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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19
GOV. TAFT FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
From Inc Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
 There isn't much doubt that Gov. Taft of the Philippines would make a popular candidate for president on the re- publican ticket. He is an able man, and he Is, what vice-presidents haven't al- ways been, a good man to be president, should the emergency arise that called him into the higher office. We say this because it seems to us that he has acted with wisdom and discretion in the place he now holds. We don't think. however, that the time has come when a man can be induced to take the vice-presidency on the assumption that 1t may make him president, and we trust 1t may never come. Gov. Taft, it Is understood. is in a way to be made judge of the United States supreme court before long, if pres ent expectations are realized, and we would rather see him waiting for that office than consenting to take the vice. presidency. We can't have too good a man in the latter place. unless the oppor- tunity Is offered to him to be more use- full in another; but we think this latter Is the case with Gov. Taft.
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eomery paper which stated that he was district attorney'' of the Illinois Central. and it was intimated that on account of his position with the Central he did not appear before the railroad commission at Montgomery to make an argument for lower freight rates. Captain White says that while he has taken some cases for the Illinois Central he has no official con nectlon with the road; that the reason he did not go to Montgomery was simply because he was engaged in the Havis- Wise cases
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

H-HE great forest fires that have (CD been raging fiercely in the cas-
 tern and Atlantic coast states have destroyed millions of feet of fine timber. Perhaps on account of the losses they have caused few people have com menteds on the sublime beauty of a great forest fire at night, especially if the flames engirdle some lofty mountain peak where they can be seen to their full ex- tent An artist could have obtained an inspiring subject from the forest fires and perhaps many of them did. as the oppor- tunity Is seldom offered to study a vast conhagration with the cooInes and thor oughnes which distant fire on the noun talns offers Describing recent fire on one of the Maine mountains the Lewiston Journal says;
 Tn spite of the fact that thousands of dollars worth of timber was being de- stroyed, the people of Blaine say that the forest fires on Mars IIill Mountain last week furnished a glorious and awful spec tacle. It was in reality mountain of fire, the flames roaring in all the fury of a demon. Here and there some monarch of the forest, all afiame, would be sil- houtted against the sky, its branches agiow as with rows of tiny lights. Then a gust of wind would cause the flames to leap and tear from limb to limb In- stead of burning tree, 1t looked like huge bonfire. with nothing definite and distinct except the wild sheet of fame A leap from this charred, naked tree to another. and then the spectacle would be repeated with a new victim. On the other side of the mountain the fire seemed to encviop everything, transforming the for est into q monster of destruction against which man was powerless."
 Attention has been called by a London dispatch to the remarkable increase of suicides among the physicians of Eng land. The same conditions exist In the ed on by sociological students, but no physician has attempted to show why so many members of his profession destroy themselves. Since 1891. or in twelve years and half. 519 physicians have committed self-murder. Recent statistics show no decrease in the rate.
 A foreign statistician says that one reason for the proneness of medical men to commit suicide is the fact that the colleges are turning out more physicians than there is any need for and as a re- suit of the modern sanitary system, the public health is much improved From
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
7rom the New York Press.

From the New York Press
 A man begins to want to get married to a woman when she begins to want him to want to-
 Give a man nothing and he will be thankful it was not less; give him some- thing and he will rage because it was not more.
 Women would never make good burglars because they would waste all their time looking under all the beds of every house they broke into from force of habit
 Generally when you say something to a woman that doesn't mean anything you can make her believe 1t was awfuIly wicked if you act as If yop were afraid somebody else might have heard 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19
About Persona.

Roscoe W. German, a newspaper man of Opelika, is at the Hotel Hillman.
 J. J. Garland of St. Louis is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 F. J. o'connel of Decatur is at the Morris.
 H. L. Thompson of Pittsburg Is reg istered at the St. Nicholas.
 c. S. McManus. general superintendent of the Southern railway with headquar ters at Chattanooga. is registered at the IIillman.
 o. L. Mitchell of Cincinnati Is at the St. Nicholas.
 Capt. Frank s. White. said yesterday that he had read paragraph in Mont
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19
RAi
 PLUMES AR.
From Town and Country.

