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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-14
Deaths Mark.

Have you noticed the peculiar fact that generally death strikes by classes as rule?" asked an observant reader of events
 General Longstreet's death was quick ly followed by that of General Gordon; and two ex-governors besides Gordon have died within a week-Brown of Ken lucky and Foster of Ohio, and ex-Gover- nor Bushnell of Ohio is reported to be at deaths door You will observe, also, that suicides follow each other in quick succession, coming as it were, by seasons These are singular dispensations of prov idence.'
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cHILD's KISS CAUSES DEATH.
Was Infected With Rabbies, Which
 Was Communicated to Others.

Chicago, January B.-The kiss Of J. year-old child may cause the death or three persons now at the Pasteur insti- tute under treatment for rabies. One Is said to have but a slender lease on life The child is dead of the malady.
 Although the grief-stricken parents hur- ried the little one across the prairies of Iowa as soon as they learned of the Ill., ness, they were too late.
 The victims were Harold Latta, years old, who died today; W. " Latta, the boys father, who kissed the child while i'll and was bitten on the hands; Matilda Latta, the mother, whose lips were in- fected from kissing the boy; Forest Bird sail, 12 years old, who kissed the child and was bitten.
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CONGRESSMAN BOWIE.
From the Selma Times.

fTOm the Selma 11meS.
 Without intending to reflect on any congressman who has ever represented this district, the Times believes that Syd Bowie is the most active, energetic, wide awake representative we have ever had. He has done and is doing more for the people of the district than any four con- gressmen who have ever been to Wash ington from the Fourth district. He is earning his salary and more besides. He answers every letter that Is written to him and does not wait month before he does 1t.
 The Times has heard of no opposition to his reelection and does not expect to hear of any. If any man should go up against Syd Bowie he would get showed under. Dallas county would be for him against most anybody, unless some county man should come out, and that Is not a remote contingency.
 This is written about Syd Bowie with out any intention of asking a political favor at his hands, but he might send us a few more packages of garden seed. if his supply Is not exhausted. The Fourth district has a worthy congressman in Hon. Syd Bowie
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Riehmond,s Millionaire.

"Richmond has a larger number of mill lionaires than any other city in the south remarked a Virginian at the Nor. 1is hotel.
 T think there are at least ten men there, each of whom is worth a million or more
 'John P. Branch is supposed to be the richest citizen of Richmond. He is sup posed to be worth $5,0 GOO. Emanuel Rabb and Gus Millhiser, highly esteemed Hebrews, are worth about s200O,000; James N. Boyd Is worth about s2, GOO. GOO and Joseph Bryan is considerably over the million mark. Lewis H. Blair is also in the millionaire class. Several others could be named"
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Yesterdays Weather.

Snow and rain, mixed with sunshine, fell yesterday from early in the morning until late in the afternoon. At times the flakes of snow fell fast but they melted as soon as they touched mother earth. and the hearts of the children who dreamed of snow balls were made sad.
 The rain fell at intervals when the weather was not cold enough to freeze the snow. One minute a person would look out and it would be showing. Next there would De. rain, and the streets would hardly be damp before the sun would be struggling through the clouds.
 The thermometer was just about at the freezing point all day. and there was a brisk wind from the northwest at times during the day. Last night the weather became cooler. The great weather pro phet at Washington has said it would be fair and cool today.
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can only manage to keep alive. There are more sorts of fame than one.
 Yet 1t is shocking to see in this particu- lar famous list some names that are there. Fancy, for instance, Palmer Cox, the playful brownie man. being lined up among the notable old people, simply be- cause he is 63. The presumably fresh Ouda, the impassioned novelist, might make a protest, too, since she has not yet attained her GA birthday. William c. Whitney, we remember, retired himself as an old man at 62, to the worlds in- finite surprise. And yet here Is Plus K. Just on the threshold of his pontifical ca- reer at 6S, while Senator Depew gives points to the youngsters. though he Is the popes senior by a year.
 Among those who are hale and young at an age greatly exceeding these last there are several who surely may make old Adams claim that they attained their frosty but kindly status because in youth they never did apply hot and rebels lious liquors to their blood. These are Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Ss; Russell Sage, S7, and Julia Ward Howe S4. Yet we fear the same claim may not be made for men of such genial type as the ven- erable Senators from Alabama, the junior of whom. in service, is MT. Pettus, aged s2, and the senior, MT Morgan, aged 79 It all depends, perhaps. much on tenn perament as on ones habits.
 And after all as Lowell said, .the first seventy years are the best"
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Colombia at Titumati

