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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
Worlds Fair Finances.

President Francis has paid $195, ,000 to the government on account of the loan of $4,6OO,oO0. being 40 per cent of the gross receipts from June 1 to June 15. Another semi-monthly pay 1nent must be made on July 1, and after that date the seml-monthly pay ments must be at least $500,000
 Can the fair meet the payments? :? It is doubtful. The payment made on June 15 consisted in good part of the sale of concessions, which are pre- sumably disposed of. Hereafter the chief dependence must be upon the gate receipts, and these were in the first half of June but $16,00O a day They must be trebled at least in or der to permit President Francis to make the government payments and pay at the same time running ex. penses. It is not probable that they will be trebled in the hot months of July and August, for St. Louis is a very hot town as rule in those months. Thus far the summer has not been fiercely hot, and possibly the weather will favor the fair.
 But the times do not favor the fair. Many men are out of employment; the cost of living IS as high as even Sec etary Shaw can reasonably desire and many cannot go to the fair that would go in better times. President Francis is however, hopeful. He does not propose to hand over his "job' to the ex-banker of Denison. la. who says he will take charge of it if the payments are not forthcoming in ac cordance with the terms of the gov. ernment loan It must be confessed that the chances run in favor of Deni son, la. No great exposition has been able to make both ends meet, and the St. Louis fair promises to be no excep, tion to the rule despite President Francis optimism. The number of visitors will be increased, but it will not, 1t is feared, keep step with the demands of the government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
THE GIRL 1 LEFT BEHIND ME.

By Thomas o. Davis. The danes of France are fond and free, And Flemish lips are willing, And soft the maids of Italy,
 And Spanish eyes are thrilling; Still, though I bask beneath their smile Their charms fail to bind me. And my heart flies back to Erin's Isle. To the girl I left behind me. For she's as fair as Shannon's side, And purer than it's water, But she refused to be my bride,
 Though many year I sought her; Yet. since to France I sailed away, Her letters oft remind me That I promised never to gainsay
 The girl I left behind me. She says-.My own dear love, come homes My friends are rich and many Or else abroad with you I'll roam A soldier stout as any; If you'll not come, nor let me go I'll think you have resigned me" My heart nigh broke when I answered
 No!
 To the girl left behind me For never shall my true love brave A life of war and toiling; And never ss skulking slave
 I'll tread my native soil on; But, were 1t free. or to be freed. The battles close would find mo To Ireland bound-nor message need For the girl left behind me
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
AFRICAN ELEPHANT GAN
 BE MADE VERY USEFUL,

necessary to compare the animal as it Is found today in India, surrounded by the respect, not to say veneration and affection of the natives, and in Africa, tracked and mercilessly slaughtered by the negroes.
 An attempt was once made to introduce the Asiatic elephant into the Congo dis trict This was in 1879, when the suc- cess of the famous Abyssinian campaign, largely due to the assistance of forty four Indian elephants in transporting the heavy British artillery, was still fresh in every one's mind. Four Indian ele- plants were brought from Calcutta to Msasani but they only survived few months. The failure of this attempt led to the supposltion that the Asiatic ele- phant could not stand the African cli- mate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
PENALTY oF POPULARITY.
Uncle Joe Would Dodge Boom, But He
 Can't Do 1t.

