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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
GIRL HAS BUSINESS HEAD.
Would Be Married on the Trail If
 $250o Was In Sight.

Portland-Prospective brides who intend to marry young men with small salaries may take notice of the method for rais- ing furniture money adopted by Miss Nellie Beardsley of this city. Miss Boards ley has figured out a way whereby she can acquire the sum of $2500, enough money to pay for an extended honey moon. and furnish a flat. Miss Beardsley would acquire the money by making her marriage an attraction for the Trail" the amusement street of the Western Worlds fair The only weak point in the scheme lies in the unwilingness of the fair management to pay over the money.
 Miss Beardsley called on Secretary Reed, of the exposition several weeks agU, and calmly announced that she wish ed to be married MT. Reed declined the privilege on the ground that he had al- ready entered the married state and then Miss Beardsley outlined her plan She had already secured the necessary man. The money consIueration was merely hinted at the time
 The young woman now has her scheme in working order She wants to bs mar ried on the Fourth of July and has se- cured as officiating minister, the Rev Benjamin G. Taylor, of Brooklyn. whom she claims Is an attraction in himself. as he has already gained not toriety as the man who performed a marriage ceremony in a Hons den at Luna Park. Coney Is- land.
 The exposition arrangements rejection of Miss Beardsley's proposition has not in the least discouraged the would-be bride. who is on the trail of snowman who can appreciate the value of judleious publicity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14

fourth place will not go to Pittsburg uncontested. It will not be walk over" in any respect, for St. Louis had in 1900 a population of 575,OOO; Boston, 56O.OOO, and Baltimore, 5OS,- Oo0. All of the three are prosperous cities and each one of the three is confident Greater Pittsburg cannot walk over it to fourth place. The con test between the four cities may, in fact, start an epidemic of annexation. Boston has a number of populous suburbs that have not been annexed. St. Louis cannot do much in that di- rection because of a wide river and another state. Baltimore is weak in suburbs. The contest seems to be between Boston and Pittsburg, with St. Louis a very good and dangerous third.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
From the New York Globe.

From the New York Globe.
 @ HE journal of Columbus opens (U with a reference to the coninci-
 dence of his departure from Palos with that sad and mournful emigration of SOO,OOO Jews which Spain had enforced. On March 3l, 1492, Ferdinand and Isabella had issued the decree which ordered all Jews. on pain of death, to leave Spain within four months. Two days grace was allowed, and with these the time eXplred August 9. The next day Columbus weighed anchor-on his ships no less than five Jews. including that Louis de Torres who is said to have been the first white man actually to place his feet on American soil at San Salvador.
 The decree of the Spanish monarchs was the first step toward that event whose 250th anniversary the Jews of New fork propose to celebrate-the establishment Of the first Jewish colony in America. The Jews went first to Portugal and then to Brazil, Portugal's great colony. Although Portugal itself soon grew cruel, in Brazil there was Jewish prosperity because It had fallen into the possession of the toi- erating Dutch. But by 1854 the Portu- gueses had re-established themselves in Brazil, and oppression again began. Some time in 1854 the bark Caterina, with twenty -three-some say twenty-seVen- Jewish souls on board, left Brazilian port for the then New Amsterdam, where the Dutch domination seemed to offer haven of rufuge. The Jewish pilgrim
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
Senatohia's Sheriff.

