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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
NNTHILE the White House at Wash
wv ington is without doubt the most
historic building in America aS

historic building in America as S$#MM%S
all Of the Presidents of the United S|%NSdAAS
States with the exception of Wash --eNF-sssAKi
ingtOn have lived beneath its roof vet ~EESgxZz
there is comparatively little within its HaEftHl
four walls that is of historical value MflIHl3 N
This is because all furniture and fur ::tSlg 8
nishings naturally out with usage, .sA
but more especially because during the -
century of its existence the rnistresses Of -
the mansion have been changed practi- @S
cally every four years and II has inevita- ~
bly, followed that each mistress has 80 =
discarded and replaced the furniture and ~ Z
belongings Of the house to suit her Il : Z
individual tastes.
50 about the only articles left in the
mansion. the history of which can be
traced with accuracy the Presidential china and
plate; the Prince Albert bedroom suite in the apartment
in which the President sleeps the desk presented the
Executive Mansion by Queen Victoria in the
Presidents study; the portrait paintings OF the differ
Presidents and those Of few of their wives. and
bric-a-brac. 1t Is this scarcity that lends par
ocular importance 10 Mrs. Roosevets recent deter
inaton TO make a collection Of the Presidential
L beware and 10 preserve specimens at the White
OF all that has been used by each Of the twenty
ny Presidents OF the United States
Is not easy task that the mistress OF the White
Ho sc has taken upon her young shoulders. When
COl.lel I. ". Symons became Superintendent OF
Public Buildings and Grounds last wear he discovered
that there comparatively little of the Presidential
china plate left IN the White House. He com
nunicaed this fact Mrs. Roosevelt and suggested
the importance Of taking some means preserve it
Mrs. Roosevelt acted upon the suggestion once.
She designed the cabinets receive the china; she
gave the prosecution Of the work into Colonel Symons
hands and invited the writer, who had made study
Of the subject assist them in collecting and arranging
the
Up TO this time two cabinets have been filled with
specimen pieces of the dishes in in the White
House and three 10 be added soon Tn
fortunately there is not vet any appropriation
from which this money be taken TO purchase
this china; but Mrs Roosevelt hopes that the owners
will loan it TO be displayed in the White House
cabinets. When an appropriation is made by Con-
gress, that which is display will be the first
be considered should the owners care to sell it.
Il Is difficult % trace the history
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05

tonlana; but many other of the
family descendants in various
parts of the country have
pieces from whom Mrs.
Roosevelt hopes to secure
specimens for the White
House cabinets.
OF the china used by both
John Adams and John Quin-
cy Adams some pieces are
still in the possession of their
descendants, who are scattered
throughout New England:
while some of the Jefferson.
Madison, Monroe and Jackson
china IS preserved in Virginia
and the District of Columbia.
There is a handsome fruit
bowl belonging TO a set used
by Dolly Madison while
she was mistress of the
Presidents house which still
graces the sIdeboard Of the
family dining-room at the
White House, and in the coll
lection of the late Mrs.
Ncalcv OF Georgetown there
is Madison cup and saucer.
] Henley Smith of Washing
ton has several plates which
were presented To his father
10y Mrs. Madison, and Mrs
Emily Wilcox, the grand
daughter OF President Jackson
his L nrt1hrr nf intnr.,s.t,n,r
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-02
Concerning chIroaraphy.

lou will always find the worst speci-
mems of handwriting on the registers of
hotels" said the clerk when a man
comes in off train he is usually nervous,
tired out, and a tri1e excited by his jour-
ney, so that he is unable to write as legi-
bly, as would be the case were he seated
at his desk. Another reason why it is
hard to read names on a register is be-
cause most men purposely inscribe their
names with careless flourish that fire.
quently results in a mere scrawl which
would put counterfeiters out of BUSH
ness in very short order
Il have heard travellers sometimes COM
plain that 1t is hard to write well on a
hotel desk because it is usually too low
for comfort and the writer is forced to
sign his name with his elbow raised to an
uncomfortable angle which utterly pre-
cludes a graceful signature. But of course
1t makes no difference to us how a man
signs his name and l have never heard
anybody raising a kick except newspaper
men who crane their necks after good
personals"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-02
Cotton Prices.

