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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
The Fourteenth Circuit.

'"rhe creation Of the Fourteenth Judlcial circuit composed of the counties or Walker and Winston, leaves Jefferson county as a judicial circuit all to itsef' remarked well-informed politician yes terday. T doubt not the wisdom or this action by the legislature for Jefferson county has sufficient business before the courts to keep both Judge Coleman and Solicitor Ferguson busy. Notwithstanding this, however 1t required very hard work upon the part of the members interested to get the bill through the legislature.
 Ut was generally understood when the bill passed that later in the session Fayette and Lamar counties were to be taken from the Sixth circuit and added to the Fourteenth. In case the redistrict- ing bill shall pass the house the Four teenth district will be named in the bill. as I have just outlined, but if this bill shall fail. it IS understood that an at tempt will also be made to add Fayette and Lamar to the new circuit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
FUND IN HONOR OF DR. DEEMS.
To Raise Money In Ills Memory to
 Assist Worthy Students.

From the New York Tribune.
 A number of old friends and parishion- CTS of the late Rev Dr. Charles F. Deems, who was for twenty years pastor of the Church of the Strangers. have formed ain organization called the Charles Force Deems Educational fund, and are making an effort to perpetuate the memory of Dr. Deems by raising a fund to assist worthy students in acquiring an educa- ton. Several thousand dollars have al- ready been subscribed A number of the leading clergyment of this city have in dorsed this movement.
 In the circular issued, the projectors of the fund say:
 The organization owes its origin to a devoted body of women known as the Sisters of the Stranger" who were an important part of the Church of the Strangers this city. founded by the late pr. Charles F. Deems.
 Desirous of continuing their good work and at the same time of perpetuating the memory of pr. Deems, they decided to turn over to the new corporation fund which they had accumulated during a period of several years.
 This body is managed by seven trus- tees. who are authorized to invest the funds, to increase them if possible and to loan the income of the same to needy students from any part of the Uniteo States whose application may be approv- ed. When so approved, the applicant may attend any institution of learning he may desire
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT MATTERS
 IN BIRMINGHAM AND ELSEWHERE

HloLITIcs seems to have played " out in Birmingham. We reform
 CTS who thought that the chief executive of the city was only entitled to two terms, were turned down. Mayor Drennen was nominated mayor for a third term He had a machine behind him which was a genuine machine. Every part and parcel of it was oiled and it worked-and worked we'll
 Drennen himself is very good fellow. He means well. He wants to do well. He loves the applause of his friends and the community at large. If he will exer- else his brain and, in a measure, his brawn, he will do well even for a third term. But, even an honest man Is in danger when he holds political office of an executive character too long. l am hopeful, however, that Drennen will be broad enough and big enough and firm enough to prevent contracts of street improvement nature and of all other na- lures in which there Is possible fees which may prove expensive to tax pay CTS and profitable to politicians.
 BlffnlnBham continues on the up- -Sraue. When bank deposits multiply, and new industries are established, and old in- dustries increase capacity and output, and profits of manufacturing industries increase, one knows that a town is prosperous. Everybody in Birmingham Is adding to that which he already has. The streets are torn up for new street car lines heating plants, additional tele- phone service and all manner of things. In many places the sidewalks and part of the streets are taken up for material for new buildings. The whole town Is going ahead. Everybody In it is going ahead. The railroads which are here are extending and developing; and new rail- roads are building in as rapidly as en- gineering skill and financial ability can get them in. Every carpenter and brick mason and skilled laborer available has all the work he can do, and the man of muscle. whether he be black white, is in daily demand at good wages.
 During the past week the railroad presi- dents and security holders of all the great railroad systems in this territory have been in Birmingham.
 Milton H. Smith of the Louisville and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
THE MARSEILLAISE.

