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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26
Visitors Enthusiastic.

A Washington special says: The party
that went to Birmingham last week to
look over the properties of the Alabama
Consolidated Coal and Iron company and
to inspect the extension of the Seaboard
Air Line now being built to Atlanta, has
returned. All the members of the party
are enthusiastic over the trip and speak
In high praise of Birmingham and the
properties examined. Richard II. Ed
monds of Baltimore, in speaking of the
trip, said: Familiar as | have been for
many years with the progress of the
souths industrial development and with
the coal and iron properties of the Ala
bama Consolidated, as well as with the
general coal and iron interests of the
state it was gratifying to me to see how
greatly impressed were the Baltimore
and Richmond people, number of whom
had never before been in Alabama. Gift
ford Lewis. the president of the Old Do
minion Iron and Nail works Of Rich
mond who prior to removing to Rich
mond a few years ago was identified
with iron interests in Pennsylvania, was
very greatly impressed with the Birming-
ham district generally"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26
YUssoUF.

By James Russell Lowell.
A stranger came one night to Yussouf $
tent,
Saying, Behold one outcast and in dread
Against whose life the bow of power is
bent
Who flies. and hath not where to lay
his head
To Yussouf called through all our
tribes The Good
This tent is mine" said Yussour' but
no more
Than it is Gods; come in. and be at
peace;
Freely shalt thou partake of all my
store
As l of His who buildeth over these
Our tents his glorious roof of night and
day.
And at whose door none ever yet heard
Nay"
So Yussouf entertained his guest that
night,
And. waking him ere day, said: Here is
gold;
My swiftest horse is saddled for thy
flight;
Depart before the prying day grow bold"
AS one lamp lights another. nor grows
less,
So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
That inward light the strangers face
made grand,
Which shines from all self-conquest;
kneeling low,
He bowed his forehead upon Yussours
hand,
sobbing: 20 Sheik. I cannot leave thee
so;
l will repay thee; all this thou hast done
Unto that Ibrahim who slew thy son!'
Take thrice the gold" said Yussouf, for
with thee.
Into the desert never to return,
My one black thought shall ride away
from me;
First-born, for whom by Gay and night
l yearn,
Balanced and Just are all of Gods de-
crees;
Thou art avenged. my first-born. sleep in
peacel"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26
THE ONLY DAIlY NfWspApER IN ALABAMA
For my part, am SO attIr'd In wonder
know not what to say.
Much Ado About Nothing.
Russia and the Jews.

The Bessarraytz, the anti-Semetic
paper of Kishineff, gives away the en-
tire Russian view and desire, written
as its article was after the massacre
had occurred, and as comment upon
1t. 1t said:
Become Christians and our brothers
and enjoy all the privileges of Russian
citizenship. If not, you have one year
TO go where you please. After that term
has expired. there must not remain a
single jew in Russia unless he is Chris
tianized, and thereafter entrance to Rus
STA will be forbidden the Jews forever"
The position taken by the Bessaraytz
is defended by the Novoc Vremya AMI
other national papers, and 1t undoubt-
eddy fully makes plain Russia's ambi-
ton, If not her present intention. She
is prosecuting the Jews as she perse-
cuted the Firms, and as she will perse-
cute any people she controls in order
to render the country homogeneous or
all-Russian, alike in religion and In
aspiration.
The cable brings no word of disap-
proval of the utterances of the anti
Semitic paper in Kishineff, and yet
anything more heartless, more bar
barrie, more deeply and thoroughly
Ccssack in spirit and expression could
not readily be produced. 1t was writ
ten, it should be remembered, after the
massacre, when great sections of the
city lay ravished and desolate, and
hundreds of all ages and sexes lay
dead. The wheels of civilization and
humanity and all progress and free
dom of thought are stayed not only
at Kishineff but throughout all Russia,
for if the words of the Bessarytz stand
u-conce.nned they must be eonsiderc1
ali expression of national sentiment and
inclination.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26
Studying Forest FIRES.

