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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-09-02

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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-09-02

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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-09-02

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
CapitaI Punishment.

Up in Vermont Mrs. Mary M. Rogers committed murder. Her crime, says a New England paper, was deliberate, cruel and monstrous. She deserves hanging if any woman ever did. But that is the question before Vermont today-should any woman be hanged?
 Mrs. Rogers was not only duly con victed. but she confesses her crime. There Is neither doubt as to her guilt or as to the monstrous nature of her crime, but the old question arises, should any one be hanged? Especially should a woman be hanged by the neck until she be dead?
 The subject was brought before the Vermont legislature, and it refused to commute her sentence to Imprisonment for life by a vote of 91 to 137, and it is conceded that Governor Bell will not intervene in the case. She will undoubtedly suffer the extreme pen atty of the law.
 Guilty as she is, and monstrous as was her crime, her execution will un- doubtedly be followed by an agitation in favor of the repeal of capital pun ishment. Public sentiment tolerates capital punishment when applied to men, but 1t does not when applied to women. The hanging of the Vermont woman may lead even to widespread agitation in that direction, although in all logic it is difficult to draw the sex line in crime.
 Owing to the difficulty in securing the conviction of women in capital cases, the subject is of small practical value, and in order to secure any at all 1t may be necessary soon to sub stitute imprisonment for life for hang ing. The Vermont woman, guilty as she confessedly Is, may be the begin ming of a movement that will eliminate women from the death penalty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
pearth of Amusements.

There Is a surprising condition of apathy prevailing in local theatrical cir cles at this time of the year" said theatre-goer last night. Although we are now on the verge of the holiday sea- son and Christmas is only about ten days distant, we are having a dearth of plays at the theatres. Of course the Bljou is open every week, but the Jeff ferson is being sadly neglected. Last week we had but one show, an attrac- tion of moderate pretensions on Monday night. Next week we will have only two plays, a musical comedy that will do a landoffice business and a New England drama.
 Now next week and the week fol- lowing ought to be busy at the Jefferson. yet there are fewer plays than we have had at any time since the season was we'll begun. There is either an unusual gap in the dates or else the syndicate Is playing it's hand for other towns.
 Yet Birmingham is a fine town for shows at any time of the year. and dur ing the holiday season college boys, girl students and many visitors are here.
 'on account of the scarcity of plays, those that do come will be pleased at the increased business that they will not have to divide with other attractions"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Hinh.class Music.

Those who attended MT sherwoods 5 plano recitals. especially the afternoon re- eital, when the distinguished artist gave a lecture on the master composers were Impressed with the wide differences be- tween mediocre music and high-class music" remarked a music lover last night.
 MT. Sherwoods appearance in Birming- ham was decidedly educative, and 1t is hoped that the virtuoso and instructor will come often. It is strange how many people there are who look upon music as mere pass time. There is music and music. The compositions of Bach and Bee thoven and the other great composers be- long to the poetic, spiritual and intellect ual realm, and are as uplifting and far reaching in their influence on the heart and character as are the writings of Mil- ton and Shakespeare, or the paintings of Corregio or Rhaphael.
 The psycholy of music Is unknown to stupid and unimagnatlve people, but 1t means much to music lovers capable of experimenting the true value of musical genius. Musical form and music expres- sion, and the sweep of the emotions, have real meaning to the man or woman of musical culture''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
Civil Service is Secure.

| The President has extended the civil Eservice system to all minor employees kof the government at Panama, in the belief that a system which is good at home will prove good in the canal lwork. And 1t undoubtedly will.
 No doubt the civil service system is Icircumvented in 0 hundred ways by Ecunning politicians, but the fact re bmains that all expert non-partisan ob Bervers agree in saying that it is bet Aer than the old spells system, which nnloaded on the government a vast humber of dissolute or incompetent lhangers-on.. The civil service exam Hnation is confessedly a bar to utter fncompetency, and there remains but the choice between a permanent serv ice changed down to the last man ol twoman every four years. All other tcountries I---yr the former system Not one of them would touch the lat tter with a forty-foot pole.
 { The periodic denunciation of tho tcivil service system in congress should fdeceive no one. It is but the growl. 'of nolit.cians who want more patron
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
Peonaqe Before the Court.

