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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
CHARLES DANA GIBSON
 TYPES ARE DISCUSSED

they succeeded? We are afraid to be im- polite, but this is an age of tall girls and little men. There Is only a certain amount of matter in the world. It Is impossible to Gibsonize both sexes. There isn't ample room and verge enough. As the girls grow tall the boys must grow short; and he of 5 foot must seek her of foot 5.
 Still, it is said, with some face of plaus- ibility, that the way to be beautiful is to surround yourself with beautiful ,oh- jects. Aesthetics may be one of the strongest of prenatal influences. Sur rounded by pictures of Gibsonian god- desses and gods. how can the race help growing strong and beautiful? But we mustn't expect too much of the men. For centuries millions of volts of masculine energy have been given to the cultiva- ton of whiskers. The problem of the dis placement and encouragement of labor is always difficult and the aspiring Gib- sonian youth has a severe task. For not only do force, matter and science fight, against him, but he has to swim against the stream of tendency Mere man dwindles toward disappearance. He may be kept as a curiosity, dwarf at the court of the future sovereigns of the world, Gibsonians, six-footers, ten-foot- CTS, perhaps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
About Persons.

Dr. Lewis Coleman Morris will leave for Salisbury, N. C., today and after spending a few days with relatives there and few days with relatives in Virginia he will proceed to New York, whence he will sail July 1 on the Oceanic for Europe. He will be gone two months. and 1t is his pur- pose to spend his time while abroad in studying special branches of surgery and gynecology.
 pr. Walter L. Nichols and John G.. Adams leave for Baltimore this morning to be gone about two weeks.
 G. H. Copeland of Mexico City Is stop ping at the Metropolitan.
 w A. Davis of Anniston is registered at the Morris
 James w. Carney of Chattanooga is stopping at the St. Nicholas.
 II. J. willngham of Wetumplka is at the Hillman.
 A. II. Rutherford of Tuskegee is regis tered at the Metropolitan.
 J. Craig Smith of Montgomery is stop ping at the Morris.
 W. B. Roberts of Washington is at the Hilman.
 T. c. Lupton of Lynchburg Is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 
 F. T. Nesbit of Florence is registered at the Morris.
 Daniel Harmon of Sheffield is at the Hillman.
 William Luigart of Nashville is stopping at the Morris.
 Vice President w. J. Murphy of the Queen and Crescent passed through Bir- mingham yesterday on his way from Gin cinnati to Montgomery.
 J. c. Maben and Mrs. Maben landed in New York frcm Europe Sunday. MT. Maben is expected in Birmingham within the next few days
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
Socialism in Germany.