From the French of Rouget de Lisle. Ye sons of freedom. wake to glory! Harkl Hark, what myriads bid you
 risel Your children, wives, and grandsires
 hoary,
 Behold their tears and hear their criesl Shall hateful tyrants, mischief breeding, With hireling hosts, a ruffian band, Alright and desolate the land. While peace and liberty lie bleeding? To arms. To armsl ye bravel
 The averaging sword unsheathe; March oni March onl All hearts re
 solved
 On victory or death. Which treacherous kings confederate
 raise; The dogs of war let loose. bowling, And, iol our fields and cities blaze; And shall we basely view the ruin, While lawless force. with guilty stride, Spreads desolation far and wide With crimes and blood his hands inn
 bruing?
 To arms To armsl ye bravei
 The averaging sword unsheathe March on! March on! All hearts re-
 solved
 On victory or death. 0, liberty, can man resign thee, Once having felt thy generous flame? Can dungeons bolts, or bars conf1ne
 thee,
 Or whips thy noble spirit tame? Too long the world has wept, bewailing That falsehood's dagger tyrants wield, But freedom is our sword and shield, And all their arts are unavaiing. To arms, To arms! ye brave,
 The averaging sword unsheathe; March on. March on. All hearts re-
 solved > On victory or death
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

stands aloof and sneers is unpatriotic and selfish and probably egotistical and childish. It is the duty of every man to Serve the public whenever he is called. and he is called on every election day to vote at least It is the duty of every man to study public questions and to have an opinion of his own as to every one of them. This is what makes a good and firm state, and it is this that would elevate poli- tics and reform politicians.
 When we look at the matter careful 4ly we will find that the chief and pri- mary trouble rests on the hands of the man who sneers.- If he would do his full duty, there would be no lapses in the parties to sheer at. He does not do it. Beginning with the famous "400,' all down through our shoddy aristocracy, it is the fashion to sheer at politics and politicians, when in fact there is not a pot-house politician who is not more of a patriot, more unselfish and broader in mind than the man who sneers. The sheer that is begun at Newport extends up and down the land, and it Is the thinnest and meanest feature of our public life. It is the veneer of the brainless and selfish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

several hundred miles additional are now in the course of construction. The en- tire system is on a profitable basis and is one of the great railroad systems of this country
 MT. Williams is as yet a young man. In comparison to the other railroad mag mates of this country. in point of age. he is a mere boy. He is not yet ss years of age. Yet his career in the railroad world is evidence of the fact that he is one or the greatest fnanciers and railroad mag mates that this country has ever pro- duced. He is a southern man-bern and reared in Yirginia-and his heart and his interests are confined solely to the southern country He believes the south is to become the greatest railroad and manufacturing field in America and that the southern railroads will be equally as profitable as those of the north and west He is extending his line into every pro- ductive field of the south. Up to date he has made no mistakes and those who are with him believe that the extension of the Seaboard Air Line into Birmingham will be the most profitable venture this extensive system has yet made.
 Certainly if the words of those who accompanied President Williams here dur ing the past week amount to anything, they are much pleased with the fact that the Seaboard Air Line is to be a part and parcel of Birmingham within the very near future.
 There is soon to be an interesting story printed in the Birmingham newspapers. It may be delayed a week or two, but delay will only increase the speculation as to who spent the most money in the recent local political campaign and for what purposes the money was spent. Under recent state law each candidate in primary election must file with the probate judge of the county a detailed statement of his campaign expenses within thirty days after the primary election. These detailed reports--if they be in detail-may exhibit an internal view of local politics which will be intensely interesting to general observers of things political. We shall all watch for the details, but we may be a bit disappoint- ed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
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SHE BooTBLAcks DON'T DRAW.
Sell Plenty of Tickets, But Do Little
 Shining in Wall Street.

