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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
I'll HANG MY HARP ON A Will.
LOW TREE.

An old English Song.
I'll hang my harp on a willow tree,
I'll offer to the wars again;
My peaceful home has no charm for me,
The battlefield no pain;
The lady | love will soon be a bride,
With a diadem on her brow.
OH why did she fiatter my boyish pride.
She's going to leave me now,
She took me away from my warlike lord,
And gave me a silken suit;
| thought no more of my masters sword
When l played on my masters lutte;
She seemed to think me a boy above
Her pages of low degree
OH had l but loved with a boyish love.
1t would have been better for me
Then III hide In my heart every selfish
care;
The hope Of my life I'll resign;
When smiles shall greet the bridal pair.
I'll hasten to give them mine:
I'll laugh and I'll sing, tho my heart may
bleed,
And I'll walk in the festive train;
And II I survive 1t. I'll mount my steed
And I'll of to the wars again.
But one golden tress of her hair I'll Irvine
In my helmets sable plume,
And then on the field of Palestine
I'm seek an early doom;
And If by Saracens hand l fall
Mid the noble and the brave.
A tear from my Lady love is all
I ask for the warriors grave.
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ment of the Panama canal money may
lead to gold exports; in the face of the
Sully failure, and the merger decision.
The announcement of the new plan of
the Northern Securities company was
followed by advancing prices in all the
stocks directly affected, and by a bet
ter feeling throughout the entire list.
The failure of the Sully firm is re-
garded as the removal of over-manip-
ulation in the cotton market. May
cotton is still selling at about 1874
cents, and December cotton is worth
more than IL cents. These, are salts
factory prices, and If they are main.
tanned southern farmers will feel that
they are standing on firm ground.
The merger decision is widely re-
garded as a conservative ruling that
will be beneficial to all interests. 1t
will prevent dangerous combinations
and remove from the minds of the peo-
pie ungrounded fears. More was
feared than happened, and when JUS
tice Brewers opinion is read, along
side of Attorney General Knox's de-
claratlon that the administration does
not intend to run amuck," all see, es-
pecially those in Wall street, that no
rightful interest will be hurt by the
decision, but that all just interests
will be benefited by it. Stocks have,
therefore, been advanced from SO to
81 share, and there is better feel
ing on every hand.
If the wheat, corn and cotton crops
of the present year turn out well, this
will prove a good business year, but
not a booming or extremely active
year. Railroad earnings are decreas-
ing, but 1t is not reasonable to expect
that they can be held up to the boom
figures of 1902.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
Governor Ielks and the Treasury.

Governor Jelks' shrewdness In the
management of convicts, and his care
full conduct Of the states affairs in
other respects, together with the rise
in the taxable wealth of Alabama, has
carried the money in the state treas
ury to unprecedented figures-to its
high water mark" in other words.
The state goes into the dull season, or
the last half of the fiscal year, with
nearly a million and three quarters
dollars In its strong box at the capitol.
This sum will carry it to September
30, and leave a surplus with which to
begin the new fiscal year on. Alabama
is prosperous, well-governed and hap
py. She has faith in her business gov
ernor, who is planning and working
out reforms in administration, and
who maintains a careful control of
every branch of the states finances.
The changes in the convict depart
ment are not only resulting in In
creased receipts from that quarter, but
they are also bringing to the prisoners
better health and better discipline.
The humanity side of the new plan is
the better side, for it places the con-
victs in the coal mines in the care of
the states own agents, and those
agents are instructed to look after the
health Of the convicts. Governor Jelks
has said that all convicts will be
brought under the control of the state
before he goes out of office, and If he
accomplishes the task he will indeed
have worked a great reform. He viii
have abolished all cruelty to convicts,
or at any rate he will place the con-
victs where any good citizen can enter
complaint and stand a chance to see
that they are humanely treated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
FILiPlNOS STUPID.

