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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16
ooRMAN AGAINST HIS SON.
Will Fight His Candidacy for the
Maryland Senate.

Baltimore March Ex-senator German
has fight on his hands. This time it is
against a member of his own family.
1t appears that Arthur p. German, Jr,
entertains political ambition, and for
some years has been trying to break into
the legislature.
Last year he was an avowed candidate
for the nomination of delegate to the
general assembly from Howard county
and was moving along swimmingly when
some of the political leaders in the coun-
~ appealed to the senator to pull him
off as he was dlsarranging their plans.
After an investigation, the senator coin
clded with this view and young Arthur
reluctantly declared himself out.
This time he flies a peg higher by an
nouncing himself a candidate for the
state senate. Mr.. German has again
vetoed his sons aspirations, but this
time the young man refuses to heed his
fathers injunction. He intends to make
the fight, and is now a full-hedged cam
didate.
His opponent is Mr.. Grosvenor Hanson,
one of the most popular young demo-
Gratis in the county 1t is understood that
the senator will support Mr.. Hanson, as
will also the regular organization. Young
German expects to win in spite of his
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The part Of senators springs from their
Indirect election. They thus separate
their title to office from the public
will. holding that they are the true
ami only check and brake upon that
VIII. There is scarcely another legls-
lative body in the world that so mark
ed'y holds itself above the people.
There is but one remedy for all
this nonsense-the remedy that Geor-
gia, Florida and Mississippi have al
ready adopted, not to mention half
dor en- other states. Compel every man
wLt desires a seat In the senate to
submit his claims to a popular vote
Nc amendment of the constitution is
needed. Popular party action is alone
sufficient, and Alabama should be
brought into line with her sister
states.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16
Rebuilding the Forests.

The Kirby lumber company of Tex
as is perhaps the largest lumber COM
rary in the world, cutting timber at a
rapid rate every year. 1t owns 1,210,-
600 acres, and on these acres it is
growing a second crop of timber. 1t
has timber enough to last thirty years,
and at the end of that time its second
crop will be ready for the axemen.
Tnis second crop will be the result
of much care and forethought. No
trees are cut that 'clear less than a
foot" and from two to five cone trees
are left to every acre. In this way
seed is scattered in all directions, and
artificial planting becomes unneces-
sary. A fire patrol is maintained, men
being stationed through the company's
forests, but after the trees are four
years old this will not be necessary,
because fires cannot then injure the
trunks of the trees.
This plan will prolong the forests
of the Kirby company indefinitely, for
whom the young trees Of today are cut
thirty years from now, like process
CT reproduction will be followed, and
the Kirby company will thus always
lave plenty of timber to cut and sell,
although its eighteen mills cut each
year 100000 feet of pine.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16
INCREASE IN SUICIDES.

From the Chicago Reeord-Herald.
Sundays record of nine suicides in Chi
cago is an exceptional one, the number
being as great as the weekly average for
1902. It is all the more striking at this
season of the year. for cold weather is
universally shown by statistics to be I'M
favorable to suicide. By itself 1t would
have interest only for the strange coin
cidence that so many people chose the
same day for self destruction. Taken,
however In connection with the fact that
the suicides for January and February
numbered seventy-hve or eleven more
than In the corresponding months last
year, and twenty-four more than in the
same months of 1901, 1t gives occasion for
serious reflection.
For several years past suicides have
been increasing in Chicago at a ratio far
in excess of the Increase in population.
Three hundred and fifty-slx suicides in
1900 were followed by 399 in 1901 and 439
last year. Chicago has not yet attained
the worst rank in this respect among
American cities, but her position is not
one to boast of.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16
School Book Board.

