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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-12-28
OUTBREAK is EXPECTED.
Ambulance Stations Established a
Warsaw.

Warsaw.
Warsaw, Russian Poland. Dec. 2S.-
The shops in the Jewish district are
closed and bands Of revolutionists or
dered the banks to be closed. Alarm
ing rumors of coming outbreak are
In circulation. Maxim guns have been
posted at all the police stations, the
police have ordered all the doors of
houses to be locked, the union of ply
sicians has requested its members to
be ready for emergencies and sixty
ambulance stations have been estab-
Nshed Throughout the city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
Cooling the air with signs.
Tempest.
Mississippi's Senatorial Contest.

Senator Moneys term does not ex-
pire until March 3, 1911. He has, in
fact, Just entered upon his second full
term, but it is believed that because
of failing eyesight he will not be
candidate for another term. The ques-
ton of succession will not come be-
fore the people until the November
election in 1897, when a legislature
will be elected that will name Senator
Moneys successor.
Already, however, the radicals OF
the state led by Governor Vardaman,
and the conservatives led by John
Sharp Williams have begun contest
for the succession. Governor Varda-
mans term as governor does not ex-
pire until January I, 1908, and Mr..
Williams could no doubt remain in
definitely in the House. the leader
there of the minority forces.
The contest between Governor Var
daman and Mr.. Williams promises to
be as warm as it will be long. Both
are good speakers, and no county will
be left uncanvassed. They may speak
in every beat.
Governor Vardaman has lost some
of his supporters, but he has gained
some adherents since he has been
Governor. and it is difficult to say
how strong he will be in the senator
ial race Mr.. Williams will depend as
q rule upon the conservative senti-
ment in the state, and the election
will be widely watched because it will
be a square lineup. The radical ele-
ment will face the conservative forces
within the prosperous state, and moth
ing short of the day of ballots will
decide the issue.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
Revision of the Tariff.

1t is freely conceded that the ex-
cess of expenditures in the present
fiscal year will be just about thirty
five million dollars, and that the gap
between receipts and expenditures IS
being widened rather than the reverse.
The situation is so distressing to Sec
rotary Shaw and other republican
chiefs that they fear something will
have to be done to increase the gov
eminent revenue. Officials in the
Treasury Department are now engaged
in making estimates of receipts and
disbursements in the next four fiscal
years. It will not be a cheerful docu-
ment.
The Senate finance committee, head
ed by Senator Aldrich, is authorized
to sit during the recess, and it will
be called together, it is said, as soon
as Mr.. Aldrich returns to this coun-
try. All sorts of suggestions are made
by the Dingleyites in order to avoid
tariff reyision-a tax on beer, or one
on alcohol used to reinforce American
wines, or possibly one on coffee-any-
thing but a reduction in Dingley du-
ties in order to increase importations.
Once the tariff question Is reopened
ugly questions and propositions and
speeches will be presented. The re-
publicans will be strong in both
branches of Congress, and they could
vote down any Objectionable PROPOSE
ton If they would stand solidly pat
on the sacred tariff. But they do not.
There are many dissenters in their
ranks, many that will defy the ma
chine and the sandpatters. AS things
stand tariff revision promises to force
itself forward next October simply be-
cause the receipts are falling heavily
behind the expenditures.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
Ralph Bingham.

Ralph Bingham will lecture tomorrow
night at the Cable Piano company's music
hall under the auspices of the CONNER
cial club. and his subject will be "Mirth,
Mimicry and Music said an admirer last
night.
Those who have not heard Mr.. Bing-
ham will do well to attend this lecture
As pianist violinist and a monologist
and there are enough press comments and
and theer are enough press comments and
other laudatory notices published about
him to fill good volume. He long ago
earned the reputation of being the fun
niest man on the American stage. When
Bingham tells a story it is the signal to
laugh, when he plays on the violin the
emotions are stirred as only master in
the art can stir them; when he begins to
impersonate different characters, be 1t
negro, foreigner, the old man the young
lady, the lover an other character
he is at his best, and when he begins
TO play on the piano he makes 1t talk.
For music and stories he is hard to excel
and for variety and an intellectual diver
sion in an entertainment he has no equal"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
Chiffon County.