From the New York Sun.
 UnclesJoe Cannon isn't often premature, but he is at least proleptic when he pre- tends that his boom Tor vice-president is ''as flat as pancake"
 1t may be that Illinois is as safe" as he is so eager to make everybody be- lieve. Illinois may be ''safe," and yet Uncle Joe may be highly unsafe. He con- tinues to interpose the handsome and dig nifed form of his colleague. Hon. Robert Roberts Hit, between himself and des- tiny disguised as the American Sense of Humor. But the candidacy of MT. Hit is not much more proteetion to the shrinking speaker than the candidacy of Nebraska's s Webster, the Hon. John L.. We mention Webster because the Ne braska republican convention did, and be- cause he wonuldnt deprive Uncle Joe of one single fertilization against beleagur- ing Fate.
 Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks may be Mir. Roosevelt's choice and his own, and the marriage of the oak and the ivy would be very beautiful. But can ever MT. Roosevelt save MT. Cannon? The mere mention of MT. Roosevelt suggests the process of eonscription, the dragging of reluctant soldier in gilded chains. Can MT. Cannon shun the pleasing pun ishment that was inflicted upon MT. Roosevelt at Philadelphia in 1900?
 The Sense of Humor, never fitting, still is sitting sitting by that Danville door. Uncle Joe may renounce, refuse, hang his head pout. burst into sulphur ous and tormenting words. But how can he escape paying the penalty of his pop ularity? When virtuous republican Mrs. Potiphar plucks Joseph by the skirt of his statesman's frock coat can he escape? They make stronger cloth in Illinois than they did down in old Egypt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
UNCLE JOE SPEAKS.
Turns Down the vlce-Presldency Good
 and Hard.

Special to the New York World.
 Chicago" Say" said Uncle Joe'' Can non, at the Great Northern hotel to- night. "I hear they are trying to start something for me. Haven't I made myself plain on this question:"
 "I want the wide, wide world to under stand that neither Ben odell nor any other man can force me to take the nom nation for vice president.
 T am speaker now. shall be can didate for the speakership again, if the next congress Is republican. That Is as far as my ambitions go.
 T want to say to you that have lived for more than sixty years with my strength unimpaired and do not intend to be showed off into that imitation of a real job by any set of politicians, nc matter what state they come from.
 T won't take it. They can't make me take 1t. You hear me? I am well fixed and I intend to stay well fixed.
 ''The idea of sitting for four years and presiding over the senatel Not for me. my son, not for your Uncle Joseph. Not by blankety blank sight, you hear me7''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
BOGUS ANTIQUES.
the New York World.

From the New York World.
 William Le Queux notes an amazing growth in Italy of the manufacture of counterfeit antiques.
 He says he had stood in more than one sculptor's studio and seen "age" given to marble by a newly discovered process which in twelve hours will give to a statue five hundred times it's true value. The greater part of his output is said to be shipped to New York
 According to MT. Le Queux the largest profit is, however, made on arms and pictures. The armory where the greater CTS in Italy is forged is in a back street in Leghorn. Here in a couple of tumbled-down old blacksmith shops every conceivable kind of armor Is made, from the fourteenth century hell met or breastplate to ancient gaunt- lets, halberds, swords and daggers.
 q have watched those swords being stamped with the marks of monograms of the well known Spanish armorers of the sixteenth century," writes MT. Le Queux, "the coronet in a shield of Do- mingo, the crossed scissors of Sanchez, the half-moon of Juan Martin or the star of Gil de Alman, together with good selling Latin inscriptions or owners names with dates. I have stood by and seen how the steel is treated with acids. how the bronze hits are painted with some solution to render them old. and how they are placed in troughs of damp earth to induce rust and patina before being sold to the dealers at so much Q dozen assorted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
A Genius In His Way.

From the New York Times.
 Senator Depew was present while the awful pauses" at dinner parties were under discussion.
 Said MT. Depew:
 "A man who possibly represents a large class of diners-out once questioned me at a club about an event of the evening previous.
 CT am sorry to say I said, that at one time long silence fell upon the table, and fear that some nervous per- sons felt it acutely. What can be done to obviate such difficulties?
 Serve all the courses at once.' he suggested intelligently. It Is painfully embarrassing waiting for something to eat"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
Abou. Persons.

