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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13
Why Has He Dodqed?
Q New York World

From the New York World.
 The Tribune having said that President Roosevelts position on the notorious de- nial of the rights of the negroes and null lification of the constitution in the south- ern states Is well known," The World asked: Who knows it? How was it made known?"
 We called the attention of our contem- porary to the fact that not one word on this subject or the slightest reference to the plank in the Chicago platform dealing with it Is to be found in MT. Roosevelt's speech and letter of accept ance nor in his published Addresses and Messages" We asked the pertinent ques- ton If 1t can be possible that Candidate Roosevelt has lodged this question through fear of the effect of his party s official view on the voters of southern Illinois and Indiana, of Maryland, Della ware and West Virginia.
 As the President Is self-muzzled, The World asked the Tribune to guess at the reason for his silence on this issue. It decline to do so. Well. the voters who are interested can do their own guessing, and it will hardly be creditable to the Presidents candor and courage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13
Judicial TanQIe unraYeIed.

The democratic state executive com mittee did good work, aided by the unselfishness of Judge Paule Speake, blr. Weaver and others. At first sight 1t seemed impossible to reconcile all Just claims, but the result shows that the state committee was equal to the complicated task. The confused con dition of the courts on account of slovenly legislation will soon be ad- justed and settled on a reasonably good basis when the voters act in No vember.
 But the need of an extra session has not been dispensed with. The conges. tion of the courts in Jefferson county will grow worse from year to year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13
Suburban Property.

Birmingham is extending her limits rapidly, If not municipality" remarked a strong advocate of the Greater Birming- ham idea last night at the Colonial.
 By this I mean that population is rap- idly extending beyond the corporate linn it's; and l am glad to see this, for it assures me that the geographical lines win embrace over 100000 people by the next ct1sus.
 'The.e is an old saying that who laughs first laughs last and there has been ever so much adverse comment over subscribers to the stock of suburban land companies.
 These land companies are coming into great prominence now. The stock and the lands are both in demand. and the man who bought on a reasonable basis has something to show for bis money."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13
AT THE GATE.
By Lorimer Stoddard.

By Lormer Stoddard. I knocked at the gate of heaven,
 I had searched to the ends of space. And peered at the souls who passed me To find again her face. We had walked the world together, And loved in the worlds old way. And sinned. and suffered, and parted Death left us much to say I knocked at the gate of heaven, ~ And cried. ''I love you so. Through the bars of the gate she ans
 swered,
 Such love we know not Go! Yet near the door I fingered; , I cried. Are you happy, dearr' Through the bars of the gate, still bolted She answered, T am here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13
Cabinet Politics.


 From the Nashville Banner.
 Robert J. Wynne, who has been ap- pointed postmaster-g general to succeed Mr. Payne, has had large experience as first assistant postuaster- general, and IS recognzed as a capable man for the high CT position. But the announcement of his appointment Is coupled in the dis patches with the statement that MT. Wynne is to fill the important office and position in the cabinet only until MT. Cor telyou, the chairman of the republican national committed can arrange his af- fairs so as to receive the appointment at the head of the postal department and assume the duties of the office.
 This is another Illustration of President Roosevelt's policy of playing official pol- ties. MT. Cortelyou was taken from one position in the cabinet to be made the manager of MT. Roosevelts political campaign, and now another man Is placed in a cabinet position temporarily only, to hold the place for MT. Cortelyou until he gets through with his party cam paign work for MT. Roosevelt.
 This Is making a cats paw of a high governmental position, and Is policy deserving of thorough condemnation. If MT. Wynne Is capable and efficient enough to hold the position of postmas- ter general, his long service with the de- partment should give him consideration prior to and above that accorded MT. Cortelyou, who has never been connected with the department and who resigned one cabinet position to go into the active work of the political campaign. To. ap- point Chairman Cortelyou to the posi- tion would be palpably reward for purely partisan political service and in contradiction of the spirit of civil service reform. The playing with cabinet posi- tions upon a party campaign political board by the President is a business which the country should rebuke.
 From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
 There is but one hope for democracy, and that is in the integrity and the loy- alty of the democratic masses. There are many more democrats in the United States than there are republicans, and if they will all vote for the nominees Of their party this year they will elect Parker and Davis in spite of the appeal of the republican party to selishness and greed and in spite of the republican cor ruption fund.
 The fight is now on between the power of money and the power of the people. and if the voters will but recognize this fact and arouse themselves to the true issue they will win such a victory in Mo- vember as they won in 1892
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

which is very powerful In Alabama poli- tics, cannot support Fifth district democ- racy, the people will thank it to hands off and not aid the republican in his att tempt to arouse some interest In his campaign, to winch its fight on Hefiili amounts. There is no "heated campaign" and the congressional race is almost as seldom a topic of conversation in Tuske- gee as spouting whales in the Alabama river.
 MT Hefln will be elected by majority of 120OO or 15,0O0, and not only because he is the democratic nominee. but be- cause the fight that is being made against him Is giving him popularity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13
St. Bernard.

