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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-01-21
District of Columbia Delegates.

THE election OF delegates from the
District of Columbia shall be held I'M
der the direction and supervision of an
electiOnal board, composed of Chaplin
Brown, George II. Harr.es and John f.
Cook
Such a board shall have authority
to fix the date Of such election and to
arrange all details and regulations in
cident thereto and shall provide for a
registration Of the votes as cast, such
registration to include the name and
residence of each voter
The territorial delegates shall be
elected in the manner of nominating
candidates for delegates in congress,
and delegates from Alaska and Indian
Territory shall be elected by popular
convention.
"All notices of contest shall be sub
mitted in writing, accompanied by a
printed statement setting forth the
grounds of contest, which shall be filed
with the secretary of the national COM
mittee 20 days prior to the meeting OF
the national convention. Contests will
be acted on by the national convention
in the order of the date of filing of no.
tlcc and statement with the secretary.
m. A. HANNA, Chairman.
PERRY S. HEATH, Secretary"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-01-21
Election of Delegates.

"All delegates shall be elected not
less than 80 days before the meeting Of
the national convention. Delegates at
large shall be elected by popular state
and territorial conventions, of which at
least 80 days notice shall have been
published in some newspaper or news
papers of general circulation in the re-
spective states aud territories.
The congressional district delegates
shall be elected by conventions called
by the congressional committee Of each
district, in the manner of nominating
The candidate for representative In con-
gress in said district; provided, that In
any congressional district where there
is no republican congressional commit
tee the republican committee shall ap-
point from among the republican resi-
dents of such district committee for
the purpose of calling a district con-
vention to elect delegates to represent
said district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29
A rotten cause abides no handling.
 --2 King Henry W.
Ants Versus WeeviIs.

The agricultural department pro- poses to use the hair of the dog in cur iEg the bite ot the boil weevil. The destructive insect came from Guate- mala, a good-for-nothing republic in the tropics, and the agricultural de- partment thinks it has found there an ant which will devote itself assidu- ously to the destruction of its old-time comrade, the weevil.
 The ant is proverbially an examplar of industry. - is no sluggard. But still it must be admitted that it has never at any time extirpated in Guate- mala the weevil. The ant and the weevil exist and propagate and null tiply side by side in Guatemala, and have done so during the last two hun dred years. If the ant cannot conquer the weevil in Guatemala, we cannot reasonably expect it to exterminate the latter in Texas, but it could per haps assist in holding it in check, and any Assistance in that direction would be acceptable.
 The agricultural department should bring on the Gus amalean ants. Any thing is better than the Guatemalean boil weevils, and If the Guatemalean ant proves efficient, everybody con cerned will stand ready to say that the agricultural department is no sluggard. It is plain at any rate that the boil weevil has several severe bat. ties to fight before 1t annihilates the cotton crop of this country, as it long ago did the cotton crop of Guatemala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29
Headed for the Ton.

A team that wins on unknown half of a long series of games cannot be kept down in the second division If the fukes in Atlanta and Nashville had not occurred the home team would today be in the heart of the first division, if not at the top. Neither Atlanta nor Nashville have first di- vision teams, yet the accidents of the game gave eacn of them easy victo- ries over the Birmingham team. It is not hazardous to predict that neither of them can repeat their victories.
 The home tea.l is well balanced. It is strong enough in the boxx; it Is a batting team; it's players can run bases even stealthily, and its fielding leaves little to be desired. This is why it plays winning ball.
 All the teams will soon know from actual experience each others merits and demerits, anu the judgment Is al- ready expressed that the pennant race will as the fall season comes on be between Birmingham and New Or leans-between team in the east and a team in the west, and very pretty struggle it may prove to be. New Or leans also has we'll balanced team.
 Perhaps the best feature of the sit uation is the excellence of all the teams. All are punched together as they enter the second month of the season Montgomery is tagging some, but Montgomery case Is by no means hopeless. It's team needs some strengthening-a man or two-when it, too, would climb up the second 1i- vision ladder. The truth is, there is not room in the second division for all that. in the long run, will be driven into 1t, or towards it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29
eREENHoRNs AS INVENTORS.

