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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-18
Circus Poster Trust.

Trusts have been formed in nearly
every other article, and the circus
poster concerns did not see why a
trust would not fit them as well. So
all the big show printing houses have
been combined in one concern-all
but one, the Showbridge Lithograph-
ing company of Cincinnati. The new
trust is to issue $40O0,OOO in bonds,
$4,000,0O0 in preferred stock and ST.
900, 900 in common stock-ffteen mil
lions of capitalization all told. 1t is
plain, therefore, that the new trust is
an up-to-date affair of the full New
Jersey pattern.
The trust expects to do 80 per cent
of the theatrical and circus printing
of the country. Its annual output will
be about five million dollars, and 1t
expects to reap good profits from
every bit of it. Therefore, it seems,
there has been too much competition
and too small profits. Competition is
to be cut down to a minimum, and
profits carried to a maximum.
If oil and beef concerns can elimi-
nate, under the Law, competition, GER
tainly circus printers can do likewise,
and as things are going all branches
of industry, except ne least desirable,
will be organized into trusts, and
then the trusts will be merged, until
at least a handful OF men, or possibly
one daring operator like John w.
Gates, will handle the highly pro-
ductive industries of the country.
The farms and small enterprises will
perhaps be left untouched, but any
thing capable of being made to yield
large profits will be organized in a
manner to shut out competition, leav-
ing the consumer to pay the freight,
no matter how exorbitant it may be.
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am III at reckoalng, It fitch the
spirit of tapster.
Loves Labor Lost.
Reform at the Polls.

It is highly important that every
possible safeguard should be provided
against fraud and bribery in elections.
Election reform cannot be carried too
far, nor can offenders against the peo-
pie be punished too severely. The
men who wrong all their neighbors
deserve all the punishment that can
well be brought upon them. But the
ballot box is in the custody, not Of
the federal government, but of the
states. We have no national cleo.
lions, no national voters. All such
work is done and cared for by the
states.
New York is one of the states that
is endeavoring to provide against
election frauds. The bills pending at
Albany embody these reforms: Pub
licity for campaign contributions and
the fixing of personal responsibility
on candidates and committees; def
milton of legitimate expenditures AMI
the forbidding of all others; adequate
penalties for a violation of the law,
including the forfeiture of the office
by any candidate personally guilty of
corrupt practices and the qualifications
of an election where these practices
have prevailed.
The New York World says that
both parties have participated in the
preparation of the reform bills and
both, it is thought, will support them.
Leading members of both parties in
the legislature certainly will. If the
bills summarized by the World be-
come laws New York will be placed
ahead of all the states in the matter
of election reform.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-18
Secretary wilson's Long Service.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has
started swimmingly or his third term,
and if he completes it he will have
served longer in the cabinet than any
other man, with one single exception.
Mr.. Wilson was appointed by McKin-
lev when the latter first became Pres
ident. and he will round out service
of twelve years If he stay in the cab
met until the end of Mr.. Roosevelt's
present term, as he undoubtedly will.
He is both a farmer and a politician,
and that combination is not found in
every locality.
The one man in our history who
served more than twelve years was
Albert Gallatin, who was appointed by
Jefferson Secretary of the Treasury
on May IA, 1901. He served under
Jefferson and Madison until February
9, 1914, a period of twelve years and
nine months. If Mr.. Wilson be desir-
GUS of exceeding. Mr.. Galatians
record he will have to secure retention
under the next President, and that
will be diffic@it to do, for the next
President is to be a democrat.
The next ~--1 in point of service
was William H. Crawford of Georgia,
who served under Madison and Mon
roe eight years a1c four months.
James Madison served as Secretary
of State =. as did Gideon
Welles as Secretary of the Navy.
Henry Dearborn, who was Jefferson's
Secretary of State, lacked but a
month of serving eight years.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-18
Retreatinq to Hardin.

Tie Pass has been surrendered. and
the Russians are retreating northward.
The railroad line to Hardin and the
branch from 1t to Kirin remain open.
Details of the retreat are lacking. The
most that is known is that the Rus
SLAMS left Tie Pass on Wednesday
night, presumably fearing that the
railroad hence to Hardin and Kirin
would be cut.
It is not probable that the line Of
retreat will be turned except by force
from the direct line to Hardin. Kirin
les about fifty miles west of that line
on the Sungari river. Hardin is also
on the Sungari, which empties into
the Amur river, which flows into the
gulf Of Tartary at point abreast of
Saghalin island. The Sungari crosses
the Hardin line of railroad about one
hundred miles SOUTH Of that city. and
a great railroad bridge over the s
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a lust Verdict.

