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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05
Arrests Without Warrant.

Not only Is the legality of arrests without warrants for felony questioned, but the legality of section 100 of the city code is in dispute. This section reads as follows:
 "Section 1OO Arrests Without Warrant, When and by Whom Made.-It Is the duty of the chief of police and every po- liceman to arrest without warrant all persons found violating any ordinance of the city or against whom there is a charge made by any citizen for violating any city or state law; all persons found disturbing the peace by dlsorderly con duct, or persons found drunk on any pub lie streets or in any public place in the city, and all persons found under sus- picious circumstances who fall to give satisfactory account of themselves; and said officers have authority to enter any house, enclosure or other place in which they have reason to believe that any person is committing or about to commit violation of the city laws"
 Under this section 95 per cent of the 12,000 annual arrests in this town are made. Under 1t the percentage of ar rests to population has risen to abso- lutely unprecedented figures, carrying the impression far and wide that this Is the wickedest town in the universe, when In fact 1t is orderly and law abiding. The point in dispute relates to arrests for misdemeanors upon verbal charges made by citizens, the whole affair occurring beyond the ken of the arresting officer. Judge Feagin intimated that such arrests may be held unlawful by the Supreme court. At any rate the question is grave one, relating as 1t does to the liberty of citizens, and the section in question should be passed upon by the Supreme court.
 If the section should be declared by the highest court of the state unlawful, it would go far towards reducing the number of arrests in this town to a nor nal standard. Arrests in this city can stand considerable reduction, and still be above those of nine towns out of every ten in the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05
! am nothing if not critical.
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Champion Land Purchase.

We bought the great Louisiana pur- chase at the rate of three and a half cents an acre, and have fashioned it into twelve states, and two rich ter ritories, both of which should and will be states, making fourteen states that cost us $15,ooo,000, or just about mil Ton state. These states and terri- tories are Louisiana, Arkansas, Mis- souri, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Ne braska, North Dakota, South Dakota, the greater parts of Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, and Oklahoma and h. dian territories. In the 5000 square miles purchased for $15,0o0,oo0 from France there are today scores of coun- ties each worth more than the pur- chase price. There is in it one city whose assessed valuation today is s377,OoO,ooO, St. Louis.
 Why or how President Jefferson was enabled to make this banner purchase will perhaps never, be known. He was ostensibly buying the outlet of the Mis- sissippi river. He lived in the days of water transportation, when railroads were unknown. President Jefferson bought the mouth of the river, taking the rest of the land as an indefinite and hazy and absolutely unknown incl dent. Jefferson bought better than he knew, this is certain. But 1t is claimed that Napoleon was land poor, needed the money offered by Minister Monroe and was anxious to get rid of the ter ritory before England could seize 1t hoping that it would aid in building ur rival to England. He, too, sold better than he knew.
 However it came about, 1t was the best addition this country ever made and there have been twelve additions all told to the original thirteen states Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Oregon Mexico, Gadsden, Alaska, Hawaii Porto Rico, the Philippines. All told these purchases and war additions cost sS7,000,000, not counting, however, all war expenses.
 It is useless to speculate over the manner in which we purchased Louis. iana. We got it-got 1t in spite of Jef. ferson's constitutional objections, and we turned it into American states, and that is all there is to 1t. But never theless 1t was the best real estate trade ever made in this world, so far-reach ing that it oversteps all other additions although the latter far exceed it in acres and vast extent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05
Three Contesting Delegations.