]. Osmond Middleton, prominent
young attorney of Clanton, is visiting his
brother, Col d. X Middleton, member of
the law firm of Kelly & Middleton of this
city. Mr. Middleton takes a high rank
with the young attorneys of the state
He speaks interestingly of conditions in
Chiffon county.
THE business interests of Clanton'
said Mr.. Middleton, are in a more pros
porous condition than they have ever been
in some time. Clanton in addition to be-
ing one of the prettiest towns in Alabama
is one of the best, and Is growing at a
rapid rate The past half dozen years
have seen the town almost double Its pop
ulation and wealth. The next few years
will witness stiil greater Improvement In
fact the entire county is reaching high
degree of development, ard 1t is destined
10 be one of the very best in the state
There is nothing doing down there
politically, but number of our citizens
are watching with interest the stand b.
b. Conner has taken and endorse his posi-
ton on the railroad rate question"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28

of directors and government inspec-
ton. The directors in Milwaukee have
come forward and paid the price of
their neglect. They advanced $780,
600 to the bank In their keeping, from
which Bigelow stole $1,400,0O0 when
they were not looking. Directors who
do not direct constitute the chief
trouble in cases like that Of Milwau-
kee.
But where were the government In
spectors? Bigelow's bookkeeping had
been going on two years, aided by the
assistant cashier and two bookkeep-
ers. Inspectors who do not inspect
are as bad as directors who do not
direct. Bigelow and his assistants
juggled the banks books, and he did
this continuously at least two years,
and yet no national bank examiner in
all that time discovered in the banks
books anything irregular.
After all personal honesty and per-
sonal scrutiny in the persons placed
in control, is the real safeguard of
the depositors, and it is about all the
safeguard they have or ever will have.
There are about $4,000 banks in this
country, not including trust compa-
MES, and 1t is remarkable that among
them all. holding as they do billions
of deposits, SO few Bigelows are found.
There is now and then one. But the
rarity of the trouble does not in the
the least excuse directors who do not
direct. nor bank examiners VINO do not
examine.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY

BY Eugene Field
Over the hills and far away
A little boy steals from his morning play,
And under the blossoming apple tree
lie lies and dreams of lie things to be;
OF battles fought and of victories won,
OF wrongs oerthrown and of great deeds
done
OF the valor that he shall prove some
day.
Over the hills and far away
over the hills and far away!
Over the hills and far away
It's for the toll the livelong day!
But ii mattered not to the soul afiame
with love for riches and power and
famei
On O mani while the sun is high
On To the Wonder joys that lie
Yonder where blazeth the noon Of day!
over the hills and far away
over the hills and far away!
Over the hills and far away.
An old man fingers at close of day;
Now that his journey is almost done,
His battles fought and his victories won
The old-tine honesty and truth.
The trustfulness and the friends of youth,
Home and mother-where are they?
Over the hills and far away?
Over the hills and far away
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
Mr.. Walters BIG Scheme.

If the Atlantic Coast Line has leased
the Louisville and Nashville, two great
railroad systems have become one.
The one skirts the entire south At
lantic coats, penetrating to Atlanta
and Montgomery; the other connects
the middle west with the gulf. The
two together would constitute the
strongest single system in the south.
The consolidation of the two COM
panies would promote the interests of
this district, because there would then
be but one line between our mines
and furnaces and Havana. Tampa is
the chief gulf outlet of the Coast Line,
and the route from Birmingham to
Tampa would nearly be direct. The
filing of short gap south of Thomas
vile would give this district an air
line to Tampa and Punta Gorda and
Havana.
The Coast Line, under the sSillful
leadership of Mr.. Walters, absorbed
the Plant system, and If it has now
annexed the Louisville and Nashville,
it ranks up among the great systems
of the southeast. There would then
be in the southeast but five great sys-
TENS, namely. the Southern, the Sea-
board, the Illinois Central, the Frisco,
and the Coast Line. All have terminals
in Birmingham except the Illinois Cen
trail, and that great road has bar
gained for needful facilities here, and
will presumably soon reap the fruit of
its bargain. It bargained with the
Frisco, giving the latter terminal ad-
vaptages in New Orleans, and receiv-
ing in return pledges of similar facili-
ties in this district.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
THE FIRST KISS.

