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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10
Indiana's Electoral Vote.

Indiana, in the Middle West, is nel- ther under eastern nor under western influences. It is a state that is strongly republicans in it's northern counties, and as strongly democratic in its south ern counties, the people of whom sprang largely from Yirginians and Kentuckians. It is a state full of diverse and generally we1l-balanced voters.
 It casts fifteen electoral votes, and these votes are very essential in any programme that national campaign committee can make. When MT. Cleve- land ran in 1892 nc carried the state by a plurality of TIPS, and MT. Tilden car ried it in 1876 by a plurality of 5515, but as rule it has of late gone repub- lican by pluralities ranging from 15,000 upwards. Last year the republicans carried the state by plurality of S5,- 554. It is said this large plurality was due to the sull1ing of friends of William Jennings Bryan on account of the snub- ping they had received at the state con vention.
 similar difficulty will arise next year, for the state contains a large number of MT. Bryans friends, and the problem of bringing them to the polls while not offending the eastern states, is not by any means easy. Just how and upon whom the Indiana democrats can be brought together does not yet appear, but it IS plain that no one who is very offensive to Mir Bryan can unify and bring out ne solid demo- cratic vote of that state, and every vote is needed in Indiana in contested election. Mr. German would be an ac- ceptable candidate in Indiana, and Judge Parker would probably be able to poll the democratic vote.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10
Band Concerts in the Parks.

Birmingham could add a new feature to it's many attractions by having band give open air concerts at Capitol park, T said a prominent citizen last night. That has grown to be a beautiful little park and if the city would hire band to give concerts two afternoons in the week it would be another feather in the cap of Mayor Drennen and the city councll There is nothing so delightful as to sit in park and listen to the sweet strains from good band late in the afternoon It gives the children. and old folks as well, little recreation that would not financially embarass the city. With band concerts on Tuesday and Saturday after moons. Capital park would soon be great gathering place for the young people of Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10
KeM Brltlsh Iarlft Pronramme.

Premier Balfour and Colonial Secre- tary Chamberlain present a proposi- tion to parliament thal is very radical, but very glittering. They admit that free trade is best if all the other na- tions would accept it, but while they will not it is best, they claim, to get in a position to negotiate reciprocity treaties, and to consolidate the empire by giving the colonies free trade.
 The scheme is really directed against this country and Germany. A tax on American grain would not only bring in large revenue, but it would per haps open the eyes of western farmers to the beauties of Dingleyism. A tax upon sugar would have like effect in Germany, and Mir. Chamberlain insists that both the United States and Ger many would soon be willing to grant. concessions in order to gain access to the valuable British market. He pro- poses, in other words, to work the reciprocity-treaty racket for all it Is worth.
 He tells the British people, too, that a tariff bill would bring in old-age pensions and higher wages and other tangible benefits, and altogether he has raised an issue that outranks at pres ent all others in the land of Golden. It is not believed, however, that the cabinet intends to press the bill to vote this year. It is in it's discussion
 tage. The ministers are trying 1t on the British voter, and a general cleo tion based upon it will be necessary before it can become law.
 Much depends at present upon the manner in which the proposition is received throughout the kingdom. The average Briton is pretty good bar Eainmaker, and if he concludes he can
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10
TIE OHlY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
We are such stuff
Wall Streets Slump.

Wall street has magnifod labor troubles and gold shipments until all securities are open to attacks by the professional bears in the market and prices have been marked down to the lowest points of the last two years. They are still, however, far above the prices that ruled in the years follow ing the panic of 1893.
 There is really not single justifca- tion in the general business situation for such falls In prices, unless indeed they were abnormally high at the open ing of the year, which is probably the truth But outside of such abnormal ity, the generadl situation is promis- ing Labor is well employed, and strikes are decreasing rather than in creasing in number. The mills, fur naces and factories have plenty of or ders, and all signs of an industrial reaction are wanting. Railroad earn ings are large, and bank clearings show no diminution.
 It is much too early to say what the crop situation is. The outlook for a big winter wheat crop is, however, promising The corn and cotton crops  are late, but they may both turn out well. The weather conditions here after will determine the crop possibili- ties. No one can now say that any of the leading crops will be a failure, or even smaller than an average outturn.
 There is nothing in the money stua- tion that is at all forbidding. We have sent about s16,00O,OO0 or gold across the sea, but at this season we usually ship out gold, and it is known that $18,000,00 O. gold will come out of the Klondike as soon as the ice in that dis tant region melts. h years time the banks have handsomely increased their circulation, and the total supply of cur rency is greater by $12S,000,00O than 1t was one year ago. Speculation has been stayed, and wild promotion schemes are no longer feasible The general condition of the country Is sound, a fact that is demonstrated by the absence of numerous failures and even panic in decline covering fully 30 per cent in the prices of securi- ties dealt in on Wall street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10
Seasoning of Telegraph Poles.

