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week has been N ovation. The New York Public has come and has arveled
The New WanamakerB Building has been a revelation, even to those who expected
The readjustments in the old Stewart Building have already added marvelousy
e space for display of merchandise and the convenience Of shoppers Both build
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29
Sciences Latest Discovery.

From Harpers Weekly.
The newspapers report the discovery by
Professor Elmer Gates of Washington
that certain wave-lengths of ultraviolet
light and certain frequencies of electric
undulations will pass through dead ami
NAL body more completely than through
a living one. The result is, Ii seems
that the living body under these rays
will cast a shadow; dead one not. The
opaquencess of the living bodies Profess
sor Gates finds to be due to the pres
ence of electric currents in the nerves
and muscles. While life exists the body
is a bundle of electric currents through
which electric waves cannot pass. AS
describes 1t seems very pretty discovery,
and 1t is taken with sufficient serious
ness to be discussed as a practical means
of determining whether life has gone out
of bodies that seem to be dead. There
are cases of catalepsy where ordinary
tests of death fail and In which new
test would be useful. and In some cases
of disease where 1t Is important to know
how low the vital forces have run at
given time, Professor Gates discovery, II
it turns out to be authentic, may be of
practical use. But whether of Immediate
practical use or not, it is very Interesting
df true), as are all discoveries that push
One effect of the curious things that sci
entists nowadays are constantly finding
out is to impress upon thoughtful per-
sons the incompleteness of the present
state of knowledge. Our world knows
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29
Mr.. Bryan In India.

From the Lahore Tribune.
At an evening party given in their
honor at the town hall. Calcutta gave
an enthusiastic send-off to the forty
four Bengali students proceeding to
foreign countries for technical and
scientific education under the auspices
Of the Association for the Advance
ment of Scientific and Industrial Edu-
cation. His Honor the Lieutenant
Governor. shook hands with each one
and said few encouraging words. Mr..
w. ]. Bryan, the lea Ter OF the demo-
cratic party In the United States of
America. delivered most inspiring
speech. He commended the spirit of
The young men who were going abroad
to learn what the west mad to teach
the east. Let soung men so forth and
borrow whatever YVES best in the west.
said There was no disgrace In bor-
rowing but there was disgrace in not
paying back every one He could give
back to society wha. he owed to So
cieiy. In conclusion Mr.. BryaL hoped
that the young men would return With
their visions enlarged ana capacities
Increased and aso with an increased
sense of their responsibility to their
fatherland an what they owed to the
generous foretn ,rghr II those who sent
,rem out on their mission to foreign
lands
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bring us back to a sense of our duty;
and some of the functions necessary to
life she does for us altogether, leaving
us no choice In the matter. 1t would fare
but i'll with many of us if we were left
to superintend our own digestion and cir
culation Bless mel! one would cry, I
forgot to wind up my heart this morn
ingi To think that 1t has been standing
still for the last three hoursl I can't
walk with you this afternoon, friend
would say, as I have no less than eleven
dinners to digest. l had to let them stand
over from last week, being so busy-and
my doctor says he will not answer for
the consequences If I wait any longer!
well, 1t is, say, for us that the con-
sequences of neglecting the body can
be clearly seen and felt; and it might
be we'll for some If the mind were equally
visible and tangible-if we could take 1T,
say, to the doctor and have its pulse
felt
I" Why, what have you been doing with
this mind lately? How have you fed it?
1t looks pale, and the pulse is very slow.
"'Well. doctor, 1t has not had much
regular food lately. 1 gave it a lot of
sugar plums yesterday
Sugar plums? What kind?'
Well, they were a parcel of conun-
drums, sir
'Ah, 1 thought so. Now. just mind
this: If you go on playing tricks like
that you'll spoil all its teeth, and get
laid up with mental indigestion. You must
have nothing but the plainest reading for
the next few days. Take care now? NO
novels on any account
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29
Canon Led a checkered Life.

