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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-11
BARR NOT GOING
 ID SOUTHERN BY
General Manager of Seaboard
 Denies the RumorS
STORY ABOUT R. R. CHANGES
Report That Spencer Would Become Chairman of Executive Committee of the Southern and Finley
 the President Revived.

The Atlanta Constitution of yesterday printed a special from Washington as fol- lows:
 .'Rumors of important changes in the Southern railway are revived by the an nouncement that J. M. Barr first vice president and general manager of the Seaboard, will shortly go with the South ern.
 "The slate as now prepared by those who indulge in the gossip is for MT. Spen- cer to become chairman of the board or directors or chairman of the finance com mittee, devoting his attention entirely to the financial end of the great system MT Finley to succeed him as president in ac- tive charge of the management of the operations of the system in all It's branches, and MT. Barr to succeed MT. Finley. The report of MT. Spencer mak- ing the change indicated and of MT. Fin ley being slated for the presidency has been printed several times in the Consti- tuition, only to meet with denial each time. But I have very excellent author- ity for again predicting such a shifting  rope which will be early in June, I un- derstand There Is. in my Judgment, every good reason to believe that this change Is only a matter of a short time, despite the official denials."
 The Rumor in Savannah.
 It also reproduced the following story from the Savannah Press of Wednesday: ''It is reported that J. M. Barr, general manager of the Seaboard Air Line, has been offered the place now held by Gen eral Manager c. H. Ackert with the Southern railway. The report, which has not so far been confirmed further states that he is to receive $5O0OO a year, which is an advance of s150OO a year over his present salary.
 ''Mr Barrs management of the Sea board Air Line has attracted great deal of favorable comment among railroad men, and 1t is on this account 1t Is claimed, that the Southern's management is after him. It seems certain that there are to be some radical changes In the management and policy of the Southern, a fact which Is emphasized by the removal of President Spencer from New York to Washington
 MT. Barr's Denial.
 The Age-Herald asked Vice President and General Manager Barr by wire last night if there was any truth in the ru- nor that he would leave the Seaboard Air Line and go into the Southern, and fais was his reply:
 Norfolk Va. April 10, 1903. E. w Barrett Editor of The Age-Herald, Birmingham, Ala:
 Telegram received. No truth whatever in report.
 J. M. BARR.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-11
SELF>DEFENSE WAS
 THE OFFICERS PLEA
Negro Said to. Have Struck the Con- stable and to Have Showed
 Fight. D

Coroner Paris went to the Smythe mines yesterday to investigate the killing of Henry Smith, a negro It is charged that Constable Sam Douglas shot the negro Thursday night.
 Douglas was arrested on a charge of manslaughter and gave bond after being heard before Justice of the Peace flaw kins.
 It is claimed that when the officer went to arrest Smith the negro struck him with a heavy stick which he had in his hand. The darkey showed fight and 1t Is alleged the constable shot him in self defense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-11
LILIES FOR GRAVE
 OF ". E. B. DAVIS
pR. HAoGARD OF THE SOUTHERN
 SURGEON AND GYNECHOLoGl- GAL ASSN WILL SEND OFFER ING IN BEHALF OF ASSOCIATION

The grave of pr. W. E. B. Davis in Oak Hill cemetery will be decorated with snowy and fragrant lilies Easter morning, and the people who will wander in and out the winding walks in Gods acre on Easter Sunday, and who will pause at the new made grave, which so many do every day, will see that the floral offering of Easter lilies has been sent by the secretary of the Southern Surgeon and Genealogical association, of which pr. Davis was president.
 It is fitting that flowers of Easter-tide covering the grave of the distinguished physician should be an offering from the men in profession that was honored by him and which he honored
 In the following letter from Dr. W. D. Haggard, secretary of the Southern Sur geen and Chronological association, to Mrs. W. E. B. Davis, Dr. Haggard asks the privilege of sending the floral offering:
 Nashville Tenn, April S. 1903. My Dear Mrs. Davis:-I want the privi- lege of decorating the grave of your dear husband, my friend, on Easter Sunday, in the name of the association which he founded and fostered and loved.
 I will send the lilies Saturday direct to you, so that your own hands may spread them for us. It would be needless for me to attempt to tell you what a great blow his death has been to me. You know something of his goodness to me and of my attachment to him, and on account of your own great loss you can know of the measure of the loss to oth- CTS who loved him: and we in turn can offer you something akin to the keenest sympathy.
 Believe me- most sincerely your friend,
 W. D. HAGGARD
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-11
REGISTRATION UNNECESSARY.
City Attorney Gives Opinion In Rela.
 ton to Regular Election.