The American Telegraph & Telephone company is experimenting this summer through the bureau of forestry, with methods of lengthening the lasting pow CTS of cedar and chestnut poles. The bureau has sent several men to Whining ton, N. C., to study the loss of weight by cedar poles under proper methods of seasoning and the incerased length of service of the poles which seasoning and preserving bring about. Similar work is being carried on near Harrisburg, Pa, with chestnut poles
 In Bear Canyon, Gallatin county. Mon tana, and at Sheridan. Wyoming. the seasoning tests with lodgepole pine, be- gun last summer in cooperation with the Burlington railroad, will be continued under the direction of Reynolds Hill. Experiments in seasoning and preserving longleaf pine ties will be carried on on a large scale at Silsbee. Texas, on the tract of the Kirby Lumber company.
 All this work will be under the general supervision of Dr. Hermann von Schrenk an expert of timber treatment and tim Der diseases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10
WIRELESS WONDERS.

From the Boston Globe
 Wireless teegraphy is marvellous enough but an application of the principle by a Massachusetts Yankee which permits him to sit on the shore and navigate a boat in the stream by it, surpasses all.
 By means of the transmitter on the shore the inventor sends wireless im- pulses to the boat and is able to make 1t weigh anchor cast off, go ahead, back water and perform all other movements of real vessel
 The inventor is now at work on a model of a llfeboat to be similarly managed, which he believes he can put to practice on big boats That is to say, at the life saving stations boat could be sent off when it was too rough for a crew to han dle her and by means of his wireless ma chinery she could be managed without human hands and be made to rescue ship wrecked sailors.
 Wonders never cease. The world still awaits the man who shall invent a gun that will shoot around the corner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10
DESTINY.
Rv Emerson

By Emerson.
 That you are fair or wise Is vain, Or strong, or rich or generous; You must add the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose. There's a melody born of melody. Which melts the world into a sea Foil could never compass it.; Art its height could never hit; It came never out of wit; But a music music-born Well may love and Juno scorn, Thy beauty, if it lack the ire Which drives me mad with sweet de
 sire,
 What botts it? What the soldiers mail, Unless he conquer and prevail? Alas! that one is born in blight, Victim of perpetual slight; And another Is born To make the sun forgotten. Surely he carries a talisman Under his tongue; Broad his shoulders are and strong; And his eye is scornful Threatening and young. One thing is forever good; That one thing is success Dear to the Eumenides. And to all the heavenly brood. Who bides at home, nor looks abroad. Carries the eagles, and masters tho awnrd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10
PUTTING THE QUESTION.

From Life.
 q used to think" said the Old Cod ger of Kohack with a philo-sardonic elongation of his countenance, that a goose in a hailstorm was the sillliest of all created things but, here of late, since I've begun to take note of the average college president, and the frantic efforts he makes and the vapid and ridiculous theories he promulgates in order to gain a little notoriety, my respect for geese in hailstorms has grown greatly. There fore. be 1t resolved, that intellect and sense are not always synonymous, and while the average college president may possess plenty of the former, he often has less of the latter than Providence is commonly in the habit of bestowing on young wheelborrows. All in favor of the motion will please manifest 1t by rais- ing the right hand. Down! Contrary, by the same sign! Unanimously carried by the affirmative"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10
The Two Blrminchams.

Birmingham, Ala. should be to Amer ica what Birmingham England, is to Great Britain" said well-known judge.
 Birmingham England has the reputa- tion of consuming more metals of various kinds in the five arts than any other city in the United Kingdom. Iron, lead, gold, silver, copper, and in fact all the metals are used and worked up into thousands of designs. The products include iron toys, fine silverware. jewelry. and in fact everything that can be made from metals.
 The result of it is the most skilled artisans in the world can be found there.
 If Birmingham, Ala. could get some of these workmen here and give some en- couragement to metal workers, 1t ought to become in time one of the most notable industries in the United States. The city is so situated that any of the raw ma terial could easily be gotten here, and If we had large corps of expert metal workers. 1t would be the means of pour ing great wealth into the district"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10

