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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-24
SUNDAY, APRIL 24
Plant Trees.
BY c. M. STANLEY.

H HE ladies of the Birmingham Wo- 0 mans club recently took the
 very commendable step of ap- bearing before the city council in an ef- fort to induce the cooperation of that body in a movement looking to the beau- tifying of the city. Birmingham has reached a point in her development where attention to this subject is of great importance. But it cannot be done all at once. Such a consummatfon can only be reached step by step.
 The first step toward this laudable end should really be the encouragement by the ladies of aborleulture There Is no one thing that adds more to the beauty of city than plenty of trees and there is nothing easier to do than to set out the young sprigs which will grow and flourish and become the great bIes- sing of the next decade and generation.
 Trees are really the one thing that lend ti e charming air of stateliness and dig nify to the streets of the older cities of the south and to all of the classic New Ehgla.d towns and the present genera ton Is enjoying the forethought of it's ancestors.
 But the planting of trees in Birming- ham should be done with some system and It Is in this that the ladies can exert their Influence and can most likely ac- compnsh really tangible results.
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any calling without a dollar of capital and if he has the mental equipment and the mettle in hlm he gets to the top in a short while. This is true as regards the young man who elects to be a merchant, a banker, a manufacturer, or the servant of a railroad company. Brains, persever- ance and honest principles will tell every time.
 Right here in the Birmingham district hundreds of examples might be pointed out where success has crowned the efforts of men who started Tn life poor; and right here, too, are boundless opportunities for the rising generation.
 Drones fail everywhere, and In no city are they so out of place as in Birming- ham. Likewise the croalSer falls and of all places Birmingham has no use for bim. This community Is pulsating with energy and aspiration and every man of the true stripe who comes here quickly feels himself stimulated with the spirit Of progress.
 This is indeed the best age in the worlds history for the young man who Is thrown on his own resources and Birm- ingham Is Indeed the best town in which he could make a start.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-24
FIr. Hearst and His Literature.
BY B. c. BULGER.

revulsion and make one who has never scratched ticket shudder. It is true that Judge Parker owns some very fine Hol- stein cattle and occasionally drives cholley horse out of Esopus and that may defeat him. It is gathered from the above quotation that MT. Hearst has never even bet a dollar on the ponies and knows not the peculiar feeling of having preserved a hookmaker's ticket calling for money on an "also ran.'
 Had Mir Hearst entered his automobile in a speed race kept a stable and won at both, the effect on his democracy would have been watched with peculiar interest. An old gentleman by the name of Grover Cleveland has been known to go duck hunting on a private yacht and has been further known to come back with a good bag of game This naturally precludes him as Presidential possibility Judge Parker owns cattle and occasionally raises a thoroughbred colt and as this puts him out of the running 1t now looks as if the field is left to Hearst and Cor man. There Is no record of the Maryland CT having kept a string of horses or hay ing gone duck hunting in a private yacht or having ridden brazenly through the streets of Baltimore in an automobile, but 1t Is very probable that in his earlier days he has amused himself by losing a few on the races and occasionally test ing the strength of three kings in a poker game. If this can be proved be- yond a reasonable doubt it is apparent that MT. Hearst will be nominated by &C., clamatlon.
 It must be confessed that the brand of democracy promulgated by the press agent of Mir Hearst is a trine fresh but 1t has a peculiar ring that speaks well for the committee that employed this able writer of state documents.
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It would be a comparatively easy mat ter to get school children interested in the task of setting out trees. It would be no difficult task to impress on their young minds the delight that would be experienced in coming back to a spot ten or fifteen or twenty-five years hence and lingering for moment in the shade of a handsome tree long enough to say. This is my tree; I set 1t out years ago when I was yet In school"
 Few people realize what 1t would mean If every school boy and school girl in Birmingham and suburbs were to plant just one tree year. It would simply mean that in twenty-five years the streets of the city would be the most attractive In the United States
 But such efforts on the part of the children should be well directed The planting should be done systematically in order that the results may be most effective. There should be a uniform number of trees In each block where trees are not already growing and they should be properly aligned and should be uniform distances apart
 It Is here that the Woman's club can accomplish a great work. It Is through unity of action that they can secure the cooperation of parents and teachers In so laudable task
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-24

