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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
SENATOR MORGAN.

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
Senator Morgan's fight on the Panama
canal was the remarkable fight of re-
markable old man. He had reasons for
every position he took and he gave them
honestly and courageously. He probably
knows more about the question of an 18TH
milan canal than any other man alive, and
whether right or wrong In his opposition
TO the treaty which has Just been rati-
fed he is universally respected, both In
the senate and in the country. The canal.
a. at last decided on, is to be dug over a
route which he would not have chosen
and ON terms which he did not like, but,
after ALL when finished it will be monu-
ment more to him, than to any other one
man. with the possible exception of Les
Seps.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
End of The Civil War.

When the rosters of officers and
the blue are published together in
thirty great volumes by the govern
ment, all intermingled alphabetically,
it must then be said by all patriots
and broad-minded men and women
that the war is actually over. The
pensions, it is true, are not over they
are not distributed on the impartial
plan of Secretary Roots forthcoming
volumes, but they are an incident and
afterclap of the war--not the war
itself. The war itself is over when
Secretary Root calls for any and all
authentic Confederate records that
can be found anywhere" He calls for
them lin order that the Confederate
soldier shall receive the full credit
that is due him in the roster that is to
be compiled" The words in quotation
marks are Secretary Roots own words
and they go to show that the war
is at least drawing to close. 1t is
really and truly over.
But this is neither here nor there.
What is needed now is complete list
OF officers and enlisted men that
served Alabama in the great struggle,
and Governor Jelks should devise
some way to help on the great work.
1t is at the best a difficult task, so
scattered and incomplete are the
states records of the days of the Con-
federacy. Governor Aycock of North
Carolina has not waited for legisla-
tive action, but he had made Major
Dixon, state auditor, collector of
Confederate records in that state.
Governor Jelks could do likewise, and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
Great Tide in the Mississippi.

The water stands ON the gauge at
Memphis at 40 feet, or about three feet
higher than any previously recorded
rise, but the water is stationary, and
the belief is that the crest of the flood
has reached that city. As the crest
passes down the river numerous Gre
vases will occur, and the levee au-
thorities are nearly worn out by cease
less activity and the want of sleep.
The bikes near the cities will securely
hold the great volume of water, but
those in sparsely inhabited districts
are full of dangers and difficulties.
Material in the form of sand bags and
the like will be close at hand, and
keen battle against the pressure of
the waters will be waged all along the
river from Memphis to the gulf.
The river at New Orleans is still a
trlfe below the previous record, but
all isHOW oil itNOl 10 Will 10 N<ASNSN'~N'
when the crest of the rise reaches that
city. 1t is not yet due at Vicksburg,
and already there are fears that the
trans-riyer traffic at that point will
be interrupted.
The struggle against the flood is
difficult one, but the flood fighters are
full Of determination, and perhaps the
levees will protect the larger part OF
the lower valley from disastrous over
flows. At least thirty days will be
consumed before the vast waters are
robbed of all power for harm in the
wide waters of the gulf II this rise
shall convince congress that it has
not given proper attention to the great
river the present flood will bring to
others some benefit. Either the leyees
should be built so as to afford complete
protection and security, or else some
other plan should be adopted. The
country cannot afford to see its most
fertile districts inundated in the plant
ing season.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
JOHN DOWIE'S DESIGNS
ON GREATER NEW YORK

need another city to send our people TO.
That we propose to have near this c,tv
Mr.. Dowie may speak alone in Boston.
out ne Will not go anywhere else during
the trip east"
Inc followers of Dowie are essentially
believers in faith healing. At the meet
ing Sunday Mr.. Kindle warned his hear
ers against even entering drug stores
'sorcerers' Shops" he called them. Mr..
hindle said that he had felt guilty ever
since the other day, when he was forced
to go into one to get an unfermented
grape Juice for communion wine because
he couldn't get 1t at the grocers.
Several persons asked for prayers for
sick relatives. One woman said that her
husband had been sick since Monday.
He seems to be getting well naturally
but 1 want it to be the Lords work"
said she.
THE forces of nature are His work.
said Mr.. Kindle, and the woman looked
comforted.
Mr.. Kindle denounced the newspapers
and called reporters who wrote articles
about Dowie lying scribes who would
be cast into a sea of fire and birthstone"
He talked for two hours The rest of
the service consisted of hymns and pray
ers.
Mr.. Corlette explained that Mr.. Kin
die had started the services himself, but
in other cities there was a regular branch
of the church with an elder in charge
and this would be the case here after Mr..
DoMie had come here
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
Reciprocity in the Senate.

