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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22
Satisfaction at shamokln.

Shamokin, Pa March 2I.-The strike
commissions report was received here
with much satisfaction by the miners
and labor leaders. AS the miners on
their way from work passed the bulletin
board and heard the news. they cheered
for President John Mitchell and the COM
mission. Coal operators would not ex-
press an opinion. President John Fahy
Of the United Mines Workers, district
No 3. when asked his opinion OF the
report. said:
II have nothing to say except that all
matters Will round themselves out In
time"
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is to put little loadstone or magnet in
Tho cnda of The nnnera
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22
Discrimination.

Touching the question OF discrimination,
lawlessness, boycottng and blacklistne.
the commission states that during the
continuance of the late strike disorder
and lawiessness existed to some extent
over the whole region. Continuing the
commission says:
ut is admitted that this disorder and
-lawlessness was Incident to the strike.
It's history Is stained with record Of
riot and bloodshed, eliminating in three
murders. unprovoked save by the fact
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22
Baer Is Silent.
Nichols Is Pleased.

Scranton, Pa, March At. D.sNichols,
district president of the United Mine
Workers of America, is dissatisfied with
the report OF the coal strike commission.
He regards the question of paying miners
by weight as the most important before
the commissioners and says their neglect
10 meet this squarely will greatly detract
II ON the otherwise favorable reception
with which the award will be received.
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Mississippi River Seems TO Have
Reached Limit
LEVEES ARE STILL HOLDING
Prospects Seem Brighter and Crest of
Rise Has Passed emphis-Govern-
ment Sends Aid to the
Stricken District.

Memphis, March 21.-Tonight there are
many hopeful features in the flood situa-
tlon in the immediate territory about this
city and the officers of the levee board
and river men are expressing more salts
faction with the conditions that now pre-
vail than had been INDUCED at any time
since the flood first assumed critical pro-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22

Washington, March H.-Secretary Root
today received kilograms from the gov
ernors Of Tennessee and Arkansas in re-
Spouse to his Geographic inquiry for in
formation as to the needs of the people
of those states In the matter of tents, etc.,
in consequence of the river foods
No time was lost in complying with
these requests for assistance. Colonel
Patten, the quartermaster general, i'm
mediately telegraphed instructions to the
quartermaster in charge of the depots
at ST. Louis and Jeffersonville. Ind, to
send with the utmost dispatch $50 COM
mon tents and twenty hospital tents to
Memphis. and ninety common tents and
ten hospital tenfs 20 Marion. Ark.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-03-21

The Indian who read
familiar from childhood with sacred literature Of her She
knows the great Hindu ep the Mahabharata and the Rayana
She knows the Vec hymns and the philosophy of the Vedanta AS
child in her she is taught such spiritual lessons
of Western lands if ALL in middle age Education is
unfolding the between such real education hers and the
trashy novel there much difference between
ambrosia and five o'clock insect poison.
The Indian teachers the holy men-tramp should
spend many years making the Great Pilgrimage from
India shrine shrine and who for the
dropped their beggars bowl mpart the wisdom that
upon has shaped the destiny More than
once of them COIN he has made
reply that in America is unimaginable:
Il do o need it / have to-day"
These gained of poise that worth learning 1t
growth We told that India stopped growing before
world began Maybe she did but will take
reach the point which she has remained stationary
Imagine American child calling her mother from the door of her
home
oh mother here three hoboes Get rice pudding
and let us the first three books Of Homer Had
and ask heard her yesterday that she
getting rusty the first part of the HAD"
this still is education India has had great
woe-astronoers mahematcans She has had queens who
though the veil led their troops and fought The
gets chance develop If India does not
courage believe themselves great this should not be
ground for complaint against her.
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FOREIGN GOSSIP.

