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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-09
RoosEvELT's BOOM
In Nebraska Is In In Serious Danger
 and Ready to Go to Pieces.

From the Omaha World-Herald.
 The local republican organ has an edi- torial entitled, Nebraska for Roosevelt" Many republican politicians go out of their way to say that Nebraska Is for Roose- welt" Well, we have heard that several times before. The republican state con- vention for last year made that declara- ton and men have been laughed at when they dared to suggest that, after all, Nebraska might not be for Roosevelt.
 If, however, Nebraska is for Roosevelt as strongly as some of MT. Roosevelt's s champions would have us believe, why Is it necessary for every Roosevelt politician and every Roosevelt organ to continually parade the claim that Nebraska Is for Roosevelt?" If Nebraska is for Roose- velt' why not 'let well enough alone?."
 The truth is that the Roosevelt boom is just now in serious danger. One word from MT. McKinley's bosom friend in Ohio and the Roosevelt boom would very quick ly go to pieces.
 It may go to pieces even without that one word.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-09
ORIGIN OF "BUeHousE."
inc San Francisco Call.

From the San Francisco Call.
 ''Did you ever know the origin of the word .bughouseT said Tom Ernst, a prominent member of the Musicians union, to some friends. Well, a few years ago I was playing clarinet in the orchestra of a theater in Oakland. We had little old German playing viola, who loved only his instrument and himself. He was altogether too quiet 10 suit the drummer, who was always up to some thing, from tying some ones instrument up and hanging 1t in the flies to mailing plug hall to the wall-which he once did because the cornet player had the temer- ity to wear it. It was the season for the big brown electric light bugs, as they are called, and the chance to do something to the viola player was not to be lost to MT. Drummer. He gathered dozen or two of the big beetles, and before the musicians arrived one evening squeezed them through the sound holes into the viola. Nothing happened until the leader dropped his baton for the first note of the overture, and then-whang! went the bugs as the bow struck the strings. The little German if not 'bughouse.' was not far off He nearly fell off his seat, and on partly recovering composure began swearing loudly in German. When the overture ended the only explanation that could be obtained for his cratic conduct was, ..You take me and my fiddle for playhouse, hey?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-09
From the London Truth.

From the London Truth.
 @ oNDON and New York are prac-
 S tically the only important cities - in which opera pays it's way. On the continent of Europe. although most opera houses are subsidized, the money comes from the privy purse of the sover- elgn, and not from national or municipal funds or rates In Vienna the opera house, which cost half a million of money to build Is supported personally (and at rumorea cost of about e70.0oo a year. al- though no official figures are available) by the emperor. who also gives nearly f25 GOO year to the opera house at Buda- pest. And yet the Imperial Opera com- pany of Vienna is not to be compared with that at Convent Garden.
 At Munich the regent of Bavaria pays for the old Residenz theatre subvention of s12,5O0 a year out of his own pocket, besides covering any deficit. At Wurtem- berg the king pays the deficit, which amounts to about f15000 a year. In Der lin the subsidy of f54,oo0 a year is granted from the private means standing at the disposal of the king" At Weimar the deficit s paid partly by the monarch. partly by the government. In Russia the czar personally backs the opera houses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-09
The Ticker.

'I see that you Birmingham people, as busy as you seem to be in general affairs, find time to wait upon the speculative boards and spare money upon which to back your judgment on the rise and fall of stocks, bonds, cotton, etc." remaked a visitor last night.
 'I had been reading of the fluctuations with much interest of late. So I came in today to try my hand at the boards. I am satisfied so far with the result of my judgment as to investments, also much interested in my observations. I have learned much, and you would be surprised to know the number and the names of Birmingham people who almost daily play the boards, as I would if lived here. Some of them are far ahead of the game, too; yet many have. lost.
 Do you know that it is a custom with many merchants to sell cotton at pres ent prices, when they feel sure 1t will rapidly rise, and then to buy futures at a higher prices. This is business, for they save storage and insurance Fluctu- ation of the past week is bound to stimulate trade on the bucket-shop boards
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-09
CITIES WHERE OPERA IS
 PAYING WITHOUT SUBSIDY

