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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT ALABAMA POLITICS
 AND OTHER MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST

and management Instead of permitting way considered a bit egotistical by the people at large and rather as an effort to out-Comer Conner. With it all, however, Cunningham would make good, safe and sound governor.
 
 Now as to Conner. He is man of one idea, pure and simple. Apparently he knows little about the states affairs ex- cept such as pertain to railroad rates. He has made it, apparently, his life study to look up and expose the weak side of railroad management in Alabama.
 As a matter of fact, there is a weak side to it. At the same time, there is a strong side But MT Conner apparently has no knowledge of any goodness in railroads or the men who manage them.
 There have, within the past year, been many reductions in Alabama freight rates, and this system of reductions is con- tinuing. It is only a matter of time when the tariffs of the railroads of Ala bama will be on basis which will prob- ably be satisfactory to the majority of the people.
 Of course MT. Corners work has done good. It has brought to the attention of the railroad people forcibly the in- equalities in many rates which have ex- isted in this state. It has caused them in measure, to begin the remedying of the same But because of this one fact is no reason why the people should rally around MT. Conner and aid to form a poli- tica1 ring to fill all the public offices within the gift of the people of Alabama Such a combination is undoubtedly in course of organization. It is well that i: be watched.
 Well, the aldermen of Birmingham have gotten down to business finally and hoist ed the big stick. Only short time ago they ordinanced that no aldermen nor | city official should be permitted to accept I a street railway pass. This ordinance must have become burdensome, for now they have passed another requiring the street railway company to give every alderman and every city official free pass. These free passes must be request ed by Mayor Ward. The Mayor and the l Board might go further and reqiure that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
Mr. clayton Goes to RIount.

Henry D. Clayton, representative Tn congres form the Third district, left Bir- minghan last night for Blount springs where he will remain for three days De- for he returns home. While in Blrmihg- ham as the guest of Col. R. H. Pearson, MT. Clayton was the object of marked attention from persons prominent in the social and political life of the city. It was suggested frequently while he was here that he would make an excellent gov ernor and formidable support was as- sured him in case he should make the race. To all these suggestions, however Mir Clayton replied that he was highly satisfied with the position of representa- tive in Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

men in her diplomatic councils as she has at sea or in the field. and they know the situation. They know 1t better than anyone in this country can know it. They seem ayerse to an armistice at present. but they will not force another battle unless one IS needed to secure peace on a durable basis.
 Customarily an armistice is first step towards peace. After the armis- tice comes the peace conference. In the Far East this order has been re- versed All the preparations for peace conference have been made every one-but no truce has been ar ranged. and probably none will be un- i'll Japan's terms are practically ac- cepted.
 The only assurance of peace con sists in the fact that Japan has won glory enough. She has established her invincibility in war, both on land and sea. She does not need to win another great battle to better her po- sition. It is this fact that lends as- surance to those who do not desire to see another slaughter in the Far East, and it seems to be sufficient provided Russia is straightforward and honest in the peace negotiations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
THE MINT JuLEP CONTROVERSY.

From the New York Sun.
 Above all minor controversies one grand discussion still towers majestic. Silenced for a time by the chill winds and en- shrouding snows of an unruly winter, 1t crept forth with the first budding of seraphic spring, and now,. in the very pith and moment of imperial summer. it swells into splendid pean of debate. Men sit far into the sultry watches of the night steeped in the consideration of this issue, and abandon it only to seek repose that the battle may be renewed on the morrow.
 Wise men-and only the wise are com potent to study the problem-do not enter upon the discussion in the morning, save under southern skies. In these latitudes the wise seek recreation in the morning in the paltry cares of business or politics and postpone the mighty question of a summer day until Phoebus begins to drive his charoit down the western slopes toward the rim of the day. What Is this question which thus agi- tates the humid postmeridian atmos- phere? It is the great question whether in making a mint julep one should gently bruse some of the aromatic plant in the bottom of the glass or put it in, as the sailors say, all standing.
 Many men of many minds there are as to this important matter. The battle rages, and the heathen who know only of gin rickeys and silver fzzes imagine vain things Few have the vast and far seeing self-mastery of that eminent dis ciplinarlan, General Lawrenson Riggs, commander of Maryland's militia. When he was asked which was the cdrrect way to compound julep he sapiently waved his head toward the four corners of Mon ument Square, and then said impressive l ly: s'That sir, is dangerously delicate question"
 word to the wise should be sufficient. Let seholiasts wrangle and fools quarrel.
 Wherever mint grows. there are peace and joy and plenty for the absorber.
 Bruised or unbruised. or in the torrid
 zone or searching the northern cline.
 mint immersed. or partly immersed in
 whisky, transforms a commonplace bev-
 craze into a nectar, dispersing upon the
 l grateful air an aroma not to be described
 with pen or typewriter.
 | Drink 1t either way as you like it-and
 you are sure to like it. The stranger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

