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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
From the Coming of the Pilgrims to the Deliverance of Cuba

trolling it's own destiny in safety and honor"
 Then comes the next generation: q did the mighty deeds which in your younger years you saw and which your fathers told, saved the Union. I put down the rebellion. I freed the slave. made of every slave freeman and of every free man a citizen and of every citizen a voter"
 Then comes another who did the great work in peace in which so many of you had an honorable share: T kept the faith paid the debt. I brought in con ciliation and peace instead of war. se- cured in the practice of nations the great doctrine of expatriation. I devised the homestead system. I covered the prairie and the plain with happy homes and with mighty states. I crossed the continent and joined the seas with my great rail- roads. I declared the manufacturing in- dependence of America, as my fathers af- firmed Its political independence. I built up our vast domestic commerce. I made my country the richest, freest, strongest, happiest people on the face of the earth
 And now what have we to say? What have we to say? Are we to have place in that honorable company? Must we engrave on that column, we repealed the Declaration of Independence; we changed the Monroe doctrine from doc Urine of eternal righteousness and Justice resting on the consent of the governed to 4 only to our own advantage We crushed the only republic In Asia. We made war on the only Christian people in the East. We converted a war of glory to a war of shame. We vulgarized the American flag. We introduced perf1dy into the practice of war. We inflicted torture on unarmed men to extort confession. We put chill dren to death. We established reconcen- trado camps. We devastated provinces. We baffled the aspirations of a people for liberty"
 No, MT. President. Never! Neveri Other and better counsels will yet prevail. The hours are long In the life of a great peo- pie. The irrevocable step is not yet taken.
 Let us at least have this to say: '"We, too have kept the faith of the fathers. We took Cuba by the hand. We delivered her from her age-long bondage. We well comed her to the family of nations. We set mankind an example never beheld be- fore of moderation in victory, We led hesitating and halting Europe to the de- liverance of their beleaguered ambassa- dors In China We marched through a hostile country-a country cruel and bar barous-without anger or revenge. We re- turned benefit for injury and pity for cruelty. We made the name of America beloved In the east as in the west. We kept faith with the Philippine people. We kept faith with our own history. We kept our national honor unsullied. The nag which we received without a rent we handed down without a stain.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
American
 History.

From Senator Hoar's Speech on the Phil
 ippines.
 have sometimes fancied that we might erect here in the capital of the coun- try a column to American liberty which alone might rival in height the beauti- ful and simple shaft which we have erected to the fame of the father of the country. I can fancy each generation bringing its inscription, which should re- cite its own contribution to the great structure of which the column should be but the symbol.
 The generation of the Puritan and the Pilgrim and the Huguenot claims the place of honor at the base. 'I brought the torch of freedom across the sea. l cleared the forest. I subdued the savage and the wild beast I laid in Christian liberty and law the foundations of em- pire." The next generation says: What my fathers founded I builded. I left the seashore to penetrate the wilderness. l planted schools and colleges and courts and churches"
 1Htn COInGS lIlS BentI Ol ln6 great Colonial day. "I stood by the side of England on many a hard-fought field. I helped humble the power of France. saw the lilies go down before the lion at Louisburg and Quebec. carried the cross of St. George in triumph in Mar unique and the Havana. l knew the stormy pathways of the ocean. followed tl,o bo1 ha fO ha Ant arctic seas, among tumbling mountains of ice and under equinoctial heat. As the great English orator said, No sea not vexed by my fisheries; no climate not witness to my toils.'
 Then com es the generation of the Rev olutionary time. T encountered the pow CT of England I declared and won the independence of my country. I placed that declaration on the eternal principles of justice and righteousness which all mankind have read and on which aii mankind will one day stand. I affirmed the dignity of human nature and the right of the people to govern themselves. I devised the securities against popular haste and delusion which made that right secure. created the supreme court and the Senate For the first time in history I made the right of the people to govern themselves safe and established institutions for that end which will en- dure forever"
 The next generation says: "I encoun- tered England again. I vlndicated the right of an American ship to sail the seas the wide world over without moles- tation. I made the Am erican sailor as safe at the ends of the earth as my fathers had made the American farmer safe in his home. I proclaimed the Mon roe doctrine In the face of the Holy Ali ance, under which sixteen republics have joined the family of nations. I filled the Western Hemisphere with republics from the lakes to Cape Horn, each con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
CABINET MINISTER'S COME HIGH.

From the New York Post. ' A cabinet officer, who not very long ago retired to private life, started to build up anew his law practice. A corpor- ation case was sent to him by a broth CT lawyer. Meeting that lawyer later, the ex-cabinet minister asked what he ought to charge.
 What did you think of charging?" asked his friend
 Well" the reply was. 1T thought a thousand dollars would be about right"
 My dear fellow" the other lawyer re- sponded, If you do that you will never get another case. Ex-cabinet ministers are a luxury, If they are worth anything, Send a bill for s5O00 retaining fee and you will get a check tomorrow Then ad- just your regular charges at your leisure.
 The thing was done. with the result predicted. It is said that the gentleman in question made in a month as much as the sum of his salary during his entire O -icial term.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
The General Conference.

