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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
Hadsden's Briuht Record.

Gadsden is one of the most promis-
ing towns in Alabama, and 1t has
mayor who does not propose that Its
fine prospects shall be married by the
acts of lawless men. There will be
no lynching," says Mayor Charles b.
Smith, Gin Gadsden."
After the arrest of the negroes
charged with the commission of an
atrocious crime Mayor Slnith was both
prudent and courageous. He took
every possible precaution against
acts on the part of the irresponsible.
Every community is afflicted with such
persons, hut they do not dominate
Gadsden, and it is plain they never
will while Mr.. Smith is mayor.
The entire situation in Gadsden is
sound and healthy. Mayor Smith de-
scribes it eompactly when he says
the sentiment of law and order pre-
dominates here, backed up by strong
and determined officials" Behind a
good citizenry stand Mayor Smith,
City Judge Disque, Sheriff Chandler,
and a home military company whose
officers cannot be run over with i'm
punity by a mob. Fortunate Gadsden
has demonstrated that home mill
tary company can be trusted to do its
full duty 4 when most deplorable
crime has been committed by a vile
band of negroes. Heretofore 1t has
been maxim that soldiers from dis
lance are alone in such cases trust
worthy. but Gadsden has demonstrated
that home men can and will maintain
law and order without aid from any
outside locality. Ane Age-Herald takes
off its cap to Gadsden, and it's plucky,
prudent mayor
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
Arrival Of Baron komura.

Baron Komura, Japan's minister for
foreign affairs, and her chief peace
plenipotentiary as well, has arrived in
this country, and NJ. Witte will sail
next from France. All the plenipoten-
tiaries will soon be here, but their
meeting may not mean peace.
1t is reported that Japan will soon
endeavor to borrow another $l5o,oOo,'
900. and If this report be true, 1t
means that Japan has no confidence
that peace will come out of Ports
mouth, New Hampshire
M. WHITE says Russia will not accept
peace at any price, and the feeling
grows that Russia has not given M.
White and Baron Rosen plenary pow
ers. The autocracy is either tricky or
else it fears to accept terms that the
Russian people will declare humiliat-
ing, and perhaps visit on the ineffi-
cient heads of the government.
The terms Of Japan will not be
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
Paul DerouIede. Aqitator.

Paul Deroulede was a young lieu
tenant in the -Prussian war of
nearly thirty-fye years ago, and at
Belfort he made a dash upon the Ger
man barricades that will long live in
French song and story. He then be-
gan to write poetry and plays, into
which he threw no little ginger. He
became a ceaseless agitator, demand
ing the restoration of Alsace-Lorraine.
Finally he found himself agin' the gov
eminent, and he became at length so
noisy and infammatory that he was
banished. Always a grandstand player,
he has no following that is bit trust
worthy.
When President Loubet offered him
amnesty he spurned it in his old-time
manner, and for the present he will re-
main In Austria, from which country
he can throw words at the govern
ment Possibly this modern Boulan-
ger may be recalled in some hour of
trial, when the government has be-
come unpopular, and he may be able
to create trouble. At present, how
ever, he is powerless. He is not a
hero to any good French citizens. A
mob may cheer him, but 1t will be a
mob made up from the least desirable
side of Paris. But he Is not coming
home. He sends instead a bombastio
manifesto, and the Parisians of today
deride 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
New Illuminated slans.

81 notice that quite a number of new
electric signs have been put up in Br-
mingham recently ana l am very glad to
see the marked Improvement in the ap-
pearance of our streets at night said
citizen. Nothing makes a town look
more attractive and more like city than
illuminated signs. We can not have too
many of them.
II understand that the good work is
not yet finished and that there will be
more signs put up in the near future.
Among those already in use none attracts
more attention than the huge sign on
the First National Bank building which
is thirty or forty feet long and can be
seen from a great distance down the
street. There Is no surer indication of
a cty's advancement than the intro
ductlon of Illuminated signs on places of
business.
Now L have one suggestion to make.
An illuminate sign should be extended
from the top of the train shed out over
Twentieth street so that strangers in
town at night would have no difficulty
In locating the union passenger station,
1t would prove a boon to travellers in
addition to lighting up part of town
that Is at present rather murlley after
nightfall."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
Huw THE JAPANESE DIE.
From the Baltimore News.