all the railroads entering Birmingham sha2 issue free passes to aldermen and city officials and require the Pullman company to do the same or else prevent 1t from running Pullman cars through Birmingham. It might go further still and require free water and free gas and free electric lights, and free themselves from city and state and county taxes, and really they might require free food and drink from butchers and bakers and grocers who operate in Birmingham under city license. Whats the use of being an alderman or city official anyway un-
 less 1t be worth while.
 There is more doing in Birmingham to- day than at any time within the year. Real estate sales are increasing and am told that every carpenter, buildef, painter and brick mason in the city is employed. Several hundred handsome residences, be- sides a score of business houses, are in course of construction. The building ma- terial men are doing a tremendous bus
 mess and reaping splendid profits. All the architects are busy and all the manu- ldCLurlHS pidHtS III blrmlngnan are elIner adding to or figuring on additions to their respective plants. am told that one new steel plant within the district is now a certainty and that plans are under way for another big pipe works, besides fully score of smaller plants to convert pig iron into the finished product. The one thing we are slow about is street paving. Highland avenue is just
 as it was three months ago and the people are beginning to believe that they are to get nothing but promises. Mayor Ward has his tin cans for trash installed, but in the residence section of the city they all remain filled to over flowing because there are not enough i trash wagons to haul off the refuse. The fruit stand men get full attention bu' I the residences are much neglected. A few more dollars in trash wagons would be of great advantage to the taxpayers. Mayor Ward should see that the good ! work he started is kept up and nei nsg- l lected.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
Chute Mail MutiIated.

Considerable damage was done to some mail in the chute at the Woodward buiid- ing yesterday said clerk in the post office last night.
 ''The chute was stopped up by the care less depositing of mail too large to go through to the box on the ground noor' which is in itself violation of the rules of the postoffice.s To add to the trouble some thoughtless person tried his mex perienced hand to remedy the difficulty. A long wire was secured to effect disIodg-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
American Ice-cream Habit.
From the London News.

From the London News.
 When I was in New York the extra ordinary amount of ice cream devoured by Americans was proved to me by the large area devoted in the department stores to the sale of this popular refresh ment. "I guess we Americans have cast iron fixings." said one of them when I expressed my astonishment at the way in which even elderly men and women took ice cream at social festivities. Ger tainly the ice cream habit must have something to do with the indigestion from which so many suffer in the sum- mer At all the parties one attends in America ice cream is an inevitable item on the menu, and it is consumed in quan- titles which would delight London ca- terer, who charges by the quart!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
FOUR FOOTED ANIMALS
 THAT SEEM TO REASON
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by chance into vegetable garden did not rushed away, and in short time returned
 with some porcine pals. A raven which
 Charles Dickens noticed at Hungerford
 used regularly to carry bones to dog
 with a broken leg.
 A striking instance of animal thought
 for others was seen on the road from Lucknow to Seetapore. An elephant train
 was on it's way to the latter town, when one of the big beasts went lame, and had the greatest difficulty in keeping up with
 the rest. Seeing this, the elephant behind
 him began with his trunk to remove some of his suffering companions load. Nearer home, a donkey once discovered that he could open the gate of the field in which he was grazing Not selfishy content with keeping this interesting fact to himself he immediately called three friends-a mare, foal and A yearling- and escorted them from the field and for some distance along the road, until in fact, the entire party was met and turned
 back by farm hand.
 Again, an Australian opossum brought u DiiBlduu as d pct bcCdLic SiSdtiy dt- tached to dog in the same house. An opossum resembles a cat in being very fussy over it's toilet, and this particular specimen, after performing its own ahlu- tions, used to wash the dogs face, holding his muzzle in its little paws, and carefully licking it all over. In this particular in-
 stance of animal friendship it may be that
 the dogs patience and politeness in sub-
 hitting to the process, rather than hurt
 it's little friends feelings by refusing Is
 quite as noteworthy as the opossum's
 anxiety to do what it regarded as
 kindly act.
 | A monkey in the London Zoo was seen
 to hand nut to spectator through the bars, having been foiled in his efforts to crack it. The visitor realized the sit- uation, cracked he<nut, and handed 1t
 back, which was evidently what was ex- pected of him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New york Press

