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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18

On the other hand the odd Hearst delegates picked up here and there do not like to be swallowed up under the operations of the unit rule
 But the unit rule is almost as ven erable and time sanctioned as the two third rule and it is not probable that delegations can or will be forbidden to act separately as may to them seem best. And yet democratic ma tional conventions have not always re- eognized the unit rule. The conven- tion of 1860 declared that in the ab- sence of instructions each delegate might cast an individual vote, and Tn the convention Of 1896 the rights of minority delegates were asserted Still the unit rule is considered as of binding force in democratic national conventions. In republican national conventions the unit rule is repudiated
 
 In the Rhode lcland case there were no instrucj lions, and in such instances split votes have often been permitted in state delegation. This, however, rests in the honor and conscience of the particular delegation. If a dele gation, not instructed, desires to cast it's vote as unit, 1t will no doubt be permitted to do so. If it prefers to re- eognize the individual delegate, it's wishes in that direction will of course be respected. In other words, when instructions are lacking, each delega- tion will doubtless be the judge of the manner in which it's vote shall be cast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18
THE NEW SLEEPING CAR.

From the American Medicine
 ed by the Pullman company have come none too soon, and unless the rules and standards have been made after thorough going scrutiny of sanitary experts, it is hardly likely that the ideal has been real ized Reform in sleeping cars was of course, most needed. but in other cars 1t is emphatically called for All have been constructed seemingly with the pur- pose of being cleansed and disinfected with the greatest difficulty and of har- boring most, securely parasites ana the germs of disease. As in the common bed so here, every part should be made of metal that is possible, all corners and cracks done away with; the plushes, vel vets and soft materials replaced when possible by materials more easily cleaned etc. Then, the great desideratum in all beds, seats, etc, Is ease of taking ev- erything apart. with complete purifcation by water heat or dsnfectants at stated and frequent times. All this leaves un- touched the problem of cleansing the freight and stock cars, which. from the moment they are put in service to the day they are consigned to the scrap heap' are allowed to become the convey ors Of unimaginable filth and the breed Ing places of any disease germs tbsr can nest in them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18
hppIYinQ the Unit Rule.

The unit rule as well as the two thirds rule will no doubt be applied in the democratic convention The two- thirds rule will be adopted in the con vention chiefly because it is historic, and sanctioned by long usage. No one anticipates any change in respect to a rule that stands approved after an ex- perience of nearly three7quarters of a century.
 But there is much opposition to tie use of the unit rule in the respective state delegations. The increditable Hearst has been picking up odd dele gates here and there, rarely securing a control of any delegation. So far as is known he will control the Rhode Is- land delegation only, which consists all told of eight delegates. Two at least of these delegates are nQn-Hearst men, and they strenuously dpject to being counted as supporters of Hearst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18
Her Ignorance.

q found an instance of ignorance sev- eral days ago. which I did not think could exist in this country said promi- nent business man yesterday. "I had some friends to dinner at my house, and al. oi those present would have been con- s.derea educated people. One of the wo- men in the party was describing recent visit of hers to Montgomery and men, tiorec visiting the capital
 '"l his young lady, who is a college grad rate. said that a guide showed her the valious historical places about the cap,,al and mentioned the name of Jefferson Davis several times. After telling this sae turned to me and said that she asked tn. guide And who Is this Jefferson revis you mention so frequently?'
 II was perfectly astonished at this dis play of ignorance. To think that south ern woman. raised and educated in the soutb should ask such question. She ad- nntted that she did not know who he was and asked for information"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18
BIRDS.

Guy w. Carryl in Harper's Magazine.
 propound That birds, whether singers or screech- Are entitled to rank with the rest ana
 the best
 Of our eloquent, ethical preachers; And think that 1 should be allowed to be
 proud
 You surely don't need to be told That, without any doubt both my words
 and my birds Shut Audubon out in the coldl For instance, the Stork one ignores, or he
 bores
 The average woman or man; They think that the properest place for
 his grace Is a Japanese teapot or fan. The infant-itesimal charge isn't large That he brings to his customers. Still. Whatever its size, don't resent or repent What he neatly puts down in his bill. You may scorn her, but what is the use. If The Goose Is a need in our lives. aver That there isn't creature on earth that
 Is worth The respect we should proffer to her. Could we sleep without her at our ease,
 if you please? Could we feast, without roasting her
 brown? No, no! Since my stuffing her up we sup. And slumber byystufflng her down!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18
- TO RIDE ASTRIDE.

