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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-08-28

H. Johnsoa family Who has besn quits
~ ebe ~ ~ Nv days y improving.
~. Slnaa Terry ~ viis and Mn
Anna Terry dinsd with Af. and Ars. g.
W. Brown q sunday dinner.
Mn. virginis Johason y suGsripg from
. severe altack Of Sheumatism.
NJ. and Mrs. Thomas Pattoa. and
Mechanics La, Ray. and Washington,
wsss eatsrtainsd ~ Mr. and Mn Starks
and daughter Alice, It 6:C0 O'Clock tea
GA Tuesday last
Better late than never--the coming
picnic.
Don't forget to call on George W.
Brown Tor baggage delivery OF any kind.
Goods promptly delivered to Or from any
part Of town. Old phone 500.
Mrs. Andy Les who has been visiting
her sister, Mrs. Thoe. Haston for the last
wo months. returned to her home In H.
dora, kans.. last Thursday.
Altar bret illness Mr., Fred Taborn
has returned to his work at Shandelmeir's
sample ROOM.
Well ] guess George has . licence to
have the Sill head.
After two months visit with her sis
ter, Mrs.. Flora Ray, accompanied By the
afore mentioned sister, Mrs. Thomas Pat.
ton, returned to her home in MAYHEM.
Mo-, last Thursday morning. The latteS
viii make four weeks visit in Missouri
and Kansas.
Really John it il to bad that Des Moines
didn't win when you put SO much conf.
dence in them too. Bright days ahead.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-08-28
CHICAGO CENTENNIAL, SEPTEM-
Der e6TH TO OCTOBER 1ST.

The Passenger Department Of the
Chicago & North Western ny is distri-
buting an edition of a pamphlet which
contains q synopsis of the Entertain
ment Committee for the celebration of
the tooth anniversary of the white set
Element Of Chicago, and setting forth
the outline of very attractive pro-
gramme indeed. The train service be-
tween Chicago and the west and north
west via The North. Western Line is
such as to place all points within easy
reach of Chicago. Arrangements for
low rates will be announced later.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-08-28
HALF RATES TO CENTENNIAL
CELEBRATION AT CHICAGO
AND RETURN.

Via the North western Line, Excur-
sion tickets will be sold st one fare
Tor the round trip September IS. go
and 30. limited to return until Oct. :,
Inclusive. Tor further particulars ap-
ply to agents Chicago and North. Wes-
tern ny,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-08-28
HOMEsEEKERs' EXCURSION.

u One-way rate with two dollars ad-
ditional, for round trip tickets on sale
the Rrst and third Tuesdays of every
month, with limit for return twenty.
one days from date Of sale. See ticket
agents Of Minneapolis & st. Louis for
information as to rates, etc or address
"A. B. QUITS, G. P. & ia.
Minneapolis, MINI.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-08-28
Presents for Sultan Of Morocc,

J. w S. Langerman. Morocco's
commissioner to the world s fair, has
just bought the Moorish sultan
brace OF mules, number Of Angora
eats and goats, some fancy dogs and
: PAGER and q span Of nne carriage
horses. all Of Missouri breeding. The.
carriages horses were Bon md Blue,
well-known ribbon winnafA anl thsv
cOst the sulAaa 81. 600. ss3s
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-08-28
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Home. New Books, and on Work
about the Farm and Garden.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-08-28
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-14

s475; In villages Of from 5000 to TO-
600 inhabitants, from $500 to $3.50; in
smaller villages Of over 800 inhabi-
tants, from $500 to $500, and in coun-
try districts from 500 to $3.50. The
republican papers show that licenses
of this nature are higher in other
states, ranging from $1,000 in Boston
to 1000 in St Paul.
Some think a mortgage tax. not I'M
like the one recently adopted in this
state, would be preferable while 9TH
ers desire to see the tax on inher-
itances largely increased, but the
chances are that the liquor dealers
of New York viii be compelled to
pay the freight, at least until they can
compel the thirsty customers to re-
fund it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-14