and theatres, at cost last year of about e30o, 900, a certain proportion of which. however, is paid as pensions to retired ar- tists Prices of seats vary from 5d. to los. Cd a night. At Dresden the king of Sax ony gives a subvention of a31.000 a year, and also pays deficit of about 915,000 an- nually. In all these cases it will be ob- served that the money comes out of the private pocket of the monarch. and the opera may indeed be considered as one of the expenses of maintaining court.
 Apart from republican France, only in the smaller countries-such as Belgium Denmark. Egypt, Spain, Sweden and Switzerand-are the opera houses subsid- ized by the state, and the amounts paid are comparatively small. In Norway the subsidy-the very trif1ng one of e1100 for both opera and drama-is paid by the municipality And it Is the same in Italy, although the Land of Song needs com paratively little subvention, for the popu- lace are practically all opera-goers. There has been no subsidy at all necessary at Rome since 1898.
 although they have certainly not been provocative of enterprise. For example, at the Paris Grand Opera the manager re- ceives yearly subvention of E32.0OJ.s Yet the repertory Is wretchedly small
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-09
WOMEN RARELY SHUTTER.
They Are Less Self Conscious, So They
 Blush Instead.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Have you ever known woman that stammered?
 afflicted with stammering or stuttering is a hundred men to one woman Is one of the most curious things in the science of pathology. Even the specialists In ner- vous diseases seem utterly at at loss to account for it. So eminent an authority as Dr. George F. Shrady. the editor of the Medical Record says that In all his expe- rience he has known of only one woman that stammered Asked how he account ed for the immunity of the fair sex from this affliction he replied:
 Ut certainly is a strange thing. Stam- mering is an epileptic affection of the or gans of speech, and the victim is usually a person of high strung. excitable tenn perament. At the last analysis the cause Hes in the mind-that Is. the stammerer stammers because he fears he will stam- mer and thus make hiself ridiculous Now, women are much more prone than men to nervous disorders. and this makes their immunity from stammering all the more remarkable. For some mysterious reason their nervousness affects their or gans of speech only in the rarest of in- stances"
 A mere man. in discussing woman's im- munity from tammering, was ungallant enough to suggest that any interference with her ability to talk would be a cruel and unusual punishent within the mean- ing of the constitution of the United States, and, therefore, punishment never to be inflicted by a beneficent Providence. The theory also has been advanced that women are less self-conscious than men, for it is asserted that self-consciousness Is the basis of the confusion of the stam- merer When the attention of a lifelong sufferer from haiting articulation was called to Dr. Shrady's statement that the stdmmerer stammers through fear of stammering, he replied:
 That is 1t exactly. One of my earliest recollections Is of being laughed at by two of my aunts when I got badly twist ed in trying to make a remark. Ever since then the fear of stammering has haunted me to a greater or less degree. Now, it has been my experience that women sell dom suffer from self-consciousness to that extent. I do not mean to say that all women are totally void of self conscious ness. have known girls who were vic fims of the blushing habit. and. as my kindred affliction enabled me to speak to them about it. I discovered that they blushed for the same reason that stam- mered-fearA of doing so.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-09
SUGGESTS ESCAPE.
Why Should Not Powers Put Korea
 Under Common Protection?

