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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-11-04
PopuIists and Socialists.

A staff correspondent of the Brook
lyn Eagle, writing from Chicago.
states that the trust money gathered
and disbursed by the republican cam
paign committee has not been sent to
the state committees in the Middle
West, but it is being spent to pro-
mote the campaigns of Mr. Watson,
the populist candidate, and of Mr..
Debs, the socialist candidate. 1t is
known that the populist campaign
conducted from New York to and in
Guiding Missouri has cost $350,000, and
the socialist campaign had cost up to
the present week 100000. Each of
these amounts exceed the entire sum
expended by the democratic national
committee in the Bryan campaign of
1900. The entire sum expended in
that year by the democrats was but
$275,O00.
Now, how is it the populists and the
socialists are each able to expend
more than the democratic party did in
1900? There can be but one answer
the money is furnished by the trusts
through republican officials, the object
of the expenditures being the divis-
ion Of the democratic vote.
Neither the populists nor the So
cialists have any individual financial
support, and men have been detailed
to watch their expenditures, and they
report that both are spending money
on a large scale. Elaborate local or
CARNATIONS have been established In
every city in a contested state, by one
or the other of the minor parties, and
these organizations furnish the
groundwork Tor the reports that the
democratic vote is to be cut down.
The speakers of both seek audiences
made up of wage earners of democrat
ic proclivities. And back of it are the
trusts, furnishing the sinews Of war.
Careful inquiry shows that the pop
ulists and socialists work in accord,
ance with a general plan. They never
conflict. They do not antagonize the
candidacy of Mr.. Roosevelt. Both
rarely work in one city or district.
But wherever they go they are now
met by democratic speakers, and 1t Is
not believed they will accomplish
much unless money is poured out like
water in the corruption of voters on
election day.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-11-04
imperialism Discussed.

Imperialism was discussed very
freely and very plainly by Judge
Parker on Wednesday night at the
Cooper Union, in New York, before
an audience largely made up of Ger
man Americans, who know what i'm
perialism in the concrete is. We
have not reached the concrete form of
il, but we have 1t in the form of a
mental attitude on the part of a daring
ard aggressive president.
The purchase, or rather the seizure,
of the Philippines and the establish
ment of colonial policy was a revolu-
ton that utterly changed the nature
of the republic, setting aside forever
the memorable consent of the governed
and putin 6 the government of mill
lions on the Russian basis. This was
bad enough and dangerous enough to
the liberties and welfare of the main
land citizen, but the colonial scheme
sanctioned by supreme court decis-
ion of five to four was not ALL
Militarism and Imperialism once be-
gun, never stop, never hesitate They
march increasingly on. They became
manifest in pension order No. rs, and
they stood out prominently when Col
ombia, a friendly republic, was robbed
of the province Of Panama, and war
was virtually declared against her
without awaiting the action of con-
gress. When such things can be done
by the executive without consulting
congress, we are not far from imperial
ism. True, congress could reject the
work of imperialistic hands, but it is
difficult to undo what has once been
done in the name of the republic 1t
is difficult, for example, to restore
Danama to its rightful owner, and in
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-11-04
The u. s. Reform School.

I would like to have had the opportun-
tty Of placing the little boy who came
before me on charge of postoffice rob-
berry today In the government reform
school," said Judge Thomas G. Jones
yesterday, but as the lad was too small
and his inconsistencies would have been
so great I guess it was best to send him
back to his grief stricken old mother.
By the way" continued the judge, 1.-THE
reform school outside of Washington is
one of the greatest institutions of its kind
In the world. There hayward youths are
taken and started on the right track and
when they leave the school they become
good men and substantial citizens. Since
being on the bench l know that 1 have
saved several boys by sending them to
this school. OF course If a boy Is too
far gone in crime, schools do but little
good but when he has just started in
almost every instance he can be started
on the proper course. They are taught
all kinds of avocations and the work is
thoroughly done by skilled teachers. The
boys are not required to wear stripes
or anything suggesting penal life and
they are allowed to indulge in sports the
same as boys in ordinary schools. I
could easily point out several successful
men who were sent to this school for
committing some offense against the
law"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-11-04
NATIONAL POLITICS.
Hope Increased.

