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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
MAY DlsBAND.

From the Chicago Tribune
 Unless S75OOOO be pledged to the endow- ment of the Chicago orchestra within the next six weeks the musicians of Theodore Thomas will be disbanded and the con- eerts will be at an end.
 That this, which will be regarded as a blow for higher music not only in Chi cago, but in America, will result from an apathetic response to the appeal for funds is plainly indicated in a communi- cation which the trustees of the orches- tra issued to the public yesterday.
 Of the amount necessary $10O,O00 has been pledged by ten friends of the or chestra. This is part of the sum needed to endow the orchestra and build it a home Unless the whole amount be raised the orchestra will end it's existence with the concerts on March 27 and 2S.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
Rise in Cnftnn-

The price of May cotton is now sell ing about one cent higher than it did one year ago, and quotations are still tending upwards. This advance is due, no doubt, to a growing belief that the crop will, after all, be less than H.. 100000 bales. This together with the free buying for export, has carried prices steadily upwards. The export movement of last year was heavy. and this years movement is nearly as large, the difference being less than 15,0OO bales.
 There are some who predict ten. cent cotton, and there are some who say that a great deal of cotton is held on the farms and in rural stores. and that present prices are too high. As no one knows how much cotton will yet come in sight, no one knows whether the supply will be ample or deficient, but the weight of opinion in the trade is that the final outturn of the cotton year will be below IL. 100000 bales.
 The visible supply at present is nearly 100000 bales less than it was one year ago. In fact, it is smaller than it has been in several years, and as export cotton is moving freely, it is not strange that prices are firm and even advancing. Nothing will be apt to change the present situation except an increased supply from the country, and the cotton may not be there to come forward
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
MUST SUPPORT TWO WIVES.
MT. Livingston Must Pay Spouse of
 Another Man $4ooo 9 Year.

New York, February 17.-William s. Livingston is in the unpleasant predica- ment of having to support two wives. al- though one who was divorced from him has since married a wealthy man, w. Manson Raborg.
 Under q special act of the legislature Mir. Livingston applied to the Supreme court for reduction of the alimony ob- tained by his first wife. He pleaded that his own changed circumstances rendered it impossible for him to continue paying her the siOoO year awarded her when the decree was granted.
 He also asserted that she had inherited a large amount of money and that her second husband is prosperous. Upon this showing judge In the Supreme court reduced the alimony to S3O00 a year. Ab- raham H. Hummel, counsel for Mrs Ra- borg, carried the case to the Court of Appeals, where it was decided that ali- mony was vested right, and that MT. Livingston would have to- continue pay ing the S4000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
Tribute to pr. Curry.

q read with deep interest just and sympathetic editorial in the Springfield Republican on J. L. M. Curry" said a prominent citizen.
 Tn reference to Dr. Curry's work in educational matters the Republican says: His activity was not confined to either race. He was a strenuous and far-sight- ed worker for the education of the whites as. well as the blacks The whole south was his field, regardless of race or color. It is a misfortune that the span of life should now be reached when the question of the races seems to be entering upon a new and delicate phase, carrying more or less anxiety to all citizens. north and south who are concerned for the future peace and happiness of the nation. A man of pr. Curry's past, with his per- sonal Knowledge of the old order before emancipation and his record as a confed- crate soldier and statesman, was just the sort to exercise influence with the south ern people and further the cause of pro- gress among both races.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
Certifying Checks.

"Overcertiication of cheeks, while con trary to the national banking act, is a common occurrence among Wall street institutions" said a New York man, "and is generally considered unavoidable as an occasional or freq"ent happening. Thus a bank having large dealings with brokerage or business firm of well-es- tablished and long-tried credit, will not often take the trouble in the rush of business to square the cheeks of this concern with it's bank balance in the pro- cess of certificatlon and it will often, for reasons that seem good to it. certify to large amounts beyond what the customer is known to have on deposit at the mo- men. ss
 This was the case with the Seventh National bank in relation to H. Mar quand & Go. during the stress following the Northern Pacific panic of 1901. Hence presumably the light sentence of $5OOO fine passed upon the former president of the bank last week by the United States court at New York. The former paying teller of the bank, also admittedly guilty, is to get off scot free apparently
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
Judge Feagin and the Legislature.