From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
1 T is not a pleasant story that our
Washington dispatches yesterday con-
tanned as to the efforts making by the
various asprants for the republican NOM
nation for the Presidency to gain the sup
port of the negroes AS we have fire.
quently pointed out, In the south this
game Is necessarily hunt for delegates
only. But In this hunt, the negro politi
clans of the north may have a good deal
of influence. If they can organize inc
voters of their race, and II they can Sc
cure an efficient leadership, 1t is by no
means impossible that they can control
the balance Of power in the national cleo
ton 1t Is true that the conditions to be
fulfilled are not easy, but they may con-
ceivably be complied with, and the threat
of bolt that would determine the cleo
ton may be very effective.
1t has been so long the custom of the
negroes to vote almost solidly for the
republican candidates, that their strength
in numbers has not generally been un-
derstood We give below a little table
of seven states which cast their electoral
votes for Mckinley in 1900. with the re-
publican majority and the number of me-
groes of voting age in each, and the cleo
toral vote:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-14
CROWS AND THEIR WAYS.
New York World.

From the New York World
Crows and ravens appear In literature
| and mythology more often than any 9TH
er birds. Shakespeare mentions the
nightingale and the swan about ten
times each, the owl and swallow twenty
times. the dove thirty, he eagle forty
and the raven fifty. according to R. Bos-
worth Smith, writing in the Nineteenth
Century.
The raven is among birds what the
fox is among animals, the embodiment
of shrewdness. He is the favorite Of
the fable-makers in all languages.
The crow is often Sc in Greater New
York. According to Mr.. Smith, no raven
now comes within fifty miles Of Lon
DON and the tribe is nearly extinct in
England; pity. as it is really friend
of the farmer.
Roughly the crow lives over about
half of the entire land surface Of the
globe.
He Is the blacklist of birds. His legs
and claws are black-eyen the inside or
his mouth and his toni e. Hence many
| legends reciting that the crow was once
pure white but was turned black by the
gods In punishment for some offense.
White crows do exist-a species of al
binosm Black swans, once also sup
posed to be impossible, are more com
mon.
| Crows steal corn, but not II the corn
is smeared in coal tar before planting.
On the other hand, they are voracious
feeders upon worms and grubs that In
jure crops.
In England, where ravens grow wiser
as they become more scarce they VIII
sometimes fly for miles to steal from
farmers at a distance, neglecting nearer
crops. he same precaution is some
times taken by foxes.
Yankee lads believe that crows can
not count more than three. If four men
enter a barn and three go away the
watching crows conclude that the coast
/ Is clear for a descent upon the carbon
placed within range of the remaining
| mans gun.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-14
Cost of Public Roads.

The roads of Alabama are partic-
ularly bad this spring, On account of
the long-extended wet weather. They
are in fact nearly impassable-in many
places absolutely so, and this moves
the New Orleans Times-Democrat to
say:
THE Mobile Register points out a strilS-
ing case of the effect of bad roads in
Perry county, Ala, the county seat of
which-Marion-has been almost ruined
by the impossible condition of its high
ways. The farmers in a large portion of
Perry have been completely cut off from
Marion by the mud, and have been forced
to do their business with Centerville. in
Bibb county, or with Selma, in Dallas
county, both of which are much further
away but easier of access over the roads
THE amount of business thus lost to
Marion Is many times greater than a
good road would have cost to build
which would have brought this trade
there; and the people of Marion are con-
WINGED that good roads are not only ne
cessary but that they will pay. 1t is
probable that many other towns which
have suffered from an excess of rain and
consequent injury to their roads have
been similarly aroused good roads
movement in the south just now would
command a strong and earnest support.
Every one is in a position to better appre-
eiate good roads because of the execrable
ones they are now compelled to use"
But 1t is not the towns that suffer
the most from bad roads, but the
farmers, who cannot go to market.
They cannot carry produce to market,
or buy the supplies and fertilizers that
they must have in order to make
new crop. When the farmers are in
jured the towns are hurt, the farmer
being the basis of all prosperity in
the south, outside of this district and
a few others of a similar nature.
The burden of bad roads first falls
on the farmer, and through the farmer
it filters down to all other classes of
the population. 1t taxes all, sparing
none, and there is no heavier tax i'm
posed in Alabama than the tax that
follows and springs from bad roads.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-14
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Since no man has aueht Of what he
leaves, what is't to leave betimes.
Hamlet.
Water on the Mobile Bar.