From the New York Times.
Lieutenant Pouillon, who spent several
years In the Philippines, is not enthusiasts
tic over the natives. He says they are
very stupid.
The lieutenant tried to educate coun-
try lad to act as his valet. With the boy
he was starting on a trip to the interiors,
when he remembered that he had left be-
hind him the heavy riding gloves so nee
essary in the thick brush, He instructed
his "chico" TO ge back for them, descrb-
ing at length the particular pair of gloves
he wanted The messenger smiled and
nodded, and off he went. Imagine the dis
gust of the lieutenant when he returned
with a mixed pair-one heavy and one
light full dress glove.
You blockhead! Can't you see that
those two gloves are not alike? How can
| wear one of each kind? Go straight
back and change them"
Half an hour later the boy appeared
again with the same msmates.
"Excellency," he said, with a hurt ex-
preston, Il looked everywhere and all
l could find was another pair exactly like
this-one light and one heavy
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
VIII Make Novel Trim.

IF. E. Muscovecs of New York will
start about April 1 for a business trip
through the country in an automobile"
said travelling man yesterday. Mr.. Mus
covecs will carry along sample lines OF
sundries and a stock of goods. which he
will show to merchants in a large part of
the United States. The entire trip will
cover 1000 miles, and will take the ven
turesome drummer from New ork to AL
bany, Buffalo, Canada, Cleveland. Toledo,
Michigan, Chicago. Wisconsin and st.
Louis, with the return route through the
south II will take nine weeks to cover
this extensive territory, and the trip will
serve to show the utility Of the automo-
bile as a vehicle for travelling statesmen.
The same length OF time would be re-
quired to make the journey by rail so
that one can readily see how Mr.. Musco-
wees will have to get over ground in or
der to finish in schedule time
IF the venture of Mr.. Muscovecs should
prove a success there Is no reason why
come into more general use. OF course it
would entail too much radship to make
long trips of the usands of miles through
the country, but l should think that for
short trips the automobile would be just
the thing needed. There would be no
trouble about catching trains, no weari
some DELAYS would be experienced unless
the machine broke down, and travelling
would also be made much cheaper"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
Morris Avenue Busy.

Morris y avenue is undoubtedly the
busiest thoroughfare in Birmingham,
said visitor. Sometimes the wagons
get so numerous that their drivers find
difficulty In turning around and about
o'clock in the morning the narrow street
is so badly congested that one finds it
rather dangerous to cross. The noise of
excited drivers shouting at their teams
and at each other also adds to the hup-
bub and profanity Is not uncommon.
"'rhe most crowded part of Morris ave-
rue is perhaps ths block between Twen-
tieth and Twenty first streets, where the
fruit and produce houses are located.
Here pandemonium reigns at nearly all
hours of the day. The next block at the
rear of the Union passenger station is also
unite congested about train time.
"The main fault to find with Morris ave
me is that it is entirely 10 narrow for
city traffic, but the defect could not be
remedied unless the buildings on each side
were moved, and of course that is imprac-
ticable Some improvement in the state
of affairs has been brought about by the
law pre sentins lettering along Morris ave
ma hut the street will always be crowd
cd and the larger Birmingham gets the
more congested this particular thorough
fare will be-.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
About New Cartoons.

1.-THE new thriller called looping the
gap is attracting widespread attention
just now III all parts of the coun-
try and has also vlsibly affected
the Imagination of metropolitan car
toonlsts.' said a gentleman yesterday,
within the past few days the papers
have been we'll illustrated with cartoons
inspired by the loop that is not loop
sully seems to be a popular subject since
his disastrous failure In cotton and it is
very appropriately pointed out that he has
shared the fate in a figurative way that
Is very apt to overtake the real 'loopers
before the season is much older.
Another cartoon I saw the other day
represented President Roosevelt in a very
undigni1ed situation, but he was fortu-
nate enough to pass the gap in his polti-
cal loop with safety.
From present indicat tons 1oopingth
gap is destined to be much talked about
this summer although II will not attract
more attention than cycling the aerial
arch which is even more daring than
the new loop, with section taken out of
the top so that the cyclist has to bridge
this space head downward on his bicycle
II the expected happens there will also
be number of deaths and serious acci-
dents reported from these attempts to
furnish something more exciting for the
public"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
RUssIA's FOOD CACHES.

