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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

The sum of s9s45 has been subscribed for the new Y. M. c. A. gymnasium in Mont gomery
 Hartford has organized baseball team and a number of towns in the state are following suit.
 W. R. Childress has taken charge of the circulation and subscription depart ment of the Gadsden Evening Journal.
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 Madison county is looking forward to a CTS predict season of great prosperity. Montgomery baseball fans are wrathy because a movement has been started in Mobile to secure the Capital Citys fran chise.
 Tracy Lay, son of Captain and Mrs. w. P. Lay of Gadsden, is now on the re- portorial staff of the Montgomery Even ing Times.
 The river steamers City of Mobile and W. J. Bethea are tied up at the wharves in Mobile as a result of a strike among the roustabouts.
 The city council of Selma has recom- mended changes to be made in the pub lie buildings of that town in order to secure better precautions for safety in case of fire.
 It is reported that nine-story building will be erected in Mobile by the Equta- ble Life Insurance company of New York. on the east side of Royal street. adjoining the Mobile theatre.
 Anniston is making active preparations to entertain the fremen who will take part in the tournament of the Alabama, North Georgia and Tennessee Firemen's association in that town next May.
 Mounted Officer J. NJ Moseley of Mont gomery shot and killed Eugene Lewis a negro. near Vesuvius, Tuesday morning. The officer was attempting to arrest Lewis for disorderly conduct when the negro attacked him and he fired in self defense.
 Mir and Mrs John c. Williams of Tal- ladega will celebrate their silver wedding anniversary Monday, March B. MT. Will jams is editor of the Our Noun tain Home and is one of the best known newspaper men of the state. He and his wife are receiving many congratulations from Alabama newspapers. Capt. Hal Long of the Dick Adams Rifles of Decatur recently held drill on the streets of that town in the early hours of the morning after arresting a large number of his men who failed to appear at the regular drill hour. Squads were sent to all parts of town and sev- eral privates were pulled out of bed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17
From the New York Commercial.

From the New York Commercial.
 N T Niles, Michigan, little city not W particularly famous in any other k direction, over half a million wo- men annually get free boquets. A rail- road company has just rebuilt its hot houses there on scale that redoubies their former capacity. It matters not whether it is midwinter or midsummer, there is always a fragrant shower of cut flowers whenever a train stops at the pretty station.
 |l More than ten years ago the officers of the Michigan Central conceived the idea of raising enough flowers to enable them to throw in the lap of each woman messenger, De she of high or low degree, A boutonniere of cut flowers. An em- ploye in uniform bearing a basket hiieo with the favors passes through the traan distributing the fragrant punches. The men do not count in this matter and must ha content to see the women enjoy the gift.
 The entire floral department of the
 
 road as well as the hot houses at Niles are under the charge of John Gipner' an experienced florist. who has presided over the department since its inception
 The new building at Niles is one Of the most extensive and substantial that has ever been erected for the purpose It not only holds a never-failing supply or flowers for the tiny bouquet for the wo- men folks, but in it are stored thousands of plants that in the spring are shipped to every part of the system to be used In beautifying station grounds.
 This hot house Is composed of a main building. from which lead two wings one seventy and the other forty feet long. The glass roofs are twenty feet above. The frame work of the entire building is of steel, the glass roofs shed the water into steel gutters. and the entire plant is heated by a capacious battery or poilers in the basement of the main building. At the south end of the building is palm house. the glass of which is thirty feet in the air. In the second story of the main building is a stateroom and great basin. in which fertilizer in liquid form is kept. ', the building there is 10000 feet Of
 Tn one bed built on a steel frame
 which steam pipes are coiled.
 geraniums, which is only
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17
MEMORIAL TO PACK HORSES

From the Washington Times.
 The Daughters of the American Reyo- lution are determined that no one who contributed to the success of the Ameri- can revolution shall go unhonored if they can help it. In all parts of the country these energetic women are busily work ing to give the noble dead their just due of praise
 Nor is this spirit confined to the men and children patriots, but extends to the creatures, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air who did their little part in aiding the first American rebels. Even the pack horses those beasts of burden despised by their equine brethren, are not forgotten. for a chapter in the north has voted to give a certain sum of monsy each year to the Society for the Proven ton of Cruelty to Animals in memory of the pack horses of the revolution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17
WITH THE SPRING.

By Robert Browning.
 Here's rhyme Such as one makes now-say, when
 Spring repeats That miracle the Greek Bard sadly
 greets: Spring for the tree and herb-no Spring
 for usn Let Spring come: why, man salutes her
 thus: Dance. yellows and whites and reds Lead your gay orgy, leaves, stalks, heads Astir with the wind in the tulip-beds. There's sunshine; scarcely a wind at all Disturbs starved grass and daisies small On a certain mound by a churchyard
 wall Daisies and grass be my hearts bedfel- On the mound wind spares and sunshine
 melows: Dance you. reds and whites and yellows!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17
About Persons.