The Prince of Monaco is one of the most interesting characters in public life Tn addition to the glamour of romance that surrounds his Kingdom. which is Monte Carlo, the greatest gambling hell in the world. the prince Is himself man of many attainments. Made independent by the immense revenue derived from Monte Carlo. he has devoted himself to science with great success.
 The prince of Monaco was to have lec- tured recently before the British Royal institution but was prevented by an in- jury received in an automobile accident. He is a specialist in ocean currents and for years has been making scientific study of drift lines by throwing great numbers of bottles into the sea at diff ferent places and different seasons of the year. The courses these bottles take in- dicate the set of the currents.
 There are words used every day that few people pronounce correctly. "Ru- balyat," "Cyrano de Bergerac," and 'fYin- cennes' are three.
 "A London paper took advantage of the presence in the city of a party of negroes from Dahomey to make inquiry in regard to the pronunciation of the name of the country, which is pro- nouneed in several different ways some people curiously putting the accent on the first syllable. The natives, however, were agreed that it is called 'Dahoomy," with the stres on the "hoo'
 Many are the fads and fancies sent abroad over the land. The latest is the monotone fad. but 1t is not apt to prove popular because there will not be enough individual colors to go around. As a costume all of one color is called for thousands of women would be compelled to wear clothes alike, and this would never do. The New York Journal tells of the new fad.
 Mrs. Henry Huddlestone Rogers( Jr.. has the monotone fad, which forbids the wearing of contrasting colors, although one hue may be graduated. For instance. Mrs. Rogers usually drives in the after noon, and her most recent gown is golden brown 1t is made with capes of cloth. with insertions of brown lace. The lace at the sleeves and at the girdle Is of A lighter brown and the ostrich plume on her turban is a pale brown. This delicate plume twists about her golden brown hair, and Mrs. Rogers looks extremely fetching. Another of her gowns Is of mauve linen, with lavender chiffon at the sleeves. The hat corresponds. Although far more or nate, the mauve frock does not possess the effectiveness of the golden brown symphony. She is one of the best gowned women in the avenue. and is the Idol of her father-in-law. the Standard Oil man.
 The detective on the stage has nrov.a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10

with this novel that Sena,
 diverted himself when he w in secIu- sion at his brothers house t the time of the gathering of national politicians to meet General Garfield ar tie Fifth Ave nue hotel just after Garfield nomination.
 It was not an unaccustoms d sight. even when Mir. Reed was still tue speaker or leader of the minority of tn lower house. to see him in the very whirlpool of Wall street as he entered or depa..ted from the offices of some of those whS were named as chief among the brokers and the spec ulators And there alwayi was a sus- picion that 1t was most Cordial friend ship lue in gres. measure to a congeiiiai- ity of spirit that existed between him and one of the more successful4 of the great operators who furnished MT. Reed his first opportunity for pecuniary independ- ence.
 It has always been suspected r. was that friendship that
 his association with a v
 ential firm of lawyers he
 Standard oil group found
 ful companion, and one exeur-s sions of the last year & . life unon private yacht of Sta 1dard Oil prince with Mark Twain and other congenial wits for companions was said by Mark Twain to have been the most delightful fourteen days he ever spent.
 There was also a striking similarity be- tween MT. Conkling and MT. Reed in this. that the heirs of each were a widow and one daughter; that there never was any fondness for the perfunctory etiquette of official life on the part either of the fam ny or Senator Conkling or of that of MT. Reed. and that family domesticity. sim- plicity, the perfect charm of a simple, cordial, neighborly home life was more to them than all the superficialities of of- ficial courtesy. although either family could have commanded, If 1t so desired, special distinction of that kind, MT. Reeds family as that of the leader of his party in the house and the speaker of the house. MT, Conkllngs in part by reason of his own official position and personal distinction, and in part because Mrs. ConlSling was the sister of one of the greater democrats of his day, so pre-eminent as democrat that his party nominated him for President
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10

graduates of the Birmingham Medical col Iege, who recently broke the record or the navy board examination at Washing ton. is in the city for a short visit re- ceiving best wishes and congratulations from numerous friends. pr. Smith is a guest at the home of Dr. M. 4. Copeland South Highlands.
 B. L. Jordan of St. Louis is stopping at the Hillman.
 B. H. Burford of St. Louis Is at tie St. Nicholas.
 J. S. Hutchison of Norfolk Is registered at the Morris.
 Aubrey Hawkins of Richmond is stop ping at the Metropolitan.
 Leon H. Marks of New York Is at the Hillman.
 J. S. Yerby of Tuscaloosa Is stopping at the Morris.
 J. B. Mcconn of St. Louis is at the Metropolitan.
 August Gamble of Baltimore IS stop ping at the Hillman.
 W. E. Mccormick of Eufaula Is at the Morris.
 J. J. Cotter of Selma is stopping at the Metropolitan
 w. A. Quinn of Washington Is register ed at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10
COMMENTS CULLED FROM
 PAPERS HERE AND THERE

immensely popular though some people are inclined to protest that Sherlock Holmes on the stage and Sherlock Holmes on the pages of a book are entire ly different people. There is a possibility of the dramatic features of detective stories being still further developed, and the Nashville American says:
 'The success of Sherlock Holmes has turned the attention of theatrical man agers to the dramatic possibilities of high-class detective stories The an- nouncement has already been made that Kyrle Bel1ew will appear as Rallies in the Amateur cracksman; and now 1t q reported that play is being made out of Anna Katherine Greens thrilling novel ''The Filigree Ball." which, in many ways is better suited to stage production than either of the other two books. One of the younger actresses who has had a remarkable success in her few seasons as star and who has shown unusual ability in emotional roles, has beeen selected to portray the exceptional Cora Futile. The management, however, refuses to dis close her name at this early date"
 
