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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-10

tive and commanding, the support OF
conservative men. but George B. Nc
Clellan would appeal to young men and
to all ex-soldiers. being the son OF a
great soldier, and no one can say a
word against his record or private
character.
There is one thing certain in connec-
ton with New York's popular mayor
he could sweep New York state. Can
this be predicted with confidence of
Judge Parker? II it can, then we can
afford to dispense with the support of
the men who 40 not like David B. Hill,
of the men who do love and admire
William ]. Bryan, and of some of Tam
mans most ardent followers. 1t may
be that Judge Parker can carry New
York, but Mayor Mcclellan certainly
can.
1t is at any rate important that
Alabama's delegation should go unin-
structed, SO that the situation UP to
the hour Of balloting can be sized up
and met-so that winner can be Sc
lected, not a man who will be sup
ported perfunctorily by any democrat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-10
Soliciting for Church.

when walking downtown this evening
l was accosted by two little girls on South
Twentieth street with, Mister give me a
nickel for the church. remarked a gen.
tleman last night. "These little girls were
not together. though each made the same
request. / was very much impressed by
the incident, and wondered If the parents
of the little girls knew that they had APP
pointed themselves to thus collect tithes
of the passersby.
II think 1t quite commendable for a
child to learn early in life that it has a
work to do in the moral vineyard, but
the dignity of this work, and the eternal
fitness of things should also be impressed.
THESE little girls seemed filled with
youthful enthusiasm and childish levity,
but were entirely without that spirit Of
reverence and the air of responsibility
which the occasion demanded
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STONY HEARTED MAN.
the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
With the coming of that merry, frolic-
some damsel, dainty footed, sweet breath
ed, rudy checked May, the diapason Of
the bullfrog is booming in the marshes
and the melodious mosquito is tuning
his enhancing Tyre. Little recks either
of possibly impending doom. And yet
1t is true that frogs legs are sold at high
prices and are in lively demand in the
markets, and that the production of
petroleum, which. it is said, causes
severe indigestion to anopheles when it
Is diffused over the swamps IN which the
happy families of the singing insetcs
gather about the domestic hearth, has not
been diminished in the least. Stony
hearted man is prone to shorten the free,
careless. jocund life Of many a lowly
creature.
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Miss Mary Gordon puffee.

81 have just returned from Blount
Springs, and l learn that Mary Gordon
Duffee, the woman hermit who lives on
top of Duffee's mountain and who is
known throughout Alabama and the
south as a woman of great learning, is
in dire need of assistance" said well
known Albanian yesterday. THE few
persons who have had the privilege of
meeting this remarkable woman can well
understand why she may be in need.
Miss Duffee is most peculiar char
acter. She is now about 60 years old and
has spent all Of her life on top of this
beautiful yet wild mountain. She Is a
true aristocrat and has spent most of her
days in reading and writing. Her little
apartments are strewn with papers of all
kinds and on the old-fashioned tables
and bureaus there are great stacks Of
time worn and moth eaten works by great
masters. She is perfectly familiar with
all the classics and in her conversation
uses the most beautiful and classic En-
glish. She has written many works
which almost approached the classic and
mas sustained nerSeu Ior years ny Her
contributions to such papers as the
Youths Companion and Scribners. For
many years her brother has lived in the
little mountain home with her, but sew
eral months ago he died and she Is left
entirely alone She fell Ill of la grippe
and has suffered intensely. Now she is
badly In need of the mere necessities of
life, and l think the literary people of
Alabama and the south ought to come
to her assistance. 1 fear however, that
she would not accept aid unless offered
in a very sl1illful manner.
This remarkable woman" he con-
tinued, would have made an ideal char
acter for Charles Dickens Being thor
oughly conversant with the world as she
is and rarely ever having left her roof
on the lofty mount she would make a
beautiful character study. She is a wo-
man who cares not for the worries and
troubles of the world benath her today.
Neither does she care for the future.
Her world is in the past and she revels
in the deeds and thoughts of an era
which few of us now remember. While
she is very difficult to approach 1t would
be well worth the journey for literary
person to attempt the task of seeing Mary
Gordon Duffee in her hermit home"
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
DR.. j. H. Pennlman.