The board that will select school
books for term of five years for the
boys and girls of Alabama, barefoot or
shed, consists of the governor himself,
the superintendent of education, the
president of the university, the presi-
dent of the Alabama Polytechnic in
stitute, and the president of the Girls
Industrial school at Montevallo
These men can be trusted to select
reasonably good books for use in the
public schools of the state, displacing
the geography that does not mention
Birmingham, and all the odd selec.
tens of cranky teachers, which are
much too numerous to mention. To
say that these five men are not compe.
teri to select school books for Ala
bama use is to talk to the marines,
for the average Albanian who pays
fer school books will not listen to
such a yarn, especially when the five
are to be assisted by five more, all of
whom are to be teachers. The sub
commission is an advisory commits
sion, and it has not been appointed.
The AgeHerald begs to suggest DIR. J.
II. Phillips as a member of the sub
commission
In this connection The Age-Herald
mentions with pardonable pride the
action of the teachers of Talladega
county, one of the most advanced coun-
ties in the state educationally speak
ing. In its recent institute the teach
crs of that county said, I'VE, feeling
that another step in behalf of the chill
dren of Alabama has been made, do
heartily endorse the uniform text book
bill" They endorsed the bill after its
passage, just as it stands on the
statute books, and they undoubtedly
expressed the opinion of ninety-nine
teachers out of every hundred in this
state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16

remission or abolition of the duty on art.
that puts pictures of the old masters. and
young ones on a commercial parity with
tin kettles and gum shoes. And while they
have not given loud expression to their
view. we have no doubt that the Ameri-
can authors are equally willing to remit
the protective duty against foreign fic-
ton, science and history. Our imports
are increasing every year, but they do
not in the slightest degree affect the
American output. On the contrary, the
local publishers are even overriding 1t.
The quantity of novels. biographies, text
books. works on history and theologies,
volumes of travel and observation,
essays. poems and criticism passes un-
outstanding. It is clear enough that we
do not need protection for the infant
scribblers. They are an industrious lot,
and too many of their manuscripts are
accented
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16
Monetary Conditions.

The stock market, which has been eff
feeted naturally by the monetary condi-
tions, will probably have great RELIEF
when the funds required for April settle
ments find their way back to the banks.
Henry Clews, in his Saturday circular
letter, after comparing prices this spring
with those quoted a year ago, says:
"Slght recoveries have taken place
since the above low prices were recorded,
but it is evident that the leading railroad
shares have declined between 20 and 30
points since the top last year. The indus
trials, in many instances, have made
more serious declines, but thehe are less
satisfactory indicators than the more sub
stantial railroad properties. In the face
of such heavy liquidation it would seem
hazardous to calculate upon much lower
prices, so long as business continues at
its present volume. Production in all lines
of industry is steadily increasing. and
thus far has not caught up with con-
sumption; the only serious menace to con-
tinued activity being the probability of
renewed labor agitation during the COM
ing spring Many of the large oper-
ators are still absent from the city, and
no important developments in financial
circles are expected until their return. A
conservative feeling Is prevalent among
bankers, and in some quarters there Is
belief that further liquidation is needed
to bring the market into really healthy
condition. Such differences of opinion
favor activity in stocks and shap fluctua-
lions. On the recent declines there was
excellent investment buying of good Sc
curitles at bottom figures which promises
well for the future; but the rallies which
followed were due more to short covering
than to purchases on the long side. There
are still too many uncertainties to war
rant a sudden revival of confidence to
justify any enthusiastic attempt to create
a buoyant bull market at the present
time. But hereafter it will be an excel
lent trading market to buy on the raids
for quick returns"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16
Free Passes and the EIkins Law.