The Carnegie hero fund has not been drawn upon. It's trustees have found no heroes, but if they will turn to Senatobia. in the state of Missis- sippi they will find one lying dead there today. He was sherfff of the county of which Senatobia is the county seat. He held as a prisoner one James Whit, who is to be placed on trial next Monday for the killing of a man several years ago. All in volved in the case are white men. A mob of six or eight men entered the iail for the purpose of taking Whit out of it and lynching him on the spot. When Sheriff Poag awoke the mob had entered the jail. He at once ordered them to leave it, and when they refused to goehe fired upon them, wounding one of them. They returned the fire, mortaly wounding the sher- IT, who u1eu SnOflly dltSlNdl u. hC mob precipitately left the jail, carry ing their wounded with them, but they did not seize Whit, the prisoner, who remains safely in jail, and will be duly tried. not by Judge Lynch, but by a judge and jury under the excel lent laws of Mississippi.
 If the trustees of the Carnegie fund do not consider the dead sheriff a hero, the people of Tate county and Senatobia will, and they will be very apt indeed to erect monument to the memory of the brave officer who faced alone a mob and defended his pris- oner until he was himself shot down. He was a hero in every sense of the word He stood for duty law and civilization against an armed mob operating in the hours of darkness, who came prepared to defy the laws of the state by committing murder themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
Miniature Railway Finished

We have just finished our scenic route around East Lake" said Manager Semon of the Bijou yesterday, "and we are casting about for a name to give the system. We may end by calling it the East Lake Scenic Route or the Scenic Loop. Either would be applicable. The railroad extends all around the lake and will make a fine trip when our trains begin running Of course the track, the locomotive and the coaches will be in miniature, but that will only add to the interest. A union station and schedules will be announced later. We will also guarantee that there will be no wrecks on the East Lake Scenic Route. or the Scenic Loop. as the ease' may be. The engineer will of course have to be the fireman and will be a hard-worked man but the conductor will have an easy time.
 Tt has been suggested that we might have some real melodrama at the lake this summer by having the williams wrecL. the scenic limited and run it into the lake but such plan is hardly feasible While the climax would be trilling 1t would endanger the lives of our patrons and l can assure you that there will be no train robberies and no trilling melo- drama wrecks on the East Lake Coast railway"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
LONG CIGARS THE FAD.
Size, Shape, Weight and Cost Amount
 to Little.

From the Washington Post.
 Two smokers stood In an Averue cigar store.
 ''You have all sizes of cigars" said one of the smokers as he surveyed the stock. 'Ias the size of a cigar anything to do with the price?"
 Sometimes. Not always The stogie is longer than the average length and everybody knows what stogIe costs. They are seven inches long.
 "I have another cigar the samn length of stoge, which sells three for a dollar The cigar that sells three for a half is about five and a half inches long but it is thicker than the cigar of the sane length that sells 10 cents straight or 15 cents straight"
 What is the weight of an average cigar.
 All depends on the tobacco. One ciga- that sells for 10 cents weighs about one- fourth of an ounce, and. An1thtr, the same size weighs an eighth of an ounce. and still another of the same size. that sells at the same price, weighs half an ounce. The brand that sells three for a dollar is the same weight.
 ''I suppose there are fads in sizes of cigars just as there are fads in fashion?p
 NVif 1oA ic oiis Just di present. the fad seems to be long cigars of the pana- tela shape. They are an prices, too, from 5 cents up.
 Isn't it a fact that the average smoker T don't mean men who run to fancy prices and buy by the box-buys the D. cent cigar"
 More cent cigars are now sold than formerly" the shop-keeper replied '"rhe cent panatela shape, for instance, we sold for 10 cents straight when we paid duty--I am referroing to the Porto Rico cigars.
 ''I have one customer who used to buy them by the box at $5. When the duty was taken off I gave him one of the brand one day and told him 1t was a new 3 cent cigar that I had just put on the market. He smoked about half of it and said 1t was enough, and he wanted his old smoke. Then I told him it was the same less the duty"
 "Then what happened?"
 What usually happens? You smokers think you know more about cigars than we who make them. That man wouldn't have it. He insisted on smoking a 10 cent straight and I gave it to him. just as it governs most men when they buy The average man is not much of a bargain hunter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
One Trust in Jail.

