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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
THE SILLY MEAT WAR.

From the Boston Globe (Dem).
 The experiment of trying to punish Ger many for her restrictions upon our meat products is about to begin, through the enforcement of the new pure food law.
 fierce are two hard working countries having population. who. on account of low wages, buy cheap meat, not for spec uiation, but in order to live.
 The German workingman has been buy ing our cheap canned meats because he cannot afford any other.
 William invades the poor mans dinner table with his restrictive laws. in order to spite the United States for It's high tariff. Thereupon this great nation turns around and enacts pure food law, which bars out German sausages, cheese, beer, and other articles as impure, whereby to reta1iate.
 William and the American congress thus play bluff over the shoulders of poor honest worlxingmen for none but childish ends. William has been recently knocked silly by the big socialist gains. His fool- ish antics are making about 100000 socialr ist converts year. He will make more next year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
SPEEDY JUSTICE.

From the New York Times.
 The ending of that very sensational case. the "Moat Honse Murder" in Eng land, by the execution of the murderer, is a fact which ought to attract attention In this country. The body of the murdered woman was found and identified on April 27, of this year. nearly four years after her disappearance. The indictment, ar- raignment and trial of the accused fol- lowed In due order. and exactly three weeks after he was convicted the mur- derer was executed.
 Thre is nothing at all exceptional about the speed of this administration of jus tice In England. It Is conspicuous only by reason of the sensational character of the crime But It would be. we venture to say. highly exceptional in any one of the United States, and a record" with in the memory of living men, in the state of New York. In fact. it is not too much to say that in thls matter af the quick ness of the administration of justice the United States is the least civilized of the civilized. countries of the world. and New York the least civilized of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
THE LONGEST AouEoucr.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
 New York has gone up the Hudson fifty miles or more for water. Liver pool has gone nearly seventy miles Into the Welsh mountains. A few years hence some of the water supply of Paris will be drawn from sources more than 100 miles away. London has thought of building an aqueduct to Wales. But the government of West Australia has lately put into op- eration the. largest aquednct In the world. The gold-mining towns of Kalgoerlie. Boulder and Southern Cross are now re- eeiying water from the Helena river. no less than BPS miles away.
 Situated in one of the richest gold fields in the world, these towns have always lacked enough fresh water for their needs. Salt water was plenty enough. but their people, now numbering about 50.0OO, have always been on short rations of potable water. To meet this difficulty and to pro- mote industrial development, the West Australian government has undertaken works of unparalleled magnitude in view of the fact that the population of the whole state is less than 20O,0o and its total wealth only about $215000 900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
GREAT CULINARY TALK
 IN DELMONICO'S CAFE
From the New York snn.

From the New York Sun.
 The greatest culinary event DeImonico's kitchen has known in years-and that is a fairly big proposition-took place on Wednesday, night. when two prosperous Brooklyn business men broke in on the white-robed chefs and their assistants and did things with eggs that French cooks never saw done before.
 It was all the result of having dined. The Brooklynites had dined. and dined well, and, as often happens when men dine. fhey discussed things. Chickens was the first topic and that led to eggs. Joseph W. Glider. now a South Brooklyn real es- tate dealer, but once resident of Ala hama, was one of the egg debaters. and John Mccormick dry goods merchant of AS Fifth street. Brooklyn, was the other. John ". Kimball and I. Michaels, both of Brooklyn, were the referees All four had been before the Board of Estimate with the South Brooklyn Board of Trade, talk ing about the Sixth avenue, Brooklyn, site for a Carnegie library, which Is in dispute Nothing was decided about the library site but 1t was deemed advisable to celebrate the event anyway with dinner at Delmonieos
 The difference of opinion as to eggs took the form of a sectional issue. Mir. Glider is an ardent champion of the southern hen and her fruit MT. Mo cormick heretofore had approached the hen question as a purely abstract pro- position and had not considered it in con- nection with Mason and Dlxons line, al- though he was willing to admit that 1t might perhaps be regarded as collateral branch of the negro question. But when MT. Glider laid down the broad general proposition that the southern hen was nobler bird than the northern hen, whether served in batter Ia Maryland or simply boiled or fried, and when he went further and said she laid better eggs and that the eggs were always bet ter cooked down south than they are up north, why, right there MT. Mccormick drew the line.
 He maintained as a general proposition that nobody down south knew anything about cooking hens or hens eggs, and he further averred that he. Mccormick, personally knew more about cooking hens eggs that MT. Glider would ever learn if he lived to an advanced age. MT. Glider, on the other hand, took the ground that MT. Mccormick did not know an egg from a ping-pong ball. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
Some Baseball Advice.

