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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16
Greater Birmingham and the seaboard

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 General Passenger Agent c. B. Ryan of the Seaboard Air Line is in this city studying the situation Greater Bir- mingham is to be the western terminal of the system, and MT. Ryan comes to look over the ground, to ascertain the source and nature of business in this district, and to advise his company how to reach and attract it.
 The Age-Herald desires to suggest to MT Ryan that his road should treat Greater Birmingham as it really is, consisting not of one city, but of sev- eral prosperous and growing cities Instead of sending its passenger trains only into the union station in this city, let 1t also consider the convenience and future possibilities of Pratt City, Ensley and Bessemer, by extending its road to those cities, and running It's passenger and freight trains to and from them, making them terminal sta tions In every respect. Starting from Bessemer a train bound for Washing ton and New York, it could be sent through Ensley, Pratt City and Bir- mingham in due succession, and so on to its destination. And so in reverse order as to its trains from northern or seaboard cities.
 There is no reason why Bessemer pass senger from Richmond, for exam pie, should be compelled to stop at Birmingham and transrer himself and baggage to a dummy or trolley line, and the Seaboard Air Line would please the people of Pratt City, Ensley and Bessemer if they would extend their line so that such transfers would become unnecessary.
 This Is plain business matter, and The Age-Herald hopes MT. Ryan will visit Pratt City, Ensley and Bessemer and see with his own eyes what pros- porous and busy cities they have be- come. They are not only populous now, but they are full of promise, and If the Seaboard offers them better facilities of travel and transportation than they possess at present it will not regret its foresight and enterprise The three cities named will hold in 1910 fully 6O,OOO people, and surely the business of 5O,OOO people is worth looking after.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16
Hlqh Cotton.

"Speculation is now active In the cotton market, and Il cent cotton is a reality" said merchant How much of this ad- vance Is due to actual conditions and how much to the speculative influence is difficult to determine. It Is generally accepted that the cotton crop was short one, in face of a large demand, but this deficiency Is by no means considered suf- fcient to warrant the high prices to which cotton has been lifted.
 One effect of these prices has been to encourage larger acreage being planted for the new crop so that the supply of cotton next fall should not only be lib- eral but at normal prices. The serious side of the present high price of cotton is the effect on the manufacturers. Many mill operators, especially those In New England, are apprehensive, and the pos-
 oitS of a general shutdown in that section Is discussed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16
SCIENCE LEADS TOWARD
 SOUND RELIGIOUS FAITH

From the New York Times.
 N discussing lecture by Professor
 Henslow on ''Present-Day Rational ism" in the University College Chris tian association course Lord Kelvin was more successful than most eminent scien- lists have been in an effort to show that science leads readily toward, rather than away from a sound religious faith. He challenged the postulate that with regard to the origin of life science necessarily denied creative power. He insisted that science must positively assert and defend the existence and operation of a creative intelligence.
 Science makes every one feel that he is In himself a miracle, since it is not in matter that the man lives and moves and has his being, but in the creating and directing power, to the recognition and acceptance of which science inevitably and irresistibly leads the student of na- ture. The scientist could not escape from such recognition when he studied the physics and dynamics of living and dead matter. Modern biologists are coming once more to a firm acceptance of some thing, and that is a vital principle. They had an unknown object put before them in science; and in thinking of that object they are all agnostics They only know God in His works, but in Lord Kelvin's opinion. they are forced by science to admit and to believe with absolute confi- dence in directing power-an influence other than that residing in physical dy- hamlcal, or electrical forces. There
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16
ssooo FOR 1886 KISSES.
That Is What MT. Tittemore Must Pay
 Miss Petit.