From the Cosmopolitan.
 In 1S27 carpenter of Sandwich, Mass, wanting a piece of glass of particular size and shape, conceived the idea that the molten metal could be pressed into any form much the same as lead might be. Up to that time all glassware had been blown, either off hand or in mould and considerable skill was required and the process was slow. The glass man ufacturers laughed at the carpenter, but he went ahead and built a press, and now the United States is the greatest pressed glassware country in the world
 In 1890 a novice In the plate-glass in- dustry, Henry Fleckner, of Pittsburg, whose only knowledge of glass had been acquired in a window-glass factory, in- vented an annealing 'lehr." the most im- duced in plate-glass manufacture. In three hours by the lehr the same work is done which under the old kiln system required three days. In four years the importations of foregn crown and plate glass into the United States fell in value from $2000.000 to s200,0O0.
 About the same year Philip Argobast, of Pittsburg. also a novice in glass mak- ing. invented a process by which bottles and jars may be made entirely by ma- chinery, the costly blow-over process be- ing avoided and the expense of bottle- making reduced one half. The result has been that more bottles and jars are used in a month now than in twelve months ten years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29
NED BRACE WRITES OF NATIONAL POLITICAL
 SITUATION AND OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST

Murphy and all the Tammany leaders are mad and they are saying all sorts of things. In the meantime the Parker committee, headed by August Belmont and former Lieutenant Governor Billy Sheehan, are working every minute. They have every railroad president and director and every banker in New York using influence for .Parker's nomination These people are working in every state. One banker and railroad director, who is supposed to have influence in Louisi- ana, told me yesterday he was working for Parker because he was safe and con- servative. He said:
 T am a democrat, but I believe Roose- welt will be reelected because the coun- try Is content to let well enough alone
 But" he added, If there is a possi- bility of eleeting a democrat I want one nominated who I know to be safe and conservative, therefore, I am working for Parker"
 This is about the situation in New York. Tammany Is mad and will fight Parker to the last ditch But its fight must be outside of New York. as its hands are tied here. Already Tammany is sending men to all the states soon to act, to work against Parker instruc- tion and 1t appears that we are to have bitter fight within party lines. But if Parker Is nominated Tammany will sup port him and roll up the usual majority,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29
LITERATES NOT WANTED
 IN THE ARMY OF RUSSIA

those who could read and write speak for itself
 NOW when government fear or distrusts its literates, merely becaus they are literate, it is evidently in a verI bad way, and. worst of all. it is determir' ed to remain in that bad way as long a 1t can. Evident also, is 1t that the gov ernment must soon be radically change or disappear. General ignorance, even I Russia, is doomed and with it institution of which the perpetuation depends upo| ignorance. The Japanese are not yet learned people. though there arc man. Japanese as tfere are many Russiani who are highly educated, but in Japal people who can read and write are not ol that account objects of suspicion. eithd justifiably or unjustifiably. To them. q the contrary, the Japanese government gladly intrusts it's powers and opportuiI tiles, and it regards its literates, not q a source of danger, to be removed d rapidly as possible, but as a guarantd of safety, to be carefully cultivated an, preserved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
corolla fnr. 1904

