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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
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The torpedo boat or the torpedo boat destroyer Is a small boat comparative ly inexpensive. Twenty could be built at the cost of a single battleship. and yet with occurrences before them the members of the house provided for the construction of a huge battleship and not for a single boat of the torpedo class to protect it. If this is not flying in the face of known facts, then it is impossible to say what would be.
 The naval board is responsible for the present programme. It is trying to work congress for expensive battle ships because public sentiment at present leans towards a big world towering navy, and when the tide turns it will ask for increases in the torpedo boat establishment, which can be secured at any time. torpedo boat can be built for about $3OO00O, as against $7000,000 which is the present cost of a big battleship, including, of course, armor and other material at trust prices.
 If the senate is willing to be worked by the naval board the pending bill will go through. But if common sense gains a hearing and foothold 1t will be amended, and torpedo boats will be substituted for the battleships that the house calls for.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
About Persons.

D. D. Smith of New Decatur is at the Morris.
 w. o. w. Paine of Valley Head is stop ping at the St. Nicholas.
 George W. Christian of Greenville, Ill, is at the Colonial.
 The Hon. w. T. Sanders, associate mem- Der of the railroad commission, is in the city.
 E. j. Thayer of Grand Rapids is at the St. Nicholas.
 S. Goldberg of Talladega is stopping at the Morris.
 H. Boyer of Marsellas, H.. is at the Colonial.
 Edgar B. Kay of Tuscaloosa is in the city.
 J. J. Harrison of Tuscaloosa is at the Morris.
 J. Frank Gibbons is stopping at the St. Nicholas.
 The Hon. w. I. Wellman of Huntsville, chairman of the republican state execu- tive committee, is in the city
 Charles B. Teasley of Montgomery is registered at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

1 lean minds is very much akin to that of After the Ball.
 Some of the Boston hotels have issued a decree forbidding pipe smoking any 1 where about the building except in a guests own room, and as result mighty wall has gone up from those who woo Lady Nicotine by the brier, corn cob l or the meerchaum. Although a fellow usually makes some deprecating remark about his pipe being strong enough to route an army of microbes and apologies for smoking 1t in your presence. he is secret ly very proud of the fact that it is strong and his deprecating remarks serve mere ly to show what an iron constitution and leather stomach he has. But when the law is fiatly laid down that pipes shall not be smoked in a certain place where they have hitherto been much in evidence, the case is different and politeness is thrown to the winds. Although Boston hotel keepers do not seem in a mood to yield to the solicitations of the offended pipe smokers. they are troubled and vis- iting Englishmen addicted to dragging a pipe are said to be in dolorous state.
 Miss Viola Allen, who recently submitted to an operation for a disease of the ear, is reported to be recovering rapidly and is now taking short walks every day in New York city. Miss Allen intends re- turning shortly to her work and will appear as Viola in Twelfth Night. Her tour will be resumed but certain changes in bookings have been made necessary by her illness. While the reception of Miss Allen in New York was not uniformly favorable critics remember that she was very unwell during her engagement and this may possibly have had something to do with her acting although many writers insist that she is not great sue- cess as Viola.
 By the death of J. F. Abell>of Baltimore the Baltimore Sun descends to the third generation of the family. It is not often that great newspaper has been con trolled by one family for so many years, but the Sun is an exception. The Sun has long been recognized as a patriarch in American journalism. It's prestige has increased steadily during the years since it's founding and it now claims all the au- thority and weight due to distinguished old age.
 k In few more weeks the tide of travel will set from the west to the east and those who have spent glorious winter on. the Pacific slope will return to the gaieties of the Atlantic seaboard. No doubt wealthy tourists who spent the winter in California saw no reason to re- gret their stay, for it has been very severe in the east and middle west. Every year California becomes more and more attrac- tive for people of means who like bit of travel. The Florida east coast hotels have been popular during the past winter with people who do not care to go across the continent in search of sunshine, but California possesses the added attraction of offering many novelties to the tourist not found in Florida. PC
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
Sanitation at the Isthmus.

Both ends of the canal, as well as the intervening canal zone, will at any rate be cleaned up and fitted up with drainage systems of approved con- struction. Colon is at present a dirty little place, full of stinks and direct invitations to disease-one of the most disagreeable places in the trop- ics, and this is saying a great deal. Panama is larger town, and it has a few crude sewers from which sew craze freely escapes to the soil. No water supply system exists in either, and in the long dry season water is procured from wells into which surface water, with all it's filth, finds it's way. Diseases prevail, necessarily prevail, and both Colon and Panama are, of course 'fever holes."
 The prevailing conditions are to be changed by Uncle Sam, who is given free hand by the treaty in sanitary matters A zone of modern sanitation will be established across the isthmus. The work done at Havana will be re- peated at the isthmus, and the two should serve as an object lesson to the rest of Spanish America, which is more backward in some respects than even Thibet
 The entire canal zone should be cleaned up in the most thorough and scientific manner. The death rate in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
INTERESTING FEATURES
 OF JAPANESE LITERATURE