From the Pocahontas (Ark) Star.
The greatest surprise to a girl who gets
kissed the first time is that there is no
taste TO it.--Pocahontas Times.
No taste to 1t? Well, by the hen feathers
on Cupid's dart, but the Times man must
be color blind in the palate They tell us.
those who have tried ii, that in tastes like
the double distilled essence of honey
spread thick on piece of pumpkin pie.
Away back in the dim and joyful years
ago, when we lost all our teeth and our
cinch on the beauty prize. the prettiest
girl in all the world told US with her own
eyes that 1t felt like coyey of quails
flying out of each ear and ended with a
sensation like a flock of angels pouring
molasses down ones back. No taste to
the first kiss? Great Scottsl 1t would
make a wooden cigar Indians hair curl
and his toenails culver In ecstacy. The
Times man must be an ice house.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
MISSED THE INCOME,

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Daniel Sully. the dethroned cotton king.
made a trip through the south last win
ter. and when he came back he told a
story of an old negro who had been work
ing for a cotton planter for many years.
One morning he came to his employer and
said:
Use gwine to quit, boss.
whats the matter Mose?"
well, Sab. yer manager. Mistah Win
ter, amt kicked me in the las free
mumfs,"
II ordered him not to kick you any
more. l don't want anything like that
around my place. l don't want any one
to hurt your feelings, Nose"
"Ef l don't git any more kicks Use
gwine to quit. Every time Mistah Winter
used to kick and cuff me when he done
git mad. he always git 'shamed of hsse'f
and gimme quarter Use done los enuff
money already wild dis heah foolishness
bout hurtin nah feen's"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
JACK RABBIT RENOWNED
ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE

rabbit now assumed the offensive, and
leaped upon the bulls back, executing
the same mysterious sidelorg movement
frantlcally tried to dislodge his enemy. It
was soon made clea- to us that the bull
was blind. lie lunged about, crashing
throug the cactus. with the rabbit gnash-
ing his teeth and swiping the bulls tough
hide. 1 feared the bull was about to
pitch headlong off the rock, and hastily
drawing a bead, 1 knocked the rabbit off
his back. The big jack was stunned for
a moment, as neither animal had paid US
the slightest attention. Seeing his new
enemies, the jack stood upon his
launches. vita an asp. It of ferocity and
frenzy that 1 have nevo-- seen equaled. His
great ears, which OF -inarily make him
comical now added to his height and
badly frightened our horses. He CRASHED
his teeth, and began to side-step toward
us. Before he could reach my horse.
which was rearing and plunging, ! got in
a lucky shot, and the fight was over. The
doctors horse by this time was several
hundred yards down the canyon. and the
doctor was deadly pale. He is going east
tomorrow. 1 can give you his name and
address If you want it,
Without comment upon this narrative,
which speaks for itself, we merely call
attention to a dispatch fror Crookston,
Mimi, which staes that Norwood Davies,
mana ging editor of he Crookston Times,
has trained two jack rabbits to race with
the railroad trains. ut is said they can
negotiate a mile a minute says the dis
patch. "As the train approaches the
animals become restless and nervous, and
prance about much like running horses at
the start of a race"
If the New York Times 5 still sleptical
as to the dangerous qualities of animals
which can negotiate a mile minute and
dsorganze their prey iwth the expertness
dsorganize their prey with the expertness
friends in the west to supply further evil
dence regarding the Misunderstanding rabbit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
PROTECTING Prisoners

THE sheriff of any county should not
hesitate for a moment In requesting the
Governor of Alabama to order out the
National Guard to protect a priosner who
is in any possible danger of violence at
the hands of mob" said Sheriff James
J.. North of st. Clair. who was In Bir-
mingham several nights ago.
Upon the request of the sheriff, solicit
tor or other county officials the Cover
nor always calls the militia. While
the good citizens of a community dread
to see prisoner brought to trial under a
military guard still CHI is absolutely
necessary. / had rather have a company
of twenty-five National Guardsmen from
another place than fifty home deputy
sheriffs to assist in the protection of a
prisoner who is threatened with Violence"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
Refereeinq in Mississippi.

