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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-09
Basket Ball.

The second team Of the U. & /. fra
ternity would like game for Wednes-
day night, January 10, with any team
averaging 125 pounds. Apply to VIM.
Ryan, captain, 80 street northwest
Dancing after the game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09

goes to the Senate. It will probably become a law, and the state dispensary will then become history only.
 The state dispensary would have held it's own in South Carolina if 1t could have been conducted without corruption, but that proved to be im- possible, and public sentiment against 1t in South Carolina has been gain ing ground in the last two or three years. The vote in the lower house of the South Carolina legislature rep resents doubtless public opinion in that state. Charleston desires a high license system, and the rest of the state desires county option, and that is what the Morgan bill holds out. Under it county can go wet" or dry" while in Charleston there is to be high license fees. South Carolina is about to fall in line with the rest of the south in relation to the sale of liquors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
Chinese Railways.

A recent report made by special agent of the government, and published by the treasury department. shows that China Is fast binding It's seven teen great provinces to the sea and the rest of the world. The line between Picking and Hsnkau has been com pleted. It is single-track railroad 754 miles long. It is to be a trunk line, and it Is to have many feeders. Hankau is to become a railroad center in Central China. Special Agent Crlst says that within six months fast trains will be running between Picking and Hankau in thirty-six hours. Hankau and Shanghai are both on the Yangsze, and excellent steamboats traverse the intervening distance in two and half days.
 There are three railway stations in Hankau, and the city begins to show "boom' tendencies, for lines will soon be projected from it to the west. north and south. Many of the rails for the road to Picking were made in China, and they are said to be excellent. The Yellow river bridge on the Picking line Is considered a marvel of engineering skill. the river being far more shifting than the Mississippi, or the Missouri. I..e bridge is a steel structure, resting on steel tubes sunk 59 feet deep and screwed together by steel trellis bands. It cost $9O0,000, and the steel in 1t came from Belgium and France
 It will thus be seen that Chinese is olation is rapidly disappearing, for where railroads are laid down all the world will go. Just as soon as a line
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
Every lnordlnate cup Is unblessed, and the ingredient Is devil.
 -Othello.
Accidents at Plttsburg.

Tn the county that holds Pittsburg no fewer than 17,700 persons were killed or injured while engaged at their daily work in the numerous mills of that busy locality last year. In the blast furnaces and iron and steel mills accidents came to 9000 in the other factories, to 4000; in the mines to 400, and the victims of the railroads com pleted the list of casualties. It is stated, too, that this paralyzing num- Der does not include thousands of in 1ured persons who were taken directly to their homes, no report being made of the accidents that befell them.
 These figures of single year from a single county are astonishing, and they show how dangerous mill work is, especially in the iron and steel indus tries. Few were killed or injured in the mines, where intelligent and sys- tematic direction and rescue Work IS well understood. Something similar is needed in mills, furnaces and all factories. Employees should be in structed as to the danger of accidents and how to avoid them, as well as to the first aid for the injured.
 The losses reported in and about Pittsburg in 1905 are not creditable in and respect They disclose lack of humanity, of foresight, and of intelli- gence, and the state of Pennsylvania should take steps to render a recur- renee of such figures impossible. The industries of Pittsburg are immense, but they are not so immense that they call for any such annual figures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
Car Sanitation.

The cleaning and disinfection of passenger cars is receiving no little at tention, because 1t is considered a matter closely related to the public health. In Texas and Virginia the state boards of health have formulated a set of rules for that purpose, and the railroads propose to carry them into effect Iowa Is also discussing the subject, particularly the drinking wa ter that is furnished for the use of passengers.
 The American Public Health asso- citation has been urged to call for rep resentatives from the various states to discuss the air and the water in Amer ican passenger cars, and this may yet lead to some degree of uniformity in car sanitation.
 The Burlington system keeps disin- fecting apparatus at all divisional and principal terminal points, in charge of a medical examiner, who has been in structed to disinfect any car in which a passenger i'll with consumption or other contagious or infectious diseases has ridden. Disinfectant compounds are used in the cleaning of passenger car at the end of a run in every in stance, and the Burlington does not consider car sanitation expensive or a burden. The Pullman company does likewise.
 What is good on the steam railroads is also good on the trolley lines, and the time is fast coming when car san itation will be expected every night when trolley car has been sent to the barn. Birmingham excellent sys- tenn should inaugurate this much-need- ed reform.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
Learns Easily.

