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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29
Though am not naturally honest, am so sometimes by chance.
 --Wlnter's Tale.
Two States Instead of Four.

In order to prevent the possibility of eight new democratic senators, the house committee on territories has de- lcided to report bill admitting the h. dian Territory and Oklahoma as one state, to be called Oklahoma, and an- other bill admitting New Mexico and Arizona as Q state, under name not yet selected.
 The proposed state of Oklahoma would hold at least 0,O0O people, and probably full million before it's ad- mission is fully accomplished, for the proposed state is to be kept back until the Indian lands have been apportion- ed in severalty according to the Dawes commission plan. The area of the proposed state would be 63,830 square miles, or about ten per cent larger than Alabama It would be about Georgia's size, and its form would be symmetrical In it would dwell the most advanced of our In- dians-the Choctaws, Cherokees, Greeks and Chickasaws, about 1000 in number, and state organization would go far towards solving the In dian problem in it's final stage. No erroot orDooitinu x.,o,,1d o,soo o,.o,. 4I. = proposition to admit the two territo- ries as one state, although it would deprive the democrats of two senators.
 To make one state out of New Mex ico and Arizona would be opposed most bitterly in both territories, and the proposition cannot be defended except upon the most barefaced gerry mander grounds. The proposed state would contain 235 5,600 square miles, or enough land to make four and a half Alabamas. In this territory there would be about 100000 people, who would have to travel vast distances in order to reach the state capital. Both territories will oppose to the utmost the proposition, and if congress passes the bill 1t will not be accepted. It will be voted down in both territo- ries. The republicans propose to create second Texas without Texas population, and 1t will not be ac- cepted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29
SENATOR MORGAN.

From the Washington Evening Star
 The New York Sun pays the following deserved compliments.
 '"rhe fact remains that no man in the United States senate or elsewhere ever fought more coura geously, tenaciously and vociferously losing fight than the Hon. John T. Morgan of Alabama.
 His are the honors of his qualities. Vanquished he has won lasting fame.
 NO quitter he!'
 All admirers of a good fighter will en- dorse thes sentiments. MT. Morgan stood for years the foremost champion in Amer ica of an isthmian canal. He never per mitted the subject to drop out of the public mind He never addressed himself to 1t without illuminating it and add ing to popular interest in it. He would not, to the regret of many of his admirers accept the changed situation when the formation of the new government at Pan- anna put Nicaragua out of the question but he forfeited none of the credit of his previous performances in favor of canal by his refusal to do so. His name will be iIlustrious among those to whom the world will pay tribute for forwarding the greatest of modern enterprises.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29
Selection of Presidential Delegates.

Alabama is to send to the St. Louis convention four delegates at large and eighteen district delegates. in all twen- ty-two delegates, and the twenty-two are to be selected in a state conven- tion to be held in Montgomery on May 25. An equal number of alternates will also be selected by the May conven- tion
 The May convention will consist of 509 delegates as follows:
 Autauga, 4; Baldwin, 8; Barbour, 12; Bibb, 5; Blount, '; Bullock, g. Butler. T; Calhoun, Il; Chambers, 9; Cherokee, q; Chiffon, 5; Choctaw 6; Clarke, 8; Clay, 5; Cleburne, {; Coffee, 1; Colbert. [; Con- ecuh, 5; Coosa. 5; Covlngton, 3; Crenshaw, g. Cullman, 4: Dale, 6; Dallas, IS; DeKalb, '; Elmore, [; Escambia B. Etowah. q; Fayette {; Franklin, 4; Geneva, 4; Greene, T; Hale, 9; Henry, 8; Houston, s; Jackson, 3; Jefferson, 30; Lamar, 5; Lauderdale, 8; Lawrence, '; Lee, 10; Limestone, 2; Lowndes, Il; Macon. 6; Madison, 13; Ma rengo, il; Marion, 4; Marshall, 6; Mobile, IT; Monroe, 6; Montgomery, 19; Morgan, 8; Perry, 10: Pickens, I; Pike, g.; Randolph. G. Russell, 8; Shelby, '; St. Clair, 6; Sum ter 19; Talladega, 10; Tallapoosa, S. rus- caloosa 10; Walker. 5; Washington, 8; Wilcox, 10; Winston, ?. Total, 5O9
 The Montgomery Advertiser ex presses the fear that the selection of delegates to the May convention will be overlooked in the rush and hurry of the personal contests over local offices. There Is no danger of that, however, because the selection of del egates to the May convention is the sole opportunity the democratic rank and file will have to express an opin- ion as to the democratic presidential nominee The Advertiser need not fear that the single popular opportuni- ty will be overlooked or neglected in the April primary. Each county will express it's opinion upon the situation when it selects it's delegates to the May convention. The situation is fully known, and the Advertiser may rest content that there will be a full and deliberate expression of opinion in each and every county
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29
AS SLOW OUR SHIP.
By Thomas Moore,

