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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-08
NEED NOT FEAR HARD TIMES.
Conditions Are Such That Any Period of Depression Must Be Temporary.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
 It is undeniable that business condi- tions in the last six months have not changed for the better. It must be ad- mitted that there is depression in certain industries and that there has been at times a lack of confidence in financial circles that under favorable conditions would have bread panics 1t is true that merchants are talking of dull trade, and manufacturers of the natural depression that follows a period of abnormal activity and overproduction. It is not true, how ever that these things are necessarily the forerunners of a period of downright hard times.
 A period of depression does not lead necessarily, to hard times. It does not follow that because some manufacturing plants have been closed, and because trade is not as active as II was three years ago, and because the stock market is subject to greater fluctuations than 1t was a year ago, that all mills are to cose that hundreds of thousands of workingmen are to be thrown out of em- ployment; that trade is to be paralized, and that the conditions of the hard times of 1894 and 1896 are to prevail this year or next year.
 Actual conditions in the country are against the return of hard times. We have more producers and more con- sumers. In the last seven years our population has increased form 70 254, GOO to 79 million. There are in round numbers 10 million more consumers and producers more workers and purchasers, than there were seven years ago.
 In five years the wealth of the nation has increased from 77,0OO million dollars to 94,OOO million dollars. In the same time the money in the country has in- creased from s1, 506, 434 GOO to s2,249. 300 900. This is money on a gold basis subject to no disceunt. A dollar is a dollar to every man. No depression is possible.
 In seven years our exports have in- creased from SSS2 GOO to S1 3s1, ,719 900. This indicates a constantly increasing foreign demand for our manufacturing and farm products. In ten years our farms have increased in number from 4,564 6H to 5,739 657. and the farm products have increased in value from $2 l60, 107 900 to S, 3,764. 171O00.
 As long as there is a foreign demand for our products, with a constantly in creasing home consumption there must be profitable employment for workers, activity in manufacturing, opportunity for safe investment and general con- ditions absolutely prohibitive of down. right hard times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-08
Lovers of Beauty.
From the Detroit Tribune.

from the Detroit Tribune.
 The Japanese have a most charming custom which the Americans would do we'll in following. In the houses of the well-to-do there is always one room which is called "the chamber of the in- spring view and from the windows of this room may be seen some beauty of nature, sometimes a glimpse of a wind ing river or pretty hills; and frequently it is no more than a blossoming cherry tree or an interrupted stretch of white snow, but in any case showing the sim pie love of the naturally beautiful. While we Americans give theater and dinner parties, the Japanese get up parties to visit the maple trees while they are re- splendent in the autumn colors, or to go mushroom hunting, and in the winter they go out into the country to view the fresh untrodden snow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-08
The Curate's Revenge.
Ie Westminster Gazette.

From the Westminster Gazette.
 Two curates at a church in Maryport (Cumberland) have just resigned. The senior curate preached last Sunday night his farewell sermon, and he chose a text which astonished the congregation. It was a portion of Abraham's direction to his young men, Abide ye here with the ass, and l and the lad will go wonder and worship" The Cumberland papers quaintly add. Much comment has been excited by the textn'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-08
A Sale of Cotton Waists. Oc~ Former Prices l.25 & 1.5O OO\

Monday and Monday only. Why? Because we can't afford to lose money every day in the week. Time your domestic affairs, get here early Monday morning-save from BOG to soc
 Heavy wintry weights of cotton Cheviots, Oxfords and Vestngs in white, enhanced by mercerzed stripes checks figures and dots. Three styles to choose from tab collars stock collars puff sleeves tucked fronts, box peated fronts, tabbed fronts and peated backs Soiled We paying you to take them home and wash them. Fine for home wear and morning on the street-under coat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-08
More Than a Hundred Six-DOlldr
 Waists at S3.95.

