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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-13

tlonal sculpture society thinks some
OF the OrnamentatiOn is atrOciOus It
seems that the board of estimate re-
quired the fine arts society to make
recommendations to the architects
Hogan and Slattery, long known as
the Tammany architects, regarding
the sculpture work. 1t is now claimed
that the architects ignored these rec
concentrations and complaint has
therefore been filed with Mayor Low.
The annual arrival of actors in
New York has filled the sidewalks
of upper Broadway in the region of
tOrtleth street with a crowd that
keeps to its place during the greater
part of the day. The northern march
Of New York life has always been in
dictated by the station selected for
their summer discussions First
they We're at Union square, then at
TWenty-eighth street; from there
they went to Thirty fourth street and
now their most frequented stamping
ground is almost at Forty-secOnd.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-13

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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-13

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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-13

The New York school of applied
design for women is to have a build
ing Of its own within a year. The
structure will cost 100000. half O.
which has already been subscribed.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-13

and spacious. Art is to be cared for
on both sides of the curtain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02

harboring an ambition to name the can didate That would be a mistake on his part. Cleveland and Bryan will each serve the democratic party best by not trying to run the convention, but by aiding the democracy with speech and pen to win victory after the ticket has been declared. The spirit of patriotism should lead these two conspicuous factors to pursue the course suggested.
 It is pretty safe to say that MT. Cleveland will not make himself very prominent in democratic politics until after the nomination. Will MT. Bryan likewise keep himself in the back ground until the campaign opens, when his oratory will be appreciated? The twice defeated candidate is no longer youthful, and it is believed by some persons that with advancing years he will learn wisdom and also divest him. self of over-leaping ambition. Time only will tell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02
A knavlsh speech sleeps in foolish ear.
 Macbeth.
Isthmian Canal Project.

The Age-Herald prints in another col umn a letter from ex-Senator Warner Miller of New York to Senator Morgan correcting false statement of a great fact that has been current for some time concerning the isthmian canal project. MT Miller, as president of the Canal Construction company, is an ac- cepted authority on the history of isth- milan canal schemes, legislation, com missions and surveys, and in reviewing the reports of engineers and of the commission appointed under an act Of congress passed March 8, 1899, makes it very clear that the Nicaraguan route is feasible and practicable-decidedly the most feasible and practicable.
 President Roosevelt has been per suaded by men whose opinion should be worth little compared with the ex- pert opinion of some of the ablest en- gineers of this country, that the Nica- raguan project was not feasible and that the government shoul1 go to work on the Panama route. As Senator Nor gan says, if the President "is misled by them. it is a grievous mistake for the country" The senator hopes that pub lie opinion will yet be strong enough to prevent the Panama scheme from materilizing. He says that if the gov ern ment undertakes to build a Panama canal the work will finally be aban doned as impracticable after hundreds of millions of dollars have been Sunk in it.
 |. looks as if it is now too late to swing congress away from the Panama project, but MT. Miller's statements and observations are none the less in- teresting as supporting Senator Nor gan's position.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02
THE TELEPHONE ON FARMS.

From the Southern Farm Magazine.
 Farmers are getting rural free delivery with it's opportunities for saving time and money in shopping; in the more thickly settled portions of the country they have rapid transit by trolley lines. and in some parts, notably In the west, they enjoy the advantages in business and farm operations of extensive telephone systems.
 Far removed from the daily paper with It's weather forecasts the farmer can keep informed by phone of probabilities, and thus escape loss in crop time. When he himself Is away from home the mem- bers of his family have a telephone at hand, giving them the means of quick communications with neighbors, as great a protection against providers as is the possession of a shotgun or a revolver The telephone on the farm is a cultivator of neighborlness, a saver of time and trouble, and a protector of the home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02
Holiday Trade.