the native authors. Some fifty books were translated in last year, the younger Dumass Camille" Victor Hugo ''Notre Dame" Alphonse Daudet's .Nabob," George Eliot's 'Romola," Hawthorne's S Scarlet Letter." and Mateterlinck's plays being among them.
 And the philosophical mind has taken up Emerson. few translation of his works have already appeared And the Student, semi-montly publication for the study on the English language and lit- erature, issued its Carlyle number last September, and indirectly denounced the present condition of Japan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
AT MALONE THEY MAKE EGGS.

From a Malone, N. Y, Dispatch
 The scarcity and high price of eggs has stimulated the production of a chemically has an egg manufactory, although none of it's product is sold in this section. It is shipped to Cleveland, Chicago and other western cities. This chemical egg stuff is used in cooking and in bakeries largely. for icings, Ice cream. sherbets. charlotte russo, etc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
pr, Eduar G. Murphv.

Dr. J. H. Phillips has been advised by Dr. Edgar Gardner Murphy of Montgom- cry. secretary of the conference for Edu- cation in the south, that he will be in Birmingham either tomorrow or Monday for the purpose of conferring relative to the annual conference to be held in Bir- mngham at the Jefferson theatre on April 26, ? and 2s.
 Dr. Murphy will come to Birmingham from Washington and as soon as Dr. Phil lips is advised as to the exact time of his arrival, a meeting of the local com mittee appointed to arrange for the com ing conference, will be called.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

NH HE expected has happened. A boy \OH died the other day while in the
 spanking machine of an Ohio in- dustrial school Whether the machine was altogether responsible or whether there were mitigating circumstances Is not stated. but the situation looks bad. In addition the boy was the only son of widowed mother in poor circumstances. Under these conditions there is a strong indictment for the spanking machine or the man who operated 1t, and public senti- ment has reached such a height that such contrivances have become very unpopu- lar. The spanking machine is essentially brutal anyway, and stands in the same class with the pillory, the stocks, and similar instruments of torture that the country has outllved. While it may be useful in saving physical wear and tear on teachers who are not robust, 1t is at bottom cowardly. The old-fashioned fog ging was often severe but the pedagogue was sincere in his efforts and when he tackled a big boyhe had to be endowed with more than average courage. Fortunately sentiment does not seem to be strongly in favor of the mechanical spanher and. for that reason it will hardly come into gen eral use. As yet 1t is merely in the ex- perimental stage, where it is to be hoped It will meet the fate it deserves.
 Perhaps the weather has been unfavor- able of late or inventors may be devotinR their time to drawing up new charts for aerial vessels in their workshops, but at any rate aeronauts have done very little sailing. Since Prof. Langley made his final coup and retired in dispair very little has been done in airship naviga- tion, although 1t was rumored that a new machine had been launched along the Atlantic seaboard in Virginia. In view of the fact that the aerial derby at St. Louis is fast approaching the mak- CTS of aerial craft should bestir them- selves and get their vessels in shape for the contest. While Santos Dumon seems to be favorite in the betting, books can be made on other entries and there is no telling just who will take the money From present indications there will be emulators of Darius Green at St. Louis from all parts of the country and the airship derby is sure to be interesting to the spectators, whatever may be the fate of the joclzes.
 London Is now in the grasp of 'IIia- watha.' The old adage of better late than never does not apply in this case and Americans who go across the water to find their ears assailed by this re- markable tune immediately on landing. The bands are reported to be playing "Hiawatha," the street gamins are whist ling 1t, and on every side the familiar strains are heard. After this first paroxym the parody stage Is yet to be encoun- tered, so that 1t would seem that "I.un- non' has a gloomy future in store "Hiawatha" was not so bad to begin with but it has become excruistingly painful from repetition and its effect on Amer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
Our MiIIion-DoIlar President.

President Roosevet's request to congress to build for his use an equine palace recalls public attention to ths expenditures instituted by him in the last two years. The bill presented to the people, representing money drawn or to be drawn from their pockets, reads as follows:
 Restoring and refusnishing the
 white house so as to make 1t ac-
 cord with President Roosevelts
 aesthetic taste .$475, 445 Six-room office building g....... 65, 196 Refurnishing the U, S. s, Mayfower
 for use as the Presidents yacht
 Ca luxury never before enjoyed by
 an American President ............ 100000 Additional expenditures upon the
 Mayflower in 1902 and 1903 .... 65,OOO Estimated cost of repairs this year. 30,0G0 Cost of keeping the Mayfower and
 the Sylph at the disposition of the
 President in 1902 and 1908 ............ 60, 900 Estimated cost of keeping these two
 ships in readiness for presidential
 call this summer. z5'OoO Asked for new stables ............... 90,000
 Total ..... ........''''''''$9io'ofi
 If to this sum be added the cost of the naval by-play off Oyster Bay last summer and again this summer, we have an aggregate exceeding million dollars, especially if the damages to ships by grounding on rocks in the shallow waters of Long Island sound be included.
 All the extravagances in and near the White House come directly from the pockets of the people, and the tear ing down of the present White House stables, which are finer than 95 per cent of the homes in this country, and the construction of horse palace, would add to the popular burden. Pos sibly, however, the latter will be post poned until after the presidential elec- tiOn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
NOTED CRIMINAL CASE.
Defendant Is Found Not Guilty In New
 Mexico Courts.