 BaIlston Spa, N. Y, May 15.-Did Miss Frances Petit have trolley car register concealed about her while James P. Titte- more courted her? Did she ring up a kiss every time Tittemore kissed her? If not, how did the lady know that Tittemore kissed her 1296 times during the fourteen years of their courtship?
 Miss Petit in her breach of promise suit, says Tittemore kissed her that num- Der of times and Tittemore does not deny it. A jury in the Supreme court believed Miss Petit and assessed Tittemore 5000 of the $500O damages asked for, or $24 for each kiss.
 'I always kept an accurate account of everything" said Miss Petit in court, and no one doubted her. She knew how many meals Tittemore ate at her house during the period of his lovemaking. She had lived in one of Tittemore's houses for nine years, and when the break came he asked her for nine years rent Miss Pet tit answered him by bringing out the account for meals, and showed him that he owed her more than his bill for rent. Tittemore is fully 50 years old. Miss Petit Is fifteen years younger. He met Miss Petit while on an excursion Miss Petit heard that he was paying attention to another girl of Galway, where she lived.
 Then came the breach of promise suit, the suit for rent, and the countersuit for meals. Now Tittemore must pay 5000 to the woman he courted so long and whose meals ne ate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
AnnIston Newspaper Men.


 Triton R. Gordon, editor and proprietor of the Annlston Evening Star, and Albert A. Beach of the Annlston Hot Blast, were in Birmingham yesterday
 MT. Gordon has been engaged in news paper work in Anniston for the past five years. About two years ago he formed the Evening Star Publishing company and took active charge of the Star. of which he has made a distinct success. Journal, the Cincinnati Post and New York papers. always attaining high de- gree of success In his worK.
 Mr. Beach came to Anniston year ago from Massachusetts to take cnarge or the advertising department of that paper.
 In speaking of Anniston and the meet ing of the Alabama Press association there next week, MT. Gordon said:
 "Anniston Is at present enjoying great business activity and the best thing about 1t Is that it is going to continue.
 'fThe new and handsome hotel, The Alabama, Is fast nearing completion, and it will be one of the best hotels in the south.
 "Anniston people are looking forward with pleasure to the meeting of the Press association next week. The citizens have subscribed about $500 to an entertainment fund, and this amount will be judciously expended by our Press club on the vis- iting newspaper men, of whom we ex- pect a large number from all parts of the state."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16
WONDERFUL HELEN KELLER.

From the Boston Globe.
 It must have been pathetic to listen to the appeal of blind, deaf Helen Keller at the dedication of the Schermerhorn pa- wilton of the eye and ear infirmary in New York, or which occasion Joseph Jefferson read her manuscript
 In such an astonishing address we have abundant evidence that the deprivation of the senses does not bedim the spirit It even seems to sparkle with increased radiance though sorely rettered by the want of power of utterance. Some of Miss Keller's periods would have done honor to our most distinguished professors and clergymen. Think of one who can neither see nor lear uttering such sentiments as the following:
 There Is no greater deprivation than blindness, no sharper anguisn than deaf ness. I know these limitations as you cannot know them, and yet I have not known the suffering which this institu- ton is meant to alleviate. Those who come here tremble lest they should be- come blind or deaf, and be united for lifes duties.
 My own difficulties are vastly increased because I cannot see nor hear. How they must be redoubled when one has seen and heard for many years, ana mas been en- gagged in pursuits that require all the faculties, and then suffers this unutter- able loss!
 I am studying economies this year, and I have learned that 1t is the condition of social life that people shall work for one another, and 1t is the interest of so- ciety to enable every member to work A human being who does not work is not a member of society, and can have no standing In it.
 A community acts then with enlightened self-interest when 1t builds and equips an institution whose beneficent infiu- ence shall grow like the tree of life whose leaves are for the healing of the na- tions Such an institution restores to the world the blind, the deaf, the sick and the lame able to do their part of it's work.
 Wonderful must be the training that has enabled this gifted woman to thus see as 1t were without eyes and hear without ears Nothing is necessarily lost of the richness of the soul or the acute ness of the inner sense through afflictions which necessarily inspire our pity.
 Let us hope that science will still fur ther thin the walls that separate the soul from It's environments. In Miss Keller we have the fullest promise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16
A Gentleman.