Birmingham,s Christmas trade prom ises tc Joe more active this year than ever joefore. The cold weather is what the. merchants have been praying for. <H is greatly stimulating the dry goods and clothing business, and already the holiday shopping is well under way.
 The merchants are carrying very large and rich stocks this season and are offering rare bargains. If excursion trains were to be run into Birmingham within the next ten days the railroads would be overtaxed in accommodating the crowds of shoppers from the coun try 200 miles round. As it Is thousands of people will come here from Alabama and Mississippi points to buy Christ mas goods, paying full fare both ways.
 The farmers of Alabama have never been so well supplied with money as they are now, and the people generally are better off than they were this time last year, when they were exceedingly prosperous And there is every indica ton that flush times will continue in the south for months to come. At any rate the Christmas of 1903 is to be memorable because it will come on a nigh tide of prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02
ONE OF THOSE BLESSINGS
 CONFERRED BY BOSTON

Cousin; and if we ever encountered an abandoned hypocrite. his name is Joseph Andrews" Let us pass by the 'Senti- mental ourney"-Lawrence Sterne ought to have been ashamed of himself-and look at the doomed procession! Pepys, Walter Raleighs. Uncle Toby-dear dear that age will be plotted out entirely; we skip to Byron. Swinburne the ChevaIier de Casanova. Theophile Gautier, Walt Whitman, Zola, Daudet-who knows? What will be left when the sacred cod fish shall have been appeased? We may lose even Brook Farm and Madame Bovary."
 But let the precious work go on The world may be bereaved of Shakespeare; 1t keeps Mrs. Hemans. It must never hear of Voltaire again, yet it still has Laura Jean Libbey. Don Juan vanishes forever. but Sir Charles Grandson remains with us always. Verify this Watch and Ward society of New England fills a long-felt want-or puts the capstone on our suf- ferings; the individual may appraise it by the standard of his taste and fancy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02
WILLIAMS OF MISSISSIPPI.

From Golfers Weekly.
 John Sharp Williams, the new demo- cratic leader in the house of representa- tivess has one distinction above his col leagues He is the only member of con- gress who was schoolmate of the Ger man emperor. They were together at Heidelberg. Williams is willing to forget it, but his friends will not, and he is pointed out from the galleries with as much enthusiasm as if he were Poultney Bigelow.
 Williams is from Mississippi lawyer. and cotton planter, and has been in con- gross for ten years. TSe Is highly edu- cated, speaks several languages, is some- what of a wit, a good deal Of a story-tell- CT, and can make a humorous speech if the occasion demands. These attributes make him popular with his fellows, and added to them are wide knowledge of legislative methods, a keen mind and an instant readiness in debate.
 He will be a good leader, for he keeps his temper. No assault can ruffle Will
 
 the bitterest passages with the repubi- cans. The leader who sputters and fumes Is lost, for he can not get his own people to follow him, to say nothing of making an impression on the other side.
 Williams is a regular democrat He has followed the party through every de- vious path. He was for Cleveland, and he was for Bryan. Now he Is preaching the doctrine of get-together. His princi- pal work in congress will be to secure stronger democrats on the big committees of the house. He argues, and justly that the democrats have been handicap ped since the republicans have had con- trol of congress by lack of application by the minority members of the commit tees Williams believes in work. He wants men on committees who will be able to discuss measures when they come on the floor, and points that of late years the democrats In the house have not been as faithful in committees as they should have been. He thinks the times are pro- pitious for democracy.
 Williams most famous speech was in defense of Admiral Schley in the Fifty seventh congress. He wrote a set of verses beginning: "Oh, who is Crownin- shield, papa?" and read them In the course of his speech. The verses had for their refrain the statement that Rear Admiral Crowninshield, who was chief of the bureau of navigation of the navy de- partment during the war with Spain. | and one of the most active in the anti Schley propaganda, was greatest tar that ever stayed ashore" The house roared l with laughter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02
Should Be Patriotic.