By a vote of 5S to 21 the house of representatives refused to say that an election should be held in May to fill the judgeship of the Inferior Criminal court of Birmingham. It voted to make the office elective in 1905 and afterwards, but to fill the place by the present incumbent until that time This means that Judge Feagin will serve until 1905, when he must come before the people for reelection if he desires to serve still another term.
 The action of the house was emi- nently wise and correct. It is well to make all places elective, for the people are the safest Repositories of power, but any change in that direc- tion need not be abrupt, and the cleo tion of 1905 is a good time for the proposed action by the people. If Mir. Blackburn's bill had gone through neither Judge Feagin nor the electors would have been ready to meet the is- sue. The primary is close at hand, and the Blackburn bill might be delayed in the senate until three or four days before the approaching primary. The action of the house was eminently sound and correct, and it is to be hoped the senate will not undo what the house has done, but that it will retain the London amendment. All
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
$1,ooo,ooo HOTEL FOR ST. LOUIS.

From the St. Louis Globe Democrat.
 The new downtown hotel, promoted by Worlds fair officials and public spirited citizens, will be located at Twelfth and Locust streets, occupying a full half block.
 The site comprises half block on the west side of Twelfth street extending from St. Charles to Locust. The building will be constructed in the most modern style in every respect. It will contain 400 rooms, will be twelve stories in height. and every room will be connected with a bath. The entire building will be used for hotel purposes, and no portion of the building will be rented for any other bus mess In ths respect it will be unique and most attractive.
 The location selected has been leased for ninety-nine years at $22OO0 per annum and the building will cost, irrespective of the land. $1,OOOOOO,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
KITCHENS OF MONARCHS
 AND SOME ROYAL CHEFS

table, although he himself is one of the most abstemious monarchs in Europe. The staff consists of half a hundred trained cooks, equally divided as to sex. and a committee of the heads of each de- pertinent is held on the occasion of state banquet. All the carving is done in an apartment reserved for the pur- pose, to which the comestibles are con- veyed from the kitchen. The question of perquisites is probably more firmly es- tablshed in the Austrian imperial kitchen than anywhere else in royal Europe.
 At some of the smaller courts native chefs are preferred, as, for example in Rome, Madrid and Stockholm. At the Sublime Porte Abdul Hamid formerly contented himself with French chefsS but after the visit of the German emperor to Constantinople he engaged three German cooks, who assist him in dispensing the enormous daily sum of e1,000 upon the pleasures of the table for his vast estahs llshment. All the Sultan's personal dish es are prepared in silver vessels, and are sealed by the grand vizier before they leave the kitchen. The seal is broken in the presence of the monarch, and it is the duty of the chamberlain to taste the first mouthful if so commanded. The dec oration of a chef by his royal master is a rare event; even the Royal Victorian order was not considered by Queen Vic toria to be a suitable method of acknowl- edglng the services of her culinary artists. When a famous chef retired from the service of the imperial kitchen in Berlin he was rewarded by the empress with the Gold Cross of Merit, but even in the fatherland this distinction was unique Perhaps the most curious kitchen depart ment in any imperial palace in the world is that of the Emperor of China. The staff consists of no fewer than seventy-1ve ex- perts, whose duties require them to be acquainted with the daintiest methods of serving up bears paws or antelope tails, cells. eggs, or monkeys lips, while there is a special department which concerns itself with the serious task of producing birds nest soup.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18

and time-honored start from the palace at Scutari, crossing the Bosporus in great state amid sa1vos of cannon and accompanied by all high officials and religious dignitaries mounted upon and guarding numerous mules loaded with boxes, costly gifts and specie required on the journey. Embroidered saddle cloths and ostrich plumes adorn the animals, and their riders are swathed in gorgeous robes of yellow, green, blue and red. When the camel again begins the land journey at Beirut, it is joined by hundreds of pilgrims, and by the time it eventually arrives at Mecca this number has swelled to thousands of the faithful anxious to show their religious zeal in guarding the treasure laden animal on it's jour ney among the hostile Arab tribes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
About Psrsons.

M. M. Hughes of Gadsden is at the Morris.
 L. c. Peele of Talledega is registered at the Metropolitan.
 P. J. Donovan of St. Louis, manager of the St. Louis National League Baseball club, is registered at the Hillman. G. w. Dugger of Greensboro is at the Morris.
 w. c. Smith of Selma Is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 J. o. Johnston of Anniston is at the Hillman.
 John S. Mabry of New York is regis tered at the Morris.
 J. L. Thurston of New York is at the Hillman.
 M. B. Reece of Huntsville is stopping at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
From the Baltimore Sun.

VUH historical science in the Uni \ versity of Virginia, is engaged in writing history of the Reconstruction period in the south. Such a work by a fair-minded man will be a great and a most desirable addition to the history of the United States. It will be full of inter- est and full of instruction. Several per sons have written of that period, but no one has undertaken so thorough and com plete work as that upon which Profess sor Dabney is now engaged. His position as professor of history in the university gives him exceptional advantages for gathering the necessary material, and he is in close contact with the people who suffered political martyrdom in that reign of terror. The young generation which has arisen since the carpet-baggers fled before an enraged people does not appre- ciate the enormity of the crimes which were then committed. Many who have seen the return of prosperity have for gotten the depths of poverty to which the south had sunk under the combined affiictions of war and rapine. This must be known in order to appreciate the noble struggle which was made against adver-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
From caaselrg saturday Journal.