Few officials die and none resign,
but this rule does not hold good in
the case of referees who are as full
of change as the weather. Over in
Mississippi Edgar S. Wilson was
cherished referee. connected by fam
lily ties with Ex-Governor Longino and
the United States marshal for the
Northern District of Mississippi. He
asked the Postmaster General to re-
lieve him of his duties as referee, and
the Postmaster General promptly ac-
coded to his request. Ill health Is as
signed as the cause of the step, but
the politicians say that the ex-referee
has simply stepped down and out
His successor is L. B. Mosely, who
is the republican national committee
man for Mississippi, and who will pro-
coed to referee federal appointments
to postoffices in Mississippi, and he
will assist in advising the government
in other respects.
The referee system is strange only
in the frankness with which 1t is util-
lied by the administration. Advisers
on the spot were needed, especially
in the appointments to fourth-class
postmasterships, and the referee was
devised and openly acknowledged as
something warranted to fill a long-felt
want. 1t is in fact an open confession
that the republican party does not rest
ON public sentiment--that 1t consists
of office holders, with surplus Of
Office seekers at a few contestive
points. Where there are not enough
offices to go around referee becomes
needful but as rule there are in
the south just enough republicans to
fiji the federal offices, and no referee
is needed. Mississippi goes right on
making cotton regardless OF the over
throw of one referee and the enthrone-
ment of another political dictator. The
sun continues to shine, and the ball
teams to fill both bleachers and grand
stand in our sister state, although
Wilson has been cast out and Mosely
cast into favor and power.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
GAMBLING BANK PRESIDENTS.

From the New York World.
Not since the fall of E. R. Harper and
the Fidelity Bank of Cincinnati, as one
result Of the disastrous wheat corner of
1887 has a sadder story of high finance"
been told than the defalcation of Frank
G Bigelow.
Mr.. Bigelow is not an obscure country
banker, like poor old Beckwith of ODER
lin, who died of the grief and shame his
own greed brought him in the Cassie
Chadwick case. He was the head of the
great First National Bank of Milwaukee.
His name was honoreu in all the middle
west for probity as we'll as ability. AS
a former president of the American Bank
ers' association he had been the conspic-
uous representative before the world of
his honorable profession.
Yet this trusted fnancier, upon whose
fidelity to his trust depended the safety
of $15,000000 of deposits. suffered himself
to be drawn into that heartless, reckless
gambling in a peoples food, wheat cor
ner, and to fling the mony of the people
after his own into the pit. That no poor
man, apparently will lose by his mad act.
as so many did through Harper's fall, is
no excuse.
High finance" has much to answer
for, and the list is growing fast. The ex-
ploitation of insurance funds for Nor
gans Marine trust, the very grave scan
dial of the Shpyards Trust frauds, the ac-
tivity of New Jersey in issuing letters of
marque to financial pirates who rob in
other states, the corruption daily unveil-
e. in the Equitables affairs-these did not
need the added spectacle of great bank
president caught wildly gaming with trust
funds in May wheat to enforce the pub
lie need, in places of high financial trust,
o. saner thought, of nobler ideals, of bet
ter builded character.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Mr.. Heflin Honored.

Congressman ]. Thomas Hefin of La
fayette, has been appointed by Congress-
man Richard Barthodt, president Of the
American international union as delegate
TO the Inter- Parliamentary conference
which meets at Brussels, Belgium IN
July.
In declining the honor Mr. Helm said;
Il very much appreciate the honor and
while I know it would be a delightful trip
and one that would furnish the oppor-
tunity for me to acquire some valuable
and interesting information, | have not
the SINE to lose from my work to make
this lengthy trip. l am giving attention
to some questions that will come before
the next Congress. They are more vital
To the welfare of my people just now than
are the affairs in the Belgium govern
ment. I have written Mr.. Bartholdt,
thanking him for the honor and informing
him that it would be impossible for me to
attend the conference"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
From the Washington Post.