@HE campaign scribe employed to (0 promulgate' the virtues and quail
 fications of William Randolph Hearst of New York, as a candidate for the democratic nomination for the Pres idency has deluged the rural districts of Alabama with a personal sketch of MT. Hearst which in part saith
 "Mr Hearst is capable chauffeur but has never entered into an automobile speed contest. For several years he has encouraged the manufacture of automo- piles so as to make them eheaper'
 Now this is very commendable in MT. Hearst to want cheaper machines so that the masses can spin around the blocks a. a moderate speed and is a strong point in favor of MT. Hearst for the dem ccratic nomination. It is an old demo- cratic principle to seek a cut rate in the price of automobiles. MT. Hearst is also to be congratulated on the fact that he has never entered speed contest. Had he done so he might not have lived to get birds eye view of the Presidency. Both of these doctrines are sound.
 Another evidence of MT. Hearts love for the masses and the strength of his slogan against plutocracy is found in the following excerpt from the campaign sl etch:
 'Mr Hearst has never owned a yacht sincs he operated around Santiago in private yacht commissioned by the gov ernment. He has never maintained stable and, In fact, has never owned any horses since those left him by his fa- ther, the late Senator Hearst were sold shortly after his fathers death several years ago."
 This is beautiful thought aptly ex- pressed by the official promulgator of simon pure Hearst democracy The thought of a democratic owning a horse ar q yacht can onIV hrfnu faoIioo oP
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TOXIC CONTINUES TO SEND
 ARMY AFTER ARMY TO FRONT

morning that we must be ready to start en the twentieth. MT. Yokoyama is our impresario-the contractor who Is going to supply us with European food and bring up our transport on the campaign. On the 20th he hopes to nave us, our horses, our tents, and our lianket rolls all aboard small steamer, which will sail under sealed orders. Soon there after we shall at least see soldiers in the field.
 But many weeks may pass before we see any fighting. The winter campaign. which delighted the fearful fancy of some of the rumor-mongers on the China coast seems no more in the domain of military practice in the Orient than in the Occident. We know enough to know that the period of preparation is not yet complete. It goes without saying that the navy could strike without moments warning It could be on a war footing without exciting suspicion. The army went as far as it might without making the countrys intention clear Each new development of the situation reveals still others than the first apparent req son for the timeliness of initiating opera tions as soon as the Nisshin and the Kasuga had left Singapore. A war begun in winter was quite unexpected to the Russian navy. which we now know was thoroughly taken by surprise. war be- gun in winter serves the Japanese army because Japan can make better use Of the intervening time before the weather per. mits actual campaigning than Russia can. With the warm days of April, J;-pan will be ready to strike on land. Will Rus sia be ready to receive the blow? Actions will come in as quick sequence and with as little warning as those of the navy.
 More Reserves Appear.
 The city was no sooner empty of one lot of reserves than another appeared. In the last few days we have seen re- petition of the scenes of the first week of the war. Another army has sprung out of kimonos into blouses. Many of the members are veterans. The medals which they wear tell of battles against the Chinese in 1S94-5. They will assist to make again the conquest of ground which they once won. Some of them are stoop- cd with hard labor, but, even more than the younger men who have gone before them, they perhaps have the quality which wins victories They are married
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-24
Twin Toys of the Century.
BY N. p. T. FINCH.

from, or what either is, or how much more there Is of either. or-but. hold: let us pause at the threshold. The new-old energy that the nineteenth century first grappled with in earnest is as elusive and mysterious as life itself concerning which we know nothing. All of us do, indeed, belong to the know nothings, for the wisest man knows comparatively lt- tie.
 We are not, however. dealing with elec- triclty or magnetism in general, but with wireless telegraphy in particular. The latter stubbornly refuses to do duty in the clock-like manner that commercialism demands. recent writer In the Elec- trio World endeayors to show that a wire less sheet wave started from tower runs out at the speed of light becoming, so to speak, an enormous seine, or fishing net. spreading as it goes. It tries to get away from Itself sideways The warp of the intangible net consists of magnetic Aux lines, and the wool of electric lines. These terms may satisfy the technical student, but they are artificial, full of fancy, slgnifying nothing.
 But says the writer in the Electric World the net with it's warp and wool must be kept away from metal rod or other conductor, else hole will be torn In it, and It's warp and woof will be fractured It may pull itself together. but 1t will never be the same again. The wave will become attenuated, weakened enfeebled. It follows therefore that we must in actual practice dispatch our wave at the waters edge, letting it dis port itself over the fishes until a receiver is met that can pick 1t up and retrans- late it into Kings English. Thus far Marconi has found no profitable field ex- cept on the water or at the waterside and the impression grows that his beautiful Ariel-like dream will to a great extent remain the Sea Kings herald. The Marconi waves are at home on the vasty deep. The waves are below say how'dy to the waves above bidding them God-speed. The whales and the sword fish cannot tear hole in the net that the writer in the Electric World has woven, and so it has come about that the waters are In a fair way to be bordered with Marconi towers al- though no progress has been made to- wards spreading the Marconi waves OCT hill and dale, forest and meadow town and countryside
 To the Twentieth century the airshlp and wireless telegraphy are toys, but there is hope behind them, despite the fact that the one has the attraction of gravitation to contend with, and the oth- CT is in constant danger of having It's waves conducted unceremoniously and prematurely to the biggest of all mag nets, the wave-devouring, all-engulfng earth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-24