From the Baltimore News.
That fatalistic philosophy of the Jap
anese which makes them triumphant in
death is illustrated once again IN the
story that comes of the sinking of the
cruiser Takasago after striking a nine
The English have always boosted of the
discipline of their soldiers and sailors in
face of death.
To take your chance in the thick of a
rush. with firing all about,
Is nothin' so bad when you've cover to
and, an leave an likin' to shout,
But to stand and be still to the Birken'.
cad drill is damn tough bullet to
chew.
sings Mr.. Kipling; and, indeed, that Birk-
enhead drill on a sinking ship is thing
to make the nerves tingle. But here were
five hundred yellow men, who In the dead
of a winter night, with gale and snow
and tremendous sea running, calmly
taking their places on deck and In rigging
and waiting for the ship under them to
go down. They sang the national an
them, they shouted banzais for the EN-
peror, they took smoke. Then the
cruiser went to the bottom and the five
hundred men were flung into the sea.
1t requires either the greatest stupidity
or the greatest imagination to meet death
like this. And the Japanese are not
stupid.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21

light. The Chinese-Japanese war of
ten years age is to be readjusted as
we'll as the present war. When 1t was
suggested recently to Baron Hayashi.
the japanese minister at London that
The Japanese terms would be moder-
ate,, he saidi II canot see where PEG.
pie get such an idea. The public evil
IDENTIFY mistakes the Japanese for
angels" The Japanese terms will be
Just but onerous, because Russia's acts
In the Far East have been outrageous.
qad japan VIII remain ready to push
on the var es soon as Rnssia's action
calls for IL. Hardin, Vladivostok and
Sakhalin will all be assailed within
thirty days from the failure of the
peace conference, and failure is Its
probable outcome. Russia needs an
additional lesson. and she is In a fair
way to get 1t, If Japan finds that the
Russian representatives have not been
endowed with plenary powers, the con-
ference will no doubt come to an end
at once without any disclosure of
Japans terms.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
Jeff Davis Monument.

1.-THE contract for the stone foundation
of the Jefferson Davis monument to be
erected In Richmond was let few days
ago and the work will be pushed SAID
a Confederate veteran.
THE monument Is to be splendid
work of art in peristyle form. The de-
sign was approved by Valentine, the
sculptor, who will supervise the erection
of the monument. Valentine is now mod
cling a statue of Davis, which will stand
at the base of the central column.
THE monument will be unveiled in 1907
and the veterans reunion will doubtless
meet In Richmond that year and take
part In the ceremonies"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
Successful Representation.

"Chjef Deputy Sheriff Albert Stradford
deserves the name of a prognosticator,
or else his predictions form the second
part of peculiar condolences" said
deputy sheriff yesterday.
MIR. Stradford has predicted the cap
ture of famous criminals some time In
advance almost to the week OF their
capture. He has given the results OF
elections some time before the votes were
cast to almost the number of votes that
would defeat or elect candidate. In
many other instances he has made pre-
dictions that came true which would
scarcely be believed if related.
Last Friday a reporter called at the
sherins office and upon inquiry was in
formed by Mr.. Stradford that there was
nothing doing The chief deputy added,
however, that he would have something
big tomorrow. When questioned further
he said that he knew something would
take place then. as the boss man (mean-
ing by that Sheriff Burgin) would return
and they would have to get busy. The
next day the reporter called and told
Mr.. Stradford that he was expecting a
good story whereupon he was given
the details of the murder of Deputy Con-
stable Putnam. A little later information
reached the oInce of the daring and sem
sational hold up of paymaster, the kill
ing of a highwayman and recovery of the
money 5000.
Mr.. Stradford predicts that Hunter,
the alleged murderer of Mrs. Smith In
Gadsden. will be caught several weeks
from now, only after great difficulty but
that he will finally pay the penalty for
his crime. His prediction is not wholly
discredited."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
THE BABY.