"There are a good many ways for a man to show that he Is a gentleman" " said one of the visiting dentists. but one of the most gallant things I ever saw occurred the other day.
 "A professor of English, a man who is probably familiar with the spelling and pronunciation of every word in the Eng fish language. was talking to a young lady. In the course of the conversation she asked him a question on a certain topic and flagrantly mispronounced the most important word she used.
 Tn his answer he had to use the word two or three times and each time pro- nounced 1t exactly as she did to relieve her of any embarrassment that might arise from correcting her. That man was what I call gentleman through and through"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16

seemed to him nothing between absolute belief in creative power and the accept ance of the theory, which even Cicero dis carded, that living things could have come into existence by fortuitous concourse of atoms.
 He should consider it impossible to be- lieve that a number of atoms falling to- gether of their own accord or in obedience to accidental external influences will form a crystal. Some people believe that in the course of millions of years atomic habits might be formed so that this would come to pass, but his imagination was not sufficiently active to permit him to believe that any number Of millions of years would give us a beautiful and or deriy world like that in which we live. It is the creation of a spiritual influence, and science cannot remain ignorant of the fact that such an influence was at work in all natural phenomena. He be- lieved in free thought and free discus sion, but was convinced that the more we have of it the more certain 1t is that men of sound judgment will recognize that there is no antagonism between science and religion.
 His statement from so high a scien- tific authority will give pleasure to a great many people, and 1t Is a cause for satisfaction that Lord Kelvin found him. self able to make 1t. No doupt the older and wiser oIe grows the less his dispo- sition to rusii the inquiry as to first cause beyond the comfortable assumption on which Lcrd x elvin rests his faith.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16
YALE STUDENTS DEMAND
 PURE WATER AND BATHS

this university is more care and atten- tion to the physical well-being of the students. The university authorities fur nish them bare rooms and dining hall at a price, But more is necessary; clean nness Is nearer culture and godliness than a top room in Lawrence or Durfee. We have five dormitories which have no baths at all.
 "It requires no abtruse reasoning to con- vince one that man will bathe oftener if the bath be next door than if his fresh clothes must be packed in a suit case and a pilgrimage made to a building two blocks distant. Taking a bath under such auspices becomes a state occasion.
 ''No mans room is even decently clean ed. The average undergraduate is tender upon this point, and If you ask him how his room is kept you call forth torrent of profanity and imprecatlons upon the sweep-that is, If the man still cares. But during the years passed at the university he becomes hardened.
 New Haven water has never been of the best, and the university authorities know it. A typhoid epidemic, indeed, did arouse desultory efforts for improvement, but the results were totally inadequate.
 This outcry against luxury, when 1t takes the form of prejudice to numerous tubs, must end.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16
CLEVELAND FOR HARMoNY7
Report That In Time lie VIII Favor
 the Cincinnati Man for President.
Special to the New York Sun.

Special to the New York Sun.
 Put-in-Bay. Ohio. May 14.-The Ken tuckans who are stopping at Middle Bass island sprung this story yesterday as to Grover Clevelands intention regarding the Presidential nomination.:
 MT Cleveland will make no statement regarding his position until shortly be- fore the convention. Meanwhile. in antici- patton of his candidacy for the nomina- tion, 8 sentiment for him will be nursed by the democrats who are opposed to MT. Bryan. MT. Cleveland will then de- clare he is positively out of the race and will indorse Judson Harmon of Cincin- natl. former attorney general, for the nomination.
 MT. Harmon said tonight:
 T cannot say anything about the story at this time. Before Presidential year the friends of every prominent man trot him out"
 tho island. They occupy the same boat while fishing every day.
 Mddls Bass, Ohio, May 13.-The Grover Cleveland fishing party didn't catch many black bass yesterday, but the sports men hal a good time. nevertheless. About all they got for the days pleasure was a lot of tar on their faces. It is under stood that political topics are tabooed from now on, the ex-Presldent saying he is here for fish and that he will yet retrieve his lost laurels
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16
From the New York Herald.