The colors desirable, and the styles the sort that are greatest in denand-they are Fashion right waists. Taken from regular stock and re- duced from $6 to S3o5. These are bargains indeed! There's a for the reduction, of course. The waists thumbed and fingered but the smirches trivial and scarcely noticeable. They be used for evening nicely-the soft glow of incandescent and gas lights will hide rather than find the soiled spots Such really excellent qualities offer ed at such an insignificant price, It's the waist bar gain of the Winter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-08
Big Boys Coats

At E m This coat at S5 is a great
 JuUU value. It's our best foot forward the Boys Department. Made of Meltons and Friezes, belted back, stylish and serviceable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-08
American Boys and
Girls Library.
Membership Absolutely Free

Human friendship is tickle and ephemera; the friendship of manent The value of the reading habit nestmabe the time We know tha mothers and fathers will appreciate this library
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-08

OF mn Black spangled net robe white tafeta- UJuUU blue belt, collar and cuffs.
 on m Black Crepe de Chine Gown- trimmed with UUaUU silk stimulating Mexican drawn work; the whole waist is of tiny tuczs lace yoke; tucked graduated hounce with rows of lace let in.
 Theater Wraps-mported cloth in tan, three fourths length lined with white satin decorated with silk cord; ornaments and buttons in white. 20 Ef1 Carriage Wrap from Sarah Meyer-white J0sJU cloth Cecilian neck purple velvet and gold buttons and braids for the trimming; cape sliced at shoulders and back
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-08
Schillinger's Hof- Brau Beer.

SPECIAL! SPECIAL!
 For the next two weeks we will deliver Coke in lots of five tons or over at S3 50 per ton. B'ham By, It. & F. Co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-08
Imported Evening Gowns; Theater and Carriage Wraps

Imported Gowns and Wraps selling at sensational prices There's sentiment attached to these exotcsand it hovers in them after they've been transpanted from Paris to Birmingham. But don't charge for the sentiment The prices very matter of
 fact and business like It's the Saks way Merchandise is merchandise Because these gowns beautiful and have inmtable foreign atmosphere, stores would lay three and four unreasonable profits Our ideas of bus
 mess diametrcaly opposed to such methods. The following list of prices illustrate the Saks idea forciby than page full of words Women who have wanted lovely gown, exquisite theatre carriage riff prices may buy with that satisfaction
New-York tribune., 1903-04-30
THE THREATENED APPEAL.

The threats of the franchise holding corpora
+ions tn carry their case against the Speclai
Franchise Tax law to the Supreme Court OF
tho Tinted States need not cause any serious
apprehension They may delay payment pJ
tbe scheme and doubtless hope that a new
legislature may be brought to relieve them Vi
their obligations before they are face TO lace
with the final necessity of setting up ooine
of them, meantime, may perhaps do niue
more watering and execute few more shuileS
in corporation leases and unload on somebody
else; but there is every reason TO expect that
the tax will be sustained at last
The chief grounds Of complaint against the
franchise tax are that it is levied by State OIL
GERS contrary TO the State constitution; that IL
violates contracts under which the cities have
granted franchises, and that the whole scheme
of taxing intangible franchises as real estate
is illegal The Court of Appeals has settled the
first point and it is the final Interpreter of the
requirements of the State constitution. Inc
United States Supreme Court will never In the
world say that the home rule provision or the
State constitution requires the assessment OF
franchises locally when the tNew-1ork Court
of Appeals says it does not. That is purely
matter of domestic administration, and Involves
no federal question whatever.
A
peal which we are told is to be based on the
Dartmouth College case, it may be said that 1or
fifty years the Supreme Court has been limiting
more and more the scope of that decision, SO
far as it was thought to impair the power OF the
State to regulate corporations OF It's own crea-
ton. But, even constituting it in its fullest
breadth, it does not apply, as Judge Vann
clearly shows The contracts by which fran
chses are held provide for compensation little
or much-generally little-for the property
granted, but nowhere promise not to tax ulat
property. Purchase price and taxation are two
different things even when the seller and the
taxer are the same, and in this case they are
not the same The city sells the property In fran
chises 1t is taxed by State law for general pur-
poses, State, county and municipal. Moreover,
even if the contract did promise exemption from
taxation the stipulation would be void, as Judge
Vann shows, for no municipality has power to
withdraw property from the taxing power OF
the State Any reliance on the overthrow of the
urincipIe of franchise taxation must also be
vain for franchises have been taxed along with
houses and lands and railroad tracks in other
States with the approval of the United States
Supreme Court
The lawyers will wfggle TO the end but we
feel sure without avail. Perhaps David b.
Hill will recover from the slight of a unanimous
decision against him, made by the vote of the
Judge whose fortunes he has sometimes pre-
sumed to hint he held in the hollow of his
hand, and go to Washington TO tell the justices
of the Supreme Court what an inexperienced
bIunderer and demagogue he thinks the Presi-
dent OF the United States to be. If so, It Will
be interesting occasion
New-York tribune., 1903-04-30
GEORGE DANA BO4RDMAE.