I have been watching our boys play ball while they had their home games. and the weak spot seemed to me to be their stick work" said an old baseball fan. They field with tho best, but some how they fall to connect when 1t Is "up to them" to hit out one, in order to bring in runs so I hope that something that I saw in newspaper the other day may give them a pointer. It was this:
 Charles Hickman, the Cleveland first baseman, is one of the hardest, freest hitters in baseball Speaking of the art of batting yesterday, "Hlck' said:
 Curve balls are about the same as fast straight ones to hit If they come over the plate. I'd Just as soon hit at curves as the straight ones, and num- Der ae fellows feel the same way. think the hardest ball to hit is the one that comes low down on the outside corner of the plate, but the high, fast inside ball brings It's troubles for the batters. batsman is sometimes fooled. not by the pitcher but by himself. This happens when the batter makes up his mind to hit at the next ball pitched. That takes place once In while with the best of them. The batter gets the idea of hitting at the next one in his head and can't get 1t out of his head The result Is he lets go at the next ball whether It suits him or not, and as likely as not strikes out or fails to hit safe. Which shows that he has no business figuring on hitting a ball until he sees what kind of a one Is coming" ]"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21

and If possible to find a verdict These jurors lsome of whom I know to be among the very best citizens If Ala bama). acting under their oaths, failed to agree. some very few being, as I un- derstand 1t. in favor of conviction, while the others maintained that Turner was not guilty and favored a verdict of ae- quittai. On Saturday fts.noon they re- ported to the judge that It was impossible for them to agree. whereupon he deliv- cred himself Of what l consider to be a charge wholly unealled Tor md out of place. and II tended. in my judgment, to intimldate, rather than to enlighten, to trespass on the domain of the jury and 10 usurp its functions"
 As the remarks in question were delivered to the jurors as they were about to be discharged, it is difficult to see how they were intimidated or trespassed upon. The jurors were dismissed at once, and Mr. Hefiin has drawn upon his imagination in order to round out sentence.
 In no respect does MT Hefin show that Judge Jones acted improperly or Nh manner unbefitting a judge. It is Molly unnecessary to discuss the de- taAs of the Turner case. The Ago HefNd simply desires to say that MT.  HefinA rhetoric was untimely and un- called r, unless he had more up his sleeve in his mind than he pro duced in is speech at Luverne. A careful reaNng of his speech shows that the @ly charge specifically brought agaiH\t Judge Jones relates to his farewell \address to the jurors as they were abAlt to separate. This certainly did not harm MT. Turner, nor does 1t appear from anything Mir. Hehin presented tl\t 1t was unjust in any respect. Mir Aeflins glittering generalities are not y any means sufficient Something Nore specific and definite is needed 'Ahen an on slaught Is made upon court presided over by an eminent Alabamian, whose integrity had never before been ques- tioned,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
Women Shoot stralnht.