1.-THE United States bureau OF forestry
has sent experts into the woods to study
forest fires, and this action will be appre-
ciated at a time when so much Damage
is being done by such fires, because of
the long drouth." said a lumberman. I'm
Oregon and Washington alone it is esti-
mated that over $12 100000 of damage has
been done to the vast timber lands by
forest fires, and here in the east, Maine,
New York and Pennsylvania have been
and are suffering. These agents sent out
by the bureau will make close study
of fires, noticing how they burn, what
stops them, and the damage done to land
and trees. Their reports will all be com
pared at Washington, and it is hoped that
much can be learned about forest-fire
fighting in this way"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26
About Persons.

w. ]. Rosser. travelling freight and pas
senger agent of the Burlington. with
headquarters in Atlanta, was in the city
yesterday.
S. s. Fitzsimmons, fuel agent of the
Atlantic Coast Line with headquarters in
Savannah. spent yesterday in Birming-
ham,
Chairman Don H. Bason of the Tennes-
in the city.
w. L. Law, superintendent of the Bir-
mingham and Atlantic railroad. which
extends from Pell City to Talledega, has
resigned. effective June l. and will make
his future home in st. Louis.
w. S. Farber of New York is stopping at
the Hillman.
C. H. Blackburn of Cincinnati is reg
istered at the Morris.
F. Hardeman and wife of Washington
are at the Metropolitan. Mr.. Hardeman
is a government postoffce inspector
]. C. Curran of Atlanta is at the st.
Nicholas.
Sydney Smith of the United States
army is stopping at the Hillman.
G. Warren Snyder of Chicago was regis
tered at the Morris last night
c. Wilbur of Boston is at the Metro
politan.
William Cooke of Nauvoo is stopping at
the st. Nicholas
]. H. Walker of Shelby is registered at
the Hillman.
F. ]. Carhart of New York is stopping
at the Morris.
C. w. Summers of Baltimore is regis
tered at the Metropolitan.
w. O. Billlngrath of Admission is at the
Morris.
w. r. Fairly, member of the national
executive committee of the United Mine
Workers of America, left for Knoxville
last night.
Mr. and Mrs. c. II. Nabb will leave
today for a three weeks trip north. They
will go to Toronto, where Mr.. Nabb will
attend the annual meeting of the Hotel
Keepers association.
E. S. Smith of Kansas City, who is
well known in southern railroad circles.
has resigned his position as commercial
agent of the Frisco. with headquarters
In Kansas City. and has accepted a posi-
ton as manager and general salesagent
Of the Hollwell Cement company of Kan
sas City.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26
A 5o.mILLloN LUCK STORY.

