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The Globe-republican., 1904-01-21
RICH PRIZE FOR COLLECTOR.
Asked for, Autograph and Got Per.
sonal Letter From Monn1sen.

The late Prof. Mommsen had a hor.
ror Of autograph collectors. One day
he received request from young
man whose father he highly honored.
Without replying to the sons request
he wrote a long letter to the father
giving his reasons for refusing his au.
tograph in detail One Of these rea-
sons was that the collectors made
notoriety rather than fame their stan
dard, the result being that professors,
ballet girls, swindlers, generals. and
others were mixed Unfortunately in
their albums, His letter. of course,
found its way promptly to the young
mans album as a grand trophy.
The Globe-republican., 1904-01-21
FORTUNE OF 100000 LEFT.
After Generous Gifts Ex-Gov. Bushnell
Of Ohio Still Is Rich.

OF Ohio still Is niel''
Ex.Gov. A. S. Bushnell Of Spring
field, Ohio, recently gave a dinner
party at his home to his family-in'
GLIDING his two married daughters
with their husbands, and his son, with
the latter's wife-and to the women
he gave $15o,OOO each in stock OF a
harvester company which pays 5 per
cent, while to the men he gave $lOo''
900 each Of the same stock, making a
total Of s75O,OOO. The governor after
ward told a friend that he Is worth
lust 100000 after having given
away his harvester stock.
The Globe-republican., 1904-01-21
supply of water and fuel supply OF
about 400 miles steaming.

supply vi WdleT anu luCi supp! u
about 400 miles steaming.
Boats Of this type could not only
operate along the lakes and interior
rivers of China, but could also pass
through the gorges of the Yang-tse
and afford protection to our mer'
chants and missionaries in those PROV
inces in the extreme west OF China
The British and the French main
tain a numOer of light draft boats on
these inland waters, and their useful
ness has been proved OF extreme I'm
portance on a number of occasions,
The Globe-republican., 1904-01-21
Glossary of Native Terms Used in the Far East

LING.-Pass over a mountain.
YCHENG- CHEN-HOL0.-- Town, large
village.
The Globe-republican., 1904-01-21

Hartman who few days heretofore available has been
ago was elected president the shot, which shows little OF the lace
Union Pacific railroad has so far The picture the first photo
known had photograph graph WIS taken II omana WIN
taken, and the only picture of him a small CAMERA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
Progress at Thorsby.

Speaking of peaches" remarked P Sid Jones of the Louisville and Nashville, You ought to go down to Thorsby just now and see what a happy colony there is there. They have shipped many car loads of the luscious fruit, the product of their own skill and industry. Those seandinavians are most deserving peo- pie, and they have set an example to the natives which they are initiating, and Chiffon county is prospering as never be- fore Peaches. pears. apples, plums and grapes grow bounteously in that county whAe potatoes have proven like prof1ta- ble Thorsby is growing and the state needs more Thorsbys."
 It will be remembered that Captain Jones while acting as immigration or industrial agent for the Louisville and Nashville was largely instrumental in in- ducing this colony to settle where 1t did and to make the beautiful and fourishing town of Thorsby, and he takes pardonable pride in referring to the success of the enterprise Said he: Tt shows what can be done on what was long considered the poor lands of Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
WilIett Is Confident.

Col J. J. Willett, Of Anniston, was mlngling with his Birmingham friends yesterday. Asked about conditions in his part of the state he said:
 "Anniston is going straight ahead in an industrial way. Our population Is in- ereasing and our people cheerful. Cal houn county farmers are promised an ex- cellent harvest and our farmers are in good condition. This means continued prosperity"
 Questioned as to his views on the out look for democratic success in this cam paign Col. Willett answered.
 'It seems to me there can be little doubt of the election of Parker and Davis. Democracy has a good ticket and a genuine Jeffersonian platform and these must prove winning cards. With a democrat in the White House, a dem- ocratic majority in the house of repre- sentatives, an excellent state adminis- tration, the income from a big cotton crop, corn in the barns and meat in the smohehouses, Alabama will surely be on top in 1905, and for years to come. To me the outlook appears cheering"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
An Extra Session.