"I suggested some time ago that an or ganized effort be made to have the Meth odist general conference select Birming- ham as the place for next meeting, and I was glad to read today that Blrming- ham was put in nomination yesterday" said prominent layman.
 "The general conference meets every four years, and while Birmingham would have been prepared to entertain this great body this year, 1t will be all the better prepared in 1906.
 No city in the south has a larger or handsomer Methodist church than our First Methodist church. It Is admirably adapted for business sessions. Louisville and New Orleans are both after the gen. eral conference. but Birmingham ought to go to work and carry off the prize. The place for the next meeting will be acted upon by a committee, I understand, year from now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
GERMANY's BIG CANNON.
Gun Shooting Ninety Miles Should Be
 Peacemaker.

From Harper's Weekly.
 Things are picking up in the art of war. The cables bring word from Berlin of a cannon that will throw a projectile ninety miles, and the projectile may weigh couple of tons. If the machine will throw dynamite 1t need not throw so much. Half ton of dynamite equably distributed over New York would un- doubtedly provide ample spaces for re- building. The cables describe this pleas ing new invention as an electro-magnetic affair. It uses no powder or other explo- sive in throwing the shell. No details of the invention are given, but it is easy to see how a series of electro gnets set at convenient spaces along the length of barrel might do the trick. The ball would be drawn forward by a powerful magnet. and Just as the latter reached the moment of maximum intensity in the magnetic field 1t could be made to strike some little mechanism which would break the electric circuit of the magnet; in an instant the magnet would be dead and the momentum of the shell would carry 1t into the field of the next magnet of the series along the tube. Powerful electro magnets are made nowadays capable of lifting a ton or so, and half dozen of them would give tremendous velocity to a heavy ball. As there would be no concusson in the discharge of the gun, it could carry the highest and most dead- ly explosives known. It would be cheap, too both to build and operate, for prac- the big guns of today have an average life of but 100 shots. It would be noise less and smokeless, and as a projectile at high speed Is invisible for the most part battery could operate without in the least disclosing its whereabouts. And armies would have no warning of it's presence until the rain of hail which 1t could produce came down upon them. No wonder artillery experts in Europe are said to be excited. The invention is described as the work of Prof. Brke- land, "a Norwegian physicist" If this be the distinguished professor of physics at Christiana, 1t may be set down that the invention is not a cable yarn. At any rate, we hope it isn't gun that will shoot ninety miles might inconveniently reach the people who make war-Con- gressmen and kings and such-and ex- pose them to danger. The moment this result Is attained 1t may safely be pro- phesied that war will have come to an end
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
DIDN'T THRASH THE JUDGE.
Case In Which Discretion Was the
 Better Part of Valor.

From the New York Tribune.
 At term of the Nash County Superior Court, North Carolina, held by Judge William H. shipp, the jury brought in a verdict which the judge did not approve. and he told the jury that they had com mitted perjury, or they were set of fools and did not have sense enough to sit on a jury. One of the jurors was MT. Westray, who had been graduated from the state university, was a large landowner, and was known as the most successful farmer In the county. He was indignant over the insult offered the jury. and determined that for one he would not submit to it, provided he could resent 1t without going to jail.
 So at the recess for dinner MT. Westray approached the judge and asked him. as a matter of law appertaining to the pre- negatives of a judge. if he, the judge, had any authority by law to say what he did to the jury. Judge Shipp answered that he certainly did have that right by law, otherwise he would not have exercised 1t. MT, Westray then put this question: Judge Shipp, if I should here and now proceed to give you a genteel thrashing for what you said to the jury, would you take 1t like a man for your part as an in- dlvidual, or would you fall back on your judicial prerogatives and put me in jail?"
 The judge said in that event the pre- negatives would come into play and be mighty handy, and that he would board MT Westray at the expense of the county for two years. MT. Westray then said: "Very well, judge, If that he the case, we will forego the thrashing," and walked off
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
TRUST YOUNG PHIL.

From the Nebraska State Journal.
 Young Phil Sheridan graduated at West Point along with sixty-six other youthful warriors, and he modestly stood in his marks number fifty-eight. lie wasn't an honor man, you see But then he is said to be great fighting stuff like b,s father. When one remembers that the man who carried off the highest non ors in the history of West Point grad uates was Capt. Carter, the gentleman now languishing in the penitentiary TOT stealing, the value of a high rank IS not impressive. Probably young Phil VIII know enough to keep out of the pen a,,o, if he was tolerably low down on the list for credit marks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
ROTH WERE TOO LARGE.