By Thomas Moore. As slow our ship her foamy track Against the wind was cleaving, Her trembling pennant still looked
 To that dear isle twas leaving. So 10th we part from all we love,
 From all the links that bind us; So turn our hearts as on we rove
 To those we've left behind usf When round the bowl of vanished years
 We walk with joyous seeming. With smiles that might as we'll be tears,
 So faint, so sad their beaming; While memory brings us back again
 Each early tie that twined us. On sweet the cup that circles then
 To those we've left behind us. And when in other ciimes we meet
 Some Isle or vale enchanting. Where all looks fowery wild and sweet
 And naught but love Is wanting We think how great had been our bliss
 If Heaven had but assigned us 10 live and die in scenes like this
 With some one we've left behind us! As travellers oft look back at eve When eastward darlxly going To gaze upon that light they leave Still faint behind them glowing. So when the close of pleasures day
 To doom hath near consigned us. We turn to catch one fading ray
 Of joy that's left behind us-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29
HoNoRs FOR HANNIs TAYLOR.

From the Washington Post
 Hon. Hannis Taylor of Alabama now connected with the Spanish claims com
 mission, is the recipient of a special dis
 tinction from the University of Edin- burgh. He has just received notice that
 the senators of the university will confer
 upon him the title of doctor of laws, and he will go abroad in June for the pur-
 pose of attending the ceremony in person
 A similar honor has been rendered him
 by the University of Dublin, and MT.
 Taylor will receive both degrees during
 his absence in Great Britain.
 For some years past MT. Taylor's now
 famous work "A History of the English
 Constitution" has been used as text
 book at both these venerable institutions of learning It is a work upon which
 the author spent the best part of his life.
 bringing to it's consummation such faith
 full labor and such intelligent research as few scholars have ever bestowed upon any enterprise, and the result is com pact, conclusive. yet readable and bril- liant summary which the most authorita- tive commentators in Engand have de- clared to be without a rival A more re- cent work, International Public Law" has achieved an equal recognition in the intellectual world, having been described on both sides of the Atlantic as "the last word' in that field of scholarship MT. Taylor's formal rewards for this will fol- low in due course. For the present, he is to be crowned with honors by the Dub- lin and the Edinburgh universities, and he has the satisfaction of knowing that in both academies his History of the English Constitution is implicitly accept ed as the highest authority on the sub ject.
 Mr. Taylor's has been a remarkable career. From humble and obscure be- ginning. and with no help outside of his own personal attachments, he has won place in the front rank of the great teachers of civilization. He is a product
 of which this country may well be D. oud- Owing nothing to the accident of friends or fortune, and promoted by neither in fluence nor favor, he has fought his way to honorable and lasting eminence. His example should be an inspiration to our American youth-at least, to such of them as prefer the victories of peaceful | fame and enlightened humanity to the | rewards of war and the dividends of com merce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