Representative of sixty-seyen rail-
roads west of Chicago and st. Louis
met last week in Chicago, and they
decided that no passes or reduced
rates are to be given by their roads
except In a few clearly defined cases
1t was asserted by them that the is
suance of passes to politicians AMI
shippers is a violation of the Elkins
law, which says that no rebates shall
be made from published rates. A pass
is a rebate, especially If given to a
shipper, and the sixty-seven railroads
have cut them off. The big shipper
who has been carried In private cars
of special trains will hereafter fare
no better on the sixty-seven roads
than the small shipper. Beyond a
doubt passes issued to shippers are
violations of the Ell1ins law.
Politicians are the next greatest
consumers of passes. In order to in
huence legislation and keep down gen.
eral hostility passes have been given
to all politicians from an alderman to
a cabinet officer or national senator,
and to their friends. Not only is this
a wrong to stockholders, but it is a
relative wrong to all who pay, aud
an outrageous attempt to corrupt the
peoples own officers. The sixty-seven
reads have decided therefore that all
political transportation shall be ended.
In some sections the man who pays
full fare is exceptional, and as a rule
hs is surrounded on the train by hold
ars of passes or of tickets at reduced
rates, who are as rule either politi
Clans OF shippers.
Tho pass evil is confined to this
country, and the indications are that
even this country is preparing to I'M
load it, The railroads have a good
excuse for dumping both the shipper
and the politician in the Elkins law.
No doubt the shippers pass is a vic
lation of that law, and the politicians
pass is a violation of all decency and
honor in public life. The western roads
have set the pace, and the pass evil
bids fair to be very much restricted,
If not altogether abolished in the next
few years. 1t is to be done, if at all,
in the name and by virtue of the Ell
kins law. The West Virginia senator
seems to have builded better than he
knew,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16
PopuIar Election Of Senators.

As soon as a man steers himself
by means of political machine into
a senatorial seat, he at once considers
himself a representative of sover-
e'gn state, rather than as a represen-
tative of the people, who really had
very little to do with his selection.
He at once surrounds himself with
prerogatives and peculiar privileges,
as to which public opinion has or
should have no part. The ease with
which a senator turns his back upon
tho people would be surprising, if the
matter had not become chronic, and
the people over-patient and submis-
s,ve.
All OF this unheard-of procedure on
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16
YOUNG ALBANIAN CAN
MAKE THE DEAF HEAR

New York, March 10. - (Special.) - BY
means of an invention of Miller Reese
Hutchinson, a young Albanian, who
was recently decorated by Queen Alexan-
dra for his efforts IN behalf of the deaf,
three children who are deaf, dumb and
blind have been enabled to hear a pianist
play Sousa's marches, a photograph re-
peating the sounds and the sounds Of
their own voices uttering the words
mamma" papa" and hello" in qua
vering, childish treble.
The experiments were made at the la
boratory of Mr. Hutchinson, and were
witnessed by many persons.
The invention consists primarily of a
transmitter, an ear piece and a small
electric battery. BY means of these In
struments sounds are projected into the
ear in a manner to stimulate the audi
tory nerve. The volume of sound has
nothing to do with the action of these In
struments. The penetrating quality OF
the electric sound wave apparently disre-
CARDS the mechanism of the outer ear
and affects the inner ear direct.
The first patient brought out to try the
effects of the invention was Orris Ben
son. who ia blind, deaf and dumb. A
nhvsician tried to make him hear in varl-
Gus WAYS. but all his efforts were In vain.
The little instrument was then clapped
n the lads ear, the currents switched
IN. and Mr.. Hutchinson said in an ordi-
nary conversational tone: Papa"
The youth worked his fingers rapidly
in the sign language.
HE says he can hear something but
does not know what 1t is" remarked
Professor Van Tassell. who was in
charge of the children.
The current was made stronger. The
Youths eyeballs were raised and he
smiled Then he tried to repeat the syl-
tables, and in a treble cried shrilly.
.'Pah-pah" Noticing that the patient was
becoming quite excited over his novel ex-
perience. Mr.. Hutchinson suggested that
one of the girls be brought into the re-
ception room. A girl is years old, who
had lost sight and hearing through ex-
posture dozen years ago, was led into
the ROOM She could not hear a sound, no
matter how loud, right against her ear,
but when she had the ear piece of the in
strument fastened to her head and the
pianist at the end of the room began to
play a Sousa march her cheeks flushed
and her fingers beat time on table.
| Another girl, born blind, deaf and dumb.
clapped her hands In ecstasy when she
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16
Musical Notes.

