The last chapters of Stewart Edward Whites serial, The Rawhide," contain not only the sweep ing outdoor flavor of Arizona (shown, too. in Maxneld Psrrish's wonderful color picture), and the swift action of the catastrophe. but also a marvellous analy- sis Of human suffering. Another Arizona story in amusing contrast to this, is Henry Wallace Philips yarn. "A Touch of Nature" in which our old cowboy friend, Rod Saunders. adventures strange
 
 mstrations for this by A. B. Frost) To a little Kansas town we are carried by the stinging. powerful pen of Villa Gather, to witness 'The Bculptor's Fun eral''--a bitter contrast of raw uEiiness with refined beauty. Charles Fleming Enforce tells what mookery was. '-Tns Liberty of B7orentino,' . poor little Gu ban who was run out of his little In- diana school because they called him . ''nigser" and who wasn't allowed to work at his trade because they called him "soab|' N M. W. Woodrow sketches sharply ths proud little woman who was "Old Man Johnson's Successor in Western mining town More humor, typically American, follows in "Billys orgy" Grace s. Richmond's tale of tho pleasant martyrdom of bachelor uncle. and in The Schism at St Hilda's," in which Mark Lee Luther describes an anazing clerical dispute in fashionable parish