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New-York tribune., 1903-03-16

ROUND TRIP TICKE'
On sale at all ticket off,
routes going and returning
Western, Union Pacific ar
ways. OfnceE: 4si, 2s7 aad
New-York tribune., 1903-03-16

To CALIFORNIA
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,ia, fhicago and North-
, bern PACIFIC RalI-
a tladway.-AdVL
New-York tribune., 1903-03-16

THE 18th CENTURY LIMITED"
ia the New-YoFk centrals 2o-hour train between
Nsw.York and Chicago. Saves day.-Advt
New-York tribune., 1903-03-16

The Pretoria correspondent Of The Morning
Post understands that the Boer generals
Eotbs DeIsrey and SHUTS, are taking part in
the Afriksnder movement, which is not in &C
cordancs with their utterances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28

is reversed by the court itself. It will doubtless stand indefinitely.
 Justice Harlan openly declared that telegraph messages and the like are, like lottery tickets, things of value. matters of traffic, and hence articles of commerce, and that the power to regulate such articles necessarily in- wolves the power to exclude or pro- hibit. This decision gives congress am pie power over the trusts, and only cowardice or treachery to the people, or downright corruption can prevent the suppression of all trade monopo- lies. The power of congress over the trusts cannot be questioned, every line of the lottery decision declaring that the power is ample, even auto cratic. Any trust that does an inter- state business can be crushed or reg ulated to the fullest extent. The pow CT of congress over any such combine is fully declared by the Supreme court, and the republican stump speak CTS cannot hereafter plead a want of power. Congress is the sole judge of trusts, and if it neglects to suppress a trust, it will be because for reasons best known to the republican leaders it does not desire to suppress it. Con gross now has plenary power, and no one can truthfully or Intentionally say that it is powerless to wipe out the trusts. The will may be lacking, but not the power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28
The Ocean Newspaper.

For good or III, the ocean newspaper has come to stay" said New York man. "A few days ago the Minneapolis of the Atlantic Transport line arrived in Lon don with the announcement that a begin ming had been made on board toward the publication of a record of worldwide vents, with the assistance of the Marconi wireless system, and now the Etruria has reached New York with the story of two miniature newspapers printed while off the British coast and containing consid- erable news received by the Marconi sys- tenn.
 Most liners carry a small printing out fit with which to prepare the daily menu cards. and evidently this limited mechan- ism has been drawn upon by the Minne apolls and Etruria to present the news of the day to their passengers. In the news summary printed in the Etruras paper on her last trip eastward there were one hundred and twenty-three words which were sent while the vessel was seventy miles off Crookhaven, Ireland. This geems a small grist for a newspaper in these days of multiplying pages fin our daily journals yet it sufficed to give the pas sengers of the Etruria information on no fewer than nine different subjects, em- bracing events as ar removed as Moroc- co, the United States and Venezuela. On her return trip the Etruria received 12O words at a distance of 15O miles from the Irish coast, and another little paper was printed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28
Bessemer's Public Building.

Bessemer has at times resented an nexation to this district, but it has no warmer friend anywhere than in Bir- mingham itself. All here feel that Bessemer's prosperity and growth is part and parcel of the prosperity and growth of Jones valley, in which we live, and in which every mothers son of us is interested. And all are glad that Bessemer 4s to have h:EIsome public building. Congressman Under wood has succeeded in adding an item of s12,000 for the purchase of site in Bessemer for public building, to the public buildings and grounds bill, which is now pending between the two houses, and which will assuredly be passed before final adjournment takes place.
 This effort of our wide-awake and popular congressman will give Bessc- mer a handsome public building, and Birmingham rejoices as much over the victory as Bessemer itself, and the oc- casion should be improved, not only to thank MT. Underwood for his eff fort, but to bind the two cities in Jones valley closer together. What prospers the one prospers the other, and they should pull together for the common good. Whatever Bessemer seeks for the common good of Jones valley will find warm and ample sup port in this city, and it is to be hoped Bessemer will fully reciprocate. Na- ture has tied the two cities together, enclosing them in common mountains, and it would be unwise to attempt to thwart or circumvent Dame Nature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28
TENEMENT HOUSES.
Jew York Times.

