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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-11
LEGAL NOTICES.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT
Of Columbia, In the matter Of Frederick G. Giese-
king, bankrupt, In bankruptcy, No. 334.-To the
creditors of Frederick C. Gieseking of Washington,
d. c.: Notice is hereby given that the 4th day
of April. 1904, the said Frederick C. Geseking was
duly adjudicated bankrupt, and that the first meet
Ing Of his creditors will be held at my office, Room
No. 410, Columbian building No. 416 9th street
NV Washington, D. c., on the 21st day of April.
1904 at 10 O'Clock am, at which time the said
creditors may attend, prove their claims appoint
other business may properly before said
meeting. EDWARD s. McCALMONT, Referee in
Bankruptcy. MALCOLM HUFTY, Attorney for
BANKRUPT II
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-11
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
nutauua and Baldwin.

About year ago. says the Col umbus Enquirer-Sun the Birming. ham Age-Herald was pointing the finger of outraged injustice at Georgia IS the leader of lynchings in the south. Doubtless the Age-Herald has changed it's opinion since then, for they are having lynching bee in Ala bama every week or two now.'
 The caustic criticism of the Enquirer Sun fits the case But if 1t will read Governor Crlningham's statement in relation to lynching it will see that Alabama's line of anti-anarchistic gov ernors still holds out The lynchers will get no comfort at Governor Gun ningham's hands. They may yet get something else. They may not get what is due them promptly, because t.,ere may be more judges like the one of the first circuit, but they may yet have to contemplate a legislature specially convened to consider their cases.
 If lynching is to be abolished in this state, and law and order reestablished, the governor must be empowered to call special term of the court, and the Virginia law providing for private testimony of the victim of an assault, should be adopted. Both measures are greatly needed.
 The Enquirer-Sun should read Gov ernor Cunningham's statement, and il fl would republish it it's readers would get lesson that would do them nc harm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
Local Taxation.

The address delivered by Sydney J Bowie before the educational con- ference, deserves a careful read ing by every citizen of this state. It tells "a story that every citizen of this state should not only read, but heed.
 MT. Bowie shows that Alabama is the only state in which local taxation in other words, elf-government--is denied. In all the other states the scLool district or the smallest civil di- vision can tax itself to its hearts con tent.
 The retrogressives in the constitu- tional convention outvoted or out tricked the progressives, and in the mad haste ct the former to increase ard grab from the richer counties the largest possible sum of state school money, they voted down local taxa .ioR by school districts. The retro gressives wanted slice of all school
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
AUTOMOBILES IN MINING.
Practical Use for the "kIler' Has Been
 Found.