 From Town and Country.
 N REGENT shipment of forty os- VV triches to Nice. on the borders
 of Italy and France, from Cali fornia, directs attention to this growing California industry--the culture of the African ostrich in America. Just about fifteen years have elapsed since the American ostrich farmers gave their first serious attention to this subject. Now the ostrich industry is we'll established In the United States. some 800 birds exist ing In, the country, and these will doubt less form the nucleus of that immense number that one day will cover the mesas of Southern California, the meadows of Arizona, the vast plateaus of Texas and the everglades of Florida, as their kind do the African veldt today.
 The ostrich has come to stay. He costs little to lxeep-not more than the ordinary sheep-and yields an annual value of $So to the proprietor. The creature is hardy and of a careless appetite. The average increase to the stock each year Is be- tween fften and twenty ostriches to a pair. Some have been known to produce as many as thirty-seven in a year. The birds are kept in pens in California and a source of revenue has been found in ex- hibiting them to many tourists who are attracted there. Incubators showing ths various stages of ostrich life are also on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19
Peonaoe in Politics.

The administration is reported to be taking lively interest in the peonage cases, and it reports with evident sat lsfaction the finding of eighty indict- ments, with the probability of many more. District Attorney Reese of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

The Fourth of July comes on a Sat urday this year, and there will be, therefore. a full day to recuperate in before a weeks work is taken up. This does not, however, fit this latitude.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

Peonage and the cutting down of southern representation will both be recited in the republican national plat form, and both will do duty next year on the republican stumps. They are the latest form of the bloody shirt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

Lesser Birmingham is to have thirty eight letter carriers. This number will do very well In the contracted, tax lodging bounds of the city. Greater Birmingham will need full hundred
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

While we use at home one-third of the crop. and the number of our own spindles is constantly increasing, yet we are able i'll the present fiscal year to export more dollars worth of cotton than ever before were sent out in a single year On July 1 we will have established a new record in this re- spect.
 This re-establishes the kingship of cotton. All breadstuffs exported in this fiscal year will aggregate in value only s21s, s,00o.0o0; all provisions, only sz30.000, ,000, and 1t is only by bunch ing together all sorts of manufactured articles, including those made from cotton, that an item can be formed which exceeds raw cotton in value. Raw cotton constitutes nearly one- fourth of the country's exports.
 The United States grows three fourths of the cotton of the world, and if ten-cent cotton becomes a fixture it will grow all the world needs. A crop of 15,000,000 bales will be grown before the next census is taken, and 1t may be that the world will by that time need all of 1t. A crop of twelve million bales would be readily absorbed in the next cotton year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

It is Peter the First, King of Servia, by virtue of several cowardly midnight assassinations. It is, however, gooi title for military usurper, who is but a tool of Russia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

A majority of the country would be glad to see Colombia reject the Pan anna treaty at the instance of the transcontinental railroads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

Senator Tom Platt Is trying to shove the postoffice irregularities onto Grow CT Cleveland He says the Princeton sage began it. If SO, and the New York senator knew it, he became par ticeps criminis, or words to that eff feet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

The Servian palace slaughter has sc-ved to give Seryia place on the map of the average citizen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19
GENERAL WHEELER SPEAKS OUT

From the Mobile Register.
 Gen. Jo Wheeler has at length caught up with the Atlanta story and given it good trouncing. The effect would be bet ter however if the name of the Atlanta liar were made public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

The western rivers are crawling back into their own proper beds after a frolic of unusual proportion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

Kentucky is not only the dark and bloody ground, but it is also called the Land of Sudden Death"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

Prices in the New lork stock ex- change go up and down, but the latter generally has the best of 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