The contract for the construction of
three additional dams in the Warrior
and Tombigbee, below Tuscaloosa, has
been let, and on October /, 1905, the
river will be fully opened from Tus-
caloosa to the sea to 6-foot slackwater
navigation all the year round.
But there is a trouble at the en-
trance of Mobile Bay that needs at
tention. There is not water enough
on the bar, and recently the battleship
Alabama was compelled to lie off shore
in the gulf, being unable to sail up the
bay to Mobile, because she draws rs
feet of water and could not cross the
bar. Other vessels desiring coal are
kept out for a like reason, and this
district cannot be fully developed un-
til there is at least 25 feet on the bar
of Mobile Bay, and shipbuilding plants
are established in or near Mobile.
The last congress appropriated $780,
900 for dredging purposes. This would
be ample if the government owned
big dredging boat, built and expressly
designed for use in Mobile Bay and on
its bar. Such boat would cost $780,
900, and it would be kept in Mobile
Bay at all times. The entire delega-
ton of Alabama should ask for an ap-
preparation next winter that would
build such boat, for every part of
the state is interested in the depth
of water on the bar and in the pros
perity of Mobile, it's sole seaport. A
big dredging boat would give in time
sufficient depth of water on the bar
and in the channel leading up 70 Mo-
bile itself, and the locks and dams in
the Warrior will do the rest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-14
PiQ Iron In February.

Five additional coke furnaces were
blown in last month, bringing the total
number of producing furnaces on
March 1 up to 2S4, with a weekly
capacity of 355,33S tons. This is a
new record. To this should be added
81 charcoal furnaces, with a weekly
capacity of 1909 tons. Such a produc.
ton is at the rate of about 10000
tons year. Furnace stocks are ac-
cumulating, standing on March l at
159,353 tons, as against 1854 tons on
February 1. How much the car short
age contributed to this result it is
difficult to say.
In this district there were on March
l thirty-four coke and four charcoal
furnaces in blast, and their weekly
capacity was 81 1872 tons. This district
has but seven idle stacks.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-14

Of the cartoon pictured the negro ques-
ton in the form of skeleton negro
fighting with a northern scribe who's
mission Is only TO stir up race trouble,
was about the best simple presentment
OF the question we have seen.
Under the cartoon was the suggestive
words In Effect: That the northerner had
more trouble over the empty negro ques-
ton than the southerner had with the
negro, which is quite true We have some
race trouble but 1t is very limited, when
we think of the fact that we have nearly
ten million negroes living mostly in the
south. A most remarkable thing is that
the negro Is happy dreaming of no race
problem while his pretended northern
friend is full of anxiety for the outraged
African. They would come to his rescue
and plead for peace between the races
which indeed would shock re negro with
surprise. and II there were any trouble
the northerner would only add fuel to
the fire. He knows nothing about the
negro and the southerner, only, can and
will regulate what little disturbance
there is and the sooner the north realizes
this fact the better it will be for white
and black alike.
The race problem meeting advised by
the Wisconsin legislative to be had in
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-14
LOUISIANA IRRIGATION.
! the Texas Trade Review.