From the Washington Post.
Judge Parker's great meeting in New
York Monday night has added to demo-
cratic hopefulness, which is the chief fea-
ture of the last week of the campaign.
The postal card polls Of the New York
Herald and the Brooklyn Eagle, fore
casting a sweeping democratic victory
in New York state, were accepted by
the gamesters with sufficient seriousness
to cut the betting odds from to 1 to
to l. good deal more Parker money
was offered at the latter figure than
was covered, and it is predicted that be-
fore the end of tie week 2ls or 3 to will
be the prevailing Odds
The personal optimism Of Judge Par
ker has had no small influence in en-
couraging democrats to take a brighter
view of the situation. He has iterated
and reiterated his confidence in demo-
cratic victory next Tuesday. 1t is de-
elared that his determination TO make
a number of speeches was not reached In
desperation, but through desire to make
absolutely sure a victory he regarded
as already Won.
Republican managers at headquarters
scott at the postal card canvasses' but
the length and laboratories of their
soothing are hardly compatible with a
declaration Of absolute indifference. They
have not surrendered belief that Mr.
| Roosevelt's election is assured, but 1t is
very apparent that doubts have begun TO
| trouble them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-11-04
GREAT MAP OF AMERICA
ASKED BY BIOGRAPHIES

dustries marked as such. It would not
be too large for the less known parts of
the world. because exploration has made
remarkable progress in recent years. The
French and Germans are continually
making maps of parts Of Africa ON scales
two or three times as large as the map
proposed by the Geographical congress;
and De Lannoy de Bissy, who made the
largest map yet produced of the whole of
Africa, says he would not do the work
over again on a smaller scale than
1:1,000000.
Today the intelligence division of the
war office at London has begun the pub
LEGATION on this scale of map of Africa
that will embrace 1872 sheets, of which
eighteen have now appeared. The carto-
graphic department of the Royal Prus-
sian survey is publishing map of eastern
China on the same scale, OF which four
teen sheets have been issued; and the
geographical service Of the army in
France is issuing series Of maps on this
uniform scale Of the Antilles, Persia and
China.
All this work fits into the general
scheme proposed by Prof. Penck at the
Berne congress in 1891, when he first urged
the milking of this map on a uniform
scale. The undertaking is too large for
private enterprise, but now that govern
m ents are beginning to carry out the idea
we may hope before a great many years,
to have map sheets of all the land areas
en- this scale, which is large enough to
show clearly all the more important facts
and at the same time to provide the uni
formity that is essential for comfortable
and accurate comparison of one part OF
the world with another.
The British are now preparing to map
their home islands on this scale. A similar
undertaking may well be commended to
c r own government. Such a map, carried
out by the exact and excellent methods
Of our government offices, would be the
best map of our country ever produced
for general purposes. It would be too large
to be studied to advantage as a wall map.
and might best be consulted in separate
sheets or in a well indexed atlas.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-11-04
INDIANS NOSE BREATHING.

From the New York World
Sir James Crichton Browne thinks it
unnecessary that children should be
taught to breathe through the nostrils
only. and maintains that they cannot do
so under the stress of active exertion.
London hospital things otherwise Among
the North American aborig.nes. at tire
when they were capable of extraordinary
physical exertion. the precept to shut
your mouth was enforced upon the
young by the most severe discipline.
Catlin founded upon his experiences
among the American tribes curious book
upon the subject After depicting open
II outhcd men and boys in every variety OF
ugliness and stupidity, he says that he
refrains from giving Illustrations OF the
fairer sex, and would only remind them
while counseling them to be careful
about closure of the mouth at night, that
idiots asleep cannot be angels awake.
Sir James declSsas tsat not all nostrils
are sufficiently wide to permit of breath
ing being conducted through them to the
exclusion of the mouth; but it is certain
that nothing would tend more than
breathing through them to promote their
development.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-11-04

