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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

The visit of William Jennings Bryan to the Philippines effectually extin- guishes the fiickering fame of Agui- naldo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Wall street buys and sells about two million shares of stock a day, but the actual transfers are not near the mill lion mark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Mark Twain will discuss southern problems at Carnegie hall on January 22, and he Is expected to be serious.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Between the hazing and the court martials the middies at Annapolis arc not wearing out their text books.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

The rural mall carrier who got that corn to deliver must have returned home late that nign,.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Jan Kubelik is being sued for $3000, but 1t wouldn't take him long to make that on his fiddle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Now that the preachers have con- cluded to help Cupid lie will grow more popular than ever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Society ladies in Great Britain are. now stumping from carts tail This beats pink teas block.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Mrs. Chadwick bids fair to become one of the worlds most notable wash women
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

A library for newspaper men is pro jected in Paris. A free lunch counter would no doubt prove more popular.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

P Bigelow is as scrappy as the ad- ministration, and when two scrappers fall out the public may get the truth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Senator LaFollette finds the air in the Senate chamber so chilly he can not get free from a cold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

It looks like President Clement Ar mand Fallieres In France, but no one over here knows how to pronounce his name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

This winter Is not soft snap to the plumbers. They see nothing in it's mildness to admire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

The new Congressmen have passed through their ordeal but Nicholas Longworth still has his to face.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Minor Meriwether will be tried for hazing. His cup runneth over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

MT. Depew's resignation Is still a matter of inquiry and solicitude at Albany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

In the matter of cotton prices the south draws no color line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Police Commissioner Bingham has lost his remarkable vocabulary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Taft and P. Bigelow should be left free to fight 1t out to a finish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Miss Alice will naturally take to ath- letics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

of President Roosevelt when he leaves the White House. He will be able to get a job somewhere. A deck on the great steamship Amerika has been named after Grover Cleveland This is a unique honor but the advent of the skyseraper ship has made 1t feasible.
 RAKEs PROGRESS.
 Played the races,
 Played tout;
 Played the deuce,
 Played outl man dropped a sack of money on Sec ond avenue yesterday and scattered wealth all over the pavement Incident merely goes to show how prosperous we are. Is our government ours?" asks Lin- coin steffins. H. H. Rogers probably knows. but he won't talk Hugs are quoted at 5000 each in Buff falo. Kiss market is steady with a brisk demand.
 NOT MUCH. The shades of night were falling fast But we will bet our hat That they didn't fall one-haIf as fast As the stocks we bought last week Two Detroit bandits held up a. man and got 12 cents. Is it possible that the wave of prosperity has not yet reached De- troit?
 HOME OF REST.
 Little Bo Peep
 Lost some sleep
 And didn't know where to find 1t, So she hustled down
 To Mobile town
 And got right in behind it. MT. Richard Mansfield and MT. James J. Corbett are the most talked about actors of the day.
 YOU BET.
 Rksses red and
 Violets blue;
 We are happy
 So are you
 That we are not
 Cassie c.
 In the peni-
 Tentiaree Milwaukee has a woman 80 years old who is an expert skater. She is probably one of those ''old skates'' we read about.
 JUST ANGER. The old oaken bucket that hung in the well Has never done us any harm, But many a time we've wanted to hang A quartette which rendered the song. It was sad day for mankind when old Work and Worry formed a conbina- ton in restraint of happiness.
 CUT IT OUT.
 Here today,
 Gone tomorrow.
 Just taboo
 Grief and sorrow. Nearly everybody can see an automobile spinning down the street but no one can tell what is going to happen to 1t before the day is done.
 A WISH. Where blooms the rose of yesterday? In faith, we do not know, But wish the blooming idiots Would all go down below.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