City Attorney Ed Smith Is of the opinion that under the new constitution it will not be necessary to have registration for the general election on May 4. He has ad- vised Mayor Drennen of his opinion, and no special meeting of the mayor and board of aldermen will be called to ap- point registrars.
 At the next meeting of the board poll ing places will be selected and managers and clerks chosen.
 The new constitution provides who shall vote, the requirements of a voter being that he shall have paid his poll tax, if not exempt; shall have his life reglstra- tion certificate and shall have resided in the state, county and city certain length of time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-11
TOMBRELLO CLAIMS
 LITTLE STRUCK HIM
Decision of Justice Abernathy /
 Withheld Until Today
MANY ITALIANS PRESENT
Arguments in Preliminary Trial of Lit tleton Italian Concluded Late Yes tercay Afternoon-Prisoner Is
 Taken Back to Jail.

The concluding arguments of the attor- neys at the preliminary hearing of Frank Tombrello, the Italian charged with the murder of Percy Little at Littleton, closed at e:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon before H. B. Abernathy, justice of the peace, who stated he would withhold his decision until this morning at 9:SO o'clock. As on Thursday, the court room was we'll filled with Italians from Littleton and Birmingham. They seemed to take deep interest in the proceedings. Among the number were several women. includ- ing Tombrellos wife. who held baby in her arms.
 Italian Showed Little.
 Witnesses for the state swore that the Italian asked Little to come to the rear of the store. where a short whispered conversation was held between them. The Italian suddenly drew a pistol and shot Little. Before drawing the weapon he showed him with his left hand, while the right hand went to his hip pocket.
 The testimony of some of the witnesses was to the effect that when Little was shot Tombrello asked those who came Into the store with him to leave, and that the body was left in the store for several hours. It was also to the effect that Little did not try to draw pistol. Later pistol was found under his vest.
 TombreIlo's Claims.
 Tombrello was put on the stand about o'clock He swore that Little struck him twice over the head with a whip which he held in his hand. Tombrello further said that Little tried to draw his pistol. He denied making the re- mark that. unless the whipping ceased bloodshed will follow"
 Mrs Little, wife of the murdered man, was In the court room. The father and two brothers of Little were also present to hear the testimony.
 When Justice Abernathy announced he would withhold decision until today the prisoner was carried back to the county jail As he passed through the court room door he stopped to kiss his wife and the little child in her arms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-11
BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED.

The following building permits were issued yesterday:
 J. T. Coulbourn. to erect a two-story frame dwelling at 17O9 Avenue J. to cost 5000.
 Fred G. Macke. to erect a one-story frame building on Second avenue, be- tween Twenty-hfth and Twenty-sixth streets, to cost s23s.
 B. c. Copeland, to move four frame houses and rearrange them on a lot on Fifth avenue. between Twenty-third and Twenty fourth streets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-11
Brought to Jefferson County Jail.

Frank J. Kroell. a white man. was brought to Birmingham last night by Sheriff R. F. Cox of Shelby county. Kroell was recently convicted in Shelby county on charge of murder, sentence being placed at thirty-six years In the penlten- tiary. An appeal was taken to the Su. preme court and Kroell will remain in the county jail while it is pending.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-11
Land and Investment Company.

A declaration of incorporation was filed yesterday by the Edwards Reagor Land and Investment company. capital stock $50o0. The incorporators are c. E. Ed wards, J. R. Reagor of Birmingham; E. F. Reagor of Decatur, W. F. Ray of Gadsden and R. V. Edwards of Pratt City. The principal place of business will be in Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-11
Loan and Trust Company.

A petition was filed yesterday by r. B. Reagor, II. B. Allen and J. E. Reagor to incorporate the Pratt City-Ensley Loan and Trust company. with a capital stock of 100 shares at the par value of $10O each. The principal place of business will be in Pratt City.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-11
Tennessee to Have Exhibit.