From the London Chronicle.
The Russians have taken the most re-
markabie secret precautions for the pro-
visioning of their troops. At intervals
of about a quarter of a mile along the
greater part of the entire length of the
Siberian railway stores of concentrated
proteid food have been buried on each
side of the line. each deposit being enough
to maintain a company-said to be 900
mentor a week. The position of these
provisions is not known to the sergeants
or captains, but only to the commandments.
who have the information in cipher.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
About Persons.

w. f. Feagn of Montgomery. chair
man of the board of examiners in the
department of education, is at tho --orris.
Il. NJ. Pinckard of Clanton is at the
Hillman.
J. A. Baugh. day clerk at the Hillman.
has been called TO Atlanta on account of
the death OF his grandmother.
J. Lodge of Tuscaloosa is stopping at
the ST. Nicholas.
e. r. Jack of New York is in the city.
W. r. Peacock of Selma is registered
at the Hillman.
w. R. Phillips of Gadsden is at the
Morris.
l.. l.. Koch of Nashville is registered at
the St. Nicholas.
Masor ]. II. Crawford of Jasper and
Mrs. Crawford are at the Hillman.
The MANY friends of I. B. Horton. night
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
IN N orator, Lincoln once remarked,
VIZ is man who mounts the plat
4 = form, throws back his head.
shines his eyes, opens his mouth
and leaves the rest to God. This
definition is the real explanation of the low
esteem is which 'oratory'' is held nova
days. For 1t will hardly be denied that
discriminating people have little conf
dence In what the professional "orator"
says and that they are excessively bored
if they fall into his hands. This fact is
recognized by keen men who have public
speaking to do and they studiously avoid
any appearance of "oratory" Many OBJ
servers remarked upon the fact that the
noteworthy speech of Attorney General
Knox ended his argument in the Nor
thern Security company case before the
supreme court, was as far as possible
removed from the conventional orator
ical style. 1t had little in common with
Webster's Dartmouth college argument
before the same tribunal when the JUS
tices were visible stirred by emotion.
The decline of the orator is not due to
the multiplication of books, magazines
and newspapers. The printed word can
never take the place of the spoken So
long as men are human the personality
of the speaker will profoundly affect the
influence of his address-provided he has
something to say. There's the rub.
voice and nothing else" has been the
taunt cast at the professional speaker
from the days of Rome down to modern
times when Lincoln describes him as
leaving the rest to God" and Disraeli
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Job Printers JublIant.

Politics is proving very profitable to
the job printers in Birmingham" said a
gentleman yesterday "There are, be-
lieve. about sixty candidates for beat
county and state offices in and about Bir-
mingham, and each of these is flooding
the county with literature. The job prin-
ters are consequently making very
good thing out of the demand for cam
pagn documents and have been kept busy
filling orders. The usual price for cards
is about IS per thousand. This means at
least 5000 distributed among the local
job printers for cards alone.
"The politicians in Birmingham and
Jefferson county are hestiring themselves
these days and all are actively engaged in
mixing with the voters. Around the
courthouse there are weary officials TO
be seen every day who have just returned
from day or two of strenuous cleo
tioneering When you see little group
of men standing about in the corridors
of the courthouse you may be sure that
they are talking politics.
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r
clerk at the Morris will be pleased to
hear that he has recovered from his re-
cent illness.
W. II. Bell OF Hargroce is at the Nor
ris.
Tax Assessor J. F. Mclaughlin, Chief
Clerk Frank Hewitt of the assessors Of
fee and George w Chambers are spend
ing a few days in Shelby county, en-
joying a turkey hunt.
Charles Crosby of New York is at the
st. Nicholas.
George F. Rossin of Mobile is at the
Hillman.
Frank C. Cheney of Admission is at the
Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
PLAYWRIGHT in Birmingham.

Richard Walton fully, well known
writer was in Birmingham yesterday 10
confer with Ezra Kendall in regard TO
play for the famous comedian for next
season. Mr. Kendall appeared at the JEFF
ferson theatre last night in THE Vinegar
Rnvern and he is very anxious to get a
good comedy for his own company next
year.
Mr.. fully is recognized as talented
writer of comedies, having written one
for Nat C. Goodwin, the comedian, He is
from New York and left Birmingham last
night for the metropolis.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
Business Is Improving.