J. T. Pattilo of West Point, Ga.. is at the Hillman.
 Fred L. Seaman of Atlanta is stopping at the Colonial
 Ray Rushton prominent young at torney of Montgomery, is at the Morris. James L. Wells of Louisville Is at the St. Nicholas.
 Ed J. Opel. the day clerk at the Met ropolitan. was called to Kansas City last night on account of the death of his father.
 c. B. Atkins and Samuel J. Smith of Atlanta are at the Colonial.
 Edward E. Evans of Little Rock is registered at the St. Nicholas.
 The Rev. Dr. Anson West of Gadsden, former president of Owenton college, but recently appointed presiding elder of the Gadsden district, is at the Hillman. pr. w. D. Gaines of IaFayette, one of the most prominent physicians of East Alabama, is at the Metropolitan.
 c. c. Whitson, solicitor of the Seventh judicial circuit and a prominent attorney of Talladega, is at the Morris He was the unanimous choice of the recent dem ocratic convention as its chairman. MT. Whitson presided over that body with
 
 much tact and skill. He is one of the best informed politicians in the state and numbers his friends by the legion. J. R. spraggins of Bear Creek is stop ping at the Colonial
 John T. Cochrane of Tuscaloosa Is at the Eillman-
 A. M. Tunstall of Greensboro. the popu- lar speaker of the last house of represen-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
Summer Theatres Popular.

''The demand for summer theatres has been so great that their number has greatly increased in the south within the past few years,' said a press agent. Nearly every town in the country of 15, 0O0 people or more has some kind of sum mer theatre. Of course many of them offer very good entertainment while oth- CTS are of questionable excellence, but the people are willing to put up with almost any kind of amusement for the summer and with few exceptions these theatres seem to be doing very well. At least they hold their grip.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22

beaten-they organized bolting con
 vention, and nominated a Spooner
 ticket. led by. a MT. Cook, who was
 member of congress. The fight be-
 tween Governor Lafollette and the
 spooner faction is a fight to the death.
 It means .Ae overthrow of the one faction or the other.
 The spooner faction is in canoot with the Roosevelt administration, and it succeeded in inducing the na tional executive committee to throw out the Lafollette delegates at Chi caeo although it is known that that delegation represents a majority of Wisconsin republicans. But pull does not recognize majority represent alton. Pun" is strictly autocratic.
 Governor Lafollette will fight the action of the executive committee, but he probably cannot overcome it. He holds. however, other cards. He con trols the party organization in the counties of hls state, and in the mak- ing up of the official ticket he will be controlling. He has, too, gone into the courts. Altogether a bitter faction fiqbt dominates the republicans of Wisconsin. The masses of the party favor Governor Lafollette and dislike the congressional machine, and they will accept a democrat in preference to any one connected with the Spoon erites
 The democrats have not held their convention, but they propose to put their most popular man in nomination for governor, with view of carrying the state all along the line. Governor Peck may be nominated for governor. He has been governor of the state, and he was a democrat then as he is now. If ne is elected he will carry the democratic electoral ticket with him, and 4. is this that makes the Wisconsin facuon fight a national mat ter
 The secretary of state is Lafollette man, and if the courts do not interfere he will place the Lafollette electors and nominees under the party em- blem, thus driving the Spoonerites to the independent column. The courts may decree otherwise. especially in view of the action at Chicago. But whatever the courts do the Roosevelt electoral ticket-if a common one be agreed upon-can appear on the offl- clal ticket but once, and many a re- publican will fail to mark 1t. Gov ernor Lafollette and his followers are not over friendly to MT. Roosevelt, who is an intimate friend of MT. Spooner, and who doubtless inspired the action at Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
Wisconsin Politics.

Robert Marion Lafollette has twice been elected governor of Wisconsin, and when ne asked for a third term a clear majority of republicans sup ported him. He stands, however, for various reforms; he is a fighter, and the Spooner faction is opposed to him. boomer, Qlarles and Babcock-two
 stors and a congressman-hay de-
 ned to defeat him regardless of
 quences. When they were out
 1 in the state convention-clearly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
"Dopev Still Popular.