From the New York World.
The creation of the fortune of Benjamin
f. Jones, who died the other day, esti-
mated In his home city of Pittsburg at
$50 100000. was one of those odd events
that are wholly unavailable in support of
the contention that pure luck or chance
plays no inconsderable part in human
affairs
Jones owned a small forging shop thirty
years ago, and had no apparent prospects
of entering millionairedom One day
employee, a careless fellow. let pair of
cold tongs slip from his hands and they
fell between the rollers. Examination of
the tongs when they were recovered dis
closed the fact that the metal in them had
been accidentally made into an excep-
tionally high grade quality of steel.
The patent secured on that purely
chance discovery was the passport of
Jones of Pittsburg to one of the largest
fortunes in the country. and incidentally
to political Immortality as the chairman
of Blaine's presidential campaign COM
mittee who fried the fat" out of such
manufacturers as were sluggish in their
contributions.
The perverse moral of this story is ac-
centuated by the fact that the careless
workman who dropped the tongs was re-
warded for his carelessness with a gift of
$4,000. Young Americans will neverthe-
less do well to believe that as a rule large
fortunes are not made by chance, but by
deep thinking and hard working, and also
that painstaking, not carelessness, is the
main highway to success.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26
PRIvArE JOHN ALLEN TALEs.
Two Told on Governor Doekery and
One on q Darky.
From the washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
Private John Allen Of Tupelo. Miss, a
member of the government commission
of the st. Louis exposition. did not figure
to any great extent in the ceremonies of
dedication Of that enterprise. but he was
there all right. for several good stories
of his invention or experience have been
brought back to Washington. 1t was at
a little dinner given to Alexander Dock
cry. governor of Missouri that Allen
flashed some wit at the expense of the
guest of the evening
Il met an old farmer out on the grounds
today" remarked Allen, "and he seemed
to be very we'll informed about affairs
pertaining to Missouri Finally we got to
talking about the Doodle stories of the
Missouri legislature and the fact that
the name of Lieutenant Governor Lee be-
came involved in them.
" I am glad that my old friend Dock
cry is not mixed up in any of these
things, 1 said.
" Oh, you needn't have any fsar on
that score, replied the old farmer; Dock
cry was always mighty clever In covering
up his tracks,
Then" continued Allen, the discus
sion turned on the governor here and
the success he had achieved.
He had a war record to start with
or he could not have got along in Mis-
souri, said
Well remarked the old farmer,
'Dockery didn't have much of war
record. To'ard the end of the war he
Joined a company of home guards with
the stipulation that the company was not
to go out of the country unless the enemy
came In
At another time Private Allen told a
story of Tupelo 1.-THE wife of a shrewd
old darby of my town died not long ago,
he said, land in making arrangements
for the funeral the old elbow went TO the
ticket agent and inquired the cost of
round-trip ticket to Birmingham and also
a round-trip ticket for a corpse.
You want a round-trip ticket for
yourself. but you want ticket only one
way for the corpse said the agent.
See heah boss said the darby, I
knows what Use about and what l want.
My ole Sal done had a lot o. kinfolks at
Birmingham and dey all wants ter see her
befo' she's buried. Now. I ak you de
fin out II it'll be cheaper TO me ter
take old Sal up ter Birmingham and back
AN til be ter feed a lot of dem Ala
bamy niggers fer week datll come ter
de funeral
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26
Enjoyed HuntsvlIIe TrIp.

The members of Birmingham council
of the knights of Columbus who spent
Sunday in Huntsville returned yesterday
morning. They were Hospitality enter
tanned and were delighted with their trip.
A new council was organized in Hunts
willie and forty-fve candidates were mi
tated. The Rev Father Kerrigan of Biz
mingham preached a fine sermon to the
Knights of Columbus.
This city was represented in Huntsville
by about forty-five knights, but Chatta-
nooga was in evidence to the number of
100 or more.
John w. O'Neill P. H. Linnehan and
other knights experienced In limitations,
say that in many respects the Huntsville
ceremonies were the most stirring of ALL
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26
POINTS OF STRENGTH AND
OF WEAKNESS IN EMERSON

ticlsm, a hasty and imp reading OF
a few important authors, this consti-
tuted all his scanty stock of lore. Like
some essayists of a later date, he was
ridiculously fond Of dragging IN Great
names to give an appearance of pro-
fundity to what he said; yet even in the
way in which he linked these NAMES to-
gether he showed that he knew little Ct
nothing of what they meant. In one pas
sage he groups Pindar. Michael Angelo,
Shakespeare and Nine. de Stael as a
homogeneous group His opinions of lit
erary masters are frequently absurd.
Homer he dismsses as being too his
torical"-a saying which sounds as though
it had emanated from school girl Pope's
lines, he remarks are fit only to be tied
around frosted cake. Scott is simply
the autnor of rhyrlsd quite book to the
highlands.
In all this he is showing the individual
ism which was the one belief to which he
chung. Yet while he preached this indi-
vidualism to others and urged them on to
intellectual independence, it was his own
ego alone that he held to have reached the
goal of truth.
What then. will men hereafter say OF
Emerson when another century has gone
from us? They will say that in his own
time and in the crude state of its civiliza-
ton he was Notwithstanding for
his taste, his serenity and even for the
aloofness which, though it kept him from
any immediate contact with the full tide
of life, kept him also free from the vaga-
ries of the transcendentalists and the fool.
ish babble of men like Bronson Alcott.
that prepesterous combination of tin-ped-
dler and philosopher. But they must like
wise say that viewed with a true sense of
RELATIVELY and proportion, he stands only
In the second or third rank of those who
have endeavored to evoke such thoughts
as after generations will not readily let
die great maker of phrases, a refash-
Toner of the old in such form that it seems
almost new, professed philosopher, but,
in effect, man of letters only; such was
Emerson.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
Great Horse Show.