From the Texas Trade Review.
Irrigation has done more for southwest
Louisiana than any other abstract force.
The God-given fluid was utilized by
pumping from rivers and bayous. and
the dancing waters were poured over the
thirsty land in summer. thereby bring
ing to it gladness and fertility. In Louis
lana, alone, there are over 200 pumping
plants, large a--d small, that water fully
10000 acres through their 1000 miles of
main canal and their 5000 miles Of lat
erals But the irrigating canal system
was fast becoming monopolistic in ten
dency and necessity, the mother of in
vention. has made every farmer a lord
within his 160 acres, for deep wells have
been sunk to tap mother earth for a
supply of water with which to irrigate
his crop. Louisiana now counts 700 of
these wells. ranging from six to- twelve
inches In diameter and irrigating l00,-
900 acres.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-14
JUDGE PARkER's "REeuLARlTY!

From the New York World
The stclxlers for regularity In the
democratic party-of whom William j.
Bryan is the chief, though in 1894 and
1895 he 'bolted" from the sound money
platform adopted by the democratic ma
tional convention at Chicago in lS92-pre-
tend that they are not satisfied as to the
record of Judge Alton B. Parker
They have no excuse for any uncertain
ty as to Judge Parker's regularity. The
question was raised when the latter was
candidate for his present position, in
1897. Judge Parker settled it In this let
ter
To the Hon. Elliott Danforth, Chairman
of the State Democratic Committee:
My Dear Danforth: 1t was entirely
right for you to bring to my attention
the question which the sincere friends
of Mr.. Bryan are pressing upon you.
can say to you frankly and sincerely
that you can assure them that | voted
for the last national nominee of the DEM
ocrate party, as | have voted for all the
regular democratic nominees since l had
vote. Yours very sincerely,
ALTON b. PARKER.
September %, 1897
Judge Parker did not say whether or
not he approved of the Chicago platform
Being a democrat with no streaks of pop
ulism in him. and having legal learning
and judicial mind, he could not possibly
have indorsed all of that extraordinary
hodge-podge of fads fallacies and follies.
His friends said for him that he exercised
the undoubted democratic right of pri-
vate Judgment In regard to the platform.
But he pushed party loyalty to an ex-
,tA1, arac of
tious democrats could not follow him in
..voting for the national nominees of
the party"
1t is, perhaps, a question whether this
regularity would help him as much In
the election as it might do in smoothing
the path to a nomination. But the re-
cord is clear
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-14
Yellow Fever and the Canal,

The isthmian canal is near at hand,
and the building of it will involve the
employment of many thousands of
men and the handling of vast amounts
of supplies, and frequent communica-
tipn}between our gulf ports and Colon.
Even the best of sanitation and care
will not prevent the spreading of yell
low fever at the isthmus, it being the
ordinary and endemic fever of that
locality The isthmus and it's towns
are never free from it, and it is not
reasonable to expect that even Ameri-
can sanitary methods can keep the
disease within bounds while construc-
ton work is progressing on a large
scale. 1t will not be possible to stamp
out an endemic disease before the
canal is completed. Afterwards 1t
may be done.
But while the work is going on
great care will be needed at all our
gulf ports In order to keep the fever
from gaining a foothold in this coun-
try This danger may not arise this
fall, for construction work will scarce
ly be begun before the fall season. But
next year extra good care will be
needful, and the Legislature in Septem-
Der should give the subject due at,
tention.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-14
Great Orators.

Z Birmingham has a number of strong
orators, but one of the most distinguish
ed pulpit men in the United States will
be heard at st. Pauls church tomorrow.
The Rev. Father Gaffney, o. p, of Mem
phis, will preach at the vespers service at
7:30. The 20. p" stands for Order of
Preachers, which is another title for the
famous Old Dominican order. All the
Dominicans make speciality of preaching
and all those who have heard Father
Gaffney agree that he Is a master of the
homiletic art
Father Doyle of Admission, another
priest noted for oratory of a high class,
is to deliver an address on St. Patrick
at st. Pauls next Tuesday night
And still another treat Is in store. The
Rev Dr. Stafford of Washington, the dis
tinguished preacher and Shakespeare
scholar will visit Birmingham and de-
liver a lecture on one of Shakespeare
plays soon after Easter. He will come
under the auspices of the Rev. Father
O'Reilly and the proceeds of the lecture
will be applied to the orphanage at East
Lake.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-14
L'ENvol.

