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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
Trunk Sewer Connections.

Mayor Ward is safeguarding the health of this city when he compels connections with sewers on the part of householders. The dry closet is a relic of the past, and it should be entirely abolished. No progressive city per mits 1t to exist within its limits.
 The action of Mayor Ward should be followed up by like action on the part of the board of revenue. All dis tricts in Jones valley should be ordered to begin preparations at once for con nections with the trunk sewers. If the board of revenue does not promptly act the sewer commission Is authorized to build connecting sewers and assess their cost on the locality benefited. But the board of revenue can best start the work by serving on householders notice that their houses must be con nected with the trunk sewers without III necessary delay. Much of the work can be accomplished in the coming fall and winter If plans are formed at once. There are populous communities that lie in part within the city while part is without the city, and cooperation is needed. This cooperation can be read fly secured if the board of revenue will spur citizens to their duty in this re- spect.
 It is extremely important that the whole of Jones valley should be put In sound sanitary condition before another summer is at hand, and in order to do that plans for sewer connections should be made at once.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
pr. Sanders Inconsistency.

Surgeon White of the marine hos. pital service and State Health Officer Sanders recently met at Mobile, where they discussed the Immigration of freight cars in New Orleans. The Age-Herald's special from Montgomery says of the meeting at Mobile
 Surgeon White informed Dr. Sanders that the freight cars from New Orleans were fumfgated before they were loaded and that they were loaded at the rail- road yards. which is not in an infected district. The cars must be loaded imme- ditely after fumigation. If they are not then the Immigration sign of the marine service Is taken from the car. q be- lieve." said Dr. Sanders, that the dan ger from freight cars bringing mosquitoes from New Orleans has been reduced to a minimum. By this do not mean to say that all danger of places becoming infect ed through the agency of freight cars is done away with, but it has been reduced to a minimum"
 The precautions named are reason able and proper. The distribution of stegomyias by the freight car service is thus limited; but what about their distribution in the unfumigated banana car loaded either at New Orleans or Mobile? On that point Dr. Sanders Is silent A banana car can not be fumi- gated, and it may carry stegomyias to any town in the south or the north. The stegomyias are imported mosquitoes. They must be brought here to begin with, and once here they can multiply until frost comes. Dr. Sanders seems .to fear the distribution of stegomyias from New Orleans, but to have no fear of their distribution from Mobile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
A Good Fluhter.

"Colonel Tazewell Elicit, formerly of Richmond, but now of New York, seems to have created big sensation In a Gotham restaurant by chasing the walters and mauling four or five policemen re- marked a member of Birminghams Vir- ginia colony last night
 "Colonel Elicit is a successful lawyer and Is one of the most courteous men ever reared in the Old Dominion. He was captain of cadets at the Virginia Military institute in the seventies and few years later was colonel of the First Virginia regiment of volunteers. He was always game, and his old friends here are not surprised to learn of his prowess in New York. have no idea how the trouble started, but I would wager good deal that Elicit had provocation for exercising his muscle.
 ''Tazewell Elicit represented the Rich mond district in Congress from 1895 to 97, but he quit national politics in order to look after large interests in Venezuela. l met him in Birmingham few weeks ago and found him to be the same gra- cious' entertaining companion that he was In years gone by. He Is a brother of Andrew Elicit the popular travelling pas senger agent of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
Bov Hero of Civil War.

"Do you see that calm-faced, alert eyed little man over there by the pillarY said Walker county man last night In the Hillman lobby.
 Well, that is J. F. Gaines of Tusca- loosa He Is one of the boy-heroes of the Confectionery. Forty-four years ago he was a 14-year-old boy, living in Walker county At the first call to arms he vol unteered for service He went In at the beginning and stayed until the end. He was a wonderfully bright boy, and he came to know all the prominent men In Alabama of two score years ago. It was given him to see these men at close range as well as many of the prominent military leaders of the Confectionery. He has store of "reminiscences regarding that period of our history. and l hope he will make up his mind to write them out and put them in enduring literary form before he dies. He Is young man yet, and If he'd get at the work I'm sure he could give us something interesting.
 "John S. Wise, in his The End of An Era has paid notable tribute to the boy-heroes who fought and fell at New market. I believe Mir. Gaines could write most Interestingly about the young he- roes Alabama sent to the civil war"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25