The winters mildness is evenly spread over the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Datto Bryan may bag new title in Borneo, where he is visiting the wild men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Morales is convinced that the presi- dential bee is a dangerous insect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

of Great Britain are spinning finer yarns and making cloths of lighter weights. Southern mills use a great deal of cotton per spindle.
 The Manufacturer concludes that the grand total requirements of the mills of the world stands at 17,647,S45 bales, and that 100000 is the normal annual increase in the demand. These facts are certainly interesting to the coun- try that grows the worlds chief con- mercial crop.
 The crop of the world grown in 1904 was as follows:
 Bales. United States ...................,...lS S,ooi 'o00 India ........................... S,slloOO Brazil and Asiatic Rusaia. ......... 2,s66.O00 Total ........................... ,169, 900 It will thus be seen that we grow but GA per cent of the worlds crop even in our best years, and the figures given do not include the crop of China, nor of many other countries. The total production in 1904 of the non-enumer- ated countries is put at 2,513,000 bales. The mills in the south afford em- ployment to IA, ,4O5 persons of all ages. The number of children in this num- Der is put at 36,165.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16
Member of Parliament.

Tt is somewhat odd" said politician last night at the Morris. "to note that in Great Britain members of parliment may be elected by districts in which they do not reside; but the custom is one that Is as old almost as parliament itself
 Indeed. here in the United States there is no provision in the fundamental law or the land that forbids the operation of such a rule in the various states. The federal constitution is silent on the ques- ton. But 1t has so long been the custom to elect only residential candidates that it would be extremely hazardous for any, one to attempt to break so firmly estab- lished a precedent.
 Tn the large cities of the north where question of residence is comparatively unimportant and nominations are in many cases machine-made, the election of nonresident candidate for Congress might be easy, but in other sections of the Union 1t would be difficult, if not impossible.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16
IN HOTEL LoBBIHS
Over In ceorqia.


 Editor Estili." said the ex-Atlantian' has shied his hat Into the arena where gubernatorial asplrants are pitted in Georgia. He Is No. 4 James NJ. Smith a big farmer in Central Georgia, is No. g.
 With four entries the field Is probably made up What effect Smith and Estiil will have on the fortunes of Clark Howell and Hoke Smith is not easily estimated MT. Estill has spoken through his savan- nah News to South Georgia full gener- ation, and surely many of them will vote for him
 But in the end nearly every vote will be boiled for one of the two Atlanta as- pirants, simply because the canvass is hot and is still a-heating. Another 'jint' debate would set the woods on fire. The friction of the surprises brought out in such debates would be enough to set something or somebody on fire"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Washington Bureau Age-Herald l4n c street, N. W.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Two Detroit bandits held up man and got 12 cents. Is it possible that the wave of prosperity has not yet reached De- troit?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Hugs are quoted at 5000 each in Buff falo. Kiss market is steady with a brisk demand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

NOI MUOT1s The shades of night were falling fast But we will bet our hat That they didn't fall one-half as fast AS the stocks we bought last week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Selma Journa1 The course has been laid off and post time named for the great handicap of 1906, and 1t now re- mains only for the entries to be listed by the clerk Then the flag will be dropped and the great mass of democratic spec tators will watch with expectancy the winners of the various events come under the wire on August 27.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Bessemer Workman: The committee made a wise selection in placing the date of the primary in August. There can be precious little excuse for kick from anybody except the chronic kicker and nothing but taking possession of his al- lotted space in Gods Acre will stop him any way, so let him kick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala. post office as second-cass matter under act of Congress March 8. 1873
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

No communication will be published without It's authors name. Rejected man. uscripts will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

L. H. Russ and George D. Britain are the only authorized travelling representa- lives of The Age-Herald in Its circulation department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

Every little bit helps," remarked Datto Williams Jennings Bryan as he adjusted his new feathers and glanced into the mirror.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16

VANITY FAIR. heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep down a nearby hall And then a woman's voice in accents harsh-- "she had that dress last fall.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-19

campaign hats were soiled and torn. They
were coatless, and the sleeves of their dark
blue shirts were rolled UP to the elbow,
while their khaki pants and leggins were
besmeared with Chinese mud.
These infantrymen were in painful con-
trast with the neat and prettily uniformed
troops that had preceded them. An English
officer wearing a monocle turned to another
British officer and said:
''Those fellows are unkempt and wild. I
wonder what troops they are?'
Those soiled soldiers replied the officer
addressed, ARE known as the Fighting 9th
American Regular Infantry. They can whip
their heft in tigers, and it is said they have
never lost a battle. They are fighters, not
dressc-parade soldiers"
After witnessing the wild and desperate
charge of the 9th up to the very gates OF
Picking, yelling like demons as they went
the first English officer afterward met
Capt. Ramsey, to whom he said:
"Ah, captain, those fellows of yours are
invincible fighters. The world has never
seen their like. Their charge was revela-
ton to me. 1t is no wonder, captain, that
your country has never lost a war, when
you have such soldiers, although they Were
as unkempt as Egyptian beggars."
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Louis F. McComas Dead.