During last year SCI persons were
cremated in Germany-an excess of 200
over the previous year,
In combats between a tiger and a
stallion in India, the stallion is usually
the victor.
The broken and distorted foot of a
Chinese lady is called a golden lily
by Chinese admirers of such distor-
tons.
In Paisley, Scotland, q movement is
growing in favor of closing all public
houses at ten o'clock at night, Satur-
days included. as in rural districts.
A London man 20 years old may ex-
pect to live 80 years, but Glasgow res
ident of the same age can only antici-
pate 36 years III months, and a Man
chester man less than 35 years.
Above the length Of 10 or 20 feet
snakes in the Philippine islands in
crease greatly in bulk for every foot in
length. so that snake 10 feet long
looks small beside one % feet long.
Gera, i'm Saxony. has been the scene
Of a singular strike" The doctors re-
fused TO treat patients belonging TO
sick clubs because the societies sought
10 reduce their fees. New physicians
from Berlin have now left the strikers
without patients.
Consul j. n. Ruflin reports from
Asuncion: There exists no copper,
gold or silver mines in Paraguay. Some
copper is found. but ii has never been
worked. ! have never heard of the ex-
istence of silver in the country. Gold,
i understand. exists in the district
called Missiones. near San Miguel, but
IL has never been worked, and no stats
ties can be obtained.
The biggest ballroom in the world is
not at any European court, but at gov
eminent house, Melbourne. At the
time IL was designed the architect con
suited the governor Of the period as 10
it's size. do you know anything about
bathrooms in other parts of the world? p
asked the governor. only the one at
Buckingham palace" replied the archi-
tect. "Then build our ballroom third
bigger than that" said the governor
in lordly fashion. Melbourne folks
may be proud Of their huge ballroom
but IL is a costly luxury TO be governor
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in-chief and founder OF the nation;
and only on rare occasions can some
conqueror, by force of popular fer
vor, supersede the statesman and
stride like victor to the white
house. From the IL examples that
remain we learn that n coming pres
ident must be in political life, wheth.
er as an illustrious statesman. To
whom the Office comes like natural
promotion with hardly an effort, or
as a suddenly risen man of fame, to
whom the popular feeling DEGREES it.
IL he be neither of tbese, then he
mus. be n statesman distinguished
beyond the average, or one OF aver
age vet real distinction, who in cith-
err case must reach out for the COW
eted place, with general feeling OF
the propriety of his having IL. IL
such one, in the course of events,
has had an opportunity to success
fully turn his hand TO warfare, after
the fashion OF public men in this
land of citizen soldiery, his martial
popularity will count largely in his
favor. Or an average statesman will
have useful lead il he possesses
those personal qualities, such ns tact,
patience and grace-the iron hand in
the velvet glove that enable him to
manage all sorts and conditions of
men, and so TO make himself quietly
predominant Lastly, to be modest
~ but honorably in politics, with at
tractive personal qualities and good
claims to private esteem, is to be
hopefully in waiting for the day
when a party, torn by the rival con
tentions of it's principal men, shall
look over into the next rank for n
substitute candidate, and thus bring
the honor suddenly.-Charlcs i. Ben
| jamin, in st. Nicholas.
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CROPS RAISED BY ANTS.
Well "a Pruning Exhibited by
some species.