Russian intrigues in Manchuria will become acute in September, and pluclxy Japan is getting ready for the occasion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

Stocks are low in New York, but the sellers are wholly willing to let their aqueous securities go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

President Diaz has caught the Pen nypacker lunacy. and has suppressed a sassy" cartoon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

Chicago and Pennsylvania both had June snow storms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

King Peter should consult his army as to his own finish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

Queen Draga possessed the fatal gift of beauty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

Russia promptly vetoed a republic In Seryia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

The Standard oil crowd unloaded at the beginning of the great bear cam paign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

All three Shamrocks are here. but one is discredited and out of commis- sion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

The rats are aeserting the shipping trust, which points the way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

When kings are killed like rats the king business loses its glamour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

). P Morgan is needed at home to look after his collapsing ship trusts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19
Cotton Heads the Export List.

The fiscal year will be ended in a few days, and it is already well as- certained that the value of exported cotton will be s3117,0O0,oO0, or $4.00O,- 900 more than was received from the crop of 1901, which is at present the banner year. More bales were ex- ported in 1901. but the realized price was less than this years. We give some recorded results of past years:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19

wasted time, and now time doth waste me.
 king Richard II.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-19


 ----.s--- Prices in the New lork stock ex- change go up and down, but the latter generally has the best of It.
  Kentucky is not only the dark and bloody ground, but 1t Is also called the Land of Sudden Death" Stocks are low In New York, but the sellers are wholly willing to let their aqueous securities go.
  President Diaz has caught the Pen nypacker lunacy, and has suppressed a sassy" cartoon. The Standard oil crowd unloaded at the beginning of the great bear cam paign.
 All three shamrocks are here. but one is discredited and out of commis- sion.
 ). P Morgan Is needed at home to look after his collapsing ship trusts.
 ----.------- When kings are killed like rats the king business loses its glamour.
  The rats are oeserting the shipping trust, which points the way.
 --------s------ King Peter should consult his army as to his own finish.
 ---s----- Chicago and Pennsylvania both had June snow storms.
  Queen Draga possessed the fatal gift of beauty
 Russia promptly vetoed republic ln Seryia. GENERAL WHEELER SPEAKS OUT D
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-03

that Governor Shepherd did in develop
ing the mines during his long residence
| in Mexico, and paying a high tribute 10
his fidelity and value to the company,
Mr. Stevens says:
And here l cannot forbear saying a
word concerning the sensational para
graphs that have appeared in many
newspapers setting forth the great
wealth OF Governor Shepherd. AS a
matter OF fact. his wealth consisted
solely of the stock he held in the Bato-
pilas company. 1t is well known that
his holdings were large, and his unbound
ed faith in their ultimate value never
wayered or changed.
There is even less truth in the fanci-
full tales of the luxury in which he lived.
Life in Batopilas is life of labor and
extreme simplicity. The dwelling house
in a one-story adobe building, one room
deep, and substantially the same as Gov
Iernor Shepherd found it in 1880. The
furniture is simple. and the table, while
as good as that barren region will af-
ford, is meager. There is, perhaps, no
stakeholder Of our company residing in
the United States whose home is not
better furnished and more amply pro-
yided.'
1t will be remembered that in some
OF the published statements Cover
nor Shepherds wealth was variously es-
timated at from $4,000, 900 to $4,000, 000
Mr.. Stevens statement that all his
wealth consisted in stock of the Bato-
pilas Mining Company shows that the
estimates OF the Immediate value of his
estate were entirely erroneous. There
are stockholders il this city who know
that, at present, the dividends on their
stock would not be counted in their as
sets, and the late governors holdings
are in the same condition.
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the present form of government grew
out of that of the Territory OF the Dis
trict of Columbia, and not out of the
city governments of Washington and
Georgetown, and Alexandria"
B. H. Warmers Tribute.
B. H. Warner said: Il knew Governor
shepherd personally for thirty-five years,
and he was one of the broadest- minded
and most Christian men 1 ever knew.
He was warm in his friendships and
bitter in his enmities. He was quick
in decision, decisive in action, ambitious
in the extreme. He saw only results
when he made up his nina to act, and
while regarded by many as ambitious
and reckless, he was the right man for
just such an enterprise as starting the
development of Greater Washington.
which required an absolute departure
from ali the precedents which had been
followed in the administration OF the
municipal government.
For many years l lived opposite him
during the summer, and have often
driven home with him and heard him
say Is the game worth the GAMBLER His
light of labor has gone out, but his bril-
liant record in connection with the
growth of our Capital City will remain
imperishable written on the pages Of
local history"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-03
POLICE IN FIGHT WITH
THREE BAD SOLDIERS
Disturbers of the Peace Arrested
After Long Chase.