Volume XII of The corolla. the annual pupheation issued by the students of the university of Alabama, has reached this ofhee and is a most credItable book. Il. lustrations and reading matter are both oi the highest class. while the general style of the volume is very artistic.
 me Corolla for 1904 contains 227 pages exclusive of the advertisements, devoted to humorous sketches, poems short stories, cartoons and university data. The engravings are fine and the pen and ink sketches clever.
 The board of editors of The Corolla for 1904 Is as follows:
 ". w. Burden law, 1904, editor-in- chief; R. E. Lodge, English 1903, business manager; Allen crenshaw, 1904, assist ant business manager; R. c. Spier. 1904, Miss Louise Reid, 1904. W. c. Oates. 19o5 Miss Mary Moody 1905. J. w. Cabaniss, 1906 l.. E. Tallichet. 1905, w. A. Blount, 1903 D. II. Ellington. 1905, J H. Krudop, medical department.
 Of these Miss Reid and MT. Cabaniss are from Birmingham.
 w nllt tUt 0OIOltd HdS HtNIA heAN woman edtor-ln-ch the 'co-eds' all ways take a prominent part in its pub llcation and This year some of the bright est contributions are from the girls. The comic illustrations by Peter B. Searcy, son of Dr.zJ. T. Searey. head of the Ala bama Bryce Insane Hospital are exc cuted in brilliant style. Mir. Searcy s drawings have been a feature of The corolla for several years. Some exquisite poems are contributed by Robert Love man, the well-known poet, who Is an alnmus of the university. The back also contains a seolarlv article on Edgar Allen Poe, which %as written by War field c. Richardson of Tuscaloosa a member of the class of lS43. There are also many other very clever contribu- tiOns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29
Auburn Cataloque.

The catalogue of the Alabama Poly teehnic institute for 19OS-O4 an attractive bulletin which shows the institute to be in a most fourlshing condition, has been received The total enrolment for the year is 4S0, which is considerably the lar Rest In the history of the college. Ten states and three foreign countries, Cuba. Nicaragua, British Honduras, and fifty six counties in Alabama are represented.
 Among the largest representations are: Jefferson 62, Calhoun 20 Talladega Il, Montgomery 19, Mobile 16, Escambia Il, Marengo Il, Dallas g. The denominations are In part: Methodist 191. Baptist 130, Episcopal 43, Presbyterian 5, Hebrew s. The number of post graduates 15. seniors 5e. juniors 75. Laboratory instruction Is given in fourteen well equipped labora- tories. There are seventeen full profess sors Instruction Is given in seven regu- lar degree courses and four special courses are offered.
 The fuller development and equipment of the course In mining engineering is noted The department of horticulture has likewise been greatly expanded and strengthened, the professor of horticul ture being now the state horticulturist of Alabama. The cut of the library shows an attractive room. The total num- Der of volumes Is over 1S000. Twelve scholarships averaging $l50 apiece have been established by the alumni society. The illustrations make a good exhibit of the scientific equipment of the col lege
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29

their chief energies to the capture of
 Port Arthur. The sinking of the Hat
 suse by mine, and the bare possibil-
 ity of the dispatch Of Russian vessels from the west renders the capture of
 Port Arthur of deep importance to the
 Japanese. If in the next two months
 Port Arthur can be taken, all chance
 of complete Russian success in this
 war will absolutely disappear, for without control of the sea the Rus sians cannot drive the Japanese out of the Liaoyang peninsula or Korea. Japan may not be able to go to Harbn, but neither can Russia come to the sea, and thus a deadlock would ensue that mediation only could break.
 AS to the seige of Port Arthur on the land side not much is known, and no definite opinion can be formed as to the extent of it's duration. Tn 1894 the Japanese captured it twenty days after they landed on the peninsula, but the Russians have been building Qualifications there even since their occupation of it, in 1898, and the cap ture of the stronghold will not be a light task. The Japanese general staff is not working in the dark, and doubtless It knows what the difficult ties of the task are. If the defences Of Port Arthur include a vulnerable point it is safe to say the Japanse know it, for it is conceded that they know everything that spies can ascer- tain. The Japanese spies have been at work ever since 1898.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29
PERAMBULAToR TIED TO COW.
Animal Was Willing to Now Lawn,
 But Baked at Playing Nurse.
ie New York Times.