The test peonage case, now before the United States supreme court, arose in Florida, and, singularly enough, 1t was tried before Judge Swayne oi Florida and Delaware, who has just been impeached by the house of rep resentatives. The prisoner, s. M. Cly- att. was convicted by the jury, and sentenced by the judge to serve four years in the penitentiary. Clyatt lives at Triton, Ga, but he kept his peons in lumber camps in Florida.
 The case is presented as a test case, and good lawyers argued it before the supreme court. Senator Bacon was among Clyatt's lawyers, and Attorney General Meody himself spoke for the government. The decision of the court may not be rendered in many weeks, but when it is rendered it will no doubt determine all questions as to the con- stitutionality of the anti-peonage act.
 No one seems to contend that in- voluntary peonage can be maintained under the act and the thirteenth amendment but Senator Bacon asked the court to hold that voluntary peon- age is not punishable under the law. lThis seems to be the chief, if not the only, question raised in the Clyatt rase
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
EIectinQ United States Senators.

Out in Missouri they are rising up to say that United States senators should be elected by popular vote. They feel agrieYed because Francis M. Cockrell was beaten in contest that dla not directly relate to him. He was | turned down because democrats who | disliked Parker stayed at home. They had no desire to defeat General Cock rell. In fact, to a man they would have voted for him, but under our ob- solete system of naming United States senators he went down in concatena- ton of circumstances that had small relation to him or to his service in the senate.
 It Is conceded that a direct vote for senator in -,4lssouri would have re- suited in General Cockrell's election by an immense majority-and yet he has been defeated. The will of the people has therefore been nullified, and the people of Missouri are begin ming to think that the time for repeal ing the ancient devices through the C. ,oked working of which the deed was accomplished, has about come. The ring politicians only stand in the way.
 After all is said, and after the an- cient methods of an imperfect consti- tuition have been appealed to, the will of the people is the supreme thing in this country. The politicians who come betw n the people and their representatives in either house of con gress, do not deserTe more considera- tion or more representation than an equal number of good citizens. The present scheme for electing United States senators is simply scheme to rob the many of rightful and just po- htical power, comforting an undue pro portion of it upon men who are not especially entitled to it, or fitted to exercise it. In the long run no doubt the plain people in this country will come into their own, but the road to that result is a long and weary one Missouri is trying to reach 1t by a short cut.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
From the New York Sun.

C ONE ancient men can remember NN certain comio' but by no " means simulated, fear and won der with which they regarded the grad uate of the womans college. Superior she must be, but wouldn't she be severe angular, austere, blinking disdainfully from sharp-eyed spectacles at man, petty man? Was she equal to those severe studies of which men folks are so en- amored in their undergraduate days? Wouldn't she break down" and become a limp, anaemic and shambling thing somewhat like the old-fashioned theo- logical pill" with his shawl, his cough, his nerves and his goloshes? Wise heads rattled like peas In a dried pod and shook ominously. "Female education was desirable, but could the poor weak creatures stand 1t?
 Now, when the women's colleges are many and mighty, and their graduates numbered by thousands.' the folly of those old fears is as absurd as most of us are. The college girl, brimming with health, bright with intelligence, possesses the land. As a Bryn Mawr singer hath it.; "She runs, she rows she basketballs, the
 tennises. she skates,
 She goifs, she rides, she fences, slides,
 she's taller than her mates,
 Poor little men, her mates?'
 Compared with undergraduate 'men, her superior intelligence, her lack Of that vealiness which Is apt to finger long with the trousered collegians, IS notice- able. Not only does she stick to ner hooks better, but her physical training is more uniform, and not characterAeo by excess. In the boys colleges Sou niiD a number of beefy and hulking persons some of them mighty near the proies- sional line. who are the gladlators or tho,r college. and encouraged in their games. a mostly stupid and often heart breakinr form of work, by vast crowds os updeveloped lads who exercise their voices while the other fellows exercise their muscles.
 The system of physical culture used at Radcliffe college shows the advantage of physical training under skilled direction Some of the mems colleges attempt more or less of the same thing; none of the larger ones, we think, with anything like the same success. Radcliffe has an ex- cellent gymnasium, less elaborate than the muscle palaces of the mems colleges and with apparatus meant to increase health and grace, not mere muscular strength. It is free to- any student but nobody is allowed to use 1t save under the instruction of competent teacher The classes are graded. The physique of each pupil is studied and developed ac- cording to an intelligent plan. Particular faults or deficiencies are corrected. The students start from the simplest exer- cises. Fencing dancing. basket ball. swimming, supplement the exercises wit the apparatus; and English hockey. ten- his and other out of door games are played with spirit in their season. At Radcliffe, as at other women's colleges,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
A Lively Town.