An exciting chase after three soldiers
occurred last night along B Street, be-
tween Eighth and Fourteenth Streets
The men had assaulted Policeman
Cooper, of the First precinct, and made
desperate attempt to get away on
finding themselves in close quarters.
To capture them required the COM
bined efforts of four patrolmen.
AT the station the soldiers gave their
names as Lewis Genten, John Brown.
and Nickel Lacy They are members
of the Engineer Corps, stationed ct the
Washington Barracks. All three We're
held on the charge of assault. and will
Monday.
The trio become involved in a quar-
rel at Fourteenth and B Streets. They
created a disturbance, and the noise at
tracted Policeman Cooper He ordered
them TO dispense, and in return for in
terfering was attacked by Lacy, the
brawniest of the three.
Fearing the odds were too great.
Cooper blew his whistle for aid and
Policemen Croft. Murphy, and Austin
responded. With the appearance OF the
enforcement, the army men showed
signs of fright, and tried TO escape, each
taking a different direction.
In their flight through the streets,
the fleeing soldiers bowled over several
pedestrians. The affair caused much
excitement in the vicinity, and large
crowd collected when the assailants
were finally captured They were then
marched TO the station.
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tended by honors such as can only be
given to the dead
Although n new generation has grown
up and new population has come into
the District in the thirty years since
Governor Shepherd began his great work
here, l think there is no District man
whom the people of the District hold in
greater honor, or owe grea ter gratitude,
and they will doubtless show it in every
possible way The new interest in the
National Capital so marked since our
centennial celebration of two years ago,
has given the people of the whole coun
try a new interest in Governor Shep-
herd, who is now generally recognized
as the man who made the new Washing
ton possible.
Aided by General Grant.
"A young man of remarkable force
and courage, he did in three years, sup
ported by President Grant and a friendly
Congress, what had to be done to start
the National Capital on lines OF i'm
provement which would make it what
George Washington planned. 1t was
great task; it had to be done hurriedly,
and it was done roughly and at times
extravagantIy. But that is the only
way, apparently, in which such things
are ever done, and We can pardon ali
faults in the method for the sake of the
results that we see and foresee.
I'VE owe the government of the Dis
trict of Columbia to Governor Shep-
herd, well as the Improvement Of
Washington. Before his time Wash
ington and Georgetown were like coun-
try towns and the District of Columbia
had no executive government. He gave
the District its proper place between he
States and Territories. with all the ad-
vantages that status involves. Governor
Cooke and Governor Shepherd were the
predecessors of the Commissioners and
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Distinguished Citizens TO Re
cefOe Casket at Railroad
Station and Escort It to
the Church.
L1fern1ent to Be Made at Rock
Creek Cemetery = Former
Colleagues to Scribe as
Honorary RaHbearers.