From London Letter to Philadelpbia
 Press.
 Women riding astride in Rotten row Ia spectacle promised to those who frs aueht Hyde park during the coming sea son Many responsible West End tollors nave assured the sartorial exnert of :, London contemporary that orders for. divided skirts are arriving from a large ana ever increasing number of horsewom- en- New ride astrde" garments have been invented and are exclusively ad- vertised in the fashion journals. Current fashion papers are full of the subject The Ladies Tailor Is almost excluslveir ' devoted to it. and discusses among other aspects of the question the effect of rii ing astride upon the health Some doc tors declares this journal, say that women of mature age have developed anatomcally in way that would render change from the side saddle to the cross saddle very uncomfortable, and unless they took fresh lessons in riding 1t would be dangerous"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18
Cleveland and Bryan.

At dinner given by A. C. Thomas, superintendent of the Associated Press at Chicago the other night an ilustra- ton of how different names can change the value of a news story was given" said a newspaper man last night.
 While the dinner was progressing MT. Thomas said he had the advance copy of a speech to be delivered by Grover Cleve- land within the next ten days. He asked one of the Chicago newspaper men to read it aloud to the crowd. His request was granted, and when the reader had finished murmur of approval ran around the table It was the unanimous opinion that Is was one of the greatest state documents ever prepared. Others said it would be the most statesmanlike speech delivered this year. As soon as the yer dict became unanimous and the enthusi- asm had subsided MT. Thomas arose and said that he was sorry but that he had made mistake. The speech just read was one to be delivered by William J. Bryan during the latter part of April.
 "There was a general look of disap- pointment and a taught at the expense of those who had thought Cleveland such a statesman. It only goes to show how much mans name can affect the value of news story. It Is not so much what is said as who says it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18
pr. ThaYers' Lecture.

"The medical fraternity of Birmingham as well as the entire county, is looking forward with a great deal of interest to the coming of Dr. w. S. Thayer or Bal timore who will lecture here Saturday night" said a member of the Jefferson County Medical society yesterday
 "The lecture will be given in the Sunday school room of the First Baptist church, and we expect a large crowd present. A special invitation has been extended 10 the city council of Birmingham and other bodies to attend and several aeceptanees have been received by the committee oa arrangements.
 .4rhe subject of Dr. Thayer's lecture will be tuberculosis, and he is well quail fled to handle the subject. He is proiesso. of medicine in Johns Hopkins. and is the president of the anti-tubercnlosis commit tee of Maryland. pr. Thayer was also president of the tuberculosis exposition held recently in Baltimore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18
How the Alabama Escaped.

John Bassett Moores second paper on American diplomacy isl the most impor- tant article in Harper's Magazine for May It deals with Our System of Neu- trallty." An interesting fact is brought to light by MT. Moore relative to the Alabama affair in 1862. It seems that certain evidence against the vessel was given to the British foreign office The foreign office duly turned over the papers to the senior law-officer of the crown. Sir John Dorney Harding. Just at that time Sir John was suffering from mem tal trouble. news of which his wife had carefully concealed, believing that it woul not last. With peace and war and the fate of nations depending upon the decision on these papers, they were laid aside by Lady Harding in her wifely an- xiety to keep her husbands condition secret. The foreign office became alarm ed at the delay and took away the pap CTS; but it was too late. During the night the Alabama had sailed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18
The Stock Market.

Henry Clews in his Saturday circular says: -
 Renewal of litigation between leaders If the merger stocks brought the up ward movement to a sudden halt, induc- ing more or less realizing and tempting fresh sales on short account It is possible that such litigation may be prolonged in definitely and be accompanied with con- siderable showing of hostility.
 "On the other hand, it should not De forgotten that these railroad magnates are simply maneuvering for position, and that as soon as. the struggle between them reaches point where the ultimate rights and interests of each have been determined they are likely to come to sone sort of an understanding. These dis putes promise to be fought out In the courts. in which case a considerable neiied may elapse before settlement is s.ached, or the parties in interest may resort to a trial of strength in other ways to decide the issues. But the latter course sems hardly probable in view of recent experiences, and the chances are that all important differences will be ad- irstcd by the courts, such being the only rational way out of the dilemma"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18
KISSING DISCUSSED FROM
 VARIOUS POINTS OF VIEW

and is thus commented on in one of his EpistoIae (Furnivells version); Here are girls with angels faces, so kind and oblig- ing that you would prefer them te all your Muses. Besides, there is a custom here never to be sufficiently commended. Whenever you come, you are received with kiss by all, when you take your leave. you are dismissed with kisses; you return, kisses are repeated; they leave you, you kiss them all round. Should they meet you anywhere. kisses in abundance; in fine, wherever you move, there is notn- ing but kisses"
 This deectable word painting of Ang,o- Saxon life contrasts favorably with the gloomy one of the domestic existence of ancient Rome in the days of it's reyub- lican austerity. The author of '"The De- cline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' in- forms us, in characteristic diction O, grandiose ponderosity, that such form of salutaton was employed by the Roman husband on reaching home-for the pur- pose of ascertaining whether his wife had made a special visit to the wine cellar in his absence; a breach of domestic dis cpline for which she sometimes paid with her life.
 Prof. Lombroso would refer the dem- onstrative affection of all modern kiss ing to maternal origin. M. Fere looks upon kissing as a manifestation of senti- ment, as well as a means of eliciting and exalting it.
 For our own part, we are disposed to adhere to our older form of belief that the evolution of specially sensitive nerve 1s,1,t ,ta1 gin has largely contributed to the wide spread popularity of osculation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18
From the Medical Journal.