Dr. ]. II. Penniman, dean of the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania, arrived in the
city yesterday about noon and is stop
ping at the Hotel Hillman. He will de-
liver an address tonight in the dining
room on the second floor of the Hillman
under the auspices of the Commercial
club on University Training as a Prep
aration for a Business Career"
The address will be free, and the dim
ing room of the hotel will be provided
with plenty of chairs to accommodate
any audience which may attend. 1t is ex-
pected that the place will be well filled,
as DR. Penniman is known to be man
of practical ideas and a charming talker.
Dr. Penniman is not only man of let
ters but he has a fine business training
and through his hands pass millions OF
dollars annually to be distributed through
the various departments of the Univer-
sity
When seen at the Hillman yesterday
afternoon DIR. Penniman spoke very
highly of the Birmingham district, and
seemed to be much interested in its de-
velopment. He said:
birmingham Is the greatest mineral
and Industrial district in the south. With
her mountain of iron on one side, her coal
fields and her valley of limestone, she
has greater natural advantages than any
portion of the world. l am deeply inter-
ested In the district and its development.
Il have visited Birmingham before but
it changes every minute l can readily
tv,,.a tta1nas a4aft- Of
the last year"
DR.. Penniman was very much Impress
ed with President Fred NJ. Jackson's ac-
count of Vulcan, and asked many ques-
lions about the statue, the position it
occupies at the exposition and the gem
eral effect 1t will have as an exhibit He
also asked many questions about the pro-
duction of iron, coal and other products
of the district, and showed an unusual
knowledge of the district.
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George Brinton Mcclellan.

The Mcclellan boom that has bios.
somed out in all parts of the country is
simply an evidence of the deep desire
for a candidate that all can cordially
support. Mr.. Bryan's unqualified de.
nunciation of Judge Parker, together
with Tammany's dislike for him, has
convinced many that he is not the man
who can bring all democrats together
He is an admirable man in many re.
spects, but it is plain that the party
cannot be cordially unified and consol.
dated if he be nominated. The warm
friends and admirers of William j.
Bryan will not support Judge Parker
except in the most perfunctory man
ner, and the campaign should not be
perfunctory one.
There are other democrats, conserva-
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What Alabama is Capable Of.

The Livingston Sun says trucking in
Sumter is assuming grand proportions.
1t furnishes these particulars:
"A conservative estimate places the
strawberry crop sold this season at about
$4,000. The pea crop at about Sl5,OOO' and
the estimate for beans is $4,000. Then
other crops of vegetables and fruits will
foot up altogether close to 100000. Then
the land upon which these crops are
grown are being planted in cotton and
corn, and good returns are assured as
the land has been fertilized and highly
cultivated. The fruit crop In the near fut-
ure will be a big item, as many peach
orchards have been set out in the past
year or two Messrs. A c. Mcmillan and
W. r. Larkin the past fall set out $500 FL
berta peach trees near Coatopa."
This is getting ready against the boil
weevil in dead earnest. Sumter will be
fully ready to meet the invading insect
when it arrives, defying 1t to do its
worst in that county. What with veg
etables, fruits and corn crops, Sumter
will laugh at the Mexican beetle, and
there should be sixty-six other Sumters
In this state for the march Of the in
sect is inevitable It cannot be stayed,
and probably not even checked. All
accounts agree that it is conforming to
new circumstances found by it in this
country, and it will soon be as much
at home here as it long had been in
Central America, it's original habitat.
The boil weeyil may not overrun
Alabama in less than ten years, but
ten years is none too much in which
to get ready to make and profitably
market new crops. If we wait until
the boil weevil is upon us, disaster will
overtake the agricultural interests OF
this state, but If we do as Sumter is
doing, and begin at once, we will be In
a position to defy the boil weevil and
all other crop evils.
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Abou'; Persons.

