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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
TOM L. JoHNsoN's CIRCUS.
Some Incidents of Distinctly Novel
Political Campaign.

Cleveland Dispatch to N. Y. Evening Sun.
Tom L. Johnson's unique method of
campaigning with his circus tent through
out the state is not without its interest
ing happenings to vary the monotony.
When Mayor Johnson arrived at Norwalk
and assembled to the platform he singled
out bench which presented strong APP
pearance. Appearances were deceitful,
however and when the mayor seated
himself the bench broke. He saved him
self from being precipitated to the floor,
but the spectacle of his rotund form gy-
rating in the air provoked much laugh
ter.
Bellevue being considered a democratic
town, but little advertising was done by
Johnson's advance agent.
Where's the animals?" eagerly asked
a small urchin of the khaki-clad tent
man.
Right in there" said the man. point
ing to a tent near the main one.
IT'S horses" exclaimed the disappoint-
ed boy. He had been shown Colonel Wag-
ners movable stable.
Only two delays were met with on the
way to Bellevue. A short distance out
from Norwalk the caravan was held
up" The hold up" did not have the
usual accompaniment of highwaymen-
masks and revolvers - the perpetrators
being two dogs. One OF the wagon drivers
shouted "Sic int at one or the dogs,
and then trouble started. The two dogs,
fighting each other, stood in the way of
the caravan and 1t could not move. After
the bold dog highwaymen had chewed
each other to their hearts content they
ceased fighting and the cavalcade moved
on.
At another place an inquisitive farmer
in a narrow place on the road. insisted
on taking up all the room with his wagon.
From this vantage point he piled the men
on the wagons with questions until he
was invited TO step out and get licked. He
then moved away and the wagons and
show apparatus reached the end of the
Journey safely.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
In Three Republics.

Civil war is raging SO to speak in
three republics lying on the Caribbean
sea, and the public sometimes con-
fuses them. They are, however, very
distinct and very unlike. But in one
respect they are each and all alike,
namely. they are based on the fact
that an honest ballot in any country
south of the United States, is I'M
known, and that all political changes
must come through a revolution. OPP
ponents of the existing government
are therefore professional revolution
lists.
In Haytf President Sam resigned,
lknd there are three candidates for the
succession. No one of three depends
upon the balloting, and all are organ
ICED for a contest of force. 1t is inn
possible to say which of the three is
the best man, or which one has the
best prospects of succeeding. 1t is a
confused civil turmoil that will per-
haps be speedily fought out, for Hay
tien wars are generally very san
culinary. General Firmin, who owned
the gunboat that a German ship sunk,
is one Of the candidates for the presi-
dency, but he is not in power at pres
ent.
In Colombia-a state that owns the
Ishmus of Panama, a revolution has
existed since 1885. The present move
ment is, however, three years old, and
its object is to drive President Mario
quin from power. Marroquin is a con-
sentative or clerical, and the liberals
are striving to GUST him. All of the
neighboring states are controlled by
liberals, and help has come at times
to the Colombian liberals from Vene-
zuela, Ecuador and Nicaragua. The
Colombian wars are very cruel and no
one can see an end to them. Thus far
President Marroquin has been able to
maintain himself at Bogota, which is
centrally located in the vast country,
Ugh above the sea, near the head
waters of the Orinoco.
In Venezuela planter whose name
is Matos, very wealthy, is endeavoring
to GUST President Castro. The latter
has been assailed pretty constantly for
two years, but never so strongly as at
present. General Matos, for he has
become a soldier, proposes to march
on and occupy Caracas, the capital of
the country, and it is generally be-
lieved he will succeed in his under
taking. President Castro is at Valen-
cia, near Caracas, while General Matos
is at Alta Gracia on the Orinoco river,
at a point about 200 miles south of
Caracas. Until the two forces meet
the war in Venezuela cannot be de-
cided
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
The Beer Habit.

Il recently visited Richmond, my old
home, after an absence of fifteen years,
and was agreeably surprised to find
whisky drinking had decliped," said a
member of Birmingham's Wrvinia colony
There seemed to be as many bar rooms
as ever, but few people that 1 saw were
ealing for anything but beer. In my
younger days no malt liquor was consum-
ed at bar counters in the south. The
change in the liquor habit is good for
the temperance cause. Excessive beer
drinking like the excessive use of coffee
is injurious, but beer consumed in mod
Grafton is certainly great Improvement
over whisky as a beverage"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Q the Editor Of the Age-Herald.