The administration, through Secre- tary Root, it's factotum and chief ad- wiser, is trying to explain away it's action in snatching province from the friendly republic of Colombia We are not, says MT. Root, sending troops to the isthmus. What, then, are the ma rines doing there? No state of war, he says, exists between the United States and Colombia. Why, then, is Colombia given to understand that she must not advance from Titumati?
 It is, however, plain that Colombia proposes to regain the province that was torn from her by our marines and Panama's fire companies, and that she will soon march 4O00 strong from Titu- matt upon the province of Panama. She cannot sail from Titumati because this country will not permit her to do anything of the sort. If this is not waging war against Colombia, what is it?
 If Colombian troops advance into the province of Panama this will be dec laration of war against Panama, but until the canal treaty is ratified it is difficult to see how in the name of com mon cense and international law it can be considered dee.aration of war against this country. It is equally diffi- cult to see how the marines can be sent agalnst the Colombians unless all decency and all law are thrown to the winds.
 The pretense that free passage across the lslnmus must be maintained, does not justify the waging of war 400 miles from Colon, for Titumati is just about 400 miles from the railroad and Colon. And the cable tells us that our wars1ips are about to leave Colon ''for the purpose of making demonstration along the San Bias coast" The Gulf If San Bias is about 100 miles from tbe Panama railroad, and we have as much right to make demonstrtion there. before the canal treaty is rati. f,ed- as we have to make demonstra- Lon af Vera Cruz or Jamaica. If law and precedent are to be set aside at will by the administration, then the aan Bias demonstration is plain and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-14
CHICAGO UNIVERSITIES FUTURE.
Buildings to Cost $s,ooo,ooo Promised
 Within Three Years.

Chicago.-Three new schools and at least twenty new buildings, of which the total estimated cost is $3000,O00 will be erected at the University of Chicago within the next ten years, according to the forecast of President William R. liar per. MT. Harper makes this prediction in his decennial report without knowing from whom the gifts will come. although with the knowledge that all of the present buildings except four have come from others than John D. Rockefeller He also points out the need for small gifts for scholarships.
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From the Chicago News.

EiclH lIc 1IlcdBO NeWS.
 M Ss'. s' sa' ''' s'.s'a sss''3s
 Al book on ''The Nature of Man" dealing with his investigations as to life old age and death. While death is natural M. Metchnikoff asserts that not one man in a million dies a natural death. The familiar proposition, "All men are mortal seems. indeed to be one that on investigation science finds it hard to prove absolutely; but assuming, as one may, it's truth. what science can do M. Metchnikoff contends entirely to revolu- tionize the conditions of old age Old age should be a physiological state; it is now pathological state, a disease. What this state consists In is the atrophy--the premature atrophy, M. Metchnikoff holds of the higher and specific nerve cells, especially those of the brain. He sets out to provide a cure.
 M. Metchnikoff is the discoverer of the phagocytes, those singular tenants of hu- man bodies that fight on mans side in the "veritable battle that rages in the in nermost recesses of our beings and whose special function is the destruction of microbes. He says that at a given period in the life of the organism the pha hagocytes, presumably because the sup ply of microbes Is on the wane, literally
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GOVERNOR READS MESSAGE.
Cummlns Makes Sensational State ments About Insurance Companies.