Today the German people will elect new parliament, and a deep interest Is taken In the election because of the important questions involved, notably socialism. There are other questions at stake, however, such as the tariff for the benefit of the rich landlords, the demand for a larger army and navy, the revision of the civil code, and the perennial Catholic-innuence question. All of these are, however, sunk in the efforts of the agrarians and social democrats ito extend each it's strength and gain additional repre- sentation in the reichstag.
 The emperor declares at every op- portunity that "every social democrat is synonymous with enemy of the na- ton and the Fatherland," but such declarations seem to serve to increase the socialist vote, which, 1t Is freely confessed, will be considerably higher than 1t ever has been in the history of the empire, or even of the German people. "The party of subversion" hopes to increase it's membership from 58, the number in the last parliament to 100, thereby giving it the balance of power in any contest. It stands for woman suffrage, and 1t demands the separation of the church and the school. It is opposed to officialism, militarism and class privilege. It is well led, and none of its plans are crude or anarchistic. It Is revolutionary, but it is to be a revolution of ideas and peace methods if it come at all.
 The last reichstag consisted of 5S social democrats, 105 clericals, 72 con servatives, 51 national liberals, P Borth liberals, and S1 representatives of small factions The number of par l ties operates to lessen the friction somewhat, save where all others are combined against the social democrats The latters strength lies largely in the cities, and the present apportion- ment is very unjust, and this injustice may keep the socialist strength down to seventy-five seats On the other hand the extreme liberals and the social democrats may gain control, and they are essentially alike. In the lat ter event very interesting contest would at once arise between the reich stag and the emperor, and Germany would have more politics to the acre than any other country. A clear con trol of the reichstag is 197 members, and if the social democrats can elect 100 members, the democracy of Ger many will practically be in the saddle
 On account of the unjust electoral laws the best test of sentiment will be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 C ONE admirer of the Titanic NN woman whom MT. Charles Dana " Gibson invented and whom that artist continues frequently to portray has put his heart Into personal advertise ment. He longs to meet, woo and wed woman "of the Gibsonian type" If there is anything in the law of contrast ana the attraction of opposites, this hunter Of eiantesses is the unusually candid man who confesses In another personal ad- vertisement that he Is feet D. The psychology of plants Is imperfectly under stood, but we are safe in saying that the dwarf pear tree dotes on the elm. Strange as 1t sounds, folks are often less tainted with self-admiration than they look. We knew a female Living Skeleton who ai- ways carried with her a print of the Hon. Daniel Lambert.
 We all know and venerate MT. Gibson's massive creation, a cathedral-like lady, with a cervical region of extraordinary reach Atlantean shoulders, calm, unfail- ing eyes, the natural superiority of her inches She is a cedar of Lebanon, a tower of Babel, a monument of perpen- dicular Gothic and early Saxon. Archi- tects interested In problems of mass and support, have made strange calculations as to the necessary size of her shoes, the pedestals of so heroic a statue. But math- ematics shall not bother. The Gibsonian girl Is grand; also a trihe gloomy and peculiar: the Lead of the colossal statuesque school With her and M. Bartholdrs library before their eyes. the young women of the United States know what is expected of them in the matter of cubits. and they are doing their duty. Were there ever in any other age so many tall girls? The young ladies admire MT. Gibson and they are paying a great and gracious compliment to his art. ''Gib- sonian types abound; girls healthy, stall wart, graceful. Diana and Camilla.
 | Out of the depths of his imagination or from an illustrious but unique model. Mir. Gibson has constructed a companion I giant for his giantess; divinely tall and beautifully proportioned youth. a com posite of Hercules. Phoebus, Apollo and the beau ideal of footmen; grandiose and godlike younker; matchless and mustacheless. whisker1ess. Most of the young men have banished the mustache, once tender dream and hope. They | would be of the 'Gibsonian type" Have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
A Man of Letters.

"Ex-Ambassador Andrew D. White has just sent to a magazine the first part of a manuscript upon which he has long been engaged. consisting of "reminiscences of his diplomatic life" said literary man.
 The present part covers his recollec- tlons of Beaconsheld, Emperor William l
 and Frederick Bismarck. Browning and other famous European statesmen and writers. Further papers will include recollections of his recent embassy to Berlin. Dr. White. who is a graduate of the famous Yale class of '53, has filled many diplomatic positions. beginning with an attacheship of the United States lega- tion at St. Petersburg when he was a very young man. He is one of the ablest men of letters that this country has pro- duced, and he has perhaps no equal In the field of historico- diplomatic writing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
BANK EXAMINATIONS.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 The failure of the Bessemer Savings bank should teach the Alabama law-mak- CTS the necessity for a law to protect de- positors in state banks. It would not have been possible for President Cornwall to have footed national bank unless all the officials were willing. His state bank was robbed and the doors closed
 It will be a long while before another bank in Alabama will be placed in such a plight. The people are watching their deposits closer each year, and such care less bankers as Mir. Cornwall teaches them the necessity for extra vigilance
 The punishment for misappropriation of funds deposited for safe keeping is en- tirely too mild. Twenty years would be none too long to keep a man in prison for wrecking the business interests of an entire city. yet the chances are that five years is the longest sentence the court would Impose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
Rail Orders Next Yegr.