The Montgomery Journal considers an extra session the shortest road to orderly government. Not only is the Lusk bill in a dubious condition of constitutionality, but several sections of the revenue code passed at the last session of the legislature are involved in doubt and mystery" The latter are so much involved, adds the Journal, that the state auditor "has been forced to compromise with taxpayers in cases where the state expected to receive great revenue" The Journal furnishes no specifications, but it plainly con siders the revenue code in a condition that threatens the state treasury with B deficit.
 With three new courts uncertain of their jurisdiction or even legal exist ence, with deficit in the public purse staring us all In the face, the hour for the calling of an extra session does seem to have come. It seems to be the shorter and better way out of the confusion created by hurried law makers.
 If a session limited to a rearrange- ment of the judicial circuits and to the framing of new revenue code, it need not last beyond week, and the entire cost of the extra session would not go beyond ten thousand dollars, and that amount could readily be collected if the clouds that hang over the revenue code were dispelled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
WHY THEY APPLAUD DIXIE.
New Workers Give Way to Spell of the
 Music.

From the New York World.
 q noticed a statement in a newspaper, recently" said the Man Who Knows, from a southerner, who objected to the way that New Workers applaud the good old tune of Dixie when 1t Is played in public places. He didn't exactly object to the tune being applauded, of course, but he said that the majority of people clapped and yelled to attract attention, and not because they were southerners or cared for the tune. This gentleman from below the Mason and Dixon line is away off, and I'll tell him why.
 "Theres something about that bundle of notes different from any tune that was ever written in the history of music. An Englishman applauds God Save the King a Frenchman goes wild over the Marsellaise;' the Germans respond to Die Wacht Am Rhein,' and the good American of all parts of the country cheers The Star Spangled Banner But everybody applauds Dixie Half of them, too, when they don't Know anything about 1t being southern.
 'No, it is something infectious, this tune; there Is in 1t that mystic some- thing that sets the blood tingling and makes you dance in spite of yourself Let a restaurant full of people be as dull as Quaker meeting and when the band strikes up Dixie they're off. The tune makes people applaud, and they don't do 1t to make others think they are south erners, either. It's the tune, that's all."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
Genial Hotel Man.

Col. William Neill of Macon. Ga. the proprietor of the Brown House, is at the Hllman. He Is a member of Governor Terrelrs staff and one of the best known and most popular hotel men in the country. It is probable that he will take the management of one of Birmingham leading hotels.
 Colonel Neill is an ideal story teller and can relate many capital anecdotes. In speaking of the marvellous growth of Birmingham and the steady growth of Macon. he said:
 .Of course l like to boom my town hut I don't think could go the pace of an Atlanta man I heard In the H,,,nan lobby today In discussing the dlfferent cities of the country a Chicago n,an called down the Atlanta man on some of his extravagant statements. Turning around the Atlanta man asked .vyhan have you visited Atlanta?
 oh, month or two ago,
 ""Then you haven't seen tha ra,;a nace it has made in the last fen dave spa :.
 Colonel Neill also tells an interastjrr story of man from Atlanta who .e ra' fused to post his letter because Macon 6id not provide Atlanta mail bovas ,,, . stead of United States boxes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
Law and Order.

Judge Parker becomes eloquent and nven picturesque when he presents In his acceptance speech the value of law as distinguished from force, the one being based on enlightened public sen timent, and the other being sword sustained by the hand that yields it- the one representing constitutionalism, the other imperialism.
 Judge Parker Is not content with the statement of abstract principles. He proceeds to the concrete. He mentions IS examples of the reign of force the mobs who seize Supposed criminals" and he mentions both the dynamiters md the deporters of Colorado, con demning alike the mobs in different parts of our beloved country and the offenders in Colorado as failures of government to protect persons in their constitutional rights. He condemns with severity the action of the state government Of Colorado in deporting citizens, without trial, as well as the men who employed dynamite against their opponents. He stands, in other words, for law and the rights of the Individual. "The essence of good gov ernment," he goes on to say, Ties in strict observance of constitutional linn ltations, enforcement of law and order and rugged opposition to all encroach- ment upon the sovereignty of the peo-- ple."
 There is no lesson that we need to learn, and to heed, and to practice, more than this, for this has become the mob country of the world. Revo- lutions are common elsewhere, but mobs are not. Mobs are almost un- known in Europe. The one at Kishineff stands by itself. Even in the repub- lies to the south of us there are no mobs. This is the land of mobs, and Judge Parker has rendered an import ant public service when he calls for a halt-when he asks for the reign of law instead of the reign of force This should cease to be the mob country of the world, and Judge Parker will, if elected, strive to make law paramount ,n 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
VEEeo" AND "TARE HoTE.p