Assistant Postmaster Louis Fechtig Nc
Comas died at Hagerstown, Nd, yesterday
afternoon, in his eightieth year. He had
not been able to attend to his duties at the
post office for several weeks. Mr.. McComas
was a native of Baltimore being a son of
the late Zach o. McComas, for many years
a minister of the NJ E. Church. His parents
moved to Hagerstown when he was small
He was educated at the Hagerstown Acad-
envy, and in 1850 engaged in the merchan-
disc business. For many years he was one
of the leading dry goods and clothing mer-
chants of HagerstownL He was also inter-
ested as a stakeholder and director in the
Hagerstown Leather Company, the Hagers-
town Manufacturing Company and other
enterprises. Mr.. McComas was for ten
years assistant postmaster here. He was
the father of three sets of twins. His widow
and five children survive, as follows: Mrs
William H. Hammond, William~C Nc
Comas and Miss Ida McComas Hagers-
town; Charles E. McComas, st. Louis !;
Harry q. McComas Wichita, Kan. Mr.
McComas was the last member of his family
and the last surviving nephew of Harry
Cough McComas. who with II. Wells shot
Gen. Ross, at the battle of North Point.
September u, 1914. Harry G. McComas
was the youngest brother of Rev. Zacn o.
McComas. Mr.. McComas was an uncle OF
Judge Louis f. McComas, Washington, and
Henry A. McComas, Hagerstown.
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HOUSING CONDITIONS.
committee to Secure improvements
Makes Recommendations

The investigation COMMITTEES for tho oon,-
mlttee on the Improvement of housing com
ditions held meeting at 923 F street north.
west last night. There Were present: Mr.
Il. A. Weber, chairman; Mr. George w.
Stone Mr.. James w. Gift, Mr. Charles Il.
Weller and Mr.. Wallace Hatch
Among the topics discussed were: What
recommendations should be made concern
ing the opening up into minor streets of
the hidden residential alleys of the cityp
What action might be taken concerning
about to be built now existing? What
action could be taken looking to the grad
ual elimination of houses and rows OF
houses SO situated or In such condition as
to menace the welfare both physical or
moral of the occupants?
After discussion the committee voted TO
recommend that immediate efforts be made
10 convert three residential alleys one in
each section of the city-each of which
presented different problems-into minor
streets, which should be at least forty feet
wide; that in all squares where a minor
street is opened ard permitted to be built
upon alley houses should be eliminated
Report was made by the chairman that
investigation was being made of houses
unnt for habitation. either wholly or in part.
mat an effort would be made, as facts
We're secured, to present statements con-
corning bad conditions to owners and en-
deavor to have improvements made with
out publicity; that falling in this the COM
mltteee could present facts to the proper
authorities and thus protect tenants from
conditions sure to cause injury
The chairman of the committee on tho
improvement of housing conditions Mr. s.
r. Bond, acknowledges the following con-
tributions recently received: Mr. Henry f.
Pelew, $50; Mr.. Owen p. KeIlar, 81 Mr.
John II. Moore, So; Mr.. F. E. Hutchins 81:
Mr.. G. H. La Fetra, 81; Mr.. w. T. Eisin-
ger. $3.50; Mr. ]. B. T. Upper, 81: Mrs. Mary
Isabelle banks, 81; Judge job Barnard So:
Prof and Mrs. E. A. Fay. So: Mr.. F. L.
Siddons, SIS; Miss Elsie Parkinson. 80: Mrs.
Mary T. Adds, $40; Mrs f. A Harrison.
ST. Mrs. Grace G. Kendall, So; Mrs. Richard
g. Davenport. 50. Mrs. Mary E. Hood, 81;
Mrs. Edwin S. La Fetra, So; Mrs. I. Sey-
mour, So; Mr.. Irving p Wanger. s.; Dr.
Jesse Ramsburgh. So; Col George Trues-
dell, 50; Mr.. John G. Ames, $40; the Misses
Cooke, 50; Dr. o. o. Goodpasture, 81 80; Mr..
A. B. johnson, 80 cents; Miss Emily s.
Cook $3.50
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CAPT. RAMSEY DEAD
Popular Army Officer Succumbs
to Pneumonia.
SKETCH OF HIS CAREER
Served at War College as Member Of
Gen. Chaffee's, Staff.
IN CHINA DURING UPRISING
Funeral Services at Church of Our
Father Sunday Next-Interment
at Cobleskill, N. Y.