'eThe fluctuations in the price of cotton
since the civil war present very interest
ing figures remarked an old cotton man
who keeps well informed on the subject.
"Of course, the older ones of us re-
member that in 1S64-the most terrible
year of the war-the staple brought over
81 per pound in New York. The highest
price since the close of the war was in
the season of 1866, when 1t was AZ zoe
per pound The market remained with
in 10 cents of that point until 1S7O-71
when it dropped to 1880. Then in 1s71-72
it arose to 20 40c. In 1894 it fell to lie;
next season to 15c; next to 13c. and down
to II, 7Sc; 10. Ssc; 2.02cy s.44c until 1S9S-9s
when it struck the lowest point in New
York. &c FER pound. Not therefore since
the season of 1s73-74 has cotton reached
lie until this present season.
These figures are based on upland
middling, New York market"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-02
Convenient Device.

81 have just discovered a good way to
keep stationery and stamps that is more
convenient than any other scheme have
ever tried" said a drummer at the Nor
ris. lon the inside of the cover of my
order book l have pasted a sheet OF
paper in such way as to form a pocket,
with the open end facing the pages when
the book is opened. This large pocket
holds enough fancy stationery to last me
week or two as L could not carry BUSH
ress stationery in this manner on ac-
count of it's bulk, and a fellow is not so
careful about order sheets as he is about
the paper he uses to write on TO his best
girl.
Just above the large pocket and to
the right 1 have pasted a smaller sheet
of paper which forms a convenient pocket
-or my stamps, and there you are. AS
my order book sticks to me even more
closely than my clothes, you can readily
see that my private writing materials
are always close at hand and when [ feel
disposed to take my fountain pen in
hand between stations l can write a
ilissive without any trouble"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-02
POLITICAL APATHY IN SOUTH

From the New Orleans Picayune.
The returns of the recent primary cleo
ton have been made up, showing that less
than 10000 votes were cast throughout the
state
The total registration of voters In the
state up to March II, 1900. under the new
constitution and laws of 1898 was $780, 757.
of whom $3.50 were colored. But registra-
ton is one thing. and voting is another,
particularly as the payment of the poll
tax is prerequisite to voting, but not to
registration. OF course, there is large
negro population, which is not entitled to
the franchise, by reason of iliteracy or of
non-ownership of 5000 of taxable property.
In view of the fact that there are more
than 125,000 white voters registered a total
polling of $1,000 in the state shows how lit
tie interest the voters take in this import
ant matter. This sort of apathy seems to
be common in the southern states, but not
in the northern, for In some of their
states they cast nearly as many votes in
a congressional district as we do in the
entire state, and all congressional districts
are based on equal population
The southern people must arouse them
selves and do their duty in their important
public affairs. This sort of political indif-
ference is little better than criminal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-02
The Penny Paper.

THE penny newspaper is a proposition
that southern publishers are chary OF
tackling," said an eastern man." Per-
haps one reason for this is the fact that
competition is not quite so lively down
south and two or three good newspapers
are about all that even the largest
t. YRS will support. Most Of these are sold
he streets for cents, although one
o. two towns have papers for two cents
and think the Houston Chonicle is sold
for one cent. but penny papers are ex-
ceedingly scarce and one can travel all
over the south without finding one.
THE penny paper Is chiefly profitable
when there are several editions day and
plenty of advertising patronage. Most of
the papers down south have only one edl-
ton day-that is a local and mail edi-
tion issued about the same time and diff
fering very little. Quite number have
two editions day, but beyond that num-
Der publishers hesitate.
The penny newspapers is not of such
vital interest in this part of the coun-
try, because most people when buying a
paper would as soon pay a nickel a
penny. But in the east pennies are count
ed mors carefully and the penny newspa-
PER has come to stay
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-02
Another Senator Indicted.

