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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-24
HANDSOME MEMORIAL.
Engrossed Set of Resolutions Sent to
Mrs. Mckinley. is.

Baltimore, July 29.-The Merchants and
manufacturers Association of this city
has prepared and will send to Mrs. Nc
Kinley a handsome and costly. memorial
in the form of an engrossed set of reso-
lutions adopted by the association on
the occasion of President McKinley's
death. The memorial is In the form Of
an album and handsomely bound in black
seal leather The volume is ten and one
half inches wide by fourteen and one
half inches long and is lined with heavy
silk. On the cover in gilt letters Is the
Inscription: In Memory of William Nc
Kinley.'
The book contains ten heavy bristol
board pages. In the center of the first
page is well executed picture of the
late President, the result of most careful
penmanship. To the right is a view of
the capitol at Washington and below the
portrait is a picture of the American
flag furied with the cont OF arms of the
State directly beneath 1t. The other nine
ps ges ere devoted to the Resolutions
adopted by the Merchants and Manufact-
urers' Association in respect to the MEM
DRY of William Mckinley, President Of
the United States"
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Shooting Craps.

ST see the game of craps has been off,
cially recognized by the Board of Cover
nors of the stock Exchange of one of the
large eastern cities" said an elderly gen.
tleman last night, who In his younger
days was what might be termed a high
roller. at seems that 1t was the custom
of several of the members of the ex-
change to congregate near window and
when the excitement of the market was
somewhat slack to indulge in this south
ern game, using the window sill for a
table. An old and dignined broker filed
a protest against this diversion on the
grounds that gambling should be pro-
hibited on the floor of the exchange. The
board took cognizance OF his protest and
ordered the game stopped.
'.It is a fact that the popularity of
craps, in the gambling world is rapidly
increasing. 1 see that it is getting to
be rage in Paris, and I presume that
1t will soon be introduced at Monte Carlo.
Many of Inc large gambling clubs in
America have now crap outfits The
spread of the game evidently arises from
the fact that as quick action sport, 1t
leads the list There is no delay in the
game. You simply bet your money and
me result is instantaneous
There are many different combinations
that are played on the dice. but the most
popular seems to De come seven, come
eleven This means that you play seven
or eleven to win at the first turn of the
dice, and this failing, you still have an
opportunity of winning if the first num-
Der thrown, in the event it Is not two, three
or twelve. the numbers termed craps
and which are losing numbers if thrown
on the first turn. comes before seven.
Seven is always losing or winning num-
Der. If you throw it on the first turn.
you double your money. Failing to do
this, If you throw 1t before you make
your point. you lose the amount bet.
II do not know where the game origi-
mated, but it was first known as the IA
vorite game of the southern negro. 1t
was then taken up by the tin horn gam
blers and finally was recognizes by the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-24
The Bonanza Millionaire.

Said a western man at the Metropoli-
tan yesterday: Columns have been writ
ten about Mr.. Mackay, who died in Lon
don few days ago, but this sententious
editorial from the New York Sun gives
as true an idea, perhaps, of the famous
millionaire, as any sketches that have ap-
peared:
"There was much of the romance of the
land of gold in the careers of the Bo-
nanza millionares. Their rise from moth
ing to great wealth, their vicissitudes and
adventures, stimulated the imagination.
The story books seemed to be justified
and Aladdin but prophecy of the Com
stock Lode. 1t is the rapid transition
from pick and shovel to bank and palace
that invites the wonder of the world.
Most of us can be rich only to our mind.
The turn must come suddenly and SPLEEN
didly. The Bonanza men, hard-headed
and practical as they were, seemed like
figures from Bret Harte.
"John William Mckay, the last of them
to CO. was strong and unpretentious
character. He had seen the seamy side
and the smooth, sold newspapers on the
streets and bought mines incredibly rich.
Few men have had harder and swifter
education in the facts Of life; yet he new
er became hard man. He was rich be-
fore he was out of his thirties. He took
part in great enterprises, accepted such
disaster as fell in his way as calmly as
he accepted good fortune; and was full
of sagacity and strength to the last And
he was good American, this Irish immi-
grant"
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
Young married couples have to quarrel
so as to learn not to.
A woman can love a man of the most
egregious vanity on earl, but not one
of much humility.
You can skim the cream off of milk
and have something left that is sweet
and good. but skim your love and what
is left is bitter gall.
When a woman changes her way of
doing up her hair and her husband does
not notice 1t, she knows right away that
he doesn't love her any more -
The first thing for man to do with
the wcelan he marries is to force her
to understand that he is going to be
firm about making her have her own
way
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a SUGGESTION.