Special Cable to the New York Herald.
 The Herald's European edition pub fishes the following from it's corres- pondent:
 London.-In an article in the Morning Greenwood an attempt is made to show a way of escape from war
 MT. Greenwood says:
 ''The thirst for Corea is thirst for conquest. Why, then, may not the Eu- ropean nations. America included, of course, take possession of Corea and de- clare it under common protection. forbid Russian encroachment in the north, for bid Japanese invasion in the south and so give to the contending powers their indispensable security against each oth- err
 "Or, If some expansion and some emil grafton ground is really necessary for Japan-a dubious question however that might possibly be arranged by the cession of g. narrow 'enclave' in south nations peace
 What is there against this settlement that compares with it's own immense importance?
 "One thing of unquestionable gravity would come into 1.-the tacit acknowl- edgment of Russia's right to remain in Manchuria. But does France, does Ger many, does England does even America propose to fight against the retention of Manchuria? We see no sign of any in- tention.
 What we do see is that the removal or even the far postponement of the danger most like Arma geddon that has threatened the modern world would be worth the formal acquiescence in what is unlikely to be resisted by the starting of this same year.
 When we think again of what that war would almost certainly be 1t seems impossible to doubt that Russia, the friends of Russia, and even Japan it. self would readily put away by such means as are here suggested. If not, it would be reasonable to suspect more in the matter than has been mentioned vet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-09
Russian Isolation.

Russian territorial greed and Rus sian dishonesty in diplomacy are up against all the rest of the world. Rus sia is absolutely friendless. Not even France, which formerly cultivated Russia, upholds her in her desire to grab Manchuria and to crush Japan's ambitions in Korea. Russia really pro- poses to dominate the Far East, re- gardless of China, Korea and Japan, and her territorial greed has robbed Her of the sympathies of the rest of the civilized world.
 The case is without parallel Not even in France is a word spoken friendly to Russia. Not even in Ger many, which stood by Russia nine years ago in China, is an act proposed friendly to Russia. Not paper or individual utters word of sympathy, and Russia stands absolutely isolated in her hour of need and greed in the Far East
 It will scarcely be said that the sym pathy of the civilized world freely ex- tended to Japan is valueless. It will prove in case of war full of value. It will enable her even to borrow money where Russia cannot get any. Russia finds every Jew banded together against her, and no nation can borrow a great sum in England or Continental Europe without aid from the Jewish bankers. This country will not loan money to Russia, for she has not friend in it from sea to sea, not one at least not one who has had the cour- age to raise his voice and say that Rus sia should be permitted to dominate Japan, China and Korea We have large interests in the Far East, and we should see that Russia does not tram pie those interests under her big paws.
 The very friendlessness of Russia makes for peace. No nation-not even Adam-zad-desires isolation in the days of war, and the impending struggle Is by no means so onesided as some think it is. Japan has over forty millions of people, and they are Orientalists and it is not safe to assume that the slug gard Slav can whip forty millions of smart people thus circumstanced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-09
Equally ResponsibIe.

"F'lagmen are just as responsible now as engineers and conductors in seeing that train orders are carried out," said a railroad man last night at the union pas senger station. ''The rules and regula- tions of the railroad companies are very strict and must be obeyed to the letter. Very often when a train crew overlooks orders the fiagman as well as the con- ductor and engineer, Is held accountable for any accident that might occur.
 T notice eight train crews on rail- road entering Chicago were today laid off for sixty days for ignoring orders in falling to notice that the light in the semaphore above a suburban railr oad sta- tion was not burning, while the rules and regulations of the company say that a light not burning has the same signif- canoe that a red light or danger signal would have. The engineers and conduc- tors were not alone in the suspension, every member of each crew, including the fiagrnen and firemen, were laid off. The railroads look upon every employe as a guardian to safety in the operation of the road"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-09
PEOPLE FREQUENTLY HAVE
 PREMONITION OF DISASTER

At the time of the Brooklyn horror, the Kate ciaxton-Two Orphans hecatomb. the first man to leave the theatre re- said an acquaintance; don't like the piece?' Very much" was the reply. 'but somehow or other can't feel com fortable. feel like a haunted house. If I were superstitious I'd believe some thing bad is going to happen around here-an explosion, railroad disaster, shipwreclz or that sort of thing" He must have felt the speaking wind that never blows but always forewarns.
 have been in panics and felt the same sensation of cold and mystery before the outburst of unreason. Once in a railroad train I felt it. The rabbit ran over my grave and my hair almost stood on end following the imaginary beasts aura. Something is about to happen" I whis- pered, anticipating collision. Almost before the words were out of my mouth, and before we had time to think of pre- pairing for an accident, passengers in the rear began piling over us in a wild del- rum of fear, crying, yelling, gaspingl Some crowded pell-mell through the for ward end of the ear. Others dived through windows, husbands pulling their wives after them. In trlce the car was empty of all except myself and my com panion, who had been pinned between seats As we arose and looked back the headlight of a following engine drew close up to the rear of the train and stopped. The incident happened a short time after a horrible butchery on the same road. and the nerves of passengers were unstrung
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-09