From the New York Times.
 It is most interesting and encouraging to note that the persistent and devoted efforts of the tenement house reformers in New York for the past quarter of century have at last been fully and heart fly appreciated by their beneficiaries, the dwellers in tenement houses themselves. Of course, that result has followed only since the reforms were not only embodied in law, but also reduced to practice in the erection of new law" tenements, and in the improvement, under the compulsion of the new law, of tenements erected un- der the old. To declaim against the abuses of a system of housing which denies light, air and privacy to It's victims Is futile process compared with the erection Of tenements under which these primary re- quirements of decent and civilized living are supplied Object lessons are those which are most readily learned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28
Senator AIdrich's Bill.

The administration and other strong influences are behind the Aldrich financial bill, and it may be passed by the senate. If so, it will be jammed through the house in short order.
 At present internal revenue re- ceipts that have not reached the treasury can be deposited in the banks and Secretary Shaw has in this way deposited s150,O0O,O00 in the national banks. But he cannot deposit in this way the customs receipts or any money that has actually been placed in the treasury. The Aldrich bill pro- vides that any moneys may be de- posted in the national banks at the discretion of the secretary of the treasury, he to take as security against such deposits state, county, municipal or railroad bonds of known and established market value. The banks are to pay interest on such de- posits, and 1t is believed about two million dollars year cen be earned to the government in this way.
 The bill is not an exceedingly ob- jectionable measure, although 1t will largely increase the power of the secretary ot the treasury, making him to a great extent the autocrat of Wall street and all other speculative markets. The pet banks who hand out fat campaign subscriptions will be favored, but while taxation remains excessive perhaps the Aldrich plan is as good as any that can be devised.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28
Lottery Ticket Case.

The Champion lottery ticket case in which a decision was rendered by the United States Supreme court last Mon day is almost revolutionary in its bear ings upon the relations of the gov ernment to the trusts. It has infinite ly broadened the power of congress over interstate commerce. When the court decided that lottery tickets were commodities in interstate traffic that could be regulated even to the point of prohibition, it swept into interstate commerce, bonds, stocks, promises to pay, and all other contractual mat ters. The court further held that the power to regulate is the power, if con gross so says, to prohibit In other words, all interstate business of what soever nature is under the lottery de. cision in the hands of congress. The states right men in the Supreme court, headed by Chief Justice Fuller, could muster but four men, while Justice Harlan and four others adopted the sweeping national sovereignty view, and rendered the decision of the court. Although the decision is another of the 5x4 sort, yet it will stand as an inter- pretation of the constitution until it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28
Washing Streets.

Having only recently located in BIT mingham. I am not a voter and there- fore take no sides In the mayoralty hsne' but I cannot keep from smiling al the industrious work of the street cleaning department" remarked a clerk last night.
 When Birmingham is suffering from dry weather the hosemen perform valu- able service on Nineteenth street by plentiful use of water, but l notice that these men work Just as hard when the rain is coming down in torrents. Nature was cleaning the street tonight in good fashion, but the stream from the hose was also being played. Great politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28
LAND IN PERRY.
From the Marion Standard.

From the Marion Standard.
 -Four hundred acres of land sold at ,ydblic outcry in Marion last Saturday Tor 's2 per acre. These lands are located in East Perry and if this is a fair sample of the worth of East Perry lands small syndicate from the suburbs Of where Pierpont Morgan lives might swoop down some time and buy out that section Tor what he pays out for days cruise on his special yacht If people who have little surplus cash could sometimes know of some real land bargains that go under the hammer in this section they would frown upon the laborious work to cut coupons. But these days are numbered, and the time limited when so good pick ings go cheap on account of the general public not knowing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28
NAVAL STATIONS.