Special to the New York Times.
 Middletown, N. Y.--A COW. baby car riage, and a mischievous little girl fur nished the citizens of Hancock, Della ware county, with more excitement on Wednesday than they have before expe- rienced in several moons. Mrs. Frank Denison on that day drove her pet COW from field to her front yard for the purpose of having it now the lawn in its own way Having tied rope around the animals neck she left 1t in charge Of her little daughter The miss soon tired Of following the COW around, and taking the rope from its neck tied 1t to the animal s tail. then anchored the COW to an empty baby carriage and left.
 The COW soon discovered the unwar- ranted appendage, and, letting out a frightened below, started on a run. Round and round the house it tore with the baby carriage close second and half the village as spectators. Finally the carriage was wrecked against the fence when Mrs. Denison succeeded In cutting the COW loose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29
paten. Flea Medicine.

q saw in a paper this afternon that resident of Carbon Hill determined to rid himself of a plague Of fieas which in- fested his house. He put lot or ipine straw under his house and set fire to II. Every flea was burned to death, but the house burned up too, and now the man wishes he had endured the fieas a while longer" said a man about town.
 That reminds me of old man Taunton's dog Uncle Henry Taunton, as he was called, lived in my county down in the black belt about twenty years ago. He had a dog that was also named Henry and the two Henrys were inseparapie. Uncle Henry thought lot of that dog although the animal was very ordinary looking cur and insufferably lazy, but Henry. the dog, was troubled with fieas and in course of time these insetcs made life miserable for Henry the man.
 Uncle Henry decided that he would rid his dog of fieas or kill him in the att tempt The heas had overrun the place so that there was no living with them They hopped in the coffee and got into the water bucket, they were so thick. Well, as fast as the old man got the fieas cleared out of his house that dog would populate the place again, until Uncle Henry became desperate. He went down to the drug store one day and asked the clerk to give him something that would prove certain death to heas, stating that his dog Henry would be the patient. The
  clerk was something of joker, so he fixed up a preparation that would eat the hide off a mules back and gave it to the old man.
 ''As soon as he got home Uncle Henry caught Henry and after tying him up securely proceeded to give him bath with the acid. When the stuff touched the dog he gave a howl that could be heard a mile and struggled frantically, but Uncle Henry held on and continued to apply the insecticide, as he was determined to have no aore heas. When released Henry took to the woods, yelping like mad.
 "The next day Henry came back home but 1t was not the same old Henry. There was not a tuft of hair on his back and he looked like he had just been put through a sausage grinder. The animal was actually humiliated and Uncle Henry swore that he would take the life of the drug clerk.
 After while the dog got well and frisked around as lively as ever. In fact he became quite a curiosity in the com munity where he was a canine of some importance until a snowman came along and Uncle Henry sold the animal for 2 fancy price. claiming that poor old Henry came from Russia and belonged to valu- able breed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29
From the New York Times.
THERE is curious revelation of (OD the difficulties under which a

@HERE is a curious revelation of (OD the difficulties under which a
 government like that of Russia constantly labors in the news that when the regiments stationed at Kieff were wanted to drive some reluctant peasants, recently enrolled as soldiers. off to the war in Manchurla. the officers drew the men up in line and, separating from among them all the Jews. all the one year recruits and all who could read and write. sent them back to the barracks. and sent the others to do the work. That is the government felt that 1t could not get the service it wanted from educated men able to think for themselves.
 Had only the Jews been excluded. It might have been ascribed to race preju- dice by some and to better justified appre- hensions by others. but the fact that the one-year recruits and all literates were also considered unavailable shows that in this particular instance the Jews were barred. not because of race, but merely because they are not ignorant enough for Russia's needs For the one-year re- cruits are such simply because they be- long to an intelligent property-owning class, able to secure shortened service in the army and certain iameliorations of service conditions, and the rejection of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29
No Cause for Alarm.

The Alabama law does not recog- nize interregnums All officers are to hold on until successors duly elected and qualified are ready to step into their official shoes. The interregnum is momentary physically, and legally It does not exist
 The policy of law renders any in- terription or recess in the probate judgships and other county officers Impossible. There has been a great deal of smoke, but there is no fire. Marriage licenses will be issued at the old stands without cneck or cessation, and all other county business will go on without ripple or jar of any sort.
 The new officers, to be elcted on November 8, will be ready to take hold therefore secure month of extra service, and that is all there is in the new pebble. No special session of the legislature will be needed, and the calling of one has not even been con sidered. The entire agitation was a teapot affair. The lawmakers in the last legislature were careless and slovenly, but the provisions of the code safeguard the interests of the people. and no trouble or hitch will arise over the change in the time of holding elections.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29
Battle of Kin Chou.