Te the Editor Of the Age-Herald:
The Age-Herald remarks: American
meats sell lower in England than in the
United States. Under our sacred tariff,
trusts arc formed that cut prices in pro-
portion to distance. A man in the interior
of China would be IN the gift belt"
It is evident that the Age-Herald does
not agree with the Portland Oregonian,
for that paper says: THE tariff was
made for man, not man for the tariff. It
is not an ideal or a principle. It be-
comes a principle only when It is exalted
to the place of an idol. and then 1t Is
principle both vicious and mischievous."
If man was not made for the tariff if
1t is not sacred, or an ideal, or prin-
ciple, or an idol. to be worshipped as of
divine origin what possible excuse can
there be for a tariff great or small? 1t
surely is not retained because of its SIM
plicity and economy as a revenue-pro-
Queer, for the tariff is the most expen-
sive and oppressive of taxes. 1t yields but
1920, 100000 annually. The cost of collec-
ton Is $50. OOOO 600. leaving $500 100000 net
revenue, or s12 per family. With the tariff
ieihoNeu rOm calue, hlues anu iedlheI'
the average family would save this
amount on the one item of shoes. It
would save still more on it's meat bill, a.
most as much on sugar, or on steel, iron
and tin products. In fact under free
trade the people would save the amount
of the tariff tax almost every month in
the year.
Then is it not absurd to declare that the
robber tariff is not sacred, or an ideal. Or
a principle, or an idol? A. FREELAND. S
MI. Pleasant. Tenn. September %.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
ODE ON SOLITUDE.
By Alexander Pope.

BY Alexander Pope.
Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
Whose herds with milk, whose fields
with bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire;
Whose trees In summer yield him shade.
In winter fire.
Blest, who can unconcernidly find
Hours, days and years slide soft away;
In health of body, peace of mind.
Quiet by day.
Sound sleep by night, study and eass
Together mkt, sweet recreation;
And innocence, which most does please,
With meditation.
Thus let me live. unseen, unknown;
Thus, unlamented, let me die,
Steal from the world, and not stone
Tell where l lie.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
A man is what his wife lets him make
himself
The better the story the worse woman
can tell 1t.
This Is woman's order of precedence:
After clothes. babies; after babies, reli-
gion.
Lawyers have so little cheek that they
ask alimony to be paid in advance to
their clients.
A woman always accepts her pastor $
advice with sweet grace when he happens
TO call when she Is dressed in her best.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
TAMMANY'S NEW BOSS IS
QUIET AND UNASSUMING

the evening, his resort is the Anawanda
club, his district organization, on Second
avenue. There he sits for hours at a
time. talking politics with his leutenants
or discussing those small affairs in which
they are most interested.
Mr. Murphy was married only recently,
and his home on East Seventeenth street
is model of the old-time comfortable
New York home. He has made much
money in recent years and is reputed to
be worth $3.50 600.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
WALL STREET.

From the New York Press.
An old fellow from Tennessee, who had
gotten pretty well battered in. Wall
street, has this to say of things down
there: 1.-THE street is simple matter of
tits an faint. The bears say tbs to
beat 'em down, an the bulls say faint
to push 'em up, an when a sucker gets
about half way between the it's an
faint he's done for. That's what l
was"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
From the New Orleans Picayune.

FROM the New orleans Picayune.
The lesson to be learned by this disas-
ter is that promoters of large gatherings
cannot be too careful to guard against
panics. which are liable to occur at any
time without any reasonable provoca-
tion whatever. The authorities also should
rigidly enforce the adoption of all safe
guards in the way Of ample exits. Disas-
tiers may occur in spite of all possible
safeguards, but the risk is greatly in
creased where reasonable safeguards are
ignored. As shown by the Birmingham
catastrophe, panic does not require a
reasonable cause, 1t may occur at any
time where crowd is present, and once
started ordinarily cannot be checked I'M
til the damage Is done.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
MISS CLEVELAND A FARMER.

From the New York Evening Post.
Miss Rosa Elizabeth Cleveland, sister
of Ex-President Cleveland, has become
a farmer. She owns half of a 7OO-acre
island off the coast of Maine, where she
raises prize vegetables. small fruit and
poultry Miss Cleveland has about 800
chickens and fine herd of cows. She
takes great pride in her farm, every de-
tail of which she manages personally.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
Schooner MONTGOMERY at Cape Haytlen

received at the state department from
United States Minister Powell at Port
au-Prince, announces the arrival at Cape
Haytient Saturday of the cruiser Mont
gomery. She takes the place of the Gin
cinnati now at Colon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
Colonel Chase Is Dead.

Washington, September 22.-The acting
adjutant general Of the army is informed
that Lieut. Col. Constantine Chase of the
artillery corps died suddenly at Fort
Trumbull, Conn.,, yesterday His death re-
suits in the promotion of Major Frank
Thorp to be lieutenant colonel and Capt
w. II. Coffin to be major of artillery.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
VanderbiIt's Horse Third.