From the New York Sun.
 It has been demonsttat ated to Marie and Belle Forrest that New Workers in search of a new sensation do not care fer it in the form of having their shoes shined by lady lootblGcks."
 Belle and Marie have been gallivanting around the country frcm Champaign, Hi. I here was an unverfiable 1umor about the Wall street district yesterday that they were two of the Cherry sisters in disguise.
 Since coming to New York the women have sold a great many tickets in the Wall street offices al five cents each. en- ttling pun chassrs to lady boothlack's shine" Yesterday they settled dGwn to work in a barber shop at Il Wall street. Very few ticket purchasers had the hard ihood to call for the goods. Now and then a foolish-lookins man would come in and present a ticket and let the sisters | take a whirl at his snoes. Before they had been at the job minute he usually looked as though he would pay 50 cents for ticket that would let him out
 Marie confided to ore sympathetic cus- toner that sine was 20 and Belle was 1S He suggested that they would make more money selling tickets in a guessing contest to- their ages. But the sisters seemed to take a different v.ew
 At a litile after yesterday afternoon heneNolent-loCking old ladV, with spec taoles and a number of tract-lke looking books, began leering into the windows from the sidewalk At the fourth or fifth peer the bootbleck ladies became greatly excited
 Whats the matter with that old gry?' asked Marie
 Shes too nosy to be loose" said Belle.
 he old lady came timorously half way down The bas anent steps and then re- heated
 "Airt got no nerve" said Belle con tcmptously.
 The ole lady returned and beckoned mysteriously. Belle started fo~ the door.
 Look out Belle" said the other, that might be one of them Gerry society de- tectives sfter us"
 he barker near the door cut a large, jaegod sw ath in the chin of his customer at this point Investigation showed that the old lady merely wanted to know whether anybody in the shop knew Mr Murphy, who had an officer somewhere in the block
 So the slstess calr.cd their fears and sat down side by side in their pink waists and black skirts and waited for the ar rival of another ticket holder. Ali cus- toners who are not ticket holders fall to the lot of John the Italian. When ticket holders e me in John makes Ital- ian faces at Belle and Marie. When others come in Belle and Marie look at John as though they thought he was cruel to treat two poor girls so.
 The Boctblaei<s' union has consulted its counsel about the man who published etro oad the opir ion yesterday that the sisters were better looking than some bootblacks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

Nashville-a man of good brains and in- tense energy-spent three days here giv- ing permits for extension of side tracks and doing all manner or things to get right into the heart of the development of Birmingham. He knows good thing when be sees it and is always out af- ter it.
 President Samuel Spencer of the South ern likewise figured in the district for I day, and figured out several things which the Southern can do to develop it's business here.
 Quietly it may be said that the Illinois Central was represented here during the past week. and am told that 1t has se- cured options on some Of the most valu- able of Birmingham property remaining outside of the hands of the several rail- roads here and those which have made arrangements to come here. I am told that President Fish of this line, although he has just sailed for Europe. has made plans to get into the Birmingham district and do his proportion Of the business here.
 Speaking of railroad people, the Sea- hoard Air Line was represented here dur ing the past week by it's president. both vice presidents and almost it's entire board of directors. These people are ex- tending their line from Atlanta to Bir- mingham, and are extending in a most vigorous manner. They announce that their line will be in full operation by Mo- vember next, and I am told that it will be the quickest route to Atlanta. The road is to cost a mint of money, but it is to be practically a level line, enabling the locomoti es to handle the greatest possible amount of freight.
 Speaking of the Seaboard Air Line peo- pie, the career of John Skelton Williams, it's president, has been phenomenal. He started as the president of small rail- road up in southern Virginia and North Carolina and acquired shortly afterwards a little road down in Georgia. In the past ten years he has built up d system which extends from Washington city to Tampa, Fla down the Atlantic coast. He likewise has a direct line from Rich mond to Atlanta, and another line from Savannah to Montgomery. All told in the system there is nearly 5000 miles and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
Sunday Diversion at East Lake.