The death of George Dana Boardman yester-
day, after long Illness removes from among
US one of the most noteworthy religious teach
of his age, and one of The most beloved OF
Christian pastors. The pU~~ly congregational
polity OF the Baptist Church does not c0nduce
to or even permit such ecclesiastical leadership
as may be attained by individuals in some other
church organizations. For that reason it is all
the more significant that DR.. Boardman was
for full generation by common consent re-
garded as second to no other clergyman in that
denomination, which is one Of the most numer-
Gus in this country, and which In scholarly au-
thority ranks among the foremost DR.. Board
man was peculiarly successful as a pastor in
his personal relationship to his great congrega-
ton. He was an effective and convincing pulpit
orator, and master Of a pure and fascinating
English style. His ripe scholarship made him
a potent force in matters of theological and
philosophical education, and enabled him TO
make upon the thought of his time a deep and
lasting mark
He was cOnspicuously n man who devoted
himself TO his calling. There was in his whole
career no straining for sensations or for no
tcriety. and no seeking after selfish interests.
He seemed to feel upon hiInsef the old COM
pulsion, Woe unto me If l preach not the Cos
pei, and accordingly he strove with all the
energies OF his rare mind and heart to preach
the Gospel. in one way or another, seven days
in every week and ffty-two weeks in every
year. Measured by worldly notoriety, other
preacaers have been more successful Meas
ured by legitimate and lasting influence for
righteousness, DR.. Boardman must stand In the
foremost rank of Christian ministers Of his time
and land. The work he did was done so well
New-York tribune., 1903-04-30
4 SICKENING THTD.

The liquor dealers association is in urgent
need OF d new president, and seems to be aware
of the fact. On the eve Of an important meet
ing the fiery and impetuous Lindinger gave
birth TO circular document outlining one OF
the most terrible programmes OF reclamation
which the human mind can conceive. we re-
call nothing worse since the dealings of Philip
with the Netherlands. 1t adjured the brethren
by all that they regarded sacred to cease and
prevent the use Of New-York State hops; to in
form all merchants that they must refrain from
handling New-York products of every kind; to
admonish the people that they must not spend
their vacations at New-York resorts; TO publish
blacklist OF persons refusing to live up to the
tust demands Of the association and deal with
them accordingly; to start fund for defensive
and offensive purposes and ask everybody to
contribute; 10 accomplish the political death of
every member of the legislature who voted to
increase the liquor license and every leader
who prompted such vote. and TO go over bodily
10 the Democratic party. In short. Lindinger
proclaimed the duty and necessity Of reducing
the whole social. political and industrial life of
the Empire State TO something closely Tesem-
bling chaos and old night Timid citizens, who
remembered the appalling wrath Of Lindinger
at the time when the Mayor refused to break
previous engagement in order to a delega-
ton of liquor dealers at the City Hail. were in
great alarm. and began forthwith to prepare
petitions in bankruptcy.
But nobody can tell I'm advance whether
pronunciamento is going 10 start q revolution
or fall as fat as the average after dinner speech
The liquor dealers met on Tuesday, and when
they adjourned Lindinger's programme had van
ished as hopelessly as the lost books of Livy.
Not a trace remained in sight of the universal
boycott and the political cataclysm which had
looked as big as battleship and twice as awful
only few hours before. What, then, did the
members of the association decree? Fifteen
cents a pint for beer and no cheese. That's all.
Hereafter the working of the growler will be
a more expensive pastime, and the strange sub
stance which tramps and flies affect will hap
PLY be somewhat scarcer. But the hop grow
ers will continue to grow hops, merchants will
keep on handling a vast variety of New-York
State products every summer resort, possess
ing as heretofore, more attractions than all the
rest combined. will be crowded with joyous
visitors; there will be no blacklist embracing
half the population Of the State, and politicians
will continue TO do lively business at their old
stands.
New-York tribune., 1903-04-30
NOTES OF SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON.