Senator J. r. Burton of Kansas has
been indicted by federal grand jury,
and he has gone home, as the Nebraska
senator did before him, to meet the
issue thus raised. He accepted $500 a
month from a concern, known as the
Rialto Grain and Securities company,
to get for it protection from the post
Office department. 1t is admitted that
the Rialto company needed protection,
and Senator Burton undertook to see
that it got what it sadly needed.
Senator Burton says he defended
the Rialto concern, not as a senator,
but as an attorney or individual. This
line of defense will not prove satisfac-
tory. A senator cannot throw off his
toga in such speedy and uncerimoni-
GUS manner. He Is ever a senator, and
senator should not accept money for
defending before branch of the gov
eminent men or concerns that Violate
national laws. His strength before the
postoffice department consisted in the
fact that he was senator, and Mr..
Burton will have to do more than to
assert that he was acting as an attor-
ney at Washington, where he was at
all ft,,oc cnpator
The case raises a question of sena-
torial propriety that cuts very deep.
The Rialto concern should be ex-
planned, and so should its acts that
Senator Burton gave protection to. By
the nature of those acts the Kansas
senator will stand or fall, and his plea
of individual action will not help him
at all before the great court of the
people. If he defended lawful acts of
the Rialto company, all will be well
with him, but il he shielded them in
unlawful acts he had better get ready
to step down and out.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-02
OriqinaI Packages Aualn.

The Hepburn bill in the house and
the Dolliver bill in the senate are
identical, each aiming to break up the
shipment Of liquor from one state to
prohibition or local option localities in
another state. In other words, these
bills propose to stop shipments of that
nature from this town to Meridian or
Columbus, in Mississippi.
The L.ls in question are aimed more
directly at the express companies,
which, so 1t is charged, really act as
agents or distributors of the original
package trade. A lot of packages, for
example, are shipped to John Doe,
Meridian. John Doe does not live in
Meridian. The packages are uncalled
for, and, following the custom, the
packages are sold by the express COM
pany to the first man who will pay the
price plus he express charge.
The Hepburn-Dolliver bill provides
that all fermented liquors transported
into any state or territory for delivery
therein shall be subject to the opera
ton and effect of the laws of such state
or territory In the same manner as
though produced in that state or ter
rlrory. The bill will, If it become a
law, render all persons and corpora
tions engaged in shipping liquors sub
ject to the laws of the state wherein
the goods are delivered,
In twenty-nine states full of local op-
ton counties end in three prohibition
states this bill is live issue, and the
temperance workers are lined up
against tho brewers and the liquor
trade in general, with the express com,
panies perhaps at their back, and the
fight is lively ana exciting. The bill is
still in the hands of the judiciary COM
mittee of the house, and hearings are
had daily.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-02
wRleHT's PRlNcELY STYLE.

From the New York Tribune.
Few millionaires lived in such princely
style as did Wright before the collapse
of his fortune. In Park Lane, London,
he had a miniature palace, in the draw
ing room of which was a copy of the ia
nous Cabinet du Roi of Louis XIV. 1t
took three years to complete, and cost
many thousands of pounds. At Godal-
ming. Surrey. he owned a country seat,
in identifying which 900 workmen were
engaged 1t contains costly fountains and
statuary brought from Italy The stables
alone cost a small fortune. They had up
holstered oak and leather settees, and
polished gun metal fittings, while valuable
paintings and bas-reliefs adorned the
stalls His private yacht was fitted up
with similar righteousness. and at one
time he was credited with the intention
of constructing racing yacht to beat Sir
Thomas Liptons Shamrock.
His widow is an American, and at the
time of her husbands arrest she was re-
ported to have said that she did not
know whether he was an American or
not. but he was always thoroughly Eng
lish, much to her disgust. They were
married In this country. In the descrip-
ton sent at the time his arrest was re-
quested by the London police. Wright
was said to speak with slight Ameri-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-02
JOHN PELHAM.