Kansas has the courage of it's con victions. When she fights the trusts she assails them in downright earnest. Instead of imposing fines, which the agents of the trusts laugh at, she i'm poses penalties. In a word, She sends such agents to the pen
 E. J. Smiley is not smiling at pres ent, for he Is serving a term of three months in the county jail at Topeka. He was and is secretary of the Kan sas Grain Dealers association, which has been duly declared violation of Kansas antitrust law. The assc cia- tion seems to have been combine intended to crush competition in the buying and shipment of grain-a stifer of competition. Whatever the scope of it's work may have been it was declared illegal-a trust. in short, and its secretary is now languishing in jail.
 What is needed now is like action on the part of the federal govern ment. The grand jury is at work on the beef trust case, and if the United States has half the honesty and cour- age of Kansas there will be more men in jail very soon. Fines are a bur lesque in trust cases. Terms in prison are the true remedy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
A ROMAN SINGER

From the New York Sun
 The identical bronco buster The fly-by-night republic of Panama . The forty million steal Are we not in Rome ?-Henry Wattersons Roman let ter to the Courer-Journal
 O, sad and shattered columns, like the and forums, where the tooth of time has bit; O. Jupiter Saturn. Apollo, ye brothers of her, the Star-Eyed, whom still I wistfully worship, though the Rob- Der Barons deride: O. Thunder, o, Moses. O. Hades, Caesar, Roosevelt, Romel-I wish I were home.
 The blood red Baedeker beside me is pale to the dreams I see. as the Man on Horseback capers all over mine own countree. I hear the hoofs of his bronco the howl of the Gray Wolves pack cannot sleep for the singing in mine ears of the Big Sticks whack. Has the Consti- tuition crumbled? Is there help meath the great gold dome?
 I wish I were home.
 Like bold Tiberius Gracchus, I have hunted the Money Powers pelt. Is he prigging my laures and halo. this Elm peror Roosevelt? By the busts of all of the Caesars, by the tawny Tibers foam, I wish I were home
 Vainly smiles each marble Venus; put me by the Dying Gaul. Let me weep my fill No comfort can I know before the fall. In the Colosseum shall read the Courier-Journal then; I shall drive away the shadow with the flash of my drawn pen; l shall summon against the Despot all great shades of Cato's Rome.
 But would I were homei
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
Good for Selma.

"I am much gratified," said Percy Clark that the officers who have been in- specting the National Guard here in Ala bama have said unofficially that Com pany c. Captain Aycock, at Selma has excelled all other in the state in the showing made
 Last year the cavalry company the Dallas Dragoons carried off the prize. The Frank Pettus battery at the artillery target contest in Mobile carried off the honors. Great in politics. in military, In church work in it's schools, Is Selma.
 Some day the history of the men and women who in peace and war have made Dallas famous will be written It will re- late to railroad men, artists musicians, statesmen, preachers, mechanics I re- gard the foundation for thoroughness laid in the course of study at Dallas acad- emy coupled with the traditions of ante bellum days as the primal cause of the success of many of the men and women of Selma in various fields of thought and work"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
The Scottish Rite

''rhe degree ceremonial work of the Scottish Rite was well performed at the sixth reunion just closed-better perform ed indeed than on any former occasion" said Bert Jacobs. "A greater number of degrees were conferred in full form than heretofore and every candidate seemed deeply impressed"
 The Scottish Rite appeals especially to the scholarly Mason and the candidate of poetic turn of mind. The beautiful liturgy is over the heads of the average candidate. perhaps. but to those who can take in the truths of the Morals and Dogma Scottish Masonry is sublime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
To Decide a Bet.

Tt Is hard to account for the fact that the majority of people forget dates of important events that occur within their day" said well known citizen. Two men made bet as to the year in which a disastrous cyclone visited Louisville Neither of the betters felt certain about the date. and one of them was several years out of the way.
 "The facts about the Louisville cyclone are briefly these: It occurred in 1900; 100 persons perished and sS,OOO,O00 worth of property was destroyed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
IN HOTEL LOB3IES
He Kept the aHandkerehIef.'