washington April % (SpeciaD-General and Mrs
Anson Mills gave a dinner tonight in honor OF
their daughter Constance Mills. and Captain W. s.
Overton whose marriage viii take place to-mor-
row. The guests were limited to the wedding at
tendants and relatives. among whom were cap
tain OvertOn's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. D over
ton of New York, and the Misses Overflow; MI. ana
Mrs. orndorf. of Worcester, Mass and MI ana
Mrs Stewart and Miss Stewart Of ZanesVilie, ono
all of whom are guests Of General and Mrs Mliis
Miss Stewart is niece of Mrs. Mills. and VIII ac-
company them when General and Mrs Mills go 70
West Point in June. Later the party VIII go 10
Bass Rock on the coast of Massachusetts. Whefe
General Mills and his family have spent tne last
three summers.
Miss Fanny Eileen O'Connel and Leutehah'
Clarence NJ. Condor. L. s. A, were married To-
night at the home Of the Solicitor or the treasury
and Mrs. O'Connen. in the presence OF u company
limited to relatives and intimate friends The
bridesmaids all classmates Of the bride at NassaT'
were Miss Assnath Borden. Of Fan RIVER Mass
Miss Mary Temple, Of New-York; Miss Juila Iar-
box Of Batavia N Y. and Miss Edith Merritt, OF
Newark N j. all house guests, ard Miss Eunice
Oberly, of this city.
Lieutenant John o. Steger was the best man.
After wedding trip Lieutenant Condon VIII take
his bride to his post. Fort Hunt Virginia.
Count von Priola. commander OF the German
cruiser Gazel1e. undergoing repairs at Newport
News arrived in Washington last night and Ieft
the city this afternoon. While here he called AT the
German Embassy. -.
of the Catholic University OF America, lett WASH
ington to-day for New-England TO visit the scenes
middle Of May. and then go to his new field OF
work, at Los Angeles, Cal
New-York tribune., 1903-04-30

fected by the foremost ''strict consuuctlonlst'
The doctrine Of State rights-that is, or State
s,,ramacv over the Nation-was mortaliy
xrou4nded i'm the house of its friends by It's own
biof advocate More than that, the mission OF
tho early colonists and of the reFoiuIoiiiS'o
r-as FULFILLED The colonists had come to Amer
TOO 70 escape the burdens of the European sys-
tom That was In vain so long as they re-
n,oined under the government of the mother
country So TO complete the work. as they
thoucbt the revoutionists threw off that gov
ernment and won independence. But even that
was in vain so long as by side, occupying
the better half of the continent and controlling
half our commerce, was a European power al
ways alien and likely at any time to be inimicai
The end for which the colonists migrated ana
the reyoIutionists fought was gained only when
the last foreign power was expelled from the
Mississippi Valley and the United States was
made forever supreme upon this continent
That was the purport Of the Louisiana Purchase
Treaty. and that is the great consummation the
centenary of which is celebrated to-day. 1t is
not merely that we secured a territory when
has been developed into q dozen States and is
inha bted by fifteen million people 1t is rather
that we found ourselves; that we realized
ourselves to be a nation competent to do any
thing that any nation might do and that we
made ourselves for all time the dominant power
of the Western World.
New-York tribune., 1903-04-30
TIE L0rTSLANA CENTENART.