The scrambling and maneuvering over Alabama's delegation to the na- tionaI republican convention-unbacked by any shadow or prospect of electoral votes-has been begun in deep earnest. Tonight the fun begins. Secretary T. N. Steele of the republican state ex- ecutive committee has summoned that committee to a conference to be held tonight in Montgomery. Tomorrow
 night conference summoned by the administration board of referees is to meet in Montgomery, and on Thursday night the state executive committee of the Black and Tans will meet, also at
 Montgomery. Nor is this all. On
 Tuesday of next week Chairman We'll man of the Lily Whites has summoned
 his committee to a meeting to be held
 in Birmingham. Every section and .-elique of these unbacked spokesmen is alert and extremely active, and each is playing politics for all it is worth. Chairman William J. Stevens urges his committee to meet flor the purpose of upholding and defending the political and constitutional rights of themselves and their constituents, as well as to guard the principles of the republican party as handed down by the immortal champions and nursed by loyal defend CTS without regard to race, color or previous condition, against onslaughts begun and continued to be made upon them by pretended friends to the ad- ministration at Washington, the negro, and to President Roosevelt himse :" Chairman Stevens leads the Black and Tans, and his following is at least nu- merous, even if it does not cast many votes. His side, however. casts as many votes as the Lily Whites can muster in or out of office. The Lily Whites are organized wila strict ref
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05

According to figures of previous years. more than nine-tenths of the present cot ton crop has been marketed. leaving a little less than one tenth yet to be brought Into sight.
 The percentage of the crop marketed for this period during the past three years is given by Secretary Hester as follows: For 19Oo-s1.o2 for 19O1-9O17. and for 1eO2- s1.si, or an average for the three years of 9Os6 If the three-year average of s0S6 be taken to represent the number of bales already brought Into sight this year, 1o,O1S,1 12s, there would be s1, 64s bales yet to be marketed, or a total crop of 11,O25,7n bales. These figures are close to the esti- mate made by the census bureau on April 1 from statistics gathered from the gin- neries throughout the country. The gov ernment's estimate at that time placed the total crop at 11,07S, Ss2 bales.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05
sIoss-sheffeId Party.

The officers and directors of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company who have been in the northern yart of the state since Friday inspecting the com pany's properties. returned to Birming- ham last night in the private car Ala bama. :" They spent Sunday at the ore mines at Russellville and the coal mines at Drifton and Flat Top.
 The party included Joseph Bryan of Richmond. first vice president; Jonathan Bryan, son of Joseph Bryan and a di- rector of the company; ", H. Goadby Of New York, H. o. Seixas of New York; Gen. E. w. Fucker of Birmingham, all of whom are directors, and Second Vice President J. ". Mcqueen.
 The northern members of the party will probably depart for home either today or tomorrow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05
THE SINGERS.

By L0ngfei1OW. God sent His singers upon earth, With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men And bring them back to heaven again. The first a youth with soul of fire, Held in his hand a golden Tyre; Through groves he wandered, and by
 streams,
 Playing the music of our dreams. The second. with a bearded face, Stood singing in the market-place. And stirred with accents deep and loud, The hearts of all the listening crowd A gray old man, the third and last. Sang in cathedrals dim and vast, While the majestic organ rolled Contrition from it's mouth Of gold. And those who heard the singers three Disputed which the best might be; For still their music seemed to start Discordant echoes in each heart. But the great Master said: "I see No best in kind. but in degree; gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen and to teach And he whose ear is tuned alright
 might.
 And he whose ear is turned aright Will hear no discord in the three, But the most perfect harmony,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05
THE "HUsTLEv FOR DEPOSITS.

From the Wall Street Journal.
 It is about time that a strong, clear, note of warning should be sounded against the dangers attending the sharp competition for deposits between credit institutions all over the country, and especially in this city The evils of un- regulated competition were shown in the wars between the railroad companies continued through many years. The com petition for traffic resulted in throwing many of them into bankruptcy and in- volving the business of the country In such disturbance as to produce loss and panic. The necessity of regulating com petitions became so apparent that the railroad managers resorted to one plan after another to secure an equitable divi- sion of traffic without resort to cut rates, secret rebates and other evils of unregu- lated and wasteful rivalry. Gentlemen's agreements. pools and other devices for apportioning traffic and maintaining rates were established; and when the Supreme court declared pooling Illegal the community of ownership and the holding company were invented What makes the recent decision against the Northern Securities company so serious is the fact that it compels the railroad interests to establish some other and legal method to prevent the waste of uncontrolled competition.
 Now the competition between the banks and trust companies is by no means so keen and so disastrous as that which for many years existed between the railroads. Yet 1t involves much of peril both to the credit institutions and to the public, unless the tendency to go to extremes in obtaining business is checked. The hustle for deposits has become. or is fast becoming, the first and main duty of the up-to-date, enterprising banker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05
GREAT CROWD BALKED
 AGAINST RESTRICTION