''I never have any trouble learning Ian guages." said K. Fabianoff, a Russian who has been all over the world and speaks five Or six languages. Tt seems that I can learn to speak any tongue in a short while, and have learned some languages in a few weeks
 T have acted as official interpreter in several countries and frequently man had to be master of at least five lan- guages before he need apply for posi- ton.
 Spanish and Greek were the easiest languages for me to learn. I lived in Spain for several weeks and learned the language much better than I have Eng lish, although I have been in America and England for many months at time several times. I speak Greek like a native and was never in Greece more than two or three months. I can easily pass myself off for Greek and even the natives cannot detect the difference.
 1T like Birmingham a great deal. It Is the most important place of it's size I have ever seen, and have been to every part of the world. I mean by that more Duaihoe9 10 uoHo Heiei iAlolo oti" come here to transact business and there are more people on the streets than any other place of like size I have ever seen.
 q have never spent more than few weeks, or possibly three or four months, at any place except Mobile. I stayed there long time and I like the old city. The people are what one might call 'elegant!" Their learning shows that their families have been prominent for years and that they are the true aristoc- racy of the United States"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
South CaroIina's Dispensary.

South Carolina seems to have be- come weary over the endless rotten ness that the state dispensary pro duced No other state has accepted the plan that makes the state the wholesaley of strong drink, and the counties the retailers of it. and it is pretty certain no state will do so that first studies South Carolina's experi- ence with 1t
 The movement against the state dispensary has eliminated in the Nor gan bill, which proposes to substitute high license in Charleston and local county option in the rest of the state, in line of the T1llman state dispensary system. After hard struggle the Morgan bill was passed by vote of 63 to l7 fin the lower house of the South Carolina legislature, and the bill now
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
CHANGES IN "cRA9s."
How to Estimate the Odds Against a
 Number Coming Up.
From tho New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 To the Editor of The Sun-Sir: If your correspondent "M s. wants to know the best school to go to in order to learn how one can get thirty-slx combinations with a pair of dice, nothing will suit him bet ter than our old friend experience. who still docets at the old stand.
 He can educate himself by taking two dice and laying them on separate pieces of paper, marked respectively and B. He will then find that if he turns up the six on A he can turn up anything from one to six on B, giving him six different combinations to start with. He can then change the dice on A to five; and turn up from one to six on B again. giving him six more combinations. As he can make six different starts on A and combine each with six different changes on B, he will proba bly be ready-to admit that six times six equals thirty-six.
 If he has at hand separate sheet of pa per on which to write down the total of them on A and B, he will see that none Is less than two and none more than twelve. and that they are found to be divided in the following proportions:
 Two can be thrown In one way.
 Three can be thrown in two ways.
 Four can be thrown in three ways.
 Five can be thrown in four ways.
 Six can be thrown in five ways.
 Seven can be thrown in six ways.
 Eight can be thrown in i've ways.
 Nine can be thrown in four ways
 Ten can be thrown in three ways
 Eleven can be thrown in two ways.
 Twelve can be thrown in one way.
 Total combination thirtysix.
 By deduetng from the total. thirty-slx. the number of ways in which any number can come, we get the odds against the number being thrown. For instance, seven can come only six ways out of the thirty-six, so there must be thirty ways that will not give seven. and the odds against throwing seven must be thirty to six or five to one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
. SENATOR PETTUS.

From the Kansas City Times.
 The Alabama kids who have been quarrelng over the succession of Senator Pettus of that state have buried their hatchets The announcement of Senator Pettus that he would stand for re-elec- ton came as a surprise to the young sters seeking his office. and 1t may be said that 1t came as a merited reeuke. While it was natural for the political boys to assume that Senator Pettus, should he live to the end of his present term, would retire at that tfne-at the age of SS-it would have been only court esy to have waited his announcement Of retirement before getting into light over his seat As for Pettus, although he is the father of the Senate" he is very active ''father'' and in his present frame of mind is disposed to take chances on dying in the harness or, rather, in the tOga.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
EXTENSIVE WARDROBE
 OF AN ARMY OFFICER

the bill to give some explanation on the subject. MT. Blackburn, who reported the bill. was absent So the bill went over, retaining it's place
 MT. Rogers may deem himself unfairly treated when he compares the Senate's critical inspection of his bill with it's good nature to Tolfree. But Mir. Rogers has only himself to blame. Can the Hon. Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn ex- plain to the Senate why he affronted it's dignity and the dignity of the English tongue by permitting blue pants" and special full dress pants" and blue cloth pants" to be hung upon the record? Civilian clothes were not included in the bill. Moreover will it approve the luxury of pajamas? Are not night shirts good enough for the plain people?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
From the New York Sun.

M COLLECTIONS are slow in Wash " ington. Last week the Senate
 ~ considered bill to pay E.. B. Rogers, pay director in the navy. 5000 for personal property lost by him in a fire which destroyed the Windsor hotel, Yokohama, February 8. 1Ss6 The hotel was his office and home. MT. Rogers,
 then an assistant paymaster. escaped from the hotel with his wife and his life. the clothes they had on and his watch, which happened to be fin his waist coat pocket. He was obliged to abandon the cash box. payroll and few things which he had hastily got together. He carried or dragged his wife the length of the building, creeping on his hands and knees A board of investigation held him bameless as to the loss of government property His personal losses he asks the Congress to provide for. Here is his list of uniform equipment. clothing and outfit, burned at a time which he neatly describes as lon the night of February [, 1888, at about 4 o'clock a. m:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
Boil Weevll Determination.