The death of Capt. Frank De W. Ramsey.
one of the most popular and talented off,
GERS in the United States army, occurred
last night in his apartments at the Mag
nolia, 1921 NJ street northwest. after one
weeks illness of pneumonia. Capt Ram
sey. at the time he became ill, was mem
Der of the staff of Gen. Adna r. Chaffee
with an assignment in connection with the
war college. He formerly saw active SER
vice with the Ninth Regular Infantry,
known as 'the Fighting Ninth" and was
president of the Ninth Infantry Associa-
ton of this city, which recently rendered
him fiattering public reception. He was
also member of the Army and Navy Club
of this city.
Capt. Ramsey became i'll Thursday night
of last week. He was attended by Surgeon
Maj Edie, L. S. A, and DR.. Heller of
this city. He grew steadily worse. Yes
terday morning recourse was had to saline
solutions without effect, and he died at
1875 o'clock last night.
AT his bedside were Mrs. Ramsey and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-19
SLUGGISH DEPRESSION
PROPER FOOD REMOVES IT.

Before using Postum Food Coffee my wife and
/ were prejudiced against IT, writes an Iowa
man. ''but now we would not be induced to give
1t up.
My wife was suffering from various nervous
ailments and was especially afflicted with black
spots before the eyes, with accompanying feel
Ing of faintness. These spells grew In frequency
and at last TO suspect that possibly coffee
was the of them.
I'VE therefore determined to give up the old
coffee and use Postum for awhile. to IL 1t
would help her. The result than salts
factory. In very short time. only long enough
to get the coffee poison out of her system and
give the Postum a chance to build up her strength.
che began and continued to improve rapidly. Seg-
eral weeks have elapsed since she has had an
attack of blind spells fantness. and her other
nervous troubles have disappeared
81 had been greatly troubled from sluggish feel
ing of depression that made me very miserable
and when / saw how Postum had helped the wife,
I determined to see what 1t would do for me- So
quit the old kind of coffee and began the use of
Postum. and from that day to this have been en-
tirely free from the old depression, sluggishness
and dependency.
''0ur little S-year-old daughter had grown quite
cross and peevsh and we put her, also, on the
that the teacher of the school which she attends
remarked upon it without knowing the cause TIL
we told her.
I'VE have all been made brighter and stronger
mentally and physically, and life seems actually
more worth living. since we quilt coffee and began
to drink Postum Food Coffee Name given by
Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book. The Road to weIlsiile."
In pkRs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-19

l have been in Congress- during the last six
teen years. You do not find man who
falls on the snow. They fall on the ice,
after the snow has been removed from the
surface of the ice. If you clean 1t imme-
diately after the snow falls it freezes.
After storm you come along and scrape
of the soft snow that we ought to walk on,
and that leaves the bare ice, which is slip
perry and dangerous"
That increases the liability of the city,
too suggested Representative Croft, amid
laughter.
In answer to a question by Representa-
tive Tawney whether the Commissioners
ever considered the policy that obtains in
some cities in consequence of requiring the
street railway companies to keep the
streets clean, Mr.. West replied:
In Other Cities.
NO; if our streets were of the same
width as the streets of Philadelphia and
New York are that perhaps might be done.
l remember particularly of going through
Philadelphia in a heavy snowstorm, where
| saw the snow plows of the street rail-
ways throw the snow literally on the pave
ment and make perfect blockade between
the railway tracks and the curbstone In
q condition of that kind X would be right,
no doubt, to compel the street railway COM
pany to remove the snow from the tracks
and the roadway. But in Washington,
where the roadways are very wide, that
condition does not obtain. The snow
thrown from the street railway tracks does
not, as a general rule, reach as far as
the gutter l think that is the difference
between Washington and other cities in
that regard
Well said Mr.. Littauer, this idea of
sending up to Congress for a little bite at
the cherry every time the clouds appear
in the sky appeals to me as a humorous
thing, just as well as it does to you an
annoying thing"
Mr. West agreed to a suggestion Of
Chairman Tawney that it would be wise
thing to have the street cleaning appro-
priation made available for the removal
of snow and1ice.
Mr.. West. said Representative Living
stone, you will pardon me for saying that
you had better watch your superintendent
little more closely than heretofore, be-
cause the work is miserably done. We see
1t as we go back and forth
Il shall be very glad to give that my
personal attention, colonel" replied the
Commissioner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-19
IN TENTS OF RECHABITES.
Business and Pleasure Combined at
Recent Meetings.