There are blind beggarss who are
worthy of aims, but a great many men
who sport the T-am-blind legend are
imposters," remarked an observant ply
sieian at the Morris last night.
Il do not think that any right hearted
man or woman begrudges the .eoppers or
niel1els that he or she throw into the
tin cup of 'sure-enough' blind beggar,
but most of us hesitate before giving
money to one whom we suspect Of being
fraud.
Until recently there were only half
dozen professional beggars In blrming-
ham, but a few days ago they began to
arrive In large numbers and on day before
yesterday the streets fairly swarmed with
them. I hardly know how to account for
this sudden influx unless 1t be that the
blind beggars of the north read in the
papers of the settlement of the differences
between the coal operators and the Uni
ted Mine Workers in this district and
seeing in the minds eye quick revival
of prosperity. concluded that this would
be just the time to reap harvest here.
I would suggest that the city require
beggars to pay license tax. I would
further suggest that the city be divided
into beggar districts or ranges, and the
tax be graded according to the tax be
tax be graded according to the value of the
range which the beggar might be per-
mitted to work. For instance if a beggar
in an outlying range could pick up 81
day, a bcggar ranging on Second ave-
nue. between Nineteent and Twentieth
streets could pick up 81 or s. a day.
license of $25 a year for the 81 a day fell
low and $50 for the Second avenue fell
low would be reasonable. There might
be an extra tax for the privilege of work.
ing the approaches to popular saloons
on week days and the large churches on
Sundays. l know nothing of the censtitu-
uonal bearings of question like this of
which l speak, but assuming that the
city has the right to tax professional beg
gars the revenue would be considerable"
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COL. MANN AND HIS ALAsAMIANs.

From the New York Commercial.
Soldier, editor, inventor. promoter pub
lisher-all these and more-Colonel Will
liam Dalton Mann has run pretty nearly
the whole gamut of busnessdom; but
some of those who have known him all
his life and in almost his every relation
to 1t declare that as host he bears off
the palm. They are moved to make the
comparison by reason of their expert
ence at his reception the other night to
the Alabama Press Association excur-
sionists.
The colonel has big warm place in
his heart for the south and southerners
albeit he was fighting them hot forty
years ago. Just after the war he was
for a while owner OF the Mobile Register
and he has ever since kept up close
friendship with editors Of that state. So
1t was only natural that he should open
his house" for them when they came to
town last Thursday-and he did IT ito
the Queens TASTE too. OF course, Mrs.
E. Mann-Vynne. the colonel's daughter,
assisted. She always does. She is his
alter ego, both In business and socially.
First they took the Alabamians to see
Oe>~--f-f
the large party occupying the entire CEN
ter of the parquet and adding much to
the gay appearance OF the summer-night
audience. They sat it out. and then Col
onel Mann conveyed them to the new
home of Town Topics and The Smart
Set in the Knox Building, corner of Fifth
avenue and Fortieth street. Both the
fourth and fifth floors were thrown open,
and the decorations, in which palms pre-
dominated, made the southerners think
of home-but only for minute, for an
informal reception, music by a Hungar-
ian orchestra, supper. short speeches,
dancing and bumpers galore to the col
oneTs health Tapped over onto each other
so fast that the Alabamians couldn't
possibly get homesick. Members of the
city press and numerous friends helped
to make very lively company.
Colonel Mann declared that he felt
younger than when he left Alabama
thirty years ago-and but for his snowy
beard and hair nobody would have sus-
pected that he was old enough to have
"toted' sword or musket in 1861.
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ANOTHER MARY MAcLANE.
ON the Kansas city Herald.