BY James r. Randall.
Just as the spring came laughing through
the strife,
With all its gorgeous cheer
In the bright April of historic life
Fell the great cannoneer
The wondrous lulling of a hero's breath,
His bleeding country weeps;
Hustled in the alabaster arms of Death.
Our young Marcelus sleeps
Nobler and grander than the child Of
Rome.
CURLING his chariot steeds.
The knightly scion of a southern home
Dazzled the land with deeds.
Gentlest and bravest in the battle-brunt,
The champion of the truth.
He bore his banner to the very front
OF our immortal youth.
clang of sabres mid Virginia snow,
The fiery pang of Shells
And there's a wall of mmemorial woes
In Alabama dells
The pennon drops that led the sabred
Along the crimson field;
The meteor blade sinks from the nerveless
Over the spotless shield.
We gazed and gazed upon that beauteous
face;
While round the lips and eyes.
Couched in their marble slumber, flashed
the grace
OF divine surprise.
mother of blessed soul on high !
Thy tears may soon be shed;
Think of thy boy with princes of the sky,
Among the southern dead.
How must he smile on this dull world be-
meath,
Fevered with swift renown.-
He, with the martyrs armanthine wreath
Twining the victor's crown!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-02
Standard of soIdiership.

81 see that Mexico is now under a new
law, sentencing her convicted thieves to
serve in her army" said an old army Of
ficer last night.
This is going backward, and is a dis
vanced stage. 1t is a terrible slur upon
our close neighbor as being in an adj
vanced stage. 1t is a terrible scar upon
soldiership; and if practiced will lower
the standard of the armies.
"The United States army and that of
England require good character as a
prerequisite to enlistment, and in this
way maintain the high standing of their
armies. A thief will never make a good
soldier no more than he will a good citi-
zen. He may murder and plumber, but
will never stand square up to patriotic
duty. A brave and efficient soldier, no
matter how low his military rank. should
be a gentleman"
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to change the laws relative to interest
and garnishments, SO that from $50
to $500 er cent cannot be collected on
small loans. The report of the grand
jury goes on to show that there are
seventy-four money-lenders in Atlanta,
who make $4,000 loans a year. The
loans range from 81 to 500, and the
rates of interest start at $50 per cent
and go up to $500 per cent, which
seems to be the Georgia maximum.
The money-lenders, bailiffs and justices
of TIE peace pull together, and the re-
port of the grana jury states that not
age, nor sex, nor illness, not even
death, prevents them from entering
homes, usually at night, to make levies
or to effect settlements that would have
astonished Shylock. No record is kept
of the transactions, and the dockets of
the justices of the peace are a scream
Ing farce.
These are official facts officially
stated. Tennessee is fretting under a
like condition, and in fact the Alabama
complaint seems to be widespread. In
the long run this state will get legis-
lature that will abolish the fee sys-
tenn, 1no that will take the justices of
the peace in hand and make them do
Justice instead of gross injustice.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-02
GOLDEN AGE OF LITERATURE.

From the New York Sun.
1t appears from case in the United
States circuit court that publishing
firm has sold four autograph editorials
of Mr.. Roosevelts collected works, 1926
"sets," for s775.22O. and that the distin-
guished authors royalties thereon
amounted to $155,050.
These facts are witnesses to prosperity,
to the value of great literature to APP
preciative readers in comfortable cir
cumstances, and, most of all, to the
splendid rewards of successful author
ship and chrography.
For signing his name 1926 times Mr..
Roosevelt has received sl55,05O. Can any
other profession show such signal and
easy remuneration?
1t must be especially gratifying to Mr..
Roosevelts pride in his literary achieve
ments to know that his profits surpass
those of two other famous politico-liter-
airy producers, the Hon. William Jennings
Bryan and the Hon Wester Davis.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-02
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
The Clock.


I noticed in the Age-TIerald that some
one was quoted as saying that one dial
OF the postoffice clock was faster than the
other said A. S. Smith. the jeweler and
Tune regulator. II wish to state that |
MADE an examination of the clock today
and failed to find the dials dis
agreeing as to time, and think the per-
son quoted was mistaken. The clock is a
good one but cannot be made to keep per-
1eet time during the cold weather, as
there IS an opening in one of the dials
which permits the outer air to rush in and
this affects the machinery AsAyou know,
the delicate mechanism of a clock or
watch is very susceptible to changes of
temperature and a great many clocks are
constructed with penduums made ex-
pressly for the purpose of keeping an
even swing at all temperatures.
However, I have asked for a new dial
for the postofflce clock and hope to
get it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-02
No Lawful Adjournment.