N ECAUSE students who room in E1H five of the dormitories at Yale F> must needs pack their fresh clothing in a case and walk two or three blocks to a bathtub, the Pundit club literary organization of the senior class. has raised a hue and cry for reform. Its views have been expressed in a pa- per by Thorne Baker. 1903, of Cincinnati, O., who demands also pure drinking wa ter, cleaner rooms and better drainage of the campus.
 That literary club should turn from things ideal to matters so mundane as hygiene and sanitation has amused the university Nevertheless, the need to which the club calls attention Is so well recognized that with the laughter comes the aii'iuuse o1 the undergraduates. MT. Bakers plea Is in part as follows:
 Matthew Arnold has said that Eng lands wealth and greatness consist in her art galleries and culture centers, not In her great steel industries and coal mines. Nevertheless, he could not deny that material comfort furnishes the basis of culture. A gentleman should be well housed and fed while he Is getting his education,
 The recognized and crying need about
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16
Northern and Southern Mills.

The situation at Lowell Is compli- cated with the ownership of southern mills. The operatives in Lowell insist that the mills in Lowell can afford to pay them better wages, because those hills own southern mills that are earn ing large profits because of longer hours and lower wages in the south. The operatives demanded an oppor- tunity to inspect the accounts of the southern mills owned by the Lowell mill corporations, and tho demand was refused.
 This raises a great moral issue so to speak. Has a Lowell operative a moral right to share the earnings of a southern mill operative? Has French Canadian woman, in other words, a right to base her earnings on the profits accruing from the work of south ern women in far-away southern fac tOTl0S! III OIhSA WOiu0 10 SAO T OhSh Canadian woman entitled to more money than she earns?
 The Boston Herald is less distressed. however, over the operative side of the question than 1t Is over the general situation. 'Tf," it says, there was any course taken calculated to drive the cotton manufacturing business out of Massachusetts, 1t would certainly be on the lines indicated. These in- vestments in the south have been made by our New England cotton manufac- turers because they have discovered that there IS more profit in the busi- ness than there is to be obtained in operations carried on in New England. They have connected their mill sys- tenn together simply for matters of convenience, and have possibly main tanned mills in Massachusetts which would not have been continued if this southern attachment had not existed" {" The Herald goes on to say that if this be the case it is plain that the New
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16

the year )und can be found at Swan sea in the Upper Warrior Full and thorough investigation may show that the Upper Warrior mas. be insufficient in dry years, although sufficient in aver age years, and the problem should be solved for all years, even the dryest.
 All know that at or near Gunters- vile water can be taken from the Ten nessee river and brought by gravity to Jones valley. The Age-Herald is not prepared to advocate the linking to- gether of the Tennessee and the War rior. but 1t does say that when the surveying and engineering stage Is reached the Tennessee plan should be investigated. The feasibility of Swansea and Guntersville should be ascertained, and also the approximate cost of each.
 The problem is a large one, and Senator Morgan stands ready to pro- mote the one that will the better help the industries and navigation Of this district. To say that the question Is important is but to repeat a truism. All know it's deep meaning. All in this district appreciate its far-reaching significance. The entire state is in- interested in it, because the entire state has a deep and taxable interest in the growth to it's possibilities of this dis trict.
 In view of the weight and import ance of the problem therefore The Age Herald urges the friends of the enter prise to investigate both Swansea and Guntersville. A six-foot canal from Guntersville might in time have no little commercial value as a canal, to say nothing of the use of the water afterwards. The Tennessee is open to Knoxville, and If all that great basin be opened to this district important changes might result therefrom. It would concentrate here the coal and coke supplies of the entire Appalachian range below Virginia, and the plan de- serves consideration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16
sUMM FER NIGHT.