"Do you know that 1t is strange but true that as a rule women are better shots than men?' asked an expert shot last night. People will not beleive that statement until they think about the mat ter for a while. but they finally realize that 1t is true.
 "A striking way to prove my assertion is that you never hear of a woman shoot Ing at a man or a burglar but what she hits him. Men frequently miss, but it Is very rare that woman does not hit the object, and generally in fatal place.
 "I have heard men who had experience with shooting affrays, such as detectives on large police forces state that they would rather have two men shoot at them than one woman.
 There are several women shots in the world who are as good as can be found. and frequently when women go hunting they are more successful than the men. The reason of their ability to shoot has never been explained satisfactorily. al- though one cause is said to be that they shoot in a natural manner and do not try to pose as do men"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21

Thomas | Ramsey of San Antonio is at the Metropolitan. rK The Rev. pr. P. M Peterson of Monte- yallo is registered at the Hillman.
  J T. German of opeika is stopping at the Morris.
 W. A Adorn of Anhiston is at the Metropolitan. 4 James R. Davidson of Cincinnati Is at the Hillman.
 W. T. Harris of Lafayette is stopping at the Morris.
 j. J. cotter and wife of Selma are at the Metropolitan.
 Charles B. Dunn of Macon is registered at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
Mir. Hetlin and Iudae Jones.

Secretary of State Hetiin may be applauded freely by the minimizing when at popular gatherings he de- nounces Judge Jones conduct of. the peonage cases, but he is not adding to public respect for law, order and jus tice. Holding state office, it is not his proper part to go about compar. ing federal court to peacock, in- timating in the next breath that Judge Jones is seeking promotion through vigorous conduct of the peonage cases.
 MT. Heflin said among things
 The jury retired to consider the Sse
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21

that if 1t came to an egg-eooldng con test. he. Glider. could give MT. MeCor- mick cards and spades.
 The debate was now drawn sharply on sectional lines and MT. Glider and Mr. Mccormick, in an argumentatiye sense. came to a ellneh When they were ver- balIy disentangled and separated 1t was decided that the only way was to settle the matter then and there by a grand catch-as-cateh-can egg-eooKfng contest / By consent of the management and the night chef a ring was cleared in the, kitchen, and MT Glider and MT. MeCofr- mick. stripped to their shirt sleeves and equipped with aprons, were turned loose before the range. each provided witfh four carefully measured and weighe eggs.
 MT. Glider was disposed to insist on Ala : bama eggs but compromised on freshs- picked Jerseys. Mir. Kimbar and MT. Michaels remained upstairs to eat the eggs as they were cooked and that theffs might be no favoritism or sectional bias in their decision it was ruled that the cosn- testing cooks should remain below taill the eggs were eaten and that the ref erees should not know whether it was the Alabama or the Long Island chief whose eggs at any given time they were eating The night chef and his assistant stood by to see fair play.
 MT Glider in the first round apparently landed heavily for he wrapped his first egg in wet tissue paper before he put 1t in the hot wood ashes. Mir Mccormick side stepped. however and came up jeering with larger and hotter pile of ashes on his ege than Mir. Glider had shown
 Both eggs went up to the referees in turn. The Glider egg was in the nature of custard The Mccormick article only needed to be round to have made an ex- cellent billiard ball Honors were de- ciared even on this round and as the sec ond, third and fourth set-to's produced precisely the same results, the referees were at loss how to decide. They called / 1t draw in default of any authority to determine whether eggs that were a stingy mess were superior as a culinary triumph to eggs that were of the soidiRy of Belgian block granite. The Delmosn- leo chef declined to hand down decision on this point. Mir Glider and Mir Mo Cormick shook hands afterward and had a cooling beverage. They remain friendsi but the great egg controversy is still uni- settled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
CURE FOR souEAkY VOICES.