D. M. White of Goodwater, member of the democratic executive committee. Is in the city.
 George A. Wood of Cincinnati is at the St. Nicholas.
 Flex L. Smith prominent attorney of Rockford is at the Morris
 W. Mennett of Atlanta is stopping at the Colonial.
 A. L. Rankin and D.. Lawrence of An dulsia are in the city.
 F. Meyer of New York is at the St. Nicholas.
 Cecil Browne of Talladega Is at the Morris.
 H. w. West of Decatur is in the city. J. R. Phornely of Seneca, S. C., is stop- ping at the Colonial
 T. NJ. Bingham and Alex. Nelson of Tuscaloosa are at the Morris.
 L. c. Gunter of Knoxville is at the St. Nicholas.
 H. J. Porter of Augusta, who will soon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17
Voters Guide.

'The Alabama ovter's Guide" use- full little manual written by Frank Deed meyer of the Birmingham bar has filled long felt want as evidenced by the fact that the first edition of two thousand has been exhausted Mr.{ Deedmeyer is now publishing a second edition and from the way orders continue to come in it will soon be sold out, The author has Guide is strongly endorsed by Robert J, Lowe, ex-chairman of the democratic state executive committee. by Secretary John c. Pugh and by Chairman B. A. Thompson of the Jefferson county dem ocratic executive committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17
w. T. Allison Has Big Fire.

Selma, March 16-(Speciaf)-W. T. All lison who lives in River precinct, about Is miles from Sienna. had his store, ware house. corn crib and stables burned last night The entire stock of goods, in fact all of the property enumerated. was a total loss. Besides the buildings and the stock of goods two fine horses were de stroved One little pony was all a,r Allison saved. He did not kava s,irance whatever on the propei the loss, which will amount to 900, falls heavily on him. The the fire is not known
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17
LITTLE MICHIGAN TOWN
 FAMOUS FOR BOUQUETS

A part of the supply of this variety. The carnations run up into the thousands. There are sweet peas from bushels of seed, and violets of all the colors that ever bloomed.
 In different parts of the roomy struc- ture are found snowy oleanders. yellow asters, purple phlox, heliotrope, tiger lil- les. dahlias, azaleas, coleas and every thing to delight the gaze of every one fortunate enough to behold the sight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17
WORST LAND FOR CHILDREN.

From the Washington Post.
 Spain is the worst or the clvilizeo countries for children. The annual deaths of children under years of age amount to 23o.ooO in that country. Most of these deaths are due. it seems, to the extreme ly poor condition of the milk. In Madrid where five times more little children die every year than in all big Paris, it was found that of 100 samples of milk eighty six were entirely unfit for consumption.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

James Bryce, M. F. mas been elecleu fellow of the Academic des Sciences ct Morales in Paris. to succeed the late Pro- lessor Lecky.
 A monument has just been erected at Mt Pleasant. Iowa. to Charles Shepard a soldier of the revolution, who fought at Brandywine and Germantown.
 Former Governor William Clafhn of Massachusetts has just observed his elghty-sixth birthday anniversary at Newtonvile He is in excellent health and is still vigorous.
 Viola Allen has made her first appear anee in Twelfth Night at the Harlem theatre. New York. after the dangerous surgical operation which she submitted to at the Eye and Ear hospital. She was given an ovation.
 Miss Edna Earle, society woman of Brooklyn, will spend year in the Sierra Nevadas studying the life of people who go west to recuperate their health. The information she obtains will be embodied in a book and she will also carry along a pO1IaDie SnaCk TOT feSl0ence Edward Shipper, consul in Philadelphia for Chilli and Ecuador, Is dead from pneu- monia. Mir. Shippen had travelled great deal and was we'll acquainted with South American affairs. King Victor Emanuel of Italy conferred upon him the title of Cavalier Della Corona D'Italia.
 Richard Mansfield has quite turn for literature and indulges in both fiction and poetry. The excellence of his produc- tons matters but little, since the papers are eager to publish anything he writes. Thus far the actor does not show any tendency to tread on the heels of Charles Dickens or Lord Byron.
 Patrick McAleer, once known as "the handsome coachman," died in Bellevue hospital, New York, Monday morning at the age of ninety-nine. Seventy-five years ago McAleer was employed by the wealthiest and most aristocratic families of New York. He was noted for his phy- sical perfections and polished manners
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

open a large clothing and furnishing store on First avenue, in the handsome new building erected for him, is in the city.
  James M. Kenney of Nashville is in the city.
  c. A. whlthead of Tuscaloosa is stop ping at the St. Nicholas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