It is reported from London that Rich ard Croker, ex-chief of Tammany and now living the life of an English squire, is advising William Jennings Bryan to seek the democratic nomina- ion again next year. The report may or may not be true. Croker has never been accused of being partisan of Bryan, although as party man he sup ported him in both of his campaigns.
 If MT. Croker did suggest to MT. Bryan that he would be the best man Tor democratic standard-bearer in 1904, ne was only joking, and MT. Bryan, who is a man oI uncommon wit, could easily take it as joke.
 Thousands of staunch friends of Mir Bryan and many more thousands who llways vote the democratic ticket, no natter whether they like the candidate ,r not, regard the Nebraskan as much put of the race as Grover Cleveland. While he has not written letter of ieclination, it is felt that he could not pc nominated in 1904, try he never so lard. He is, humanly speaking, no nore of Presidential possibility than Cleveland.
 MT. Bryan is. however, suspected of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02
Educators Coming.

Birmingham has entertained many large bodies, but perhaps the largest, and certainly the most influential, or ganization that is likely to meet here is the conference for southern educa- tion, which has practically settled upon this city for its place of meeting in April next.
 This conference includes many of the most distinguished philanthropists and friends of education in the country and its meetings are always well attended. It is estimated that fully one thousand representative people will be present at the Birmingham session.
 The mayor, the board 'of aldermen, the Commercial club and the Board of Trade, each extended an invitation to the conference to come here, and the two mercantile organizations as well as the citizens in general will see to 1t that the visitors are f1ttingly enter tained
 The conference will give wonderful impetus to educational work, not only in Birmingham, but throughout Ala bama. Able and stimulating addresses will be delivered and thoughtful and Illuminating papers will be read. All intellectual men and women who are so fortunate as to be present will feel an uplift that will be at once delightful and profitable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02

From the Saturday Evening Post.
 In the senate cloakroom one afternoon last winter some one began chaffing Sen- ator Blackburn on the exceedingly great number of generals" majors" and 'colonels' dwelling in the state of Ken lucky. MT Blackburn took the chaff in good part; indeed he even added to the merriment.
 "A gentleman from Georgia who was visiting Lexington" he attests was pre- scented to a Major Titherington of that place. The Georgian, whose family has always been more or less inclined to the military, was charmed by the geniality of his new acquaintance and as south erners are accustomed to do under such circumstances, began to question him as to his antecedents. Eventually they dis covered that they were kin in greater or less degree.
 Now. tell me- said the Georgian how you gained the rank of major-in the civil war. I presume?'
 No, sir replied the major
 "Oh, seei" responded the other. "then you were perhaps in the volunteer ser vice during the recent little affair with Span?"
 No, sir" said the major inperturbably; ito tell you the truth, sir, I'm called major because I married the widow of the late Major Sparksp'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02
Street Pavinu.

G. H. Ingram, president of the Nash vile Roofing and Paving company is in Birmingham, a guest of the Hillman hotel MT. Ingram comes to Birmingham to look after the contracts his firm has with the city of Birmingham to fay pave ments in the downtown section. Yester- day large force of men was put to work eXcavating for the vitrified brick pave ment to be laid along Second avenue from Seventeenth to Eighteenth streets.
 The Nashville company is erecting in Birmingham a bituminous macadam plant and in a short while will begin on their contract for laying 2O0O square yards of this class of paving. thus improving sev- era of the prominent business streets of Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02
MORE ExcAvATED HISTORY.

From the Baltimore American.
 It was in the Grecian province of Loe- ris.
 Leonidas was lighting up his belt with one hand and whetting his knife with the other.
 He had just heard that the Persians were marching toward Thermopylae.
 "No, sir," he said there's nothing but paper in the house now, and we refuse to let any gang of Persians come in by just one Pass.
 However, after a fierce battle, it was discovered that the visitors had a pull with the management of the house, and Leonidas and several other members of the company died of modification.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02
North Alabama Conference.