Washington will receive all that is
mortal of one of its distinguished sons
tomorrow. and will do honor to the
memory of Alexander Shepherd. COVER
nor OF the District in the formative
days of its present government. The
ceremonies of the funeral will be SIM
pie, dignifed. and impressive, fitting
tribute to the genius which left it's mark
forever on the National Capital.
The funeral party will be met at the
train by a committee of citizens. The
remains will be escorted from the sta
tion TO the church. where. at a later
hour, simple religious exercises will take
place before the body is consigned TO
its final resting place in Rock Creek
Cemetery. This, in outline, will CON
stitute the obsequies of one of the
brightest men Washington ever pro-
duced.
Expression of Public Sentiment.
The ceremonies have been planned to
give expression TO the public esteem OF
q rugged character, the imprint of which
remains upon the map OF this city in its
streets and avenues, and the order and
magnificent proportions of the Nation s
Capital It was this man, who lifted
Washington out of the village mire and
set II upon stable urban foundations.
whom it is the privilege OF the citizens
to honor.
The funeral car bringing the remains
of Governor Shepherd and his family to
Washington Will arrive tomorrow morn
ing at 6:47 O'Clock over the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway. The funeral party
will be met by W. F. Mattipgly, chair
man of the general committee; Commits
sioner Macfarland. and friends of the
family. The members of the funeral
party will be driven TO the houses OF
friends. and the remains will be taken
charge OF by W. R. Speare, the UNDER
taker. and will be retained at the sta
tion until the hour appointed for the
escort to the church.
At $3.50 O'Clock the remains will be
carried 10 the New York Avenue PresDy-
terrain Church, escorted by a body o.
citizens and the District militia. The
route of the procession will be along
Pennsylvania Avenue to Fifteenth Street,
thence TO New York Avenue, and thence
the church. The several divisions Of
r>crt will form on Pennsylvani;.
TO 500 o'clock, and be
promptly at the time de-
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TRIBUTES TO GOVERNOR
SHEPHERDS MEMORY

The news Of Governor Shepherd s
sudden death came as a shock which in
creased its sorrow. 1t suggests strik-
ingly the incompleteness of ali things in
this life" said Commissioner II. B. f..
Macfarlaad. Governor Shepherd was
looking forward to coming home TO stay,
and we were hoping that he would soon
have that contamination OF his desires
when he was suddenly cut of, far away,
in his self-imposed exile before his wife
can get to him. Their home coming Will
be very different from that which they
planned. But it will doubtless be at
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The Funeral Cortege.
The formation OF the escort will

The formation OF the escort will be:
Platoon Of mounted police.
Marshal and aides.
Brigade Band, ID. G.. y. G..
First Battalion and Second Battalion, D. c. y g.
Regiment Of High School Cadets
Separate Battalion, High School Cadets.
Lieut. Col Burton Il. Ross.
Honorary pallbearers-
Active pallbearers-
The remains OF the late Governor Shepherd
Relatives Of the deceased
The Commissioners of the District Of Columbia
Representatives OF the Association OF Oldest
Inhabitants.
Farmer associates OF Governor Shepherd in the
corporation of Washington and the
District government.
Heads OF departments in TN. District government
Detail District Fire Department, twenty men
Representatives Of the Batopilas Mining
Company.
Delegates from Gurley Memorial Presbyterian
Church.
Representatives OF the Columbia Historical
Society.
Board Of directors Of the Washington Board
% Trade
Delegation from the Business Mems Association
Representatives Of various citizens associations.
The general public.
Twelve members Of the National Rifles OF 1851
will parade IS a guard Of honor, and Will accom-
pany the remains, six marching on each side OF
the hearse.
Honorary and active pallbcarers viii assemble
al the funeral ear within the Pennsylvania Rail
road station O'Clock, carriages being IN
position on the west side Ct Sixth Street Oppo-
cite the station and facing north.
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PROPERTY ALL IN THE
MINES AT BAT0PILAS

The report of L. S. Stevens, secre-
tary OF the Batopilas Mining Company,
of it's operations in the year 1902. which
is just out. may perhaps explain some
publications in regard to the wealth
of the late Governor Shepherd that were
made at the time OF his death
After reviewing the stupendous work