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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-28
GOV. PENNYPAckERs DILEMMA,
Upon Either Horn of Which He Will
 Be EmpaIed.

From the New York Tribune.
 It must be confessed that Governor Pennypacker has given excuse for the concentrated attack He proposed the gag law and signed 1t; and these were the least of his blunders. His memoran- dunn of approval and his subsequent ut- terances were simply magnetic. Every pen was irresistibly attracted toward him. He lent himself to caricature. He seemed to demand 1t as his right With a folly that was unnatural to the most fatuous. and must have been acquired by long study, he selected his own particular grid iron, and told the artists that one type of cartoon of himself was particularly of fensive, and that this law was aimed to suppress such outrages. Accordingly he has since daily seen himself defantly pictured in the very attitudes which drove him to his exhibitions of rage.
 It looks as if there was ony one thing for Governor Pennypacker to do. He must sue the offending newspapers or see his law brought into utter contempt. He made the issue. He frankly announced his pur- pose to punish the offensive cartoons of himself and Senator Quay. He has on the statute book the law which he asked for. and the newspapers daily lay themselves open to action by him and by nobody else under 1t. How can he avoid accepting their challenge? His dignity as governor will not permit his noticing such attacks: His dignity as governor did not prevent his noticing them, asking for the law. and in his memorandum of approval ex- hibiting his own personal soreness. As the chief executive of the commonwealth he has an especial duty to enforce the law, and If he Is the citizen whom the lawbreakers pick out for attack in making their defiance of the law, not only as an asRrieved citizen, but as a faithful mag istrate he is bound to proceed against them.
 Governor Pennypacker will be made ridiculous for all time If he retires from the field confessing that his law is lmpot- ent and his denunciation of the press empty thunder. If on the other hand, he brings action. his last state is likely to be worse than his first. What can a man say on cross-examination about the injury to his feelings caused by picturing him as a wounded and bepatched parrot, as a grotesque knight tilting with wind mills and as homely little man trying to stop the wheels of great machine |? Think of him In a court room after be- ing dissected by some sharp-tongued Phil adelphia lawyer. He has made a fatal mistake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-28
WOMAN'S FIRST CASE OF
 LOVE ONLY A REHEARSAL

I should play a short piece during the offertory. Here was my chance or de- claring myself. Through the medium of the music I could tell her all that my lips dared not to utter. Surely she would understand and would be moved.
 Whether she did or not, l never knew. Shortly after that memorable day my parents removed from the country to Paris The thought of seeing her no more nearly broke my heart, and when the stage coach reached the top of the last hill from which the town could be seen ny pent-up feelings gave way and flood of tears came to my relief My mother was kindness and generosity personfed; did not make fun of me, and did not even try to console me She took my hand in hers and pressed me against her throw quite serious glance at my fa- ther, a glance taat said to him: t'Please respect the feelings of the child. His poor little heart is near breaking" And 1 know how grateful felt to her for her tact and consideration
 Only a few years ago, when I visited those haunts of my childhood, I met my little sweetheart. I had not seen her for nearly 40 years. She was gray and rather stout, but happy looking She did not recognize me, and I did not make myself known to her. The same day I sent her an anonymous bouquet of roses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-28
Ohio and MT. Roosevelt.

RooseveltisL, in the republican party is deader than door nail. It is lost quantity, now that MT. Hanna hs.s hauled down his flag, and the Ohio republicans are preparing to declare that Theodore Roosevelt is their first and only choice for President next year. Ohios vote, added to the S86 votes in states that had endorsed MT. Roosevelt, gives him clear majority in the republican national convention, and no doubt all the other states will fall in line, even Indiana, and the lily whites of Alabama will be hustled out of the way unceremoniously The Ohio battle has been nipped in the bud, but the nipping has determined beyond all question and all possible adverse eff forts that MT. Roosevelt will be the republican standard-hearer next year.
 This clears up the situation to that extent, and all that remains Tn doubt is the democratic nomination, and that is very much befogged at present with many claimants pressing forward to grasp the honor. If the party can be consolidated and a candldate selected w..o will gather votes from all con seryative sources, the nomination of Mr Roosevelt may prove fruitless after all No President by the accident of death has ever been nominated by his party for full Presidential term MT, Roosevelt will break all precedent in his nomination. next year by his party, bu. it remains to be seen whether he can break it at the polls. The great capitalists are not behind him, and there is feeling on a, hands that he is unsafe, freaky and impulsive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-28
Utilization of Furnace Gas.