N the bright morning light of the new
 century two brilliant dreams are en- ! deavoring to burst into the confines of usefulness and commercial promotion. M. Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian, Is try Ing to tame one of these phantasms of genius, and M. Marconi, an Italian. is pa- tently attuning the other. Both are, however, still up in the air. Both are as yet fitfu sprites-but the men behind them are bravely and hopefully striving to bring them within the realm of com mon sense and everyday Apractieality.
 The Brazillans hopes are centered in a dirigible balloon, or airship as he prefers to call 1t. He has built ten of the ex- penslve toys, the tenth having cigar shaped bag attached to 1t holding S0.OO0 feet of hydrogen gas. He cllngs to the lifting power of gas, discarding the study of birds with their hollow qullls and oth- CT admirable equipment of aerial naviga- tion. Gas is to lift and hold him up, while a Clement motor weighing less than fifty pounds drives the airship's propeller The gas combats the attrac- tion of gravitation which never loosens its grip, and the propeller overcomes the air currents which are an uncertain quantity. The airships of the piucky in- ventor are dirigible, and some of them are speedy, but the plodders of this solid earth will never trust themselves or their goods to the freaks and foibles of gas while the Newtonian theory holds out as steadily and at times calamitously as al may dazzle the people at the worlds fair but he will neither supplant the sea as a bearer of goods. nor will be pick up passengers from the tops of their houses, while he uses gas. His book, My Airships.' is interesting. and his inventions are picturesque, but they have their limitations, and these are, in word, gas-bag.
 The other toy of the century springs from the brain of M. Marconi He pro- poses to do the worlds telegraphing without using the traditional Morse con ducting wires. We are all famlIar-too familar-with the sound waves of the telephone that thin transmtter creates between the vocal organs and a sensi- tive receiver at the other end of a wire. The telephonic waves are not easily com prehended, but what shall we say of the so-called electromagnetic waves dis patched from tall sending machine to be picked up in space by a receiver at- tuned to the transmitters.
 Why for that matter are they called electromagnetic waves? What Is the difference between electricity and mag netism? What is either anyway? One surely correlates the other. We know how either feels when personally an plied-how both act when turned into in animate matter. Where either comes
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into the books about this matter of the blockade at Charleston"
 It happened that on the day before the newspapers had made mention of a proc lamation issued by the confederate au- thorities at Charles, S. C., reoiting that a vessel had sailed out of that port with the English and French consuls on board; had spent twenty-four hours outside -he harbor, and had returned without seeing anything of the blockadng squadron. It the blockade, which authorized the proc- lamation that 1t had been raised and could no longer be lawfully enforced
 The President went on to say: 'I have been looking into the works of interna- tional law upon this subject. Some Of these authorities seem to hold that a vcs- sel seeking to enter port, after lying out side twenty-four hours without hindranee from the blockeding squadron, may law fully pursue her voyage to its destina- ton: but find no case holding that any such rule applies to q vessel coming out of the blockaded port. Why" said the President, "this Is very much as If a man had been hooped up tight in hogs knock the bung out and then issue a proclamation through the bung-hole that he was free; he wouldn't be loose, would he? l shall pay little attention to this Charleston manifesto.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-24
Need of a Horse Show,
BY FRANK H. BELL.

causes healthy rivalry which results in the purchase of handsomer and faster horses
 The only way to have horse show which would be credit to a city is for the business men to get back of a move ment to build coliseum, and take an &C., tive interest In the show. It is to be hoped that this will be done this sum- mer by some of Birmlngnam-s represent ative men, and that next fall there will be horse show where the best exhibi- tors of the country will want to display
 As matter of education to the people in horse flesh there Is nothing that can compare with a horse show Everyone is interested, and every one desire to be abk. to point out the good or bad points in an animal In the ring. This leads to a study of horses and also love for them. In turn prettier horses are bought and noth- ing attracts a. stranger in a city so much as pretty horses and appropriate equipages on It's streets.
 It Is to be hoped that next fall Birming- ham will have a big horse show in building specially constructed for that purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-24