By Lord Tennyson. Now sleeps the crimson petal. now the
 white; Nor waves the cypress in the palace
 walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry
 font; The frehy wakens: waken thou with
 me. Now droops the milk white peacock like
 ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. No lies the earth all Danae to the stars. And all thy heart lies open unto me. Now slides the silent meteor on and
 leaves A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me. Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake: So fold myself, my dearest. thou. and
 slip Into my bosom and be lost in me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16
A SAD FAREWELL TO THE
 ROBIN AND THE BLUEBIRD

tion, when the killings wers added 10 those of the "cajuns' and 'cradeors that only few struggling robins came north this spring. Less ;hal dozen ap- peared in Washington. The haunts far ther north, where up to few years ago there were thousands. of the birds are de- serted.
 "To thoroughly understand how easy 1t is to practically wipe out species of bird" said an ornithologist of the depart ment of agriculture today, "one only has to look at the winter conditions. About all the migratory birds in the United States and parts of Canada are in the cold weather massed in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. They are there in myriads. The population in these states Is increasing with extra ordinary rapidity, and unfortunately this population is that one that makes no distinction among the birds. The slaugh- ter in this area is awful. The feathered visitors from the north are crowded into small spaces and the killing is easy. When thousands upon thousands of one species of bird are killed here 1t is safe to say the species is doomed.
 This seems to be what has happened to the old playfellow of our childhood, and the sociable songster of the farmyard and orchard-the robin.
 Tt is unfortunate, but until the states get together and adopt uniform protec- tive laws, there will be no hope.
 "The robin is not the only bird going. Even the bluebird Is being shot off the face of the earth, because when he reaches the south he feeds upon the seeds of the gulf magnolia tree, which are sup posed to give him fine flavor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16
University of Viruinia.

Said Ft virglnian: "President Pritchett of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology is to give the commencement ad- dress at the University of Virginia on June 15 and President Roosevelt is to be a guest of the university at that time. The founder and first president of the Institute of Technology, William Barton Rogers, was for some years chairman of the faculty at the University of Virginia.
 President Roosevelt will probably meet with a cordial reception but many Vir- ginians and quite number of the alumni express regret that he was invited since he struck out on his negro policy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16
Treat In Store.

Now that MT. Bowron is back from Egypt and the Holy Land, 1 feel sure that he will be invited to deliver a lec- ture soon on his travels" remarked a prominent citizen. 'I would suggest that the management of one of our charitable institutions extend him an invitation. MT. Bowron Is not only a man of vast infor- nation and keen observation, but he Is a delightful talker on his feet. If he con- sents to give lecture a treat will be in store and a good sum realized for char ity."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A curious thing about a woman Is that she can be proud of her grandchildren and her youth at the same time.
 It Is a sign of greatness in the man who never tries to solve the problem of the way a womans mind doesn't work.
 A great many men fall in love with women's clothes without ever dreaming 1t isn't the women themselves.
 A woman never cares for a mirror that makes her get up on chair whenever she wants to see how her stockings look on her.
 Every thoughtful wife has suspicion that a million dollars may fall into her husbands lap any minute, and she has the list of things she will buy then all made out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-16
About Persons.

E. A. Turner, prominent real estate and insurance man of Annston. is in Birmingham, the guest of his brother-in- law, John H. Frye, on the South High lands.
 Frank M. Perryman of Atlanta Is stop ping at the Morris.
 Al. Frazier of Montgomery is registered at the Metropolitan.
 Victor B. Bloom of New York is at the Hillman.
 Charles D. Orr of Chattanooga is stop ping at the St. Nicholas.
 R. E. L. Meihan of Monterey. Tex, Is at the Morris.
 J. K. Mcdonald and E. H. Graves of Eufaula are registered at the Metropol- itan.
 R. l.. Howell of Los Angeles is stopping at the Hillman.
 !. B. Penhale and W. H. Penhale of Henderson are at the St. Nicholas.
 Eugene McAuliffe and wife of Spring field Mo-, are at the Morris.
 W. E. Presley and wife of Ragland are stopping at the Metropolitan. John M Sully of Annlston is registered at the Hillman.
 The tribute to the late D. w. Austin. winch appeared in yesterdays Age-Her-