Recent study OF ants has added an.
other 10 the many facts that show tina
intelligence these insects possess. The
latest discovery is that some species ac-
tually plant and raise their own crops.
The big leaf-cutting ant OF the tTop-
les Is the most proficient species 10 the
agricultural line. These ants visit
nlants and cut little fragments Dut OF
Tho leaves. Sometimes they will ruin
a whole plantation over night, leaving
the plants with ragged fragments OF
their foliage.
Until recently IL was supposed that
the leaf-cutters ate the pieces OF leaf.
But now IL is known that they carry the
fragments 10 their mounds, where they
chew them over and over, moistening
them al the same time with acid secre-
tions, until they have made a soft
spongy mass. This is kneaded and
worked over and over again until il Is
a big heap full of SIMS Il holes.
In this spongy mas the ants deposit
the spores OF certain fungus which
forms the greater part OF their food
supply Different species OF ants have
different species Of fungus.
To produce most albumen the fun
gus must not be permitted 10 seed. or
course this Is a simple matter, well
known 10 every florist and agricuItur-
list. But IL Is certainly wonderful that
ants should have learned IL.
They attend to the pruning of the
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metry. As soon as he hears a dog
yipping behind him he sits down and
studies a bit to make sure il he is the
fox that is picked for the chase.
IF he finds out that the dogs are
after another fox, the chances are
that he will be envious and will spend
a lot ofstime cutting across his rivals
trail and trying TO confuse the dogs.
mo sooner is red fox sure that
he is selected for abe hunt than he
loses all caution and devotes his ener-
gies 10 having fun with the dogs. He
climbs up the trunks OF leaning trees
for the sake OF leaping off into the
distant snowdrifts. he teeters along
the top of rail fences and sneaks
down the channels OF running brooks,
hoping that the water will kill the
scent.
after being funny for time, he
will sit down on a sunny knoll and
listen and laugh To hear the dogs
swear about him. He will do these
tricks until the dogs are tired and
mad clear through, and then he will
begin TO run in circle so he can
keep the dogs within earshot all the
time.
"And this Is what finishes him up,
for as soon as the hunters learn that
he is moving in curve, they calcu-
! late the diameter Of his circuit, cut
across 10 head him Oft, and the next
time he comes around smiling at the
joke he Is playing on the dogs, he is
met In the face with a charge OF dou-
bic y shot and he never laughs again.
"No one ever knew a black fox or n
silver fox TO be guilty of such folly.
As soon as a fox with a costly over
coat on his back hears the dogs bel
lowing behind him he shifts around a
bit 10 learn the direction OF the wind
and is off to windward at the rate Of
thirty miles an hour.
"As he keeps his nose TO the wind
all the time. he can smell out any
danger that may be ahead OF him, and
so long as he keeps running he is
sure that nothing can overtake him
from behind. IL the dogs happen TO
be OF the long-legged kind, such as
they use in England, the fox has to
stir his feet pretty lively for few
hours. but when the dogs grow tired,
he settles down TO an easy lope of
twelve or fifteen miles an hour and
does not stop until he Is 100 miles
away.
meantime the dogs drop out as
they grow tired and go wandering
about in the woods trying TO make
shortcut for home. They haul up
at farm houses along the way to rest,
and the last one is not captured for
week. BY this time the fox will
have returned 10 his old feeding
grounds and had a nice long rest, SO
he will be ready for another run.
at is my candid belief that IL all
the foxes in Maine were put together
SO we could look them over, the
blacks and silver grays combined
would equal the number Of reds. They
are gaining in numbers every year
too. The reason why we do not shoot
them is because they are wiser and
less humorous than their red cous-
| ms"
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the presidency in 1854. when she ran
against Blaine and Cleveland. No
matter how others may look upon
her campaign, 10 Mrs. Lockwood IL
was not joke. She was fighting for
principle, and firmly believes that
the cause Of woman's suffrage was
advanced by that campaign.
IL is a fact that is generally for
gotten that Mrs. Lockwood received
the entire electoral vote of Indiana,
though they were never counted for
her. The electoral college of that
state cast its vote for Cleveland. but
afterward changed its mind and cast
the entire vote for Mrs. Lockwood.
4, The suffrage candidate petitioned
congress to have these votes counted
for her. but the petition went the
way OF many others-into n commit
tee pigeon hole. She also received
one-half the electoral vote of Ore
gon. though suffrage ticket was
not in the field i'm either state. Gal.
| lantry, or the humor of the situation.
were the cause OF the votes cast for
her. In the states in which suf-
frngc ticket was in the field IL re-
ceived the following votes:
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REWARD NOT so SLY.
The Red Fox's Cunning Has Been Ex-
aEgerated, Thinks nm Old
Maine Hunter.