DR.. James T. Pitt of Florence is at the
st. Nicholas.
D. r. Painter of Brookwood. is stop
ping at the Morris.
H. w. Paris, Jr., of Montgomery, is at
the Colonial.
Thomas ]. Scott of Montgomery. is reg
istered at the Hillman.
NJ, Noble of Cincinnati. is in the city.
w. r. Gum of Gadsden is stopping at
the Colonial.
John B. Long of Gacsden. is at the
Morris.
s. A. McDuffie of Monroeville is at the
Colonial.
W. w. Simmons, postmaster at Athens,
is at the ST Nicholas.
W. T. Northington of Prattville. is reg
istered at the TTillman.
]. NJ. Boyd of Montgomery, is at the
Morris.
T. f. Mitchell of Coal City. is stop
ping at the Colonial.
William Mosley of Decatur. is at the
Hillman.
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City of Trees.

"People say a great deal about smoky
and dirty Birmingham said j. NJ.
Flowers, ''but one Of the most beautiful
sights l ever saw was the view of the
city from the top of the new First Ma
tional Bank building. Until l went up
there | never realized that the city of
birmingham had so many beautiful trees.
IT is second to Tuscaloosa, which has
more stately trees than any city in the
south. 1t is throughout many states
known as the City of Oaks.
"The recent rains have made the trees
al so green and fresh that it is restful to
the ewes to look at them. 1t is only by
taking a birdseye view that the real mag
n,tude of the city of Birmingham can be
real,zed and appreciated. 1t seems to
stretch in every direction nearly as far
as the eye can reach
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-10
LENORE.

By Edgar A. Poe
All, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit
flown forever!
Let the bell tolll-a sanity soul floats on
the Stygian river;
And, Guy De Cere, hast thou no tear?-
weep now or never more.
Seel on yon drear and rigid bier npw lies
thy love, Lenorei
Come. let the burial rite De read-the
funeral song be sung.-
An anthem for the queeniiest dead that
ever died so young
A dirge for her the doubly dead in that
she died so young.
"Wretches We loved her ror her wealth
and hated her for her PRIDE,
"And when she fell in feeble health, We
blessed her-that she died.
How shall the ritual, then. be read?-
the requiem how be sung
by you-by yours, the evil eye,-by
yours, the slanderous tongue
THAT did to death the innocence that
died, and died so young?"
Peccavimus; but rave not tnusl and let
Sabbath song
Go up to God so solemnly the dead may
feel no wrong!
The sweet Lenore hath gone before
with Hope, that flew beside
Leaving thee wild for the dear child that
should have been thy bride
For her, the fair and debonair, that now
so lowly lies,
The life upon her yellow nair but not
within her eyes
The life still there. upon ner hair-the
death upon her eyes.
"Avaunt tonight my heart is light. No
dirge will upraise,
But watt the angel on her flight with
Paean of old days
Let no bell tolll-lest her sweet soul.
amid its hallowed mirth,
Should catch the note. as 1t doth float,
up from the damned Earth.
ITO friends above, from fends below. the
indignant ghost is riven-
From Hell unto high estate far up
within the Heaven
From grief and groan. to golden
thrnna- beside the King Of Heaven"
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Smoke Means Wasted Fuel.

From the Boston Transcript
Smoke means waste. The science of
smoke prevention and the science of per-
feet combustion are equivalent terms.
Once make factory owner realize this
and he is won over to the cause for If
he has intelligence enough to manage a
business he must know that perfect COM
bustion of fuel means no waste. Consider
the analogy of coal oil lamp. Turn up
the wick and the lamp smokes You are
using too much oil-and getting less light.
The same Is precisely true of a furnace,
A smoking chimney stack means too
much frel-and less heat Once get the
factory owner to understand this-to
know that those belching clouds of black
smoke mean wasted money gone up the
chimney and less power for, his machIn-
ery-and you have converted him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-10
STORAGE of Coal.