Des Moines, la. January 12.-Following a precedent established by former Cover nor Leslie M. Shaw, Governor Cummlns today read his own message to the thirti- eth general assembly. His recommenda- tions as to the insutance laws of Iowa and special examinations bordered on the sensational. The governor virtually de- clared that 116 insurance companies in Iowa had been mulcted to the amount of more than s23000. The assembly was urged to reimburse these companies for the amounts paid for special examina- tionSp p
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GORDON.

By T. c. DeLeon. Failed be the Arch with black, but gemmed with stars That shine thro his long lifework- grandly done! Clean all its east with bright and lambent bars Presage that dawn for him has just be- gun. Fold round the bier the flag, still un- forgot, His hand furled last upon the field of fate; For historys hand holds pen that lieth not To write it's truth, and his-tho long we wait Mobile. January 3. 19uA
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and leading attorney of Gadsden. is at the Morris.
 w H. Lanier of Talladega Is stopping at the Hlllman. J. B. Elliott of Leeds is at the Florence
  State Treasurer J. Craig Smith of Mont gomery Is at the Morris. W W. Battle of Anniston is stopping at the Florence. George ". Duncan of Auburn Is at the Hillman.
 President Milton H. Smith of the Louis- vile and Nashville railroad is In the city.
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Stone Wants More Information.

Washington, January 13.-Senator Stone today introduced a resolution directing the committee on foreign relations to make inquiry into the facts relating to the revolution in Panama, particularly with reference to any action or part taken in said revolution, and in the organ ization of the said republic by the gov ernment of the United States, or by any official, civil or military of the United States, the committee to report to the senate the testimony taken and 1t con- cluSions by May 1.
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Men students Are Hard Workers.

Ithica, N. Y. January 13-The men stu dents at Cornell university apparently are harder workers than the coeds. This is shown by the results just announced of the week of tab-keeping experienced some time ago. The figures are confined to the college of arts and sciences, but this is the largest college in the university and the one in which practically all of the CO., eds are registered. The men are shown to work an hour more each day than the womeh
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understandable. but if the strong as well as the weak are to respect law and vested rights then the San Bias demonstration will be vetoed at least until the canal treaty is ratified.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Appetite wears out like everything else if you use it too much
 It's terrible upsetting the way wom- ans eyes can tell man to keep on while her lips tell him to stop.
 The way to make woman happy is to be sure she is awake and then, pretend ing you think she is asleep, to kiss her softly as if you did not want her to knowQt :
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MutIny Among Turkish Troops.

Constantinople, January 13.-A serious mutiny broke out recently among the sol diers comprising the garrison of Van, Turkish Armenia, owing to their pay be- ing in arrears. About 800 armed soldiers plundered shops and attacked Armenians. The mutineers finally made an attack on the place from which the commander of the garrison fled over adjoining roofs.
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MAY BE SETTLED.
Street Car War in Cleveland May Be
 Adjusted AmicabIy.

Cleveland, O., January 1s,-Indications point strongly to an amicable settlement of the long continued war waged between Mayor Johnson and the Cleveland Elec- tric Railway company, In which the mayor seeks to secure a three-cent fare in this city.
 An agreement has been reached and a meeting of the stockholders of the Cleve- land Electric company has been called for tomorrow to ratify the proposed re- duction
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Billiard Match Arranqed.

New York, January 13-A private dis patch from Paris announces that George Sutton, the Chicago billiardist and Mau- rice vignaux, .the French expert. have been matched for 500-point contest at 1s-inch balS line. The match has been set for January 29 in Paris.
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AnxIetx Eelt for shenanao.

Port Stanley, Ont. January 1S-Anxiety is felt regarding the whereabouts Of the car ferry shenango with crew of thirty one which left here January ?. but has not yet reached Conneaut The vessel had provisions for only nine days.
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John Browns Daughter Very m.

