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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23
Grover Cleveland in 1904.

If the Montgomery Advertiser would climb down from Grover Cleveland's broad back long enough to tell us how he could be elected even if he carries New York, New Jersey and Connecti- cut--a preposterous ''if'' by the way then indeed it's unqualified crusade In favor of the Princeton sage would have some reason behind it-some plausibility at any rate. There is ab- solutely no chance of carrying Con necticut for any democratic candidate. It is full of factories and 1t is tied body and soul to the Diagley robbery scheme It desires to milk the rest of vote for democratic nominee if that nominee be the great and good Or" yer-the superlative of all wisdom and patriotism. New Jersey is inclined to go the same way for the same reason. Any good democrat can carry New York as the election in New York city will soon demonstrate.
 If the democrats desire to nominate a man who can be elected they must nominate a man who can carry, not only New York, but Delaware, Mary land, West Virginia, Indiana and Hi nois as well, saying nothing about some small states in the far west. We must have at least one big state in the Middle West. The Advertiser knows full well Cleveland can carry no state west of New York. He would be third-termer, and he deliberately bolted the party in 1896 and 1900. He might get some republican votes in the Middle West. But for every republican he gained in the Middle West, he would lose two democrats. Some of those democrats would sim ply stay at home. The Advertiser knows full well two things, namely, the democrats in order to win must have a state in the Middle West; sec ondly Grover Cleveland is the last man on the democratic side to select to carry such state. The Advertiser knows that both of these propositions are correct and yet it continues to cry out, -Four years more for Grover"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23
No Getting Around 1t.

George Bruce Cortelyou while secre- tary to President Mckinley one morning sat before an amassment of mail ener- getically trying to reduce it's proportions. Secretary Long, passing through the room at the time, extended the sympathy of a man familiar with the contents of so many letters.
 MT Cortelyou, are you sitting enrap- tured before an Egyptian pyramid2 ask ed the head of the navy.
 "The Egyptian pyramids have an ad- vantage" answered the foriorn Cortelyou. "You can go around them but there's no getting around the one on my desk. You have to go through it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

panies organized and controlled at home, or near the home of the in- vestor. Investments accumulate risk as distance between the investor aud the investment Is increased. The pres- ent condition of the stock markets Is bringing this truth home, and the in- yestor of the south who seeks a dis. tant investment will be hereafter an exception to the rule,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

E. ". Barrett, who has been i'll In a pri- vate hospital in New York for three weeks from the effects of an operation, is rapidly recovering, and will be able to re- turn home about the middle of next week.
 Congressman A. A. Wiley of Montgom- cry Is at the Metropolitan. Colonel Wiley Is serving his second term in the United States congress and has no opposition for reelection next year.
 Senator Fred Blackmon of Anniston IS stopping at the Morris.
 
 Frank Julian of Tuscumbia is at the Metropolitan. He has twice served as clerk of the house and was secretary or the constitutional convention. He Is prom inently mentioned as a candidate for sec retary of state at the next election. He is widely known over the state, and has as many friends as any young man in Ala bama.
 Judge R. B. Kelly of Anniston is in the city. The judge is chancellor of the North Alabama division and is prominently mem toned for the supreme court bench.
 
 Erie Pettus of Athens is at the Metro politan. MT Pettus is an ex-member or the legislature and constitutional conven- ton and has recently been appointed by Governor Jelks as solicitor of the new judicial circuit, composing the counties of Madison and Limestone
 Pat McCauley, one of Montgomery prominent citizens. is registered at the Florence.
 Dr. A. c. Hoffman of Montgomery was one of the Hillman's late arrivals. I. c. Maxwell of Alexander City, ex- member of the constitutional convention and prominent banker, is in the city. w. B. Oliver of Edwardsville was among the St. Nicholas arrivals last night. Hon. w. C. Tunstall of Greensboro one of Alabama's railroad commissioners, is registered at the Metropolitan
 