Father Giles O. s. B., of St. Bernard college was in Birmingham yesterday looking after the interests of the college.
 The ceremony of blessing the newly elected abbot of St. Bernard monastery will take place November 1T. The Rt. Rev, E. F. Allen, bishop of Mobile, will officiate. assisted by two other bishops. All the Catholic clergy of Alabama and many of the priests from neighboring states will be present to take part in the services
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

C T. LOUIS, October 12.-(Special)- @N Your readers have no doubt " noticed that I have said nothing about the wonderful specta- cle produced. by the night illumina- tion, the cascades, the lagoons and the gardens. I have>not attempted a descrip- ton of this, the most impressively beau- tiful feature of the exposition, because 1t is indescribable. No words that am able to command could convey any con- ception of the dazzling beauty and mag niicence of this spectacle. Whats the use of trying to draw word picture" when you haven't the words to do it with and when the artists themselves cannot depict it's glories or transfer it's color and motion to canvas?
 Jane has used her kodak industriously and has taken pictures of it from every conceivable point of view, but these snap shots" be they ever so beautiful, are
 flat, lfeless and colorless things com pared to the real spectacle. It is the only thing at the fair that makes John speeches.. He is willing to talk and write about everything else, but when the thousands of electric lights are turned on and the water begins to rush down from the sculptured grotto In front of Festival hall and goes splashing in cascades down to the Grand Basin, he sits in dazed condition and views it In silent awe-just like everybody else does.
 This fair was not built on flat, boggy marsh, as was the Chicago fair. It Is true that 1t has no lake for a background, but it has picturesque, wooded hills and ravines and these have mace posslpie landscape fountain and cascade enects more beautiful than anything that could he produced on prairie such as Chicago
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

Taken the crops of the present. year as a whole it is doubtful if the coun- try was ever in single year so fruit full, and it is these great crops that are lifting the prices of securities and filling the land with hopefulness, and the railroads with traffic. Trade is booming. and there is a feeling in the minds of many men that the country is on the eve of period of great prosperity, based on the unexampled crops of the year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 The only sure cure for most things is not to have them
 Romance is a small portion of medio- crity heavily diluted with imagination.
 When a woman hasn't kept lot of old love letters it is a sign she never had them:
 A boy has to be mighty stupid not to have his mother believe he is almost a genius.
 The more money a man makes by not getting engaged. the more he can lose lending 1t to those who do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13
CASCADES TOO BRILLIANT
 FOR WORDS TO DESCRIBE
BY DOLLY PING.

used in building her fair. So far as water is concerned, St. Louis didn't need the lake to produce these matchless water effects that constitute the man picture of the fair Ninety thousand gallons min ute go tumbling down the three cascades, and there are two miles of lagoons over which launches and gondolas are con- stantly gliding
 There are four hills which the exposi- tion builders utilized to the highest ar tistic advantage. On one of these is the United States Government building, on another the Japanese gardens and pavil- ions, while the two central prominences with the connecting ridge form the cas- cade effect At the center of this ridge is Festival hall, noble and stately edi- flee, and from it on either side extends a grand colonnade forming the Terrace of States, each terminating in large pavilion. The side cascades have their sources in fountains in the centers of large basins in front of each pavilion, while the central cascade flows from bigh grotto in front of festival hall. 1,bese torrents of water rushing over illu- minated steps at night look like stair ways of molten gold and green stretch- ing away to the summit of the sculpture crowned hill between gardens of red and yellow cannas and sputtering geysers and spouting dolphins, and
 But I said I would not attempt to de- scribe this spectacle, and I will not All that the crowd can say when 1t first bursts upon it's vision is "Aw!" and Avs" all day long until late at night. Better do like John and say nothing. After John looks at it for an hour he wants to go over and watch them feed beavers in the Forestry building. so as to realize that he is still on earth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

