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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-12
ALABAMA

The Troy Messenger says
 According to John T. German, state ex- | aminer of public accounts, Bullock coun-
 ty has most capable officials. A report | submitted yesterday to Governor Jelks by MT. German on the result of his ln- vestigation, shows that the officials of that county have made few errors. Nearly all the Alabama members of congress are now in Washington where they are taking part in the first sessions of congress Alabama's representatives are being well placed on the committees and the state may expect to hear from their labors. Of course Senator Morgan
 and Senator Pettus will keep up their
 brilliant records in the upper house.
 Among many papers saying nice things
 about MT. German is the Montgomery Journal, whose latest expression con- corning the senator is as follows: The country will have it's eyes on Hearst In the house and German in the senate. The country will watch with interest their course and the strength they develop. Hearst is sure to grow In public estima- ton. German has already grown to man.
 moth proportions.
 The first issue of Folly" a new so-
 ciety paper to be gotten out by Birmng-
 ham talent. seems to be awaited with
 much interest over the state. Comment
 ing on this publication the Huntsville
 Weekly Democrat says:
 Mrs. A. T. Henley and Miss Elizabeth
 Shelley of Birmingham will issue the
 first edition of their society paper Fol ly,' on November 21. They will shoot folly as 1t flies in Birmingham society
 with their shafts of wit, humor and req
 son. The entire state is on tiptoe of eager expectation In the social circles for
 the first number. Two brighter intel lects to steer ''Folly's" course, could not | be found. Success to then.
 | Evidently debts and delinquent subscri- | bers were far from the thoughts of the editorial genius of the Huntsville Tribune | as he walked down to "our office" the other morning. for he delivers himself of the following poetic effusion: As we | trudged along to our office this morning | our pathway was strewn with leaves-the l same leaves which few days ago, made | the trees so beautiful with their rich ver~ l dure.
 l The foliage has turned from ruddy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-12

The elevators are full, and the rail roads are gorged, and yet wheat is rotting on the ground in Kansas. This is what ails Kansas.
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party will be solid for Roosevelt. In re- gard to the Seventh congressional district a strong candidate will be placed in the field to contest with the nominee of the demcratic party"
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"Jef."

'I lost five dollars Jeffing last night" said a printer. What, you do not know anything about Jeff? Why 1t is as old as the art of printing itself and no man knows just when 1t did come into favor Far back in the past some fellow was impressed with the possibilities of the quad as an instrument for gambling. Since that time Jeff has been a feature of all newspaper offices and wherever there Is type to set. Jeff Is played very much like dice, but is much more inter- esting and the chances of wining a good stake at one shot are greater.~
 Seven quads are used in the game. Any number of persons can play, and each throws the quads in turn, just as we do dice. You probably know that on one side of quad is a little groove which we call a nick The man who turns up the greatest number of hicks at throw takes the pot, while every other man who puts up his money loses the stake is well worth winning When every player puts fifty cents into the pot and there are six or seven to throw, the stake Is well worth winnig. When throw is made without turning up a single hicks that's a 'mollie.' A 'molie is a blank and counts for nothing, unless one can throw three mollies in succession.
 that case he takes the pot but it is almost impossible to do the trick. Cock ed auads are also possible, as with dice. If three players tie their throws they stay in while the remainder of the crowd sweeten up the pot It Is sell dom that more than five or six points are made, although I have heard of cases where players made as high as twenty points.
 Jeff is very exciting game but as I said before, it's origin Is something of a mystery. It is generally supposed that it was first started in the days be- fore typesetting machines came into use, by printers throwing quads to determine who would get pick up,' which would count on their strings and would not have to be set. The game is familiar to the printing fraternity everywhere and some warm bouts have been played. The only trouble about Jeff is the fact that the hands of a players when he has finished looks like those of the proverbial printers devil.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-12

MT. Carnegie pays taxes and may die poor. The other millionaires are tax shirkers, and they will die disgraced.
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Canada should not assail us while we are engaged in installing the re- public of Panama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-12

The Congressional Record. that all. around family paper, will soon be in our midst again.
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The Montana legislature is about to meet to upset it's own courts.
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The steel trust may yet sell it's wares as cheaply to home consumers as to foreign buyers.
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Panama understands how to conduct a lightning change in government and make it stick.
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There must be still another canal treaty, and another ratification, and perhaps another ruction.
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If Uncle Sam does not annex Pan anna it will be because he still has a conscience
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"Gorman and Black" seems to be the running ticket next year General Black is an Illinois man who is popular among the federal soldiers of the civil war
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IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Interest in Horses.