making the worlds fair at St. Louis have an immense task and less time to do it in than would be sufficient for men of smaller energy. We have no doubt that they will bring order out of all the eon- fusion and make an exposition worthy of the event which 1t commentaries.
 We are not going to call upon them be- cause they were overpowered by the crowd the other day. because committees on reception, committees on carriages and what not were slow or stupid, because things did not move like clock-work and because few eminent personages grieve that they were not treated with the atten- ton due to their eminence. The show was a democratic show. Even the haughtiest governor has legs and can walk if he cam not drive. Anybody who reads the ac- counts given by some of the illustriouE visitors of their sufferings in St. Louis would suppose that the soldiers at Valley Forge were high-gorged epicures in conn parison.
 Even our strong and strenuous friend MT. Roosevelt is said to have hinted that there was nothing fit to eat in St. Louis. The charge that the President and his party had nothing it to eat' is curious. What does man who has got "the stuff in him want of delicate food? Hard-tack should be good enough for him and at a pinch he should buckle his belt tighter. Did the pioneers have canvasback duck and Clos de vougeot? A cowpuncher and soldier ought to be able to accommodate himself to any diet however thin. The shippers of prairie schooners, the trappers and hunters and frontiersmen did not find buffets laden with club sandwiches along the trail. We have come to look upon MT. Roosevelt as the hardest of men, a man to walk undauntedly through the desert and on the Sierra, with hope in his heart and a piece of pemmican or hunk of old shoe in. his pocket larder. He should be fit to eat anything. Have we been mistaken in him, and has he been mistaken in himself? Instead of having the stuff" in him, is he a soft Campanian?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05
From the New York Sun.


 1 HE governors and other dignitaries, NY big. medium-weight and little,
 who are going to their homes, swelling with wrath against St. Louis and the managers of the worlds fair, will soon recover their wonted temperature. Nobody meant to 'dgnore" or "insult" them. It is almost inevitable that ahy great ceremony in the United States should not proceed In the smooth and or- derly manner common in less democratic countries. For one thing, the Americans are new hands at pageants. For another, the spirit of equality balks against re- strictions and orders of precedence. The crowd pours in, overruns all the barriers, stands sovereign and treads upon the corns of the notables- The orators speak in dumb show. There Is much pushing and scrambling and no solemn silence and little respecting of persons The lack of ofhcialism, the free-and-easy conduct of the people, the hitches and breaks in the programme, would give court cham beriain apoplexy and cover the stoutest footman's calves with goosehesh.
 But this is the democratic way. good natured, cheerful, noisy, irreverent and indecorous from the point of view of the worshippers of musty etiduette, but frank, honest equal, hearty and essen- tiaily representative of democracy. Even such long-studied commemoration as the two-hundred-a anniversary of the foundation of Harvard college was not perfect in academic grace Did not good Dr. McCosh shake the Cambridge dust from his feet and escape precipitous- ly to Princeton's sands? If such we'll rehearsed pomp is not aawless, what shall we expect of hastier and more popu- lar celebrations? If the St. Louis hosts blundered or failed in their duty, 1t bet- ter becomes the guests to be tolerant of the fault than to frown and bristle at 1t. The intention is all; and the seeming dis courtesies and actual annoyances should be laughed away.
 The truth is that the men who are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05
MAY CHURCH MEMBERS
 INDULGE IN CARD GAMES