A HERE Is a crying need in Birm- \0 ingham for improvement in the
 class of horses owned and driven by Birmingham people. There Is but one way to make this improvement and that is by having horse show which will rival that of any southern city.
 In the past two or three years a won derful improvement has been noticeable in the class of horses to be seen in Birm- ingham. and 1t has been a matter of fav- orable comment by citizens and the trav- cling public. But still there Is great room for improvement, and there Is nothing which improves the class of animals in a city so much as a horse show. The best people of the city should take this matter up and give horse show on an elaborate scale, making it the social event next fall
 The good effects of horse show can be seen in any city where one has been prop perly conducted. It causes a revival of interest in horses and as a result prettier animals are seen. faster animals are driv- en and men pride themselves on getting the proper animals and equipages. It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-24

Spies Are impossible.
 It Is impossible for q Russian to be spy in Japan. He can adopt no disguise which will deceive the native. The move ments of every foreigner are known. If he Is at all suspected he Is never out of sight of the police. If he goes on forbid den ground or does a forbidden thing he is instantly warned-with the omnipre- sent smile This land of 45,O0000O in- habitants is like a club: Only members can get past the doorkeeper. The intel- ligence work of the general stan. like most of the inside history of the war, win never be written. No one knows the names of the three officers whom tho Russians hanged for an attempt to dyna- mite bridge. No one knows how many others are now playing some hazardous part under the Russian flag. The most romantic and human chapters of the war which are daily being enacted are sealed book to everybody except four or five responsible men.
 Political speculation Is common to all capitals, and we have our share of 1t in Tokio. After the foreign office phase and ...e naval l-.ase. we come to the poiiti- cal phase fin Japan's attitude to Korea. The censor does not allow the use of that naughty word ''rrotectorate." If no Japanese will say that the arrangement Is a protectorate. none will say that 1t Is not. The complete occupation of a coun- try by foreign soldiers. its transforma- ton from independence to suzeraInty. have been accomplished with a deftness peculiarly Japanese. Yesterday Korea was Korean; today 1t is Japanese. The change seems only a set part of the programme. You may read the Japanese papers in vain for any elation over this masterful piece of polity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-24
NEW LINCOLN ANECDoTE.
What He Thought About the Charles
 ton Manifesto.

In Sketches of My Own Times, the re- gently published volume of personal recol- lectlons by the venerable David Turple Of Indiana, one has the almost impossible good fortune to find new and authen- tic Lincoln story.
 MT. Turpie was elected to the United States senate in January, 1863. Ills in- troduction to the President was arranged for by his colleague, Henry s. Lane, the first republican senator from Indiana. Early one afternoon trey went by ap- pointment to the White House and found MT. Lincoln alone, sitting with a law book open before him. He rose upon their entrance, still holding the book in lis hand and using a finger as a book mark. As soon as the introduction was oyer he said: Gentlemen, l have been looking
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and. of course, being Japanese, have large families.
 One incident not characteristic of all but, nevertheless, significant of the steel that is in the blood of race which sacrifices everything to patriotism; When one of the twelve-year men was called he succeeded in placing all of his children in the care of relatives except enc little girl. None could take her. So coing what seemed to him a mercy and duty. he cut Ter throat. It is said Una, the officers praised him for the deed. According to their view he loved his child so much that he would not see her suffer, but he loved his country more. Of course he expects to be killed. His fare well to his family was for eternity. They will boast far more of father who died in battle than of father who fought and still lived There Is another story or two men who wore missing when the com pany was lined up for roll call. One or them was found. He explained that fami- ly affairs had detained him, and he had had no real intention of deserting
 If that is so,' said the officer in charge, you can prove 1t by taking your own life.'
 The man drew his small knife and de- clared his willingness to plunge 1t into his abdomen there and then. But nara kiri Is against the law, as well as against the spirit of modern Japan. Since you w~nt to die for your country, you may, said the officer We will take you back into the ranks These are two of the many stories going the rounds, which, if difficult of verihcation by the foreigner with his limited means, none the less show the temper of the people and the times.
 Tokio Dispatches Significant.
 Nothing is mere significant of where the news in the home papers comes from than the infrequency and brevity of the despatches from Tol<io. The cable cores pondents never saw how his despatches were sent The authorities cut out what ever they thought undesirable, and, with these eliminationy. whether 1t made sense or not, the desratch was sent. No mali enity was intended by this. for Japan Is unused to censorship, being free country and having none in time of peace. When the cable correspondent pointed out the unfairness of the method. they ex- pressed their willingness to remedy 1t.