Jack Flynn, one of the managers of Dan Patch, :5sz. was talking last night about Birmingham as a horse town, and the re- cord Dan made Tuesday afternoon on the Birmingham track He said:
 We all like Birmingham and have been treated fine here, but of course were disappointed in the crowds. What the city needs Is pool selling and a big horse show next spring. With these two things this would be the best horse city in the south. I don't mean the lower class of horsemen, but gentlemen owners who would race their horses merely for the sport.
 There are two hundred men in Birming- ham who would with little encouragement make arrangements to bring the greatest horses of the country here. and make this a regular part of the racing circuits, but they are hampered all the time. These men are the very best in Birmingham. and all are prominent business men.
 'The horse show last year did wonders and another good one this spring in a coliseum will do many times as much. Have one by all means and have 1t in doors
 "In speaking of the horsemen and the matter of getting horses here, Robert Flies had a great deal to do with getting Dan Patch to this city, and the people should appreciate his efforts He did 1t merely to arouse interest in horses in Birmingham. He came to Memphis to get the horse. He and a number of his friends have been most kind to us here, and we certainly appreciate it. We hope to come to Birmingham some day soon to a big race meet where the best blood of the country will contest,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-12

The tip has gone out to buy Steel common, but there is no guarantee that the cellar has been reached.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-12

The Panama hat will not be affected by the impromptu revolution in its habitat.
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If Panama were an island we would surely annex 1t.
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The road to the digging of an isth- milan canal is devious and long.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-12

Senator Morgan says he will have something to say about the canal ques- tion during the coming winter" The senator no doubt understands that dur ing" means from start to finish
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The November meteors are nearly due, and front seats should be engaged at once.
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Joe Cannon is now engaged in hold ing down his esteemed colleagues.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-12

Senator Morgan says that, having pro noted the revolution in Panama, we will have to go a step farther in the ugly bus mess and annex the little state. That seems to be the logic of the situation. It Is absurd that the new republic should operate on it's own account. It was crea- ted only for the purpose of selling the canal franchise to the United States and we had just as well buy the whole out fit while we are about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-12

The one report needed from Wash ington is the Bristow report.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-12

There Is much discussion over in Lon don just now concerning the proper headdress Tor ladies to wear in theatres. Since the agitation against big hats has been started the fair sex has been much perturbed over an allegation made by a woman writer who claims that ninety
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-12
SENATOR MORGAN.

Natchez Daily Democrat: Now comes the report that Senator Morgan of Ala bama Is In favor of annexing Panama. If we do the senator will drop Nicaragua and go in for the Panama canal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-12

Steel common should try to over- come the new record habit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-12

The shipbui1ding trust WAS based on financial hypnotism. The capitalist had ceased to be either cautious or sane, and gold bricks were freely dealt out to him.
 The Lily Whites of Alabama may send a contesting Hanna delegation to their national convention. but this con vention itself will turn them into mere spectators.
 
 "Gorman and Black" seems to be the running ticket next year. General Black is an Illinois man who is popular among the federal soldiers of the civil war.
 MT. Carnegie pays taxes and may die poor. The other millionaires are tax shirkers, and they will die disgraced.
 
 The tip has gone out to buy Steel common, but there is no guarantee that the cellar has been reached.
 
 There must be still another canal treaty, and another ratification, and perhaps another ruction. |
 The steel trust may yet sell it's wares as cheaply to home consumers as to foreign buyers.
  ! Canada should not assail us while we are engaged in installing the re- public of Panama
 ---..---- The Congressional Record, that all. around family paper, will soon be in our midst again.
 Panama understands how to conduct lightning change in government and make it stick.
 If Uncle Sam does not annex Pan anna it will be because he still has a conscience.
 The November meteors are nearly due, and front seats should be engaged at once.
 The Panama hat will not be affected by the impromptu revolution in it's habitat.
 --s-- Joe Cannon is now engaged in hold ing down his esteemed colleagues. The road to the digging of an isth- milan canal is devious and long. The Montana legislature is about to meet to upset it's own courts. The one report needed from Wash ington is the Bristow report. Steel common should try to over oon,o tha pam racord hohit
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-03
COST OF THE CANAL.