The boil weevil reached Louisiana in 1903 In 1904 the insect appeared through the parishes of Vernon, Sa- blne and De Soto, and 1t was felt in parts of six other parishes. The win ter of 19O4-O5 was unusually severe, both in temperature and rainfall, and in 1905 the pest simply held It's own, except In Cameron parish. In 1905 tho damage done by the pest was chiefly confined to Vernon and Sabine par ishes and southwest De Soto parish, and even in those parishes the farm CTS who adopted the new cultural methods made 90 per cent more cotton hered to the use of the big boil, late maturing varieties and insufficient cul- tivation.
 The report of the state pest com mission of Louisiana has just been published, and it shows that the com mission is working on three lines as follows:
 "First-Preventing, so far as possible, the spread of the boil weevil to new ter rtory.
 Second-Reducing the weevil damage in territory already infested by dlssemi- hating information regarding the cultural methods to be employed in producing profitable crops of cotton in defiance of the weevil. and by experimental and dem- onstration work with the cultural meth ods upon different soils and under differ ent conditions.
 "Third-Investigating. and disseminat- ing information regarding insects other than tho boil weevil, in order that the production of crops other than cotton may be rendered more profitable than heretofore, and the adoption of diver sifed system of farming be encouraged among the farmers In the weevil infested territories"
 The worst damage done by the boil weevil is in it's third year of occupa- tion This is its maximum year, and In the three parishes named that point will be reached this year. Thus far the insect is not damaging in more than one-thirtieth of Louisiana's cot ton acreage, and yet 1t has foothold in about one-fifth of the state. Should the farmers" says the pest commis- sion, 'in the infested section univer- sally practice the early fall destruc- tion of the cotton plants, there would in all probability come a season sooner or later when climatic and meteorolo- gical conditions, in combination with the early fall destruction of the plant, would bring about the complete ex- termination of the boil weevil."
 The commission appreciates the fact that the thick of the fight Is near at hand, but it is hopeful It thinks that he boil weevl can be driven from the state. and it's march eastward alto gether stayed. The contest of the coming season will be watched with deep interest in all the states east of the Mississippi river, but the fear has been expressed that mild winter will render the weevils numerous and mi gratory in August, September and oc- tober next.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
Large Production.

"The amount of work made necessary" says Manager Douglas, "by the presenta- tion of great spectacle is not generally understood. have at work today all the stage carpenters and other mechanics that can work in the Jefferson, either on or under the stage. Extensive changes and preparations are necessary before the machinery of the play can be placed.
 During the run of the play which will last a week I will have employment for 25 extra men in the management of the scenery and properties of the play. I expect to obtain this number by means of advertisements I have placed.
 No play presented In the south this season will equal Or even approach in beauty or magnifcence the one that will hold the boards at the Jefferson through out the whole of next week"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
ReaardIna the Fruit Crop.

In connection with the discussion con eerning the probable outcome of the fruit crop this year, the eoncensus of opinion Ia that the peach crop will be abundant, said a Morris avenue man.
 A gentleman who has spent some weeks on Shades mountain is of the opinion that even in the most exposed places the buds have not been too se- verely injured to insure fair yield.
 Tt is also welcome news to learn that the truckers are optimistic about the small fruit crop. Mir. L. A. Townley is in receipt of letter from MT Henry M. Vanderputte, manager of the German Farmers association at Cullman who says that they expect an immense yield or the famous Cullman strawberry"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
Literature and Music.

"The anology between literature and mu- sic is remarked not only in the matter of intellectual processes but the appreei- ation by the public of the art of letters and the art of music is about equal" re- marked a musician of wide culture.
 Lovers of artistic music often take a gloomy view of the outlook in America and imagine that because mediocre music and ragtime rubbish please the masses all the works of master composers will be shelved and forgot. Many of us are in- clined to be somewhat pessimistic when crowds while musicians of high rank ap pear before small houses. But we should remember that literature of high merit is treated in the same way as high class music. Only a small percentage of the public read the best books just as only a small percentage listen to the best com posers. Many lack the desire for any thing intellectual or uplifting But there will always be some who will be able to understand and appreciate the true and beautiful. I find here in Birmingham about as large a proportion of genuine music lovers as I find in New York Let us not be discouraged. It Is not reasona- be to expect the majority of people to music any more than 1t is to expect friv- olous boys and girls or the toiling masses to take to Shakespeare and the like"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09