Terre Haute telegram to the Chicago
 Tribune.
 At mass meeting of farmers of vigo county a resolution was adopted request- ing teachers in the schools and all other persons to pronounce the name of the county "Veego instead of "Vygo," as many do and some were doing in the dis cussion before the mass meeting. It has been suggested also that something be done to make uniform the correct pro- nunciaton O, the city's name. "Tare Hote," instead of "Terry Hut" and the many variations. .Ae chief offenders be- Ing railroad brakemen calling the name of the city in the trains
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11

born in the twenties, with a few thir- ties thrown in, should be formed, and an active campaign conducted against the Root theory. MT. Root seems to think all men who have passed three score are ineapacitated. The new clubs will endeavor to show him that they possess a good deal of campaign strength still They can vote, and they can campaign together.
 Under the Root theory Gothe could not have completed Faust" for he was S2 years old when he finished the great tragedy. And there was Noah 1ho built the ark when he was nearly six hundred years old. Noah proved himself an excellent navigator, and conseryator of all things living Elihu Root thinks, however, he should have been placed on the retired list when he was sixty years old. Where would MT. Root have been in that case?
 Queen Victoria lived and reigned until she was S2, and Canada has an active, alert, and industrious senator who is 101 years old. But why detain the reader with illustrious examples? The time has come for work, and the old men should organize to put down Elihu and put up Henry Gassaway Davis, who does sixteen hours of work day, even if he be S2 years old. He pays no attention to his years in the past, but he is taking good care of his years to come. He will prob ably outlive Elihu, and he can outwork him two to one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Alfalfa Fields.

"You should see the alfalfa fields of Sumter county" remarked R. P. Wet more. Many of the owners of cotton lands in that favored section have the past few years devoted many acres to the growth of this valuable feed product, and the industry is no longer an experi- ment. It is a success No crop Is more val uable. The soil and climate of Sumter county have proven to De well adapted to the growth of alfalfa, and those who have given attention to 1t are reaping rich reward.
 Not only is the planter benefited by the ready and liberal demand in the mar ket for alfalfa hay. but it's production is encouraging the raising Of live stock, and Is rapidly improving the grades of cattle, hogs and sheep. You need not be surprised to see Sumter soon become one of the principal stoclx-raislng counties of the entire south. Certainly the op- portunity there presents itself, and the Sumter county farmers are a live and wide-a- wake set of men"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
The Rule of Rotation,

spirited contest in the next municipal campaign in Birmingham" remarked A. T. London. "The 1ns' have been in and the outs have been out for quite a long season. and 1t is not unlikely that there will be a demand for open doors and ventilation. This is not a bad idea. In all well-regulated cities, counties. states and nations, changes or the rule of rota- ton in office, have generally proven healthful. I do not see why progressive Birmingham-shoul be an exception to the rule"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
From the New York Mall.