From the Medical Journal
 1.-THE social history and scientific lCp criticism of the practice of oscula-
 tion are in the atmosphere just now. But short period has elapsed since the thrilingly instructive volume of Dr. Nyrop, "The Kiss and It's History, was presented to the public in an English dress And twentieth century epoch in the history of English law was made when the legislators of Great Britain eliminated the necessity for contamination-and pos court of law. by contact with the foul and bacteria-laden cover of the Testa- ment This was, assuredly, consumma- tion to be desired-most devoutly; and we do not at all believe that the adop- tion of the sanitary oath" will in the least diminish the trustworthiness of sworn testimony The practice of kiss ing the book appears to have been orig inally peculiar to the British Isles, and there does not seem to be any known ouotable authority for it's origin but we incline to think that plausible eXplana- ton will be afforded by the history of the introduction of the English version of the Bible. This was substituted, as the infallible guide of religious and moral thought and action, for the previously in- fallible authority of the church. In this connection the effect of the reformation was A substitute a certain amount Of familiarity for the previously pervading
 eli aoued to the former wholly reverential feeling.
 Inc gradual development of the bac- teriological item in the physical morals of osculation is, of course, familiar 10 all readers sof the recent literature of medical journalism One of the most Interesting and complete of these latter oay discussions is one contributed by NJ Fere. the wel-known authority on the emotions. As might be expected, the author is very much at home in his sub feet: especially so in the homeopathic de- nartment. To the average healthy citi- zen the practice of kissing includes dan ger of insidious bacterial infection.
 When the muco-cutaneous investment of inc lips presents one or more breaches of continuity, the danger is, of course, in- definitely increased But to such dan gers there is superadded, in case of the neuropath, that of a shock highly in- furious to the nervous system. kiss has been followed by an epileptic fit; we must, however, note that the kiss had been enforced.
 The grst step toward the legislative control of osculatlon was introduced into Virginia by Mir. Ware.
 It has been long known to ethnoiogists that among many primitive tribes and races the practice of kissing was un- known. Among the Lapps and the Ma oris. rubbing of noses occupied its place. The average native of Japan. country which promises to take so important a place in the making of future history, still knows nothing of the practice of kissing.
 The practice of lip-to-lip salutation was especially characteristic of English social life in Tudor times. Its universal employ ment was one of the things noticed by Erasmus during his sojourn in England
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18
Havana letter in

1dNdud letIef In New Ofk ENenlnB POSI-. AI HEN the Americans came here W they found a horrible condition
 of affairs in matters of sanita- tion, and it is to their credit that they almost performed the impossible task of cleansing the city. It is actually as clean as it is possible to make it. without turn ing 1t inside out and upside down, and expending millions in the work of recla- nation. Even the Spaniards and Cubans admit that the "Americanos" have im- proved their city vastly They compla- gently regard the wonderful work as, somehow, a miracle of Nature, aided by Providence-and themselves-at which the Americans assisted. It "riled" them aw- fully to be told. in effect. that they had been needless of the simplest laws of sani- tation, and they bitterly resented the in- spection and consequent fumigation of their houses. But the great and good work went on evertheless, and today it is continued by the Cubans, along the lines laid out by their teachers
 Every morning at daylight or promptly at 6 o'clock, I hear the chatter and the chatter of band of Cuban White Wings" carefully sweeping up the garbage in the Prado, and I know from the chatter and the chatter in other streets, that the pro cess is going on elsewhere-aI over the city. These men are closely followed by carts, which, still with lighted lanterns beneath the axle (showing that they were sent out early to the work, convey the sweepings to the dock, whence they are carried on lighters far out beyond the Morro and dumped into the sea. There is no more dumping of garbage into the har- Dor; there are no longer any evil odors drifting across the city. eddying into the streets and setting into courts so solidly that, aiiciently, they could almost be cut with knife.
 It cannot be expected of the natives that they will change their "eoptumbres" their inaugural habits-and became per sonaly and individually what they have been forced to become as civic body; but, at least, they have impressed with the advantages of cleanliness, so far as their city is concerned.
 III tht Noih Ol IIlt A1neTi- cans were aided by the situation of Ha- vana somewhat, but chiefly by the abund- ance and purity of its water supply
 More than 4O,O0OOO0 gallons of the purest water are delivered daily in Havana from the springs of the Almendares river siti;- ated about nine miles distant from the city. The Amendares is itself beautiful stream, which reaches the sea less than four miles from the Morro It is border ed by a picturesque country. containing royal palms, bananas-in fact, all kinds of tropical vegetation-and it's copious springs, gushing forth in an attractive gorge, are frequently resorted to by the Havanese which on recreation bent. They are reached by the Limited railways Of Havana" which maintain an excellent service of four trains each way daily
 After its wells had become contam- .inated, Havana dug a ditch from the AL mendares springs of the 'Vento," and brought the water to the city, This was more than three hundred years ago, in the batter part of the sixteenth century; and an unfailing supply has been main
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18
Winter Life in Newchwanq.

