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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-02

course an underlying vein of sefseek. ing and personal gain-pardoneble, 1t is true, but nevertheless existent and controlling.
 In word. the President is gunning for votes. Mckinley and Cleveland and Harrison made similar tours, and the custom Is fast becoming a feature of our political life. It may lack dig nity, but it certainly does not lack effectiveness, for 8 voter always likes to see the man he Is to vote for
 President Roosevelt has ceased to fear rivals in his own party-suoh men as Hanna or Fairbanks-but it is be- lieved he sniffs danger in the air be- cause of the discontent over the Ding ley tariff and the trusts it has created and maintains. He does not feel se- cure against a popular antitrust and anti-tariff wave, and he goes out no doubt to strengthen his political fences as best he may.
 Besides, he delights in traveling-in the lionizlng process, he being the lion in the excitement of a speaking cam paign. He is a man who does not lack faith in himself, although he succeeds in concealing any offensive egotism. He came to the presidency accident ally, and now he proposes to secure at the hands of the people a term of his own. He will therefore in his set speeches put his best foot foremost, and he will either mar or make his po- litical fortune in the speaking cam paign that he has just entered upon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-02
WHEN THE LAMP IS SHATTERED.

Percy Bysshe Shelley. When the lamp is shattered,
 The light in the dust lies dead; When the cloud is scattered,
 When rainbows glory is shed When the lute is broken,
 Sweet tones are remembered not; When the lips have spoken,
 Loves accents are soon forgot. As music and splendor
 Survive not the lamp and the 1ute, The hearts echoes render
 No song when the spirit is mute No song but sad dirges.
 Like the winds through a ruined cell, Or the mournful surges
 That ring the dead seaman's knell When hearts have once mingled
 Love first leaves the well-built nest; The weak one is singled
 To endure what 1t once possessed. Love. who bewailesti
 The frailty of all things here, Why choose you the frailest
 For your cradle. your home and your
 bier? Its passions will rock thee
 As the storms rock the ravens on high. Bright reason will mock thee
 Like the sea from wintry sky; From thy nest every rafter
 Will rot. and thine eagle home Leave thee naked to laughter,
 When leaves fall and cold winds come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-02
From the Boston Herald.

fIOm lHe bOSlOn f1eFdld.
 ONE friend of the Herald has sent @N to us a copy of the biennial N message" to the legislature of the governor of Alabama, the Hon. Will fam D. Jelks. Although this message was delivered early in January, and it's con tents may not be news to the people of that state who read local newspapers, we find in it much that is of interest even now to people at the North. Our atten- ton was called particularly to what Gov ernor Jelks said on the subject of lynch ing. This is so excellent in its tone and so Illuminating regarding the monstrous wrongs that are done under a pretence of executing swift justice that 1t deserves attention
 His first sentence on the subject re- veals his own attitude clearly: "The excuse urged for lynohing for crimes which are common in the south is no excuse at all" This southern governors plain dietum ought to be flung in the face of Senator Tillman every time he opens his mouth on the subject either in the senate or anywhere else Lately he has been insulting northern and western audi ences with his illogical and unrighteous negrophobia. Governor Jelks declares that the man who criminally assaults a woman in Alabama. if he is allowed to be tried will certainly get his just deserts at the hands of the law No negro has come out of the courts, when his crime clearly appeared without the death penalty Other classes of citizens, for other crimes, escape the just penalty for the violation of the law, but the negro, and for the gravest of all crimes, never es- capes." One excuse formerly offered for a resort to lynching, the objection to re- quiring women to tell their sad story in open court before a morbidly curious crowd, Is not now available to lawbreak- CTS in Alabama, for the new constitution permits a judge to clear the court room of all persons except those who may be necessary to the conduct of the trial
 Governor Jelks said there had been sev- eral lynchings since the legislature was last in session, and he recalled five that had occurred since he had been in office a year and half. But one was for the crime of assault. "So easy was 1t for the mob spirit to get away from the original cause for provoking that spirit that three of the latest of these crimes (so he desig- mates lynchings) were for other offences and two for no offence at all"
 He refers specifically to certain cases: Tn one county near the capital city lot of self-constituted guardians of the peace and honor of their homes, in an attempt to mob negro who had com mitted an offence which under the law could not have called for a sentence of more than two years. took his brother, innocent of any offence at all, and hang ed him" The governor gladly declares that in that county there was a just judge and a sufficient number of law abiding citizens to give some of these men term in the penitentiary. But he says
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-02
About Persons.