N MAN who is called the champion VpV liar of the country has just been arrested in San Fran 'isco for stealing coat. His name is Mulhal1. and, according to the story he was once a commercial traveller with a salary of $oo00 year. He was q good story teller and his ability in that line seems to have thrown him upon parlous days for he has had irany ups and downs. Just at present te seems to be having one of his downs" But the interesting feature of this mans arrest is that he Is called the Champion lar' of the country In nation of liars such a statement should be made guardedly. It is believed that many of our prolific liars manage to keep down their regulations so successfully that they are seldom known outside their county or state, but MT. Mulhall seems to have been rather unfortunate in this respect. Solomon once remarked that all men are liars. Of course he was speak ing only in the most general terms, but nowadays 1t is reasonable to suppose that quite number of our fellows are real liars by word of mouth. Of course no one wants to tell them all individually that they assault the truth, for fear of getting into trouble, but the tendency of some modern advertising is enough to make philosopher fear that perhaps after all truth crushed to earth will not rise again, as one of our poets has pre- dicted
 He who goes down into the city has many risks to run and must beware of the wiles of wicked folk. Even statd and sober Mobile Is apt to get visitor into trouble if he is not careful case in point Is the adventure of a rural party who came to town the other day and lost his teeth. They were not knocked out of his mouth, as some people may suppose. ut were false and took leave Of Hir in cheap lodging house. Nov, the visitor wants his teeth, zen though they be false, and the police force of Mobile Is out after clues. While this case Is hardly so spectacular as the diamond necklace affairs that have figured in his- tory still there is something uncanny and trif1e gruesome in a still hunt after set of false teeth.
 Here Is another tail of dog-a little dog-a terrier. The moral is not easy to see, but the denoument is very apparent
 The other day two pelicans arrived at 1 the office of The Age-Herald, consigned | to the boys ZOO" The uncouth birds | attracted much attention among the
 hands about the office and the vIsi-
 tors who make the sanctum their head l quarters. Among these visitors is the dog, well-behaved. gentlemanly sort of
 a dog, and popular in his immediate cir cle of aequaintances. Now, the dog saw the pelicans. looked them over with a
 critical eye and decided that they were
 scarcely worth his attention, although they were different from any chickens he
 had ever seen. The dog strolled about [ the office with meditative expression
 of countenance and apparently forgot all
 about his friends, the pelicans. All the
 time these wise birds kept their heads | drawn close to their breasts and gave no heed to the curious crowd about them.
 It happened that business called the dog
 around behind a desk. He sauntered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

A school for chauffeurs is to be formed in the Young Mems Christian associations, and an effort will be made to select those who do not start out full of whisky.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

grown was that of two years ago, which reached 252S million bushels.
 According to J. c. Brown, statisti- clan of the New York produce ex- change, the two last years yielded crops, as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

The New York World thinks Will liam Jennings Bryan on the stump Is more hurtful than helpful. But the World may not know the wild and woody section in which MT. Bryan is speaking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

John J. Ryan, the turf magnate, has just paid $5000 for the patent rights of the new Maxim flying machine. He will find flying machines less profitable than race horses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

The day after circus played in Greenyille, Miss, the mayor collected $500 as fines from "pistol-toters. Per haps the populace went armed to keep off the animals in the menagerie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

Ninety-fye millionaires of Cleveland propose to establish a suburban town of their own, into which no one can enter who is not possessed of a round million. Society is coming into it's Oxxn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

Candidate Douglas of Massachusetts may not become governor, but he will at any rate be in position to sell more shoes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

Candidate Fairbanks has placed him. self in the hands of Governor Lafol- lette. The Lafollette wagon is now truly republican.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

In the Chicago school boards public kitchens over one thousand women are learning how to cook, and the divorce industry is correspondingly declining
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

The $3 shoe man is running for gov ernor of Massachusetts, but he is afraid a $299 man may shie his castor into the ring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

MT. Duncans attention is called to the fact that some New York burglars have just succeeded in stealing a safe weighing Q ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

The value of the peanut for food is is apparently appreciated by no one but the Italian vendors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

William Waldorf Astor is now en- gagged in recuperating from his recent trip to America. Americans are so boring, doncherknow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

The state treasury of Kansas has been footed, and it may have come from the evil association of Missouri
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

Candidate Fairbanks is now making speeches before brealfast-the same old kind, with nothing in them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

Tom Watson's letter is a trife longer than Theodore Roosevelt's, and fully as empty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