as an amusement is not tabooed by the disciplinary rules of the Episcopal church. If therefore, the individuals moral judg- ment or conscience approves 1t, who has authority to condemnr
 The chief objection to playing euchre or any other of the numerous games of cards is that cards are, and from time immemorial have been, associated with gambling. Is that a sound argument? Must all sources of innocent amusement be abandoned when they are employed for other than harmless objects? Great as is the amount of money staked on cards, we suspect it Is exceeded by the aggregate of bets placed on horses And great as is the evil wrought by card gambling, we doubt if it approaches in magnitude the baneful product of betting on horse races. Would not the alleged logic that bars cards because gamblers use them call for the abandonment of the horse for riding or driving purposes?
 But it is the duty of all Christians, and, we may add, of all other persons, to be truthful. Hence a member of a church which forbids its members to play cards a church whose discipline contains a pro- hibition of that amusement-is in honor bound to abstain from card-playing. Granted that such person mas the same right to private judgment as any other, yet he must be presumed to have exer- cised that right and made his decision adverse to card-playlng when he joined that church. Churches are voluntary as- sociations. Men and women enter them of their own choice and can go out when they see fit. It is simply common, every day morality to live up to one's voluntary obligations. One has no moral right to do that which he has solemnly promised that he will not do unless rne promise be a wicked one. barring him from the per- formance of a duty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05
INVESTIGATION GOES ON.
No Important Developments In the
 Postoffice Department Cases.

Washington May 4-There were no important developments today in the in vestigation of affairs at the postoffice. Postmaster General Payne is awaiting re- sponses to his letters to ex-Postmaster General Smith. Postmaster Merritt Of this city and others, all asking for in formation regarding the recent state ments of s. W. Tulloch formerly cashier of the Washington postoffice, concerning the administration es the postoffice de- partment and of the local postoffice sev- eral years ago.
 Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow has already received the Merritt report. Postmaster General Payne said today that these letters would be con sidered today and probably would be given out independently unless some thing serious was developed, in which event the whole subject would be turned over to Mir. Bristow and embraced in the investigation now in progress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05
From the New York Tribune.

@ OR the first time yesterday pen ~ nant of red with a black ball
 in the center was flown by a vessel of the United States navy. When the batteships Kearsarge Iowa and Ala bama came up through the Narrows yes- terday noon, under command of Rear Ad- miral A. S. Barker, the last mentioned ship flew this flag. It indicated that she was the banner ship of the navy in tar get practice. It was devised last week by the navy department for this purpose From Capt. Charles H. Davis, down to the Japs in the cabins the breast of every man aboard the vessel swelled with pride for the battleship had made three records since last November, when she joined the other vessels under Admiral Dewey at Culebra. She had established a target record for the world, so far as known, by firing twelve 12-inch shots in succession through a target 1900 yards away while travelling at the rate of ten knots an hour she had established record for coaling, by taking aboard at Pensacola 25s.s tons of coal an hour, and she had beaten all other ships in the run to Cule- bra. The Alabama is to fly the banner for target practice until the gunners Of some other ship of the navy break her record. The officers and men think the Alabama will long fly the flag.
 The practice cruise from which the vessels have just returned began last November, when they went to Culebra. After cruising in the neighborhood Of Porto Rico for some time, the fleet went to Pensacola for target practice. It was there that the Alabama's target record was made. The percentages in battery practice made by the battleships In the fleet were as follows: The Alabama, 59.9; the Massachusetts, 56.3; the Illinois, 55.2; the Indiana, 49.2; the Iowa, 46l; the Kearsarge, 45.5; the Texas, S9.s From Pensacola the fleet came to the Virginia capes for review by Admiral Dewey on board his flagship. the Mayfiower. There the fleet was dispersed. the Olympia, the Texas and the Illinois going to Norfolk for repairs. and the Massachusetts to Boston. Rear Admiral Higginson, who has been on sea duty for two years, turn ed over his command to Rear Admiral Barker, whose flag was raised on the Kearsarge. The Indiana arrived at the
 navy yard two weeks ago. The battle ships will lie at Tompkinsville for ten
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05
THE COTTON MOVEMENT.