From the Kansas City Herald.
Genius has always had its imitators,
and Mary MacIane. who positively as
sures us that she has genius is no excep-
ton.
Like Mary MacLane, Ida Monroe of sS2
Eighth avenue, second floor, New York
city, cannot conceal the promptings of
the divine affatus. Says Ida:
my pathos is exquisite. I have the
true gift of pathos. 1t doesn't matter
where / am. I must write my thoughts.
1 have been told they are lovely, tender.
divine. Think of 1t! Writing poetry by
the kitchen fire on old grocery bags that
I cut up
Passion is my forte" says Ida "Oh,
/ have suffered. cannot trust any man.
When I write one Of my poems I am
swept away. / cannot eat. Really 1
am not well nourished. I feel SO deeply
Sometimes l am on the verge of ner-
vous prostration."
Shades of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and Helen Hunt Jackson, think of writ
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The HEALrHIEsr TOWN.

Washington Correspondence OF Chicago
Tribune.
Ellsworth. Wis, population of 1900, was
The healthiest place in the United States
IN 1901 Only two persons in the town
died, and one OF these deaths was from
smallpox, an uncommon disease in Ellis
worth. The marine hospital service has
compiled the official reports for last year
from 1875 cities and towns having pop
ulation o. 1000 or mere .These reports
seem to show that if one would enjoy
the most favorable conditions for health
one should live In Iowa, the mortality in
the state for LAST year being only 9.2O
per 1000 Of population.
Two or three other states, according to
the official record look more promising.
but it has to be considered that in these
only few small towns and none of the
large cities reported. For example. North
Dakota, according to this computed rec
ord, had a death rate of only SIT, South
Dakota OF $40, and Arizona or s,53. The
middle western states had far better
record than these in the east, and the
far western better, as a rule, than the
middle western.
In Louisiana, as usual, the death rate
was highest, 2ne5, but the neighboring
state of Arkansas had record of 1906.
The most unncslthy city in the United
States Yves Charleston. 8. c., death rate
20 Il. Laredo, with a population of 1929,
had mortality OF Sc per 1000. Here is the
record for some of The great cities of the
country:
Chicago 1885, New York 20. Boston
1870, Philadelphia 1927, Baltimore 20 80.
Washington IA, New Orleans 2l.44, Gin
cinnati 1885, st. Louis 17.67, San Francis
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TO DESTROY FORT STEVENS.
Incendiaries Make Repeated Efforts
to Buy the Place.

New York. July 23-Incendiaries are
making repeated attempts to destroy
Fort Stevens, the new military post near
this city, says disptach to the World
from Astoria, Ore. Had their plans sue
ceeded they would have blown the fort
to atoms and perhaps killed hundreds of
persons. They set fire to the torpedo
storehouse, but the building is freproof
and the attempts failed. Almost simuta-
noously fire was discover I'D in the "a :
racks. Int this, too, was txtinguished.
The incendlaries had saturated the H.
with oil. After the fires we're extinguisa Il
ed a netc is said to hy,e been 70 ii
signed the Twelve Dynamiters' declar-
ing that the writer's had determined to
destroy the fort and their efforts would
be continued
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-24
About Persons

Major John G. Harris of Montgomery.
candidate. for superintendent of education
of Alabama, arrived IN Birmingham last
night. Major Harris will today proceed to
his former home In Hale County, where
he expects to spend several days on the
"old plantation" near Akron.
Charles z. Waller of Hale, candidate
for lieutenant governor. who has been
stopping at the Metropolitan for several
days, will go to Montgomery today to
fill an appointment to speak tonight with
Former Governor Johnston. Mr. Waller
will fill an appointment in Mobile Friday
night. szazsss -
j. Thomas Hehin Of Chambers, candi-
date. for secretary of state, reached the
city last night. He speaks enthusiastical-
ly Of the progress of his campaign.
Col. Wiley c. Tunstall. returned to his
home In Greensboro yesterday.
D. Alsey Clements, back tax commits
sioner of Tuscaloosa County, was here
yesterday.
Frank NJ HALEY of Bib is in BirmfAg-
ham.
Col. Tom L. Buiger of Tallapoosa, can
didate for superintendent of education of
Alabama, is in the city. He win go to
north Alabama today.
Massey Wilson of Clarke. candidate for
attorney general is in the city Mr.. Wilson
has been making a tour of the Tennessee
Valley counties and he declares himself
much pleased with his prospects with the
electors in that section.
Capt. s. B. Trap. former president of
the convict bureau of Alabama is in Biz
mingham.
Charles F. Moritz, a prominent Mont
gomery merchants. is at the Morris.
John c. Eyster and R. H. Adams, prom
inent citizens of Decatur, are in the city.
Circuit Solicitor R. H. Lowe of Hunts
vile. reached the city yesterday.
Fourth Vice President J. M. Culp. Traf-
fic Manager Thomas c. Powell and Gen
eral Superintendent ]. A. Dodson of the
Southern Railway Company are in Bir-
mingham.
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Senator Pettus Has No Opponent.