BY Rudyard Kipling.
When earths last picture Is painted,
And the tubes are twisted and dried.
When the Oldest colors have faded,
And the youngest critic has died,
We shall rest-and, faith, We shall neef
it
Lie own for an aeon, or ITO,
Till the Master of all good workmen
Shall SCI US to work anew.
And those that were coed shall be happyi
They shall sit in golden chair;
They shall splash at a ten league canvas
With brushes of comets hair.
They shall find real saints to draw from
Magdalene, Peter and Paul;
They shall work for an age at sit
ting,
And never get tired at all.
And only the Master shall praise VI,
And only tine Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money,
And no one shall work for fame;
But each for the joy of the working,
And each in his separate star
Shall draw the thing as he sees 1t
For the God of things as they are
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-14
NEGROES MAY
INFLUENCE NOMINATION

Now McKinleys majority in the cleo
toral college was only 1877. and change
of slxty-nne votes would have been fatal
to him. II. as is not at all improbable,
at the next election the republican cam
ddate should not be as strong relatively
to the democratic candidate, 1t will be
seen that there are enough negro voters
in the six states to put the election in APP
probable danger. In every one of these
states except Ohio and New Jersey the
number of negroes is more than half the
majority; In Ohio it is very nearly one
half, and in New Jersey the majority
would only have to be cut down one
fourth, by 1900, to make the negroes
more than one-half With reduced re-
publican vote and an increased demo-
cratic vote. the negro leaders can make
claim to the possession or power which
politicians cannot and will not ignore.
We are quite aware that the negroes do
not necessarily cast their full vote. The
total vole cast at the last election for
President was only about two-thirds the
number of the population Of voting age,
but it was considerably less in proportion
than the popular vote of 1896. glance
at the table will show that If two-thirds
only of the negroes voted they would
still be more than one-half the republican
majority in the states of Delaware, Indi.
ana, Maryland and West Virginia and
nearly one-half in Kansas. We make ne
comment of the probable effect on the
character of the campaign from the or.
ganization of the negro vote. We simp1,
call attention to the fact that the power
of their leaders is sufficient to make the
assumption Of pure justice as the sole
motive of the candidates who are dealing
with them extremely hazardous.
Atlanta, will not meet with the approval
OF the negro friends south as they know
the least said about the trouble. the less
will be the trouble
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Not all men are bad, not all women
good.
The greatest passion In the world Is
vanity; the most powerful weapon fiat
terry.
There is no age at which a womans
heart will not melt to the man who smiles
upon her.
Beware the man who approaches you
with the promise that he has come to
do you favor.
1t is the little things that tell. A man
who is facing bankruptcy and dishonor
with a courageous smile will fly into
Mysteries when he can't get his collar
buttoned.
There will be some way OF understand
ing women when some one can explain
how a woman will think a matinee hero
is like god. and yet have her blood run
cold at the thought of her SON being like
him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-14
st. Louis Exposition Buildings.

1.-THE Louisiana Purchase exposition
will be ready to be thrown open by the
1st Of May, 1904, and 1t will easily sur
pass any worlds fair that has yet been
held" said o. A. Borden, southern man
ager of the Gidden Varnish company Of
Cleveland, with headquarters in st.
Louis. "The work of construction is well
advanced.
THE exposition grounds are inside the
city, but they are about five miles from
the business section. So excellent, how
ever, are the street car facilities of St.
Louis that the distance doesn't amount
to anything, There is a one-minute
schedule now all over st. Louis during
business hours and almost as good a
schedule after dark. l doubt If any city
in the United States has so fine street
car system as st. Louis"
Speaking of the varnish business, Mr.
Borden said 1t was more prosperous today
than ever. The rapidly increasing con-
sumption of furniture accounts chiefly
for the impetus to the varnish trade
There is no varnish trust, and all the
manufacturers, large and small, are in
lively competition with each other.