Phil Memoli has received the chorus
and orchestra parts of Rossini's ''Stabat
Mater" and will begin rehearsal of the
'Infiamatus' this week. This number
will be rendered as an offeratory at St.
Paurs church on Easter Mrs. Putnam
will sing the solo and she will be ac-
companied by double quartette and a
large orchestra. The Easter mass to be
sung at st. PauIs is Gounod's Troisieme-
new in Birmingham. 1t is rich and
churchly, as all of Gounods sacred works
are but it is altogether choral and or
chestral.
The pupils of the Birmingham Conser-
vatory of Music gave their fifth recital
Saturday afternoon under the direction of
Miss Edna Gockel. The programme con-
tanned two Mozart, one Beethoven and
five Schumann numbers.
Miss Daisy Rowley's academy of music
pupils bave recital Saturday. The pro-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16
Dining Out.

81 have noted with interest the growing
tendency of Birmingham people to dine
away from home in the evening said an
habitue of the restaurants
Men who were formerly great sticklers
for home life and for the enjoying of the
evening meal at home now seem to enjoy
the recreation of bringing their wives
down to cafes once in awhile and as a
result l find the more fashionable eating
places crowded every evening.
"A New Yorker was telling me the other
day thta 1t is getting to be very much
the thing in the metropolis for a man
and his wife to dine down town in the
evening and that the restaurants and
cafes are severely taxed to accommodate
the large crowds"
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;ramme consisted of sixteen choice num-
About Person.


Louis D. Burton, who has been suffering
from an attack of la grippe, is again able
to leave his room
Frank Harvey Miller of Montgomery Is
at the Metropolitan.
c. E. Peoples of Kansas City is regis
tered at the Morris
Sol Levy of Montgomery is at the Hill
man.
w. @. Crumley of Oxmoor is stopping
at the Metropolitan.
Henry L. Underwood of Middlesbor-
ough, KY, is registered at the Morris.
R. I. Sherman and wife of Boston are
at the Hillman.
]. W. Bradshaw and wife of Talladega
are stopping at the Metropolitan.
M. C. Hasseller of Chattanooga is at
the Morris.
C. w. Denning of New York is at the
Hillman.
w. q. Pond of st. Louis is registered at
the Norris
Vim. C. Booth of Chicago is at the Hill
man.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16
The Orphanaue.

The ladies of St Pauls church are ar
ranging for a grand bazaar to be held
soon after Easter for the benefit of the
orphanage at East Lake.
The old Athaneum, which was purchas-
ed several I-lonths ago for the orphans,
is valuable property, and just such
property as was needed for this particu-
lar purpose, but 1t needs repairs and
furniture. The ladies hope to clear
enough off of the bazaar to put the build
ing in perfect order. The institution will
be opened early in, the summer and will
be conducted by the Sisters of Charity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16

THE celebration of the one hundredth
anniversary of the British and Foreign
Bible society In London last week was a
notable event in many ways said
layman. THE society represents the first
organized attempt to circulate In large
way the scriptures.
During its hundred years 1t has dis
tributed no fewer than 1So,0OOOoO copies
of the Bible whole or In part, in 400 differ
ent languages and dialects. 1t is one of
the two great Bible circulators of the
world, the other being the American So
ciety, somewhat younger but of nearly
equal achievement. It is of course, while
in no way ssectaran, a Christian society.
Its efforts are all directed to the propaga-
ton of Christian knowledge and the
spread of the Christian religion. Yet the
present lord mayor of London, a Hebrew
who adheres to his ancestral faith, pre-
sided at it's centennial meeting and prais-
ed Its work. Prime Minister Balfour, the
actual executive head of the British en-
pire, a man whose skeptical tendencies are
well known, was the principal speaker of
the occasion, and commended its aims as
tending to increase charity of thought
and widen the outlet"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16
THE POET AND THE CHILDREN,