Paris, September CIV. X. Wander
bits Edna finished third in the race for
the Prix Dordogne at Maison La File to-
day. The same owners, "Kuos Ego"
won the constant for the Prix Baltique
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
Cruiser Panther Arrives,

Colon, Colombia, September %. = The
United States auxiliary cruiser Panther,
from the League Island navy yard with
a battalion of marines on board, arrived
at p. m. Efforts are being made to Sc
cure suitable quarters here for the ma
rineS.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
TWO POPULAR BOOKS.


From the Selma Journal.
Here is the way an exchange gets 1t
mixed up: Southern book dealers find
that the two most popular books Of the
day are The Leopard's specks' and "A
Spotted Bird 4"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
1885 Cases of Cholera.

Washington, September 22.-vice Consul
General Smith at Cairo yesterday cabled
that since the S0th ultimo there have been
1895 cases of cholera and 665l deaths in all
Egypt but that the general condition
now is improving rapidly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

Uncle Horace Boies is at present
without an opponent and the famous
ides of November are approaching, or
words to that eject.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

Mr.. Henderson, the exetreme Ding
leyite, says the Roosevelt programme
is good enough for him. He is GER
tainly good enough for the trusts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
Bad Beginning Makes Quick Ending

From the Detroit Free Press.
80 the engagements on"
Yes; she advised him to practice econ
omy. and he started in by getting her
an imitation diamond"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

The difference between Mr.. Hender-
son and the other Iowa republicans
over the tariff question is beyond adj
justment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

Lieutenant Peary reports that he
found much ice as he approached the
north pole. This news may be import
ant, but it is not at all surprising.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

Peary says the north pole can be
reached on sledges, but some one else
must do it. He has encountered all
the pressure ridges he desires to meet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

May Yohe and Put Strong have
dropped out of sight, but. alas, "the
four hundred" are always with us.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

The mutton-leg sleeve is beyond the
jurisdiction of the meat trust.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

King Edward has no sympathy for
Mrs. Maybrick. He seems to think
Englishmen need protection against
American wives.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
COMMENTS ON THE RECENT
SHILOH CHURCH DISASTER
From the Plttsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
That panic IN Birmingham, which cost
hundred lives. is a renewed warning
of the danger of crowding large audi
ences into places without exits so wide
that jams and trampling are impossible.
In this case the panic was entirely from
an imaginary cause; but the meeting be-
ing composed of an excitable race the
fright became uncomfortable and the
inadequate exit wrought wholesale mas
sacre.
Experience has taught us in past years
that these panics, whether from real or
imaginary causes, are not confined to the
colored race. It has also shown that it
is criminal negligence to build halls and
meeting houses where crowded assem-
blages are to be held without such a
breadth of exits that in the case of a
rub the entire capacity of the hall can
be emptied without crowding. There is
more excuse for failure to observe this
rule in the limited means of a colored
church than in other cases. But ex-
perience has proved it should not be al
lowed anywhere. This has been taught
more than once before; but as the MEM
DRY of the awful lessons becomes dim
the violations of the principle are renew
ed, under the temptations of cupidity
and the reliance on luck
From the Savannah News.
The frightful stampede of colored peo-
pie in Birmingham, with its long casual
ty list, should prove a lesson and a
warning to those who gather in large
numbers in public halls. 1t will not do
to say that the black people were too
easily frightened, and that white au-
dience would have behaved better The
same sort of thing is liable to happen to
any audience. white or black. Great
crowds are VIGOROUSLY timd, especially
from fire. The crowd seldom stops to
think The reasoning power seems to be
suspended for the moment and the i'm
pulse is to rush away to a place of safe
ty; and death frequently attend the rush.
There was no danger in the Birmingham
church. If the people could have been
brought to think for one moment, the
disaster would not have occurred. 1t
requires effort and training to keep one's
wits al the time and under all eircum-
stances, but in that lies the greatest
measure of safety that can be suggested
The lesson of the occurrence Is, keep
cool, don't get excited. Even in an actual
case of fire the person who keeps cool
has far the better chance of escaping
injury.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
PROSPEROUS SELMA.