replied at once that this was demand for indemnity, and that Russia would not pay kopeck in that way.
 But M. Witte may not know what is going on at Peterhof, where the grand dukes and dowager expresses and court favorites settle questions of state. The acceptance of the Roosevelt com promise is popular in St. Petersburg and Moscow, and it Is very possible that the Czar will also accept 1t when he sees that nothing better is in sight.
 Japan is master of the situation. The victor in war should be- A combine was formed by Russia against her in 1895, but no combine is possible this year to coerce her into doing what she is not willing to do. She is entitled to ep indemnity. If Russia had been as successful on land and sea as Japan has been she would have demanded an immense indemnity, as she did in Tur- key and in China. Japan is entitled under modern methods to an indem- nifty, and neither President Roosevelt nor any one else should take any steps to deprive her of the fruits of her vic tories.
 It is question that will be decided at Peterhof by court favorites, for the Czar has no responsible ministers whom he consults. What those court favorites will push the weak-minded Czar into no one can foretell. Only one thing is certain-an indemnity must be paid in some form, or the war will go on until Japan conquers a perma- nent peace by driving the Russians back of Lake Baikal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
Prospecta Are Bright.

aThis promises to be the greatest year Birmingham has ever had in retail trade circles" said John L. Parker. president of the board of trade yesterday afternoon. "The merchants inform me that they are buying large stocks this year and that they feel confident they will do larger business than ever before.
 This feeling of confidence is the re- suit of the large crops throughout the state and the price of iron. Money is be- ing circulated freely, real estate is in de- mand, prices are firm and the indications are that this will be a red letter year in the development of Birmingham and the Birmingham district.
 .The merchants are more optomlstic than I have ever known them to be be- fore. I have recently talked to many of the members of the Board of Trade and do not believe that there is single one of them that does not feel that this fall and winter his business will show large increase
 "There Is no one in Birmingham who will say that this has not been record summer in business circles. have never known business to hold up as well Tn summer months as 1t has this summer. If we are to judge the fall and winter by June, July and August then l believe we are safe in predicting that this will pc the best winter Birmingham has ever known"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
eEoReIAs NEW COUNTIES.

From the Pittsburg Post.
 The Georgia legislature has Just ad- journed, and its principal work Is declar- ed to have been the creation of eight nsw counties, thus giving the state 137. New York has only 61. Pennsylvania 67 and California, which is quite large, has 57. Just why Georgia requires 1S7 counties to conduct It's business along lines carefully demarked between state and county passes ordinary understanding or the northern resident. who failed to hear the debates on the bills. But the glint of light strikes in. The Georgia colonel &C., counts for the new additions. It is like the creation of new peers In England whenever the crown seeks to overcome an adverse majority. Jealousies and as pirations of the Georgia colonel remanded attention and a county was created for each of eight of the most worthy not all ready permitted to don the epaulets and ride a foam necked steed. That illumines the whole subject of which the legislature is said to have disposed and then ad- journed, after many days, without other wise disturbing the serenity of the stat uteS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Some Weather Facts.


 You hear all sorts of jokes cracked at the expense of the weather man," said A. V. Cronk of Memphis at the Morris hotel yesterday. while the rain poured down, "but I was formerly con- nected with the government weather bu- reau service and I speak by the card when I say that for every dollar spent on the weather bureau ten dollars is probably saved At the time of the Mis- slssippl flood in 1879 $l5,OOO,000 worth of live stock and other valuable property was saved as a result of warnings issued a week ahead by the weather bureau. Sig nals displayed for a single hurricane have detained in port vessels valued, with their eargoes, at $2O.000.O00. The West Indian stations established in 1898 inform us of hurricanes as soon as they begin. The course of the hurricane that caused the Galveston flood was charted for week before it struck our shores, for hurricanes move slowly. Eighty-five per cent of the forecasts now come true and by the aid of rural free delivery 250OO,000 forecast cards were distributed last year to far mers, many of whom could not have had these cards five years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
Wonderful City.