from the NEW IOlh
Georges Gapon. who is reported to
have been hanged, was born in Poltova
in 1869, the son of Ruthenian peas
ant In his boyhood he was a sheep
herder. but he showed such mental
ability that he was sent by friends OF
his family to school, and afterward
to a seminary, where he studied for the
priesthood.
When he was in the graduating class
he was expelled for discussing condi-
tons of the peasantry. He entered the
priesthood under limitations, which did
not permit him to have a general pas
torate. About this time he wrote
book on Christian Socialism, which the
government suppressed.
Father Gapon obtained some conces-
sions from the government, and 1t Is
said that these were granted on condi-
ton that IL the workingmen became re-
fractory he must use his influence with
them. If Gapon promised this, he did
not at least keep his pledge at the time
of the strikes in December 1904, and
January, 1905. Instead, he turned his
organized strikers into revolutiontsts
and became the leader of the move
ment which resulted in violence and
massacre.
1t was he that led the mob that went
to petition the Gear at the Winter Pal
ace on Bloody Sunday" and which got
bullets and sabre cuts for its answer.
Father Gapon then was called saint
by the Russian workingmen. His es-
cape from death was called miracle.
Father Gapon was forced to leave the
country Although for a while he posed
as a prophet of the cause in Geneva,
Paris and London, he lost his hold upon
the Russian people, Maxim Gorlxy de-
nounced him as falSir and said he
was hand and glove with the govern
ment.
In last November, while in hiding in
st. Petersburg, he was quoted as say
ing that he had changed his views, and
that 1t was a mistake to preach armed
rebellion, a democratic republic and an
immediate eight-hour day. In March
last he was accused of betraying a
young girl and Of gambling at Monte
Carlo. Gapon confessed to the gam
bling, but denied that he had betrayed
the girl. saying he had married her.
Various things of this kind, but prin-
cipally his lukewarm attitude in the
matter of supporting the revolutionary
movement, caused reaction against
him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29
Vice Protection In New York.

If there are a considerable number of
pool rooms in police precinct, the sus-
picion rests on the police captain that
money for allowing them to operate. II
is the same with gambling houses and
houses of prostitution, and hotels or other
places used for designation purposes; and
where this is widespread, in a city like
New York. so that these vices are found
more or less in a large number of pre-
cincts in Manhattan. some in the Bronx,
and not a few in Brooklyn. one is face
to face with the alarming situation that
the liberation of these vices Is corrupt
ing and demoralizing the whole police
force. If the men in precinct know or
believe that the captain is receiving
money for permitting a disorderly house,
pool room or gambling house to run, they
will, of course, not only have no faith
in him, but they will evade their duty
in all respects, because they will have
constantly before their eyes the fact that
a policeman can be successfully corrupt,
and that the officers who command them
are not only not doing their duty, but
making money by falling TO do so. The
chances are, therefore, that some of the
men who have this example before them
will in turn become grafters and black
mailers. If the captain can collect large
sum of money every week or month
from a disorderly house, the chances are
that the man on post will insist on rob-
bing the unfortunate street-walker and
making her pay for the privilege of carry
ing on her infamous trade on his post.
and, indeed, become partner in
her infamy her quondam protec-
tor. Once a man has put himself to the
plough of grating and blackmail 1t seems
almost necessary that he run the fur
row to its end The moral courage has
oozed out of him entirely; he must hence
forth pass his life in the threatening
shadow, slave to those who know his
secrets, a weak tool in the face of opposi-
fion ~ threats
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29

Every lake and river, every rock and
every plain had its story, its incident, its
legend. The Indian gave ever these names
that recalled these legends to his mind.
Legend of Wlnona.
Wiona, Mimi, has a beautiful legend.
Winona, first born daughter" was the
child of a stern warrior. He bade her
marry one Of the notable braves of his
people. She loved another. Rather than
marry the brave whom she hated she
threw herself from the cliff Of the Maid
ems Leap. that overlooks the point where
the Mississippis waters flow through
Lake Pepin, and beneath the rivers tur-.
bulent waters found the peace that was
denied her on earth. Another Minnesota
legend, that of Minnehaha, recalls to most
minds Longfelows famous poem. He,
however, took the usual poets license in
the matter In the real legend, Minneha-
ha, Laughing water" did not become the
bride of Hiawatha. but was crossed in
love In her despair she sought the falls
of Minnehaha, after which she had been
named Here. over a precipice sixty feet
high she took the fatal leap.
All Indian traditions are not sorrowful
Quite the reverse in many cases, as the
story of the naming of Walkarusa, KAN
will show. Once a party of Indians on the
trail were stopped In their progress by
swollen and angry looking stream.
Deep water, bad bottom" grunted the
braves, hesitating at the brink OF the
river unwilling to turn back.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29
New Writing BY Lewis Carroll.