From the Rochester Democrat anu
 Chronicle.
 A Washington newspaper man recently wrote an article dealing with the size or Senatorial fortunes. He put down the two New Jersey Senators, kean ana Dryden, for s2.OOO,OOO and s5OooOOo respec- lively. A day or two after the article was n,,h,ished Senator Kean met the writer and said. You put me altogether LOO high. but, confidentialiy, you didn't put Dryden high enough" Half an hour later the newspaper man met Senator Dryden, who said: 'I wish l were halr as rich as you give me credit Tor peing' hut VOL surely know that Kean Is worth more than g. 900 0OO."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
Woman Accidentally Shot.

New Orleans, May 27-The wife of Hon. F. L. St. Martin was accidentally shot aLd killed today at her home on St George plantation, just above the city. While arranging her dresser she knocked over double-barreled shot gun loaded with No. shot in such way as to receive both charges in tho face and cleat, resulting ih instant death. Before her marriage she WIS Miss Angelo Maroni,e, one of the mosr talented young ladies of the State. and daughter of fne of the oldest and most respected citizens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
Officers Arrested for Cruelty.

San Francisco. May 27. - United States Commissioner Heacock issued warrants here for the arrest of Captain K. P. Mar tins and First Officer W. G. Hardstedt of the army transport Burford on charges of cruelty to sailor on the high seas. The charges are made by B. Beckhoefer, third cook of the transport, who claims to have been triced up for an hour and half. Captain Martins asserts that this punishment was only continued for fif- teen minutes. Other charges were that the vessels brig where the men slept was overcrowded and in an unsanitary condition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
The School Children.

"The public school children will make a fine appearance Thursday, when they turn out in honor of General Fitzhugh Lee" said MT. John L. Parker of the Board of Education
 There will be quite an army of them, and their thorough discipline will make an excellent impression on the distin gushedf visitor and the people of Bir mingham as we'll This city has a splen- did school system. All that we need Is more school buildings and large high school with a technological department. All these things will come in time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
MISCHIEF ON LAND AND SEA-"
By Robert Herrick.

By Robert Eerr1ck.
 The hag is astride
 This night for to ride, The devil and she together;
 Through thick and through thin, Now out and now in, Though ne'er so foul be the weather. A thorn or burr
 She takes for a spur, With ailash of a bramble she rides now, Through brakes and through briars, Der ditches and mires, She follows the spirit that guides now. No beast for his food
 Dare now range the wood, But hushed in his lair he lies lurking; While mischief, by these,
 On land and on seas, At noon of night are a-working.
 The storm will arise
 And trouble the skies, This night and more the wonder;
 The ghost from the tomb
 Affrighted shall come, Called out by the clap of the thunder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
Vote and Jury Dodainq.

The last New York Legislature struck blow at both vote shirkers and jury shirkers. "The best" citizens in the cities of the State have long neg lected to qualify themselves as voters. They have refused in other words to cause their names to be entered on the registry lists. In this way they have escaped both their duty at the polls and in the jury box. In New York City alone it is estimated that fully 10000 persons in this way avoid pub lie duties. Bishop Potter recently showed that there was scarcely a voter on a well-known fashionable street in that city.
 The Legislature took this problem in hand, and it passed law provid- ing that list shall be made and pub lished of all those who 70 not qualify themselves to vote by registering their names, and that this list shall consti- ute a special preferred jury list from which all jurors are to be drawn, and no registered voters are to be drawn until the list of non-registered persons is exhausted.
 Jury lodging Is almost as harmful as vote lodging, and it is hoped the New York law will cure both evils. Its effect and efficiency will be watched with interest. There are always ways in which men can be made to do their duty to the State, and the New York Legislature has perhaps adopted a very wise and practical one.
 The evils complained of are much less in degree as one goes from the large cities to the lesser ones, and from the latter to the rural sections, where as a rule there is very little neglect of public duties. The vote dodger and the jury dodger are not wholly lacking in these, however, but the evil appears there In a modified form, and 1t is in the cities alone that the twin evils appear in distressing degree. New York will endeavor to remedy its part of the trouble, and the experiment will be closely and interestingly watched, especially if the law be given a fair trial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
Brilliant Music.

"The choirs of the Catholic churches in this city will render exceptionally beauti- full music next Sunday on the occasion of the confirmation services" said a Catholic singer.
 'The bishop will confirm a large class at the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows Sunday just after the o'clock mass, and a larger class at St. Paul's at the end of will include twenty or twenty-five adults. sixty-five children from the congregation and a number of children from St. An thonys church at Ensley."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
SuppIv and Demand.