"When the Lord changed the color
OF fox's fur from red TO black or
gray" said Jason Norton, the aged
fox hunter OF Penobscot Valley, ac-
cofding to the New York Sun, "he
gave the favored animals new skill in
self-protection and fitted them out
with brains Of larger capacity.
II have hunted foxes for more than
forty years and | have killed more
than thousand. OF this number
seventy-five or eighty were cross
foxes, whose pelts are worth from
$40 90 SIS to-day. fourteen were black
foxes and eight were silver grays.
IF a red fox were half as cunning
as they say he Is, he would never be
shot ahead OF the dogs. 30 long as
there is plenty OF room for fox to
run In and the room Is in a direct
line. he can distance the best dog liv-
ing at the quarter post and get so far
away in half day that the hunters
could not see him again for n week.
"But a red fox hasn't learned that
a straight line In the shortest dis
lance between two points. which
shows that he has never studied geo
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come popular heroes through famous
victories, for which reason they were
taken into politics and made presiden-
tial candidates, as being more likely
To defeat the civilian candidates of the
opposite parties.
Presidents Buchanan, Garfield, Ben
Jamin Harrison and Mckinley were
public men Of long and prominent serv-
ice, who, without surprising other men
OF their own parties, perhaps, were
plainly in the front rank. They were
finally preferred in the nominating
conventions because well and strong
ly supported by their adherents, and
because their prospects OF success
favorably impressed the members of
the conventions.
Presidents Lincoln and Cleveland
were public men who each made a
rapid rise TO national Importance be-
cause he seemed TO be the very man
to deal with questions ont of the
ordinary line OF politics, wh;ch much
engrossed the popular mipj at the
time.
Now let us see what our 20 exam
pies can teach us about Lcw 90 at
tain the presidency. First, we must
put aside Washington, Ia .lor and
Grant as exceptional instances; for
we shall hardly again have a creator
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things. But for party lines, what a
Damon and Pythias they would be!
But one is the shrewdest manager i'm
the democratic party; the other holds
the same relation to the republican
party. So, they can only be cordial
around a dinner table or in the pri-
vacy of the senate cloakroom.
Mark Hanna was a poor boy, too.
Both are now rich. Smart men don't
atay in the senate long and remain
poorl You may put this down for as
reliable a statement as an axiom in
mathematics. The tidal wave Of Bry-
anism and free silver caused the de-
feat of German six years ago. He
was and is a gold democrat, believes
in prosperity and progress, and is the
ablest organizer in the democratic
party. There are clever cliques and
accomplished ringsters in the congress
on the hill, but they are not so easily
spotted" as those which abound IL
the more noisy, more numerous and
less responsible congress OF the Daugh
tiers OF the American Revolution. which
closed its labors about the same time
the Fifty-seyenth congress passed into
history.
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gress Of the ID. a. r. Parliamentary
rules and executive business are of
minor Importance compared with the
triumph OF a clique, the fit OF n gown.
the size Of diamond or a parure Of
costly lacel The dominant clique gets
together a week before the congress
meets and arranges the programme.
That programme goes through in spite
OF constitutions. presidents, rules or
regulations. Sometimes legal sister
with an uncommon gift of CAB and a
strong. resonant voice gets up on the
floor and gives the clique great deal
of trouble. Then a war of words be
gins which is enough 10 make the he
roes of Bunker Hill and Guilford Court
House turn over in their graves.
The president general Mrs. Charles
w. Fairbanks, wife OF the senator from
Indiana, who was very popular and who
was reelected in spite OF the constitu-
ton, broke her little rosewood gavel
trying 10 silence the women. Her page.
a pretty young girl. arose 10 the occa-
sion. She got a hammer, wrapped II
in her own white silk scarf. passed IL
TO her chief and with il Mrs. President
General pounded The table until the
noise OF the resounding blows eclipsed
the babel Of voices that arose from pit
TO DOME The audience in the gallery
laughed, the stenographers al the
press table looked nonplussed. but
semblance OF order was restored and
the cut-and-dried programme as ar
ranged by the lady-leaders progressed
TO a successful finish.
There is a small, clever clique that
has charge Of the exposition wing OF
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tremendous work for the Paris exposi-
and Washington in Paris, sent dele
gates TO Paris, one of whom, Mrs.
eN-President General Daniel Man
ming was decorated with the
for the Paris exposition. erected mon
uments TO Lafayette and Washington
in Paris, sent delegates 10 Paris, one
OF whom, Mrs. ex-President General
Daniel Manning was decorated with
cross of the Legion Of Honor, held
a big reception and finally wound up