To-day is the festival OF national expansion.
we might. indeed, almost call it the festival Of
nationality itself. The actual celebration is
largely local 10 St Louis but 1t deserves 10 be
1ational in scope. The dominant thought with
most. perhaps, is of the vastness Of the terri
forial domain acquired hundred years ago,
hut il should rather be of the development Of
constitutional and national principles which
was then assured. Il was Senator HOar. If we
remember Alright who named the Declaration
of Independence. the Constitution and the Ordi-
nance OF 1877 as the three supreme title deeds
uf American freedom. The ousiana Purchase
Tresty is worthy Of rank by the side of these
for the importance of its effect upon national
policies. constitutional Interpretation and the
whole after development of the American Re
public 1t was that more than anything else
that ests blished our bent toward q union rather
shan confederation: that assured our primacy
smong the nations Of the Western Hemisphere;
ihat made the Constitution living force instead
of mere petrffaction and that, above all, gave
80 the United States a conscious confirmation as
n sovereign power able TO do. as Jefferson said,
.au acts and things which independent States
snay of right do"
For this mighty achievement # has long been
fhe custom 10 give chief credit TO jefferson.
1is title to gratitude is not TO be questioned
The truth Of history is, however that while
the act was JefersOns. the plan was Hami-
TONS. Years before three men had clearly COM
mitted themselves upon the subject Of the
Mississippi River. They were, in order of time
Madison. Hamilton and Jefferson. On one point
they were agreed-that the United States must
have free Of that river from source to
Gulf. But concerning the ways and means there
was the widest possible divergence between
Hamilton and Jefferson. The latter was WILL
ing that the shores Of that river should remain
sn alien hands. All he sought was the right to
navigate It. and he put forward the extraor-
dinary doctrine that we had that natural anG
legal right even while the river was a part of
fhe territorial waters Of another power. Ham
sltOn. on the other hand, aimed at ownership of
the river and its shores and Of all the adjacent
territory lie had, he said in 1899, long been
.n the habit Of considering the acquisition OF
the Louisiana Territory and the FIoridas as
essential TO the permanency OF the Union"
He vas the first great expansionist under the
Constitution. the founder OF the principle that
the United States should be continental in terri
torisl extent, and should aim at what he called
"the ascendancv in American affairs" and IL
was Ifs policy and his design that his great po-
lftical rival fulfilled in 1903.
In the great doings of a nundred years ago.
then Hamilton was vindicated by Jefferson.
nncad Interpretation Of the Constitution was ef
New-York tribune., 1903-04-30
Il AnluSemeRts.


ACADEMY OF MUSIC-S.I5-The SUBURBAN
AMERICAN Observation-Disclosures
REI.ASCO TFfEATRF-S-The DaTliDS OF the IooH-
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FRoAHNAY TEEATRE-S-Prince Of Fiisen
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CRITERION THEATRE-S3 S3o-A Message irOui N@'s'
DALYs THFATEE-s:15-The Starbccks-
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EMPIRE THEATRE-S-29-The Mummy aho Rhe mum
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GsaRRfCK THEATRE-S-15-Mice ana HleI
IIaRI,EN OPERA HOUSE-S:15-The Frisky NEs- S"4ii
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MADISON SQUARE THEATRE-2i5-s:So-AF Fooa aho
His Money. -,
sfFsNDFlSSOfIN HALA-3-Piano Recital
MAJESTIC TEEATRE-S-T'he Wizard OF O--.
MANHATTAN THEATRE-s=2o-The Earl 'l
MURRAY HILL TFfEATRE-2-s-Niss Mutton
JEW SANOT-S s3o-T'he Tanning OF heien
PaSToRS-Cortinuous Performance
PRINCESS TEEAIRE-2:15-s-20-E 20-Enere FL
TFeCTpR'S THEATRES-Comeiy and NaoNefaAe'
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WATI.ACK'S-S:1S-Sutan OF Suiu
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New-York tribune., 1903-04-30
ANNOUNCES NEW ATOMIC THEORY.
The Discoverer Says That Explains the Law
of GraVitation.

Madison. Wis. April 29-Profsssor Stephen "
Babcock announced last night the University
Science Club a new theory OF atomic energy r.
sulting from twenty years Of research In brief Il
IS that the weight OF any substance IS effected by
the molecular changes which It undergOes or. as
Professor Babcock stated the law. the weight OF a
body IS inversely proportional to It's Inherent
ergy. This practically overthrows the old atomic
theory and the theory OF conservation OF matter
and leads TO the idea that all atoms are primarily
identical. and that the differences IN the weight OF
the different elements is due the differences N
their energy.
The theory, according to Professor Babcock.
would offer satisfactory explanation OF the law
Of gravitatiOn-
Professor Comstock. director OF WashbUrn Oh
servatOry. said: Professor BabcOck's theory Will
be the most notable contribution TO science OF the
last fifty years.