T believe that Dallas Is by far the most progressive town in Texas" said a resi- dent of the Lone Star state at the Hill man last night "The people of Dallas are wideawake, up-to-date and hustle with an enthusiasm and breeziness that excites the admiration of visitors from more sedate parts of the country. The citizenship is also quite wealthy, and 1t does not take a careful eye to note the evidences of liberal expenditure on all sides The people make lots of money and they part with 1t in a manner that does credit to their goodness of heart.
 "One of the chief characteristics of Dallas is its up-to-dateness.' if I may be allowed to use the term. The crowds on the streets are as we'll groomed, as brisk and alert as you will find in the large eastern cities while the gowns of the women as well as their equipages will bear favorable contrast with those seen in the metropolis.
 Dallas Is great place for wealthy men of the state to congregate. Here they as- semble together and have a royal time, enjoying those little city experiences that are denied them in the smaller towns. There is very fine hotel at Dallas, the Oriental, where person can live like prince if he so desires. I dare say that this hotel Is one of the very finest, and perhaps the largest, in the south or south west, not excepting the St. Charles in New Orleans"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
AnnIston Is a Church Town.

"Anniston Is certainly church going town" said c. N. Avery. the insurance man. T spent last Sunday at Anniston and while out walking in the morning, not less than a half dozen young men accosted me and invited me to accompany them to Sunday school. travel all over the state and that is the first city where I have, as a stranger received as many invitations to attend church services. In this respect Anniston is most assuredly a remarkable city.
 T observed also that nearly all the people of Anniston are accustomed to at tending church and that all the houses of worship were filled at all of the services. It is so rare that a stranger is invited to attend church while he is in strange city that was really struck by the hos- pltality of the Annistonians."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
BABIES IN THE WOODS.

From the Kennebec, Me. Journal.
 Here Is little tale that has come down from the wild woods. where the annual hunting season Is now at -ts height. An Augusta man was out after game one morning and when in the depth of the forest ran across two young hunters from New York who had lost their way. When the man arrived on the scene the two unfortunates has their heads to- gether and were earnestly consulting a compass which one of them held in his hand. and as he approached them one came forward and anxiously said, ''WiIl you please tell us. sir. If compass al- ways points toward camp?" The man felt like laughing, but he was touched with pity at their helpiessness. so he uS-ser- took to help them out of their predica- ment, and after making scme inquiries and hunting around a bit he was enabled to set them on the right track back to camp where they would have a chance to study up on the uses and abuses of that valuable little instrument known as n compass
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
Sea Control In inc East.

The pelting of the remnants of tho slSullSing Russian fleet at Port Arthur is a pitiable spectacle. The Russian officers had not the skill and the cour- age to maintain their effort to run the blockade, and they went back to be attacked like rats in their hole. Only the Sevastapol and few torpedo boats remain afloat. They had not sunk or injured in battle a single Japanese ship. One or two Japanese ships struck mines and were destroyed, notably the battleship Hateuse, which was a serious loss, but Russian guns did not harm the Japanese ships. A more ignoble campaign was never con ducted by a feet--a fleet that meas ured well up in ships and weight and guns to those of their antagonists. But the man behind the Russian gun was inferior, and there is no reason for be- lieving that the man behind the gun in Rojestyensky' fleet is any better.
 The Japanese ships will now be speedily docked, cleaned, and got ready for an encounter with the on- coming Baltic fleet. The fight for sea control will be historic and decisive. The two fleets are pretty evenly matched, always excepting the man be- hind the gun.
 If Admiral Togo utterly defeats and destroys the Baltic fleet, the world would be treated to a real sensation If Japan had base in the Baltic, for she could then send fleet to lombard the Aczar's capital city and it's palace itself. But Japan has no base ip European waters, and Japan is not inclined to do Hoolish and sensational things.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16

age, or else of those who desire to pose before their constituents while secretly cherishing the civil service as a bar against flood of ofice-seekers.
 The civil service has come to stay, and the only thing to do is to better it until it becomes at least as good as the systems in use in other countries. Picture an English cabinet turning out clerks down to and including the lowest grade on every change in pre- miersi It is enough to make a horse laugh, and yet this is what lot of fel- le-vs in congress and out of it yearly demand for use in this country. We have tried the spells plan fully and thoroughly, and want no more of It.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
cHoArEs BARGAIN.
Purchased chippendaIe Bookcase for
 S45 Through an Agent.
Cor. New York World.

London Cor New York World.
 MT. Choate. whose passion for sport (which he caught late in life) remains unabated, has now developed a fresh avenue for his enthusiasms and has be- come a lover of antique furniture and curios of all sorts. He is especially proud of the set of splendid old chippendale bookcases which line the walls of his room at the embassy.
 A few years back when the ambassa- dor first dined with the Duke of Cam bridge at Gloucester House. he saw a magnificent rosewood and diamond-pan- eled bookcase which he realized at once would complete his set. Sitting at the table where half the crowned heads of Europe had been entertained, MT. Choate said to his royal host. who had observed his glance wander constantly to the book case: "Ah. your royal highness, you should be the happiest man alive"
 why so, MT. Choate?" asked the duke.
 well, if for no other reason, because you have accomplished the desire of an- other mans heart. That cabinet is the thing I've been living for till now"
 My dear sir" remarked the duke, T would not part with that cabinet for 5000 guineas. It belonged at one time to Lord Byron, and then came into the pos- session of Lord Maeaulay and I keep 1t sacred to the works of both, as you will see.''
 At the sale of the dukes effects by public auction, Mir. Choate, through a representative, purchased the bookcase for which, through ignorance of its his- tory, there was very little bidding, at a sum in the neighborhood of $45.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
cASolUs ON CAESAR.