By Victor Hugo.
Like tiny giant of light piercing through
the dusky gloom
Comes her little laughing face through
the shadows of my room.
And my pen forgets its way as 1t hears
her pattering tread,
While her prattling treble tones chase
the thoughts from out my head.
She is queen, and l her slave-one who
loves her and obeys;
For she rules her world of home with
imperious baby ways.
In she dances, calls me 'Dearr' turns
the pages of my books;
Throws herself upon my knee, takes my
pen with laughing looks.
Makes disorder reign supreme, turns my
papers upside down;
Draws me cabalistic signs. safe from fear
of any frown.
Crumbles all my verses up, pleased to
hear the cracking sound;
Makes them into balls and then-fings
them all upon the ground.
Suddenly she fits away, leaving me alone
again
with a warmth about my heart and a
brighter. clearer brain.
And although the thoughts return that
her coming drove away,
The remembrance Of her laugh fingers
with ME through the day.
And it chances. as I write, l may take a
crumbled sheet,
On the which, God knoweth why! read
my fancies twice as sweet
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
SUPERSTITION.

From the New York Sun.
She was a little excited as she. threw
the clock at him. His eauanImity was
not marked as he responded with vase.
They fell into each others arms and
rolled gracefully over the carpet, cl.nch-
ing and hitting in the hreakaway. The
end of the round found him sitting on
the floor, dazed by the gentle patter OF
a potato masher on his head. Having a
mind to continue the pleasantries, she
seized the tablecloth and scattered broad
cast the articles thereon.
"IIeavens!n he exclaimed. "Now, see
what you've donel'
How careless of mel" She was very
regretful.
And apprehensively they looked at the
salt that she had spilled.
They believed in the sign. They feared
there would be trouble in the house.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
The Friday Closing.

'Loveman, Joseph d Loeb Of Birmine-
ham are to be commended for their n
day afternoon closing rule during the
summer" said mar from an eastern
city. "Ry closing at l p. m. they give
their army of employees rest and OPP
portunity for needed recreation. II Is
philanthrople movement and should Dc
followed by other large concerns.
'Loveman, Joseph & Loeb, are, uhaer-
stand noted for their public spirit anu
kind treatment of their employees NO
action they could take would demonstrate
SO clearly the fact that they have the
milk of human kindness as this Friday
closing rule
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
Gadsden Commended.

''Too much eomnendation of the quick
action taken by the authorities In Gads-
den can hardly be given to the good citi-
zens of that city," said a man last night.
mayor Smith need have no fear of
the calling out of the military companies
being considered useless on account of
a statement made in a dispatch in which
he was quoted as saying that there
would be no trouble. In fact the i'm
mediate calling out of the militia, and
their quick response is what made vio-
lence that night improbable. The action
taken by the sheriff certainly prevented
a lynchng, and that was all that could
be expected
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
Chickens and EGGS

The following letter was received by
The Age-Herald yesterday, the spelling
ana punctuation being given just as was
written:
July the 10 1905--dear editor please al
lew me a small space in your paper. Fan
ME Ivey Colored of Simsvils Ala have
sold this year SO aoz of eggs excusing
home purposes and a good deal OF butter
and chickens
Crops in this SEXTON Is looking prom
ising but needing rain. good crop of
oats has ben reapt with some of the
farmers"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21