From 'he Engineering and Mining Jour
 nal
 Since transportation is one of the im- portant factors in successful mining the introduction of the automobile for this purpose is suggested. For traveling oyer high attitudes in quick time and safely, 1t has been shown recently by experiment in Colorado that the automobile driven through mounts inous regions, covered a distance of 175 miles at a little less than twenty miles an hour
 Now an attempt is being made to prove the superiority of the automobile for tra- versing the great desert of Death Valley, California, which is 167 miles long, and where for many years the mule has been considered practically the only means of locomotion. The Pacific Coast Borax company Is using the novelty at its mines At present 1t takes a 20-mule train, haul- ing twenty tons of crude borax, twenty four hours to travel only eighteen miles, The automobile train, having power equivalent to thirty mule teams, will car ry five times the quantity and run dis tance Of 100 miles In twenty -four hours Power for the automobile train will be supplied by 275-horse power triple cylin- der gasoline engine, and weighing in all only six tons. There will be at least seven or eight cars to a train and each car will he equipped with an electric mo- tor. The whole train viii be under com rlete control of the motorman in the cab of the engine, which is also furnished with an air compressor to operate the brsges on each car. A searchlight will facilitate work at night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD
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not believed that there will be a liquor
 famine in Gotham and 1t will still be
 possible for gilded youths with money to
 get all the champagne they want.
 Elaborate preparations are being made
 for the coronation of King Peter on June 15. The occasion promises to be charac- terzed by much pomp and ceremony, al-
 though there is some surprise manifested that the king has managed to retain his
 head long enough for it to be crowned.
 However, if the press dispatches are to
 be relied upon, the Servian monarch Is
 cended the throne At least the rumors
 of revolution and anarchy do not fly so
 thickly round about his ears.
 The police department of Egg Harbor,
 N. J., has devised an original and ef-
 fective scheme to prevent automobile
 drivers from escaping when they are ordered to halt and explain why they are
 exceeding the speed limit. In Egg liar
 bor heavy chains will be stretched across the road in front of the machines, so that a chauffeur will come to grief imme- diately unless he obeys the law. Here tofore the lone policeman has been placed in rather ridiculous light when trying to stop a flying automobile by merely shouting and waving his club. With the aid of logging chains he ought to be able to bring to stop the worst devil wag- on' that ever terrorized a country road.
 The new high bridge in New York has just been christened by a deluded woman who leaped to her death into the water below. The chances are that many more
 insane individuals will follow suit and
 before many years has elapsed the struc- ture will be almost as famous as Brook lyns bridge for suicidal purposes. When there are so many other ways for de-
 stroying ones self that are easier and less dangerous, it Is hard to understand why people go to such trouble to end their lives. In addition there Is always a bare chance of being pulled out of the water by rescuers, but the vanity of life is often strongest in death and perhaps that is the reason why some people pre- fer to make a dramatic exit. P.C.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
lucien Julien Walker.

Scarcely a home filled with intell- gent readers will be free from sorrow when news of the death of Lucien Julien Walker is carried to it. The greater grief of those who had been in close touch with the bright spirit now lost to the world can thus be felt and appreciated. The latter had near them lover of all that is beautiful and spiritual in art and literature, personality most kind and attractive.
 It is not too much to say that his writings went into more homes, wing ing to them comfort and solace, than did the writings of any other Alabama of housands-tender thoughts ex- pressed in graceful Addisonian En- glish. His prose was poetry in dis guise. His style was inherited from sweeter and less strenuous age. He touched all hearts, and all women were won as readers by the very win someness of his lines He was master of humor, pathos and sentiment, and fancy
 'Tell me where is fancy bred;
 Or in the heart, or in the head?
 How begot, how nourished?''
 And when he mingled all these fine qualities in ono of his essays upon men, women and manners, he simply outshone all others. He delighted anI entranced all readers.
 The great heart is at rest. The troubles of t.l unhappy life are ended, and his co-worlers can but drop tear on his untimely grave, while they car ry away in their hearts fond recollec- tions of noble tender soul.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08

moneys, and they planned the business 30 that none would escape them.
 What is the situation? The number of white illiterates Is steadily increas- ing. We nave more whites of voting age who cannot read and write than we had in 1890, 1880 or 1870. The percentage of white illiteracy Is rising. We have 31,614 whites of voting age who cannot read and write, and the voting strength of the state is but 100000 White illiteracy in Georgia and Tennessee has been decreased, but white illiteracy in Alabama has been increased. The illiterates of both races in this state have increased steadily since 1870.
 There is but one remedy. and that Is local taxa..on by school districts. There is no other way in which the rural school can te brought out and up. It has been lriet in all the other states, and all bear testimony to it's efficiency What men pay for direct ly they become interested in. State aid seems but a distant charity In counties like Lowndes 1t is a bonanza that demoralises rather than quickens No one desires Jmpulsory local taxa tion-simply selfgoyernment in the control of ones own property.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
A DRAMA OF SINGERS.