as manager of the street railway depart ment of the Birmingham Railway. Light and Power company. is now sales agent for several large street railway, mill and furnace supply houses. MT. McClary has opened offices in the First National Bank building.
 J. s. Graves of Talladega is at the Metropolitan.
 J. Lodge, a prominent citizen of Tusea- loosa, is stopping at the St, Nicholas.
 
 Dr. W. D. Pulliam of Tuscaloosa is at the Metropolitan.
 K. W. Hanks of Anniston is registered at the Florence.
 A. S. walsh of New Orleans is at the Hillman.
 J. w Murphy of Anniston is registered at the Metropolitan.
 A. F. Hardy of New York is stopping at the St. Nicholas.
 ". D. vassar of Atlanta Is at the Nor ris.
 H. W. Dexter of Atlanta is stopping at the Hillman.
 The Hon. S. D. Bloch of Camden is at the Metropolitan.
 W. M. McCudy, a prominent citizen of Lowndesboro, is at the Morris.
 William Stewart of Buffalo was late arrival of the Hillman last night.
 T. M. Wallace of Marion is at the Flor ence.
 Capt. P. Sid Jones, division passenger agent of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, leaves today at noon for St. Louis, where he goes to attend meet ing of the heads of the passenger de- partments. The meeting will be held for the purpose of discussing the passenger movements to and from the Louisiana purchase exposition at St. Louis.
 J. N. Cornatzer, general agent of the passenger department of the Frisco sys- tenn, was In Birmingham yesterday. The Memphis.
 Renfroe Jackson of Atlanta general agent for the Monon Route, was here yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-09
A VISIT TO THE WHITE HOUSE cE

Letter in the New York Sun.
 What a magnifying glass Is every pane of every window through which the proud American citizen looks into the White Housel" I clip this sentence from an editorial in Saturdays Sun.
 Now, 1t Is very clear you have not vis- tied the White House recently, or you would know you could not look through Its windows or enter its doors. You would be permitted to enter the cellar, and nothing more. After an absence of several years I visited the capital last week with some friends-and after show ing them around through the public build ings and the library of congress. the most magnificent structure in the world, we were to finish our trip by a visit to the White House.
 We walked up the stone steps well worn by the tread of thousands of 'the free and the brave" for years past, and to the door which l attempted to open and walk in as of yore but, alas! the old demo- cratic style has all been changed-the doorlatch does not hang out there; a man covered with gilt lace and brass but tons stopped us saying You can't enter here, this is a private entrance"
 'Whati' said I, cannot we be admit ted to the White House?''
 This Is @ private entrance" said he: walk to those steps and go down to the cellar; there are rooms down there where you can be admitted
 We walked into the cellar, through sew eral dark and dingy rooms, hung with old and battered portraits of departed ladies of ba n we found the walls covered with pictures of the present executive In every possi- ble position-afoot on horse. on coach, tallyho, Rough Rider. etc. There was 8 large crowd of disappointed people in that cellar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-09
A Southern Opportunity.