The Methodist church in Alabama. in- creases In membership every year." said a layman yesterday. "The Alabama con- ference and the North Alabama confer ence, the latter having just closed it's an nual session at Tuscumbia. have com bined membership of about 125. OO0 North Alabama reports 10S9 members this year. an increase of several hundred over last year. The churches under this confer ence collected during the fiscal year s1155S1.
 "rhe Methodist church leads all the other denominations in this state and the church never was so vigorous or so in- fiuential as it is today"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02

l6H HE New York Tribune tells lit, lit. | NY tie story of a man who lived thousands of years ago, and tried diet experiment on his faithful horse. This animal was sick. and his distressed owner cast about for some remedy. A fanatic came along who was full of inven- tions. This seer advised that the horse be dieted for his complaint The sugges- tion was hailed with delight, and the owner of the animal decided to feed him on shavings as light and easily digestible sustenance. The disease passed away
 and so did the horse. The little fable serves to point moral for those prepared food cranks who now invest the land and i spread their pernicious ideas abroad. These people believe that a steady fare | of wheat chaff, corn starch and other unpalatable materials is a panacea for all human ills and unfortunately succeed | in convincing other people. The amount of breakfast and prepared foods annually consumed in this country is something appalling, and yet doctors continue to do very fair business curing the ordinary 1 dyspeptic victims are wilder and more obstreperous now than ever before in de- l tailing their symptoms to long suffering public Sunny Jim and his conferes have succeeded in getting on to a very good thing so long as they can convince people that breakfast foods are the proper foods to eat their sales will be undiminished. |
 According to the gossip of the "chap- pies," no man who considers himself ultra dare wear vest in Philadelphia this win ter that Is not provided with a buttonless button, or, in other words button with out button hole. According 70 fashions dictates, this buttons is the last one on the vest counting down, and is purposely left unprovided with a buttonhole, for what purpose, no mortal can say. Style is one of the most unaccountable and freakish crazes that afflicts humanity. and no one can tell what new vagary it will develop. Perhaps the reasons for buttonless buttons on Philadelphia vests are just as sound as those which superin- duced big bows on mems cut shoes, big l buttons on their coats, and turned-up trousers in days gone by. It must be confessed that the Philadelphia fad is not so bad as the craze of the London tailors to introduce colored dress suits but the man who would be caught with such marks of his "cholleism'' on his person is certainly victim of fashion of most pronounced type.
 An Iowa man claims that he has solved the problem of rapid river navigation. His boat is a half cone-shaped hull that rises in the water when it starts. By this means there is practically no dis placement and in addition the paddles strike the water at such an angle that resistance is greatly decreased. The sides of the hull are air syphons which cause formation of air pressure under l the hull and thus dispenses with displace- ment. Since the days of Robert Fulton many Improvements have been made in river steamers but all have come to naught, for river navigation has been largely superseded by trains. To suc-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02
Rosemary"

Howard Kyle has written a letter to a friend of his here commenting on the unusual success which ''Rosemary'' has attained this season. He says it has proven a great matinee play. and that he expects Birmingham to give him the biggest matinee crowd he has had in the south. The letter is
 My Dear Friend:-The south Is re- spending generously to my efforts with Rosemary It is a great matinee per- formance.
 q am looking toward Birmingham con- fidently. We should beat all of the other places as usual.
 We are apparently giving the great est satisfaction. Cordially.
 Howard Kyle"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02
THE RAGGEDY MAN.

By James Whitcomb Riley Oh, the Raggedy Mani He workes for Pa An he's the goodest man you ever saw! He comes to our house every day An waters the horses and feeds the hay. An he opens the shed-an' we all list
 laugh
 When he drives out our little old wob-
 blely calf: An nen, eff our hired girl says he can. He milks the cows for 'Lizbuth Ann. Amt he a awful good Raggedy Man? Raggedy! Raggedyl Raggedy Manl Wy the Raggedy Man-hes list so good He splits the kindlin' an chops the wood An nen he spades in our gardens, too, An does most things at boys can't do. He clim' ed clean up in our big tree An shocked a apple down fer me. An 'nother'n. too, fer 'Lizbuth Ann, An nothern, too, fer the Raggedy Man. Ain't he a awful kind Raggedy Man? Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man. An the Raggedy Man, he known most
 rhymes, An tells 'em. if I be good, sometimes Knows bout Glunts an Griffns an
 Elves.
 An the Squidgicum- Sques at swallers
 theirselves An wite by the pump in our pasture lot He showed me the hole at the Wunks Is
 got.
 At lives way deep in the ground an can Turn inter me CT 'Lizbuth Ann. Amt he funny old Raggedy Man? Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man The Raggedy Man-one time when he Was makin little bow-'n-arry fer me Says: "When you're big like your Pa 10 Air you goin' to keep a fine store like his. An 1a a rio ha mt ons Aro
 clothes?
 Er what air you goin' to be? Goodness
 knows,'
 An nen he laughed at 'Lizbutb Ann. An I says. I'M goin' to be Raggedy
 Man!
 I'm list goin' to be a nice Raggedy Man; Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Mans
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02
SOMETHING DOING.
Strong Editorial Staff.