''In spite of the multiplicity of new Cocdcola continues to lead the list" said confectioner. We do an enor- nous business in Coco-Cola and you would be surprised at the amount of the beverage consumed in Birmingham While there are some very pronounced women dope fiends the majority of the drinkers are men and boys. Instead of waning in popularity Coco-Cola seems to be gaining new friends every day, in spite of dire predictions made. by health cranks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
MEANING OF ORANGE BLOSSOMS

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 The orange tree Is regarded as prince among trees and the emblem of genius. A peculiarity of this tree is that 1t bears fruit and flowers at the same time Its leaves are evergreen. and as 1t grows older it grows In beauty and fruitfulness, It's blossom filling the air with its frag- rance. It is indeed a fit emblem of mar riage promise and hopes.
 The orange tree is considered typical of love because. though its fruit Is gold en and its flavor and scent delicious. its rind Is bitter, and as every one knows who has experienced it Cupids dart causes pain. The orange Is emblematic of gratitude as well as of genius and loye
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
Foreign Correspondence The New To

Foreign Correspondence The New York
 Times.
 a RussEbs.-rhe efforts made by H1 the Congo Free State government s\> for years past to domesticate the African elephant have at last proved suc- cessful. M. Leplume, the official charged by the government with the duty of tanning a number of young elephants. announces that after almost insuperable obstacles several elephants are sufficient ly domesticated to be ridden and harness ed. M Leplume has now eight elephants in training, four males and four females.
 All hope, therefore, has not been aban- doned, notwithstanding numerous fruit less attempts in the past, to turn the African elephant, like his Asiatics cousin, into useful helpmate for the colonist and explorer. The only pity is that this protective movement should have been started so late, when the race has been almost exterminated. It has been calcu- lated that at the present rate the ele- phant will have become an extinct species in the Free State in eight or ten years.
 The opinion was long held by competent authorities that the African elephant, owing to the animals savage disposition, never could be domesticated But those who put forth this opinion lost sight of the fact that in ancient times African ele- plants were tanned by the Romans and Carthaginians, who used them in battle. The Romans later on trained them to fa lra no rt f, {,,- telligence and skill they displayed won the admiration of all spectators.
 In former days, before the arrival of European colonists, the Congo natives only killed off a certain number of ele- plants every year, and confined their slaughter to the male adults. But today the natives, spurred on by Europeans, in their greed for ivory, kill indiscriminately the old and young animals, whether male or female. The difficulties of elephant hunting are, moreover, far less than is generally supposed. The usual method of the Congolese Is to prepare large pits into which the elephants are driven and killed without trouble or danger. As for European 'sportsmen, so called. they make an easy prey of the elephant, thanks to their perfected firearms Bel gian sportsman of this kind is men toned who in five months shot no fewer than 152 elephants.
 As M. Leplume points out In his report on the subject, there can hardly be found in the entire animal creation a more in- teligent and harmless creature. and one more easily managed, more, fitted, in oth- CT words, to become mans friend and helpmate than the elephant. It has taken all the brutality of the African aborigi- nes, melted by the criminal cupidity of transform into savage and ferocious beast this naturally harmless animal. In order to fully realize the result of mans kindness on the el-nnant 1t is but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
GRAY WOLVES
Are Increasing, Despite the Fortunes
 Spent in State Counties.

From Field and Stream.
 What are the two most widely known animals of the world-those of which some sort of mental picture is most easi- ly to be produced in the minds of the greatest portion of the worlds popula- tion? We should say, perhaps, the lion and the wolf. Of these the latter is most generally accepted in the history of the world as the inspiration for human ter- TOT The wolf is more dreaded of hu manity than any other animal. No doubt we of today inherit that dread from ancestors who had occasion to fear the long fanged quadruped, for there are few portions of the world today where the wolf is really dangerous to man. kind. Dangerous to mans pocket, to his herds and fiocks, he is still today in many portions of the country. A ranch In Montana or New Mexico may pay many hundreds of dollars a year for gray wolf scalps. Such scalp Is cheap at SIP or S15 to the rancher for the gray robber would certainly have destroyed many times that value in calves or colts from the range. Yet in spite of all the warfare made upon them, and all the prices put upon their heads, these dread ed, mysterious, ghost-like, terror inspiring creatures still hold their own. Outcast for ages hated, persecuted, they still en- dure, each for himself, and without a friend on earth even among his own kind Last year the state of Minnesota paid over $6,O00 month in the best of the wolf season. On one day of the month of last March the state auditor paid $6,15S.50 in wolf bounties. The total for the few months preceding was $36 54S.5O. On this basis the current year will foot up nearly as much as the two years preceding, which appears to in- dicate that brother Wolf Is holding his own, even as a matter of commerce In many parts of the western cattle range, the gray wolves are increasing rather than decrea sing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press.
 The only good husband is the same as the only good Indian-dead.
 The way a girls conscience appears to you Is as deceptive as an open-work shirt waist
 It takes a woman to look straight ahead of her and be able to see a man directly behind her.
 There is more wisdom in 16-year- girls nonsense than is an old maids cold, hard sense.
 A man ought to be almost willing tc die to have the nice things said about him that ones widow always does to the next man she is going to marry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22