Passadena, Cal. January 1S.-Mrs. Ruth Brown Thompson, eldest daughter of John Brown, of Harpers Ferry fame. Is lying at the point of death at her home in this city,.
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Report Made for Western Exposition

Washington, January 1S-Senator Full ton today reported favorably from the committee on industrial expositions the bill providing for the Lewis and Clarke exposition at Portland. Ore, in 1905, and making an appropriation of s2.125,0Oo for its support.
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The number of arrests are rising again-111S in the month of December. At this rate they will soon touch high water mark and perhaps establish new record in this country.
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Georgia's great citizen will be buried today amid the lamentations of all classes of people Few have been so widely Or deeply mourned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-14

The Porto Ricans, it has been de- cided, are not aliens, nor are they citi- zens. and between the decisions they do not know what they are.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-14

The oil tag tax is still in the courts, and until it is adjusted the Standard oil company can supply this state with any old kind of oil.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-14

It seems to be conceded that the present winter north of Mason and Dixon's line has established a record only excelled by the north pole
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MT. Weatherly and other members of the sanitary commission are de- termined to probe the sewer scandal to the bottom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-14

A referee in bankruptcy never had so wide a juridiction as MT Trimble has been of late exercising for the good of the public.
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Russias soldiers will live on canned roast beef, and Japan's on rice and dried fish. That settles it.
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Lou Dillon carried too many wind shields to be crowned queen of the turf. She will not miss the title, how ever, if she gets oats enough.
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Southern families average larger than northern families, and this is why the south is keeping it's percentage of growth at top figures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-14

Rush Taylor and associates have se- cured a franchise for trolley line be- tween opelika and Auburn. They expect to complete the road this year.
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Spain's chief claim to fame is as a mother of republics She brought into existence full dozen Of them.
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The exits of the Coliseum in Chicago need attention. for we cannot afford to lose our republican politicians.
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Even Psi An pays tribute to Rocke- feller, for she uses an automobile that carries a gasoline tank
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The Gadsden Evening Journal says no one is surprised at MT Lusk's announce ment for congress. He has been preparing to make the race at least a year.
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Salt river, Arizona, is about to be damned. Politicians should make a note of this.
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Every state will be represented at the St. Louis worlds fair except Della ware. That state should send Addicks there
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Mobile county is to have another can ming factory. It Is to be located at Ala bama Port, place about twenty miles by rail from Mobile, on the west coast of Mobile bay. It is to be built by the John Boyle company of which Charles J. Brooks is president. The company will begin operations about October 15
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wholesale grocery house Is to be es- tablished at Attalla by T. c. Banks, John l.. and w H. Burnett of Gadsden, and Lamar Smith of Centre. The capital stock is $25,00O
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Save your old whalebone. It is worth more than gold, weight for weight.
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The gold strike in the Cripple Creek district is glittering enough to break the strike.
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The city council of Union Springs has accepted the plans of Architect Smith for brick school building to cost S25, O00
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ALABAMA NEWS.

Opelika has bought the school build ing on Avenue A at the corner of Seventh street, paying therefore s25,000 in bonds.
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Peary feels at home this winter in New England.
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If Mary's advising powers at the age of IS are worth $1O,0OO, how old is Ann?
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Senator Shoot is standing on his merits, and he will not offer Dietrich plea.
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Uncle Russell Sage is now the Amer ican financier emeritus.
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feller, for she uses an automobile that carries a gasoline tank.
 ----..---- Salt river, Arizona, is about to be damned. Politicians should make note of this. The gold strike in the Cripple Creek district is glittering enough to break the strike. If Mary's advising powers at the age of IS are worth $1O,0OO, how old is Ann?
 Senator Shoot is standing on his merits, and he will not offer a Dietrich plea. The question now agitating Birming ham is the market value of advisers.
 -.-.--a-- Psi An is 69 years old, and this dis poses of that troublesome question.
 