Strength and activity rule in the
stock market and in the various ex-
changes. The settlement of the soft
coal troubles in Pennsylvania and the
central west has had a good effect
upon business, and the improvement
in iron and steel is also helpful.
Prices of stocks have been advanced
in the face of the fact that the pay
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
HONEST WRAGGLr S.

From the Cincinnati Times Star
you look to me- remarked the severe
old gentleman, like a man who would
spend his last penny for beer!'
You do me an injustice" retorted
Weary Wraggles. AN also show yourself
lacking in information. sir. You can't get
no beer for penny. l would play my last
one inter de slot machine in hopes of get
tin a chip good fer a whole glass of de
Aufd Seep"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
ABOUT THE ORATOR WHO
CAN "SHfNE HIS EYES,

declares him to be intoxicated by the
luxuriance of his own verbosity." 1t
isn't the language that people object to.
If the words are well selected but to the
lack of ideas. Man cannot live by wind
alone. He is so created that he has
curious prediction and one that is in
comprehensive to the "orator," for in
telIigence as we'll
The great trouble with the modern
Orator is that lacking ideas he resorts
to a torrent OF words chosen without
reference to their adoption to the theme.
nauseatingly pretentious and palpably In
sincere. The disgust which they arouse
is merely the penalty for his trickery
Eloquence as Webster said must exist
in the man, in the subject, and in the
occasion" 1t cannot be manufactured.
The man who attempts this Is bound to
he found out. When Patrick Henry stood
before the convention at Richmond he
had no time to waste in describing the fl
tering of the sunlight from the cerulean
dome or in piling up adjectives. His
sentences were short and to the point,
for he had something to say There was
no hint in they of the frenzed orator
with the shining eyes of Lincoln's de-
scription.
Oratory in its true sence is no more out
of date than 1t was when Demosthenes de-
livered the Philippics against the Mace
DOMAIN or when Lincoln spoke those few
words at Gettysburg. But the tawdry
stuff frequently offered under the name of
eloquence is no more to be confused
with It than is the latest coon song to be
compared with Wagner's Sublime Sweet
Evening STAR"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
SOMETHING NEEDED.

From the Chicago Post.
I'VE are about to put a new piano on
the market that we are sure will fill a
long-felt want said the manufacturer.
What will you call it?'
I'VE shall call it the Cozy Flat Piano."
"Why?"
Because it's about twice as high as an
ordinary piano, but only about half its
thickness; just right for cozy fiat"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
A woman can stand weeping for a man,
but never blushing for them.
A woman's idea of bad taste is to wear
TURQUOISE rings with pink garter straps.
Generally it is the woman who married
for love who is anxious to have her
daughter try 1t for money.
1t Is always safe to kiss woman when
there Is somebody in the next room that
ohe is afraid will find it out If she makes
fuss.
What a woman likes is to have man
act toward her with holiness beyond her
endurance, and then with humility In con-
triton beyond her unforgiveness.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT

Mayor Mcclellan of New York is con-
symptoms of grip. 1t is not believed that
his complaint is serious.
Chevalier Tirindeli, the we'll known mu-
stefan. has accepted an offer to go to
London, where he will be concert master
at the Convent Garden Wagnerian festi-
val
Tony Pastor. known all over the United
States as theatrical manager, is now
observing the anniversary of his seth year
as a manager by presentation of "The
Kings Jester"
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the negro poet,
who has just been chosen to write an
ode commemorative Negro day at the st.
Louis fair. is suffering in st. Louis from
an attack of acute laryngitis
Mrs. Jaffray, wife of Capt. Edward Jaf-
fray. a British army officer. is an Amer
lean woman and has an unique way of
showing here patriotism. despite the fact
that she is married to an Englishman. At
all fancy dress balls and dances which
she attends Mrs. Jaffray appears in a
striking costume of stars and stripes.
which is always varied and makes her
the cynosure of all eyes in the ball room.
John Enos. OF New York city, famous
as the inventor of non-explosiye gasoline
and gas lights, and a man of considerable
wealth. has been moved from his little
room in the Calcium hotel on the Bower,
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to Bellevue hospital. where he will be
treated for uro-pneumonia. Although
deriving handsome incomes from his In
ventions Enos has lived for years at an
obscure hotel so that he might escape
from his friend and not be interrupted
in his work.
Count Mutsu, former secretary of the
Japanese legation at Washington, is re-
covering from an operation performed
for appendicitis at the Providence hos
pital and will shortly leave for Japan
where he hopes to completely recover
his health.
From to o'clock Tuesday afternoon
the body of Albert Wilson. known by the
students of the University of Pennsylva-
MIA as ''Pomp." and janitor of that insti-
tuition for many years. lay in state in Col
lege Hall chapel. Elaborate funeral cere-
monies were afterward performed and the
Glee club sang several hymns.
Chief Justice ]. P. Don Cayetano Arel-
lano of the Philippines, will receive the
degree of doctor of laws at the COM
mencement exercises of Yale university,
to be held June g. provided he is pres
ent at that time. Chief Justice Arellano
was among those appointed to represent
the Philippines at the ST. Louis fair.
John Jarvis, an old man 70 years OF
age. who has carried mail at the naval
academy for more than fifty years. has
been retired at his own request Mr..
Jarvis has been given a permanent posi-
ton In the superintendent office. Dur
ing his term of service as mail carrier
he has distributed mail to practically
every officer in the United States nasr-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-24
ALABAMA PRESS.

A pen factory is new industry pro-
posed for Admission
Alfalfa is having street fair this week
and large crowds are in attendance.
Dothan Siftings: II we had no French
fashion plate dresses to try to fit wo-
man with. inhrmarles would be turned
into boarding houses.
About $4,000 has been subscribed for
the Synodcal college by the citizens Of
Admission and the work Of securing sub
scriptions is being rapidly pushed
The Gadsden journal says the Gadsden
trades council has issued an official souy-
enr of Gadsden and the state federation
of labor which meets in that city April 27.
The new Fullingston stave mill at Gads-
den is rapidly being finished. Machinery
is now being installed and the mill will
probably be In operation by the end of
the week.
DIR. J. M. Lindsey. president of the In
ternational Quarantine board, is serving
a ten days sentence in the Mobile county
jail for criminal libel against the Mobile
quarantine authorities.
The Troy Messenger says that there
in the pesthouse near that town while
the number of cases there a month or
two ago was fully score.
Mobile Herald King Cotton, ruler of
the south, will now call for an election
and organize a new cabinet, but the
failure of his premier of the last two
years will not cause him to abdicate.
new brick company with a capital
stock of $4,000 has been organized at
Mobile. The title of the new firm is the
Sagus Brick and Manufacturing COM
pany. The principal offices are in Mobile.
President T. p Ham and General Mana
ger e. A. Summers of the Southern De-
velopment company, have arrived In Mo-
bile from Chicago with twenty colonists
who will settle on lands in Baldwin coun-
ty near Marlowe.
Montgomery Advertiser Lillian Rus
sell, the actress, has been so multitudin-
nously married that when a lady of the
same name recently took husband the
papers at once announced, LILLIAN Rus
sell married some more"
The Huntsville Mercury says that the
working crew of the Memphis division OF
the Southern railway is drawing near to
Scottsboro, going in a western direction,
with new steel rails which will take the
place of the old iron rails.
The Selma Journal says that the COM
press deal in which the merchants and
cotton factors of Selma are interested has
been consummated J. B. Ellis and assoc
ciates will take charge of the railroad
press and the Dallas press in short
time. The railroad press is to be entire
ly rebuilt.
Mobile ITEM The fearful tumble In cot
$40 per bale-knocked the wind out
of a large number of spectators and
caused them to shed their shekles to the
forewinds. The King is most erratic,
and whef~ he changes front somebody
always suffers.
Mobile Register. When Paderewskl was
congratulated upon his playing by the
Car of Russia and the car feiicitated
Russia upon having such a gifted son,
| Paderewski reminded the car that he
is a Pole but not a Russian. The czar
fired him out of Russia at twenty four
/ hours notice and in tempo agitato,
!