The great advantage of not sleeping in bed is that you do not have to hop out on a cold morning with no other garment on but nightshirt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Sully has bought another seat on the New York cotton exchange for the modest sum of $10.700, but it will not take him long to make it back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

The Windy City is now engaged in entertaining one of the worst winds that has visited the town during this winter of many blizzards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Uncle Joep Cannon is inclined to treat his presidential boom as joke, and MT. Roosevelt does not mind join ing in the laugh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

MT. Hearst has Rhode Island dele gates, but he will not be put where he can get her electoral votes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

1HE story of James J. Hill presi- k0 dent of the Great Northern rail-
 way attending the launching of the giant steamship Dakota, at Croton, Conn.,, few days ago. wearing his night shirt, and all unconscious of his trans gression against propriety, afterwards go- ing to a banquet with the same shirt on his person, has been going round and round the press until no doubt MT Hill is about as tired of 1t as everybody else. In fact it is hinted that this last offense is the second and not the first of its kind. Both these stories have been ban died about, with additions, subtractions, and multiplications until what was at first merely a very amusing blunder on the part of a man prominent in this country has become subject for edito- rial discussion. The fact is. there is no reason why James J. Hin or anybody else should not wear nightshirt when ever and wherever he pleases. In the first place 1t would eliminate altogether the abominable stiff-bosomed shirt. Nightshlrts are very comfortable gar ments and when a man is able to afford one of those elegant silk affairs he should not be ashamed to wear it on the street. The main point about the Hill story is that James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern railway, wore his nightshirt at a public function and not James J. Hill, hod-carrier. If the same thing had been done by a man of less pretentious station he would have been termed an ill-bred fool. but when MT. Hill did it why it be- comes not only very amusing, but of na- tional importance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

For publication purposes only polyg- amy is prohibited in Utah. Otherwise it goes on as usual.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

The latest wrinkle in auto driving is to run over people and then bring suit against them for being In the way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Psi An is not dead. She is so much alive and so vicious that she has or dered fifty more automobiles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

President Harper has lost his ap- pendix, but he still has MT. Rockefeller to fall back upon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

The sultan of Sulus salary has been cut off by Uncle Sam because the sul- tan was too fond of matrimony
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

The hens should keep in mind the date of Easter. An eggless Easter would not be an Easter-day at all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Harvard got Chicagos stadium after all. It was too classic to suit the wild and woody west.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Elephant experts in Idia say that only twenty-four white elephants have ever been captured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Plttsburg had a flood and a water famine simultaneously. Strange things happen in that trust-ridden town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

While Peary is resting at home this year some one may slip up to the North Pole and put tag on it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

When three men want the same office and only one can be elected, it stands to reason that two will be dis appointed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

MT. Smoot cannot square himself with the American people and his brother apostles at the same time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Plumbers in the south are packing up their kits and will proceed to spend the summer season at the seashore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

The peanut trust is crowding up prices so fast that Attorney General Knox's attention should be called to the situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Since Niagara Falls have been har- messed they have lost much of their poetic charm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

While the north, east, south and cen tral west are debating the negro question and incidentally indulging in lynchfests, the far west remains unconcerned. There are so few negroes in that part of the country that the problem of what to do with them is not deemed of sufficient im- portance to entail any discussion by the majority of people, although there are wid-eyed reformers out there as well as everywhere else in the United States. Negroes are so few in number in the far west and along the Pacific slope that no separate accommodations are provided for them and they have to get along as best they can without offending travellers from the south. They usually find cheap restaurants and lunch counters where they can eat with the white people with out creating a disturbance and they ride on trains in first-class passenger coaches without molestation. There are more negroes along the Pacific slope than In the tier of states just adjoining, including Nevada, Colorado, Utah, the Dakotas, Wyoming and perhaps Washington. In these states the negro is conspicuousy absent
 While 1t would seem that negroes in the west are so far out-numbered by the whites that they would be humble to a degree, the opposite is true and negroes from this part of the country have an unusually good opinion of themselves.
 It is no doubt probable that negroes will never be attracted to the far west In large numbers from the fact that con- ditions there are unsuited to their tastes and pursuits, and also from the fact that they come in competition with Chinamen as household servants the work to which they naturally turn. The Chinaman not only works harder than negro but he can live much cheaper, and in the long run makes the best servant. Then the ne gro Is utterly unfitted for western agrt- cultural and horticultural methods. be- cause he knows nothing about them, while his knowledge of the cattle busi- ness, of mining, of forestry, and all other pursuits and industries of the vest is equally limited. His only hope is as a servant, either in hotels or private houses, and as yet he has not made great progress in this field.
 While agitation against the pernicious dime novel and it's influence on youthful minds has been permitted to partially die out for the present, the fact remains that this class of penny dreadful litera- ture is still on sale and is read with all most as much avidity as in the days when angry parents. who now castigate their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Mark Twain is now able to joke in Italian and has become a past master of humor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Up in Paterson, N. J., clergymen make sporadic sallies against the sa- looms, but there is no Carrie Nation along to make them successful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Andrew Carnegie says captains of industry who grab dollars merely are a low lot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17
Iron is lookinq Up.