Compiled by the Washington Post.
 Forsyth (Mont) Times: The great city papers think they are smart In having a large staff, and although we have not published ours before. we shall do so to take some conceit out of the city breth- ren. The editorial staff of the Times is comprised of: Managing editor, Ira Cole; city editor, I. Cole; news editor, 'Ra Cole; editorial writer, Hon. MT Cole; exchange editor. Cole; pressman, the same Cole; foreman, more of the same Cole; fighting editor Mrs Cole
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02
About Persons.

IT. O. Campbell of Springville, H., was one of the IIilmans arrivals last night.
 The Hon. J. H. Nathan, a prominent lawyer of Sheffield and a member of the state democratic executive committee, is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 w. o. Paine of Valley Head is register ed at the St. Nicholas
 The Rev w. R. Anderson of Roanoke. the Rev. w. w. Turner of Roanoke, the Rev. J. P. Lancaster of Lanett, the Rev. Andrew Nostestine and the Rev. O.. Waites of Penton stopped at the Florence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02
Spoiled His Faith in Dreams.

smithvllle CMo) Herald: A young man in the country had peculiar experience not long ago. The young mans best girl lost fur boa. and he dreamed one night he saw the lost article under a road cross ing near a schol house. He went to the crossing, thrust his arm under it-and pulled out a bundle of fur. But it wasn't the boa, and he has since buried all his clothes. He has no faith in dreams now
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02

last night en route from the North Ala bama conference, which has been in ses- sion at Tuscumbia, to their homes in East Alabama
 T. J. Hassely of New York, represen- tative of the Fairbanks Scale company was one of the Hillman's arrivals last night.
 T. J. Roberson of Montgomery was one of the Morris late arrivals last night.
 Frank N. Julian, Owen N. Julian and R. T. Abernathy of Tuscumbia are at the Metropolitan.
 A. G. Stone and A. F. Toole of Talla- dega were two of the Hillmans arrivals last night.
 The Rev. T. K. Robertson of Anniston is stopping at the Florence.
 United States District Attorney Thomas R. Roulhac is stopping at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-02
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Cattle Feeding.

"The cattle-raisng business could be- come the most profitable industry in Ala bama and adjoining states" said stock man last night, If the people owning the lands and the stock would only feed them properly. In fact the lands would do this if they were only properly cultivated. The southern farmers spend thousands of dollars each year in the work of de- stroying grass, and thousands, yea mill lions more in buying 1t from the west for feeding stock. This is simply suicidal You southerners produce cattle. ship them to the western plains for feeding and for slaughter by the Armours ct al. but to be returned to the south for consumption as beef at high price Why not feed, shel- ter and otherwise care for them here, and thus save money? It will only require care. The recent striking success of King Edward in the London cattle show makes 1t plain that the art of cattle feeding plays an important part in the economic world.
 "The entries from Windsor included three Herefords, two Shorthorns and four Devons. His majesty was awarded four first prizes for a Hereford steer, for Shorthorns and a heifer and for a Devon steer and heifer; and also three second prizes and two reserve prizes for cows. In addition, his majesty wins three breed championships and two challenge cups with the Hereford steer, which was the pest beast in the show. The Hereford was bred by Queen Victoria. It lacks halr month of being years old, and weighs 1612 pounds. All of these can be raised to magnificent proportions in Ala bama, and the wonder is that more at tention is not paid here to the industry