By Frank L. Stanton. The blue Mediterranean; the starred Ital-
 ian skies A sofe guitar, and woman's voice, and
 Love in woman's. eyes. The spirits of the valey-the phantoms
 of the hill; And Shelley on the grass there-singer
 and dreamer still. q arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night; When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright" The sca-loved Casa Magni hill-walled
 and blossomed dim, The stars that read their mysteries-
 their melodies to him; Loved English accents ringing-the ousk'
 the blooms a-thrill And Ariel echoes in the soul of shelley
 singing still: 70, lift me from the grass die, I faint, I fail! Let thy love in kisses rain On my lips and eyelids pale! Then woman's song. and poets song
 music of years to bel Die on the night; and weeping eyes watch
 for ship at sea And the Storm is in the Drama, ana the
 breakers as they beat, And all that could die of the singer lies
 dead at the woman's feet. o, lift him from the graE. And thick ye laurels! throng Where Italy holds England Earth-heaven-in Shelleys song.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
Japan's Plan of Campaign.

The fighting on the Yalu means much more than the crossing of that stream, or even an invasion of Man. churia. It means that the Japanese are match TOT the Russians on the land as well as an overmatch on the sea. It will inspire the Japanese to greater efforts, and it will correspond ingly depress Russian spirit and dar- ing.
 But the meaning of the movement is it's chief value. A road runs from the Yalu via Feng Wang Cheng to Liao-Yang on the Manchurian railroad that the Russians have built, and upon which Port Arthur hangs by thread, or rather by two iron threads. It is believed that the Japanese intend, however, to repeat their Chinese cam paign-to move, in other words, from Pe-tsu-wo, where they have landed an army. The new base is on the east
 
 coast of the peninsula, near the FL liott group or Parker islands. It is about fifty miles from Port Arthur, and from Pitsuwo the Japanese can readily advance to the railroad, when the isolation of Port Arthur and Dal- ny will become complete, and they will have to be abandoned, The Yalu and Pitsuwo will become bases of the Japanese while this movement is going on. Liao-Y Yang is necessarily the Rus sian base, and t Is a hundred miles away
 Baron Hayashi, the Japanese minis ter to Great Britain, says the Japanese will not go further north than Harbin, if so far. They may not go beyond Mukden. When they hold the penin- sua and Newchang, they may fight battle at Mukden, the capital of Manchuria, situated about one hun dred miles above Newchang. If they take Mukden, as they probably will, possessing as they then will the entire coast line of Manchuria, they will then proceed to draw a defensible line | from Mukden to the Yalu, and there await whatever attentions Russia may bestow upon them. If Japan will limit her ambition to the establishment of defensive works as outlined by Baron Hayashi, she will become impregnable, | and big Russia will be helpless six thousand miles away from her base Japan will not march inland, not even to Harbin, and Russia cannot dislouge Japan from her defensive line This is probably the plan of the Japanese campaign, and it promises no glory to Russia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE RUSSIAN
 AND JAPANESE PEOPLE AND THEIR TRAINING

peace or prepare for a war of several years' duration.
 Now, a word as to the Japanese and the Russian character. The Russian Is sturdy and honest. The Jap is shrewd ambitious, diplomatic. The Jap will fool you every minute of the day if you will have it. He thinks every man of other race would take advantage of him, and he seeks quick advantage of everyone with whom he comes in contact In a trade he Is suave, polite and apparently generous. If he has something to sell you he will reduce the price because you are so nice and the Americans have been so friendly to Japan. He likes you and he will sell you the article at a great loss He cuts the price in half. You take it. The next man comes In. He buys the same article at half what you paid. though it takes minutes and sometimes hours of parleying. However, the Jap trader is always good-natured and laugh ing. The people seem to live upon laugh. They have no profanity in their lan- guage. Their dispositions do not require
 