There has been a seeming scarcity of chickens in the market this spring, but the increased demand accounts for the condition referred to-" remarked Nor ris avenue merchant. As far as l can learn there is just as much spring poul- try in Alabama and Tennessee as there was last season, but the demand is sim ply greater than the supply.
 Birmingham Is consuming more food this year than ever before, and other cities will doubtless report similar condi- tions. There are certainly not enough chickens to go round.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 It is so easy to make friends that mo- body has any that are genuine,
 man knows he loves by what joy he feels a woman by what she suffers.
 It Is the six-foot man with the square jaw that is led around by a little bunch of petticoats.
 An old wife and young husband have one chance in a thousand to be happy. but they never take 1t.
 It is the easiest thing in the world to make woman understand a thing if only you won't reason with her about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
Sober Men.

"I can remember when the commercial traveller who could drink the most whis- ky sold the most goods, but today the drummer who drinks little liquor is the T. P. A.
 '"rhe members of our association are noted for their sobriety. The majority of them are total abstainers and few of them are what might be called free drinkers. The liquor habit Is certainly thing of the past so far as drummers are con- cerned."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
U. s. Consul Williams Dead.

Laredo, Tex, May 27.-A Monterey, Mex, special says; Arthur Williams, U. s. consul at Saltillo, Mexico. after short illness, died from meningitis this morning at the Monterey Hos pital. MT. Williams had been in the consular service but short time. He was member of well-known family of Manchester, N. H.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
THE CAROLINA ROW.

From the New York World
 When Senator Tillman came out of the Senate chamber the afternoon he and Senator McLaurin had their fisticuff he met a Senate employe and said:
 "Well. did I make a fool of myself?"
 The Senate employe fidgeted and re- piled:
 "I cannot answer that question, Senator Tillman. If I said Yes I would not be showing proper respect to Senator and if I said No I would be a liar"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
The Cotton Crop.

"rhe governments cotton report will be due June 3, and the most important information 1t will contain will be the extent of the acreage" said a prominent cotton buyer.
 There has been a large planting enough for an eleven million or eleven million and a quarter crop. If the weather continues favorable I will expect to see a little over Il, ,0OO, 900 bales"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Ice Cream and cooI Weather.

"This cool wave checks our business as a matter of course" said a soda water and ice cream merchant last night.
 My place is usually crowded every af- ternoon and night, but customers are very scarce this evening. I do not sup pose the saloon trade is effected by sudden drop of the mercury, but in my business hot weather is what we pray for every day of the summer season."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
Demand Increases.

'All the available space In the Wood ward office building was leased before work had been advanced beyond the first story, and if the building had been plan ned for fifteen stories instead of ten, there would have been no vacant rooms after 1t was completed" said a business man.
 'The demand for office space increases steadily and Birmingham will easily sup port two or three skyscrapers and the old buildings will still have tenants"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28

Up in New York an umpire tweaked visiting shortstop's nose, and then there was peace. The worm will turn now and then.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28

The Senate judiciary committee says Texas must reform herself. She must in herself learn that the burning of human beings is cut of date to say me last.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28

There are hitches in the peace ne gotiations at Pretoria, but all feel the war is over and tha, peace will be the final Cgtcome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28

The dove is still towering over South Africa, and it has until June 26 to alight and make things comfortable to all con1 rrned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28

The Tammany triumvirs are freely discussed, and each and every one of them Is unlike the late MT. Nixon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28

Mont Pelee will soon erupt on deserted island. France should take away all the poor of the island, fully 100000 in number.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28

General Funston is doing a lot or thinking anent Senator Hoar's speech, but no talking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28

Numbers and resources tell as the brave Boers can testify. Missouri and the British were an overmatch for the two little republics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28

The Landis family can have any thing they want in Indiana, even the seat of veteran member of Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28

There Is nothing more unfashionable in Republican circles than estimates of the cost of the assimilation that is going on in the Philippines under such men as Hell Roaring Jake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
About Persona.
J. A. Bell of Atlanta is at the Morri.

J. A. Bell of Atlanta is at the Morris. R. H. Lawrence of Montevallo Is at the Morris.
 Julius Loeb of Montgomery is at the Morris.
 James Spence of Tuscaloosa is at the Morris.
 J. S. shannon of Carbon Hill at the Morris.
 Joe Dreyfus of Montgomery is at the Morris.
 All the hotels are well filled this week
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28

Count de Rochambeau had to wait a long time for his monument but so did George Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28

Uncle Sam has reached the bric-a- brac stage, and his stock is rapidly accommodating.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28

Senator Hanna is now accused or causing the hard coal strike by his want of tact
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28

Rochambeau is cn his Amercon pedestal at last. Better late taan never.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28

Queen Wilhelriaa is out of doors again, anc those German schemers are out in tue cold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28

The 271s per cent tariff on beef will reappear to vex the Republicans lnls fall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28

We know as little about the interior of the earth as we do about the North Pole.