 Although the British house of lords has very little real weight in English governmental affairs 1t possesses a pe- culiar interest for American people
 The British house of lords has long since ceased to be strictly hereditary body. Over 200 of its 59O members owe their presence to other causes than de- scent. Quite a number of the hereditary lords are debarred from voting by the fact that they are either minors, undis- charged bankrupts or inmates of lunatic asylums The on-hereditary lords com prise the archbishops and bishops of the Church of England and those who have been created peers by Queen Victoria and King Edward for special services rem dered to the crown"
 Booksellers in England are having a hard time. All kinds of unforeseen hap penings tend to depress trade. The death of Queen Victoria. the coronation and the protracted war in South America did much to cut down the sales of books These depressing influences have disap- peared but a Lew misfortune has already overtaken the luckless dealers.
 Bridge is proving to the publishers a bridge of signs. Apparently all the su= periiuous time in England u ot de- voted to sports goes to
 bookshops stand empty.
 comes from Paris that tl
 letics is having a bad effeS
 theatres Not being hardened from 1ls. hood, like the English, to outdoor sport the French followers of the new fa~s. find themselves so fatigued 'r
 ing that the serious drama
 peal to them, and vaude
 slight entertainments prof
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 It makes a woman madder not to have a rival talked about than to be talked about herself,
 If burglars were women, no wife would ever let her husband go downstairs to catch one.
 Generally when woman tells a racy story she gets the point so blanketed that 1t is in a dead calm
 It makes woman very happy to think how wild her husband would be if he did not love her so much.
 No woman would ever go abroad and stand being seasick if she did not know 1t makes some other envious woman sicked not te be able to go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10

gain trade under the Chamberlain pro- gramme h. may try 1t, but at present it looks as if the proposition would simply serve to bring bacl. the liberals to power. unless indeed the conserya- tiyes drop it as they would a hot po- tato.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10
THE ALABAMA PRESS.

Postmaster General Payne doubtless is now convinced that there is something doing in his department.
 Mobile Herald: It is becoming more evil dent every day that the republicans would prefer that the democrats nominate some other man than Grover Cleveland
 Montgomery Advertiser: A man in Ho- boken recently had tooth extracted and hasn't spoken word since but we are not informed whether 1t was the pain or the bill that knocked him speeches..
 Anniston Hot Blast: And now they claim to have discovered something that Is far ahead of electricity with all it's wonderful combinations. But Anniston will not be in hurry to get rid of its splendid electric street car system.
 Montgomery Journal: When the rail- road commission meets on the 18th 1t will have the most important question to con- sider ever yet brought before 1.-the ques- tlon of reduction of freight rates on all the railroads in the state.
 Gadsden Times-News: Because the op- orators in the anthracite region refuse to recognize the operatives representatives on the conciliation boards anothor strike is threatened. It seems to us that those interested ought to get this anthracite business settled.
 Sheffield Reaper: The resolution of Ma for W. w. Screws, editor of the Mont gomery Advertiser, at the press conven- tion in Annlston regarding state ex- hlbit at the St. Louis exposition, was timely and proper. The state ought with It's resources, to have one of the best displays there.
 Selma Journal: President Roosevelt Is back in Washington after jaunt of sev- eral weeks through the wild west, As the President of these United States, he received fitting reception wherever he went-no more nor less than would have been accorded any other person holding the same position.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10
Vatican Eeara Reports.

Paris, June "A Temps dispatch from Rome says: The pope's reception to the French pilgrims today was due to the fear of the vatican authorities that his failure to receive them would cause ex- aggerated reports of his i'll health The correspondent adds that the pontiff is cer- tainly weakening. but he says the pope continues on foot directs the affairs of the church with his accustomed clearness of mind. and today discussed the affairs of the original decisions with Monsgnor Savello
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-10
Engineers Assemble.

Asheville, N. C.. June 9.-The American Society of Civil Engineers assembled here at 2:s0 o'clock today. Over two hundred and fifty members are in attendance. A consideration of Carnegles proposition to give s1. .0000e0 with which to erect a club house for various societies of engineers on Fortieth street New York, was the principal matter considered. Amendments to the constitution were proposed and ball lot will be held next October.