From the Selma Journal
The securing by Selma of another i'm
dustry upon which $4,000 is to be ex-
pended as told exclusively in the Jour-
nal Friday afternoon, causes us once
more to review the number of enter
prises started and buildings erected dur
ing the past two years. Lets see how
they foot up:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

A half million dollarsl Think Of it citi-
zens of Selma, and stop going about
looking down in the mouth. Wake up
and realize what splendid town you
live in. Get on the band wagon Of pros
perity and nelp make the music that is
ascending to the very heavens and
spreading over the universe. A half
million dollars Do you understand? Nor
does this include single new residence.
many of which have been erected during
the past two years at costs ranging from
1--WE to ten thousand dollars. Talk Selma!
Dream about Selmal Work for Selma!
Live for Selmal
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

Sunday observance in this town con
sists in good part Of trolley rides.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

President Roosevelt is telling the
wild and woolly west how the career
of the trusts may be indefinitely pro-
longed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
About Persons.

E. G. Adams of Boston is at the Nor
ris.
S. T. Jameson of Cincinnati is at the
Metropolitan.
S. Murray of New York is at the Hill
man.
E. H. Brown of Kansas City is at the
Morris
]. M. Simpson of Hartselle is at the
Morris
W. D. Knott of Rome, Ga, is at the
Hillman.
]. H. Barefield of Atlanta is at the
Morris.
R. NJ. Troy of Savannah is at the Hill
man.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

The long and short of the Henderson
bolt is, he does not care to meet his
Uncle Horace Boies at the polls.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

Mr.. Henderson is another man with
out party in his own state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

Speaker Henderson simply caught
the Mont Pelee manner and applied it
to the Iowa situation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

Addicks is preparing to turn Della
ware over to the democrats, who are
at home there
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

The Iowa republicans are now har-
monious because the dyed-in-the-wool
Dlngleyites have bolted They were
not numerous.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

From the Nashville American.
So far as we know the public buildings
of Nashville are well guarded against
fire and plentlfully provided with exits,
but the terrible warning the whole coun-
try has received from Birmingham should
not be allowed to pass unheeded here, and
we suggest that the mayor look into the
matter and If necessary have ordinances
prepared which, when enforced, will pro-
teet the public against possible danger.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The shocking accident at Birmingham
is all the more lamentable because the
terrible loss of life was sheer sacrifice
without any adequate cause. Two or
three thousand persons attending the Ne
gro National Baptist convention We're
packed in a church, and during the ex-
citement caused by a slight alteration
the crowd became panic stricken by the
cry of fire. A mad rush followed, and
near hundred lives were sacrificed in a
moment. The church is a modern build-
ing with several exits, and yet so wild
and unreasoning was the mob that all
rushed at one exit. 1t is a mistake to at
tribute the catastrophe to the excitability
Of the negro race. The same thing hap
pened recently in cigar factory in this
city; it has happened many times in
every part of the world, and the incident
teaches the lesson that under all cir
cumstances the authorities do not do
their duty unless they provide adequate
at oil Iar a..
to prevent the inexplicible madness which
is likely to seize upon a crowd at any
time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

In the New York primaries the sub
run-offs are called secondaries.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

King Leopold is coming to America
He should be warmly welcomed by the
-four hundred"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

Nicholas Fish led two lives, but his
slayer did not commit double MUIR
der.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

The one thing Lieutenant Peary die
not find was the north pole.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

Beer is staggering humanity in
Johannesburg by its price-one dollar
a bottle
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

Peary calls for a successor in the
north pole nonsense other than him
self. z..9
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23

From the Mobile Register.
The horrible catastrophe at the Baptist
convention in Birmingham, wherein some
hundred persons persisted. mostly by suf-
location is the more to be regretted be-
cause the sacrifice of life makes no re-
turn in experience that will be of use In
preventing like occurrences. Wherever
great numbers of people assemble, panics
are possible. and with the panic comes
the stampede and the crush. No provision
of exits seems to afford relief in such
emergencies. There were four ways out
of the Birmingham church, but the panic
stricken crowd remembered only the way
they had entered. There was a rush for
that one exit and the disaster was the
natural result. And SO will 1t be ever.
From the Selma Times.
The terrible calamity in Birmingham on
Friday, caused by a difficulty between
two men in the choir OF a negro church
and someone screaming for fire" by the
immense audience which stampeded i'm
mediately and resulted In the crushing
to death of over a hundred men, women
and children, was one of those horrible
affairs which could not have been fore
seen and provided against. The audience
were all negroes, but examples show.
that congregations of white people are
just as liable to be stampeded for a cause
like that, and with just as fatal results.
In senseless fear and attempt to escape
from real or fancied danger, regardless
of consequences to neighbor. friends and
relatives, there is no distinction between
the races.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-23
-Hl OILY DAILY NEwspApEa IN ALABAMA
Like an angry ape

Like an angry ape
Plays such fantastic tricks before high
heaven
As make the angels weep.
Measure for Measure.