The Hagaiman combine has placed an order tor 100000 tons of steel rails at BPS alton to be delivered in 1904 for use on Il te various roads controlled by the great system west of the Missis- sippi. These rails will be used chiefly on the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific railroads. It is believed that the New York Central and the Penn sylvania railroads will also soon place orders with the steel trust for rails to be used next year.
 The Hartman order, it will be no. ticed, was placed on the basis of cur rent prices, namely, BPS a ton, at the mill in or near Pittsburg. As about 45 per cent of the steel production of the country is absorbed by the rail roads, 1t is plain that the outlook for well-sustained steel and iron prices next year is promising. If the rail roads are satisfied with present prices, it is evident other consumers will have to accept them.
 The truth is, If to the large wheat crop, now pretty wei assured, be added large cotton and corn crops, the prices of iron and steel will not he ma, terially lessened either this year or the next. Nothing short of crop failures
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
Popular College.

"St. Bernard college in Cullman county completes it's tenth year this week, said an old educator. Tt had struggle to get a start but 1t is now one of the most popu- lar institutions of learning in the south. Its capacity Is limited to 125 students and from all accounts it's capacity will be reached next year.
 while the discipline at St. Bernard Is strict, the boys are so kindly treated that they become greatly attached to the in stitution.
 Birmingham has thirty-two boys at St. Bernard this year and of the 125 that will be on its rolls next session Birmingham will pass the forty mark"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
Canal Matters at Booota.

The Colombian congress is to meet next Saturday, and it has under the terms of the treaty until September In which to reject or to ratify it. Presi- dent Marroqui. man about 80 years old, favors the ratification of the treaty, but some of his cabinet do not, and there is much opposition to it in both branches of congress, and ma jority vote in each body must be se- cured in each body in order to ratify the canal project. Ratification is more than doubtful.
 The entire Hanna or Panama plan seems doomed to failure. None of MT. Hanna's assurances have held good, and his prediction that Colombia would jump at a chance to ratify canal treaty is not a bit promising at pres ent. He has in fact led great people into disgraceful hold-up.
 Nor is any trust or dependence to be placed in the rumor that, in the event of the rejection of the treaty, the provinces of Panama and Cauca would secede, and proceed to organize an independent republic. Cauca can not afford to secede. It is not an isthmian state, and Panama, possessing but 100000 people out of 100000, would not be permitted to secede, car rying of the fat prize of the entire re public. If in order to gain 8 right of way at Panama we must set up in violation of all international law and all decency a new republic, the Hanna Spooner programme will work out it's logical results. It Is either that or much rottenness and bribery at Bo- gota. As things stand at present 1t is plain the members of the Colombian congress are simply waiting to be bribed They are built that way, and affairs in Colombia have long been conducted on that basis.
 The government of the United States may as well get ready to accept the other alternative of the canal bill. It is empowered to build canal on the Nicaragua route if for any reason 1t cannot procure a concession from Co lombia.
 There is no need of waiting for the secession of Cauca and Panama. Cauca IS a large province extending all the way from the isthmus to Ecuador a-ong the Pacific, and including some harbors on the caribbean sea. There are no sovereign states in Colombia. They are provinces, and their govern ors are appointed by the general gov ernment. There is therefore no right of secession. It must be, if 1t occur at all, a matter of force, and Cauca a d Panama hold together but 906,000 people out of 100000. There is no e,idence that Cauca would in any event secede, and Panama cannot.
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can materially reduce such prices this side of 1905.
 L is now believed that the shortage of rails this year will be fully 300, 900 tons, and this must be made good. together with next years consumption. All rail mills of the steel trust are running on full time, but they cannot fill their orders, and while such state of things continues it is impossible tlat prices of steel oS of pig iron will go much lower.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press. One only has to know a man very we'll not to be intimate with him.
 Yellow hair has fooled many a man; 1t never yet caught one, If women only knew 1t.
 Where the man who stokes the furnace in winter gets even is when the family grinds the ice cream freezer in summer.
 The man who knows all about ditch digging is tickled to death when some body asks him his opinion about the the ory of the Gulf Stream.
 If there wasn't anybody else on the face of the eal a. woman would refuse to get up on stepiadder if she had on an old pair of ded stockings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
THE CITY OF BELGRADE.
Has Wide Streets and They Are Gen
 orally Dirty.

