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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
TRF ONLY OAIlY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Taxing InherItances.

New York state Ievies an inheritance tax, ranging from five per cent on be- quests to collateral heirs to one per cent on beQuests to direct heirs. A carpet manufacturer at Yonkers re- gently died, leaving an estate that totals up 2,000,000, and that may go to $4o,o00,000 before settlement of it is fully carried out. A nephew of the dead manufacturer receives $14,000,- poo, and the state tax on this sum will be s700,000. The other legacies will be taxed about $5O0,o00, making the total amount to be paid to the state over a million of dollars.
 What would Alabama do with such a tax from a single estate! And the Smith estate in Yonkers Is not the largest one that has been duly and properly trimmed by New York's just and reasonable inheritance tax.
 No state can reap from an inherit ance tax so rich a harvest as New York can, but the wisdom of the policy is as applicable in one state as in an other, and the time is coming when inheritances, especially of collatera nature, will be taxed in every state Other states than New York have adopted this plan of taxation, and nc state has ever repealed 1t after once adopting it. Such tax Is easily borne especially by the. silent sleeper whC while living accumulated the property and those who come suddenly and without effort into Q property can afford to pay a tax on 1t at the outset Due exemptions and exceptions must be made, but as rule there is no req son why inheritances should not be taxed, thus paying at least once into the treasury some recompense for the protection the government affords both to life and property. %
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
SCIENTIFIC FARMING.
Methods That Have Proved Gratifying
 In Canada.

George Hess in the Worlds Work.
 From the first Professor Robertson has maintained that grain fodder and hay when sold by the farmer, carry away vastly more of the accumulated fertility of his land than when these are worked up Into dairy products with the aid of brains and common sense. Five pounds of cheese sell for as much as a bushel of wheat and remove from the land scarce ly tithe as much of its plant food. One hundred dollars worth of butter bears off from the soil less of its valuable ele- ments than cents worth of hay. To an important extent the same Is true in rear ing pigs and poultry for the market, and here he is never tired of repeating that what may be saved by wise economy may be far exceeded by commanding the highest prices in producing the first quail tiles. The best brands of bacon, the best chickens bring prices so much higher than second best that to aim at anything else is to waste time. In plainly worded and H. lustrated pamphlets he has sent inform ation broadcast regarding the best strains of pigs, sorts of feed, pens and treatment.
 The result Is most gratifying: Six years ago Canada exported in hams. bacon and pork $4500,oOO worth last year the fig ures were $12,5OOOO0. Nearly treble Is good increase, but twelve times Is still better, and that is the rate at which the poultry exports advanced from 1896 to 1902. At government stations the best strains of chickens have been ascertained as well as the best modes of artificial hatching rearing fattening. killing, plucking. shap- ing and shipping. That fattening pays handsomely came out in experiments at Professor Robertson's own poultry yard. He says: 'I had more cold meat for the table from one fattened chicken than from three chickens unfattened. The cost of feed consumed was 6A cents per pound of increase in weight" The usual ob- ject lesson Is afforded at chicken fatten- ing stations where the best practice is illustrated and the fattened fowls sent to market.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
Appreciative Listeners.
m the Pittsburg Press.

From the Pittsburg Press.
 In America modern languages are not so indispensable an accomplishment as in European countries whose inhabitants. being neighbors. frequently visit lands differing in speech from their own. Even here, however, it is unsafe to presume upon the fancied ignorance of an audi ence as did the singer in this story clipped from the Washington Star:
 At the recent grand opera engagement in Boston. during a presentation of "Tos- ca" a number of Italians sitting in a box became eonvulsed with laughter. As Ternina was in the midst of her impas- stoned love song to Mario the people about them first wondered what they were laughing at and then became in- censed at the foreigners. Finally an usher was sent to find out the reason of so much hilarity One or them said:
 DO you know what Ternina Is sing ing?"
 .'No,' answered the attendant
 Well, instead of love song. she is singing in impassioned accents Don | turn around: your trousers are torn. Don't turn around; your trousers are tnrn,'' M
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
CAMELS IN ARIZONA HAVE
 PROVED A FLAT FAILURE

