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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
New M exico.

From the Santa Fe New Mexican
 The name New Mexico does not suit some of the grave and reverend senators in the congress of the United States. Some of these statesmen are in favor of naming the new state to be made out of New Mexico and Arizona, Arizona The latter, while rather pretty name, would be unfortunate. Arizona is combination of the words 'arid zone" and therefore entirely too suggestive. The people of this territory favor a retention or the name New Mexico" but they do not want to lose statehood on that account. If New Mexico" cannot be had, let 1t be the name of that great statesman and inn mortal patriot. Lincoln. New Mexico by the name of Lincoln would be just as good in the eyes of It's citizens and friends as 1t would be bad In the eyes of its enc mics and oppressors.
 At the same time, the wishes of tne peo- pie of this territory should be consulted and If at all possible the name shodld re- main New Mexico. The people of this territory need not be ashamed of the rec ord their ancestors and forefathers and they themselves have made under that name. Under the greatest or hardships and by the spilling O. much blood they have wrested this fair domain from the bloodthirsty and hostile Indians, from tyrannical monarchical rule, and under most untoward circumstances they have after great exertions, established here a commonwealth of which they can well be proud, the abuse and falsehood heaped upon them by certain United States sena- tors, by a great part of the press of the country and to their shame be 1t said by some citizens of New Mexico, to the contrary notwithstandinR.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
Legislative Millionaire Mills
BY PHINEAS FLETCHER.

tia, and when the testament of one of them goes to the probate court several descendants of both sexes find their names in the plutocratic list on which previous to that legal formality the head of the family alone glittered in ali it's golden glory. In these opening years of the century we have become not only world power, but million aire money power unrivalled either in ancient or modern times.
 b'he main factor in the working out of this wonderful achievement of mil lionaire manufacture is in the loyal. Hnswerving support given to it by the people through their compliant, faith ful senators and representatives in congress, their vast army of law -giyers in the legislatures of five and forty sovereign states and in the thousands of municipal councils that do sedulous- y guard the public welfare in every chartered community throughout the republic. To accomplish the ends in view nc more perfect system of gov ernmental machinery was ever devised. Under the sleepless, eyer-vigilant supervision of the most forceful "lead- ers' and "bosses" that can be found, IT moves with a precision as certain in it's results as that of the laws which govern the universe. The zeal and devotion of these mechanicians to the trust reposed In them are without a rarallel in any field of human ac- ton; while the ingenuity they exer else ill the discharge of their con genial labors. the skill with which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01

Tn the making of miIlionaires and multi-millionaires the people of these free, glorious and independent states now outstrip those of any other nation in the world. Far less than half cen tury ago this great branch of industry was weak and struggling. It was hampered and oppressed in innumer- able ways by anticipated statues, framed in the early part of the last century by venerable men whose in- tentions were excellent in every way, but who, with all their genius and in- tense patriotism, had no conception whatever of modern progress, enlight- enment and civilization. Under the crude economic system they imposed upon the country it was more difficult to amass a million dollars in any de- partment of endeavor than 1t was in the prehistoric and Biblical days for the camel to go through the eye of the needle It is true that despite the obstacles in their way some few men especially favored of fortune succeeded in accomplishing the very nearly i'm possible, but the number of them throughout the wide domains of all the states and territories was not equal to that which can now be found on n select residential block in one of the first-class cities. The production of niillionaires is truly tropical in its lux uriance, variety and multiplicity. In one great community alone, according to a standard statistical annual publi- cation, the number of millionaires is equal to the size of regiment of mili-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01