Percy F. Smith of St. Louis is at the Morris.
 R. E. Barr Of Memphis is registered at the Metropolitan.
 R. V. Davidson of Gadsden is at the Hllman.
 E. T. Brown Of Washington, D. C., is stopping at the St. Nicholas.
 W. c. Gehr ot Chicago is at the Nor ris.
 w. St. G. Murray of Indianapolis Is at the Metropolitan
 W. H. Lane and wife of Talledega are stopping at the Hillman.
 C. Hebbard of New York is at the St. Nicholas.
 Reynolds Smith of Chattanooga is at the Morris.
 L. D. Miller of Jacksonville is at She Metropolitan.
 w. H. Crawford and wife of Chicago are stopping at the Eillman.
 w. c. McMillan of Talledega Is at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-02
Peabody Education Fund.

The trustees of the Peabody educa- tional fund met in New York this week, and the fact is scarcely concealed that there is a scheme afoot to withdraw the aid the trustees have been giving to the various cotton states for educa- tional purposes. The money is to be returned for the purpose of putting both capital and interest into a big normal college in some southern city. The proposed change in the plan of the trustees rests in it's last analysis upon the desire of Atlanta to gobble the whole thing-in a desire to boom that particular town.
 One of the trustees of the fund, ex- Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith, and the acting agent of the fund, Dr. Glenn, reside in Atlanta, and they pro pose to put the entire fund amounting to several millions into a college that will boom their own town.
 If Georgia were centrally located in the cotton belt this plan would not be so objectionable, but that state is in the northeast corner of the belt, and is not at all handy to the majority of the students it would be built for.
 It is doubtful indeed if one school, however large, would do as much eff fective work as the present plan of aiding and promoting education in all the states accomplishes. It is very doubtful, but if the plan is to be changed, the trustees should not snap up in secret session the offer of a siAgle town. Let all the states involved have a chance to present their claims and offers. Let the business be con, ducted openly instead of secretly. As things now stand Atlanta is the only southern town represented on the board of Peabody trustees, and it doubtless hopes to gobble the fund without notice to other cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-02
WHEN LEO WAS A PRIEST.
An Engineering Project of His That
 Has Never Been Realized.

The Roman correspondent of the Echo de Paris interviewed the leader of the delegation from Carpineto just before the beginning of the ceremonies of the pom tlfical jubilee. Carpineto Is the native place of Leo XIII.
 Are there any people now in Carpineto who knew the pope there?' asked the correspondent. The answer was, There are people there who saw him. but none who knew him. Remember that for the last twenty-five years he has been con- fined in the vatican, and it Is nearly fifty years since he was made cardinal. Fifty years count for something in the life of a population. No. nobody in our town is now alive who knew the pope when he was a priest.
 But I knew old Lodovico Salvagni. who was accidentally killed three years ago. He was the companion of the Ab- bate Pecci, now Pope Leo XIII, and he loved to talk of the Pecci family. He knew the father of Leo XIII, Count Lo- dovico Pecci who, he said, was a splen- did type of nobleman with the bold pro- file of a soldier As, doubtless, you know, Lodovico Pecci was a colonel in the great Napoleon's army. The Pecei family was dlWdNS diAlOu6 tuc iiiOSI in Carpineto, and had blood relations among the highest nobility of the sur rounding country.
 "Of the present pope old Salvagni told many interesting recollections. Here is one of them which 1 often heard him re- peat: When young Pecci was simply the Abbate of Pecci, he was fond of long walks. One day. in company with Sal vagni, he reached romantic place called Maenzana which dominates a beautiful valley separating two high mountains. The two pedestrians stopped there to lunch frugally while seated on the grass.
 Say, Lodovico,' said the abbate, wouldn't it be fine thing to have a bridge over that beautiful valley lead ing from one mountain to the other?'
 Certainly replied Salvagnl.
 "'Wen, continued the Abbate Pecci If ever I become pope I will build that bridge And both laughed heartily at the little joke, never dreaming that the time would come when the humble priest would become pope.
 But he never built the bridge. He had too many other bridges to build; and the people of Carpineto firmly believe that he will not die before he builds bridge from the Holy See to the Quirinal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-02
SOME NOTABLE FREAK DINNERS.