. s. J.
An early beginning of the isthman
canal construction by the United
States is. generally expected. Though
the undertaking will entail large
amount of expense 1t will unquestion-
ably be worth the money. 1t has been
estimated by competent engineers that
the project will cost $1S4, 233, 56S. This
will include the purchase price of the
right and the amount expended in COM
pleting the work Of construction. The
company oganized by De Lesseps in
1880 spent s156, 100000 in work along
the Panama canal route. 1t is figured
that about 40,000,00O cubic yards of ex-
cavation done by this company can be
utilized by the United States. To COM
plete the canal it is estimated by the
United States commission that 1885,
T03 cubic yards of excavation will be
nece ssary. The plan is to make the
canal thirty-six feet deep so that the
largest vessels will be able to pass
through it safely. American opinion
is generally favorable to the project
and it is believed will greatly benefit
the commerce of the United States.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-03

preparation at one time. The sum is
not excessive, if it should be made to
cover ten year period, but there
seems to be no adequate reason why
the coming general assembly should
approve the expenditure of money that
should rightly be left to succeeding
legislatures.
1t is a natural supposition that the
legislatures of the next decade will be
as generous to state institutions as
any present or past assembly. Realiz.
ing, then, that past assemblies will be
better able to determine the needs of
state institutions for their biennial pc.
RODS, and will make provisions there
for as wisdom may direct. there will
be no need of the thirtieth general
assembly this winter anticipating
these needs. The legislature should
and probably will. be content with
making provision for state needs dur
ing only the next biennial period.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-03
FEARS ARE eRouNDLEss

The uneasiness in financial circles
caused by the anticipation of the posi-
BILE effect of the payment of S50,000,-
600 by the United States for canal
rights upon the ratification of the
treaty with Panama, seems to be
groundless. The consummation of the
treaty will call for the payment of
$40 100000 to the French company,
and $4,000, 900 to the republic of Pan.
anna The resources of the govern
ment already in hand are more than
sufficient to meet the demands of this
payment In the national treasury
there is today in round numbers $144,.
100000 of actual cash. There is
also on deposit in banks subject to de,
mand $I59.00O,O00. This makes the
available cash Of the government $685..
100000 The amount necessary TIC
meet the needs of the canal payment
can he taken from the treasury with
out having the least effect on the
money market. 1t seems improbable
that this Panama payment, which will
doubtless not have to be made for sew
eral months, will have any effect or
the United States treasury OF. the
money market
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-03
THE M,kINLEY MEMORIAL.

The executive committee of the Nc
Ninley memorial association will have
no small task in selecting design for
The monument to be erected to the late
President Nearly 500 designs have
been submitted by sculptors at home
and abroad The committee has not
agreed on any special style OF monu-
ment to be erected above the grave of
the deceased at Canton. 1t is thought
that only two styles can be considered,
one a monument of terraces and col
umns. the other mausoleum. The
committee now at work will have no
special difficulty in dropping out $50
of the designs submitted, but when
that point is reached the difficult work
will begin. 1t is probable that the fin.
al selection will be made according to
individual tastes. 1t is the idea of the
committee to expend 100000 of the
sum raised in the erection of the mon
ment leaving $4,000 as a permanent
fund to be used for the maintenance
of the memorial and the care of the
grounds.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-03
WHEN PANAMA BUYS OUR BONDS

Chicago Record Herald.-A Wash
lngton dispatch reports that the Pam
anna government has decided to in
vest S9,00O,0O0 of the $1o,0OO.0O0 which
will be paid for the canal rights in
United States bonds. This is certain
ly novelty in the politics of South
American states, which are generally
kept busy explaining things to the
holders of their bonds.
Panama comes out of their class at
single leap and goes beyond the
great powers at the same time. When
England undertook to settle matters in
Egypt she appeared merely as the
agent of the British bondholder. So
the interest in Europe in Turkish
IL any government had q direct in
Vestment of it's own it might feel i'm
PEELED to rush ahead and levy regard
less of the concert.
just at, present we are meeting the
interest on our bonds but it is adyi-
sable not 10 overlook the possibilities
When Panama once has her grip upon
| us she may assert the sacred right OF
the bondholder to dictate on some
tlimsy pretext claims that we are
within her sphere of influence and es-
tablish suZerainty over us. Almost
any old political campaign would give
her sufficient excuse. She coulG
prove Very clearly from the solemn
| proceedings of all parties and the wild
harangues of campaign orators. thai
| confidence was getting Knockout
drops, and that any victory would
| spread disorder from Porto Rico tC
| Manila. She could point to the octo-
pus and the anarchist as ravening RI
walls, bent on absorption and destruc-
ton and insist on the immediate need
of policing the territory to secure hel
subscription.
This is a gloomy prospect for thS
bird of freedom. and it behooves us a.
consequence to cultivate moderation
and to keep out Bashi- Bozouks of thu
stump and platform under prope,
! restraint. 1t will be hard to get along
| without them, but any loss is prefer
| able to subjugation beneath foreign
/ woke
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-03
BIENNIAL ELECTIONS.