iatives of the state legislature Is at the Metropolitan.
 NJ. F. Smith of Marion Junction is reg lstered at the St. Nicholas.
 c. ". sproull and J. waterhouse of An niston are at the Morris.
 Emile L. Rosenbaum the well known representative of Cage, Drew S Co. of New Orleans, Is at the Metropolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22

I stage prototype appears perhaps a triie exaggerated. One sees the humorous side of the play that is entirely overlooked in the stories.
 Automobiling is becoming more dan eerous for the automobilists these days than for the people who have to take the risk of being run over. For time 1t was considered good form by hoodlums in cer- tain of the large cities to hurl bricks and stones at ohauffeurs, but these crude i'm plements have been superseded by giant firecrackers. which do their work much more effectively and expeditiously. Au- tomobiling now has more thrills than ever to offer to the devotee. In addition to the risk of being blown up by his own machine he faces the danger of being blown up by flrecrackers, all of which is very interesting and very exciting for the automobilist
 George Wilson, the Minstrel King who has fallen from his high estate af- ter losing several fortunes into the ranks of the vaudevillians, is doing turn every night this week at Memphis in a summer theatre. The press notice that George Wilson made a hit with the au- dience is almost ironical when one thinks of the change that has come about in the great minstrel mans fortunes. George Wilson ought to be living in a castle on the Hudson now but he Is not and Is still grinding Away in an effort to keep soul and body together by making the people laugh.
 Major Cough, who probably calls him. self Cuff" an officer of the British army, has arrived in this country for the purpose of studying mules. Now, mules are not animals that appeal to a person of aesthetic tastes but they are very useful sometimes and are espec- 1 tally so in the majors business. The major is coming south where he will have an opportunity to study the Georgia mule in action, which consists largely of standing still at this season of the year. Of course the major is an author ity on mules and need not be warned to study them at a safe distance.
 While poets are singing enthusiastically of the many, admirable qualities that lie dormant in man every now and then man shows a yellow streak that causes some question as to whether he is such a lofty creature after all. For instance it has been found necessary to curb the greed of New York undertakers who were gloating over the prospect of rob ping poor people who had relatives lost in the Slocum disaster. Perhaps after all for every hero in the world there is a ghoul or at best a rascal, but it is to be hoped that this is not the true state of affairs.
 New Workers are continually boosting of how very much they know. People who reside in benighted districts of the south are almost astounded at the wis dom displayed on all occasions by Goth antics and yet it is a we'll known fact that New York people know less about the country than anybody else in it. The excuse that they do not want to know about any town but New York does not help them any when sharper comes along with a new scheme to defraud suckers of their money. It is almost improbable and yet the historic shell game is being worked today in New York most successfully while residents stake their money on their ability to To- cate the pea F..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
NOT SELECTED THAT WAY.

From the Washington Post.
 Just as a friendly tip to Judge Parker political history shows that no Presi- dential candidate has ever been selected from a phrenological chart.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22

The champion hard luck story of the season comes from Chicago. A soda water fount blew up and showered soft drinks over crowd of thirsty girls. There was soda water everywhere, and not a drop to drink.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
Nothing in It.

From PUCK.
 He-It is reported around the club that I am to be married.
 she-'Well, don't you put any faith in the report. l started it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22

Bandit Raisuli is a bigger man than the sultan himself, and all his demands are to be granted. He is to have. among other things, the governorship of four provinces.