Birmingham is a wonderful city, ana It's growth is unequaled" said John w. Trainer, an attorney in the department or justice in Washington and warm per sonal friend of Postmaster1J. Rivers Car ter, yesterday at the passenger station q have not been in Birmingham before for eight years and I hardly knew the city when I saw 1t.
 T am a northern man-an Ohioan In fact-and have been all over the north and south in recent years, and ind that Birmingham Is one of the most progress sive cities have seen. It reminds me of a northern city with it's energy, push and progresslveness. It Is truly the Pitts burg of the south and has been well named.
 Tn Washington we hear more about Birmingham and the Birmingham district than any portion of the south of double the size of the district"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
mr. RooseveIrs Compromise.

The peace conference stands ad journed until tomorrow, when it will meet, and doubtless adjourn without action to some day of next week. The joclSeying will go on until rupture or settlement IS reached. It varies in no essential respect from horse-trading, each side trying to outwit the other.
 I lie Roosevelt scheme was presented by Baron Komura, and was at once rejected by M. Witte, who knows how to obey instructions and present big bluff at the same time. In substance the Roosevelt compromise is the sale of the northern half of Sakhalin for six hundred million dollars " T'tis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
Chinese Exclusion.

IS highly important,' said success ful cotton mill man last night at the Hiliman' that we get an equitable Chihese exclusion law and enforce 1t reasonably after it is enacted.
 cotton mill men do not want indis- criminate Chinese immigration. They do not want to lower the level now trodden py the American wage earner They would protest against making the Ameri- can workingnan compete with cheap Chinese labor. But that is no reason why we should exclude or treat inconsiderate- " the mercantile. business. student or leisure class of Chinese who wish to come to tnis country, travel through 1t, study It's institutions and enjoy its life.
 All this boycott talk in China ia due to personal resentment kindled there by the treatment of educated ChinamNn who
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
From the New York Sun.

From the New 1Ork sun.
 ACH year the report of the com
 n) missioner of internal revenue - bears witness to the increasing popularity of malt liquor as a beverage in the United States and the coineident fall ing off In the amount of spirituous liquors consumed In the fiscal year ended with June 49, ,459,0OO barrels of beer Nc con sumed, an increase of 1.251000 barrels over the previous twevemonth. In the same period the quantity of distilled spirits withdrawn for consumption was 116,1430D gallons, or 7O4,000 gallons less than in 1903-O4. Beer has the call despite the popularity of Hong drinks contain Ing an ounce or so of whisky to tum- bier of water A growing, understanding of the dangers of even moderate indul- gence in hard" liquor and an increasing tendency on the part of employers to de- mand practical abstinence from drink among their employees account for the present demand for comparatively in nocuous drinks and the decrease in the sales of the more powerful stimuiants.
 A very large number of the wage earners in America by the terms of their contracts with their employers are bound to abstain from intoxicants. keep out of saloons and lead lives of temperance and sobriety This number Is increasing an-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
Governor BIanchard's Contention.

Alabama permits refugees going to points beyond her bounds to pass through the state, but they can not double back until they have been seven days away from an infected point. A New Orleans man could, for example, go to West Point, Ga. and in an hours time he could return to Alabama, if the rule were otherwise. This would prac- tically abolish all quarantine against New Orleans people.
 Governor Blanchard was instigated to attack the Alabama quarantine by one Witherspoon. who Is a bumptious officer of the sugar trust. At his sug- gestion Governor Blanchard got astride the federal constitution, claiming that Alabama has no right to interfere with interstate passenger traffic, quite for getting that the public health outranks all other rights and even if needs be suspends them. A sovereign state has right to keep its people from the rav- ages of scourge that means death to many and injury to all. Governor Blanchard's constitutional objection is not good. and even an agent of the sugar trust must confoHm to Alabama's reasonable quarantine regulations.
 If need be, Alabama can stop all travel across the state, and if circum- stances call for such an extension of the quarantine no doubt it would be forthcoming. That would be an inter- ference with interstate passenger traf- fic beyond doubt or mistake, but 1t would be an interference within the law, because 1t would relate to the pub lie health of two millions of Alabam- ians whom the state Is in duty bound to protect from disease epidemics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
RECORDED RISE OF BEER
 IN THE UNITED STATES