versaticn was the expected arrival of a herd of caniels, which, according to ru- m,r, was heIng imported from Arabia. shall never forget the day they landed. They came eff the steamboat early in the morning. about fifty camels, with Hi Jolly at their head. and then began the strangest procession that ever set foot on Arizona soil.
 ''The main street of the scorching little town was lined with Mexicans. miners cowboys, Indians. gamblers, dance hall girls, as picturesque a crowd of people as yves ever brought together
 With great solemnity Jolly led the way, with the troop of camels sinking sheep ishly in the rear. They were not in good condition. and their humps were flabby. To the ignorant Indians and Mexicans they were supernatural and regarded with awe. The beasts were put in corral out side of town.
 For days nothing was discussed but camels. To the men in Yuma the freak of Hi Jolly came as a welcome diversion. and no circus with it's red and gilt wag- ons ever created half the sensation the Arabian beasts of burden did. Jolly be- lieved they would solve the transporta- ton question in the arid deserts, and there were many who shared the opinion. But the camels were not success.
 They were utilized at times, experi- mented with but their use was never put on a paying basis.
 "It was found that a camel required more food than a horse. I don't know how the camel does in Arabia, but in Ari- zona he was a rank failure. The clumsy animals were used around Yuma for some time, but with indifferent success. 'I came to know Hi Jolly and found him one of the most eccentric characters have ever met. He was unique. No other man would have conceived the idea of importing camels to Arizona. After [ left Yuma Hi one day, in disgust, opened his corral and drove the camels out to shift for themselves"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
Bribery and the Fifteenth Amendmen

Bribery and the Fifteenth Amendment
 The fifteenth amendment provides taht "the right of the citizens of the UDited States to vote shall not be de- nled or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servi- tude. The congress shall have power to enforce the provisions of this article by appropriate legislation" The con gress thereupon proceeded to pass an act to punish the bribery of persons protected by the fifteenth amendment, and at length one Henry Bowman was indicted for bribing some negroes in the Fifth congressional district of Ken lucky in the election of 1900.
 The case was carried to the Supreme court, and that court declares the brib- cry statute unconstitutional, and Bow man goes free. The decision of tho court is based upon the point that the fifteenth amendment contemplates ac- tion by the United States or by a state, and does not contemplate wrongful individual acts" As Bow man was but an individual he goes scot free.
 Justice Brewer finds that the fif- teenth amendment is destitute of sup port by its very terms. He arrives at this conclusion rather more directly and clearly than Justice Holmes in the Giles decision, but each reaches a like conclusion.
 Justice Brewer, woh Is republican, goes on to say. wholly outside of the Bowman case, that the court does not question the power of congress to pun ish bribery when committed in respect to the election of federal officials. But what federal officials are ever elected? Congressmen are state officials sent to Washington by the states largely for state purposes. Presidents and vice presidents are not elected by the peo- pie, but by state officials. No federal officials are elected. And the Bowman case occurred in a congressional cleo tion, thus showing that congressman are officials sent up by the states to Washington. If they are not federal officials, then no federal officials are elected
 Altogether these modern decisions of the Supreme court are very curious things. They go straight to the mark in the final effect. but when the case is reasoned out they become very hay and peculiar, there being an evident attempt to disguise action in one way or another.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

C JOLLY, famous the world over @9 as the man who introduced " camels from Arabia into the arid deserts of Arizona and New Mexico for freight-carrying purposes died at Quarts zite, Yuma county, Arizona, short time ago, after one of the most picturesque careers in the history of the west, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 With the death of III Jolly an old question has been raised-are there camels in Arizona today? Among old mining men and prospectors who know the innermost recesses of the territory the question is answered In the affirmative. They claim that a small herd of camels still lives on the alkali deserts of the southern part of Arizona, known to but few and serving no purpose but to be objects of superstitious reverence to ignorant Indians.
 "That there are camels in Arizona at the present time is fact known to few" said MT. Horace Winters of Miles City, Mont 1T myself confirmed the fact about three years ago. and while I was not for tunate enough to see the ships of the desert myself although I searched long for them I discovered unmistakable proof of their presence in the territory.
 "The only importation of camels into the United States for utilitarian purposes. so far as I know. was made, as I recall it, in 1872, and was then in Arizona, en- gagged in the mining business, and located at Yuma, perhaps the hottest place on the globe
 The question of transportation in Ari- zona in those early days was an impor- tant one, so important that 1t cost a small fortune to ship box of cigars from San Francisco to Fort Yuma. All sup plies came from the former place by ves- sel to the mouth of the Colorado river. and thence by river steamer to Yuma. Fort Yuma was one of the most impor- tant military posts in the southwest, and thousands of tons of government freight was brought there every year. All freight carriers made barrels of money. and the carrying charges to the Colorado River Steamboat company were appalling. Bulk and rot weight counted.
 Thus government wagon was charged for on the former basis, obtained by measuring from the tip of the tongue to the extreme rear of the bed. To ob- tain the height of the vehicle the steam boat people would elevate the tongue. and that height went. and had to be paid for. The tariff sheet was modelled in proportion. and as all charges had to be paid in gold the steamboats had a re gular mine of wealth.
 xr. tcr-x ] It was frying hot. The sole topic of con
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
Great Musical Event.