Dr. J. R. Richards, in an address be- fore the American Electro-C Chemical society, urged that the waste of energy in coke ovens and blast furnaces be stopped. There is enough gas wasted at every stack to drive world of ma chinery. Even if the boilers of the fur mace itself be fed with the gas, yet there is a waste of at least 10000 horsepower, and like wastes occur at coke ovens. The coking process rids the coal of it's gaces, and these gases are not utilized except in the limited number of bi-product plants. The tens Of thousands of beehive ovens in this country are exceedingly wasteful.
 The truth is, between the unutilized water powers of the country and the wasted gases of the coke ovens and blast furnaces, we are wasting more power than we use. The problem be- foro us is better use of known power, and as coal becomes more expensive more attention will doubtless be given to these sources of waste. Engineers are beginning } study the subject, and as "one decades waste is the next decades profit" we may pretty soon see great changes in the utilization of waste power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-28
Bessemer Cars.

"Our trial of electric cars on the Bes- semer line on Tuesday night was thor oughly satisfactory" said an official of Inc Birmingham Railway Light and Power company.
 we had four cars running during the night, and were able to run at a much better speed than we expected. It will not be many days now until we can es- tablish regular schedule between Bir- mingham and Bessemer, and do away forever with the old dummies.
 "Bessemer people have thought 1t an awful hardship to be compelled to put up with these relics of Brmingham's early street railway system, and we can hardly blame them. !
 ITO start with our schedule to Besse- mer will probably be an hour, but we expect later to be able to attain better speed than that"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-28
WHISKY RECOMMENDEDAS
 WHOLESOME TABLE DRINK

When the era of the aching joints dawns upon man the doctor will tell him to stop drinking all liquors except whisky. Of all spirituous drinks that seems to be the least harmful The man who takes little of it, judiclously dilut- ed, for his dinner every day will be a better man at fifty than he who follows the older custom and punishes his b&tle of burgundy and his pint of champagne; and he will not have any particular crav- ing for the pony of brandy or the se- ductive and destructive liquor after dln- ner.
 Of course the new style makes old-time bon vivants shake their heads at the de- generacy of modern days, and 1t shocks estimable people who hold the word whisky to be synonymous with perdi- ton. But many of those who care little for the sacredness of customs, which. as Hector Berioz once noted, are especially sacred when they are bad, are putting the whisky glass beside their dinner plates and sending the old-fashioned varied as- sortment of wine glasses to the quiet re- tirement of the sideboard, where. they will do no harm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-28
Liuuidation in Wall Street.

The public Is not buying stocks. The lambs are not nibbling in Wall street, and there is no one there who proposes to stand under the staggering load for tne purpose of maintaining abnormal prices. Water is bad enough at low prices, but when high prices are affixed to that commodity prices must crumble, especially when no one and no interest is at hand to check the decline.
 No doubt gold exports, and labor troubles, and the small decline in iron, and cotton speculations have each and all affected the prices of stocks, but with all these lacking prices could not be maintained when there are no bulls in evidence or even in sight.
 It may be that the Wall street traders are conspiring to put prices down so that later on they can make money by putting them up. They dread dullness and stagnation. Their profits come in wCen stocks are moving free ly, and the outside public can be in- duced to come into the market While they are awaiting the outcome of the crops the brokers are no doubt willing to see prices go down
 But they will not go much lower. They are lower now than they have been in two years, and many things polnt to continuance of prosperity. The high-priced stocks are suffering from recent attacks, notably the Penn sylvania, which is having much diff culty in placing its new issue; the New Y rk Central, Louisville and Nashville a-.d st. Paul. Al Of theso stocks have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-28
Emerson and RuIwer.

It is an odd contrast which is suggest ed by the fact that the centenary of Emerson's birth should also be the cen- tenary of Bulwer-Lytton' Surely no two men of the same race could present more remarkable antithesis-Emerson the serious, shy, unworldly Yankee, and Bull wer-Lytton the frivolous, pushing, dan- dified Londoner. The English-speaking world today ascribes to Emerson some what more of consequence than he in reality deserves. Perhaps by the law of compensation 1t is unduly contemptuous in its forgetfulness of Lytton. One man has assumed an exaggerated importance; seriously at all.
 Bulwer-Lytton at any rate deserves a tribute of remembrance. At one time he was the most read author of his day. AL though he was in many respects a sham, a poseur in literature and in politics. he had truly remarkable cleverness which enabled him to do things which were su- perficially brilliant and 70 win successes which, If they were ephemeral, were at any rate extremely striking. He could as- simulate knowledge with wonderful fa- cility, and after getting up a subject could impress the world for moment with the belief that his command of 1t was sure. He knew the formulas for se- curing certain definite effects. and he worked those formulas with real dex- terity."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-28
COTTON LEADER BROWN
 EXPLAINS HIS POSITION