 H. w. Sexton, president of the An niston Electric Light and. Gas company Is at the Florence.
 D. M. White of Goodwater' one of the most prominent citizens of east Alabama, is in the city.
 J. O. Long of Jasper, is stopping at the Florence.
 L. B. Musgrove was among the Hill mans arrivals last night.
 Commissioner of Agriculture and Indus- tries R. R. Poole came up from Mont gomery yesterday and is stopping at the Metropolitan. Colonel Poole is always alive to the advancement of the state along the industrial and agricultural lines and is in the city lending his assistance to make the state fair a success in every respect The colonel s being mentioned as candidate for governor three years hence.
 w. M. Blakley of Montgomery, was one of the Morris late arrivals last night.
 
 Professor c. A. Cary. professor of vet erinary at Auburn, is in the city attending the state fair.
 A. Ham, a popular travelling salesman of Philadelphia, was one of the Hillmans s late arrivals last night.
 Fred Boyle of Mobile, is registered at the Norris
 S. P. Rainier of Union Springs, is in the city.
 Professor w. B. Feagin of Montgomery, chairman of the examining board in the department of education. is in the city. R. E. Bowden of Hardyeville. is at the St. Nicholas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23
The Case of performing Animals.

From Our Four Footed Friends.
 During the past six months the train- CTS of performing animals have been en- toying a very pleasant time in London. They have been well to the fore in the variety theatres, and the section of the press to which the public looks for in- formation about trainers and their ways has published a series of interviews and articles all tending to show that the men who train animals are little lower than the angels. Now in point of fact, the case of the unfortunate dogs, bears, and other animals put through ridiculous eX- ercise for the amusement of an unthink- ing public is no better than it was three years ago when l called attention to few of the barbarities practiced, and the Daily Chronicle appointed commission CT to inquire into the matter. No good may follow further exposure. but pro- test becomes due when well-meanng, simple writers go to men who train ami mals ask them if they are cruel. and on receiving the inevitable reply in the negative state that kindness does all that is required.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Maybe if women were not so busy with their mouths in another way they would really learn to smoke.
 When a woman says man treats her brutally she means she can't make him give in in an argument even by crying.
 When a woman brags about thought ful child she has she means he forgot to pull it's tail out of that cat that morning.
 The man who got up the theory that you can save money by being married must have been the same idiot who start ed the flying machine idea.
 Nothing makes a man feel so queer when the minister calls as to hear his wife tell him all the signs their father has noticed in the children of very re- ligious spirit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23
ABOUT THE UNIFORM OF
 THE AMERICAN SOLDIER
From the New York Commercial Adve

From the New York Commercial Adver- tiser.
 M FEN FUNSTON, in his annual re- V port as commanding the depart ~% ment of the Columbia, recom- mends the abolition of the chapeau and epauletes the former as being "absurd," as the latter as being "gaudy" Most persons will agree with him. The chapeau has long survived as the full-dress head covering of officers of high rank in both the army and the navy. It is historic, and is familiar to all who remember the old prints of Napoleon's marshals and the engravings of British commanders in the wars of a century or more ago. But it is very trying thing to wear, and if it doesn't happen to suit it's wearer it is apt to make him appear ridiculous. As for the huge golden epaulettes, they have become positively unmilitary in these days when they are worn by so many knights" and grand commanders" in purely civic organizations. So let the chapeau and the epaulettes be banished, by all means.
 But more important in the question of the uniforms which regimental officers and private soldiers wear. The Amer ican army has suffered grievous things at the hands of those who in the past have had the garbng of it. When the con tinental uniform of revolutionary days was finally abandoned, our soldiers were clothed in the most preposterous fashion the maximum of discomfort, the mini mum of soldierliness. When you look at the infantry uniform of the war of 1872 and later, you scarcely wonder that the British took the city of Washington. For how could the average soldier fight well in the habiliments of a scarecrow?
 There was an improvement at the time of the Mexican war, when our dragons were particularly dashing in their appear ance, and when even the cylindrical hats and high stocks of the infantry were, at any rate. symmetrical; but from 1850 to 1860 the American private soldier suffered from an enforced gawkiness by reason of the uniform in which he had to appear upon parade. The civil war wrought a , change, but it was scarcely an improve ment except that It gave the men d garb. which did not hamper them. That seems,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23
Monthly
$73sO