From the New York Mail.
NNID AGE is a disease. The doctors
tOJ have settled it. 1t is not beauti-
~ full ripening of life which We
ought to regard as a fortunate condition.
"Oid age Is not now mentioned by the
physicians, save to lay people who would
not understand scientific terms. Among
themselves the doctors call 1t 'senile afro
ply" Metchnikoff describes it as the
atrophy of the higher and specific cells
of the tissue and their replacement by
hvpertrophied connective tissue" We are
not o,ite sure of all that this means, but
It somehow does not suggest the familiar
proverbs of less scientific epoch-"old
wine wholesomest. old pippins toothsom-
est old soldiers surest old lovers sound
est" and so on--nor the poets ideas OF old
age being beautiful and free" and that
sort of thing. Yet 1t Is probably true.
Old age Is disease.
The idea is not romantic but 1t contains
a startling suggestion. For every disease
there may be a cure. IL the button mas
not vet been put up which being pressed,
will cure any particular disease, some
man of science is laborng somewhere
to put 1t up. The buttons are already up
for diphtheria. smallpox, yellow fever and
number of other pests which were once
regarded as incurable, and the doctors
are now working bravely and with much
announcement on the consumption, pneu-
monia and meningitis buttons. When rney
have conquered these, is It TOO much to
suppose that they will have an old age
cure?
If the seat of the disease lies In the
atrophy of certain tissues. 1t is truly
simple problem that presents itself to
the physicians-to arrest the atrophy and
keep out the "hyertrophied connective
tissue.v The trick already seems to have
been mastered by considerable number
of persons who have passed the three
score and the three-score-and-ten mark,
and are not yet ''old." Doubtless they
have depended more on the accessory
means of treatment, such as temperance,
calmness and repose. than they have on
specifics Perhaps. for that matter, the
accessory treatment will always be more
Important in this disease than the medi-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
Our Wide-0pen Canal Zone.

The canal diggers of the isthmus can
work but eight hours day. They
sleep eight hours, leaving eight hours
in which they must be entertained. The
long and short of the decision is, there
must be in the eight hours of recrea-
ton a wide-open Panama, II the men
are to be kept at work at Panama.
No Young Mems Christian association
programme will meet the wishes and
satisfy the desires of the men who are
digging the canal. Drinking, gambling
IN debauchery are to run riot. This is
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN ASHAMED.

From the Kansas City Journal.
Highland man vouches for the truth
of the following story: He had hen that
was bound to set. She had no eggs, but
scraped into her nest a four-ounce bottle
containing a small quantity of whisky.
After six weeks our informant discovered
that a dozen small snakes had been
matched and the hen was carefully guard
ing them,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
HOW to Keep Well.

Il eat only one full meal a day." said
a hard working corporation official. For
breakfast l eat only a roll and a little
fruit and drink a cup of coffee. l do not
lunch but at p. m. l have dinner when
eat a moderate portion of meat. Lunch
at midday makes one lazy and stupid.
The one meal a day regimen has been
my rule for many years and have
thriven on 1t. The trouble with most peo-
pie is they eat too much.''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21

the long and short of 1t, and however
much the situation may be disguised
in words. this is what the new engin
eer. and Chairman Shents and the ad
ministratlon have decided to author
lie. It is to be a wide-epen Panama
hereafter.
The situation at Butte. Montana, is
to be reproduced, no matter how great
the shock may be in moral circles In
this country. Chairman Shonts says
he would not, under normal eireum-
stances authorize the opening of sa'
looms, gambling houses and social
features but he says he is dealing
with abnormalities at the isthmus, and
he must act accordingly.
The zone will soon become gay and
festive under the new programme, and
instead of diggers running away from
IL diggers and many others will hasten
to Il. Yellow fever will lose Its ter
rors in frolicsome zone.
1t will thus be seen that Panama
bids fair to become the source of I'M
portant questions of morals as well as
of engineering science, and it will be
to hear how far the wide
open plan Is to be carried. The zone
may indeed Guido Monte Carlo and
Butte and Paris In all their respective
speoialties of fun and frolic.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
BEATEN AT HIS OWN GAME.

From the Hardeman tTenn9 Free Press.
We subscribers with infantile credulity
to the theory that the moon is made out
of limburger. and that fairies and hob
COLLINS depopulates the circumamhient
either, but when a travelling man from
Nashville tells us that they commences
skyscrapers in the middle and lays brick
both ways we opines that Ananas cashed
in at the proper time to save his reppita-
ton
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
BIrmlnoham's Population.

'.The school census of Birmingham.
now being taken, will soon be completeo'
md am certain II will show large In
crease over the previous census said
prominent citizen
some persons estimate that the school
enumeration will indicate population
of $1,000. ! estimate that 1t viii sho"
population of 60,OO0 l would be willing
to make wager on 10000
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
aErlecrIoNs OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Cuspidors in public places are very use
full for being upset.
p,,,rp experience doesn't mean learning
from It by a long shot.
No amount Of money can console soine
people for not having more
Relative don't think so hard OF miser
after he dies and leaves 1t to them.
The man who brags about how early ne
gets up every morning forgets 10 men
lion how early he sneaks off TO bed every
night
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
PROFESSOR TOOK NO CHANCES.
When Windy took his airship out
In the atmosphere to try it,
He slyly winked his offside eye
And hired a man to fly it.