No one planes the good people of East Lake, which is fast becoming a populous community, when they say they do not want at their door on Sundays a midway with attendant mobs, but when they protest against "hopjack' and other midway features they should stop to consider that the tired people of the factories and shops in town need some diversion, some al deviation from the strain and burden sof life. They should stop to consider that there are some property interests at stake that have at least been winked at, if not encouraged, in other seasons.
 Instead then of prohibition should there not be regulation? Instead of indiscriminate denunciation of all di- version on Sunday, good, bad or mixed, should there not be discrimination and ,s an adjustment adapted to the situa- ton?
 Let no one think that by closing park at East Lake, or at any other place human nature or human needs can be changed If East Lake be closed, some other suburban resort will blossom out, and the aggregate of Sun day amusements will not be lessened. East Lake can, however, regulate and temper it's park on Sundays, and thereby establish happy mean, by which innocent amusements will be permitted and noxious ones prohibited The authorities of East Lake can bring about an adjustment on broad hutlde7 fensible, lines that would probably be inefficient at a resort established to supplant East Lake Don't then throw away a golden opportunity but rather utilize it in bringing out a programme that will not offend any reasopabEe manor woman This is East. Lakes chance to do good, and if it Gan settle the suburban resort problem there is no problem it need be afraid to tackle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
Office Goes Begging.

"The postmaster at Keokea, Hawaii. has resigned, and the fourth assistant postmas- ter general at Washington has been un- able to find a person to accept the va cancy," said a postal official. "The salary Is only $2 a year.
 "The retiring official, David Kaphoko- akmohkeweonah, is a lineal descendant of the great King Kalitapokanil<okiwea ha, who, according to tradition, was very fond of missionaries' and partook of a good many
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
The Spring Time.

When March comes in like lamb and it goes out like a lion. This is one of the weather signs that always holds good. This March came in lamb-lille; there fore 1t will be raw and rough towards the end In the meantime these warm days make glad the truck farmer and likewise the drygoods merchant, the haberdasher, and the millner.
 A Second avenue merchant said yes terday that winter business had been very good and that he was now having a fair rush of spring trade
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
Dealinq in Futures.

From the Brooklyn Eagle und. dem).
 It is said that John w. Gates is going to retire from business. So is J. Edward Addieks going to retire from fooling with Delaware. So is David B. Hill go- ing to retire from politics. Every one of these statements can be depended upon, but each one will take effect not until the men related to each of them are dead. Everything oceurs-or ceases to oc- cuff one only waits long enough
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 In an argument a womans most tell ing logic is a sob.
 Nothing makes prude feel so vir- tuous as to discover a hidden meaning that was never intended.
 Adam had one bit of luck; he couldn't t have any other men held up to him as the kind Eve might have married if she had wanted tnem
 After a woman really learns how to play cards she can't do 1t, because it makes her so mad to have to play with women who don't know. how r. .l@s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Senator Money.

United States Senator II. D. Money of Mississippi spent few hours In DIT mingham yesterday, stopping at the FloF- ence hotel Senator Money was en route to Washington from his home in the sis- ter state. He stated that his visit nome from the national capital had been or a purely business nature, and he was ap- parently in nowise disturbed because Of the recent announcement Of GoVeFnor Longino that he would seek the seat Tn the senate now occupied by Mir. Money
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
Poor Newspaper Field.

"An effort is being made to establish a second morning newspaper in Edinburgh. which, in spite of the population of nearly 3OOO0O, has never been able to sustain more than one,' said a man who spent some time in Scotland recently. "The rea- son assigned is the canniness of the Scots, who decline to advertise in more than one paper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
His Busy Day.
From' Judge

From JuuBt.
 Adam was naming the animals. The pterodaetyl slipped into the line and came forward again.
 "Here," exclaimed Adam; didn't l name you once?'
 ''Yes, sir" answered the pterodactyl. T merely wished to ask you how to pro- nounce my name.'
 "Gd. look in the dictionary" replied Adam I'm busy enough telling the Smiths, Smithes and Smythes how to spell their names without being bothered by you."-. +r t..-sss f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

SentIlB d ldISe ulStiiiilS iiihi ol hSh- lucky.
 J. P. Wilson, Webb Wilson and Joseph yesterday.
 Dr. James R. Powers of Florence. form CT president of the University of Ala bama, was in Birmingham yesterday.
 