i St. Louis. where the great Louisiana Pur chase exposition will soon be thrown open to the public Even war in the far east cannot altogether overshadow the fair, and while attendance from foreign countries will undoubtedly be less than would have been the case had there been no war. there will be enough people In St- Louis to prevent the citizens from get ting lonesome. Although 1t may not be able to put David R. Francis in the White House it will afford instruction and amusement to many thousand Americans who will visit St. Louis this year.
 One of the most attractive features in connection with visit to St. Louis will be a trip down the Mississippi to New Orleans, which can be taken in comfort in the early summer. After several weeks or a month of strenuous sightseeing at the fair 1t will be a delightful rest and recreation to steam down the great father of waters to one of the most interesting cities in the world. Probably great number of people will take advantage of this opportunity. and no one who makes
 
 yet mighty steamers plying the Missis- sippi and Missouri, on board of which travellers can enjoy every comfort and. a journey on one of these boats will be very pleasant aftermath to the fair.
 Richard Mansfield. who recently ap- peared In Birmingham in one of his greatest successes. "Old Heidelberg Is preparing to present still another play this season, dramatization of Tolstoi's Ivan the Terrible This play will af- ford the actor opportunities for depicting the great passions that sway humanity in the person of one of Russia's cruelest autocrats. While Ivan the Terrible is altogether different from "Old Heidel- berg" It will give Mansfield still another chance to prove the wide range of his talents and in such a striking part he cannot fail to be impressive. It is said by critics that Ivan the Terrible" will be much stronger play than "Old Heidel- berg" and will therefore call for much superb acting on the part of the star.
 New York is the greatest hotel city in the world With the flight of time the palatial Waldorf Astoria has suffered no eclipse of fame, while there are perhaps score of other great towering beehives of luxurious humanity that have become indispensable to the American metropolis in carinN for her visitors and her resi- dents. A new million and half dollar hotel, the Cumberland, at Broadway and Fifty fourth street, has just been leased for twenty-one years, but no matter how many hotels are built there are always plenty of people to occupy them from top floor to cellar. F. c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29
About Persons.

l. H. Davis of PelI City was in Bir' mingham yesterday.
 W. C. Davis of Blocton was at the Mor. ris hotel yesterday.
 James c. Burt of Talladega is registered at the Hotel Hillman.
 E. I. Lowell of New York Is a guest of the Morris.
 Max Hass of New York is registered at the Hotel Hillman.
 George w. Bridges and family of St. Louis are at the Florence hotel.
 W.P. Fogarty of Decatur Is at the Hill- man.
 R. H. Allen of Chicago is registered at the Hillman.
 R. B. Kelley of Anniston is registered at the Florence hotel.
 W. H. Knight of Roanoke was guest of the Metropolitan yesterday.
 W. M. Bibby of Littleton was at the Metropolitan yesterday.
 A. S. Johnson of Louisville was in the city yesterday, a guest of the Morris hotel.
 F. W. Donelson of Knoxville is regis tered at the Florence.
 A. T. Lawhead of Athens is at the Florence hotel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

ted States and British america report for 1908 membership of 944. 1ss. net gain of about 10000 over the previous year. The membership of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in the United States and British America was reported at 1.0S,Sse gain of nearly 22,0oo over the previous year. Next to the Odd Fellows come the Modern Woodmen Of America with a membership of n1.s2s as against e42,s57 in 1902
 The Knights of Pythias reported 5e2 s27 members In 1908, a gain of 45,s8a over 1902. The United Workmen reported a membership of s5O,Oo0 in 1905 and the Red Men sS400O in 1903
 The American grand lodges of Masons are in close utilization with the grand lodges of England. Scotland and Ireland, but the Independent Order of Odd Fellows has no connection with the .~d Fellow ship of England-styled the Manchester Unity which has a membership of about s05, ,O0s."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