ne NSpt the 'Handkerchlei'
 ''I heard a good joke on a citizen Of the Toadvine neighborhood the other day said court official last night.
 The man in question was summoheu for jury service. Like good citizen ne put aside private business. came to BIT mingham bright and early on Monday ready to weigh and sift evidence admin ister justice and uphold the dignity or the law generally. He had never serVeu as a juror and had only been to BIT mingham a time or two, but he had been to Toadvine frequently and he guessed he knew what he was about. and wan going to let nobody up there get aheau of him He looked wise and made the twelfth man. so things moved along smoothly. At noon the jury was marched down en masse to one of the cafes Tor lunch.
 This cafe was noted for it's handsome and immaculate napkins. It seems the juror from the Toadvine neighborhood was not familiar with napkin etiquette. However, he pressed it into handkerchief service, and at the end of the meal put it in his pocket. He went through the same performance the next day and thinkathe cafe lost a napkin every time the jury had to take a meal there.
 'I heard that when he went home the several linen napkins with the name Of the cafe in red silk in one ocrner, were proudly displayed 70 friends with the ex- planation that the judge had sent them down to the hotel most every day for dinner, and the hotel gave him a fine handkerchief every meal and it didn't cost him a cent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
THE cRIcKET's cHlRP.

From the Oneonta Southern Democrat.
 There, how the chirp of that lonely cricket brings to mind the dear old home yes, years and years and years ago, we are afraid to say how many-when the breezes crept in under the low hanging branches and the graceful elm swept the roof of the old home with a loving embrace; when the odor of phiox ana tuberoses was waited in from the gar den. We remember the deep, dark shadow under the rough old oak. and the ruddy lightsA through the red curtained win dows; the pleasant rooms, the books the music, and mother. Do you remember mother? It is your mother we mean. The mother who laughed over our baby antics grew proud of our boyish tri- umphs hid her sad heart beats when we left the home fold to win our way in the world-the mother whose hair grew gray in her care for us, whose heart grew humble by the multitude of her prayers in our behalf; whose face grew more tender as the years marked their progress upon her cheeks; whose steps faltered and whose hands trembed because her buoyancy had been given freely in our behalf. The mother who staid in the old home while we were far away. The mother bird in the nest after the fedg- ling had flown. There came at last letter in another hand, and dear old mother was at rest. Then we went home, but the old time home was gone forever. An, we know how trivial every thing then seemed beside mothers love. We know how kind word of old would have cheered her heart. We know how the business cares crowded out the home letters; and how mother watched and waited for the tardy missive. We know how her heart bled for an old time caress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
Mayor Davis of Lafayette.

Mayor w. G. Davis of Lafayette. chair man of the democratic county executive commit. of Chambers .r,' s,', county 1t. is at the county" said MT. Davis are preparing to plant large crops this year, and as this has been a favorable spring they are well up with their planting. There seems to be a tendency among the planters of our county to decrease the cotton acreage and plant diversified crops.
 ''The cotton mills of our county are in splendid shape, and the indications are that this will be one of the best years in their history. Chambers county is rapidly becoming cotton mill center We now have four prosperous mills in the county"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
"PIumber" Not "Printer.r

In recent article in The Age-Herald it was stated that of two union men arrest ed and fined in the police court for fight ing one was a carpenter and the other a printer" It develops that the word printer should have been the word plumber" The man who wrote the ar ticle inadvertently made an error What ever discredit was brought down upon trades s-unionism by this error was due, not to a union printer but to a union plumber" The printers" wish it un- derstood that when they fight they do it in a way not to violate the law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
PERPETUAL YOUTH.
liver Wendell Holmes.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes. Iris yet high day, thy staff resume. And fight fresh battles for the truth; For what is age but youths full bloom, A riper, more transcendent youth?
 A weight of gold
 Is never told. Streams broader grow as downward
 rolled At sixty-two life has begun; At seventy-three begins once more; Fly swifter as thou hearst the sun, And brighter shine at eighty-four.
 At ninety-hve
 Should thou arrive, Still wait on God and work and thrive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
Live In Hope.