 Instead of selling Cuba $26,000,000 year, Senator Clay of Georgia thinks our trade will be expanded by the reciprocity treaty to S350000 000 or $40,000,000 a year. In 1901 Cuba bought from other countries goods to the value of $65,O50,141, of which we supplied about two-fifths The other three-fifths was supplied by Germany, England, France, Spain and other countries. These proportions should at least be reversed.
 Cuba bought in 1901 cotton goods worth s6,000000, and although the island lies almost within sight of the cotton fields of this country only Az per cent of the cotton goods she bought were purchased in this country South ern cotton mills will hereafter have margin in their favor of 20 per cent, and it will be strange indeed if they do not fill Cuba with the products of their mills.
 And so 1t was as to cattle. She bought in 1901 cattle to the value of $8,000,000, and we sold her but $1 ,994,- coo. Will our great packing houses and our shippers of cattle permit such proportions to stand when the Cuban tariff runs in their favor? We sold her no rice in 1901, and very little manu- factured leather.
 Tn 1902 our trade with Cuba was no better Out of $5,2S5,511 worth of cot ton goods, we sold her in that year but $401, ,107 worth. She even bought in 1902 the greater share of the vege- tables and dairy products that she con sumed in countries other than America
 The cement, lumber, naval stores, coal, coke, iron and steel of the south should be poured into Cuba. Trans portation rates as well as tariff rates favor great trade by the south in Cuba. and southern manufacturers and merchants should avail themselves at once of the opportunities opened to them by the reciprocity treaty. Sena- tor Clay thinks Cuba will yet hold six or seven millions of people, and that we can then sell her fully s100,000,000 a year instead of $26,OO0,00o, which was the sum total of our Cuban sales last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-09
FLORIDA LAND CASE.
Electment Case Before the United
 States Court.

Special to the New Orleans Times-Dem-
 ocrat.
 Washington, January IA case of con- siderable interest to the residents and business men of Pensacola will soon come up for hearing In the United States supreme court. The matter in question Is the suit brought by Florida Mcclure ct al.. against William A. Blunt ct al. and which comes up before the court of last resort on a writ of certiorari from the circuit court of the western district of Florida. The case is an e1ectment suit for the possession of three hundred acres of land, situated in the heart or the corporation of Pensacola, Fla The plaintiffs are the heirs of Gabrill De Ri- vas, to whom the Spanish Grown granted this land in 1sOe the value of the prop erty in controversy being estimated at B. 0Oo.O0O. Distinguished counsel are ar rayed on both sides of the litigation. Former Secretary Herbert of the navy department, and his soon-in-law,, MT. McCoo of Washington, D. C., are the resident counsel for the heirs, Simeon Belden of New Orleans, and 10. J. Davis of Florida being the outside counsel, who have been retained to represent the plaintiffs. w. A. Blunt, one of the de- fendants In the suit, appears in their behalf Judge Belden has been here for several days, for the purpose of trying to advance hearing of the writ, but has been tnable to leave his room on account of the indictment weather. which brought on a slight attack of rheumatism. He hopes to be out in a day or so. The re- suit of the litigation Ia of far-reaching interest to the people of Pensacola, who onxiously await the outcome
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-09
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Dunlap for Chancellor.

To the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 Your special from Montgomery in yes- terday's issue in referring to the candi- dacy of Hon. R. B. Kelly for associate justice of the supreme court calls atten- ton to the candidacy of the Hon. E. M. Oliver to succeed Chancellor Kelly as chancellor of the northeastern chancery division, but says nothing of the aspira- tons of Col. R. A. D. Dunlap of Gadsden to serve us as chancellor
 The bar of Gadsden met on the evening of Monday, January 4, and endorsed Col onel Dunlops candidacy. We feel that the county of Etowah will furnish the next chancellor for this division. A cam paign committee has been named by the members of the Gadsden bar to conduct Colonel Dunlap's campaign and we are determined to do all we can to secure for our townsman the nomination.
 Yours truly, W. J. BOYKIN.
 Gadsden, January 8. 1904.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Concerning Grating.

This thing you call grating, so much referred to of late. has many meanings. or numerous applications I better say" remarked a man In the lobby.
 The harsher meaning is absolute theft. its gentler meaning Is robbery un- der the guise of law, and its still gentler meaning is that which has reference to ones grinding his own ax in acts per tainlng to public affairs.
 Tt is hard to say which class of graft CTS Is to be first turned away from the gates when he knocks at the door in the sweet by-and-by.
 "Grafting," continued the speaker fin all of it's forms has become one of the most despicable hindrances to modern ae- vancement, and ought to be drowned up- on by all honest men"