 Both houses of congress are engaged in hearing campaign speeches.
 
 Washington's only fireproof building is the Washington monument. Uncle Russell Sage is now the Amer ican financier emeritus.
 -s---- Dowie, like Uncle Sam, Is also look 1 ing for islands.
 
 The democrats will feel at home in Mizzouri. The serial story is on it's last legs
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Both houses of congress are engaged in hearing campaign speeches.
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Dowie, like Uncle Sam, is also look ing for islands.
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The democrats will feel at home in Mizzouri.
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Washingtons only fireproof building is the Washington monument.
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SUBCOMMITTEE MEETS.

Tie serial story is on its last legs
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Psi An is 69 years old, and this dis poses of that troublesome question.
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The question now agitating Birming- ham is the market value of advisers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-07
FRATERNITY BANQUET.
Phi Chapter of National Medical Fra
ternity Makes Merry at Rauscher's.

Phi Chapter of the National Medical Fra
ternity, Phi Chi, hel dts first initiation and
banquet at Rauscher's Saturday evening.
The general fraternity was organized at
Louisville, KY, about fifteen years ago,
and now has chapters in many of the prin-
cipal medical colleges in the south and mid
die west. Chapters have been recently es-
tablshed at the Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, and at Georgetown Univer-
sity medical department, this city. Phi
Chapter was established at George Wash
ington University last spring, the charter
members numbering eleven, from the class
eS of 1903, 1904 and 1905.
The honorary members are as follows:
DR.. w. F. r. Phillips dean of the medical
faculty; DR.. Sterling Ruffin, Dr. w. P.
Carr, Dr. d. K Shute, DR.. James Carroll
DR.. E. G. Seibert and DIR. c. S. White. The
charter members are: DR.. T. c. Holloway,
Dr. l.. H. Taylor, DR.. w. H. r. Branden-
burg, 1903: DR.. NJ E. Higgins. DR.. ]. r.
Buck. DR.. John A. Holmes. DIR. R. E. Seitz,
DIR. H. G. Fuller, DR.. w. E. Clark, 1904
Messrs. j. F. Murphy and A. L. Hunt, 1895
The initiates, four in number, were from
the class of 1905: Messrs. G. 1. Jones, H. E.
Baldwin, E. T. M. Franklin and A. H. Rob-
nett.
Drs. Griffith, Watson, Briscoe, Romano
and Balm attended the affair as representa-
tlVes OF the Georgetown chapter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-07
HELD ANNUAL SERVICE.
Knights of Columbus and Friends Of
st. Vincent de Paul's Church.

The annual vesper and benediction serv-
Ice of the knights of Columbus was held
last evening at st. Vincent de PauTs
Church, South Capitol and M streets So
large was the attendance that many were
forced to stand during the entire service
The exercises were conducted by Rev. p. J.
OConnell. rector of the church, and Dis
trict chaplain of the order.
The knights assembled in the basement
of the church before the opening of the
service. and proceeded upstairs in a body,
led by Council Warden Davis of Carroll
Council. Onward, Christian Soldiers was
sung In chorus during the entrance The
sanctuary was tastefully decorated with
cut flowers and potted plants and illumi-
mated with many candles.
Rev. j. H. Ford, o. p, of Lacordaire
Council. No. 400, of New York, preached
the sermon, dwelling chiefly upon the pur-
pose and scope of the organization He
said the order was making better Roman
Catholics and better American citizens
Among the clergymen in the sanctuary
were Rev Father Griffith, pastor of ST.
Augustine's Church, and Father Dough-
erty of the Catholic University of America
The choral part of the service was led by
the choir of the order, under the direction
of George w. Barry. The following COM
posed the committee which arranged the
exercises: DR.. William B. DAILY chairman
Edward j. Maloy, ST., DR.. William p Ma
lone Francis P. Shelby and William B.
Reilly. a1e-.