tells of the pride a man can take in run ming his engine and what bracing, exhilerating leffect the pulling of the throttle can have on him.
 "I used to be badly troubled with asthma" he said, land for several years l had to be taken to my engine in a carriage and helped up into the cab. could hardly breathe at all But just as soon as l took my seat, pulled the throttle open and felt the rush of cool air on my face and experienced the tingling sensa- tion caused by the escaping steam and the ringing bell, 1 was as well as any body and never felt the least depression during the run."
 Tn speaking recently of his experience with accidents the colonel remarked:
 "The first time I was wrecked I was going around curve. Children had been playing on the road and had thought 1essly put an obstruction on the track. My engine turned completely over but escaped with a few bruises.
 My next wreck was a bad one, but I was not hurt. The third was when was running a narrow gauge engine for short distance to obllge friend. It was going on a straight track It turned oyer and smashed things considerably. 1 escaped serious injury l was never able to account for the narrow guage accident. There was no obstruction on the road and the engine did not jump. No one who examined the wreck was able to imagine how it happened"
 Although Colonel Lawrence has been in active service but thirty-two years, he has spent nearly his whole lifetime on a train. for he really began as train news boy and the only time he has not been on the road was for a short period dur ing which he was in the railroad shops at Montgomery.
 Mrs. Lawrence the colonels wife, en- joys the reputation of being charming woman socially and the two have been delightfully."- entertained by the governor of Georgia. They have five children. All though Colonel Lawrence lacks two years of being 50 he is a proud grandfather. He was married at the age of 20 and his oldest child, a son, was married at the age of 21.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01

The locomotive engineers running into Birmingham, comprise some of the clever est and moat affable men in this sec ton. There are about three hundred Of them, and in this number one can find as shrewd, and as broadly informed men. and men. with as magnetic personalities as can be found in any walk of life.
 One of the most genial and most popu- lar men in Birmingham railroad circles is Col. w. c. Lawrence, whose home is in Columbus Ga, and who runs an engine on the Central of Georgia between Bir- mingham and Columbus He is here a great deal of his time. of course, and has rooms at Alberts, the popular re- sort for many train crews. He is looked to for advice by the whole railroad group gathered at Albert's, because of his long experience in the business and his good judgment on matters generally.
 Colonel Lawrence was born in Colum- bus, is AS years old. and has spent thir- ty-two years in the railroad service For twenty-eight years he has been an en- gineer, having first started on the old Columbus and Rome railroad, now the Central of Georgia, as a fireman.
 The best testimony to Colonel Law rence's worth is the high esteem in which he is held in his home town, Co., lumbus. He is one of the city's most prominent citizens, and is leader in the political affairs of the place. He has served three terms as alderman, cover ing period of six years, and is elected to serve his fourth term He is an old friend of Gov. ]. M. Terrel, and the gov ernor upon his inauguration appointed him as a colonel on his staff. This is the first instance on record, where a loco- motive engineer has been similarly hon. ored, and various engineering journals of the country have commented favorably on the appointment.
 As an engineer, Colonel Lawrence Is among the best. He had been running an engine seventeen years before he ever met with single accident The colonel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
BURD|CK MURDER
 STILL 4 MYSTERY Police Find Tuft of Hair Which
 May Reveal Something MRS. BURDlCk ARRIVES.
The Man Who Was Murdered Knew That He Had Been Followed for Some Time-Eleven Wounds
 On His Head.

Buffalo N. Y, February 2S.-Mrs. Bur dick, the widow of Edwin L. Burdick, who was murdered at his home Thursday night, arrived here today from Atlantic City. The police have found the hack man who drove an as yet undermined man to within few doors of the Bur dick residence about midnight on Thurs day night. They regard this as valua- ble clue. Another clue in the hands of the authorities is a tuft of hair which was found on the person of MT. Burdick. It is not of his hair, but whether belonging to a man or woman the police do not say
 It is of a color and texture that will be easy to match. In the room in which the murdered man was found, the police also found paper which had been sent to Mr Burdick by a Cleveland woman con- taining story of the granting of Ji- vorce from her husband 1ne police learned the woman was in Cleveland Thursday night and that her former hus- band is working in New York or some other eastern city.
 It was learned today that Mir Burdick, whose business took him on frequent trips out of the city, knew he had been shad- owed for sometime when out of town. This system of espionage he had said had been in effect for some time, and the Inference is that it was to obtain ev- dence if possible for counters charges in the divorce proceedings which had been begun by Mrs Burdick. r-t
 It is also, a fact that in one of the trouser pockets of MT. Burdick's cloth ing a loaded revolver was found. It had not been used.
 The autopsy revealed the facts that olo head five of which were so serious that any one would have been sufficient to cause death, and that they had been in- fiicted by some blunt instrument
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
THE SEAMLESS TOY BALLOON.
An American Novelty GlowingIy De. scribed by Dealer In Street Goods.
rrom inc New York sun.