Y
 1HE perfect pavement has been (0 found. The trouble is that 1t is
 too perfect, and, like other forms of perfection is unattainable in practice. In the year 1881 an necessarily and heav- fly travelled bit of street at the entrance to Euston station in London was experiment. ally paved with India rubber, vulcanized for the purpose. A concrete foundation, finished with cement to make 1t smooth. was covered with two inches of this prep aration, and, when ready, the wheels of traffic were turned upon it. They con- tinued to roll over it without interrup- tion until May, 1902, a space of twenty one years, and In all that time the rub Der had not worn through at any spot. portion of 1t was then taken up for ex- animation, and 1t was found to have worn down to about five-eights of an inch at the thinnest place, which was just where the wagons strike 1t in coming upon 1t from the macadamized road. Near the center of the roadway, where tAe heav- fest regular wear comes, the rubber coat ing was still from one to one and one quarter inch thick. It was decided to re- new the pavement.
 The practical-not to say the economic success of this rubber pavement at the Euston station, according to the report of Consul General H. Clay Evans, from which we gather this information, was so great that the Savoy Hotel in London has lately paved its courtyard in the same manner. The advantage of such
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
The Pavln- Question.

Experiments sometimes prove very ex- pensive especially in the building of cities" said MT. F. F. Enslen. II mean particularly in the matter of paving streets and sidewalks. In this respect Bir- mingham has not been exempt from the general rule. Several expensive failures have occurred here that l might men tion.
 Tn the matter of repairing Highland avenue, I took no sides in the conten- tion as to whether the work should be done in wooden blocks or in bituminous macadam for the reason that I am op- posed to any changes at present from the cherted street. The chert which Is here so easily and so cheaply obtained makes an excellent driveway, and needs only to be sprinkled, rolled and kept in perfect repair"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
Coal Facts.

"There are thirteen coal producing counties in Alabama and of these only two, Jefferson and Bibb, are directly af- fected by the present strike" remarked a coal operator Yet in these twoscoun- ties more than 5000 miners went out and are idle, pending a settlement of the diff ferences now existing.
 "The following are the counties in which mines are or were operated and the num- Der in each: Jefferson 6l mines: Walker fl; Bibb 12; Tuscaloosa 10 Shelby [; St. Clair T. Winston 6; Jackson 8; Etowah 8; Blount 3; DeKalb ?; Marion 1; cullman L
 "The output of coal in 1903 in this state was 11,7oo,75S tons. Five years previous to that it was 6466,741, and back in 1893 it was 5,27O,O42 tons. What the output of 1904 is to be remains to be seen but certain 1t is that the coal production of Alabama is most valuable contribution to the wealth of the state"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press
 Content is something you think other
 people have when they haven't Maybe Adam put up that whole apple
 game just to get discharged from his farming job.
 Any woman would be mortified to death if she went in swimming dressed the way she goes to dinner. It's terrible hard to convince a woman that just because you are saying nothing you are not thinking ugly things against her.
 When a man spenus the night playing poker with the president of his company his wife is pretty sure he is explaining to him all the reasons he has to show her why he could run the company better.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
WAS A BRILLIANT BATTLE.

From the Washington Post.
 Hon. John H. Bankhead. of Alabama. who will soon be the nestor of demo- cratic representatives. was greeted by many friends at the Riggs House yester- day. Col. Bankhead was always regarded as an invincible by his friends. but he had a fight little while back that put his talents and strength to a supreme test The battle between him and Capt Richmond P Hobson will go down in the annals of Alabama politics as the most exciting ever waged, and though won by Bankhead. it was by no wide margin. Hobsen. indeed. surprised his friends and enemies alike by his wonderful cleyerness as a campaigner. and il was because of this remarkable showing made in that race that he was accorded no small de- gree of honor later on in the democratic national convention at St Louis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
PERFECT PAVEMENT IS
 THAT MADE OF RUBBER

a pavement in a hotel courtyard Is ob- vious With a rubber pavement and rubber tires on carriage wheels, horses would not need to be shod with cotton wool in order to endow the hostelry with an atmosphere of unwonted quietness. One can perhaps imagine the surcease of maddening uproar which would result if all city's streets were paved with rubber.
 This is one side of the story. Now for the other. When the rubber pavement at Huston station was laid down in 1881 1t cost s32.70 per square yard, including the concrete foundation work When 1t was renewed in 1902 rubber had SO risen in price that, with no cost for the founda- ton, and with credit for the old rubber 1t cost S2S.75 per square yard. The Savoy courtyard, 75 feet by 50, cost s9,733, or about $4.54 per square foot As rubber is still on the rise the price is Drohibitive for general paving purposes.
 Nevertheless, there is no reason why rubber should not be the future universal city pavement. If all the waste troplc lands now under the Stars and Stripes were planted with rubber trees and cared for by expert foresters. there is no reason why rubber should not be produced plentifully enough and cheaply enough to make it available for general city paving purposes. The maintenance and care of the rubber pavement, when 1t Is down costs extremeIy little. And think of the wear and tear of human nervse, to say nothing of the horse flesh that it would savei
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
Mir. Davis's Aue.