It Is known that for long the Castellane family and the Countess Anna have not been on the best of terms. They openly sneered fin society at her "tandrums," as they called her objections to Count Boni's frequent affairs of the heart. The Marquis de Castellane, her father-in-law, mortally offended Countess Anna's American spirit by referring to her as the bourgeoise." and saying:
 "she paid her money; she now bears a name distinguished in France she has our position in society. What the devil does she expect-to make a saint of our bad little Boni?'
 Now. up to the very hour of going into court the Castellanes have been, figura- lively, on their knees to the little "bour- geoise" begging her not to take those good American dollars of hers out of the country. So Anna Gould is even now little revenged for that hateful word 'bourgeoise''
 Henry Cochard of Coudert Bros, of Fl Broadway, an authority on French law, has made an exhaustive study of the French civil code, and, in defining the status of an American girl who marries a French citizen, asserts that she be- comes subject to the laws of France.
 This brings the Countess Castellane en- tirely under French law in her divorce suit. In the eys of the court she is a French woman but under the points which MT. Cochard has codified, and which cover all the French laws the Countess de Castellane. If she can prove her allegations against her husband, will gain all her private fortune, except the sum settled on her husband by marriage settlement. and will have the custody of her children, and will be as fully pro- tected as under American law,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
helps the Sick.

better than the ordinary newspaper read CT would imagine" said an enthusiast in such matters last night T am board ing with a family in the west end of the city, and for several days last week one of the elderly women of the family has been confined to her bed because of illness Last Sunday, following my GUS tom, l brought a copy of the Age-Herald to the house and gave the funny page to one of the children Shortly after wards he and his grandmother were laughing over the pictures, and that even ing the old lady was sitting up and feeling better. The funny page Is some thing like a panaoea, l guess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
"sWEET AND TWENTY"

By William Shakespeare. O mistress mine. where are you roamingf Ohl stay and hear; your true Loves
 coming, ii., 1
 That can sing boNh high and low; Trip no further. pretty Sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting,
 Every wise mans son doth know. What Is love? 'tis not hereafter; Present mrth hath present laughter:
 Whats to come is still unsure; In delay there lies no plenty: Then come kiss me, Sweet and Twenty:
 Youths stuff will not endure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
STATE POLITICS

Opelka News: The candidates for sena- tors in waiting will soon belon the move.
 Montgomery Journal: Just as the Jour nal predicted the senatorial campaign has secured first position, top column. next pure reading matter.
 Livingston Southern Home: Senators Morgan and Pettus have announced for reelection to the Senate. They have re- hected honor upon their state. and will be reelected without opposition.
 Montgomery Journal: The rumor that Charles H Scott is toN be the republican candidate for governor In this state brings on more talk. Scott is one of the Presi- dents referees and is also the republican national committeeman from this state.
 Huntsville Mercury: Senator Pettus had a fall on an icy pavement In Washington Monday but the hale and hearty old gem tleman attended the session as if nothing had occurred. The Senator Is remark able man for his age and is able to take a fall" out of any young man in the state who aspres to oppose him in the fall elections
 Columbiana Sentinel; Senators John T. Morgan and F. W. Pettus have each an- nounced their desire to again go to the United States Senate, and as these two grand old men are so dearly beloved by all Alabamans there will be no opposi- ton to them. No state in the union is more ably represented in the Senate than is Alabama.
 Guntersville Democrat: Senator Pettus, being asked how he would spend his life, if he could live it over again, said he would get in the middle of a big farm and stay there" If his choice is a stock farm, he hasn't missed his wish very far. because he can find around him scrubs. thoroughbreds, hogs and jack asses.
 Gadsden Evening Journal: The sena- toral situation in Alabama is attracting nation attention and the press through out the country Is universal in It's com mendation of our aged representatives in the upper house. They have the respect and admiration of people everywhere and considering the sad plight of some other states in this repeot we may consider ourselves fortunate in Mae possession of our two grand old men fn the Senate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
THE MoDEsTY OF LOVE.

Henry Drummond: Put seal upon your lips and forget what you have. done After you have been kind. after love has stolen forth into the world and done It's beautiful work, go back into the shade again and say nothing about it. Love hides even from itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 It hardly ever pays not to.
 Not getting caught is the best policy.
 When woman says she has no clothes she means some one else has more
 A man should dare do most anything but tell his wife how pretty some one else's baby Is.
 man can always afford to marry on his daughters if he can afford to support his grand children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09

Count Castellane has been eandi- date for the senate to be used as a stepping stone to the presidency, but the countess has blocked the game by her divorce suit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
FlGURATlVELY SPEAKING.

From the Mobile Item.
 It has been discovered that pepper was the life giving property of a patented magic boot" There are men who move quickest when they have cold feet