From the New York Sun.
 Look at that said a wholesale dealer in street novelties. "The very latest and newest and biggest thing in the market today"
 He picked out of box on the counter a little. loosely folded rubber bag about two inches long and having at one end a little neck. which he drew over a nip pie on a machine something like bicycle pump. then expanded the bag into red rubber globe; it was child's toy ball. loon, and a perfect sphere in shape.
 There it is,'' he said "a seamless gas balloon, the first ever made anywhere, and this is produced in the United States. Up to now all the toy balloons sold in the world have come from Belgium, France and England. We import, all told a mill lion gross a year-and these balloons all have seams in them. They are made in sections and united on a machine some thing like a sewing machine, except that instead of needles 1t has little hammers which hammer the seams together.
 There is a certain percentage of loss on them. Now. these modern American balloons seamless, perfectly round, are not only superior in every way to the foreign balloon but they can be made cheaper, and are far more durable, and I expect we shall put the English, Bel gian and French makers of toy balloons out of business. We are already turning these new balloons out here, and there's a factory for making 'em with capacity of thousand hands, now under way.
 That's the high novelty in this trade today, the American seamless toy bal- loon."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
FOR ST. PATRIck's DAY.
Months Taken to Prepare for Trade
 That Lasts Only a Few Days.

From the New York sun.
 The trade in St. Patricks day buttons, badges and pins, soon to begin now for 1908, lasts only q few days, but it is now so widespread and in the aggregate so considerable that the business of supply ing it covers a period of four months.
 Twenty or thirty years ago a sprig of shamrock in the hat, or bit of green rib bon in the buttonhole, might suffice, but now the production of things to be worn on St. Patricxs day is branch of trade. One New York concern puts out this year thirty styles of St. Patricks day goods and issues a special circular concerning thom. And novelties in these things are now being added every year, though it would seem as though the assortment must now be com olete.
 The goods offered include various styles of buttons, some showing both the Irish and the American flags, and some the shamrock There are Irish and American silk bows with a stickpin attached; there are pipes, miniature pipes, some with tiny crossed Irish and American flags, and some with a crossed bow of green ribbon, each pipe mounted on a stickpin
 And there are little Irish flags and badges and rosettes, and green silk bows with shamrocks. And there are, of
 
 of these of metal, some of metal and enamel, and some of wire and silk
 In fact, there Is no end to the St. Patrick day goods and some of them are very tasteful and pretty things, and they are produced nowacays at wholesale marvellousy cheap and there are now sold many millions of them every year
 New York dealers in these things sell them not only all over the United States, 1.ttf tfa 1a f., tfrt. ,fs, and away up In the Klondike. The goods are shipped months before the day for which they are especially designed These various buttons and pins and badges are bought and worn not by Irishmen alone, nor are they now sold solely by vendors in the street. Clothing stores, for instance, buy them, and de- partment stores, and they arc sold at fairs and worn at banquets and used as favors and preserved as souvenirs.
 Other buttons and souvenirs that are selling right now arc those of Washing ton, Washington's birthday buttons and buttons with the picture of Martha Wash ington mew), and WashinGtons birth day hatchets, which are worn as a stick pin. The Washington buttons and the Washingtons Birthday hatchet have been standard goods in this trade for years
 In fact, many of the worlds celebrities past and present, arc now pictured on buttons which can be found in stock Thus there has been sold for ten years a Papal button. containing a fine likeness of the Pope's gentle, benignant face. In fact, many of the pictures on these but tons are excellent; that of Washington now offered is a Autographed reproduce tion in miniature, in thirteen colors, of Peale's familiar portrait.
 Among the pictures now to be found on n of the United States and many of this coun- trys statesmen. The pictures may sell upon the birthdays of these men or in commemoration of some historical event in which they figured. They may be bought by school children, or by societies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
GILES CASE IS DIMISSED.
Supreme Court Affirms Decision of the
 Lower Court.