''rhe white women of Mississippi must
be protected from these lecherous mon
sters who roam at will over the state like
wild beasts In the forests. The fair
name of one good woman Is valued by
me above the life of every black brute
that walks the face of the earth" Thus
spoke James K. Vardaman, governor of
Mississippi, in referring to the increase
In the number of criminal assaults made
by negroes on the white women of the
south. No one will deny the power of
this vigorous argument and none will
charge the writer with being too radical.
Vet, 1t is this same Vardaman who
PUSHES troops to protect negro fiends
from mob violence and is endeavoring
to stamp out lawlessaess in his state.
Truly, ardaman is a man of many parts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS. OF THE WORLD
. HEY sat together before the fire.
w place in a spacious library, the
flames irnparting a ROSY 1bua RI

A HEY sat together before the fire.
Wy place In a spacious library. the
flames imparting a rosy hue to
the faces of man who was handsome
and girl with wonderful eyes. The fire.
light cleaned eheerily upon the hearth
and its rays lighted up the farthest cor
ners Of the apartment On every hand
were the evidences Of luxury and refine
ment. The books, the bric-a-brac, the
furniture Of heavy Flemish oak and the
yellow clusters here and there of cleo
trio incandescent lights bespoke aesthet-
icism and good taste. The man and the
girl gazed thoughtfuily into the Goals,
she with chin resting on the palm of her
hand and elbow on the arm of her chair,
while his chin was sunk on his breast
In an attitude of pensive reflection. Tho
wind rose to gale without. 1t was a
night in December, just five days before
the magic reign of Kris Kringle. A
storm was raging. The Snow King and
the Ice King waged valiant combat. All
the world seemed locked in the embrace
of Jack Frost and the air was biting
AS the tumult of the elements rose to
d HBner plLcn tnere was screening
about the caves of the house, a mighty
blast swept down the avenue and great
oak trees swayed and groaned beneath
the weight of ice, their gaunt limbs rasp-
ing mournfully up and down. 1t was
drawing close to the hour of midnight.
Still, those two silent and motionless
figures remained seated before the fire.
Suddenly the wind broke loose in a per-
feet frenzy of bowling, stray particles
of snow and sleet beat upon the window
panes, and as the storm ragged more
fiercely the girl bent toward the man.
a question on her lips.
Darling" she asked, do you think
the water pipes will freeze tonight?''
A preacher in Kentucky has offered
500 to any one who will show him a
new truth in theology that has been pro-
duced since 1850. He ought to move over
into Missouri and join one of the state
clubs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
ABsENT-MINDED EDITOR.

From the Lake Butler Star.
A Florida editor got In a big hurry
for a copy recently and clipped out two
columns from his own paper. He did not
discover the mistake until he had read
the proofs. This happened in a dry
county.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
Cut Out the Lootlns.
ON the Mobile Register

From the Mobile Register.
If soldiers of the state guard take to
footing, even as kind of freak per-
formance, the state is disgraced. For
the reputation of the soldiers and the
safety Of the state. the hooters must be
apprehended and punished.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
DOCTORS ARE LOOKING
FOR AN OLD AGE CURE

cine. In any case it Is all that we know
much about now. Until some genius has
discovered the anti-old-age serum. it is
incumbent on those who want to postpone
the disease as long as possible to attend
to these other little matters.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
What Is Needed.
the Ozark Southern Star

From the Ozark Southern Star.
A Wall street writer is credited with
saying that what the world needs Is
new definition of honesty" What Wall
street needs is to practice honesty ac-
oordlng to the old definition.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
Don't Abuse Railroads.

From the Columbiana Sentinel.
Because railroads happen to be eorpor-
atlons Is no reason why they should be
made targets for frenzled people,