that way Imperialism grows on what
it accomplishes.
If Mr.. Roosevelt be given term
of his own he will consider that all
the work done in Porto Rico, the Phil
ippines and Panama stands approved
by the American people. He will con-
slider that he is authorized to go ahead
in his scheme of world-powering, and
no end of foreign complications may
follow. We are in the rut Of imperial
ism, and the continuance there vii
soon strike at the welfare of all eiti
zens. The autocratic idea never
stands still. 1t grows upon what i
feeds, and it is up to the voter tt
choose between it and the republic
that the fathers established.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-11-04
From the New York Sun.

FROM the new YORK sun.
1.-THE international Geographical con-
wv gress at rs recens meeting In
New York asked the government
to make a general map of America on q
scale of 1:1.oo0,OOO. At the present time
three governments are producing maps
on this scale which will cover ABOUT
one-fourth of the land surface OF the
globe. II the United States should make
similar map of the whole of America II
would include nearly one-third of the area
of the entire land surface.
Within the past thirteen years four Oh
these international congresses have done
all they could to promote the making Oh
such map. There Is need for 1t. NO UNI
form map of the entire land surface exists
on a scale large enough to serve many
practical and scientific purposes. There
are many maps of parts of the LANDS on
a far larger scale, as for example nearly
all of Europe, large tracts OF North
America, and parts of Africa but map
of all the lands on a uniform scale Is also
highly desirable for many purposes.
AS Professor Penck has shown, none OF
the large colonial powers has yet pro-
duced a map of all its possessions on the
same scale. 1t is difficult, therefore, 10
get clear idea of the proportionate size
of different parts of these empires. IL Is
not easy for the geographer to compare
different coast lines, river basins, bays
and so on, unless he has them before MN
on adequate maps of uniform scale. here
is an illustration. The Germans are now
mapping China on scale OF la'Voo'VVV'
lust as the French are mapping the An
titles. With the proper sheets OIL eaon
map In our hands we may at once see
the right idea as to the comparative size
NJ the areas embraced in our war with
Spain and the present struggle IN 'he
orient.
when we sneak of a map scale Oh IL
O0O. 600 we mean that one inch on the map
equals Loco, 600 inches In nature; Or IN
other words, that an inch on the map 10
equivalent to 1871 statute miles. Inis Is
NOT a large scale, but 1t would be FAR
more adequate for the general purpose
of the geographer, the merchant or the
tourist than any map me now have OF
the United States. Our government sur
vey maps are on too large scale to be
convenient for many ordinary purposes,
and our best map for general use, made
in Germany, by the way, is too small. Its
scale is 1913 statute miles to an inch; and
though the map contains as much accu-
rate Information as 1t can hold, it is too
small to show all the details desired by
the student or traveller or needed to give
an adequate impression of the grandeur
of the country.
A map of the land surface of the globe
on a scale of 1:1,O0O.OOo would be large
enough to show nearly all the railroads,
the more important wagon roads, the lines
of telegraph and the limits of navigation
on rivers. 1t would show. practically all
the measured elevations of the land and
the depths of the bordering seas. 1t would
not be large enough to include all the
names of towns, but 1t would show all
harbors and important railroad stations
end many notable centers of special In
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-11-04
An Omitted Item.

From the Bosoton Herald.
The Springfield Republican calls atten-
ton to the circumstance that Secretary
Tafts estimate of the cost of the Philip
pines to us takes no account Of the adj
ditional cost of the navy on account of
these possessions. Both Secretary Long
and Secretary Moody, when at the head
of the navy department, based their re-
quests for large appropriations specifi-
cally on the fact that the holding of the
Philippines necessitated a great increase
of the navy. SO Senator Hale, chairman
of the committee on naval affairs in the
senate, in defending the last enormous
appropriation for that arm said that the
possession of the Philippines and the
maintenance of our rule there required it..
If 1t were not for the Philippines, the ap-
preparation might be largely diminished,
with no danger to the country. The re-
publican estimates that the extra naval
expenses on this account have amounted
at the least reasonable calculation to
$142, 600, COO, and probably to a much larger
sum. This is one Of the items of which
Secretary Taft omitted to take account in
his reply to Judge Parker. 1t is deplora-
BILE to see man of Secretary Taft's abil-
ity and ambition playing such tricks with
statistics.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-11-04
Einhfinn in the Snow.