 D. S. Lansden, railroad attorney of Cairo, H., is spending day or two with his brother, J. M. Lansden.
 A. T. Collier of Boston is at the Hill man.
 John W. Stewart of Evergreen is res istered at the Morris. w. T Cannon of Selma is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 W. S. Beasey of Montgomery is at the Hillman.
 J. L. McConaughty of Montevallo IS registered at the Morris. J. l. Christopher of Attalla is at the Metropolitan. | Dr. J. c. Walker of Maylene is stopping at the Morris. | N L. Long of Kennedy is registered at | the Hillman. | l.. Dana of St. Louis is at the Morris. |
 The Rev. A. T. Clarke of Shelby Is at | the Metropolitan.
 Dr. Samuel Minturn Peck is at the Nor | ris
 S. D. Mimms of Ellisville, Miss, is stop ping at the Morris. E. tts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
Wireless TeIegraphy an Old Idea.

From Leslie's Weekly.
 We are reminded again that there is nothing new under the sun, not even Mar coni's system of wireless telegraphy. The London corresponds ent of stlre' New York
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

In Switzerland there is one bed in the hospitals for every 160 inhabitants. In Jones Valley there is not one for five times that r:.:mD2r of people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

The lesser cities of Alabama are be- ginning to feel prosperity's wave, not ably Opelika and Fort Payne and Gads- den and Sheffield and Tuscaloosa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
Gossip.
From Puck.

fTCm Putk.
 "Is it true that the elder Miss Bullion is to marry her fathers cle-k?"
 'Oh yes. I understand he was threat ened with discharge if he didn't accent {"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

These figures represent our buying in Paris alone Wine, one of the largest items, is not included in the list, as most of,it is shipped from Bordeaux. Nor does America lead among the buyers of French oductions-England, Belgium and Ger many precede us in extravaganza in the order named
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

The Daughters of the Spanish War are too young to organize and battle for officers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

Arthur Pue German can give Sena- tor Aldrich several points in the game of politics and still beat him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

There is no room on the Chicago for ping-pong or pink teas, and so Admiral Crunshell resigned. The country is not wholly lost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

Crunshell is a quitter, sut everybody else applauds the act.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
PARIS IS AMERICAS SHOP.

From the New York Sun.
 That the Parisian label still reigns in the American market is proved by the annual report of Consul General Gowdy. In the last year America has purchased articles of French manufacture coming
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

America is fifty-eight congresses old, but they were not all so extravagant as the last one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

The ex-slaves begin to think Unc. Mark Hanna was just foolin' when he introduced that bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

President Roosevelt insists on a running mate from the middle west. It will be either Beyeredge or an Ohio man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

Admiral Crunshell applied for per. mission to become a private citizen and the request was unanimously granted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

The East Lake issue should be treat ed with common sense, without any tineture of out-of-date Purltanism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

With German in the senate and Tom O'Brien on the diamond we may be happy yet, you bet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

The peach crop of Missouri has been ruined, but nothing can phaze the Ben Davis apples that grow in that state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

Senator German is at the helm now, and the democratic ship will keep clear of snags and rocks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

Dr. Lorenz says the American wo- man cannot cook, and he should have added, and she does not intend to learn how
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08

The buzz of the presidential booms is increasing daily, and they are all democratic booms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
Music at the HiIIman Tonight.

Music by Claimants orchestra at the Hillman every evening is an attraction that is greatly appreciated by the patrons of the hotel and on Sunday evenings the programmes are especially popular. as they contain many request numbers. The programme for this evening is as follows:
 March Under the Double Eagle; overture, Carmen; melody in r, Ru- binstein; Pilgrims Chorus, Evening Star" from "Tannhauser'; selection. Peggy from Paris; intermezzo, 'Tete- a-Tete''; selection, "Hlghwayman'i | waltzes, "Violets"; selection, MT. Pick wick; intermezzo. Hearts and Flow ers"; selection, "The Answer; cornet solo, selected; violin solo, selected; re- quest