ILLUSTRATING has become such a
 valuable adjunct of the printers art
 at this day that the country is rapid ly filling up with men who profess to draw pictures. and there are a number of women also. Nearly everyone who can draw a respectable looking pig with a pencil on a scratch pad immediately be- comes imbued with the idea that he is born an artist. He immediately sends to a correspondence school and begins the course which Is advertised to land him in the halls of fame in about two years. It has become so now that very few books sell well without illustrations, and in fiction this is markedly the case. The most elaborate drawings and color plates are often found in the iimsiest novels and may be a potent factor in all vari- eties and classes of publications Some of it Is good and some of it is bad, but the output of pictures has become pro- digious.
 l The result of such a heavy demand for artists is that there are hundreds of them in this country now who are turning out work every day. In such a large num- Der of artists there are many who do no credit to the name. Some of the drawings perpetrated are really execrable but pub fishers must have pictures of some kind to embellish their numerous books and they are forced to rely on artists who would be improved by several more years of schooling. or would be even more suc- cessful in some other profession.
 ba tiser and the New York Mail and Ex- press have changed their names Gotham has number of papers with double names The New York Commercial has become the New York Globe and Com mercial Advertiser, with emphasis on the Globe" the Mail and Express has be- come the New York Mail, with Express as subtitle, while the Commercial was originally founded as the Price Current. The New York American and Journal is really two papers, one issued in the morn ing and one in the afternoon. As a rule there are well founded objections to changing the name of a paper, especial ly when it Is old and well established. Only the most pressing reasons can induce publishing companies to change the name or their papers after they have become known far and wide under their original designation. The Commercial Advertiser is one of the oldest papers in the country and it was something of wrench to metamorphose 1t into the Globe The Mail is another patriarch in New York journalism which has been forced to yield to the demands of a more strenuous age, when people want the shortest names possible for use in every day life.
 As time passes all eyes are turned to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29
Blue Print War Maps.

The School of Engineering of the Ken tuclSv State college at Lexington is send ing out excellent blueprint Japan-Hus sian war maps to the friends and patrons of the school. The map, which Is quite large one, was drawn by Blair Hughes, the son of Dr. J. w. Hughes of Birming- ham. Mir Hughes is taking special course in drawing and higher mathe- matics at the school.
 The map Is a complete physical chart, giving the large cities, rivers, towns ana railroads of Japan, Corea and Manchuria, and is considered a fine piece of work. A copy of the map was received yesterday by Dr. Hughes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Bankbead.Hobson Joint Debate.

Congressman J. H. Bankhead passed through Birmingham yesterday on his way from Washington to Hamilton. in Marion county. where he is to meet Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson in joint de- bate today. Colonel Bankhead arrived here over the Southern shortly after noon and left in few minutes by the Frisco for Guin, the railroad station nearest to Hamilton. He expected to remain in Guin last night and go by private convey ance to Hamilton this morning.
 The debate today will be the first of a series of joint discussions between Colonel Bankhead and Captain Hobson, the latter contesting the formers seat in the house of representatives
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

The annual payroll of the men who drive and look after the department carriages is $16,740. The drivers who steer the steeds that draw cabinet and bureau officers about the capitol wear livery. They are resplendent in fact in that imperialistic direction, but not one of them is carried on the pay roll as a governmental coachman or footman, for some of our esteemed officials indulge in footmen also. On the national poyroll they stand in the lists as watchmen, laborers, messen- gers, assistant messengers and the like.
 It is but an indication of the rapid ity with which under the leadership of republicans we are leaving behind democratic simplicity and putting on the airs of courts and empires. The point is fully passed when cabinet of ficers only lolled on governmental cushions. Every assistant secretary and bureau chief now considers 1t his right to do the lolling act, and unless the movement is checked the chief clerks will next demand carriages, and even the clerks with big pulls may reasonably expect as much. The coachmen and footmen of the last named should not expect, however, to rank higher than assistant messen- t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

never safe in times of war. The Rus sian torpedo boat destroyers at Port Arthur were caught mapping, and the Japanese torpedo boats launched their torpedoes at will and with destructive effect. AS things stand battleship must hereafter be surrounded in war by lowering torpedo boat destroyers, or else it will become torpedo food, as old John Ericsson said with rare fore sight and brevity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29
FOURTEEN FEET LONG
Backbone of Fish, Which Lived Mil
 lions of Years Ago.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 cago.--The largest and most com plete fossil of the biggest backboned fish ever known to man arrived at the Walker Geology Museum at the University of Chicago today. The bones of the fish-eat- ing fish that lived about 100000 years ago were discovered by Chicago stu dent in western Kansas. Paleontologists the students of ancient living creatures consider this one of the biggest finds in the history of fossil digging. The fish Is 16 feet long. The heavy backbone stretches along for fourteen feet, filling a big platter of chalk rock. in whichg 1t ia partially imbedded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29
Augusta Officials Coming.