Snow has already fallen at Vladi
vostok and it will coon fall at Mul1
den and n Port Arthur All three
points are in the latitude of New
England, and all will be wrapped in
snow and ice in a months time.
1t is, however, plain already that
neither side intends to indulge in the
luxury of winter quarters at any point
Tho Russian army may be driven
back to Mukden, but until 1t is it will
remain ON or near the Shakhe river
an the seige of Port Arthur will &c
on to the end regardless of weather
conditions.
The fate of Port Arthur will have
no control over the winters fighting
Even II 1t should fall tomorrow the
Japanese would push on their cam.
paign, never stopping to consider the
severity of the weather 1t is well
known that they are supplied with
winter clothing, and that none of their
plans look to any cessation Of war
fare during the winter.
1t is a desperate struggle on Japan's
part. She is fighting for chance to
live and develop free Russian domi-
nation, and she will continue to fight
while she can send to the field men
and rations, and the weather will not
stay her operations.
True, they may be content to hold
during the winter the line of the
Shakhe river. They may resort to
nothing more than Observation-Disclosures
operations. On the other hand they
may assail the Russians as soon as
they are sufficiently reinforced. The
early fall of Port Arthur might result
In an active campaign that would
send the Russians back to Hardin.
What will be accomplished is I'M
known. It is simply known that
neither side will go into winter quar-
ters. Neither can, for that matter, for
any withdrawal of forces on the part
of one side would at once be taken
advantage of by tie other side. To
the horrors Of slaughter will soon be
added the horrors of an almost Arctic
climate, and the world sickens at the
thought of the waste of life The
greed of Russia must, however, be
met, and the Japanese will face the
northern blasts unhesitatingly in the
heroic effort they are making to es-
tabiish the position of their country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-11-04
THE HAUNTED PALACE.

By Edgar Allen Poe.
In the greenest of our valleys,
By good angels tenanted.
Once a fair and stately palace
Radiant pal1ce reared it's head
In the monarch Thoughts dominion.
1t stood therel
Never seraph spread a pinion
over fabric half so fair.
Banners yellow. glorious golden,
On its roof did float and flow
(This-al this-was in the olden
Time, long ago.;
And every gentle air that dallied.
In that sweet day,
Along the ramparts plumed and pallid.
A winged odor went away.
Wanderers in that happy valley
Through two luminous windows saw
Spirits moving unsteady
To lute's well tuned law;
Round about a throne were sitting
(Porphyrogene)
In state his cory well befitting.
The ruler OF the realm was seen.
And all with pearl and ruby glowing
Was the fair palace door,
Through which cam flowing, flowing
flowing
And sparkling evermore,
A troop of echoes whose sweet duty
Was but to sing.
In voices of surprising beauty,
The wit and wisdom of their king.
But evil things, in robes of sorrow,
Assailed the monarchs high estate;
(Ah. let us mourn, for never morrow
Shall dawn upon him desolate)
And round about his home the glory
That blushed and bloomed
Is but aforementioned story
OF the old time entomed.
And travellers now within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows see
Vast forms that move Enthusiastically
To discordant melody;
While, like a rapid, CHASTITY river.
Through the pale door,
A hideous throng rush out forever,
And laugh-but smile no more.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-11-04
A Wlde-awake Finish.