exist now, for future delivery, others bought contracts to protect their sales of goods. So it is the middle fellow and the bearmen that are suffering"
 In the morning of yesterday MT Brown hustled about on the floor of the ex- change, greeting old friends buying a bale or so here and there, looking at his watch every five minutes. impassioned. cool-headed and clear-eyed. Tn the after noon he went to his office at S39 Gravier street, where the reporter found him. ing affair, in size not much bigger than bread tray-one possessing no lock. In front of him were huge stacks of letters and telegrams. The chair in which he sat was one that police reporter at police station would swap for a cracker box. His coat and vest hung over his head, held by an eight-pen2y nail driven in the door facing.
 MT. Brown is not nervous man. either in language or action. While talking with the reporter be was frequently interrupt- ed by the appearance of a messenger boy, but he did not lose the thread of his con- versation for a second One looking him squarely in the face observes first his chin. It sticks boldly out over his neck. squarely-shaped. closely-shaved, firm looklng-fiercel
 When he spoke of cotton going higher neither the eyes nor the mouth seemed to speak-it was the chin. The chin told the reporter that what MT. Brown said was so. His hand to his mouth quite often when hesitating, that he might get the exact word desired, did not hide the lower jaws from where they started from his ears to where they ended below his lips-the chin positive, the chin direct nothing fiaccid about it.
 His violent campaign of the last few weeks does not show on his face, in his eyes. nor around that chin. His first day in his office for more than week did not make him transact affairs that confront ed him with unusual haste. He directed his clerks evenly and calmly. They came to him with this bill to sign, that order to | fill, a check to O. K, and he would do so methodcally. all the time the men | around him looking at thar chin. He is robust square-shouldered. thick-muscled, heavy -boned, red-faced and red-mus- but yours pass from his forehead to his chln-the bulldog chin, the chin that has made him master of the cotton world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-28
AN ANNIsroN BOY.

From the Anniston Evening Star.
 Paul Cook, an Anniston boy, is doing some very fine work in the Birmingham Age-Herald Sunday issues. His stories of western life and his descriptions of vest ern scenes have been features in The Age Herald for some weeks, but in yes-' terday's issue he changed to character sketch work, which is even better than his former work. MT. Cook is special writer of superior ability and the future has some good things in store for him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-28
CAUSES OF TIE .cIVIL-wAR.
South Originally Opposed Slavery and
 Would Do So Again.

Gen. J. B. Gordon in May scribners.
 The causes of the war will be found at the foundation of our political fabric, in our complex organism. in the fun- damental law, in the constitution Itself, In the conflicting construction which it invited, and in the institution of slavery which it recognized and was intended to protect If asked what was the real issue involved in our unparalleled conflict, the average American citizen will reply: "The negro;" and it is fair to say that had there been no slavery there would have been no war But there would have been no slavery if the south's protests could have ayaied when 1t was first introduced; !; and now that 1t Is gone, although it's sudden and violent abolition entailed upon the south directly and incidentally series of woes which no pen can describe, yet it Is true that in no section would its re- establishment be more strongly and uni- versally resisted. The south steadfastly maintains that responsibility for the presence of this political Pandora's box in this western world cannot be laid at her door, When the constitution was adopted and the Union formed, slavery existed in practically all the states; and it is claimed by the southern people that it's disappearance from the northern and its development in the southern states is due to climatic conditions and industrial exigencies rather than to the existence or absence of great moral ideas.
 Slavery was undoubtedly the immedi- ate fomenting cause of the woeful Amer ican conflict. It was the great political factor around which the passions of the sections hat long been gathered-the tall est pine in the political forest around whose top the fiercest lightnings were to blaze and whose trunk was destined to be shivered in the earthquake shocks of war But slavery was far from being the sole cause of the prolonged conflict. Neither it's destruction on the one hand nor Its defense on the other was the energizing force that held the contending armies to four years of bloody work. l apprehend that if all living Union soldiers were sum moned to the witness stand, every one of them would testify that it was the pre- servation of the American Union, and not the destruction of southern slavery that induced him to volunteer at the call of his country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-28
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
Mr. ToadvIne.