Nashville. Tenn, April 10.-The senate this afternoon passed the house bill ap- propriating s4OOOO for a Tennessee ex- hibit at the Louisiana Purchase expo sition at St. Louis The bill now goes to the governor for his approval
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-11
DR. Y. [. HOLLOWAY,
Physician and Surgeon.

Three-fourths of the persons who come to me to get cured of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea. Gleet. Structure. L os t Manhood and other private diseases have tried to get well by using oth- CT means. Why not come as soon as you find that you are afflicted? IT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-11
CITY ITEMS.

Mar age licenses.-Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to Sam Johns and Nellie Smith, Newt T. Pow CTS and Jennie Simpson, E. T. Giesrt and Delphine Martindale.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-11
Birmingham Trust & Savings Co.
Trust Department.

Trust Department.
 ACTS AS FINANCIAL AGENT or Trustee for women who own inol- yidual estates, for nonresident property owners, for persons aa- vanced in years, or others desiring it's services in any fiduciary capae' ity.
 BACK OF EVERY TRUST. as a guarantee for its taith1ul performance, is
 Capital. ... ...'.'' ,s oco Surplus... =. ..''''
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-08-20
PLAGUE OF MOSQUITOES.
Science Has Put the PestiferOus In
sects on the Plane of Public
Enemies of Late Years

Mosquitoes have put a stop to the
government survey of the Louisiana
oyster reefs in the Gulf of Mexico the
officer in charge of the survey reports
that no man can possibly stand the
mosquito plague of that region, the in
sects swarming in great clouds ten
miles from the coast.
This is not the first time mosquitoes
have caused the abandonment of i'm
portant work. Stanley was turned aside
by them in central Africa, and Kane and
Peary found them swarming on the ice
foes of the Arctic ocean. Armies in
ambush have been betrayed to an enemy
through tortures inflicted by mosqui-
toes, and pickets on whose quiet watch
fulness the safety of an army depended
have been more demoralized by mos
quito bites than by an enemy's bullets.
Centuries ago mosquito plaques
turned population and commerce away
from certain cities. The old explorers in
South America were more often turned
from their line of march by mosquitoes
than by warlike natives. Neither men
hOA hOioSo u oAhNu W bultlC against lH6
battalions of war could stand against
the legions of mosquitoes.
Civilization then made war on the
savage natives and ran away from the
mosquitoes. Now civilization is max
ing war on the mosquitoes, the investi-
cations of the last few years having
put the pestifercus insects on the plane
of public enemies.
Possibly the fact that mosquitoes are
the active agents of malaria and are
known to carry the germs of contagion
may account for the Discrimination of
a surveying party on the gulf to fight
against them. Within the last two years
efforts have been made to protect cities
against pestilence by wholesale de-
struction of mosquitoes. Men not only
have been more careful in protecting
themselves against mosquito bites, but
have utilized every possible means of
destroying the pest.
A mosquito 20 years ago was
simply mosquito. Now the MOSQUITO
of certain species is recognized as the
bearer of disease. Therefore, many
men who fought mosquitoes years ago,
as matter Of principle, do not care to
make a fight against them now.-Chi-
cooO IOtpr Ocean
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-08-20
WatchfuI stone SINGERS.

When the wheat is growing in the
fields near the banks of the Nile, Egypt.
great quantities of birds of every kind
pounce down upon the tender grain and
would soon destroy the whole crop were
it not for the watchful "stone singers. "
These are men who stand all day
perched on little platforms here and
there throughout the fields with sings
and pebbles, shooting any bird that
comes within reach. The work of a
stone singer is a regular profession in
Egypt, though poorly paid one, it be-
ing thought that simply standing still
all day is not very hard labor 1t is only
for a few weeks twice year that the
stone singer can find employment
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-08-20

minute, or Is miles per hour. At the
attainment of this speed the wheel is
suddenly stopped by means of brakes.
This brake IS based upon the clutch,
or shear movement, and is operated by
a lever, which is connected to a shaft
In response to the lever "a wedge of
diamond shape is forced into the brake
movement, causing almost a solid clutch,
and suddenly stopping the wheel, there
by causing the cycle rider to Immediate
ly attain the previous speed of the wheel,
easily sufficient to cause his encircling
of the wheel and overcome the force of
gravitation.
Connected also to this lever and op-
Grated by it automatically with the same
movement that causes the brakes to stop
the wheel, is platform shaped to
closely fit the inside of the wheel, and es-
pecially adapted TO enforce the cycle
rider to leave the wheel and continue
his fight around the frame work bdilt
at an angle of 70 degrees until friction
and grayitation cause his stoppage.-.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-08-20
THE MERRY-GO-ROUND.