From the New York Press.
 A girl thinks a man is madly in love with her if he says her baby sister has a sweet disposition.
 man has to have a big income to have any of 1t left to spend on himself after he gets married.
 what a man likes about the Fourth of .Julv is the way he can cuss things he did when he was 0 boy.
 When man sees a woman wearing white stockings he can't help feeling tnere are worse things than being blind.
 when a woman sees anybody in railroad car reading letter across the aisle tt makes her awfUi nervous ''o' to be in the seat behind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
From Answers.

From Answers.
 @ HAT dogs are capable of disinter- (CU ested friendship for other ani- mals is beyond dispute Prof.
 Wesley Mills, in his luminous and deeply
 interesting work on animal intelligence,
 mentions dog that struck up a friend
 shin with one of his masters carriage
 horses. For some time carrots were missed from the kitchen garden, and, watch
 being kept, it was found that the dog
 had been in the habit of digging them up and presenting them to his equine friend Now, dogs do not themselves con- slider carrots a delicacy. How was that particular canine thinker to know that a present of that nature would be accept able to his friend, the horse? If reason ,was not in operation there, something very like it must q1ave been
 A somewhat similar story was told by a correspondent of the Spectator some time ago. A certain fox terrier was the par ticular friend of the household cat. It so happened that pussy had litter of kit ] tens all of whom found damp grave in 1 the stable bucket The mother cat took the JOSS or neT cllliuTen tO liciit dicou- fully, and moped about the house in dis- consulate fashion. This caused the terrier great anxiety, and he tried to cheer up the sorrowing mother in every way, but in
 vain. Finally, bright idea came into his doggy mind. He rushed into the garden where the drowned corpses or the unfor- tunate kittens had been buried, with
 busy paws resurrected them ana carried the earthly little furry bodies in glad | triumph to his distracted friend. Can this action of the dog be ascrIbed solely l to instinct?
 | Cats and other animals have been seen I to divide food with particular friends. l Thus, a monkey in the London Zoo was watched dividing banana into three
 equal portions, one of which he kept for himself, presenting the others to two Simian chums. A hog which had wandered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
Sian of Prosperity.

"One of the best business bagometars
 of any city is the sale of railroad tickets"
 said we'll informed man. 'I am told that the receipts at the uhioh depot office in Birmingham last moh'n exceeded the receipts in June 1904, by s2o,-
 Ooo The years business will probably be
 several hundred thousand dollars in ex- cess of the receipts of 1904.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

R tics and many a V. politicians. poll eo,,a,. cal narfv in it, there are many factions of thai party and many men of ambition If there were as many of ability as there are of ambition, it might perhaps be better for the people of the state at large
 The way half dozen or a dozen men of alleged ability. learning and ambition are perched around in the trees and on dead limbs like vultures, waiting for the two grand old Alabama senators to die that they might bounce into their chairs and grovel into the government till of fame and finance, is, to say the least, odd to the sensitive.
 There is no use in mincing words. This statement is fact. It may be said to be due to the newspapers. But the news papers only chronicle events that are happening or are much talked of. Of course some of these days, in the nature of human events, those two grand old senators of Alabama will pass to the great beyond. But the most of us hope it will be score or more of years yet before we are deprived of their splendid ser vices. If any man believes that either of the two fails to rank above all others in the estimation of the people of Ala bama, let him pop his head up in pri- mary before the people next spring. And in this connection, I am reminded of the approaching gubernatorial contest. Up to date the eloquent Doctor Cunning ham is the only publicly announced can didate. At the same time, Mir. Conner, the railroad commissioner, is in the field perched upon 8 carload of bulbous bags of high freight rates which he proposes to prick when the people shall have elected him.
 Doctor Cunningham is good man. | When Acting Governor, he made good one. He is honest, conscientious, able, at tentive to his business, and when acting for others or the people at large, he is of good judgment Like many others of | us however, when he would push himself, | he is not good campaign manager. The Doctor made mistake in not permitting
 his friends to bring forth to the public and display his doings and past work as a reformer and curber of railroad rates
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