Carlsbad, N. NJ. March 3.-One of the most noted criminal cases ever tried in New Mexico has come to a close, the jury in the case of Clayborne w. Mer chant. Jr., charged with the murder of George H. Hutchins, rendering verdict of not guilty. The two men fought duel in the hotel conducted by Hutchins, the result of bitterness engendered, 1t Is said by an assault upon Hutchins made by Merchant The latter claimed self-de- fense in the trial. Both men were wound ed in the battle, Hutchins dying soon af- terward.
 Merchant fingered some days but finally recovered Merchant Is a wealthy cattle man. Hutchins was a we'll known news paper man and had worked on number of large eastern newspapers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
MARCH,.

By Sara Andrew Shafer in the Outlook. On the western sky, in a yellow line. The wind of his might paints warning
 sign. The March clouds. torn like shipwrecked
 sails, Drift at the will of the angry gales. On crumbling logs the moss grows green; The freed brook laughs the rocks between. The melting snow. the sap's full tide. The polished buds that the young leaves
 hide, These. with the flush on the mayhower's
 cheek. To dullest heart Springs message speak.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
Has Peculiar Accident.

Selma, March 3.-(Special.)-Mr c. S. westbrook an employe at the Southern railway shops in this city. met with a painful accident today. He was at work at his bench when piece of iron flew out of a vice and struck a file laying partly on the edge of the bench. The file flew up when struck and the sharp end cut MT. westbrook in the eye, the tear duct being severed. His friends hope that he will not lose his eye.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
whct Would Be Expected.

From Judge.
 How are you getting along with your project of organizing a breakfast-food club?" asked Clarke
 Fairly only replied Tigg. You see I sent out a lot of tentative constitutions and bylaws. and suppose the recipients have not yet fully digested their provi- sions."
 That's where you make your mistake, man." said Clarke.
 Mistake? How?"
 Such club should have pre-digested constitution" was the answer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Religion mixes much better with sick ness than with health.
 A woman dyes her hair to fool herself as much as anybody else.
 A woman can cry about as much at a funeral as at wedding.
 What girl likes is a secret engagement so everybody will know about 1t.
 As a rule adversity elevates woman in the proportion that it degrades a man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
Weak in Torpedo Boats.

If battleships are torpedo food, as old John Ericsson was accustomed to say, and as the Russo-Japanese war at sea seems to indicate, then the naval bill that has gone to the senate is un- wise. It provides for the construction of a dollar battleship, but not for a single torpedo boat. And yet we are the weakest of all the great nations in that respect, as the follow ing table shows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
Veteran Takes Lona Walk.

Selma, March s.--(SpeciaL)-An old con- federate veteran. a member of the Third Alabama regiment. passed through Selma today. He had walked practically all the way from New Orleans to Selma and was making his way to Wetumpka His shoes were without soles and his clothing in a tattered condition. He was given enough money to secure another pair of shoes and went on his way rejoicing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
SERIOUS PRAIRIE FIRES.
Town In Kansas Is In Danger of De.
 structlon.

Salina, Kan, March 3.-Many serious prairie fires. aided by the high wind in this section and west of here. are re- ported.
 At Hill City the courthouse, jail and fifty residences are reported destroyed and a woman burned to death.
 Instances of farmers being caught with their teams in the prairie fires and of many persons seriously burned are numerous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
Remarkable Rise In Value.