Il have seen all the horse shows in the
country, and 1 can say trathfully that
the Birmingham horse show will be one
of the best ever held said George G.
Phillips. 4 have never seen a show any
where that could begin to come up to
ours when IL extent of the prizes are
considered.
Il helped to get up this horse show. l
worked hopefully from the start but
am delighted to say that it is going to
exceed my brightest expectations OF
month ago. No man or woman Of this
city will have any apologies to make
after the show is over. 1t will be really
miss IT,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26
Pannane in Alabama.

In the federal court for the middle
district Of Alabama court presided
over by Judge Thomas G. Jones-a
grand jury has been investigating a
system of peonage that was first pub
licly observed in Goodwater The vic
tim Is a negro, known as Joe Patter-
son, and the facts centering around
him are thus stated by the Montgom-
cry correspondent of the Memphis
News:
Patterson borrowed 81 on Saturday,
promising to pay 1t the following Tues
day morning. Patterson did not get to
town at the appointed time, when, II Is
said, he was arrested and carried before
a Justice of the peace, who found him
guilty of obtaining money under false
pretenses without giving the negro an OPP
portunlty of getting witnesses or law
yer. small fine was assessed. The ne
gro had no money, nor was he given an
opportunity to get any with which to
pay the fine and costs. He was at once
sold to a man named Hardy for $25, who
worked the negro for about one year,
when Hardy sold the negro to Pace for
$40, 1t is claimed.
The negro worked a while for Pace,
and In trying to escape cut a boat loose
from its moorings. Upon his recapture
he was tried and given six months more
for this offense. The negro then entered
into a contract for an additional year to
pay Doctors bill. In short, for the 81
originally borrowed the negro would not
have gotten out until the year 1906. The
negro was originally arrested In Coosa
county and kidnapped into Tallapoosa
county. where he was sold, according to
the report
1t is asserted that the system Of
which the Goodwater example is a
type, has been largely practiced In GER
tain sections of this state, and the fed
eral grand jury in Judge Jones court
is endeavoring to unearth the entire
scheme. The district attorney has Sc
cured the services of a secret service
agent who proposes ito go to the bot
tom of the affair."" no matter who or
hcw many are involved in it,
Peonage belongs In South American
countries, where the friendless are
thrown into qualified servitude in order
to work out small debts. There Is alto
gether too much of disposition in this
state, even in this city, to adopt and
assimiate the South American prac-
tice, and the grand jury for the middle
district will render the state good serv-
ice If it exposes all methods and de-
vices that wrong the poor and humble
and friendless. The good citizens of
this state will see that such business
Is ended as soon as the facts in relation
to 1t are well established.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26
NO PoPGUN FIGHTING.

Gen. John B. Gordon in Scribner's.
One of these furious leaders at the south
declared that II we would secede from the
Union there would be no war, and If there
should be a war we could whip the Yam
KEGS with childrens popguns." When af-
ter the war this same gentleman was ad-
dressing an audience he was asked by an
old, manned soldier: Say, judge, amt
you the man that told us before the war
that we could whip the Yankees with pop
gurN?'
Yes" replied the witty speaker. land
we could, but, confound EN-, they would
not fight us that way"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26
A GOOD PLACE TO BE "AT."

Dan Beard in the Worlds Work.
One of the strangest sights 1 ever saw
in wild country was little minister
CARRIED in solemn black, white dog" col
lar. buttonless vest and stiff black straw
hat The dominic was standing In a
leaky boat in the midst of a primeval
woods, fishing the boiling waters of a
mountain torrent. At his back cataract
roared and pounded the rocks, churning
the water to white suds; above him the
eternal snow glistened on the mountains,
and but few yards away a gaunt Gin
namon bear was quietly nosing among the
driftWood.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26