EvERAL days ago the New York
~ Times honored The Post by re-
~ producing the story of our Nir-
GINA correspondents regarding an en-
counter between one William Buster and
an adult rabbit. in which Bluster escaped
by leaping a five-rail fence. The Times
commented upon the incident In the usual
fiippant and skeptical metropolitan vein,
intimating its own disbelief in the trucu-
lence Of the rabbit in its relations with
man.
1t is inpra ctical, of course, to demon
strate upon the person of our esteemed
contemporary the soundness of the theory
which we have established. So much
evidence has been adduced, however, that
nobody outside of the island of Man
haitian any longer questions the danger
to life and limb involved in an encounter
with a really enraged rabbit. The Post
is now in a position to enlighten the
Times as to the fighting qualities OF the
jack rabbit, well known throughout the
west for its carnivorous and manslay-
ing propensities Our information Is de-
rived from a correspondent at Aztec
Rock, N M. The gentleman is Rough
Rider. private in the Presidents Own.
He writes:
"A young doctor who is here for his
health was riding the range with me in
search of a blooded bull. We We're start
led by human-llle shrieks coming from
a canyon a quarter of mile to our left.
We rode quickly up the canyon, and on
nearing an overhanG,ng rock crowned
with a clump of cactus we were aston
ished to see my lost bull engaged in COM
bat with huge jack rabbit. The rab-
bit was upon his launches waiting for
the bull to charge. ana from time to time
he emitted the blood-curdling cries which
we had heard The bull, with below,
suddenly charged. The rabbit side-stepped,
made an indescrbably swift pass with his
right paw, and leaped into the air. With
a roar of pain the bull turned, shook his
head savagely, and stopped. Blood oozed
from his left eye.
1.-The rabbit, still shrieking, again
stood upon his launches. moment later
the bull charged again. and the perfor-
nance was repeated, except that the rab-
bit side-stepped to the right and swiped
the bull with his left paw. A hollow.
moaning roar came from the bull. and I
noticed his right eya begin to bleed The
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
About Persons.

Joseph H. Nathan of Sheffield, member
of the state democratic executive com
mittee, is stopping at the Morris.
C. T. West of Decatur is at the Morris.
j. T. Jones of Decatur is at the Morris.
j. r. Mentally of Sheffield is at the ST.
Nicholas.
C. Montgomery of Talladega is at the
ST. Nicholas,
Major William +. Tebbetts collector of
customs of the Mobile port, is at the Hill
man.
l.. Loveman of Gadsden is at the Hill
man.
Scott Maxwell, general manager of the
Indian Head cotton mills at ICordova. is
at the Hillman.
DR.. Shirley Bragg, state physician in
spector of the state convicts, Is registered
at the metropolitan.
DIR. IT, Perry OF Greensboro is at the
Metropolitan.
j. T.. Echols of Decatur is at the Metro
politan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
NeuIiqence in Milwaukee.

The Bigelow defalcation has fur
nished the moralists of the newspaper
world with a lot of old texts. The
Milwaukee banker fell because he
gambled in wheat, but neither wheat
nor the wheat pit can be held respon-
sble for his acts. He was business
gambler, and he bet on the wrong"
horse. If he had used his own money.
no one would have said a word, but
he used other peoples money which
he held in his capacity as trustee.
The depositor trusts his money
against the defalcations of the Biga-
low sort, because he has, or thinks he
has. two safeguards, namely, a board
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
REFLECTIONS o. A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
No minister is as black as he dresses
himself.
The pleasure about getting out pf debt is
you can then get in again.
Either woman is 100 cold without
furs or she Is too warm when she is
dressed all in open work.
woman admires her husband If he re-
fuses to wear dandified clothes but It
makes her pretty mad just the same.
Generally a man has some news to
break to his wife about a hunting trip
he is planning when he will go to church
with her without fighting about it.