A committee from the city government of Augusta, Ga., will reach Birmingham today for the purpose of making investi- gations as to the bituminous macadam paving being laid here. The committee consists of Mayor R. E. Allen, Capt. w. NJ. Dunbar, chairman of the finance com mittee of the council and George H. How committee of the Augusta city council. The trip is being made on the suggestion of Capt. Dunbar. who is said to be in favor of bitulithic material for street paw ing.
 The visitors will be received and shown over the city by Mayor Drennen and City Engineer Kendrick
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

The anniversary and trade edition of the Washington County News. published at St. Stephens, has made It's appearance. and it is high credit to the weekly press of Alabama The anniversary edi- ton is copiously illustrated and contains some very interesting descriptive matter. W. A. Moseley is the editor and pro- prietor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29
Our Inverted Flunkies.

The department of agriculture and the department of the interior have not been heard from, but the returns from the other departments are at hand, showing pretty big total, made up in detail, as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29
Good As a Trade-Mar

From the New York Weekly.
 Young Lady-I can always tell your work the instant I see it.
 Magazine Artist (delighted)-Can you, really?
 Young Lady--Easily. The women all look alike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29
Secret Orders.

Until recent years the Masonic fratern- ity was numerically the strongest order in America as well as the oldest, but now the Odd Fellows out number the Masons by nearly soooo." said fraternal order man.
 .Ihe Masonic grand lodges of the Uni
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

Railroad passes will continue to be Tn demand even if the United States su- preme court does say deadheads have no r,ghts the courts are bound to respect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

The deadhead industry has received severe blow at the hands of the United States supreme court It must carry its own aocident insurance hereafter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

Those persons who don summer under wear on the strength of few sunny days are apt to find themselves shiyer- ing about March 1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

If Grover Cleveland is to be the nomi- nee. he should give security that he will not hereafter indulge in platitudes ex- pressed in involved sentences
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

Rome already has golf. When baseball is played in the coliseum the whilom mis- tress of the world will be thoroughly moderuized
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

Bakers are scheming for way to make money by selling loaves of bread at the same price while flour continues to go up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

Latest reports from the front indicate that the boil weevil is preparing to fight 1t out If 1t takes all summer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29
ST. PETERSBURG AS SEEN
 BY AN AMERICAN TOURIST

it has seemed most immaculate by con- trast with what we saw during that jour ney"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

The war in the far east will never be A complete success until a cargo of Mis- souri mules is imported from the Uni- ted States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

Mir. Root is roofing for Roosevelt who once placed him high above all contem- poraries. One good turn deserves an- other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

The quality of London fogs shows no disposition to yield before the efforts Of King Edward
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

Emperor William may never be able to criticse art again, unless his throat trouble abates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

Mrs. Russel Sage has become the presi- dent of a girls industrial school but Uncle Russell does not accept such an oe,,ce unIess there is a salary attached.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT

The French Geographical society has awarded its gold medal for 1904 to Sven Hardin, the noted Swedish explorer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

Sehwab finds it difficult to escape the Nemesis of the shipping trust, although he fled to Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

The difference between cosmetics and soap is the difference between rubbing down and a real bath.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

Gotham has discovered that Shakespeare without scenery is novelty but not very interesting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

St. Louis is preparing to receive the democrats and the people who will att tend the big fair
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-29

It is the duty of congress to adjourn before the baseball season becomes en- crossing.
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Georgia Is forced to admit that the outlooks of her peach and watermelon crops are excellent.