with the fiercest battle OF words in
the history Of the ID. A. II. The Buff
falo exposition went through with
out jar and was managed entirely
by two women, one "thc manager
above referred to, the other the re-
gent Of the Buffalo chapter, Mrs.
John Miller Horton, who will prob
ably be president general in the near
future. She is one of the ablest and
most energetic women in the con-
gowns made by Paquin and Doucet,
is wealthy. well born, sweet tenn
pered and beautiful She has wealth
of white hair and is chairman Of the
board OF lady managers for the
committee for the ID. A. r. on the
worlds fair at st. Louis
4 woman whom the strong-minded
among the sex usually look for when
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the congress OF
the d. 4. Il. They
G a II sidetrack
anything TO pre-
sent the claims
of an exposition
and arrange for a
ID. 4. II. day and
celebration at I'm
exposition. They
have a manager"
who ought TO
have been a man.
They Uot i'm eoma
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neople like the congress of revolution
ary daughters for the amusement IL
affords. On the stage OF Chase's thea
ter. where the meetings are held. sits
the president general, the secretary
general and various other ladies'. all
with titles corresponding 20 the above
and all dressed in velvets, silks. laces,
pearls and diamonds. II Is the biggest
dress parade occasion Of the season at
the national capital.
white house receptions dwindle into
insienificance compared with this con-
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they visit Wash
ington is Belva A.
Lockwood. She is
apracticing attor-
ney before both
the district and
supreme courts,
and has quite as
much legal bust
ness as she can
well attend to.
Mrs. Lockwood
seldom tires Of
reciting the incl
dents connected
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kind that has met
in Washington
II attracts quite
as much attention
as does the doings
OF the national
] a " I'M n X e RS +.
though its audi.
ences are drawn
more from resi-
dents Of Washing
ton than from Wis.
itors.
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ate from the ter
n outh of Mason and DiXon's
~ ~ has made an international
TutaE. IN in the six years of his term.
lis s., Ill a young man, and tempo
rSIxfyfeat does not close his career.
Dug President McKinley's admins
tratrVh Senator Pritchard practically
controlled the patronage of the south.
lie was Mckinley's trusted friend and
adviser. They became intimate when
Mckinley was a member OF the house.
During Mr.. McKinley's presidential
term he twice offered Senator Pritch-
ard places ia the cabinet and once an
important judicial position. The
temptation TO accept was very strong,
but Senator Pritchard is entirely self
made. When he was IL years old he
was apprenticed to q printer who was
a hard master. lie ran away, crossed
the mountains of his native Tennessee,
and started life fricndless, poor and
alone in western North Carolina. He
studied law without assistance, and
the aristocratic members Of the bar
examination SO difficult that he could
not get his license 10 practice law. In
spite of this, he passed a brilliant eX-
animation, was admitted, and has
steadily risen since, lie is admitted
TO be a statesman Of unusual breadth.
but above all he is lawyer. lie loves
the law, and, as he has IA strong, clear
voice, a good delivery, and fine com
mand of language, he is much sought
after in criminal eases. His law prac-
tice pays him far more than the sena-
torship and is more congenial 10 him.
lie is identified with large business
interests in this section, but his party
leaders will not allow him 10 attend
10 his private affairs. He is trusted
friend Of Hon Mark Hanna and stumped
Ohio and the west for Mckinley and
Roosevelt. His relations with Presi-
dent Roosevelt are most cordial, all
though he is the head and front Of the
southern Lily White" wing OF the
republican party.
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-
thur Pue German,
another self-made
man, who started
life as a page in
the United States
capitol. When il
comes TO w ir e.
pullingand finesse,
Senator German
has not a superior
in the L N 1t c d
States. At heart.
i think he and
Hon. Mark Hanna
:. s... .lxaVt ...aat
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lUoman's Education In The Zenafta and Ours
BY EDMUND RUSSELL.
Aposds Of Caifur
Aposfis Of Caifars.

We of Western countries getting tired of our
purely mental culture and turning from to things
that promise spiritual growth Why then should we
seek to impose the castof rags of our socaed higher
education upon the women of India?
The woman of the cannot read, but in
stead of calling her uneducatcd should recognize
that compared with of other countries, she is
differently educated; her culture another plane
Education in India is not a matter of books; it
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A ChIcaao SHOCK.

Mrs. Dearborn-How in the world
did your wall become so badly cracked?
Mrs. wabash-Well, you see, turned
my divorced husbands picture toward
Il. and II you ever saw him you'll not
be surprised that the wall is cracked.
-Yonkers Statesman.