All musical Birmingham is looking for ward with uncommon interest to Mrs Sinnige's recital at the Jefferson theatre Monday. May 1s It has been some time since Mrs. slnnige was heard in public, and her voice is of such rare quality and her style of such dramatic character that every one who loves song will make an effort to be present the night she sings.
 While Mrs Slnnlge is not a profession al, she is to all extent and purposes an artist. She will be assisted in her re- cital by MT. Loder, baritone, and Miss Gockel, pianist. who will appear as ac- companist. The concert is to be given for the benefit of the Orphans home at East Lake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

from heavy lumber traffic, by buy ing controlling interest in the Kirby Lumber company of Texas.
 The Southern Pacific owns bank stocks, oil stocks, express stocks. and a wide range of development stocks. The Union Pacific company is inter- ested in salt works, irrigation plants, elevator companies, lime and cement plants, coal stocks and iron mills. The Gould system has investments in beet sugar works, lead and zinc plants, and many coal industries, not to mention the Louisiana Purchase exhibition, and a music hall association of St. Louis. The Northern Pacific is a heavy in- vestor in timber lands and ore tracts, and the belief is that MT. Hill expects ore and fuel to meet at the Pacific cities which are the western terminals of his railroad.
 These instances are sufficient to show that railroads are beginning to promote anything that will promote traffic over their own roads. They have an eye to traffic doubtless, but they do not propose to await develop ments of it by others If investments of money on their part will quicken or secure them The promotion of manifold enterprises in the direction of traffic will doubtless become great feature in railway enterprise, and for that matter this feature of railroad energy is well begun already.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
Insurance Men,

A large number of Birmingham insur- ance men have gone to Montgomery to attend the seventh annual session of the Alabama Fire Underwriters association which takes place in that city today and tomorrow.
 Interesting programmes have been ar ranged for the two days and several Bir- mingham men will take part The meet ing today will be held in the city council chamber and that of tomorrow will be at Jackson's lake.
 The session will be ended by a grand barbecue at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
The HlIIman Hospital.

A committee from the board of revune inspected the Hillmsn hospital yesterday afternoon, to consid a- the advisability of making an appropriation of something like slo00 month toward Its maintenance, which has been asked by the hospital beard.
 The members expressed themselves as well pleased with the hospital and its equipment. Action will be taken at some future time by the board of revenue in reference to the appropriation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
From the New York World.

From the New York World
 nN DEPARTMENT store Is not so
 VN much an aggregate of stores
 as an aggregate of organ ized human ability. Department stores succeed. not because of the num- Der of their departments. but because of the weight of ability they attract. Each man counts for more in a department store than he would alone or in lesser organization. The proof of this is per- sonal, known to every man who person. ally knows the personnel of a store. Nothing Is more striking among them then the sense of organic enthusiasm. From the owner or manager to the last cash boy, everybody is 'chesty' So far as his relation to the store Is concerned. No crack regiment so magnifies It's place. It's traditions, It's esprit de corps, and it's elan, as the staff of a department store. There Is a zest, push a go about the thing which is infectious and contagious. The bounce of the daily advertisement only reflects dimly the bounce of the store itself and it's belief in it's destiny"
 This quotation is from the first division of group of copyrighted articles on the great department store contributed to the Boolklovers' Magazine for May by Tal- cott Williams, w. R. Hotchkin and Cyrus Townsend Brady. MT. Williams goes from organization to finance in his section, giv- ing some figures of department store re- turns which. he says, are estimates checked by experts. He begins with Phil- adelphia, where tax on retail sales gives a clue. There he finds for seven great stores annual aggregate sales of from s43, ,000, 900 to $47, ,00O, 900. New York is thrice the size of Philadelphia, but Mir. Williams thinks no one would place the total sales there at over twice those of Philadelphia, single stores in special fields in New York drawing off more than in other cities. Boston, with five or six large department stores. has not much over half the sales of Philadelphia, say, at a guess s2b, oO0. 900 to $SO, GOO 900. Chicago probably decidedly exceeds Philadelphia. and would be placed at from s50,OOO0 600 to s55, 900. GOO.
 MT. Hotchkin's part of the group story deals with phases of small-store opposi- ton to the big stores. The writer says:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
Science Not Antagonlstlo to Religion