The specifications for the storage of
bituminous coal, to avoid risk of spon-
famous combustion, recently formulated
hv M. Griswold general Inspector for
the Home Insurance company of New
york attract attention, and what Mr..
criswold says is being generally APP
,roved by men of experience in this line.
~ ,,o,n points that this authority in
s,sts on are as follows;
THE quantity stored in any one pile,
heap, pocket. or bunker should in no case
exceed 1900 tons When greater quanti-
~ must be stored there should be a clear
space of at least five feet between the
niles and that space should be maintained
! bsolutely free for ventilation. and dis
nersion of gases from the mass.
mo accumulation of coal Of 1900 tons
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-10
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD

key open any door The stun was sold
to "shrewd" yankees in the east and now
the professor is stopping IN federal
prison. How any civilized person on the
face of the globe. and especially people
In the most advanced section Of the
United States can allow themselves to
be duped by such a scheme is inexplica-
ble..bu the trick was successfully work
ed and the public may exp;ain as best It
may.
Mile. 5acharin. according to the Paris
dispatches, is q young russian singer
who has hit upon a unique method for
raising funds to help her countrymen in
the war with Japan. A few nights ago
she announced from the footlights that
she would sell kisses from off her ex-
tremely "kissable' lips for the sum OF
twenty francs apiece. Immediately
there was rush of youths waving bank
notes and pandemonum ensued, but dur
ing the excitement the singer disposed OF
200 kisses for the sum of 1000 francs. The
success which this osculatory entertain
ment achieved reminds one that the
Countess Cassini did not make a vast
Washington. Society attended but soci-
ETY. left Its purses at home and there
was plenty of social atmosphere without
any cash.
jacques lie Baudy was in serious dam
ger of being forgotten by the world. but
thanks to a correspondent he has again
hcen brought before the limelight and
talk Of his picturesque scheme to estab-
lsh an empire in the desert of Saharah
has been revived. While the scheme Is In
teresting to read about and delightful to
contemplate from a romantic point Of
view 1t must be confessed that its prac-
teal advantages are wanting. 1t would
be very nice for Monsieur lie Baudy to
rule over a realm of his own, for then
he could live in reality the life SO many
people live only In dreams, but no one
puts any faith in his venture. The empire
of Sharah may at some time In the fu-
ture figure prominently in a novel of adj
venture, but In the stern realities of life
1t will continue to be nothing more than
the fantasy of too active BRAIN
Visitors to ST. Louis are being vastly
entertained by a eight of the human
slaves in the Philippines exhibit at the
fair The 100 slaves of the Moros are in
fact giving the dog-eating Igorrotes a
close race as a popular attraction. Few
people of the younger generation have
ever seen real slave, and therefore
many are am ious to get glimpse
of such an unfortunate. Just wherein
the instruction and moral elevation OF
such spectacle lies will be answered
with wink by the people who are ex-
hibiting the slaves. for they are out for
the money and know very well how to
get it away from the populace. AS mat
ter of fact the Philippine exhibits have
been widely advertised and are doing a
rushing business. The Igorrotes are es-
pecially well known as a result of their
trouble in procuring a regular canine bill
of fare and 1t is safe to say that every
youngster in the country who is fortunate
enough to visit the fair will not go home
until he has seen the Igorrotes.
P. C.
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From the New York World.

T
N cCoRDING to the plans of Prof.
P7V Albert C. Albertson, president Of
the Acknowledgements Railway
Construction company, New Workers arc
soon to see something in the way of dizzy
speed over the rails that will make the
Empire State Express and Twentieth
Century Flyer look IKE local freights.
The mere matter Of eighty miles an hour
will be comparatively so slow that the
passengers are likely to ask the con-
ductor what's OBTAINING them.
BY July Professor Albertson plans 10
have In operation the first magnetic train
the world has ever seen. His company
is about to begin the construction of a
railway between Midland Beach and
South Beach, S. 1. The road will be one
and eight-tenths miles in length and the
rolling stock will be one little motor Of
the Albertson patent and, at the most
three cars There will be no necessity
for more than a single train for at the
lightning speed that the inventor pur-
poses sending 1t over the right of way,
two trains would be cumbersome.
Fifteen seconds will be the schedule
time from terminal to terminal, If Pro-
lessor Albertson realizes his hopes. He
said yesterday that he had figured 1t all
out and made his estimates of the speed
with the little models he has In his work
shop at Eleventh avenue and Twenty
sixth street He has a miniature rail-
road there. on which he chases toy
train of one car and the queer-looking
motor every day, In order to perfect
the mechanism. The inventor says he
can burn up the rails with 1t, and Is
really afraid to let it reach its maxi
mum.
According to Professor Aioertson's time
schedule for the Staten Island line, the
train will travel at the rate of about 49,
miles an hour, which is approximately
Ave times as fast as the swiftest ex-
press in the United States He says that
he himself does not yet know the exact
maximum of speed that his inventon
can attain. but is convinced that II can
haul a train along straight track at
more than 400 miles an hour
The railroad between Midland Beach
and South Beach is to be sort OF
toy elevated structure. The rails VIII
rest on a steel framework feet above
the ground The object OF THIS is to give
the train what the inventor regards as
absolute immunity from a wreck. fhe
wheels are to run on the rails, and then,
to make sure that they cannot jump the
track. the magnets will run along under
the rails. No difference how high is the
rate of speed attained. Professor Albert
son says this mode OF construction will
efrectuaily prevent the train from leav-
ing the track.
1.-THE principle of the invention is SO
simple that even a layman may readily
understand it, said the inventor yes
terday. IT have given seven years of
nv life to its study and perfection. The
time is not far distant when the railroads
not only Of this country but of every one
in the civilized world, VIII be compelled
to adopt the electromagnetic motor. 1t
will revolutionize speed and reduce the
cost of operation.
although a speed Of 400 or more miles
an hour sounds extravagant at the pres
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-10