From the N. Y Commereial-Advertlser
y oRN such as he was, and nur-
D1 tured among those such as we
~ have Just described, Emerson at
last became the man whose thoughts and
more often whose impressions we now
can gather from his books. Because his
was the contemplative life, most OF what
he said and wrote is essentially ideal. Be
cause of his imperfect training and his
lack of vigor, he created nothing; he
said nothing which in its essence was
really new. He failed in all his years of
thinking to construct even the outline OF
a consistent philosophy. On the other
hand, his extreme senstiveness, his DELI
cacy of feeling and certain instructive
sense of form enabled him to shape in an
almost perfect mold those thoughts and
precepts which will be found to be almost
a part of the universal consciousness
This Is the great merit of Emerson, that
whether he wrote In prose or whether he
wrote in verse, he did attain to a felicity
of expression which has sprinkled his
pages with single sentences, crystal in
their clearness and often sparkling and
flashing with the beauty Of the diamond.
1t is by these single sentences, and not
by his obscure and misty exposition of
his phllosophic creed, that he has won
the surest title to remembrance. Such
sayings as Beauty is It's own excuse for
being" He builded better than he
knew" and perhaps the most famous of
all, Hitch your wagon to a star" will
be remembered long after his name shall
be no longer needed and his books no
longer read.
As teacher. apart from these scat
tered gems of perfect phrasing, he has
left little that today is worth ones while
to study, and the reason is tc be found
In this, that he had himself acquired SO
little knowledge. The men and the women
to whom he spoke repres ented only tie
rule beginnings OF general culture. and
SO to them he seemed an oracle Today
we can see through the fimsiness of his
requirements and fathom the shallowness
OF his thought. A strain of German mys-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26
the census. AS follows

Cedar yields the most shingles, fol-
lowed In order by white pine, cypress,
yellow pine, red fir, hemlock, and
spruce. From cedar over one-half OF
the single product comes. 1t is the
recognized shingle material, although
cypress and redwood are each consid-
cred by many persons equally endur-
ing and valuable. In California red
wood shingles are preferred.
But in the country at large the Wash
ington and Oregon red cedar single Is
the leading article, and its manufacture
on large scale bids fair to last life
time. The material is abundant, and
the product excellent. If cypress were
available in large quantities, its shin.
giles could hold the field against red
cedar shingles, but 1t is not, and the
red cedar article readily outranks
shingles made from either white or
yellow pine.
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eELATED.

From the Philadelphia Press
A witness before the grand jury In the
Missouri Doodle cases shed a great many
tears while testifying to the bribery of
members Of the Legislature. This flow of
grief came rather late In the enterprise
in fact 1t was so late that the statute of
limitations protects those against whom
he was testifying and for whom he was so
copiously weeping
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26
Bessemer.

Few cities In Alabama are so sub
stantially built or so progressive as Bes-
semer," said a Birmingham man last
night. II spent today In Bessemer and
l was struck with the improvements that
had been made since my last visit of
six months ago.
by the way. the most beautiful scenery
on a car line in Jefferson county is that
between Birmingham and Bessemer, and
when the trolley begins to run the Besse-
mer line will he great pleasure route"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
Mans mark is silence woman's a smile.
Even more than church pews bath tubs
promote Christianity.
When mans friends have only good
things to say of him it is sign that he
is dead.
Very few girls would care to get en-
gaeed il trousseau did not go with the
affair.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26

Ambassador Mccormick of sartorial
renown is at home just when he should
be at his post in st. Petersburg. He
belongs to the leisure or strictly orna-
mental class.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26

The Foraker-Hanna campaign IN
Ohio is the most interesting of the
whole lot. Mark Hanna's love for the
Roosevelt administration is becoming
thinner every day.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26

Pennypacker feels secure as long as
Deacon Baer stands behind him. These
two great Pennsylvanians are pair to
draw away from.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26

The New York World thinks the
Wizard of Booze should not be patron
lied when the thermometer is in the
nineties.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26

Mrs. r. D. Johnston, vice regent Of
the Mount Vernon association, has Sc
cured in the national shrine an Ala
bama room, and now Alabama should
help her furnish 1t with choice and
rare articles that came down from the
days of the Revolution.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26

Dollar wheat may be needed. but it
cannot be procured by staying out of
the market. The known supply regu-
lates the price.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-26

Mr.. Cleveland's batting average Is
very high, but the time may have come
to put him on the bench. 1t comes to
all regardless of the size of the collar.