From Casselrs Saturday Journal
 1 HE German Emperor is disposed 0 to be rather ofhcious in the
 supervision of his kitchen. He has been known to make a special tour of inspection, under the guidance of the marshal of the court. and to harangue the scullions, or give lessons in the art of making coffee. As a rule he gets his meals en pension, there being a regular sum allotted per head for the board of the imperial family, and within these lim- its the cooks have a free hand. The chief cook IS a German, and under him are a German and a Frenchman, all though the use of the French language upon the menus is strictly forbidden. The chef has to get through about four hun dred-weight of butchers meat on ordi- nary days for the meals of the court and on great occasions he usually begins his preparations a week beforehand. and calls in the services of the cooks at the other palaces, besides utilizing the ser- vices of the dainty confectioners in Unter den Linden. William IT. believes in dishes en masse. The joints appear in the dining saloon and the cakes are frequently fashioned into the shapes of temples, minarets and castles.
 The chef in the household of the Czar Is an Alsatian, a former soldier, who is paid a very high salary. He is an adept in the fabrication of appetizing Russian soups, which are much liked by Nicholas II, and he has a regular dictionary of recipes for the treatment Of caviare. He has had to overcome the nuisance of hay ing two or three Circassians always hov- ering about the kitchen on the lookout for suspicious underlings, although these gentry apply themselves to the task of tasting the imperial vlands with greater zeal than the occasion demands. The Elm press often conveys to the kitchen a wish for a dainty dish to be prepared fAnglais, and apart from the national dishes the composition of the imperial menu en famile is as much English as French. The Emperor Francis Joseph is said to spend e5o,OOo per annum upon his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
Foster Takes u. S. Case.

Washington, February 17.-Ex-secre- tary of State Foster has been selected to take charge of the case of the United States in the presentation of the Alaskan boundary question to a special commis- sion to be appointed in conformity with the terms of the recently confirmed Alas kan boundary treaty. General Foster will be assisted in this work by Mr. Lansing, his son-in-law, Secretary Root has con- cluded to accept his appointment as one of the commissioners to represent the United States on the boundary question. The other members are Senators Lodge and Turner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
Gotten and Got Ten.

A Birmingham man who was out or town during the time of the Ben Hur ticket sale. telegraphed his wife that he had "gotten tickets for Ben Hur,' but she read it. q have got ten tickets, and forthwith went around and asked eight or her friends to go with them. When the husband returned home, such a mighty "hustling' for tickets he had One of the best things about the whole affair was Mrs B. didn't know of her mistake un- fl few days after she and her husband and eight friends had seen the show. MT. B. then laughed good naturedly and said the joke" was on him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
Harvard and Vale.

"President Eliot may be altogether right in his programme for requiring that only college graduates shall receive a professional training in law, medicine and theology at the Harvard profession al schools remarked an educator, butt it is programme that is likely to create, or harden, the impression that Harvard is aristocratic and not democratic in spirit. The Waterbury American, a loyal Yale paper. says with great complacency: Let Harvard stand for the class spirit in professional life and Yale for the democratic spirit. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
Newspaper Publishers Confer.

New York, February 17.-The annual conference of the American Newspaper Publishers was begun here today with a large attendance. A resolution was in troduced to increase the capital stock of the association from $1O,oOO to s20,0o0. It is organized under the laws of the state of New York, and the stock heretofore has been divided into 200 shares, all of which have been taken in the United States and Canada. It is for the purpose of admit ting additional papers that the capital stock has been increased.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs.
Judge Houehton's sketches.


 Judge W. R. Houghton, who has been contributing a series of confederate camp stories to the Age-Herald, is receiving a number of letters daily requesting him to continue them. and expressing appre- citation of the vivid manner in which ne tells of the experiences of camp life, saio a citizen.
 ''The articles, besides interesting a num- Der of confederate veterans and their wives. are making interesting reading for the boys of the state. They are intense ly stirring and have the virtue of pe- ing true. They form portion or the history of the greatest war ever fought and one which is of special interest to southern youth'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
{ Issue of Bonds.