In addition he owed for interest two more sumS, so that his monthly inter
 est bill was $5610, upon a total of
 $102.50 borrowed money. He has a
 considerable family, and he saw no but to file a petition in bankruptcy, which he did. He had, of course, as- signed his salary to sloan compa- nies, and on Saturday the%. United States court will determine whether the assignees can seize his salary, thus busting him from his position as a car coupler on the Central railroad. Craig's attorneyG have applied for an injunction against any such action on the part of the money lenders. The Craig case will determine large number of other cases in Geor- gia and incidentally in other states, and the good people of Atlanta are hoping the decision in that case will aid them in the effort they are mak- ing to drive out, or at least to cripple, the money sharks who infest their city
 Alabama has both money sharks and the fee brigade, and between them the poor mans life is a weary one unless by great foresight and energy he keeps out of the hands of both classes 'of the birds of prey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23
THE FOUNTAIN.

;y James Russell Lowell. Into the sunshine, Full of the light, Eeaping and flashing From morn till night,
 ii. Into the moonlight. Winter than snow, Waving so fiower-like When the winds blow!
 iii. Into the starlight Rushing in spray, Happy at midnight, Happy by day. Ever in motion, Blithesome and cheery, Still climbing heavenward, Never aweary:- Glad of all weathers. Still seeming best, Upward or downward, Motion thy rest
 vi. Full of nature Nothing can tame, Changed every moment, Ever the same;-
 vii. Ceaseless aspiring. Ceaseless content. Darkness or sunshine Thy element;-
 viii Glorious fountainl Let my heart be Fresh, changeful, constant, Upward. like thee!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23
Atianta's Money Lenders.

Tomorrow in the United States court in Atlanta the case of John Craig will be heard, and the case ex- cites interest in every part of that city. Craig is a car coupler, earning from the Central Railroad of Georgia $45 per month. Becoming embarrassed he borrowed from loan companies as fol lows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

Chief Wier's and Alderman Wards maps of the gambling precinct-our not tally worth a cent, and no other map Is on the market.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

The police commission is up against definite charges, aad it cannot we'll stand pat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

MT. Schwab should take the stand and tell what he knows about high feenance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

dreamland but the awakening in Ghosts brings us face to face with a stern real ity that will not be erased from mem- ory until ever rolicbing song of comic opera is forgotten aAd old age fills the brain with cobwebs."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

Our forty gambling dens should at least be reduced to an odd number.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

Mae Wood is now pretty well quali- fled to engage in the grand work of elevating the stage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

No other lady connected with Sena- tor Platt's romantic past has come for ward this week, and the incident may now be considered closed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

Mrs. Dowie's diamonds have become a marked incident of the campaign of Elijah the humbug.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

Perry Heath will not, 1t is said, be asked to serve as secretary of the re. publican national committee
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

The new Cuban loan has been turned down, and yet it is better and sounder than any of the New Jersey trusts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

MT. Dooley's mine in Oregon, or rather the mine he abandoned, is yielding good dollars in abundance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

The republican party now consists of standpatters only, but the democrats propose to smoke the entire lot out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

MT Schwab is not saying much. He feels very much like the little boy the calf ran over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

Under our sacred and blessed tariff Egyptian mummies are classed as dried meat" Everything Is grist that comes to the Dingley mill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

MT. Carnegie's dark-haired boy is doing things he ought not to-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

The South Carolina editors should hold convention, and resolve to shoot first.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

Canada will soon become reconciled to the inevitable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

No matter how artistic the new two. cent postage stamp may be 1t will not prove satisfactory unless 1t be artistic ally gummed on the other side.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

The crisp mornings are the glory of October, and we are getting a full share of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