The final vote In the senate on the
Cuban reciprocity treaty was so to 16.
Mr.. Bard of California was the only
republican who voted against the rat
ification of the treaty. OF the sixteen
negative votes only three came from
the northern states, namely, Messrs.
Bard, Newlands of Montana and Clark
of Montana. On the other hand Messrs.
Bacon of Georgia, Blackburn of Ken
lucky, Cockrei of Missouri, German
of Maryland, and Oyerman of North
Carolina, all democrats, voted to ratify
the treaty
The treaty does not, however, go
into effect until congress next fall or
winter acts upon it, and thus the ex-
change of notifications will doubtless
be postponed until the new sugar and
tobacco crops. have been disposed of.
The treaty is to remain in force five
years, and ever afterwards until Cuba
or America shall give one years notice
of intention to end 1t.
Not only would the treaty help Cuba
and help our moral obligations towards
that island, but it would hand over to
this country a monopoly of Cuba's
trade. While 1t would grant a rebate
of 20 per cent on Cuban products, in
GLIDING sugar and tobacco brought into
this country, it would grant in return
reductions extending from twenty up
to forty per cent on American prod
ucts destined to Cuba. This country
in other words drives a good bargain
while ostensibly attempting to relieve
the Cuban situation. There is to be
reduction in the Cuban duties on Amer
lean cotton goods ranging from % to
30 per cent; on boots and shoes and
cutlery, of 30 per cent; on iron, steel
and machinery, of rs per cent, and a
long list of other articles secure re-
bates above 20 per cent, leaving all
the rest to get a 20 per cent reduction.
The average reduction on imports from
America will be about 80 per cent,
while we grant to Cuba a reduction of
20 per cent only, and even that rebate
is begrudged by the sugar and tobacco
trusts.
The truth is, this treaty is needed by
this country fully as much as it is by
Cuba. We now export goods to the
value of $2S,OOO,0O0 to Cuba annually,
and it is believed that under the pro-
posed reciprocity treaty that sum
would soon be doubled. Instead then
of keeping the Cubans in view, we
should keep our own trade in plain
sight and congress should speedily
enact the tariff legislation needed to
put the treaty in operation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

summer my Jack nearly had a fit every
had to laugh myself. especially when
they said yes, nam" to the seamstress.
I'm told that in some parts of New Eng
land and out west the absurdity is still
taught in the public schools, and that
failure to comply with it is a serious
breach of good order l admire little
Marion Burdick's nerve and I'm glad that
there is nothing provincial about her. ..
About Persons.
Mark Eisman of st. Louis is at the
Hillman.
F. B. Robinson of Leroy, N Y, is reg
istered at the Morris.
S. o. Hardness of Livingston is at the
Metropolitan.
Cyrus Garnsey, Jr., of Memphis is stop
ping at the Hillnan.
W. s. Elgin of Hopldnsville, Ky, is at
the Morris.
H. W. Truman OF Dadeville is at the
Metropolitan.
Cyrus Coons of Huntsville is registered
at the Hillman.
s. H. Levy of New York is stopping at
the Morris.
E. G. Everel, of Boston is al the Met
ropolitan.
Cyrus Garnsey of Memphis is at the
Hillman.
John MeG1l of Marlette, Mich, is here
on a visit to his son-in-law. f. G. Shop
ard. He has just returned from trip to
Cuba.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
SPOoNER AND THE CABINET.

From the Boston Herald.
1t seems that Chauncey NJ. Depew is
not the only senator who has been Of
fered cabinet positions. Mr.. Spooner has
had two or these places put at his dis
posal since he came to the senate the
second time. He says so in his biography
furnished the Congressional Directory
This is hardly case of self-vaunting on
the part of Mr.. Spooner, as the acceptance
of the places would have lessened rather
than added to his distinction as a public
man with the country. We judge from
what Mr.. Depew and Mr.. Spooner have
said that men like to be offered cabinet
positions, even if they do not accept them.
First and last, also, there have been
able men in the cabnet-perhaps as able
men as in the senate itself. A good share
OF the great senator's, like Webster, Cal
houn, Seward Chase and Sherman. have
also been cabinet officers vet we think
no man has left the senate for that posi-
ton in recent years without subsequent
ly regretting the course he had taken.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

excellent men can be found who will
take the place, trusting to proper re-
Enumeration at the hands of the legis
lature in September.
Governor Ayeock has called general
meetings to be held in each county on
May 10, with view to the furthering
of the collection of the names and
facts needed by the war department.
Unless something similar is done, and
that, too. in the most thorough and
systematic manner, Alabama's roster
will be incomplete and unsatisfactory.
Let us hope Governor Jelks will give
the subject careful attention.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
THE BLuEBIRD ISSUE.