Keokuk Gate City.-The Des Moines
Register and Leader argues that be-
cause the last general assembly sub
mitted the proposed biennial election
amendment to popular vote the COM,
ing one; is in dirty bound to do the
same. The trouble with that argu-
lnent is that it proves too much. Ii
that theory is to obtain the equal suf-
frage amendment is entitled to take
the same course. But Iowa legisla-
lures have repeatedly refused to sub
nit that proposition after it had been
endorsed by their predecessors There.
is nothing in the Register and Lead
ers contention.
Burlington Hawk Eye-The franz
ers of the Iowa constitution never con-
templated that one general assembly
should tie up or bind it's successor to
endorse the one that took the initia-
tive in an amendment to the consti-
tuition. There are three distinct steps,
each absolutely independent of and
not beholden to the others.
1. One general assembly intro
duces and adopts the proposed amend
ment and submits it to its SUCCESSOR
and not Ito popular Vote as the Gate
City inadvertently says.
2. The next general assembly eth
er rejects it, or ratifies and submits
it to vote of the people.
d. me tnlfd step is the general
election. The people can either APP
prove or disapprove. No obligation
rests upon them to put the finishing
touch upon the amendment Each
step in it's order is wholly independ-
ent of the other within the limits
, prescribed by the constitution.
If this We're not so, then what is
the utility of such a circuitous meth
cd of amending the constitution? The
| successive steps We're designed to
prevent hasty action in times of great
/, popular excitement. There was a
/ time when the majority of the people
of Iowa, as indicated by their votes,
wanted biennial elections. The last
| general assemly, in touch with the
| popular expression at that time, again
started the amendment upon its
rounds. Since then. apparently, the
popular demand for biennial elections
las changed; there is revulsion in
| public opinion. The members of the
new general assembly will gather al
| Des Moines in January next. fresh
| from their constituencies. If they
think the people want the amendment
| submitted to vote at the polls. they
/ will ratify the resolution and let il
! so to the final court of adjudication
4 In this the senators and representa-
t'res will act wholly upon their own
| Judgment and not from any obliga-
I ton imposed upon them by the pre-
cCding general assembly
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-03
GEN. sIckLEs, PATRIOTISM.

Philadelphia Press.-Gen Sicsles is
one of the old time democrats who
does not believe in sacrificing the in
terests of the nation to pander to party
preiudices. The Roosevelt administra
ton. he says, only performed its OBJ
vious and imperative duty in recog-
nizing the de facto government of Pan
anna. He ridieules the unfounded and
unpatriotic assertion that the United
States instigated the Panama rebel
lion; and he holds that Paramta should
be annexed to the United States before
the canal is begun. If Panama APP
plies for annexation it will unques-
tionably be admitted; but that is not
necessary for canal purposes.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-03
cHlLD's PLAY in THE SENATE.

New York Evening Post.-Speaker
Cannon has had the unhappy exper-
ience of seeming more strenuous than
the President. In the conference on
the Cuban reciprocity bill Mr.. Cannon
roundly characterized the postpone
ment of the senate vote as unfair
treatment of the President, and, in
fact, no better reason has been al
legged for deferring the bill except that
the senate wishes to put the Presi-
dent in a hole" by showing that the
extra session was superfluous. The
President, however, realizing the pos
sibilities of obstruction in the senate,
took his 'rebuke" lying down, and as
sented to the delay. His surrender is
unfortunate. for his case was good and
clear. Had the senate proved obdu-
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rate it would have been clearly in
the wrong, and would have added to
that accommodating unpopularity from
which alone reform of it's Anticipated
procedure will come. In this case,
moreover, delay by the senate is a
kind of pertidy. That issue should
have been made. Having ratified the
Cuban treaty the senate IS, though not
legally, yet in honor bound to pass
the enabling act promptly, and as q
noncontentiouS measure. To accept
the treaty and then Maggie over the
legislation necessary to make it effec-
tive is bit of child's play. The case
shows plainly how lightly public con-
siderations weigh against the person
al prejudices and small maneuvering
of the upper house. Speaker Cannon
deserves everybody's thanks for being
more Jealous than the President in the
Presidents fight"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-03
THE LONG AND BROAD FLAG.

Met . fellow tother mornin-
Had cur,nus styIe about him
Cert,plv co,ldn;t we'll he w,,ss-
s.,is. .y,Yhere Won hail I'm nardnerq,
An, he smiled in a KNOWN. way
An replied in forren lingo:
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80 p.oas,,,
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WIN q siio tli 80 ,o ~ s.''n'
An a most outlandish air.
"Whar's he frum?" a Teller shouted;
An before we'd time to say,
This we're heather turned an ans'red:
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