nually as corporations realize the danger involved in committing important tasks to men with fuddled minds. Competi- tion carries on temperance crusade of It's own, for the drinking man learns that he is not as valuable to his employer as his 1on-drinking shopmate. When the time comes to lay off a portion of the working force the total abstainer is not no better than that of the others, but he is more dependable and thus more valuable to his employer.
 Public drunkenness is comparatively rare in all the cities of America today among the classes of society. James Dalrymple of Glasgow, speaking of his recent trip to this country, mentioned the absence of drunken men from the streets of Chicago as something that at tracted his attention and reused his ad- miration throughout his stay here. The spectacle of a drunken workingman is one rarely presented in any community nowadays It Is not necessary to harls back to precautionary times to find time when different conditions pre- vailed. The figures supplied by the in- terpal revenue commissioner merely con- firm fact of general observation. Beer drives out hard drink. Moderation and temperance are supplanting excess in the use of liquors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
years, as follows:

sDecrease. Increase.
 Even in 1904 this country produced 37 per cent of the worlds total, and it Is safe to say our product in 1905 will be larger by five million tons than 1t was in 1904, and this will carry our proportion of the total output up to about 45 per cent. The time seems to he coming when this country will make a half of the worlds iron, and, what is still more remarkable, we will consume that half right here at home. This Is indeed a great country, and this dis trict is emphatically part of 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
he New York Press

From the New York Press.
 Sometimes 1t Is cheaper to spend your money than to invest 1t and lose lot more on top of it.
 It makes a man very proud of Of him self to think how well he gets along with his wife when she Is off on visit.
 A man has a lot of brains when he has no fool Idea that he Is going to teach his boy to avoid all the pitfalls he fell Into.
 A girl can forgive anybody for thinking she has a sweet disposition if she has wavy hair and can wear shoes too small for her.
 It is awful hard when you lend a girl an umbrella for her not to suspect that you tried to make love to her in the way you handed 1t to her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
THE INNER VISION.

By Wordsworth. Most sweet 1t is with unpplifted oyes To pace tho ground, if path be there or
 none, While a fair region round tho traveller
 lies
 Which he forbears again to look upon. Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene The work of fancy or some happy tone Of meditation dipping in between The beauty coming and the beauty gone If thought and love desert us from that
 day
 Let us break of all commerce with the
 muse: With thought and love companions of our way Whate CT the senses take or may refuse The minds internal heaven shall shed
 her dews Of inspiration on the humblest lay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
RockEFELLER's HookKEEPER.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 "This hot weather" said a Cleveland Baptist, reminds me of an address once heard John D. Rockefeller make.
 Mir Rockefeller was speaking about the value of little things--epare minutes spare pennies, and so oh.
 He told us how one of the littlest things, in the human line, that he had ever seen-a little new office boy--had caused him. at the beginning of his career to distrust bookkeeper who afterwards turned out to be a very unreliable man.
 This boy had come to work in MT. Rockefellers office. He was a bright lit- tic fellow. and the chief liked his looks.
 "One hot August afternoon. as MT. Rockefeller was starting out to collect bill. he said kindly to the little boy:
 "T suppose the bookkeeper has told you what to do this afternoon?'
 "'Yes, sir.' the boy answered. I am to wake him up when I see you coming back ''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
Worlds pia Iron Production.