II HE radium thief has already made
w his Appearance, and he got away
in New York with several thou
sand dollars worth Of radium In a glass
tube, half an inch long. The most strik-
ing feature of this robbery was the ease
with which the thief was able to escape
with his booty. In view Of the fact that
radium Is worth just 100000 a pound at
the present market rates 1t Is not sur
prislng that some one has yielded to the
temptation to make off with a little of
the valuable metal. However, 1t Is hardly
probable that our prisons will be over
run with radium burglars, for the simple
reason that not one man In a thousand
has yet had an opportunity Of stealing
any of the metal, even If he so desired.
Paris woman has made a departure
that will appeal to adventurous spirits
at once. She was at one time a lion tanner
and consequently Is well fitted for her
new business, that of furnishing auto
mobiles to young couples VINO wish to
elope. It is said that the enterprising
Parisienne is literally coming money. and
her matrimonial stables where there are
always plenty of automobiles on hand are
much sought after by young people who
have desire to get into trouble roman
tically. Conveyances can be secured at
any hour, and for any destination what
soever, 80 that the business of getting
married quickly has been greatly facili-
tated OF course the small matter of pa
rental wrath has little weight with a
woman who has been accustomed to brave
the anger of wild animals as a daily task
Mrs. Claude Watney of London has Just
refused to pay a well known English
painter OF miniatures for picture of her
self which had been ordered for $1,000 be-
cause she asserts he made her look like d
girl of sixteen, which was ridiculous to
say the least. That woman could make
such statement in her right mind is
sufficient to astound the hoary philoso-
piers who have commended for ages that
fattery was the sweetest incense to wom-
ans soul. If this is to be the stand taken
by the gentle sex the business of pho
tographers and portrait painters will have
who could make people look better than
nature ever intended them to be was the
man who got the money and a similar
state of affairs prevailed among photog-
raphers. The greater the hattery the
greater the sales, but here is a woman
who skaters the whole fabric of por-
trait making at one blow. If all the rest
of womankind were like Mrs. Watney
there would be parlous times for picture
galleries, but fortunately they are not.
Mrs. Watney is merely an Illuminating
exception.
A Missouri judge agrees with P. T.
Barnums remark that all people are
ready and anxious to be humbugged If
some one with an ingenius turn of mind
will only do the humbugging. Perhaps
he was right A great many people be-
sides the Missourian think SO at any
rate. Right here at our doors is the case
of a young Georgia negro who compound
ed dogs hairs and a few other gruesome
ingredients into a mixture that would
turn a 81 bill into $40 bill and
when rubbed on a key would make that
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The Buffalo Gnats,

1.-THE pesky insect known as the Buffalo
gnat is doing great havoc in our state, "
said 8. o. Kent of eastern Texas, last
night. I'm the section where l live, near
Texarkana, over hundred head of stock
were killed by these gnats last week. In
this number were several fine mules.
There seems to be no remedy to affective
ly rid the country of this prague. The
problem appears equally as hard to solve
as that of the boil weevil."