 No matter how artistic the new two. cent postage stamp may be 1t will not prove satisfactory unless 1t be artistic ally gummed on the other side.
 --p- Under our sacred and blessed tariff Egyptian mummies are classed as dried meat" Everything Is grist that comes to the Dingley mill. No other lady connected with Sena- tor Platt's romantic past has come for ward this week, and the incident may now be considered closed.
  The republican party now consists of standpatters only, but the democrats propose to smoke the entire lot out. MT. Dooley's mine in Oregon, or rather the mine he abandoned, is yielding good dollars in abundance.
  The new Cuban loan has been turned down, and yet it is better and sounder than any of the New Jersey trusts. Perry Heath will not, it is said, be asked to serve as secretary of the re. 1 publican national committee.
 
 Mae Wood is now pretty well quali- fled to engage in the grand work of eleyating the stage.
 
 Mrs. Dowie's diamonds have become a marked incident of the campaign of Elijah the humbug.
 --~.-- MT. Schwab is not saying much. He feels very much like the little boy the calf ran oyer
 ------ The crisp mornings are the glory of October, and we are getting full share of them. Skaguay, we are glad to state, is a town, that is American by at least twenty miles.
 Sex is betrayed by handwriting as well as by trousers or the want of them
 
 The South Carolina editors should hold convention, and resolve to shoot first.
 MT. Carnegie's dark-haired boy is doing things he fought not to-"
 --.---- David Bennett Hill finds much com fort in the Tom Platt case. Canada will soon become reconciled to the inevitable.
  Tom Platt must have the fatal gift of beauty.
 Visitors to Wall street now wear rub Der boats
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

Skaguay, we are glad to state, is a town, that is American by at least twenty miles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

Sex is betrayed by handwriting as well as by trousers or the want of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

David Bennett Hill finds much com fort in the Tom Platt case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

Washington Bureau Age-Herald. 142l Street. N. w.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23
About Persons.

E. ". Barrett, who has been i'll in pri- vate hospital in New York for three weeks from the effects of an operation, is rapidly recovering, and will be able to re- turn home about the middle of next ....o1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

Tom Platt must have the fatal gift of beauty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

A. D. Glass, ". D. Bankston and R. L. o'Neal are the only authorized travelling representatives Of The Age-Herald in It's circulation department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

Now Is the winter of our dlscontent Made glorious summer by this sun of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

Visitors to Wall street now wear rub Der boats.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

disputed and 1t is quite true that the sensational effusions of Le Quex are morA sought after than the masterly narrativeA of Sir Conan or the dashing stories of Anthony Hope. This is a queer world in
 literature as in many other ways and vagaries are not surprising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23

Congressman A. A. Wiley of Montgom- cry. Is at the Metropolitan Colonel Wiley Is serving his second term in the United States congress and has no opposition for reelection next year.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-18
THE LIVE STOCK REVIEW.
Cattle Higher But Quality Poor-Ho.
Market Reacts.

Chicago, Feb. is Cattle Trains
We're late in getting; in today and buy
ers did not find many attractive cattle
in pens but they took hold somewhat
better than usual at stronger TO 10
cents higher prices. The average
quality coming to market is nothing to
boast of, and fewer of the better class
are offered this week than at any prev
ious time this winter
Hogs-The market suffered reac-
ton today after the recent steady, rap
Id upward movement, and prices fell S
m10 cents under yesterdays best.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-18
Wheat Opened Higher, Corn
Was Dull and Oats a Shade
Lower
HOGS LOWER RAND cATTLEAcTlvE
Sheep Were Strong and Provisions
Opened Easier on Liberal Receipts
and Lower Prices-Demand by Com.
mission Houses for Pork and Ribs
steadied Prices.