The Huntsville Tribune is a Repub-
lican paper that is clamoring for a
straightout Republican state ticket in
the approaching election. 1t especial
ly desires a Republican nominee for
Governor, but it has no candidate for
United States Senator, for it says:
Senator Pettus is in the city. He looks
like Roman Senator-there is something
Intellectually massive in the Senator s
make np. His visit is of social charac-
ter, and our people are delighted to have
him. Politically speaking our county is a
unit for bin, and we ask why should it
not be, for q kinder-hearted, bigger
Drained inan than Senator Pettus no
where could be found. He is patriotic and
brave; is wise and just In the elements
which constitute the statesman he severe
ly otitclarses all of his suspected oppon-
ents. They are simply not in the race"
This fairly expresses the sentiment
of the people of Alabama in all ranks
and among all parties. 1t now looks
as if Senator Pettus will go back to
the Senate, as Senator Morgan was
sent back, without single Dissenting
vote.
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ROOSEVELT INVITED.
Western, Republican Marching Clubs
Want the President.

Chicago, July 23.-At a meeting of the
representatives CT the Lincoln Marquette.
Mchican, Hamilton ard Republican
marching clubs. held last night. 1t was
decided to extend r formal invitation to
President Roosevelt to be a guest of the
clubs upon the occasion OF MS visit to
Chicago next October.
A telegram to this effect was sent to
tho President and the formal invitation
Will follow by mail.
1t is thought the Union League Club
will assist. President Roosevelt intimated
some time ago that he would be pleased
to accept the invitation Of the clubs when
1t was extended.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-24
HELPS CHILDREN WALK.

Primitive and rather barbarous is the
device which has been used for a long
time in Brittany and other French PROV
inces for the purpose of teaching child
rem to walk.
1t is constructed Of wood, and it moves
whenever the child moves. The infant Ia
strapped to 1t as soon as 1t is nine
months old, and spends some hours of
every day in this uncomfortable no.
sition.
That children who take exercise OF
this kind learn to walk mora readily
than others is very probable, but 1t ia
certain that large number of them be-
come powlegged and that some even be-
como cripples.
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ing poetry by the kitchen fire on old
grocery bagsl
And what an experience is bound up
in that heart breaking statement, II can
not trust any man. False, fleeing, per-
jured, perfidious men who have done this
thing. She has felt a whole regiment
trampling over the private grounds of
the broken and ruined castles of her
heart. All! no more, no more!
Passion is her forte. She would rather
work at passion eight hours a day than
wash dishes or make beos. She would
like steady job at the passion business.
1t sweeps her away. She cannot eat
She is not well nourished She swoons.
Evidently, what Ida needs is prescrip-
tion
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The Next President.