From the New York Sun.
 Men with squeaky voices need not de- spair of talking like their fellows. If they continue to have such piping voices, it Is their own fault
 "One of the best known elocutionistss in this country" said the professor who q i'd the trick for him. "used to have a thAn treble voice that would have made success out of the question for him. He was giftfed with considerable talent in other ways and wanted to overcome his vocal def ciencies when he came to me It took courage to attempt the change of voice. like that but told him that the effort 2 was worth while knew, of course, that his voice, like all such voices. was ba,oly placed.
 Placing the voice Is, of course thes most important thing about a singer, andf the voice that is not well placed will not last, however fine it may be by nature. Some voices are naturally placed, but ok dinarily it is the placing of the voice that is the most important part of the singing teachers task
 What difference 1t makes in voice E may pe gathered rom the fact that a high soprano now before the public was a contralto when she went to her teacher. He realized the mistake that had been \ made in placing her voice and changed all that had been done and made her a soprano. We'll. these men with the piping, squeaky voices have had their voices badly placed by nature. When that faust is corrected they will talk as they shoulds begin with singing exercises whetherk my clients have singing voices or not. I2 work them just as I would if they wera$ preparing to sing. The case of the elocu4 tionist was almost the worst that IT ever had. But within a year he came around all right. It is not merely that the voice becomes lower. fuller and more mellow, but the lower tones gather strength and power. l have found this all to be the certain result of these exer- eises. l have never known case to fail. Because man is unfortunate enough to have his voice too high in his head and to talk always up there instead of down in his throat Is no reason why he should go through life talking so. He can make his voice as deep as the next mans by taking a little trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
Cost and Prices of Pia Iron.

Those who think that pig iron is going down to depression prices lose sight of the fact that 625,3S3 tons were imported last year. Consump- tion is going on at the rate of 19,000,. 900 tons a year. and it is doubtful if the production of this year exceeds that vast sum. The consumption of last year was 1S,442,S9 tons, and if there Is a big corn crop the consump- tion of the present year will be fully i9,000000 tons. No more iron will be imported. and home production and consumption are just about at parity. The entire country looks to this dis S''~' for,foundry pig iron. We do not
 entire home supply. but we
 e of it to control the
 'S'ate the price. Out
 of foundry iron
 1T in the entire
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
PUTTING HIM WISE.

From the Chicago News.-
 There is something. peculiar about the mental makeup of a woman, said Foggs.
 Does any explanation go with that re- mark? asked his better half.
 Sure thing" answered the party of thez prelude. Now there's Mrs. Peekem. for example. She's utterly unable to handle the most gentle horse, yet she drives her husband around with ease.''
 ''Oh. that doesn't prove anything" re- joined Mrs F. The horse. you know is very Intelligent animal" From the Boston Post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21

The average decline from the prices of last fall Is about 32 points, and scarcely a share in the list has es- caped shrinkage. And yet railway earnings were never better. In the first six months of the present year, they rose on roads reporting from 624 million dollars in the first half of 1902 to 70S million dollars in the first half of the present year, an increase of 13.6 per cent The southern lines re- ported in the first six months of this year earnings aggregating ninety-cne millions, as against seventy-eight mill ions In the corresponding months of last year. And, yet, the shares of all these reporting railroads have suffered shrinkages Tn Wall street.
 This, of itself, shows that Wall street losses have no relation to real values. Crop and trade prospects have rarely been better, and the shares of the Chicago and Northwest ern are worth as much today as they ever have been, and they have been forced down over hundred points. The prevailing bear movement is shaking out issues covering promot-  CTS profits and other water" items and it does not and can not affect ac- tual values. A halt had to be called in the booming of industrials and the like, ana in the merging of everything that could be manipulated, and con servative men regard the present movement as sanitary and desirable. It will prevent panic, leaving intact all properties of intrinsic value, mere ly shaking out water" and the effects of speculation. Prices are simply Seeking the happy medium between the depression of 1897 and the boom of 1902, and when the level is reached health will be supreme. and the coun, try will no longer suffer from water or fever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
OLD SONG.

By Edward FitzGerald. 'Tis dull sight To see the year dying, When winter winds Set the yellow wood sighing:- Signing. o. sighingl 4r  When such time cometh do retire Into an old room Beside a bright fire: o, pile a bright firel And there sit Reading old things. or knights and lorn damsels, While the winds sings: o, drearily singsl I never look out, Nor attend to the blast; For all to be seen Is the leaves falling fast; Falling, fallingl But close at the hearth. Like cricket, sit I. Reading of summer And chivalry- Gallant chivalry!
  Then the clouds part. Swallows soaring between; The spring is alive And the meadows are green. jump up like mad, Break the old pipe in twain, And away to the meadows. The meadows again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
Advantage of Clean Streets.