Kin Chou is perhaps thirty-five miles north of Port Arthur, on the Manchurian railroad where the land is not over five miles wide from sea to sea. It's occupation after severe fighting completes the investment of Port Arthur.
 While General Kuroki is watching Russian movements at Liaoyang, keep ing there a large Russian force, it IS plain the more active operations of the Japanese will for the present be confined to the capture of Port Ar thur. The Russians at Liaoyang and Mukden will no. be seriously as- sailed until Port Arthur has been cap tured The landing of large forces at Pitsewo and the recent successful as- sault of Kin Chou show that Port Ar thur is to be invested and, if possible, seized.
 Port Arthr- Is not in itself very de. sirable, but the destruction or capture of the Russian fleet there shut up is extremely desirable. The Japanese fleet would then be foot-loose, and the Japanese line of communications would then be secure. This is why  the Japanese plan of campaign has been changed. Instead of gathering troops to march upon Liaoyang, the Japanese intend. it is plain, to bend
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29
BRIDGE WHIST IN ENGLAND.

From the New York Tribune.
 Votaries of bridge whist in England have seemingly not lessened in numbers or In jealous attention to their favorite game. Gossip has 1t that the stakes be- yond sea are often extravagantly high and that the gains of the fortunate and the losses of the unlucky often reach as tonishing figures. In New York and other speculative cities of our union armies of the devotees of bridge shuttle the cards both by day and by night and give no in- significant proportion of their waking hours to the fascinating uncertainties of this aluring amusement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29

Out of military population of one million men in round numbers, it IS claimed the states named sent to the Confederate armies 60O,000 men. Six out of every ten men, Is a good pro portion, but no one seems to know how many men were mustered Into the Confederate service. The popular belief is that the number was 100000, when in fact it may have been 100000 more or less. me total number could not well have exceeded 100000, and Surgeon General Jones has accounted for 5OO,OOO men.
 The truth is, 6OJ,OOO thousand is as good an estimate as can be made at present When the roster of Confed- crate soldiers which the federal gov ernment Is making Is completed, then 1t will be possible to say how many men were mustered into the Confeder- ate armies, and 1t will not be possible to get at the true number until that roster is completed
 On the basis of six out of ten of military age, Alabama must have sent to the front 60,OO0 men, and the lists that Director Owen is preparing will doubtless show the names of that many Alabama heroes. It is still more difficult to say how many of the co., 900 are living today. The number of pensioners in 1902 was 13,405. At least 15,000 are living. and possibly the number may rise even higher but be the number what 1t may, there is today but shadow of the grand army of forty years ago, and even that shadow is fast disappearing in the mists of glory and brave endeavor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29
"Grip, Is Passing.

'',The hand satchel that is familiarly grip is losing its popularity very rapid ly," said drummer last night at the Morris. Before the advent of the dress suit case no man carried away his clothes on a trip and expected to bring them back in presentable shape. As a matter of course he expected his clothes to be wrinkled and crumpled to such an ex- tent that only a visit to the tailor would restore them to their former elegance
 'But now things have changed, so that TO man will have his clothes wrinkled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29
WOMAN.

By John Greenleaf Whittier Flowers spring to blossom where she
 walks
 The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty. Our homes are cheerier for her sake, Our dooryards brither blooming, And all about the social air Is sweeter for her coming. Unspoken homilies of peace Her daily life Is preaching; The still refreshment of the dew . Is her unconscious teaching.
 @l And never tenderer hand than hers Unknits the brow of ailing; Her garments to the sick mans ear Have music in their trailing. Her presence lends its warmth and health To all who come before it. If woman lost us Eden, such As she alone restore 1t.