From the New York Herald
 That the equestrian banquet at Sherry's on Saturday night, at which c. K. G. Billings was the host, eclipsed all dinner innovations was freely admitted yester- day The usual Sunday night crowds at the restaurant discussed the matter in detail The frequenters of Delmonicos, the Waldorf, the Cafe Martin and every other place in town where epicures most do congregate, all agreed that this was the most remarkable dinner party ever given in the metropolis.
 Countess de Castellane's fieur de lis breakfast was memorable for its dainti- ness. The banquet of the Express com pany officials, where an express wagon and horse were in the center of the fes- tive board, caused considerable talk sev- eral winters ago.
 The Kettle club of Philadelphia, which gave it's 'baby dinner" at Sherry's year ago, aroused comment by its eccen- tricity, as did the flake" dinner of Col onel O'Brien to the ola Guard, when half shells minus the oysters, cream of celery" in the form of tubes of cream, roast mutton" fashioned out of Noahs ark sheep with strings of beans around their necks, were served.
 The Tyre dinner" which MT. Sherry gave to Maurice Grau as the result of 6 wager upon ships runs on one occasion when both were coming back from Europe was another notable feast. The table was arranged in the form of an enormous Tyre. Long glded ropes, covered with dainty vines. represented the strings. There was golden cloth on the inner side of the table to further heighten the il- fusion, and minor details were as scrupul- ously carried out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-02
Professionalism in English Schools

From the London Truth
 It may not be generally known that the cricket scholarship is already an ac- complished fact in English schools. The evidence of the fact is to be found in the advertisement below, from Devon shire paper:
 "To Parents of Boys Able to Play Cricket-Headmaster of high-class board ing school, healthy London sub,rb. wish ing to strengthen team for coming sea son, would take six boys of twelve years or upward at nominal thalf usuaD fees.- Apply School" care of -, New Ox- ford street, London"
 It has been the practice for some time past at certain private schools to select assistant masters on the strength of their cricket Now we have a practical attempt to provide them with a class of pupils to whom they can do justice. Doubtless football, hockey, hare and hounds and other athletic scholarships will soon fo..ow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-02
RACES AND TYPES THAT
 HAVE BEEN CARICATURED
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tectives in the community have egged that remarkable stage representation of one of their number who appears night ly in MT. Augustus Thomas current play. Weber & Fields will be swept from the boards by the German legions who marched before Prince Henry. Will the wealthy of the nation neglect this cue from the Irish and refuse to egg Jerome Sykes, who holds them nightly up to ridi- cule? And will the Bowery toughs and rounders see themselves made game of without dissent?
 As we review the drama of the times the only subdivision of the population which is treated kindly by the play wrights are the parlor maids. Never was there a stage parlor maid untidy, homely, or stupid The stage cook may be a terror. The footman, or even the butler, may be grotesque in his majesty. But the maid is always the most grace ful, the daintiest and most kssable char acter in the cast. If the Clan-na- Gael movement should spread to its logical dimensions, playwrights would be forced to rescue their leading actors from the wrath of an aroused populace by a de- fence line of pretty parlor maids; and that would violate arts sacred ''unities."
 We think we can understand the ob- jections to the stage Irishman; but 1t is curious to see them raised now. long after the stoppage of the great flood of Irish immigration Long ago, when the Irish were pouring in here In thousands, fresh from their emerald home. and felt the clannishness of strangers instead of the assurance of prosperous full-blown citizens, they laughed at the stage Irish man with the rest, and never sound of criticism was heard in the land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-02
SNAKE VENOM LONG DORMANT.

Pottsvile, Pa., Telegram to the Philadel-
 phia Press.
 Mabel Brown, the 15-year-old daughter of ex-Poor Director w. w. Brown, lies in a critical condition at her home here, and displays all the symptoms of poison- ing from snake-bite She suffers from fre- quent convulsions.
 Ten years ago she was bitten by a cop perhead snake. Physicians are greatly puzzled by the case and are of the be- lief that the poison has been dormant in the girls system all these years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-02
April dividends will bloom today.
LEFT st6,ooo TO FIANcEE.

Tamaqua, Pa, Telegram to the Phila-
 depnia Record.
 In a private compartment in the First National bank, of which Maj. Wallace Guess who dropped dead in the Bingham house, Philadelphia, about two weeks ago, was cashier, there has been found package containing government bonds valued at $16OOO. With the package was a note directing the bank officials to turn the bonds over to Miss Lydia Carter of this place, the majors fiancee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
prlze Flahtlna.

T notice that Atlanta is being adver- tised as a prize fighting town" remarked a business man yesterday. T read In peper that an offer of s25OOO had been made by an Atlanta man to have a fight between Jeffries and corbett In that city in June. Of course the fight will never take place in Georgias capital, l do not know what the Georgia law is concerning prize fights, but the ministers of Atlanta will quickly work up public sentiment that will stop anything like fistie sport. Atlanta Is not a sporty town, but 1t Is great on advertising itself. city that requires the saloons to close at 10 o'clock at night certainly will not countenance any sport stronger than baseball"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-02
GATES IN A NEW LIGHT.