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
 officers of the navy who have seen much service in the West Indies, al- though disappointed that the United States did not acquire the sites for four naval stations in Cuba as was the ori- ginal proposition. feel gratified that two such desirable sites as Guantanamo and Bahia Honda have been agreed to. Guam tanamo, which is about fifty miles east of Santiago, on the southern coast, has a strategic importance that was appre- ciated when the battalion of marines, under Lieutenant Colonel Huntington, landed there early in the war with Spain, in 1898, following the arrival of the Uni- ted States navy fleet off Santiago. Its harbor is large and deep, and 1t is so nearly landlocked that 1t would seem to be q good base for naval operations, either offensive or defensive. The Bahia Honda site is between forty and fifty miles from Havana. on the northwest coast, and is also we'll adapted to naval purposes having deep water and fine natural defenses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28
LETTERS TO EDITOR.
The Amended Bill.
dltor nf the Age-IIerald

To the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 Upon my return this morning from the superintendents' meeting at Cincinnati. my attention was called to the editorials in your issues of Tuesday and.Thursday. In these editorials you have done great injustice to MT Ullman and myself by your failure to quote correctly that section of the amended Johnston bill which relates to supplement tary books. The part of the amended section to which l allude reads as follows: Provided, that nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the use of supplementary books, such as may be prescribed and selected by the textbook commission, but such supplementary books shall not be used to the exclusion of the books prescribed or adopted under the provisions of this act" In the section as quoted in the Age-Herald, the clause, such as may be prescribed and selected by the textbook commission" Is omitted. This is the clause which robs the schools of the right to use supplementary books of their own selection, and which was avowedly inserted for that purpose.
 Your error no doubt is due to your read ing from the original bill instead of the amended bill. Inasmuch as you have charged MT. Ullman and myself with ig- norance of the provisions of the bill. and, in defense of your charge, have incor- rectly cited the amended section, l am sure that the spirit of justice and fair dealing will prompt you to publish this brief communication. By giving this cor rection the same publicity that you gave the error. through which you have mad vertently misrepresented our statements, your readers may better understand our position. Respectfully
 J. H. PHILLIPS. Rirmingham. February 27. 1903.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28
The Milwaukee Party.

''It don't seem to me that enough was made of the coming of the Milwaukee party to Birmingham. said a corpora tion official
 "It is not often that 1O7 people in a special train from a single city spend day in Birmingham, and when such an event does take place it offers rare op- portunity to put our best foot forward and create a good impression.
 That party from Milwaukee included practically all the city officials and a great many prominent men from the Cream City If more attention had been shown them, it would have been of in- calculable value to Birmingham.
 Some special cars should have been chartered to take them over the city and to the suburbs, and some sort of re- ception at the city hall would not have been out of place."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28
 A PHILANTHROPIC TRUST.
A Scheme That May Aid In the SoIu-
 ton of the Charity Problam