The Iron Age has carefully compiled the figures of pig iron production in the entire world in the last two years. Ab- solute accuracy Is not claimed for it's table, but it is known to cover 95 per cent of the worlds production of the great commercial metal, and it accur- ate enough for all practical purposes. We give below its table for the last two years, as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25

applied for admission to the United States.
 When we remember that one half Of the cotton or cotton goods that are ex- ported from the south goes to China we can readily understand that this ques- ton is one vital to the industrial well fare of the south"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
A MODEST REQUEST.
From the Fourth Estate.

FTom the Fourth Estate.
 J. c. Lawrence. editor of the Bullock County Breeze. Union Springs, Ala, has asked Andrew Carnegie for s5OoO0o to start paper to be called the Carnegie News. Mir. Lawrence would charge 10 cents year for the paper and use 1t to educate the poorer classes of whites in the south. He has not yet received the money
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
POOR DICK cRockERi

From the Providence Telegram.
 Richard Croker has been hard hit in many ways during the past couple of years. The possession of dollars and the things that dollars can buy Is not guar antee of earthly happiness. and, we are told, there are no money values on the other side of the grave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
About Persons.

W. c. Matthews. well known travel ing man of Atlanta. who has many friends in Birmingham, was in town yes- terday renewing pleasant acquaintance ships MT. Matthews Is at the Morris.
 John R. Pill of Carbon Hill Is in the city.
 E. Mead Wilcox of Auburn is at the Morris
 E. M seabrook of Anniston was here yesterday.
 Walter O. wilhite of Cullman was in Birmingham last night
 J. Alex Moore of Montevallo is at the Morris.
 R. A. Mitchell of Gadsden was in Bir- mlngham yesterday.
 George c. Murray of Washington is at the Hillman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
NEW COCKTAIL IMMINENT.

From the Memphis News-Scimitar
 Since Joe Folk has been accused of taking a drink, some enterprising bar tender may put the Joe Folk cocktair' on the market.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25

From the Kansas City Journal.
 There are eight men In the vicinity of Solomon who are named Mike Sullivan. To distinguish them they are known as Mike Pete, Mike Bat Smoky Bat. Pria- rie Mike, Mike Dan, Corner Mike, Wild Mike, Big Mike, Little Mike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
OUGHT NOT TO ASK FOR MoHR.

From the Boston Herald.
 one-ninth of s5Ooo.000 is comfortable fortune for a chorus girl to obtain by marriage with the father of eight child ren, and Golde shouldn't ask for Mohr. But a word in the ear of chorus wives of pillionaires: Don't trust to last wills and testaments. Have the property settled on you as soon as it's .'yes."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
READING IN BED.

To the Editor of the New York Sun: Sir-I notice your editorial in regard to the osler recommendation to read in bed, and you make up the combination of bed' book and cigar as the acme of pleasure. To insure unbroken rest would suggest asbestos bed clothing and a suit of the pajamas.
 CHARLES B. WHITING Hartford, Conn.,, Aug. 21.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
DESERVES THE PRIZE.

From the Washington Post.
 A Hawaiian woman bore seven chill dren at one birth. and is certainly enti- tied to the postoffice at her home town,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
GENERALLY GO TOGETHER.

From the Rome Tribune.
 Kansas poet has written a poem in which wallet Is made to rhyme with ballet It may not be good poetry to make the two words rhyme, but they generally go together. and that's a fact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
ROLLS NEEDED.

From the Florida Times-Union.
 A religious organization called "the holy rollers is coming to New York from the west to convert the gay metropolis. It Is to be hoped that ''the rollers will bring their rolls with them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
HORSE SENSE.
, Augusta Herald.

From the Augusta Herald
 Booker Washington says he behaves differently at the north from what he does at the south This is the best evil dence of horse sense that has come from Booker in some time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
MANY CANDIDATES.

From the Nn~'---'iin American
 Among the urban visitors to Nashville yesterday were several citizens of Mem phis, who came up to see what Is doing. Those who remained behind are engaged in running for Congress.