A letter sent to Harper's Weekly from it's correspondent in Newehwang tells some interesting details of the life of the officers and men on the United States gunboat Helena while in quarters at Russia's war port: "The Heena's men have a gymnasium, recreation-hall and reading room ashore, which they enjoy immensely as the first two cannot be had on board ship. Before the weather be- came too cold. every Wednesday and Saturday would see two bluejacket teams lined up for football Basketball is also popular, teams from the different divi- sions playing every day until it became too cold. The bowlng-alley in the recrea tion-hall is the source of the greatest en- joyment. as it is not interfered with by the weather. The officers have ManchE- rian ponies and form polo-team which plays the Newehang team. Although the polo is not of the most scientific quality, it is quite a novelty for seafaring officers, and is the only all-navy polo-team on rec nrd q
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18
MIR. cLAYToN's DOG.

Washington Correspondent of New York
 World.
 Man down in my country" said Repre- sentative Clayton of Alabama saw dog sleeping in the sun. The dog was twitch- ing and starting as dogs sometimes do in their sleep. The man said, 1'd like to know what the dog is dreaming about :
 Easy enough replied an old chap who stood by. You just put a chip on that dogs ear and leave 1t there until he wakes up. Then you take that chip and put it on your chest when you go to bed tonight and you will dream of what the dog is dreaming of now
 "The fellow got a chip and put it on the dogs ear and stood around until the dog walked mp and brushed it off. He put the chip on his chest when he went to bed that night. Next morning I saw him coming listlessly down the street
 Whats the matter?' 1 said What was the dog dreaming about?
 Oh he answered. I'm clean tuck cred out. l was chasing rabbits all night long, "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18
PRACTICABlLlTY OF AIRSHIPS

Alberto Santos Dumont. in Success
 The mists of the future still hide the airship that will be used as a convey anee, making regular trips. carrying peo- pie to and from above the earth on busi- ness and pleasure, but the coming of the practical ship is inevitable. 1 will not venture to say how soon it will arrive. but l know that many who are now alive will move over the housetops In airships, when most houses will have entrances on their roofs l have no faith in the idea that flying machines may be devised for single individuals, or that the correct principle may be found by studying and copying the flight of birds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18
Draws InimitabIe Babies.

The artist who made the sixty pictures for Josephine Daskam's Memoirs Of a Baby is herself a famous young woman Her name is Fanny Y. Cory. Her 'Trase- dies of Childhood' pictures in Harper s Bazaar have circulated far and wide, and made for the young arist a permanent place in public affection. Miss Cory was born and reared in New Jersey, but deli- eacy of health resulted in her going to Montana for an outdoor life. There she has built a picturesque bungalow near Helena, and there she enjoys all the free dom of western life, tranping. riding bronchos and building up d sound consti- tuition. Miss Cory's work as n portrayer ef babies is scarcely equaled. She has struck just the right notes of humor and refine ment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-18
DELEGATES ARE ELECTED.
Morgan County Republicans Adopt the
 Customary Resolutions.

New Decatur. April -(speeial.)-The republicans of Morgan county held a mass convention at Hartselle yesterday and elected delegates to the state and district conventions as follows w. M Nelson. F. P. Jennings, John Hinds Will liam Mosley. H. Y. Cashon, s. L. Sher- rel and MT Irland.
 ". NJ. Nelson was elected chairman of the county executive committee and S. L. Sherrel secretary
 No nominations were made for county offices. The administration of President Roosevelt was endorsed. Charles Scott was endorsed for national committeeman, F. r. Conway was endorsed for district chairman; MT. Thompson for state chair man and Oscar Hunley for congress. The district convention will be held in De- eatur tomorrow Resolutions were drawn Up by Postmaster D. r. Jennings of New Decatur and adopted by the convention