Chicago, Feb. 1S.--Wheat opened
firm on higher cables. but the early
trading was light, offerings being linz
tied. May was a shade to B@A of a
cent higher at 7SA to 133s, but under
scattered selling with only moderate
demand from commission houses the
price eased off to 1915. Receipts were
nineteen cars.
The market was extremely weak
turnout the day, estimates of liberal
Argentine shipments being the chief
bear factor. May closed y lower, at 773s
@77A.
Trading in corn was dull and fea-
tureless. May opened unchanged to rs
OF a cent higher at ASS to 45k. A fair
increase in local stocks had a weaken
ing influence and pit scalpers had some
May for sale, but there was little
change in the prices during the first
hour. Receipts were III cars.
Weakness in wheat affected corn.
May closed * lower, at ASH.
Oats were Il tritle easier on renewed
AAAatAsAeASAi. way opSiSu uliSLldilBSu 10
u shade lower at S6A to 36A @36as.
There was nothing important in the
trading during the first hour and in
with the easier tone in other
grains May sold off to 36la Receipts
were seventy-six cars.
Provisions opened easier on liberal
receipts of hogs and lower prices at
the yards. EARLY in the day there was
a continuation of yesterdays liquida-
ton. but a fair demand for pork and
ribs by commission houses steadied
prices.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-18
TIMBER DEAL
w. H. Gilbert, Duluth, Mimi,
Buys Standing Pine on the
Bahama Islands
VALUABLE MAHOGANY
An Immense Sum Will Probably Be
Realized From This Part of the In
vestment-Timber Will Be Exported
to Liverpool Until Duty on Lumber in
United States Is Taken off.

Duluth, Mimi, Feb. lS.-W. II. Gill
Bert, q leading lumberman of this dis
trict and owner of sawmill and much
timber here, has just closed Il remarka-
bought between three and four thou
sand million feet of standing pine on
the Bahama islands. chiefly on Grand
Abaco, Great Bahama and Andres
islands, and has secured from the
British government permits for cutting
and manufacturing as soon and as fast
as desired. He is on his way to the
islands accompanied by his chief log
ger and by manufacturing experts to
make survey that win determine
when, where and how manufacturing
shall begin.
The timber is yellow Pine, similar to
that of the south Atlantic states. There
is in connection with the pine a con-
amount of mahogany, which
Mr.. Gilbert has also bought and which
is probably worth an immense sum.
This timber will be exported to Liv-
erpool, and will not come to the United
States until the duty is taken off lum-
Der. 1t is chiefly adapted for ties, car
sslls and other special bills Of long
timber requiring exceptional strength,
and for piling, etc. The trees are small.
but very straight and tall. The price
at which this vast amount of timber
was secured is ridiculously small. Mr.
Gilbert was on a search FOR some of the
neglected opportunities OF the lumber
world when he ran across it.
The United Norwegian Lutheran
church of America will build central
hospital at First street md Eighth ave-
nue. west, to cost $4,000. 1t will serve
all northern Wisconsin and northwest
ern Minnesota. 1t will pc known as the
Bishop Hoyme hospital, for the late
bishop of Eau Clai.Ss, president of the
church organization in America. The
Eoyme Hospital Association is being
with capital of about
100000.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-18
Two Mines Shut Down.

Boone, Feb. 1S.-Only three of the
five coal mines at Angus and Snake
Creek in this county are being operated
lat present. II. l.. Thomas mine has
been abandoned on account of the cave
lin, while at the Fife mine work is tenn
porarily at n standstill on account of n
|strike among the miners. The trouble
lis over the screening of the coal, the
miners claiming that too much of 1T
passes thru the screen. and for which
they are not paid. On the other hand
the operators of the mine claim the
miners in sending up their cars put all
the large chunks on top SO as to pre-
vent as much of the fine coal as posi-
BILE from passing thru the screen when
lit is dumped.
Mr.. Thomas proposes to sink a new
shaft at once and will use as much OF
his old machinery as he can, tho much
of it is now buried in the mine. The
loss to him on account of the cave-in
is several thousand dollars. AT least
1000 tons of coal was just ready to be
hoisted when the accident occurred.
Luckily mons of the miners were in the
mire