By Shakespeare. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings, Brutus, and Caesar: What should be in that Caesar? Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Write them together, yours is as fair name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as we'll; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with / them. Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar. Now, in the names of all the gods at once. Upon what meat does this our Caesar feed, That he has grown so great? Aye, thou art ashamed! Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods! When went there by an age since the great flood, But 1t was famed with more than with one man? When could they say, till now, that talked of Rome, That her wide walks encompassed but one man?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
About Persons.

c. A. Huggins of Corona Is at the St. Nicholas.
 A. c. Stone of Atlanta, is registered at the St. Nicholas.
 James l.. Wells of Louisville is at the St. Nicholas.
 E. D. Reynolds of Blocton, is at the Hillman.
 w A. Lane of Atlanta is at the Hill- man.
 J. T. Jones of St. Louis. is at the Hillman. c. M. McDaniel. Jr.. of Laurel. Miss is at the Colonial.
 B. E. Bridges of Nashville is at the Colonial.
 R. J. Hudson of Montgomery, Is at the Metropolitan.
 Joe Burk of Attalla. is at the Metro politan.
 D. M. s. catts of Selma is at the Morris.
 c. M. sewell of Atlanta is at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
TRADES UNIONS IN JAPAN.

From Lafcadio Hearn's Japan: An In-
 depreciation"
 Let us suppose, for instance, that you wish to have good house built. As a general rule you will apply to a master carpenter. You cannot select and hire workmen; guild regulations forbid. You can only make your contract, and the master carpenter, when his plans have been approved, will undertake all the rest-purchase and tronsport of material; hire Of carpenters, plasterers. tilers, mat makers, screenf1tters, brassworkers, stone cutters, locksmiths and giaziers. For each master carpenter represents much more than his own craft guild. He has his clients in every trade related to house building and house-furnishing, and you must not dream of trying to inter- fere with his claims and privileges.
 He builds your home according to con tract, but that Is only the beginning of the relation. You have really made with him an agreement which you must not break, without good and sufficient req son, for the rest of your life. Whatever afterward may happen to any part of your house-wall. floor. ceiling, roof, foundation-you must arrange for re- pairs with him, never with anybody else. Should the roof leak, for instance, you must not send for the nearest tiler or tinsmith; if the plaster cracks. you must not send for a p1asterer.
 The man who built your house holds himself responsible for it's condition, and he is jealous of that responsibility. None but he has the right to send for the plasterer. the roofer, the tinsmith.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
AN ISLE OF pRUNKARDs.

From the St. James Gazette.
 The Glasgow corporation Is consider ing a scheme under which Glasgow's chronic inebriates shall be banished to the isle of Shuna, one of the Hebrides group This islet Is leased to a farmer and has been practically forgotten by the corporation of Glasgow, which has owned 1t for a century. It is sandwiched between the coast of Argylshire and the island of Luing, and Is only three miles in length and about half that extent in breadth. The climate is described in the corporation reports as similar to that of Jersey. and those who are urging that the islet should be used as an inebriates' settlement point out that the islanders would be practically self-supporting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
oUT-TALKED BY CLAYTON.

From the Washington Post.
 MT. Clayton of Alabama and Mir Gill lette of California tried to talk one an- other down during yesterdays house de- bate. The southerner had been speaking in voluble tones, such as can be easily heard in all parts of the chamber. He paused in the midst of his remarks to consult paper that he held in his hand. whereat MT. Gillette rose up, thinking Mir Clayton had concluded, and began to address the house in his own right.
 MT. Clayton soon resumed and his sounding tones completely enveloped the California voice. The house began to laugh at these two rival takers, ard MT. Gillette, seeing his error, subsided, and the Alabamian again had an unimpeded course.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-16
Mirrors In Street Cars.

T think that 1t would be we'll for the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company to equip its street cars with mirrors" said a Norwood Place citizen last night.
 Just see what a great convenience 1t would be to young lady who has to rush to the street cars. and live in dread that her hat is not on straight. It might be well to have place in one end for a brush and comb, and in another place e powder puff.
 ''I am sure If the attention of the com pany were called to this matter. the man. agement would only be glad to add the oonveniences."