New York, February 17.-It was report ed in Wall street that the board of direc- tors of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad had authorized the issue of $5, 66o.OOO of Eastern Oklahoma division first mortgage 1 per cent 25-year gold bonds The issue is at the rate of $2O,000 per mile of the Eastern Oklahoma Rail- road company lines, now nearly com pleted. and is secured by a first mortgage on these lines. A part of the road in ques- tion is the newly completed Paul's Val
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
from the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 A boy can fool his mother as easily as she can fool his father.
 It was when Eve began to worry about the moths getting in her clothes that Adam really began to regret the good old fig-leaf days.
 It's true that man could build a house with the money he spends for drinks, but 1t Is also true that he can buy a good many drinks every day with the money it would take to build a house.
 There are two occasions when the hap piest married man must get down and do some hard thinking about his bache- Tor days-when his wife cleans house and when he first spends a holiday at home because he cant afford to go to the races
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
The Sacred camel's Journey.

In former years the sacred camefs journey, with the gifts of the Sultan, to the shrine of the prophet, which takes place annually, was made entirely on foot from Constantinople to Mecca.
 Modern ingenuity, with its ever ready desire to deprive the world of the picturesque and add the machine under the plea of greater saving of brute strength, now conveys the camel half the way by transport, from Scu- tari to Beirut.
 It still, however, makes the solemn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
Could Take Care of Herself.

A young lady relates the following;
 An aged negro woman was In the act of leaving an electric car few days ago when she found she had left package. She turned to go back in the car for It and the conductor yelled out; Get off! get off! You are keeping this car"
 The old woman turned to the conductor and said: .sYou stand thar wid your uni form and your cap and your badge and think you are Napolion Bonaparte, but l ain't 'gwine to get off this here car twell I get my bundle; cause this is no time to be leavin' passels round loose." And she didn't leave it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Gadsden Times-News: The Big Brushy Coal and Coke company, a corporation recently formed in Atlanta, is arranging company has a capital of s100.OOO and it's promoters are mostly citizens of Atlanta
 Mobile Herald: There has been great deal of interest manifested by the stock holders of the International Steamship company as to which was the fastest steamer of the two, the Fort Morgan or the Fort Gaines. The former had the best of the general opinion and on her last trip lowered the time considerably from Bocas del Toro to the bar, having performed the feat in four days and twelve hours.
 Selma Journal: There Is prospect that Selma will not suffer from an ice fam inc during the coming summer. The Peo- ples Ice company is. in process of being organized, the capital stock being placed at $26,OOO MT. W. H. Conllin of Rock mart N. C., is at the head of the new company, and has been in the city for the past week, but has now returned to his home. Over half the amount of the capital stock has been subscribed and promises have been made of sufficient quantity to assure the erection of the plant.
 Anniston Star The heaviest rainfall in Anniston in many days occurred Monday hoa resulted to the city bridges. It com menced to rain early in the morning and with few cessations there has been a steady downpour. Snow creek is almost a raging torrent and the branches are diminutive rivers. Several bridges have been reported washed away and others damaged and it is expected that many others will suffer.
 Mobile Herald: The Alabama will be herei Of course, the announcement of the coming of the big battleship was made nearly three weeks ago, but, not withstanding the assurance from Wash ington, there was some apprehension in the minds of the committee lest the Vene-
 
 squadron to remain in South American waters. Then, too, numerous telegrams have appeared In the New Orleans and other papers to the effect that the Ala bama was scheduled to arrive in Mobile waters during the first week in March. As any change in the date of the presen- tation of the silver service would cause great inconvenience in Mobile and result in a general disappointment throughout the state, the chairman of the battleship commission wired to Hon. H. c. Taylor chief of the bureau of navigation of the navy department to ascertain positively as to the coming of the Alabama A copy of his telegram is given below: Max Hamburger Jr., Mobile, Ala:
 No change in the itinerary of the Ala bama. II. c. TAYLOR"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
zoLA LEFT LITTLE FORTUNE.

Paris Cablegram to the New York Herald.
 It now appears that zola left but little fortune beyond his house at Medan and art collection.
 As Madame Zola's revenues are insuffi- cient to keep these she has decided to sell off Medan and the collection at an early date.
 In fact all the widow will have to live on is the income from the sale of her husbands works and what she will real ize from the sale of the property
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18

of the Jefferson delegation voted for that amendment, Mr Blackburn alone excepted. This town has a tender feeling for Judge Feagin, who is as humane as he is upright and fearless, and 1t does not desire to see him hustled out of office possibly by a bill perfected almost on the day named for the holding of a primary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-18
WEALTHY NEW YORK PARISH.

From the New York Sun.
 Grace parish. New York. has an endow. ment of s632,0o0, the largest of any church in America that has not been, like Trin. ity and the Collegiate church, made ricf by grants of land Of this, s531, ,OOO is avail. able to support the general work of the parish and s1O1.OOO is divided into ter diaconal funds of sl0.oo0 each, save one