Across the way there's a merry-go-round
/ can see it where lie.
] can see the hobby horses glide across
the twilight sky.
And when the ry-go-round goes round,
the music begins TO play,
And the people laugh, and the children sing,
and all are blithe and gay.
And the merry go-roGnt goes round and
round,
And the horses never tire;
And the bright lights blaze,
And the music plays,
And the mlrth rolls higher and higher;
As the merry go-round goes round and
round;
And round and round goes the merry-go-
round.
MARY NJ Parks. in ST. Nicholas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-08-20

Immediately won the hearts of the keep
ers, and soon he was supplied with all
the food he wanted. Not only this, but
every day, without break, the bird,
which by this time the men had named
'Dick," came back, and just as regularly
was he supplied. This soon grew into a
habit; and the preparation of Dicks al
lowance became one of the cooks Sxed
duties.
There would have been nothing very
remarkable in a wild sea fowl following
an instinct that led it to repeat a search
for food so regularly and so bountifully
successful, were it not for its later his
tory. One day near the first of the first
April following Dicks appearance at the
lightship he was missed, and was not
seen again until about the first of the
next October, when the same pro-
gramme of daily feeding was resumt
and kept up as during the previous year
Then, as the first of April drew near,
Dick would again take himself off to his
summer home, wherever that might be,
only faithfully to return with the fol-
lowing October.
This repeated going and coming, with
the constant round of daily feeding, was
kept up for "a consecutive years; and
Capt. Edward Fogarty, in charge of the
lightship, writes to us that the last seen
of the old fellow was in April, 1895,
when, according to his custom, he left
for his summer vacation, but. for the
first time in "a years, failed to return the
next October
What became of him no one knows.
His great age may have so enfeebled him
that he was unequal to the long flight to
and from his unknown summer home
He may have chosen to stay there, or he
may have died of old age.
1t was noticed by the ships keepers
that during his last visit Dick plainly.
showed the effects of his increasing
years, and that he was no longer able to
hold his own with the other gulls in
maintaining his exclusive right to the
bounty thrown out from the lightship.
The Smithsonian institution knew the
history of Dicks visits and was DESTROYS
of obtaining his remains when he died,
but, while it is possible that in his later
life he might have been captured and
forced to end his days on shipboard,
there was not on board the lightship
so false as to make the attempt or permit
it in others.
The reports of Dicks arrival and de-
parture were faithfully recorded by the
captain in his ships records as if they
were an important item of marine news,
and in the neighborhood of Newport, at
I\least, he was as well known character
as any pet elephant or monkey within
the safe confines of a geological garden
is to the girls and boys in the cities.
Dicks cage and playground was the
whole Atlantic ocean, if he had wished,
but he was faithful to the friends whom
he had always found faithful to him.
St. Nicholas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-08-20
STORIES ABOUT RAVENS.
Fidelity to Mates and Formation of
Peculiar Friendships Character
ize These Birds.