From the Albertville Banner.
The editor of The Age-Herald says:
1.-THE bluebirds Insist that spring has
actually arrived" We would like to ask
The Age-Herald man when and where
he has ever seen a blueblrd in the great
Industrial and smoky city? We suspect
this bluebird business is a little imagin-
airy on the part of The Age-Herald edi-
tor He was only dreaming of the bah
bling brooks and chirping of the blue
birds in the days of his youth down on
the farm
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
Mr. clemo,s Experlence.


"There are few men that know more
about practical mining than Secretary
Treasurer ]. L. Clemo of Alabama Dis
trict No. 20 of the United Mine Workers
OF America" said a man Interested IN
mining, HE has mined every kind OF
metal except three and those three are
zinc, tin and quicksilver. While most OF
his experience has been with bituminous
coal he spent some time in the anthra-
cite regions of Pennsylvania but found
that kind of mining, which Is done entirely
by blasting too dangerous
81 heard Mr. Cemo say recently that 1t
Is a mistaken idea that the fields of the
birmingham district are the only ones in
the world where Iron ore and coal exist
IN such close proximity to each other.
He worked in mines in England where
coal and iron are in almost inexhaustible
quantities with only narrow stretch OF
rock between them.
"Ie talks Interestingly of the various
methods of gold mining and l heard him
describe the sluice process where quick
silver is placed In the bottom of a long
sluice so that tho water containing par
tIeles of gold runs over 1t. Quicksilver is
of such a nature that the gold will cling
to it as it goes along and then the quick
silver is taken out and treated to separate
the precious metal from it.
1.-THE water that runs along these sluices
comes from the immense hydraulic pumps
with which the miners wash the gold
bearing dirt from the resting place made
for 1t.
"Mr. Clemos experience in various
kinds of mining are indeed interesting and
mis- broad experience makes him especially
capable of filling the position he oceu-
uies"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Conscience is the reflector of the liver.
Once there was pretty woman who did
not know 1t, but she was in picture
book.
1t makes a man mad to hear the dis
agreeable things that are said about his
friends; 1t makes a woman mad not to.
It's funny. but when a woman loves a
man she wants him not only to tell her
that he loves her, but that he knows by
his great love that she loves him.
A woman would like to have man kiss
her more if he didn't. smoke; but if he
didn't smoke she would be afraid 1t was
because some other woman objected to it
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
A Busy Man.

Few men that l know accomplish as
much work in the course of a year as
the Very Rev. Father Lennon, superior
of the Sisters of Charity" remarked
prominent layman yesterday. The Sisters
of Charity conduct in the United States
forty hospitals, many orphanages ana
many other institutions-in all nearly
100 Their property in this country is
worth something like S20,00O0OO. And sew
eral costly buildings are now in course
of construction. With such extensive IN
forests requiring heavy expenditures the
society must have large financial re-
sources and a big bank account
"All business affairs of the Sisters are
managed by Father Lennon. His head
quarters are in Maryland, but he travels
about ten months in the year. looking
after institutions in every part OF the
country. And yet with all of his work,
this busy priest gets along without
private secretary. He conducts an I'M
mense correspondence and usually writes
his letters with pen. Whenever meet
Father Lennon he always has time 10
stop and exchange a few pleasant words.
He is about 20 years of age, Is always
genial and never appears to be rusheo'
He came to Birmingham this week to
supervise the improvements being made
on the orphanage at East Lake lie salo
he was greatly pleased with the properly
and with its location Father Lennon
left on Thursday for North Carolina"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
TO A SNOWFLAKE.

BY Francis Thompson.
What heart could have thought your
Past our devisal
20 fiiigree petalD
Fash'dned so purely
Fragilely. surely,
From what paradisa
Imagineless metal,
Too costly for cost?
Who hammered you, wrought you.
From argentine yapor?-
God was my shaper.
Passing surmisal.
He hammered, He wrought me.
From curled silver vapor,
TO lust of His mind;
Thou could st not have thought 0ol
So purely, so palely,
Tinily, surely,
Nightly. fra.ily.
lnsculrcd ard embossed.
With His hammer of wind,
And His graver % frnst,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
A Compromise Suggested.


From Judge.
Your daughter" said the physician
who had been summoned to the home Of
the OTunders on st. Patricks day;
your daught-- is suffering from SCI
we're form of dyspepsia. You should give
her small doses of tincture of yellow
root and let her eat nothing but orarses
for short while"
"Docther," asked O'Tunders, while
beads of anguish appeared on his brow,
"Ofll shtand fer tn yellow-root; but.
sa-ay, fer this wan day at Taste can't we
give her crane oranges?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
Return Engagement.