In Harper's for May is printed for the
first time charming paper by the author
of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. en-
titled Feeding the Mind" 1t begins:
breakfast, dinner, tea; in extreme
cases. breakfast. luncheon. dinner tea,
supper. and glass of something hot at
bedtime. What care we take about feed
ing the lucky body! Which of us does
as much for his mind? And what causes
the difference? Is the body so much the
more important of the two?
by no means; but life depends on the
body being fed. whereas we can con-
tinue to exist as animals( scarcely as
mem though the mind be utterly starved
and neglected. Therefore Nature provides
that. in case of serious neglect of the
body, such terrible consequences of dis
comfort and pain shall e-~ue as will soon
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29
A Friend of "Bums."

From the Reader.
A very good proportion of men are
"bums." Why, comes within that huge
question of the mystery of souls. Some,
no doubt, are born buns; some acquire
GUINNESS and others have 1t thrust
upon them. In civilization as COM
mercial, individualistic and aggressive
as our own, the last class Is a large
and pitiable one. But perhaps any bum
Is pitiable-pitiable because of def
cient will or energy, inherited appetite
or feeble cerebration, wasted strength
in childhood or a luckless beginning.
But no man. however consummate his
GUINNESS, likes to be without friends.
One of those who realized this to su
perlative degree was the Rev. Samuel
Hopkins Hadley, for twenty years the
superintendent Of the Jerry McAuley
Mission in New York Mr.. Hadley
was. himself. at one time a bum"
though he came of good family and
had received an education. Liquor was
the cause with him, as 1t is with the
major part of all such unfortunates.
But he was saved by revelation of
Divine power and kindness, or. in the
language of the old-time Protestant, he
experienced conversion. He reformed.
and spent his life in helping beaten
and broken men. His impulse to ref
ormation came while he was In low
saloon. Suddenly about, him, as about
Saul, "a great light shone," and he
knew that God was a fact and His
beneficence available even for the most
AFFECT. His life of unwavering devo-
ton to the wanderers and drunkards,
the thieving and despairing, was evil
dence to the reality of this vision
my poor buns! My poor bums!" was
his plant in the days when he lay
facing death.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29
TROUSERS WERE APRONS ONCE.
Fashion Made Them So Long That
Men Couldn't Manage Them.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
Mrs. Clara Ruge revealed the mystery
OF trousers last night at the Hotel Aston.
The useful garment came from the banks
of the Nile. it appears. and may have
been worn for the first time by King
Snefru of the Fourth Dynasty, who flour
ished about 5000 B. C.
Mrs. Ruge Is an art critic who has made
a special study of costume. She talked at
the Aston last night before the Art Work.
ers' club on the Origin, History and De-
yelopment of Costume" William M
Chase, the artist. lent her some of his
most gorgeous costumes that she might
Illustrate her talk by dressing live girls
up in them and giving living pictures. Mr..
Chase also posed the young women, who
were pretty professionals models.
Mrs. Ruge devoted several minutes of
her talk to trousers. and the women who
formed a large majority of the audience.
listened with interest. They had a right
60. If 1t hadn't been for women's aprons
first worn in Egypt. there wouldn't have
been any trousers. Pants are but aprons
Of larger growth.
Men have always been more sensible
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29

enormously more about many things than
the world of our fathers did, yet the more
1t knows, the less inclined 1t is to believe
that 1t knows ALL Discovery follows so
fast upon discovery in these days as to
make us realize more acutely than In
slower times how vast mass of natures
mysteries are still UNEMPLOYED. and how
much our views of what is credible and
what is not may be affected by discov-
cries still to come. AS a scientist said
in commenting on this reported discovery
by Professor. Gates, 1T is not safe, in
these days of rapid advancement in scien-
tif1c achievement, to deny anything
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29
Accounted For.

Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree" in
Everybodys Magazine.
Mrs. MS patience was much tried by
servant who had a habit of standing
around with her mouth open One day, az
the maid waited upon the table. her
mouth was open as usual, and her mis-
tress, giving her severe look, said:
Mary. your mouth Is open"
"Yessum," replied Mary Il opened it."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29
Why She Was an Early Bird.

Translated for Tales from "Familie-Jour-
nal"
Just think. our new cook gets up at 6
o clock without being called"
"She must be a jewel"
Yes; she's going to be married to the
mill<man next week"
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Merely Precautionary.

Translated for Tales from "Smplicis-
SINUS
Dentist Ito patient who is opening his
purse)-Don't bother about that yet, Mr..
Isaacs. You needn't pay in advance.
Mr.. Isaacs-Excuse me. You say you
gif me gas, and count my money first.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29
Attemnt to Dust Old Men.

IT was elected to the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress In 1854. and perhaps am the only
living member of that Congress, ffty-two
years ago. l served four years in the
Confederate Congress, took an active part
In the political affairs of my state since
the civil war. have occupied judicial posi-
lions in Tennessee, and / can do as much
in my line as / ever could. I write from
100 to 500 decisions every week. and rarely
ever have any of them returned to me.
IT was amused at the recent congress
sional attempt to rule out the old men,"
said Judge Wright II can write clearer
law decisions today than I could when
l was younger man. have lived longer
and have seen more of men and things.
1t is true that 1 cannot jump a rope or
leap on horses back l once did. but
my mind is as clear as 1t was forty
years ago"
In speaking of the growth of the nation
in his day, reference was made to the
present struggle in Congress over the In
terstate commerce measure, Judge Wright
said.
while Jefferson or the trainers Of the
constitution could not possibly foresee
the growth Of this great country, yet
often think that they must have been
in a manner inspired when they provided
federal supervision of Interstate commerce
when the instrument was written. But I
can give you an illustration of interstate
commerce of long ago.
My father used to buy goods in Bal
timore and haul them In wagons all the
way to McNairy county, Tenn. That was
interstate commerce, was it not?' OBJ
served Judge Wright. Not as 1t is now,
however -
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HOSTETTER'S

will convince you that 1t is the best for
Poor Appetite, FIatulency, Headache,
BIoating, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Cos
tlveness or Female Ills. Try it today.
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when Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is
taken promptly at the first symptom.
No wonder so many people use 1t In
preference to anything else. Then
there is So years record of cures
back of 1t, too, which ought to appeal
to every man or woman. One bottle of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29
saw Wonderful Developments.

Judge Wright said: IT have lived in a
period of the most wonderful development
of the worlds history. There were no
railroads, few steamboats,, no friction
matches, when I was a boy. l remember
seeing the Cherokee Indians passing my
home in McNairy county, Tenn, on their
way to the Indian Territory in 1882.
I'm my childhood days we did not know
that there was a nation-simply states
There were scarcely any United States
officials to be seen or heard of. The ses-
sions of the United States district courts
were so brief in those days that we knew
very little of them. There were no in
ternal revenue officers; In fact we hardly
knew such a thing as a nation
81 remember the exciting canvass of
'Tippecanoe and Tyler too also when
Gen. Lewis Cass was defeated in the
election of 1852" said Judge Wright.
When Pierce was elected I sent my
first telegram. blacksmith in Purdy,
Tenn. where I lived, bet $500 on Pierce.
and came to me to find out for certain
whether his candidate was elected. We
went to the telegraph office which had
not been long established. OF course we
had no railroad. l telegraphed to Nash
Vile and told my friend to walt and L
would give him the information.
1T was not long before I turned to him
and informed him that Pierce had car
ried every state but four. Said my friend:
How did you find out so quick? I told
him. I don't believe that you could hear
as soon as you have. Don't believe a d--n
word of 1t. Wright Telegraphy had just
been established in many places by run
ming the lines on roads and through the
woods.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29
Drennen's Vehicle Department
Appeals to Every User Of Vehicles

will every there
the goods northern builders
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29
STORIES TOLD OF
THE OLDEN DAYS
Judge White Was Member of
Confederate Congress
MANY OTHERS STILL ALIVE
In a Chat of Antebellum Times Law
Clerk Tells of Famous Body
and the Men Who
Composed It.