'I am Democrat and have been pray
ing recently that something would turn
up to give the Democracy a show for 1904,
but 1t looks to me as if President Roose-
welt would be his own successor" said
an old lawyer.
Senator Foraker is right when he says
that no one but RooseN cit is being serious
~ considered for the Republican nominal
ton. Roosevelt is certain to be the STAN
dard bearer of his party two years hence
and bet on his election will be pretty
safe.
"All the talk of the Democrats getting
together led me to hope there was some
thing in it; but they haven't harmonized
yet, and 1 am afraid. it is too late now. !"
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sTANZAS FROM "SNoW BouNp.n
BY John Greenleaf Whittier

By John Greenleaf Whittier.
The moon above the eastern wood
shone at its full; the hill-range stood
TRANSPORTED in the river flood
Its blown SHOWS flashing cold and keen.
Dead white, save where some sharn
ravine
Took shadow, or the sombre green
OF hemlocks turned to pitch black
Against the wilderness at their back.
For such a world and such night
Most fitting that unwarming light.
Which only seemed wher'er It fell
i o make the GOODNESS visible
Shut in from all the world without.
We sat the clean-hearthed about
content to let the north wind roar
IN Darhed rage at pane and door,
While the red logs before us heat
The frost line back with troplc heat.
And ever, when a louder blast
Shook beam and rafter as 1t passed.
The merrier up its roaring drauqht
The great throat of the chimney io,sho,
Mnat matter how the night behaved?
what matter how the north wind ravoc.
blow high blow low, not all the snow
Souia quench our hearth-iires rad
glow,
Ilme and Changel-with hair as gray
AS was my sires that winter day,
HOW strange 1t seems with so much gano
VI lie and love, to still live on!
AS brother! only / and thou
Are left of all that circle now,
The dear home faces whereupon
That fitful freight paled and shone,
ct Love will dream and Faith will trust.
(Since He who knows our need Is iust).
That somehow, somewhere, meet We
must.
Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress
trees!
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away.
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play?
Who hath not learned. in hours of faith,
The truth to flesh and sense unknown,
That Life is ever Lord of Death.
And Love can never lose its owni
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IN HOTEL LoBBIBs.
AUGUST weather

II am not exactly weather prophet
but win venture to predict that We will
have no excessively hot spell IN August" "
said an old citizen.
We will have cool nights. cool enough
for light blankets. September nights will
also be cool but the mercury will play
around So during the day. or rather dur
irg some Of the days"
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profession It seems to be destined to
finally become q rival OF the great Am
erican game Of draw poker. though the
old timers are not. as a rule. taking kind
ly to its introduction. 7 viii always con-
slider It a rough game
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NO GUARDIAN WANTED.

From the Mobile Register.
Johnston asks to be made guardian of
that he opposed its construction and
the new constitution, notwithstanding
that he opposed it's construction and
fought its adoption. Doubtless he would
deal with 1t gently and kindly.
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Appendicitis has disappeared alto
gether and folks are now having with
regularity and dispatch the King Ed
ward complaint, whose name we have
forgotten.
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Mr.. Gates explains that the sacred
Dingley tariff sometimes enables his
iron and steel works TO earn 100 per
cent a month when they do not earn
100 per cent a week.
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Port Chalwette is to resume, be-
cause the American mule is needed in
peace as well as in war in South At
RIGA.
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The lost people of the police service
are becoming numerous. Mr.. Grove
is dean of the corps, and Frank Dun
can is chief of staff. Mr.. Tracy will
have to work up from the bottom.
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"eo WAY RAck.n MARY.

From the Denver Post.
Mary MaeLane says she doesn't like re-
porters But tor the reporters Mary
would yet be but an unnoticed wart on
the fair lace of Butte. Mont, U. S. A.
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President Sehwab's baby trust is
coming along in great style. It's earn
ings this year will probably exceed
$40, 100000
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Instead of giving prices to American
labor the Dingley tariff is chiefly oc-
cupied in giving lower prices to for
eign consumers.
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Next year it will be in order to send
relief expedition after the Peary-
relief expedition of this year. 1t is an
endless chain affair.
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Instead of hunting for the pole we
are now hunting for pole-hunters, leav-
ing the pole to go 1t alone.
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General Bragg's letters to his wife
were private until they were PUBLISH
ed. and then they became public.
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Boston does not warm up to Mary
MacLane, but it will when she arrives
on the spot.
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Birmingham is short of ice and 1t
can be trusted to support the PROPOSE
ton to buy Greenland.
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San Franeisco's per capita saloon
basis is even lower than Ensley,s.