From the New York Evening Post.
 MT. John W. Gates, in his testimony yesterday. not only cleared himself hand somely of all suspicion. but lit up dark question in financial philosophy. When is a Wall street operator a dangerous man? Ever since Mir Morgan explained that the Louisville and Nashville had to be taken from MT. Gates, at any price, Tn order to get it into safe" hands, fnan- ciers have been much exercised over this point of character. But Columbus did not balance the egg with more ease than MT. Gates displayed in meeting the issue. "Was anything" he was asked said ebout your being a dangerous man to handle such property?" NO. I've usually found packers where I saw profit" There you have the ultimate truth set forth with magisterial provision. No man can be dangerous If he has got "the long end of a deal" The only danger is that of being 'thrown down" or frozen out"
 The financial community owes Mir. Gates thanks for his calm waving aside of all extraneous questions of motive or of morals What have they to do with the case as long as you are in a position to squeeze a profit out of those whom you have outmaneuvered? The facts speak loudly for MT. Gates. Beset in the small hours of the morning, and besought throughout the day, by emlssaries from J. P Morgan & Co.,. all begging him to name his own terms, how could he inn agine that character had anything to do with daring operations in stocks. That nonsense is not for a clear-sighted man like him. His hard-hearted motto is. Let who will make the principles of the stock exchange, provided I may make it's profits" In this he Is entirely at one with Chatham's lofty Asiatc pllnderers of Lsadenhali street"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-02
From the New York Sun.


 1HE members of the clan-ns-Gael \OD and the Ancient Order of Hibern-
 ians who egged the actors ap- bearing in "McFadden's Row of Flats" in characters that caricatured the Irish. race have set precedent of deep concern to all play-goers. The Irish are by no means the only folks whose distinctive features have been utilized for fun-mak- ing on the stage in the exaggerated shapes required for dramatic effect.
 The German dialect of the theatre world is at least as old as the Irish brogue. The Swedish dialect put into the mouths of serving maids and sailor men makes a long chapter of stage lingo. Italian hand-organ men are famous butts. Who has not seen the overdrawn stage Frenchman-the "frog-eater?' In how many plays have the Yankees been held up to ridicule? What of the thick and drawing Engishman who stalks as the chief form of humor on many histrionic boards? The southern brigadiers? The negro minstrels: The Jews? The types which have suffered in this manner at the hands of the comedy writers almost i'll the catalogue of humanity.
 With the Irish precedent to guide them, the caricatured races may be expected to rise in rebellion. The hired men of an hundred New England hills may be looked to for an excursion to the town hall or the op'ry house and an assault upon their mimic. The pushcart pedlers of all the East Side will invade Dave Warfield's playhouse and rush him from the scene. Visiting Britons will league themselves to mob the local stage lord. We expect to read that all the police de-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-02
Mississippi's Primary.

In August Mississippi democrats will hold their first state primary under the excellent Noel law. This law makes primaries compulsory. on the part of parties in that state, and it raises such primaries to the dignity of elections Democratic primaries do In fact outrank elections, because choices are made in the former, and the latter are but ratification meetings.
 The canvass preceding the August primary is well advanced-is becoming in fact warm As the legislature of Mississippi theoretically meets but once in four years two United States senators must be selected this year. Candidates for senator in Mississippi must go before the people just as can didates for other offices do Senator McLaurin has no opposition, and yet he is speaking freely in the present campaign. Senator Moneys seat is contested by Governor Longino, and the strife between them is to be warm. The chances largely run in favor of Senator Money, chiefly because of the respect he commands at Washington. He is strong and influential in the sen ate, having been a member of one house or the other of congress over twenty years. Governor Longino on the other hand has had no congress- ional experience whatever. He Is, how ever, wealthy, and he will put up a stiff fight.
 There is a full field for governor, but the voting in the primary will be chiefly confined to Judge Critz and ex- Congressman Fox, of West Point, and Major Vardaman of Greenwood, who is appealing to the prejudices aroused by the Indianola incident. He says negro education should be confined to negro tax money. The demagogism and un- constitutionality of his appeal is, how ever, rapidly becoming manifest, and his vote will probably be light in Au- gust This confines the race to the two aspirants from West Point, and of the two Judge Critz is much the stronger man. MT. Fox and Governor Longino are believed to be pulling to- gether. II so, Senator Money and Judge Critz will join hands, thus be- coming formidable.
 There are two or three other candi- dates for governor, and it is not be- lieved, however, that any one of the candidates can command majority of all the votes cast In that case there must be, under the Mississippi pri- mary law a second race confined to the two receiving the highest numbers of votes. Some think the second race will be confined to the two West Point aspirants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 It is when she goes on the stage that the average woman quits acting.
 The thing that men like about working for the government is that they don't have to do it.
 woman's idea about a good story is one that makes her laugh when she does not see the point of 1t.
 A woman always has suspicious or an- other who calls on her after her husband has got home from his office.