 embittered to deadly conflict, they will go into 1t with smiling faces, and begin duel of swords with apologies to one another for feeling it duty to dispatch the opponent to the more glorious and attractive world beyond.
 So 1t is now, in this war with Russia, that Japanese ambassadors to the courts of Europe and the cabinet officials at home are giving out weekly to the press ments, calculated to win the sympathy and praise of the world.
 The Jap Is indeed a wonderful little fel- low, full of vim, energy, endurance and | intelligence. He is for his country and | himself. He is destined to be the power of the Orient, and always to dominate It.
 Russia has spread too far. She has oyerestimated her strength and weakened herself before the world. The Russian educational system has been as nothing. Her masses are as ignorant as the hill- billy. It is bread and meat with them no thought nor patriotism Among the higher types, however, there are none superior. The educated Russian has few superiors. But, somehow, the home sys- tenn of government, the manner and method of affairs at home has made on the one hand dull, non-responsive ele- ment, and on the other governmental element of culture and refinement
 All in all Russia has overreached her self. The government has been lazy and I lax
 The war, as it progresses, tells the story. Nations, like men, must be pre- pared to both defend and make good their acts. Even right must have ability and energy behind 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
Atlanta Musical Festival.

Atlanta has long taken a leading po- sition in high class music" said well known singer, "and this year its festival record will be considerably advanced. It is to have three days festival with chorus of POO, a large local orchestra and many eminent vocal artists. The dates are May 30 and 31 and June 1, with four concerts in all. J. Lewis Browne, who IS often alluded to as the Guckenberger Of Atlanta, has trained the chorus and he will conduct all of the performances. Mir Browne Is fine organist, the finest per haps in the south, with the exception of Rienzi Thomas of Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
The Mineral Commission.

"rhe commission of experts examining the properties of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company and the Republic Iron and Steel company, with a view of consolidation have about completed their field work and will soon have their report ready" said an official of one of the small independent com panies. Their report will certainly be awaited with much interest as great mass of valuable information will be embodied In 1t, but I do not think the consolidation scheme will work. Indeed doubt if consolidation Is to be serious ly considered"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
Birminuham Dirt,

Iron has gone down to BIO q ton, but Birmingham real estate has not receded penny, and it is believed 1t will not. This firmness is due not a little perhaps to the fact that neither central nor residence property is as high in this town as it is in Atlanta or Nashville, and yet Greater BiIming- ham has larger population than either and better prospects of growth There has been no undue imitation in this city, and this no doEbt is an un. deriving reason of present firmness in real estate prices.
 Another reaGol is the extent of purchases of realty in this town by outside investors, particularly by Ala bama investors, of whom Gen. George P Harrison of Opelika is an example His investment or $4O,000 was not gen. erally known until the fire of last Sun day disclosed it. So it is in all parts of Greater Birmingham Men with surplus cotton money, or other funds, are coming in and picking up choice pieces of property
 These things account for the de- mand of the present season. This de- mand is maintaining values, and con- servative observers are not anticipat- ing any fall in prices of desirable prop erty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
Free Seats in Utah.
New York Times,

From the New York Times.
 David Belasco and another theatrical manager were discussing the troublesome fee seats problem not long ago. The producer of the Darling of the Gods" related an experience friend of his had had in the west
 This friend was taking a company on tour One night he met an influential citizen in a hotel, and before they parted
 the manager had inbvited the citizen to come to his show the next night and
 bring the family. About 8 o'clock the rext night the man put his head In the box office window and was immediate ly recognized by the manager. How many have you with your" the latter asked pleasantly, as ne prepared to write out the pass Well. some of my family are sick ' replied tn man. .so I have brought only forty-two."
 You sec" commented MT. Belasco, my friend had forgotten he was in Salt Lake City"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08