Montgomery, February 2S.-The Su- preme court of Alabama today affirmed the action of the City court of Mont gomery in dismissing the two cases of Jackson w. Giles, negro, against the board of registrars of Montgom- cry county.
 Giles in one case sought to compel the board by mandamus to register him as an elector. The other case was damage suit against members of the board for $5000 for failure to register Giles as an elector
 The Supreme court held that the provision of the new Alabama consti- tuition creating the board of registrars is not repugnant to the federal consti. tuition.
 It is said the cases will be appealed to the Supreme court of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
ENSLEY
Constant Downpour of Rain Has
 Caused Much Damage.


 Ensley, February 27.-(Special)- The constant downpour of rain since last night is causing considerable dam age in Ensley and vicinity. The streets recently paved are almost washed away in some places, and Tuxedo Park is almost covered with water where there is no drainage. The inhabitants in some portions of Tuxedo cannot gain admittance to their homes without the aid of blanks elevated above the water. The creek between Ensrey and Pratt City is rising rapidly, but cannot reach the bridge. Despite the bad weather the cars are running regu- larly under the supervision of Dis patcher Norman Morrison.
 Mr. and Mrs. William M. Joyner, who were married Wednesday at Cur nee, Ala, were entertained at dining last night at the home of MT. and Mrs. J. H. Perkins, on Avenue F.
 T. w. Robinson, who has had charge of the Louisville and Nashville yards here for several years, will leave next week to accept a position with the Birmingham and Decatur division. MT. Robinson will remofeshis family to Clanton.
 Dr. w. H. Wynne has returned from Montevallo, where he has been sev- eral days on business.
 John A. Bell the neE City clerk; Clip Fonnelle the city tax collector; Dr. E. I. Fields, city physician, and Ro- maine Boyd, city attorney, who were recently elected city officials, will as- sume charge of their respective offices Monday night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01

they manage the instrumentalities pre- sented to them, would put to blush the mosI dexterous jugglers that ever be. wildered a concourse Of credulous spectators. But if their task is hard, their reward is generous. First of all, every star of the first magnitude in :he Armament of political leadership shines refulgent in some one or other or the millionaire consultations. The classification of each and every one of them is as accurately defined as that of the dog star or the pointers of the Great Bear in the astronomical heavens. One is radiant in the realm of railroads Another Is supreme in the empire of steel, with all it's kin dTed combinations in metallurgy. \ mighty coalition commands coal. Banks and banking have their political brieadiers; mining of the precious anG useful metals have their mag mates; every department, in fact, of the strenuous life of the new age is under the control of captains of in- dustry more daring and dashing than ever sailed the Spanish seas In the days of Cortez and of Kidd.
 The objective point of all this titanic
 
 try of millionaire making against wbich the fathers of the republic with thei' ludicrous theories of government so resoutely set their faces. In their day they had, itfis true, the unanimous support of the few millions of people who then made up the republic. but what Of it? Those early Americans lh Cd in days of darkness and illusion bcforc the telegraph. the telephone, the rain oad and the political boss were discovered They had curious notions about equal rights. They had vision ary theories about the concession of special privileges to the few which, in our wondrous development, have been cast aside as worthless. The million aire making mills are working every- were CT full time, and the people are invited tc be happy If they are not, why not, and who is to blame?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
WILL MEET IN APRIL.
D. A. R.'s Decide to Assemble Here
 after In the Spring.