Press reports are ever and anon giving
out death notices of the last member of
the Confederate Congress. and 1t Is actu-
ally printed as the truth that the last
one has passed away.
Judge John v Wright law clerk in the
general land office, is lively specimen
of nearly eighty summers of that famous
band of civil officers of the storm
Graded nation that fell.
Judge Wright was asked yesterday how
many We're still living, and in reply
said:
Former Senator James L. Pugh, Judge
John Goode and myself are three In
Washington, and I am sure there are
others in other parts of the country. But
you see we are all old men now, as 1t
has been forty-fve years since the war
began. and there have been many changes
since then
Several names were mentioned to
Judge Wright from the list at the war
department that Judge Wright remem-
bered. and it was aseertained that the
following members of the Confederate
Congress. 1s61-65. are still living Hiram P.
Bell of Georgia, S. B. Callahan. Indian
Territory; j. A. P. Campbell of Misss-
sippi. A. s. Colyar of Tennessee, s. X.
Ford of Kentucky. John Goode of Vir-
ginia. Joseph K. Heiskell of Tennessee.
Henry c. Jones of Alabama, John M.
Martin of Florida, James L. Pugh of Ala
bama, Roger A. Pryor of Virginia, John
p. Rails of Alabama w. Fl. Tibbs Of
North Carolina, John V. Wright of Ten
nessee.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-20
Serious Railroad Accident.


The crowded Scotch express train on
The Great Northern Railway, leaving
London Tuesday night, was wrecked
outside OF Grantham at midnight last
night. A. 5 o'clock yesterday morning
it was officially stated that ten persons
had been killed aud sixteen injured.
The train should have stopped al
(frantham, but failed to do so. Shortly
after passing the station, the train LEFT
the rails and jumped bridge. The en-
CINE and several coaches we're dashed
over the embankment, the engine tuln-
ing turtle. Several coaches Immediately
took fire, which was not exlinguished
until O'Clock yesterday morning.
There we're many passengers beneath
the debris, and of ten extricated alive
FIVE died soon afterward.
The dead and injured as yet have not
been identified.
At the spot where the express was de-
rallied there is 8 curve, and it is sup
posed the brakes failed to act.
/. The train appears to have gone upon
q siding, smashing the parapet of the
bridge, which was completely shattered.
A later report states that the engineer
and fireman are dead, under the engine,
and that the superintendent of the mail
car is missing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-20
AlExassoria Gazette.
THURSDAY EVENING. SEPT. 20. 1905.
"Capv Hatfield Dying.


Captain Hatfield, West Virginia's most
noted outlaw, who for years spread terror
among the natives along the West Vir-
GINA Kentucky border and especially to
the Nee + aroily, is dying at Wharncliti.
Mingo county, w. Va, as the result OF two
bullet wounds inflicted by DIR. Ellis K.
Hst6ed, his youngest brother.
"Csp9 and the young doctor had not
been on the most friendly terms for few
weeks, bat Why no one may ever know.
They met yesterday morning on the rail-
road track jnst below Whsrnclifi. "Csp,"
as usual, carried Winchester rife,
while the younger Hatfield had pistol.
The men began shooting when within
forty yards of each other. The young
doctor proved the better marksman, aud
put two bullets directly through the chest
OF bis outlaw brother. Gap" it is sal d,
in his lifetime has killed more than
dozen men.
For two years he had been running a
''blind tiger" near WharncIft and was
unmolested by revenue men, as all knew
that to attempt to capture him meant
practically sure death.
DR.. Hatfield has surrendered to the
Minso authorities. He is twenty-six
years old and graduate of the Louis
vile Ry.) Medical College.