Mr.. Underwood's speech in commit
tee of the whole against the mileage
grab has been freely and favorably dis
cussed in I'll parts of the country, but
all have sirgula-ly overlooked his clear
and unanswerable statement of the
law applicable to the meeting of CON
gress, and this was a feature of his
argument.
He showed that the constitution pro-
vides simply that congress shall meet
once in every year, and if no other
time be designated then it shall meet
on the first Monday In December. I'm
der ;-e lav another time was desig-
mated last year, and congress met in
November instead of December.
Once congress is in session it can
be adjourned during its official life by
concurrent resolution only of the two
houses. Mr.. Underwood cited an abund-
oHNO VI N SSSuSnto W ouSldlu LIS pOSl-
ton. Plenty of special sessions have
merged without :. break or ripple into
the ordinary time of the regular ses-
sion, and not a word was heard from
any one about an ininitesimal or con-
structive recess-not word.
In other words, the declaration of
the president of the senate and of the
speaker of the house to the effect that
the special session had, in the absence
Of concurrent resolution of the two
houses, come to an end was unwar-
ranted, illegal, and was merely a
breath of partyism and "hot air." Mr..
Underwood did not employ the latter
words, for he il always dignified on
the floor of the house, but those words
express what he said in substance The
houses were not legally adjourned, and
they are now sitting in their first or
regular session, which was lawfully be-
gun in November, instead of December.
The courts, added Mr.. Underwood, will
so decide if the question is ever
brought before them.
Mr.. Underwood's position based on
precedent and the law renders an in
finitesimal recess impossible. There
was no recess il law or in fact, and
all the current theory spinning was in
vented to save Crum and Leonard
Wood. 1t will not stand the test. AS
Mr.. Underwood states, dozen or fif
teen congresses down to the present
time have met in extra session before
the first Monday In December, and
have remained in continuous session,
and the entire time was considered
one session, and no mileage grab was
even suggested. Mr.. Underwood's
shots vent to the center, and when
the vote was taken on the $145,000
grab not a member was willing to be
seen by tellers as voting in favor of it.
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can accent He was described as so years
old. height feet 10 or II inches, COM
plexion ford. hair and moustache dark,
large head. small eyes, receding forehead,
small chin. with fieshy roll beneath, stout
build and weighing about 252 pounds.
Wright had the entree of prominent club
and social circles in London. He was the
owner of the steam yacht Sybarita, and
was at one time commodore of the Ports
mouth Corinthian club. He belonged to
the Royal Cirque Ports. Royal Dorset.
Royal Temple. Royal Thames and Royal
Victoria Yacht clubs, and was a mem
Der of several social clubs. He left a
wife. son and two daughters.
1t was at the height of Wrights fame
that Harold Frederic, formerly the Lon
don correspondent of the New York Times,
wrote THE Market Place. in which he
described Wright under the guise Of
Stormont Thorpe. the hero of the novel.
The promoters 19-year-old son is just out
of Elton, and he left two daughters. the
older of whom is II. and both Of whom are
said to be strikingly beautiful.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-02
TO BE MADE
IN RAISING SUNKENIOGS

| half century ago, and when they appear
the old lumbermen grow reminiscent of
men who have been long forgotten, but
who were important operators in the
pioneer logging days of Wisconsin and
Minnesota
mo possible estimate can be made of
the amount of timber thus lost. but lum-
bermen estimate that the rivers of Wis
consin in the value of the logs buried in
their sands. have fortunes of millions OF
dollars If the logs could be recovered. or
the billions of feet of logs fioated down
your principal streams year after year, a
percentage is lost annually, finding graves
in the sand. Wisconsin has been one of
the big pine states. and your Chippewa.
Wisconsin, ST. Croix and Menominee riy-
ers and their tributaries contain fortunes
in sunken timber.
Strange as 1t may appear, the value
of the timber is not lessened, even after
1t has been submerged for half or quarter
of a century. Efforts have been occa-
sionally made to recover sunken logs At
one time company was organized at
Saltwater to dredge streams and thus re-
cover some of the timber. but the plan did
not work with any great degree of sue
cess, this method being found too expen-
sive. Some one will come along some day
with plan. and this immensely valuable
product, now lost, will be recovered