Washington, February 2S.-The na- tioital congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution decided today to change the date of assembling here after to the week which includes April 19 instead of that including Washing tons birthday. A resolution emanating from the Tennessee delegation and presented by Mrs. Scales memorializes the congress of the United States to recognize the services of Admiral Matthew Fontaine Murray, U. S. N, by cooperating with other govern ments in the erection of lighthouse at Rocas Shoals, on the Brazilian coast Mrs. William Hughes of Ken lucky offered a resolution providing for the adoption of distinctive flag. It was lost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
Flush Times in Washlnqton.

Washington Dispatch to Boston Herald
 In the days when Car Reed was speaker of tho house, the members used to grumble quite bit about the simpli- city of the furnishings of their committee rooms and other accommodations as eon,- pared with those in the senate the mo-t expensive club in the United States" But those days are now gone, and one of the things which has made this a si ,O0O OO0. coo congress is the new furnishings which were installed in the south wing of the capitol.
 Representatives have their shoes shined while sitting on solid mahogany leather upholstered chairs that cost S55 each. Uncle Joe Cannon did not allow this kind of thing in the days when he first earned. as chairman of the appropriations committee. the soubriquet of watchdog of the treasury" Luxury has invaded his own committee-room. where 5000 was spent in rcfurnishing. Uncle Joe" sits in $3O chair at $i20 mahogany desk, when he writes letters 10 his constituents out in Illinois. The fire screen which adorns the room cost mere bagatelle- $29-and when the caretaker of this room comes around in the morning he brushes the dust from a $-6 water cooler, and lf it is empty, he fills It up with SIT worth of mineral water.
 Incidentally. the mural decorations in this room are whales sporting in blue ocean. Some one asked Uncle Joe" what they were symbollcal of. and he replied, "Oh. the size of the appropriation bills. l suppose"
 Speaker Henderson has to do the best he can in his office which is shabbily fur nished with silver inkstands, which made q hole about the size of sl15 in the treas- ury; mahogany desks, cordova leather chairs, silver trays, lee spoons and ice tubs.
 Just what "one can of superior cream" which is credited to the speakers room, was for no one knows. It may be that the committee on rivers and harbors has money to burn. At any rate, s36 boxes of matches were furnished this committee room last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
Boy Defended Ills Mother.

.Greenyile 8. C., February 2s-Thomas Wilson. aged 30, was, shot and killed to- night by Giliom Wilibanks, 1s-year-old boy. The shooting took place in the home of the Willbanks. The boy surrendered after the tragedy and Is now in jail. He says Wilson was beating his mother and he fnterfered Wilson then struck him and he thereupon secured a pistol and shot Wilson through the head.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
THE SENATE.

Washington, February 2s.-The senate today passed the Notifications appropria- tions bill and the house immigration bill with amendments.
 The general deficiency bill the last of the appropriation measures to be consid- cred. was reported from the committee.
 The senate took recess until il o'clock tomorrow, when a session will be held for the purpose of delivering eulogies upon deeeased members of the house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
PERSONAL.

MT. J. c. Patterson of Blossburg was in the city yesterday.
 Mrs. Van Rensselar Mason has re- turned from very pleasant visit to New Orleans Mardi Gras.
 G. A. Stein of Cincinnati, assistant treasure of the Standard Oil company, re- turned today from Montgomery, where he went to oppose the oil company's bill, and is registered at the Hillman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
Confederate Grave RllI Sleeps.

Washington, February 28.-(Spe- cial.)-Speaker Henderson has decided not to let the Foraker bill to mark the graves of Confederates who died in northern prisons come up in the house. This bill appropriates $200,00O and was passed unanimously by the senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
PoNTIFF IS STILL ILL.
Postponement of Reception to Cardi.
 naIs Not Yet Announced.

Rome, February 2S.-While the con- dition of the Pope is not quite satisfac- tory this evening, his cough being ac- companied by expectoration, it is not in the least alarming. Postponement of his reception to the cardinals to be held tomorrow has not yet been an- nounced.