The secession of Norway and the secession of the Confederate states where is the essential difference? And yet the outside world approves the one and practically condemned the other. This Is world of distinctions without differences.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

within your gates will like it. Even the gentle wife of your bosom will not be averse to it. Let not the purist daunt you by asserting that when you bruise the mint you make not julep but a smash. Take the purist to your home and give him juleps with the mint smash eds He will dispute no more. He will drink and groW wise "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

A successful revolution in Russia would transform the men on the Kniaz Potemkine into patriots of the most approved sort. Otherwise they will be pirates and will be shot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

A scapegoat or two among the clerks seems to be the idea or the Department of Agriculture in meeting It's proven leakage and graft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

The Kniaz Potemkine has salt horse enough to feed the revolutionarles three weeks and she can pick up coal as she goes along.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

Indictments and trials promise to reduce the size of the Senate before 1t meets again next fall. h the first Senate there were but twenty-six members, and not one of them was grafter. But that was good while ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

Considering the sentiment among the men on his ships Rojestvensky ac- complished great deal, for almost
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
lndustrial Workers Adjourn.

Chicago, July S.-The convention of the Industrial Workers of the World a burned today after electing omcers as follows: President, c. I. sherman, Chicago. and secretary-treasurer, ". B. Coughlin. Cincinnati.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

Elihu Root as canal builder wouid be still another experiment, and we have had two years of such things.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

Ambassador Des Ranches report Tn favor of southern immigration will promote a White South.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

The forthcoming indictments in the Equitable case are awaited with in- terest. District Attorney Jerome's courage will be severely tested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

Elihu Root is posing at present as a martyr to his country. He negiects' to state. however, what he has up ms sleeve.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

When girls play baseball they nave to conscript one of their numper to wear a mask and stomach protector.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

The Big Stick on the Roosevelt Peary's new North Pole ship, is a mainmast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

ment of the mail, and the amateur work man went tc work quite zealously with the result that large amount of mall lodged above the obstacle was literally torn to pieces. Postmaster Carter, while grateful to the guilty party for his good intentions, wishes it understood that if such mat ters were left to the proper workmen they l ilyn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

President Roosevelt would almost have us believe that he secured HIS cabinet by prescription.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

Despite his Venezuelan record the homes of John Paul Jones are safe In Loomis' hands. Those bones are put dust
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

General Linevitch, that great paper warrior does not relish conducting a theoretical war under an armistice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

The Panama canal has gone to join Russia in the state of collapse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

Japan will contenance no Russian duplicity in the forthcoming peace ne- gotiations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

Russia is news center, but 1t has no newspaper in the full sense or the word
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

Congressman Mccall, Massachu- setts republican, says this country IS now governed by presidential re- sprinte
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

Chauncey Depew holds the record he got $20,000 a year for doing noth- ing, but a grand jury is sitting on him now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

The Japanese are bland, but thelr grip on the war situation IS nei'ner bland nor childlike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

The dove of peace is never seen among the gulls that fly over the Black sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

Baron Rosen and Minister Takahira are not at present on speaking terhs' Things will be better by and by.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

Paul Morton and Chauncey Depew will not speak when they pass by this fall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

Sweden and Norway talk war, but they have too much sense to practice
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

The men on the Kniaz Potemkin' have cut out landing places.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

Root is not built right to set on the lid now that Taft has left us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

More grand juries with keen scent for graft are needed in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

The Czar should negotiate an armis- tice with the revolutionaries at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

The flying machine is no more dead ly than the automobile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

Grass is growing in the streets of Esopus. Such is fame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

When said would die batchelor, did not think l should live till were married.
 Much Ado About Nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09
Harvard Men Leave To-day.

Prof. Charles H. White of Harvard who has been in Birmingham for several days showing a number of Harvard students over the industrial plants here will leave Birmingham this morning for Atlanta on the way north with the Har- yard men. All the students in the party were highly pleased with the trip, and especially grateful for the courtesies shown them by the heads and subordinate officers of the industrial companies.