From the Philadelphia Record.
 The native benevolence of the people of this country, and especially of people of diate relief of every case of pressing need among that rather vague element describ- ed as ''the deserving poor" The difficulty is to bring together the benevolent and the suffering and avoid the danger of fraud. People are so constantly and with so much reason warned against the indis- criminate and personal giving that they regard themselves almost as criminals when they let their generous impulses pre- call. They give surreptitiously and has, tily, and slink around the first corner as though pursued by agents of the organ ized charities. They are conscious of moral weakness. There are others who of demoralizing the poor by charity makes them satisfied with their neglect to give In any way.
 While it is conceded that organized charity with its agencies for investiga- ton, is necessary to prevent the pauper- ization of the industrious who may be un- fortunate and to protect the charitable against fraud. still there Is a feeling, if not a distinct belief, that the established systems tend to become too cynical and hard-hearted; that the agents seek not for the deserving. but for the fraudulent Perhaps 1t Is inevitable that persons whose business is to determine whether applicants are deserving or unworthy should come at last to have a prejudice against every applicant and to be more exacting than the generous givers ever meant that they should be.
 In view of the feeling that there Is more suffering than the people would tol- crate if they could know the facts, the scheme for a s10, O00000 charity trust, to be known as the Philanthropic Trust com- pany, may meet with popular favor. The brief account of the enterprise which has been given to the public does not tell what the scope of the charity will be nor whether 1t is designed to help individ- uals or organized charities. However, the plan involves the employment of agents who will be instructed to find de- serving, rather than unworthy, objects of charity. The directors are to be 100 in number all men of millions. who have proved their business sagacity and who are ready to give to any cause which will benefit humanity. It Is certain that the charity problem has not been satis- factorily solved but this scheme may go far toward that end
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28
On Monday Next.

If $500 voters go to the polls on Mon
 day with the welfare of the city at
 heart George B. Ward will be nomi-
 mated for mayor. All The Age-Herald
 asks is that every man will thought
 fully consider the situation and act
 up to his intelligence and his con science. This will nominate MT. ward. No one believes that MT. Ward would or could build a machine, pledged as he Is against a third term. He may not even seek a second term. He certainly will not if he can accom- plish In one term the good to the city he has in view. But how is it with Mayor Drennen? He Is a rich man; he has already been mayor four years; he is full of political ambition-will he not consolidate and perfect machine until the mass of the people lose their legitimate and rightful power? Has he not already done so? Does he not expect his machine to renominate him on Monday next? and if he does will he not prepare for similar action two years hence? If the people like the prospect and the methods employed they will vote for Mayor Drennen on Monday, but if they desire control of the city and it's affairs to remain in their own hands they will vote for George B. Ward
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28
From the Bangor News.

rivih lHe bdnBor NeWs
 N GAIN the so-called leaders of so-
 PH ciety are asking congress to pass
 an act which shall permit our foreign ambassadors to wear regalia and hashy uniforms while they are in attend ance upon official court functions. This request is made in apparent seriousness and is seconded by persons who have hitherto been credited with having fair amount of good sense. Yet we believe yes, we know that the American public will never consent to such disgraceful spectacle as it would be to have an Amer ican citizen decorate himself in the an- cient and showy toggery of European. diplomats just because he Is for the time being holding down an official po- sition as a representative of the United States. The ordinary evening suit is good enough for anybody. To be sure it has been donned by the walters in our first class hotels. and stranger cannot dis tinguish the guests from the men who carry the plates until the former are seat ed; but in spite of this serious drawback the dress suit Is the great leveler, and thu. poor man who wears one in this country Is honored and distinguished just as much as the millionaire who sits at his elbow.
 Less than a decade ago Elbridge Gerry, millionaire and snob of New York city, who chanced to be commodore of the New York yacht club at that time, went to Europe on one of the great ocean liners, and so proud was he of his office that he wore his commodore uniform all the way across. For the next month the papers on both sides of the Atlantic devoted great space to making fun of the turkey gobbler commodore. He was shown up in the illustrated weeklies, and made to serve as a spice for hundreds of stately dinners In the end he was so pestered by the jokers that he had to come home and go into hiding until the talk subsidized Yet Commodore Gerry did no more than what he had right to do as a private citizen. He was really and truly a com modore, and as such had a right to wear the uniform. Of course, his act was in every way foolish and in bad form, but so long as he devoted his time and money to making a fool of himself, nobody could complain. But it Is very different thing with man who Is one of the ambassadors
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28
MAINE VIEW OF COURT
 DRESS AND FLUNKEYISM