The raven always pairs for life, and
the strength of affection, the fidelity,
the dignity which this implies seem to
me to raise him infinitely, as it does
the owls, above birds which congregate
in focks, and so abjure family ties and
duties through greater part of the
year.
A raven kept at the "Old Bear" inn at
Hungerford struck a close friendship
with Newfoundland dog. When the
dog broke his leg the raven waited on
him constantly, catered for him, forget
ting for the time his own greediness,
and rarely, if ever, left his side. One
night, when the dog was by accident
shut within the stable alone, Ralph sue
ceeded in pecking a hole through the
door, all but large enough to admit his
body.
Another, kept in a yard in which a big
basket sparrow trap was sometimes set,
watched narrowly the process from his
favorite corner, and managed, when the
trap fell, to lift it up, hoping to get at
the sparrows within. They, of course,
escaped before he could drop the trap
But, taught by experience, he opened
communications with another tame
raven in an adjoining yard, and the next
time the trap fell, while one of them
lifted it up, the other pounced upon the
quarry.
A female raven, known at that time
to be so years of age, and who had passed
much of her early and middle life with
strange companion blind porcupine
was given, in the year 1854, by Mr. ]. H.
| Quincy, the well-known ornithologist,
to the rector of Blunlisham, in Hunting
donshire. She seemed so disconsolate
at the loss of her surroundings that her
now owner, failing to get another raven,
managed to secure a seagull for her as
companion. A warm friendship soon
sprang up between the two birds They
followed one another about everywhere,
and the raven often used to treat her
companion to pieces of putrid meat
which she had buried for her own con-
sumption in the strawberries These
were delicacies in the eyes of the raven,
but they were not so good for the gull.
In course of time, whether from indi-
gestion or not, the gull fell i'll and the
raven became more assiduous than ever
in her attentions, never leaving him
and plying him with her most nauseous
tit-bits. The gull grew worse, as was
perhaps natural under the treatment,
and less companionable, and one day,
when he positively refused to touch a
more unsavory morsel than usual,
which the raven had denied to herself
and doubtless thought to be panacea,
the raven, in fit of fury at the ingratf-
tude of her patient, fell upon her friend,
killed it, tore it to pieces, and, burying
half of it for future consumption, de-
voured the rest.-Nineteenth Century.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-08-20
ASTRONOMY OF ATOMS.
II Is Revealed by Radium and Con-
cIusiveIy Demonstrates Many
Strange Things.

The new theory of matter now being
developed by Prof. Lodge and others
may be called the astronomy of atoms.
According to a scientific contributor to
the Chicago American, it shows that
what has always heretofore been re-
garded as the smallest division of mat
ter known to nature-the atom - is
really composed of a multitude of inf
nitely smaller things named electrons,
which revolve about one another within
the confines of the atom in paths re-
sembling the orbits of the earth and the
other planets composing the solar sys-
TEN, and that instead of being packed
closely the revolving electrons in an
atom have proportionately as much
free space about them as exists between
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the other
members of the solar system.
Thus, the body of a man, composed of
innumerable atoms, may be likened to
the universe, in that it is made up of a
vast number of systems almost infinite
ly small in comparison with its own di-
mansions. Moreover, the manner in
which the electrons constituting an atom
revolve about one another resembles
the manner in which the planets, COM
cts, asteroids and meteors of the solar
system travel in their concentric, and,
in some cases, interlacing orbits, and
the principles of celestial mechanics,
perfected by Newton, Laplace and 9TH
er mathematicians to account for the
motions of the heavenly bodies, avail
to explain also the movements of the
infinitesimal electrOns of which atoms
consist
But these electrons, while they consti-
tute the atoms of which all material
substances are made up, are not them
selves conceived as being a form of mat
ter. Experiment indicates that they
are purely electric in their nature, Yet
when combined in the shape of atoms.
they furnish the basis of what we know
as matter
While only radium and few cognate
substances continually give off parti-
cles in sufficient abundance to reveal the
fact to us, yet the theory under
consideration assumes that all at
oms of all substances whatever
are slowly tending to dissipate them
selves in this manner and that in
the course of infinite time the whole
universe will thus be changed in its
atomic constitution over and over again
through the alternate dissertation of
atoms and their reformation in new
combinations.
Already it has proved possible to cal
culate the number of electrons contained
in various kinds of atoms-for instance,
700 in an atom of hydrogen, $1,000 in an
atom of sodium, and more than 100000
in an atom of mercury
Thus, the number of electric worlds,
if we may so speak of them, contained
in the miniature solar system represent
ed by an atom of mercury, is far great
er than that of all the known planets,
asteroids and comets in the solar sys-
tenn In which we live.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-08-20

An effort to determine from geysers
the upper temperature limit of life has
led Prof. w. A. Setchell to conclude
that no animals exist in strictly ther-
NAL waters, or those heated above 43 or
As degrees c. (109 or 113 degrees Fahren-
heiD. A filamentous plant, one of the
bacteria, was found at so degrees c.,
and few other simple forms were found
at n degrees and below. How the
protoplasm of these organisms is made
to resist the coagulation that usually
destroys life at little above 40 degrees
C is not clear.