T used to think that Toadvine, one of the most famous towns in Jefferson county, derived it's name from the rural character of the place said prominent citizen. "but I was entirely mistaken.
 On a recent visit to New York l stopped at the Imperial hotel. and while there had the pleasure of meeting E. c. Toadvine, one of the managers of the hotel. Learning that I was from Birming- ham, MT. Toadvine said, of course you know of the town of Toadyine?
 |" Yes, replied. everybody in Jefferson county knows of Toadvine, the place where frogs assemble by the thousands- the home of the Rubes.s"
 We'll said MT. Toadvine, My father bought timber lands in that locality in 1s70 He started lumber camp there and then came the Toadvine postoffice We are Marylanders, Toadvine being one of the historic cognomens of our state"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-28
By the Late Max o'Ren, in the New York

By the Late Max oRell, in the New York
 American.
 1 HE FIRST LOVE of a woman Is (0 only. as it were, a sort of re-
 hearsal, and one which should not make the man who inspires it feel very proud. It amounts to very little more, In young girl, than gratitude to- ward the first man who does homage to her beauty and thus stamps her woman. Nine young girls out of ten would be ready to accept the first man who pro- posed to them. Nay. not infrequently the first love of a woman is a mistake
 Well" will probably exolaim my read CT, how warm you are getting on the subject You must have loved very young" Yes, l did. I was then 12 and my lady love was little girl of my own age. It was in the occasional meetings in the pnblic gardens of my native town that my chance of making love to her lay and am inclined to think 1t afford ed much amusement to our respective parents who were in the secret. My love was too deep for words and I never dared declare my flame. But what fluttering went through my whole being every time l had the ineffable joy of a nod from her. and what volumns of love l put into my bow as I raised my hat and returned her salute! I was a pupil of the organist of the church which she attended and once it was arranged that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-28
We are born to do benefits.
 -Timen of Athens.
Americans on America.

Secretary Hay starts no new fad when he attempts to give America and Americans" official and social sanction, and popular recognition. But he is over one hundred years too late in his crusade, for Washington and the federal senate uscl the words free ly and almost earelessly when they referred to this country and it's people. From time out of mind our minister, now ambassador, to England has been known in England as the American minister or ambassador, and writers in all parts of the world prefer to call this country America rather than use an awkward phrase as a name. This phrase-the United States of America --is spoken differently in every coun- try The fact Is, an American in an other country would have to be learned if he recognized the name of his own country when he heard it spoken.
 It is well to get rid of the awkward phrase for once and for all, and Secre. tary Hays movement should be sec onded by every American. There are other Americas, but they must stand back when the biggest of them all de- sires to use in specific way the gen eral name The big fish always is omniyerous.
 Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian naviga- tor, did not cross the sea until 1497, and then his discoveries were of small extent. Columbus was the real dis coverer of America, and before 1499 he had made three voyages across the sea, discovering not only the West Indian islands, but the mainland at or n T the mouth of the Orinoco. This was on August l, 149S. Vespucci was not in command of any one of the four expeditions that he made-two for Spain and two Tor Portugal. He was pilot or factor in each case, and the chief responsibility did not fall upon him.
 As to whether he or Cabot or Colum- bus first saw the mainland there has been and still is much dispute. He was awarded the honor of the attachment of his name to the entire hemisphere, and yet all voyages across the sea were led up to and made possible by Co lumbus. But all this is neither here nor there. The name is here to stay, and whether deserved or not does not matter at this late day The world accepts the name, and we may as well appropriate as much of 1t as we readily can.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-28
Worlds Greatest Rose Garden.

"A million roses will bloom at once in the vast rose garden at the worlds fair" said St. Louis man. That Is guessing. of course, but the foundation of the guess Is this: Four acres are set to strong and vigorous rose trees. Thirty of the largest exhibitors have sent their choicest stock and each will strive for first place in the judgment of the jury and people.
 This vast rose garden with it's 5000O rose trees lies east of the great palace ot agriculture. The warm eastern slope has been made more fertile than your garden or mine with rich compost, and it win be sight worth travelling far to see when the glorious eolors make bright the beds and fragrance spreads far beyond the boundaries that have now been set.
 This rose garden. the planting of which was begun early In April, occupies one of the conspicuous sites in the city of knowledge. The center of the garoen is at the main entrance to the palace of agriculture, a grand structure 1900 feet long and 800 feet deep. It is on a high elevation overlooking the group of main buildings of the exposition, and looking to the northward. a splendid view oi one of St. Louis most attractive residence districts is spread out before the eye''