who represents our nation at a foreign court In such a place the occupant Is no longer a private citizen His acts should be guarded. because he Is the official fig urehead of his nation, and as such must be above criticism. For the above reason this government has very wisely decreed that our representatives must not wear decorations of any kind but must confine their garments to the simplest form of unostentation that good sense can sug- gest During the queens diamond jubi- lee in 1897 our special ambassador, White law Reid of New York, was permitted to wear knee brooches and long silk stock ings but we believe he was the only ex- ception that has ever been made, and we hope it will be long time before another American official tries to initiate him.
 On several occasions we have been pres ent when the diplomats from other na- tions have been received by the President at the White House, and the way those funetionaries dressed up and swelled around was a spectacle for gods and men. We cannot compare 1t to anything except a scene from comic opera. And the most ludicrous part Of the programme was that the men who came from the smallest nations, who represented the countries of the least importance, dressed louder and made a more srotesque ap- pearance than those who stood for the great powers. The little chap from Siam looked like a Maine scarecrow dressed in yellow and green satin. The minister from Chill was a drum major in a band of colored musicians, and the chap who stood for Hawaii might have stood for the photograph of King Solomon at the time he received the Queen of Sheba. The whole show was very laughable.
 As the case stands today our foreign ambassadors at the important posts are accompanied by a military and a naval attache, who can go to receptions and functions in full uniform, and that should satisfy the cravings of the most exacting. Surely the ambassador at foreign court who marches down the long corridors with a military colonel on one side and a naval captain on the other is distin- guished enough without having to clothe his own person in garments such as were worn by pirates of the sixteenth century. Let us, first of all, be sensible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28
BOOKS FOR WHICH THERE
 IS THE GREATEST DEMAND

the hearts of the people. The higher criticism has not yet dssipated the old reverence for the Bible It still remains the one book of books in the popular es- timation of Protestanism But now that science with theological assent and as- slstance, has come in to subject its claims to supernaturalsm to the test of natural analysis, there has begun a gradual de- cline in veneration for the Scriptures which seems likely to proceed to the ex- tent of producing a momentous religious revolution. The discovery by the Federal tion of Churches of more than 300, GOO peo- pie in New York whom 1t classifies as 'lapsed Protestants," or without any sort of religious attachment, is signif- cant. In London, too, only one in five of the population goes to church. even count ing the attendance at both the morning and evening services on Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28
FAIR HELEN.

Author unknown. l wish I were where Helen lies Night and day to me she cries; Oh, that I were where Helen lies,
 On fair Kirconnell lea! Curst be the heart that thought the
 thought, When in my arms burd Helen dropt,
 And died to succor me! Oh, think ma but my heart was sair, When my love dropt down and spake ns
 mair, I laid her down wi meikle care,
 On fair Kirconnell lea. As I went down the water-side, None but my foe to be my guide None but my foe to be my guide.
 On fair Kirconnell lea I lighted down my sword to draw; l hacked him in pieces sma'- I hacked him in pieces sma.,
 For her sake that died for me. o Helen fair, beyond compare. I'll make garland of me hair; Shall bind my heart for evermair,
 Until the day die! Oh, that I were where Helen liesl Night and day on me she cr:es: Out of my bed she bids me rise
 Says, Haste and come to moi; O Helen fair. O Helen chaste. If I were with thee I were piesr, Where thou Hest low and takes thy res.
 On fair Kirconnell lea. wish my grave were growing green, A winding-sheet drawn over my cen. And I in Helens arms lying,
 On fair Kirconnell lea. I wish I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries: And I am weary of the skies.
 Since my love died for me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
Arnold in Mexico.

T understand E. J. Arnold has gone to Mexico" said a get-rich-quiek victim yes terday
 He is going to form a company do"n there similar to the one in the United States. except that he is going to ~ih tlls money to pay dividends by betting on DUH fights. He thinks he can pay per cent a week easily. If he starts up and pays the dividends all right for three or four weeks I'll bet he will find plenty of s1ckers.
 When old P. T. Barnum said that 1he American people love to be numouEs n he should have added and everybody else.' "