'In going about Birmingham" said a gray haired man. 'I am reminded, by comparison, of some of the clean cities that have been In. Take Washington for example with its long stretches of as- phalt pavements There every yard of the street Is as clean as a street can be, and they have no cross walks, because one place Is as clean for a pedestrian as an other Washington was the first city by many years. in this country. to go ex- tensivey into asphalt pavements and it came to pass that Washingtonian was known in other cities from the fact that he would constantly step off the side walks and shoot diagonally across the streets, while denizens of the cities would go to the end of the block and cross on the regular cross walk
 Speaking of the Washington pave ments reminds me of Boss Shepard, who was district commissioner of public works when the work was done. He was accused of all kinds of corruption and rascality He was prosecuted and bedeviled until he left Washington, and for many years his whereabouts were un- known, but few months ago when Shep- ard died and his funeral was held in Washington there was mourning for him on all sides. Glowing eulogies were pro- nounced him, and in that city big fun- erals his was one of the largest ever held
 His works not only live after him, but during his life they rehabilitated him in public estimation.
 But to go back to Birmingham We will unavoidably be dirty for years to come. We are growing too rapidly, in certain directions. to keep clean, but there is one thing the city fathers can do. Whenever they do any work let it be permanent and of the best kind It never pays to do make-shift' work on the public streets
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
nrnn in Stock Prices.

Stocks have been going down ever since the opening of the calendar year, and yet they are not as a rule, as low as they were in May, 1901, when the Northern Pacific was the cencTaf subject of interest. But still the de- clines have been busy extending to some of the soundest shares of the railway and industrial world, as the following table shows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
TIE LEFT EAR.

From the New York Press.
 The great mass of humanity Is right handed. Manufacturers of telephones must take their cue from this fact, inas- much as all the instruments in use have the transmitter adjusted for the left ear and the left hand. leaving the right hand free to use pen or pencil for jotting down points of message. Once in while you will see right-handed right-eared mau who has trouble in handling the left cared instrument
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
About aeneral tlarrIson.

General George P. Harrison of Opelika. Ala, contemplates entering public life again." says a Washington correspondent. When in Washington recently he is said to have .conhded to a close friend his in- tention of announcing at an early day his candidacy for congress in the Third dis triet. now represented by Henry D. Clay ton.
 This district was represented by Gen eral Harrison, who was gold democrat, until March 1, 1897, when the administra- ton of Mckinley began. More recently he supported Johnston in Alabama, and is now reported to be working with the regulars. His friends here believe that If he becomes candidate he will be nom mated and elected
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
AMERICANS SHOOT WELL.

From the New York American.
 There is something here in the. United States-something in the air. the soil, the water, the conditions of life--which differentiates the American. physically and one of the expressions of that differ ence is his general superiority in marks- manship. It is a great thing for a na- tional trait. It breeds much respect abroad, and when war comes 1t Is very comforting to us to know how well our boys can shoot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
STOCKS AND VALUES.

Tie smashing process which has been going on for some time past on change has so far broken nothing but paper prices With this the great Investing public has no concern. It is an affair of the speculators; the animals are eating each other. Real values stand as they stood before
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
AN ALTERNATIVE.

From the Philadelphia Press.
 Poor fellowl His doctor tells him the only thing that will cure him is course of mud baths. and he cant afford to go to the mud springs"
 But surely he can go into politics and let the mud come to him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Every dog has his day and every wo- man her knight.
 The more woman dresses up thinness the more 1t seems to show.
 A man considers that he goes up in the world when his friends go down.
 When girl thinks how worldly she would be If some married man fell in love with her In spite of her coldness, she cannot look at herself in the mirror without blushing.