If Santa Claus comes in an auto mobile this year he will either be mob- bed or get arrested for speeding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

Colonel Watterson and the automo- bile are pulling together in the effort to abolish the Newport smart set.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

Young women who expect to name ships should take lessons in the art of breaking champagne bottles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

Mt Pelee and Mt. Vesuvius are close competitors for eruption honors. It is difficult to say which will win the pen nout
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

Watson, who is a premier wind jammer," was of course given cor dial welcome to Chicago, the Windy City"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

Two hundred chickens were recently struck by Long Island train and con- verted into chicken pie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

The Massachusetts democrats be- lieve there is nothing like leather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

Miss Tate of Georgia will smash the bottle on the Georgia, thus showing how she can outdo her eastern sister.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

Judge Parker is worker wherever he is. He can stand more hours of work than any of his opponents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

Port Arthur is not affiliated with automobiles. It is not a bad town to live in after all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

Birmingham is grateful for the sym pathy rendered her in her bereaved, circusless condition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

nenry Gassaway Davis is the origi- nal Foxy Grandpa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

Washington Bureau Age-HeralG, 142 G Street N. w.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-13

L. H. Russ and R. L. O'Neal, Jr., are the only authorized travelling represen- tatives of The Age-Heraid in It's cireula- ton department
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-15
NJ We or
TEE RIVERS.

Capt. Jack McCaffery, who took the
Ten Brock to Davenport, Ia, the
hrst of September, has returned, loav'
ing the steamer at Cairo, where she
will remain until the river Is high
enough to bring her here.
The advance guard Of the big Leyhe
feet is expected TO begin arriving
shortly in Paducsh to lay mp in the
local Zoe hsrbor for the winter, as the
feet has been doing for several years
past.
Henry J. Immenhoert, a well-known
coal and river man committed suicide
in Cincinnati. Neither his family
nor his business associates can give
any cause for the act.
Gauge today reads seven tenths, the
same as yesterday. Weather still
clear and cool
No boats are reported in or out to
day except the Cowling from Metrop-
oils. and the ferry boat
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-15
Before and After Taking.

Before a man is married TO Il woman
he bemoans his fate and threatens 10
kick few holes in conventionalities IL
he has to leave her before midnight.
After he has her tied fast. with the
marriage license signed. sealed and de
livered. and framed and hanging on the
wall. she is I'm luck II she sees him
more than one or two evenings I'm the
week before midnight.
There is something strange about
man. lie will go through fire and wa
ter TO get a woman. and as soon as he
has secured her he will often shift TO
firewater before he has had time to get
acquainted.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-15
He Learned TO Kick.

He spoke in a tone that was gentle
His manners were polished and mild:
with kindness he always considered
The claims of each grownup or child.
lie listened to many a story,
Though greatly his patience IL irked.
Nor could he avoid II unless he
Quite rudely his coat button Jerked.
II really appeared that he never
Was waited upon In a store
Untn half a dozen newcomers
Had been served and passed through th'
door
He never had thought OF complaining
About such a snubbing. OF course;
He always stood waiting and smiling
His turn would come some time per
force.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-15
AFTER TIE BOYS
Loud Shouting Near Schools
Must he Stopped.
Teachers Have Secured Some Of th'
Man es and will Get Warrants.

Boys whose ages range from IA to
6 years have been giving the teachers
in the Jefferson school at Eighth and
Harrison streets. great deal of trouble
BY passing the school and shouting out
as loud as they can.
This disorganizes the school, causes
general nervousness among the
pupils and is not at sll what the teach
ers like to hear. Several times within
the past week or two, boys, and al.
ways the same ones, 1t seems, have
passed and shouted out TO attract at
tention from the pupils, and Building
superintendent Fred Hoyer has been
sent out to secure their names.
Mr.. Hoyer has the names Of several
and has warned them not TO repeat
their performance. In event 1t is re.
peated, the names will be furnished
Judge Sanders and warrants for q
breach Of the peace, issued.
This action has occurred several
times OF the High school but as the
building is so far from the street, il
not so detrimental to the pupils AND
teachers there as at other places.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-15

A young preacher was recently
called upon to officiste at funersi in
the absence OF the pastor Of the
church. He knew IL was customary
for the minister to announce after the
sermon that those who wished should
step up to view the remains, but he
thought this was too hackneyed a
phrase and said instead: THE con
gregation will nav please pass around
the bier. "-Exchange.