BY John Greenleaf Whittier
With glory Of winter sunshine
over his locks of gray,
In the old historic mansion,
He sat on his last birthday
With his books and his pleasant pictures,
And his household AMI his kin,
While sound as of myriads sinsing
From far and near stole in.
1t came from his own fair city,
From the prairie's houndless plain,
From the Golden Gate Of sunset
And the cedarn woods of Maine.
And his heart grew warm wltain him,
And his mois.cning eyes grew dim,
For he knew that his count-ys children
Were singing tire songs of him
The lays of his nfe's glad ncriing.
The psalms Of his evening time,
Whose echoes shall float forever
On the wind of every cline.
All their beautiful consultations.
Sent forth like birds of cheer.
Came f1ocking ok to fis winoe Wa
And sang in the poets ear.
Grateful but solemn and tender,
The music rose and fell
With a joy akin to sadness
And a greeting like farewell.
With a seEse of awe he listened
To the voice of swe It and ,ourg g:
The last of earth and til. first CT heaven
Seemed in the songs they surg
And waiting little longer
For the won1 n full change 10 come,
He heard the SImmoning Ange,
Who calls Gods children home.
And to him, in holier welcome.
Was the mystical meaning giveo
OF the words of the blessed Master,
"Of such is ths Kingdom of heaven!-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
The sparkle which goes out of wifehood
partly returns to widowhood.
1t takes imagination to plan great
deeds and lack of 1t TO accomplish them.
The only thing that makes a woman
madden than being talked about is being
considered as not worth talking about.
To interest a man talk about himself:
to interest a woman talk about some
body she wishes were talking to her in
stead of you.
1t is hard for a woman to feel offended
at anything man may do II he can make
her believe that her beauty was respon-
sble for 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Grammatical Question.

II understand debating team at the
High school recently considered the cor
rectness of the expression, Henry john
son Of Boston is stopping at the Norris
and decided it was not good" said man
interested in the purity of English.
But am inclined to think that stop
ping at is preferable to staying at II
for no other reason than the good usage
of the former Many grammatical eN-
pressions which do not seem to stand
close analysis are often justified because
of their use by careful and elegant writ
ers, and for the sake of variety stopping
at is frequently brought into requisition.
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confesses to Murder.

Chicago, Ill.,, March 15.-Bud Hig'
gins, a mulatto, on trial for the muir.
der of Mrs. Annie Butler, created a
sensation in court room yesterday by
confessing on the witness stand that
he committed the crime. Il called her
to the telephone" he said, land told
her To hold the wire. Then ran and
shot her through the window"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16
Woman Charged With Murder.

Shreveport, La, March 15.-Mrs.
Thomas J. Bullock, wife of a night
Waterman, was arrested tonight on the
charge of poisoning her husband. She
- held on charge of murder. The
parties were originally from San Au-
Gustine, Tex. They have eight chill
dren, the youngest of which is years.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16

heard her own voice say mamma" ana
reached out wistfully toward the piano
when the musician stopped playing and
the harmonies died out of her ear, but
fingered in her memory.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16
Attorneys Guilty of Contempt.

indianapolis, March 15.-In the fed.
eral court here yesterday Judge Ander-
son held David A. Sachs and w. w.
Mats, prominent attorneys of Louis
vile, guilty of contempt of court,
charging that they had defied the au-
tborities of his court by attempting to
prevent the receiver appointed by the
federal court from taking possession
of the property of M. Zeier G. Co. of
New Albany, Ind. The attorneys were
sentenced to sixty days In Jail.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16
Prosperous Birmingham.

zone of the many evidences of the
growth of Birmingham" said the Rev.
Father oReilly, pastor of st. Pauls
church, is the increase in the Sunday
morning collections at my church. The
collections have doubled In amount inside
of two years. And the gratifying thing
about it is the increase comes without
any urging. 1t is altogether voluntary"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16

Germany is now engaged in assail-
ing the Monroe doctrine from the loop
holes of it's esteemed newspaper of
fees. But the doctrine can stand
siege conducted by long-range pop
pIlns
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16

Hard times in Afghanistan has COM
peeled the ameer to cut his harem
down to four wives.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16

David Bennett Hills endorsement
of Judge Parker's candidacy is now
several days overdue. 4
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16

Miss Helen Gould receives 1900 let
tiers week, but she reads mighty few
of them. Her secretaries do the rest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-16

Popocatapet has been taken in, but
not Mount Pelee. The latter bucks too
too much.