From the Philadelphia Press
 The city of Belgrade, in which the as- sassInations took place, is the capital of Servia. It lies upon a narrow elevated peninsula, between the rivers Save and Danube. The streets are wide, and the place is generally dirty. The buildings are mostly of the Austrian style of archi- lecture, except in the older part of the city. which was built during the domi- nation of the Turks. The royal palace, where the murders of the king and queen took place, is in the center of the city. The building is in two parts, and Is dis connected. One part resembles French chateau. and looks like a comfortable home. It is two stories in height. The lower floor is devoted to dining and recep- tion rooms, while the upper floor contains the living apartments. The other section Is across an areaway of about forty feet, and is a more pretentious structure It Is known as the New Konak As de- scribed by William F. Curtis, in his book, "The Turk and His Lost Provinces" the exterior, as we'll as the interior, is very pretentious, being of succeed brick with elaborate holdings. four stories high, and painted yellow, like nearly all the gov ernment buildings and business blocks. Within a series of magnificent apart ments equal to those in the palaces at Berlin and Vienna, designed by a French architect and finished with tapestries and gliding at a cost that was enormous for the size and wealth of the country.
 At the extreme point of the peninsula at the junction of the Save and Danube, is promontory, rising between 300 and 400 feet, with sheer cliffs at both sides. Here fortress was erected by the Ro- mans before the time of Christ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
German-AmerIcans.

"Germania park, on the Powderly line is the scene of ideal German social gath erlng on Sunday afternoons" said a citi- zen. There was a large turnout last Sunday. It was at this local park, Just as 1t Is in Germany-an abundance of beer and good fellowship and sobriety The Germans are always temperate. Tn this respect they are models, and I some times wonder why men of other nationals ties cannot initiate them in this re spect"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
PACK CLOUDS AWAY.

Pack clouds away, and welcome oay' With night we banish sorrow; Sweet air, blow soft, mount, larK' aioi1 To give my love good morrow Wings from the wind to please her mino' Notes from the lark I'll borrow; Bird, prune thy wing; nightingale sins To give my love good morrow.
 To give my love good morrow Notes from them all I'll borrow. Wake from thy nest, robin redbreast'
 Sing. birds, in every furrow; And from each hill let music shrill
 Give my fair love good morrow. Blackbird and thrush in every bush,
 Stare, linnet and cock sparrow. You pretty elves, amongst yourselves,
 Sing my fair love good morrow.
 To give my love good morrow. Sing. birds. in every furroW.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Vocal Artist.

One of the finest concerts ever given in Birmingham was that at the Bijou last Thursday night under Miss Goeke1s direction for the benefit of the Salvation Army, and it was greatly regretted that the audience was so small, said a music lover.
 Mrs. Bennett Griffin of Montgomery. a great vocal artist, was on the pro- gramme, and no one who appreciates music should have missed hearing her. Mrs. Griffin has a clear, strong soprano voice and her method is thoroughly ar tistlc. She has toured with the Thomas orchestra and has national reputation of high rank I am glad to learn that Mrs. Griffin will locate in Birmingham next fall. She will certainly be an ac- qusition to our musical circles"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
Bessemer's Prosperity.

'The fact that national bank has been started in Bessemer a few days after the collapse of Corn wells Savings bank, and the fur ther fact that the Bessemer Trust and Savings bank recently established, there is piling up deposits rapidly, are among the many evidences of Bessemer's solid position in the business world" remarked a financier.
 Many cities of Bessemer's size would have been thrown back for months, if not years, by the footing of a bank, but Bessemer is too thrifty and and progress sive to stop in It's onward march"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
THE SOUTHERN PRESS.