Onward Tant No. 1921, of the Rechabites,
held a meeting last Wednesday evening in
Rechabite Temple, 9TH and G streets north
west The initiatory ceremony was con-
Quoted by the newly installed officers. Miss
Daisy Fowler was elected levite to Till a
vacancy.
The committee on entertainment to be
given by the Eddy Bennett comedy COM
pany reported This being local COM
pany. composed exclusively of Rechabites,
the event is looked forward to with much
interest. The tent decided to attend the
country social of Perseverance Tent, Alex
andria, next Tuesday evening, leaving
Washington at 40 PM
Under good of the order Chief Ruler ]. b.
Hughes of Perseverance Tent occupied the
chair Solos were sung by Edwin V. Ben
nett and Joseph F. Sullivan. Mr.. N. u.
Vowles recited 1.-The rawlings of a Mad
Actor" and remarks We're made by High
Chief Ruler Cordell, Mrs. Mary A. Hessler,
Miss Mary Smith and Miss Lillian Gayles
of Eastern Tent, and John Bartell of Perse-
verance Tent. Recitations were given by
Mr. Herbert of Perseverance Tent, after
which the young people INDUCED in games.
Perseverance Tent, No. 1O3S continues to
increase its membership, initiating seven
candidates last Monday evening, an in
crease of nearly thirty within three weeks.
The tent has made extensive preparations
for its country social next week, and the
indications are that 400 Washington Recha-
bites win attend
Harmony Tent, No 1920. initiated two
candidates last Tuesday evening in the
presence of the largest audience the tent
has had this year, the new chief ruler.
A. L. Thompson, conducting the ceremony.
The good of the order exercises were fol-
lowed by the serving of refreshments. The
tent voted to attend Perseverance Tent $
country social next Tuesday evening.
Excelsior Tent, No. 1097, Georgetown, met
last Monday evening in Odd Fellows Hall
and unanimously agreed to change its name
to Heber Tent. No. 10; thereby assuming
the name of a tent which in former years
had hundreds of members and was oon-
sidered one of the best tents of the order.
| The following officers to serve for the next
six months Were elected: Shepherd, Thomas
II. Smith; past chief ruler. Mobert w. John
son; chief ruler. Frank j. Buckley; deputy
ruler, William G. Berg; recording secretary.
J. III. Bangs; financial secretary. Henry
Mills; treasurer. j. ]. GiihooIey; leyite,
Joseph King Past High Chief Ruler John
G. Mooie was selected as tent deputy.
The tent decided to appoint committee
| to arrange for a Rechabste mass meeting
] In one of the churches In the near future.
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BURIED IN ARLINGTON.
Commodore VIM. P. McCann's Re
mains Given Military Honors.

The remains of Commodore William f.
Mccain, U. s. N, retired, who died at
New Rochelle. n. j., last Monday, were
inferred in the Arlington national ceme-
terry this morning at II o'clock with the
usual military honors. Eight biueJackets
served as body bearers, and a company OF
marines served as firing party.
The honorary pallbearers were Rear Ad-
mirals Winfield S. Schley, John G. Walker,
Thomas o. Selfrdge, Albert 5. Barker,
Joseph B. Coghlan and Medical Director
Francis NJ Gunnen. All of the officers
named with the exception of Rear Admiral
CoshIan are on the retired list.