The attack of Elihu Root upon MT. Davis's age should be met by the or ganization of Old Mems Parker clubs in every part of the country-not band. wagon clubs, but clubs made up of men who have been insulted by MT. Root, who want justice instead of jobs, and who will attempt to show MT. Root that he has tackled lot of very vigorous chaps.
 MT. Davis was born in the twenties, and a lot of clubs made up of those
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
Bedtime at Esopus is 9.30 o'clock
THE WINNING OF THE WEST.

From the Little Falls CMinn) Herald L. Glubka is helping J. Droskowsk putting up hay.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Januzewski of Per ham visited with MT. and Mrs. Martin Wojechowski last week.
 Martin Wojechowski was in Minneapolis on business Monday.
 August Jasdzewski, John Kardash and Joe Lapos visited at North Prairie Sun day.
 Vincent and Clara Wotzka visited with MT. and Mrs. Paul Krottochinsky at Swan River Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
BOOK BY ALABAMA AUTHOR.

''The Blue and the Grey' Is the title of a new book by an Alabama author Mrs. I. c. Dow, Sr., of Demopolis, which has just been issued by NJ. A. Donohue & Co. of Chicago The story treats of the re- construction period just after the civil war and the scenes are laid in Alabama. Characters and localities familiar to old residents of the state are frequently men, tioned. The book Is alive with the spirit of the southland, contains much confed- crate poetry. and should prove interesting to all true southerners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
ALABAMA VIEWS.

Mobile Item: Mir. Roosevelt Is so much in the habit of going out after the colored population that he has sent an order sum moning a number of the Igorrotes from St. Louis to appear at the White House. where he will pose as the kind benefactor to the head hunters and, incidentally. through their interpreter let them know that he wishes to continue being their great father. In this race Teddy is letting no guilty 'cul- lered pusson" escape.
 Montgomery Times: The sentiment of the state is pronouncedly in favor of preserving as far as po--ible the design and aspec. of the old lpitol building A reflex of this sentiment is more than apt to be expressed in the action of the capi- tol commission.
 Montgomery Journal: The editors up in Huntsville are getting belligerent. The editors at Clanton are getting belligerent The editors of the Luverne papers have long been excited. There are some clouds on the newspaper horizon at Bessemer We are watching for other outbreaks But the weather is really too hot We should display strenuosity in the effort to keep cool, not to add to the warmth of the season.
 Huntsville Mercury: The citizen who serves on the jury only does his duty. and those who avail themselves of the legal excuses are often unconsciously shirking
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH
 TARA'S HALL.

By Moore. The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Taras walls' As if that soul were fied.- So sleeps the pride of former days,
 So glory's thrill $ OCT. And hearts that once beat high for praise N>w feel that pulse no more. No more to chiefs and ladies bright
 The harp of Tara swells; The chord alone that breaks at night
 It's tale or ruin tells. Thus Freedom now so seldom wakes,
 The only throb sne gives Is when some heart indignant breakA To show that still she uves-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11
SHORT ON TACT.

From the Boston Transcript.
 Barnes-Howes is a pretty good sort of fellow.
 Shedd-Yes; but he hasn't got any tact. At the restaurant the other day he asked me If l was fond of cats. And l was eat ing rabbit stew at the time! The idea of asking such a question at such time as thati
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-11

a responsible and mos. important obliga- tion, by which society, tie protection to human life, are often made to suffer- Our pest citizens should appreciate the privilege to serve their people and them selves and stop being excused, too often for frivolous reasons.
 Montgomery Advertiser: When Tom Watson and Tom Tibbles get fairly at it there will be something doing in the tom tom line.