l, They lived upon good things, drank vodka to excess and neither improved nor add ed to their army or navy. The great off, cers of Russia, both at home and In the Orient, sat about cafes and homes, talked of their past military and naval glories, boasted of their prowess to foreign wis.,. itors, told of what they would do to any nation which might cross their path or cross swords with them upon land or sea in future, and spent their time in talk rather than in preparation for future conflicts.
 Yet nation of intelligence should have known that Japan was preparing every minute for future conflict. Japan has been active every day since Russia grasp ed Port Arthur from her. She has built new ships with every dollar she had or could borrow. she has trained her every available citizen in her army or her navy. She has sent her brightest men to every enlightened country of the world to study their military and their naval methods. She has studied the movement of Dewey's fleet at Manila and every act of our squadrons and fleets about the coast of Cuba. The maneuvers and acts of every vessel under the command of Sampson and Schley at Santiago Is familiar to her every naval officer. Her people, from the lowest to the highest, have been inn bued with the military spirit They have worked and studied. They have adopted ;, the best and most practical ideas of the great and ambitious nations of the earth and they have now put them to test against Russia.
 Besides the exercise of method, busi- ness and brain, Japan has a people im- bued with spirit of patriotism and bravery equalled by no other people on earth save, perhaps. the American and the Englishman. They may even be said to excel these in reckless bravery. A Jap loves death. be 1t in glory and for the good of his country. He will charge to sure death with smile upon his face. believing it to be into a glorious beyond where he will live for eternity in a halo of happiness and glory.
 This accounts for Japan's victories. She was prepared and has been active every minute. She has destroyed most of Russia's eastern fleet and practically bottled up the remainder at Port Arthur, making it totally ineffective in future.
 And now comes the news that Japan has landed and massed troops on both sides of the Lao-Tung peninsula above Port Arthur, cut the railroad and tele- graphic communication and has Russias s forces at Port Arthur hemmed in trap to starve or surrender.
 Of course Russia will fight from the :. land side, but it looks like Japan has Port Arthur-that which she has contend- ed for-and now Russia must sue for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
GORMAN NON-PLUSSED.

From the New York Tribune.
 The woman reporter was interviewing Senator Arthur P. German about suffrage. according to ''The Troy Times" The astute politician answered with a story. Now. young woman, what would happen to men if women entered politics? Why they are keener than we are, even in their sunday schools, and we wouldn't stand any chance with them. In one of the few Sunday school classes I ever addressed l was nonplused by a miss of summers l was telling the girls the story of the seven wise and seven foolish virgins, and l asked what we might learn from the beautiful story, when little blossom in blue replied: That's easy enough; learn to keep our eyes peeled for a bride groom!'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Smoking carralk.

Sidney Lazarus, sometime poet, mono- logist and actor, tells a good story of A smoking car orator, and his familiarity with men. MT. Lazarus was returning from trip to Lexington where he had been on official business, and his story of the talk he heard in the car wps as follows:
 Four of us were sitting in the smoker and one man volunteered to furnish the amusement for the party, He was an elderly gentleman and distributed two for-a-quarter cigars in a promiscuous manner. He likewise distributed dope that would have made the press agent of a ten. twenty and thirty cent show green with envy.
 This gentleman told his experiences as follows:
 I will take off my hat to Teddy, be- cause he is President but I told him once that I did not admire him. Mark Hanna was a great friend of mine ard the people were beginning to appreciate him
 CT got John (meaning MitchelD all tie AN-N fehoStS liC uStSs anu "Niiii S'N myself have enjoyed many a day togeth- CT. I advised John not to accept raise in salary from the mine workers.
 Several weeks ago I was at lit- tie dinner In the Waldorf Astoria with John D., Andrew (meaning Caregie), and Dan Suiiy. and the two great financiers were advising Dan to sell out at once. h A~ 4t.. Tnh hn m Andrew both said: q told you so.'
 John D. and myself were great friends when he started out He had nothing but the clothes on his back and fre- quently fed him and helped him along, and that is the reason we are such chums now. By the way, I am news paper man and there are many of the great editors of this country who are the result of my training. I have turned out many of them, and none of them has stopped short of the city editorship Of a great daily. My home is Columbus, Ohio.'
 And now" said Sid, 'this fellow thought he was gulling me. There were two young college boys who sat up with open mouths and listened to this great man, who spoke of himself as Jack, and said that John D. and Andrew always called him that, and these boys were heard telling the porter on the train about their trip with the great parsonage They will fill the ears of some the unso- phisticated around the stove at the store at the cross roads when they get back home and will he heroes"