Nashville American: If Servia's new king Is to figure in the dispatches to any great extent he should change his name. Karageorgevitch might spring leak in the cables.
 Meridian Press: Governor Jelks of Ala bama has offered $500 reward for T. J. Cornwall. the defaulting Bessemer bank president. If Cornwall has one-hah of the $2s0O00 he embedded he will outrun Jelks reward.
 Florida Times Union: Mir. Hannas seat in the band wagon may-as one of our esteemed contemporaries recently pointed out-he somewhat eramped, but the hoops on his barrel may be depended on to loosen up all right at the proper time.
 Macon Telegraph Amherst college has conferred the degree of LID. upon Chen tung, the new Chinese minister to this country. He does not seem to have as much tongue as MT. Wu, but we presume he can advertise the college some, never theless.
 1HdlLdUDOBd llibcS+ ~ Ao 5hB6NoNN that Deacon Baer would make a splendid interstate commerce commissioner. He would at least be able to take judicial knowledge of a large number of things the present commission finds great diffi- culty in learning.
 Galveston News: Russia at least knows just what molds public opinion in this country. She does not go to members of congress to make speeches to place her as she would be placed before the Ameri- can people, but thinks of establishing newspapers In this country to do the work.
 Memphis News: Andrew Carnegie, by his proposition to erect the new library building at Stratford- d-on-Avon, is per- haps trying to form some sort of connec- ton between his name and that of Shake speare. The Bacon controversy probably inspires in him the hope that after few hundred years the cipher fiends will en- deavor to demonstrate that the man who built the library wrote Shakespeare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
He Was Rejected.

From the Yale Record.
 May I have your hand?' he whispered. in low, anxious tones.
 Which words nearly cost him his life, they being overheard by the man who had opened the jackpot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
Good Prospects.

From Judge.
 How attentive MT. Tattler is to Miss Millyuns! Do they get along we'll to- gether?'
 Nobody knows"
 Well. that's encouraging"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
In the Cyclone Belt.
-he plttshnre Gazette.

From the Plttsburg Gazette.
 The postoffice at Carmen, Ark, was de- stroyed by a cyclone the other day The postoffice at Washington, D. C. Is also in something of a cyclone bolt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

found in the footings of the vote. in 1898 the social democrats cast 2,1O7- 100 votes out of total of 7,752OOO, or 2718 per cent. What percentage of the vote will be cast bz them today?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

Premier Balfour saved himself and his cabinet very much as the Hon. Mark Hanna saved his senatorship- he lay down and let the enemy walk over him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

Hettie Green in an automobile armed with a revolver is a terror, as well as evidence that the world do move.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

Governor Pennypacker has cut off the service of his clipping bureau. It's matter was too one-sided to suit him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

King Peter waded through cowardly slaughter to a throne, and if history repeats itself he will wade out of it in like manner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

Richard Harding Davis failed to re- ceive the invitation to the emeute in the Balkans at Belgrade. Strange to say, 1t was pulled off without him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

The monitor Arkansas is at New Orleans, where there is water enough, such as it is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

Breathitt county, Kentucky, does not propose to let Servia monopolize the horror branch of the public business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

If it is to be Roosevelt and Beyer- idge," there will be twice 265 speeches on tour, and not much will be said at that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

Indiana has too many historical nov elists and whitecappers, and it is diff ficult to say which is the worse of the tWn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

During the cold snap in Chicago the watermelons looked colder than any thing elsc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

Servia's new minister of the interior is Stojan Protics. He is no more euphonious than the one who was shot out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

President Roosevelt delivered q speech in the far west for every meal he ate. One meal one speech, and so on in each town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

Joe Chamberlain did not let recent tariff occurrences jar his monocle out of place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

Study Servia and beware of large standing armies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

Yurrup can no longer point the finger of scorn at the South American re- puplics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

Chicago indignantly denies that it had a snowstorm last week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

King Peter says he did not do it, but he takes the net result just the same.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

The crowned heads are lying very uneasy nowadays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16

President Baer Is presenting his divine right in broken doses.