From the Columbus Enquirer Sun.
 Eight months of the cotton year have passed and 1o,0is.12s bales of cotton have already been brought into sight, according to the statement issued by Secretary He's ter of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. This is in excess of the movement for the same period during the past three years being 257147 bales over 1902. 4f.779 bales over 1901, and 1,42s.76l bales over 1900 from September l. 1902, to April 30, 1905
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05
Revolution Has Not Ended.

Panama, Colombia, May 1.-The official news emanating from Managua. Nicara- qua, to the effect that the revolution has been put down, is contradicted. The Mica raguan revolutionary junta has received report from General Chamerro saying that the Nicaraguan government steamer Julio has been sunk by the rebel vessel Victoria. The entire crew of the govern ment boat was lost The rebel victory at Acoyapa and the capture of Omotepe and San Carlos has been confirmed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05
MAJ. J. w. WARREN KILLED.
eeorgia's Oldest State Officer Meets With Violent Death on Railroad.

Atlanta, May 4.-Maj. J. w. Warren. who has been since 1872 secretary of the executive department of the Georgia state government, was this afternoon in- stantly killed by a passenger train at Kirkwood three miles from Atlanta, where he lived.
 Major Warren had just alighted from a trolley car and was crossing the track to his residence when he was struck.
 He was the oldest officer of the state government in point of service. He was 80 years of age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05
EXCEPTIONS WILL BE FILED.
Appeal Will Be Taken In the Case of
 Moses Fowler Chase.

Lafayette, Ind, May 4-Attorneys for the Huhme family. which says 1t repre- sents Moses Fowler Chase under an agreement made several years ago but which Judge DeHart decided against to- day. asked leave in the Circuit court to file objections to the ruling of the judge. Judge DeHart granted thirty days in which to file exceptions and also granted permission to counsel associated with the prosecuting attorney to visit Moses Fowler Chase, who is now in St. Eliza beths hospital.
 Several motions to postpone the case for sixty or thirty days were overruled. The judge finally set the case of guardian ship trial for May 13
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05
From the Washington Post.


 1 HE attitude, or, rather, the varying \Q attitudes of the churches toward
 card playing for amusement Is venerable topic, having been discussed with more or less of animation-and often with animosity-for many generations. It came up last Thursday at the seventh annual convention of the Daughters of the King in the Protestant Episcopal dio- eese of Washington. It came through the question box-one of the interesting feat ures of these conventions. Strange 60 say that, although the assemblage numbered several hundred ladies, endowed with fair share of intelligence and presumably with an adequate equipment of "woman's curiosity" only three questions were pro- pounded Inasmuch as each of the ladies was privileged to interrogate to her hearts content, this fact may be slgnif- cant, but of what we do not feel called upon to attempt a decision
 Only one of those three interrogatories was named in the report of the proceed ings and that was: "Is it right for Daughter to join a euchre club?" It fell to the lot of the Rev. Dr. Charles E. Buck, rector of Rock Creek parish, to make reply thereto. and he made one on which he can well afford to stand pat. The substance of his answer was that if It was wrong for Daughter of the King to join such club. 1t was equally wrong for any other church member. and that must be left to each individual to decide for herself. The united wisdom of all the bishops, priests and deacons of the great organization of which Dr. Buck is an honored member could not have formulated a more discreet reply. Recog- hilton of individual responsibility is be- coming more and more pronounced in all Protestant denominations. Card-playine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
w York Press

From the New York Press.
 Where there is woman's will there is no mans way.
 The successful liar is always careful not to write them down.
 No woman is old until she becomes afraid to have even her children see her as she really is.
 A woman never takes much interest in an argument with man unless she tries to prove something she knows he will be able to disprove.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-05

A constable armed with debt at tachment is not altogether the Eau fait" person to congratulate first a mo- ble bridegroom engaged in marrying an American heiress. Pittsburg should have stccd him off.