Ellery's Royal Italian band made such
a hit here that it will probably make
return engagement. 1t will probably come
in May under the auspices of the Elks
The band is a superb organization, and
when it plays here again it will draw
full house.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Distinguishes Educator Coming.

DR.. ]. H. Penniman, dean of the faculty
Of the University Of Pennsylvania, VIII
arrive in the city tonight and will deliver
an address at the First Baptist ehurch
Sunday night on the Old Testament
poets. DR.. Penniman will lecture at the
High school Monday night on the col
iege boy and his work lie is an ex-
ceptionally attractive speaker and is one
of the most scholarly men in the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
Relieving Wall Street.

Whenever money becomes tight In
Wall street all turn at once to the
treasury, demanding that more or less
of the money tied up by the sub
treasury system be turned loose. The
Aldrich bill was based on this plan of
relief, and its failure gave Wall
street a tired feeling.
But it is plain that Secretary Shaw
cannot be expected to pump money
into Wall street whenever spectators
there need more. He may do this
Just before elections, but he certainly
cannot be expected to respond when
there are no elections close at hand.
Perhaps it were best that he did not
respond at all, for all the steps he has
ever taken or could take are of doubt
full legality or utility. He should not
take a hand when the prices of Sc
curities are to be marked up or
marked QOWn.
What he should do is simple enough.
He should ask congress to reform the
tariff so that money will not be taken
from the pockets of the people to be
idle in the treasury. By so doing he
would relieve the consumers, curb the
trusts and meet the monetary prob
lem. But he is republican, and re-
publicans have long held that the sa-
cred tariff must be maintained even
If the rest of the country goes to the
dogs. The root of all evil in this
country is the Dingley tariff, and
there can be no real economic re-
form until the root itself is reformed
and placed on a strictly revenue basis.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
SENATOR SMOOTH.

From the Minneapolis Journal.
Some day the wits of Washington will
add an III to the name of the new SEN
ator from Utah. And he will deserve it.
Smoot is that sort of a chap.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

Georgia is to have $4,000 exhibit
at the st. Louis fair, but Alabama will
go unrepresented unless patriotic citi-
zens-and corporations-take hold of
the matter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

Mr.. Schwab's seven-months holiday
ends in a desire to do some work be-
fore his annual million dollar salary
becomes due and payable
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

The Panama canal will be launched
when the Colombian congress gives
the word, and accepts that $10,000,000,
which 1t is warranted to do.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

Mr. Schwab has arrived, but beyond
a few earthquakes there was no un-
usual perturbation of the western
world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

The color line is making itself felt
in northern cities, and in the by and by
it will be considered national prob
lem.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

1t will soon be the turn of Shamrock
III. to come in second. She cannot
come in third.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

They are beginning to count the sur
viving generals of the civil war, and
Gen. Joe Wheeler is posing as the last
survivor.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

President Roosevelt has notified the
bears of Yellowstone Park that he does
not intend to shoot them. He will
adopt his Mississippi manner, where
he did not even shoot at them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

There are six times as many Chinese
as Americans, and yet we must clothe
them. Plant more cotton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

President Roosevelt will hunt the
bears out west as he has hunted the
trusts in the east.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

Ex-senator Billy Mason is now ex-
pending his eloquence on twelve jury
men instead of q helpless country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

No greater ships can be built until
greater ports are provided for them.
After while, perhaps, the ocean will
need enlargement.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

The dressmakers are waging war
against shirt waists. They do not need
them in their business, but the wearers
do.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

Mr.. Grover Cleveland declines to be
crowded out of politics or the fishing
industry.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

The baseball players instead of the
magnates will soon be a-field.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

The north is looking southwark for
strawberries and it's fugitive baseball
teams.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

The buds are bursting and the base
ball players arriving.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

General Miles was a hero in Boston,
whatever he may be in the war depart
ment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

Venezuela is near the Panama canal,
and her credit is good.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

The Mississippi is in spots the widest
river in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

Theories and mysteries multiply in
Buffalo, with no solutions whatever.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

The baseball clubs move southwark
as the birds move northward.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

The Burdick case is now trying to
Guido in longevity the Molineaux case.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

Cuban relief has been postponed to
the long session.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

Mrs. Gait at New Orleans is in a
strange garrett.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

The Mississippi is too big to be
pumped out
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21

b. r. Whitthorne, Jr. A. d. Glass and
". II. Kavanaugh are the only authorlz-
ed travelling representative of The Age
Herald In its circulation department.