No. 2 foundry is now held at $10, and the demand for all grades in this dis trict is becoming active. The bettered condition of the iron market is not, however, confined to this district It extends to all parts of the country, and is due, not to manipulation or specula- ton, but to increased consumption. The change in consumption is best shown in brief table covering the last three months:
 Consumption. Inc. February ....1, 1S2972 3044l6 January ...... ..... .... S7g,j62 131, ,1S9 December ..... 741,273 ....... Total recovery ..... 43j599 True, these figures do not compare well with the consumption of last May, which was 1,76S,000 tons. The con sumption in February, 1903, was l. 419,357 tons. Consumption is below such figures, but it is gaining quan- tity, and the March consumption prom ises to double almost that of last De cember.
 The collapse of last fall is ended, and steady growth towards normal consumption seems to have set in. The steady operation of all good producers among the furnaces of this district Is
 
 weekly output or 9O,O0O tons is pro- gressing satisfactorily As long as No. 2 foundry commands $10 this district Is sound and hopeful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

American soldiers in the Philippines will have no lack of exercise while the Moros remain active.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Chicken and watermelon may after all be the only solution of the race problem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

The paragraphers are fattening their columns on Paynes list of criminals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Springfield, O., has now the hard task before it of living down it's reputa- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT

James Bryce. M, P has been elected fellow of the Academic des Sciences ct Morales in Paris. to succeed the late Pro- lessor Lecky.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

King Edwards wardrobe continues to be fruitful theme for discussion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

The wearing O the green will be in order today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

The rivers are rising, but still one cannot say there is a river trust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

It is to be called the Panama zone Zone is high toned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Even war is a sweeter subject than the Shoot mess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

The brighter side or graft has a sill yer lining.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Russia is so mad at us she has de cided to buy no Missouri mules.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

It is up to MT. Balfour to make a little bow and retire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

MT. Deitrich continues to deny ale cations, both coming and going.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

A competent jailor is needed more than a jail in Springfield, o.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Patti can now sing, Home, sweet home. sweet Craig-yNos."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Radium outranks in price even beef steaks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

monument has just been erected at Mt. Pleasant. Iowa, to Charles Shepard a soldier of the revolution, who fought at Brandywine and Germantown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

Former Governor William Clafnn of Massachusetts has just observed his elghty-sixth birthday anniversary at Newtonvile He is in excellent health and is still vigorous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17

would not be an Easter-day at all.
 -----------------~ MT. Smoot cannot square himser with the American people and his brother apostles at the same time. While Peary is resting at home this year some one may slip up to the North Pole and put tag on it.
  Psi An is not dead She is so much alive and so vicious that she has or- dered fifty more automobiles.
 ----~-- ------- Elephant experts in Idia say that only twenty-four white elephants have ever been captured For publication purposes only polyg- amy is prohibited in Utah. Otherwise it goes on as usual.
 --s-- President Harper has lost his ap- pendix, but he still has MT. Rockefeller to fall back upon. Harvard got Chicago's stadium after all. It was too classic to suit the wild  and woody west.
  Since Niagara Falls have been har- messed they have lost much of their poetic charm.
  Mark Twain is now able to joke in Italian and has become past master of humor.
 Andrew Carnegie says captains of industry who grab dollars merely are low lot. Chicken and watermelon may after all be the only solution of the race problem. --s--- Springfield, O., has now the hard task before it of living down it's reputa- tion.
 The paragraphers are fattening their columns on Payne's list of criminals. King Edwards wardrobe continues to be fruitful theme for discussion. --s.----- The rivers are rising, but still one cannot say there is a river trust.
  Russia is so mad at us she has de- cided to buy no Missouri mules.
  MT. Deitrich continues to deny ale cations. both coming and going. A competent jailor is needed more than a jail in Springfield, o. Patti can now sing, Home, sweet home. sweet Craig-y-Nos."
  It is up to MT. Balfour to make little bow and retire.
  It is to be called the Panama zone. Zone is high toned.
  Even war is a sweeter subject than the Shoot mess.
 The wearing O the green will be in order today.
 The brighter side or graft has sil- yer lining.
 Radium outranls In price even beef
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17
ALABAMA NEWS.

The sum of s9s45 has been subscribed for the new Y. M. c. A. gymnasium in Mont gomery