From the Collinsvlle Courier.
 A great many people who think the world owes them living spend all their lives trying to collect it and leave be- hind a monument of debts. .Age-Herald.
 It's the old adage, a little bit changed' Live in hope if you die in debt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14

Tn New Jersey they are forming Osler clubs, and each member is pledged to go out practically chloro' formed at the age of sixty. New Jer- sey men should be retired, regardless of age, before they organize trust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
CHANGE NOT WANTED.

From the Ozark Southern Star
 The people of Birmingham are having to change the names of several of the most important streets and avenues in the city. We hope they will not change things around so that we will get lost entirely when we visit that thriving and hustlng city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
Clever Cartoon.

From the Jasper Mountain Eagle.
 Blackman, the AgeHerald's clever young cartoonist, has Cunningham Co., mer and Hobson, all in fowls of the air attire. firmly roasting upon the gu- bernatorial limb, with Joe Johnston on the wing lowering around just over as if hunting room for a place on the same coveted roasting place. It is a clever piece O. cartoon work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14

A recent cartoon credits Father Neptune with saying to the Russian and Japanese fleets that there is plenty of room at the bottom. Plenty of room, to be sure, but the location is damp.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14

T is bad enough when "get-rich-quiek''
 concerns content themselves with merely feecing their victims, but when gold brick factory dissolves it. self and leaves behind a facetious mes- sage saying, Goodbye, you suckers, goodbye" the limit seems to have been reached. Yet, this is just what the late American Mercantile company of Kan sas City. Mo-, did when it's promoters decided to leave town. When panting humanity reached the doors of the com pany's offices Tuesday morning in search of big dividends this heartless, and un- necessarily cruel message stared them in the face. It was too much that they should be swindled and then have lith- ,ographio laugh hurled in their faces. Great numbers of people assailed the doors of the American Mercantile com pany, but the company, along with the money, had faded away. Yet, none in that bitter throng could deny that they had been duped by a humorous set of rascals.
 By the death of Miss Howard Weeden, poet and artist, Alabama loses one of its most distinguished women. Miss Weeden's verse showed beautiful senti- ment and a receptive mind, but 1t was in her rare delineations of southern darkies that she exceled Her sketches are ad- mirably executed and reveal all the lights and shades, the humor and pathos, of negro character with fidelity and a charm not surpassed. Miss Weeden was southern born and bred. She lived all her life in Huntsville Consequently, she was thoroughly in harmony with the scenes and characters she depicted. Her intimate familiarity with southern ne- groes and the almost ideal life she led was reflected in the beauty of her pub lished works.
 It was very commonplace room in a cheap hotel. A depressing array of brick buildings loomed up through the windows and the prospect within was not cheerful. Baggage was scattered about in profusion, while wraps, jackets and other articles of apparel lay in va rious, limp attitudes. In one corner of the room. and looking strangely out of place amid so much that was not aes- thetic, there was a handsome piano, and seated on the stool her sleeves rolled up above her elbows and her fingers stray ing lightly over the keys. was a young woman with a remarkable face. Great determination, ambition, youthfulness and hope-all were stamped on that mo- bile countenance, and as she played, her muscular fingers now rattling the bass keys in pianoforte thunder now rippling along like tlnkling stream one could not but feel the ambition which stirred the artist" She was an "artist"-a very obscure artist, struggling to win fame and fortune len tour.' As she sat there hour after hour, practicing cease lessly, what marvellous dreams of the future must have mingled with the strains of music and imparted addition al color to the works of the masters whom she interpreted with such enthusiasm
 One can't help sympathizing with David Belasco in his war against the theatri- cal trust. but he has alienated many
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14

Even the Panama railroad, owned by Uncle Sam, has been caught re- batting, and Uncle Sam cannot be sent to jail. The man who put Uncle Sam in such false and wicked posi- tion can be, however
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
SUSPECTED.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Irene: That's new engagement ring you have, isn't it?'
 Clara: Well it's a new engagement but 1 think it's the same old ring"