 While this is an age of scepticism and while agnosticism may be rampant, thousands upon thousands of scho.ntly men and not a few specialists In science hold steadfastly to the old religious faith based on a personal omniscient God" remarked a church member
 T was glad to read this cablegram in a New York paper recently. for It will tend to cheer and strengthen many reli- gious persons:
 Lord Kelvin, the distinguished scen- tist. in moving q vote of thanks to Pro- lessor Henslow for his lecture before the University College Christian association, demurred to the professors assertion that. with regard to the origin of life, science neither affirmed nor denied the creative power. On the contrary, he said, science positively affirmed the creative power. Science made every one feel that he was a miracle In himself. Modern biologists were once more coming to the firm acceptance of vital principle. They had been absolutely forced by science to admit and believe in a directive power. Was there he said, anything so ab- surd as to believe that a number of atoms falling together of their own ac- cord could make a crystal sprig of moss, the microbe of living animal? Nobody could think that anything like that even in millions and millions of years could, unaided. give us a beautiful world like ours. Let nobody be afraid of true free dom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism, but with freedom we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic, but is help. to religion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
AN EPlTAPH ON sHAkEsPEARE.

By John Milton, What needs my Shakespeare for his hon.
 ored bones. The labor of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallowed relics shoulu be hid Under starry pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame. What need st thou such weak witness of
 thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built myself livelong monument. For whilst to the shame of slow-endeavor-
 ing art Thy easy numbers flow, and that each
 heart Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued
 book Those Delphic lines with deep impression
 took, Then thou fancy of itself tereaving. Dost make us marble with too much con-
 ceiving; And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie. That kings for such tomb would wish
 to die
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 The devil never mislays his calling list. Pretty lips don't need sugaring to taste their sweetest.
 A gilt horse always goes lame the sec ond time around the same course.
 When man marries rich wife he Is pretty smart if he can collect all he earns by 1t.
 It takes a girl in thin gauzy shirt waist to look as cool as an iced lemonade when she feels like boiled lobster.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
Foreslqhted.
From Judge

From Judge.
 "I trust. Miss Tappit." said the kindly employer to his stenographer. that you have something in reserve for a rainy day"
 "Yes, sir" answered the earnest young woman, T am going to marry man named Macintosh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

Gum Shoe Bill Stone is president Of the Health Society of Missouri" and he will never be president of anything else.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

The charge against the snapshot photographer is that he seeks the truth too directly. He does not give his vic tim a chance to look pleasant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

William K Vanderbilt declines to have his wedding reconsidered even to please the ecclesiastics of dear old Lunnun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

When upstate New Workers want to get rid of saloon they build church within the legal range. This is using the law in post-bellum manner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

Deacon Baer has a high opinion of his own opinions, regardless of other folks opinions, which are perhaps the better opinions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

member of the British parliament. after spending several days in Birmingham. left yesterday for Montgomery He will sail for home the latter part of this month
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

The beef trust laughs at federal statutes and shoyes up prices even faster than Rockefeller's widest dream.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

General Miles is man of many opin- ions, and none of them are pleasing to the Corbins of our Washingtonian army
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

Japan is small, but she Is not bit afraid. Russia must get out of Man churta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

Russia is doing the role of injured innocence at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

The best joke of the season is the Earl of Yarmouth and his creditors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

Even a strenuous President must shake hands and kiss babies. States manship Is statesmanship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

Herr Most is trying to talk himself back to his accustomed place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

St. Louis show has been opened officially, but the actual uncorking will not take place until next year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

Royal germs have been swapped freely of late in kissing Yurrup.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

The weather and the weather bureau are still far apart.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

The art of giving is a study on the part of MT. Carnegie, and he is mas ter in it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

Yellow journals are pretty bad, but yellow cotton plants are much worse to the farmer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

Paul du Chaillu has gone to explore the world beyond. He had exhausted this one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

We are now enjoying beautiful days fourteen hours long from sunup to sunset.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

Posthymenial trials are very inc effective. The defendants decline to resume the status quo of the ante sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

Salonica is port city near the seat of discontent in Macedonia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

When New Orleans, Little Rock and Birmingham are one, two. three, the sheep will be separated from the goats
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

E. H. Thayer. superintendent of ths Frisco dining cars, with headquarters fl Springfield. Mo-. is in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06
About Persons.

Dr. E. H. sholl was detained in Bir- mingham and was unable to attend the meeting of the American Medical asso- ciation at New Orleans. previously in tended.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

Joseph pevlin. the distinguished Irish
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-06

JOLLY, famous the world over NN as the man who introduced " camels from Arabia into the arid