Asheville, N. O., March 3.-The chest nut timber on the Craigy mountain has been sold by J. s. Bailey & Co.,, to the United States Leather company for $500, ,000 Five years ago the owners of the land and timber would have been glad to get S3 an acre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT

Prince Louis Napoleon will soon join one of the cavalry divisions of the Russian army in the far east.
 Dr. Lyman Abbott of New York has manity without religion is better than re- ligion without humanity"
 Richard Garfield. proprietor of some of the finest gambling establishments in this country has gone for trip to Europe and 1t Is rumored he did so to escape legal entanglements.
 Joseph T. Smith, president of the Nor mon church, is in Washington to testify in the fight against Senator Reed Shoot of Utah. MT. Smith was born in Missouri about sixty years ago and crossed the plains to Salt Lake in 1S4S.
 Mrs. Helena Hnl Weed enjoys the dis tinction of being the only woman in the United States who holds the collegiate degree of master of arts in economic geology. Mrs. Weed is the daughter of Congressman c. J. Hill of Norwalk. Conn. and has achieved wide reputation in the scientific world.
 It is possible that Admiral Evans of the United States navy will meet Emperor William in the Mediterranean while re- turning to the United States. The kaiser became very friendly with the American naval officer at Kiel and 1t Is thought he has so arranged his itinerary as to meet the admiral in some part of the Mediter- ranean.
 The future mikado is one of the most interesting little fellows in the world He is Prince Micchi. grandson of the present mikado. and will be four years old In April The heir presumptive also has the distinction of being the first baby of the royal house of Junimu Tlenno who has been permitted to grow his hair like an English boy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Out in Arkansas affairs similar to that of the Indianola postoffice are managed differently by the citizens. When they object to negro postmas- ter they simply blow up the postoffice and the postmaster is apt to meet the same fate if he is anywhere about.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
plstiIIers Hold Conference.

New York. March S.-Distillers from all over the United States are in conference here over the state of trade and the future outlook for the whisky business Reports that plans were being agitated for a new combination were denied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

MT. Schwab should stake at Monte Carlo nothing but Steel common or Shipyard shares, and keep all the chances in his favor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Union Springs Herald: If that Birming- ham policeman who shot a wooden cigar Indian had not shot so true to the mark it might have been thought that his vision was alcoholized
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

The man who became convict to get rid of his wife probably had more than the usual share of matrimonial woes than fall to the lot of mere man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

As a featherweight Japan is coming along finely in the present contest. She lands quickly and makes no mistakes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Jasper Mountain Eagle: Now that Han ma, the only man he feared, Is dead, Roosevelt will be as uncertain as an un- tanned broncho hitched to market wag- on with the driver absent in a saloon eel ebrating.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Admiral Dewey is not saying a word He sees that the woods are full of na- val strategists. Torpedoes are leading airships in the Russo-Japanese war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Do or die is said to be the slogan of the Russians, but as yet they have done very little of either.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Anniston Star: Very properly it is said that when boy starts out with s1o0,ooO he generally fails to start. That Is an obstacle just little too large for the tyro to climb. It is in the homes not burdened with wealth that boys ripen into great
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Strawberries continue to look better in spring catalogues than in crates and they are also much cheaper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

St. Louis begs to state that she can pull off very creditable fair without borrowing the Liberty bell from Phila- delphia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Talladega Mountain Home: Georgia negro has named triplets born into his family Teddy, Rose and Welt Thus Is fame
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

King Leopold has not yet had tho pleasure of meeting American chorus girls on their native soil.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Tn Cleveland. O., single blow on the arm is not enough to get divorce. but blow on the head with brick is very effective.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
ALABAMA PRESS.

Guntersville Democrat: It is a poor man who can't even announce for office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

According to certain critics strenu- ousness and extravaganza go hand in hand in the White House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

The Koreans fight with bows and arrows. Such weapons are slightly primitive and out of date
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Emperor William is going to Gibral- tar, but he will not carry it back home in his pocket
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

The Russians and Japanese clash" nearly every day now, if press reports are to be trusted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Molineux has resisted the stage, al. though he ventured into literature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

The Judge Parker boom may yet be dug up from the morass which covers it, and galvanized into life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Sir Thomas Lipton continues to sell tea at the same old stand and Is mah- ing enough money to lose another yacht race.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

The late winter is to go down in his tory as record maker. It was not pipe-buster in this latitude.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Mayor Mcclellan is engaged in screwing t4e lid on Harlem, figurative- ly speaking
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

As is perfectly natural, Korea is anx ious to know her fate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

The March lamb has become lion in very short order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

The Chinese bandits are busy and are making the best of their opportuni- ties in these parlous times in the far east.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Mir. Schwab seems to think Monte Carlo is as easy as the guileless lambs in America
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

The very fact that frogs have never been stolen by negroes should be proof conclusive that they are not poultry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04
Visitors in Washinuton.

Washington, March 3.-(Special. .)-Mar- shal Bryan of Montgomery and Postmas- ter Barker of Mobile are in the city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

The poultry trust Is now running a close race with the egg trust, while the people stand by and pay the price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Germany has steel trust of her own and is rapidly getting in line with America
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Pig iron Is cheaper, but 1t is not eatable and rarely finds a place on menus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

The Hearst barrel is becoming more aggressive daily
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Only diplomats have right to have sore throats at all times without no- tice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Winter has decided to play a return engagement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

MT. Bryan is expected to break him self of the Kansas-City-p platform habit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-04

Japan in Korea is the cat that ate the canary.