From the New York World.
After his wonderful reception in New
York on Monday evening Judge Par
ker crossed the North river yesterday and
swung in a vigorous dash in Newark and
Jersey City.
His eloquent comparison at Newark
between American ana imperial expansion
his telling recital of the effects OF mon
opoly upon the cost of living and his
pointed summary of the principal issues
of the campaign were all calculated to
impress the mlnos of thoughtful voters
But his exposition reached its climax
in these two questions, which, as he SAID,
lowered In Importance above all others;
Shall the partnership between the repub-
llcan leaders and the trusts continue
with profit to both and hurt to the
country
Shall the trusts contributions of mil
lions to the campaign fund secure the
right to continue the wrongful taking
of many millions a year from the peo-
pie?
The inspiring effect of the candidates
long DELAYED action in taking the field
In person confirms .Ae soundness of the
Worlds advice three months ago, when
1t urged Judge Parker to lead a wide
awake campaign. Had he impressed his
personality upon the people during these
months as he has done this week the
campaign would have taken on at an
earlier date the inspiring aspect which
now encourages his supporters. AS 1t Is.
he is making a wide-awaks finish and
the sudden change in the public feeling
on both sides testifles to the depth of the
impression he has already produced upon
the popular mind.
The .'apathy" we have heard SO much
hnnn
Judge Parker exploded at Madison Square
Garden. and by .Ae end of the week
Its remains will not be discoverable with
a search warrant.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-11-04
The Iron Hand.

when I was a boy" said a Birming-
ham merchant l lived on my fathers
big plantation down In Louisiana, and in
a closet just beneath the stairway there
was huge iron hand of uncouth shape
that was an object of interest to all the
small boys in the neighborhood and was
viewed with superstitlous fear by the
negroes on the place.
II think now that the hand was the
mailed fist of some ancient piece of
armor or it may have been broken off
from some figure that had been set up on
our lawn a long time before l was born.
At any rate there 1t was and there 1t
stayed, under the stairway, since none of
the children or the servants dared to
move it.
"As I grew up began to hear strange
tales about the ironsh hand that were told
over the plantation BY the darkies.
once heard white-headed old fellow as
sert that the hand had mysterious power
and did not always lie on the floor of the
closet in the same position. There in the
darkness it moved about, pointing a f1n-
house, who was doomed to an early
death. OF course I never believed the
story, but the negroes asserted that the
iron hand always pointed out the next
member of the household destined to die
1T was very seldom indeed that the
contents of the closet were disturbed
1t was a stuffy hole and so encountered
urffh To oil H.
there was little room for visitors. The
iron hand lay on the floor near the door,
One day l followed my father to the
closet where he went In search of a
medical book that was missing from
his library. When he opened the door
the hand lay with its uncanny forefinger
pointing directly at us. l saw my father
start slightly and l shrank behind his
legs bat he entered the closet as If
nothing had happened. Both of us knew
that the hand was poining in another
direction only a few days before when
the cat was accidentally locked up in
the closet and made fearful racket un-
til released A short time after that my
father died
about two years after the death of
my father our plantation home was des-
troyed by fire The ruin was COM
plete. The old colonial mansion was
burned to the ground but strange to say
the iron hand was afterwards found in
the ashes. 1t was the only thing saved
and was told that some of the negroes
on the place afterwards took the uncanny
thing out In a skifI and sank it to the
bottom of the Mississippi river.
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Birmingham and Mobile.

The Mobile Register, in complimentary
article on the Age-Heralds Industrial sup
plement of last Sunday, makes sum-
mary of facts and figures pertaining to
the Birmingham district and adds:
The figures here speak for themselves.
They are of interest to us of Mobile be-
cause they tell of Alabamas growing
greatness, but particularly because Mo-
bile with her rail and water connections,
Is in such close touch with Birmingham
as to be Joined with her in her pros
perlty. The ties which bind the two
cities are becoming ever closer with the
improvement of the Warrior and Tom
bgbee rivers. The gigantic industrial and
commercial interests Of the two cities
work together powerfully for the cement
ing Of the alliance by means of these
avenues of communication