The policeman that has no sense,
the one that delights in making ar
rests instead of preserving order
without making an arrest, has re-
ceived check in New York city. In
that great metropolis woman went
to Greenwood cemetery, and while
there she plucl1ed a rose from bush
overhanging her husbands grave.
She was seized at once by a police
man with an eye single to arrests,
hurried into a patrol wagon, driven
to police cell. in which she was
locked over night.
She sued the city for false arrest
and malicious prosecution, and a
jury has just awarded her a YER
dict for $4,000, and the city will
have to pay it. The real offense of
! the city consisted in employing a man
devoid of sense as i policeman.
The policemen in all cities who
make arrests without careful consid-
Grafton and hesitation should make
a note of the New York verdict. 1t
is a verdict that would have been rem
dered in any city by any jury made
up of honest men. That verdict will
stand simply because men are human
and humane in a jury box as well as
out Of it.
"a policeman" says a New York
politician, "ha5 got right to have
some sense" That is the philosophy
of the verdict in the New York case.
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From the New York Sun.
~ LII Over the world legislators,
YIN statesmen, phi.anthropists ana
4 sociologists are watching the
I -,ssouri house of representatives Watch
ing with GREATNESS attention and inter-
est. not because it " will bear watching
or wants to get away with anything.
The other nigh. Mr.. walmsley's bill to
tax tomcats IS year and tabbies 30
cents year came up. The bill provided
that the proceeds of the cat tax should
be used to establish a home for aged
spinsters.
This mart of the measure shows In Mr..
Walmsley a more superficial and topdress-
ing culture" than his constituents nave
the right to demand Of him. Spinsters'
aged or Young are not necessarily the
greatest cat fanciers The cat is strange
ana mystical genius that has been cele-
brated worthily by many men of genius.
without cats, Balzac. Gautier. Baudelaire,
Hugo, Swinburne. would not have come
to the fullest fruitage Of their powers
Catless Sir Isaac Newton might have
lived and died mute and inglorious. A
ct we may be sure inspired Poe's
strange music. A cat, brother of the owl.
cIairvoyant of the night, sat on WIN
dow sill and suggested 1.-THE Raven
For the house cat. with its ardors ana
its absences its electricities and phos-
nborescences, its absolute independence
its night yegrancies. it's obvious dae-
menie or inspired character its Fellow
ship with witches and the Old Boy It's
pcssession by the sod or devil. divine or
5iabolic madness called "fits" the mouse
cat appeals to the artistic and the oo-
servant. Any fool can like dog. me
dog is a bourgeois. The cat is an artist
Tickle, ungrateful, careless, dandy an
anicure. hut never commonplace. and
seldom respectable"
This ia said for the information and re-
nroof of Mr.. Walmsley, to whom and
Jefferson City we now return The COM
mittee in charge of the Tom-and-tat ~
tax bill is composed of well meaning dull
iards. persons untitled to appreciate feline
talents. II reported a Philistine amend
ment directin;; that the provisions OF the
measure should not apply to black
cats white cats. yellow cats, brindled
cats. speckled cats. nor any other kind
Of cats excepting wild cats"
1t may be said that this opposition to
the taxing of the house father and house
mother proves that Missouri loves cats
has cats to burn and feels that she can't
afford to pay taxes on them. But cats
are obvious Injuries. AS mousers. mouse
traps beat them all hollow. Indeed. the
best cat minds scorn mice save. per-
hars, as the perfume and suppliance of
a minute. why, then. are Gil and Tabby
not fair game for the tax collector?
God save all here. barring the cat"
says an Irish proverb. intimating the
satanism of he furred one. If devil he
be, make him take out license as a
devil wagon does, and be taxed as per-
sonaI property. Those sages at Albany
who are trying to put the stock exchange
out of business might better impose a
cat tax.
Mr.. Lee moved that the Missouri cat
tax bill be amended so as to have all
cats killed. Then" he said, the women
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-18
CONGRESSMAN Bowie.

Congressman Sydney j. Bowie of An
niston, the representative of the Fourth
district in the national House of Repre-
Bowie is in the best of health and spirits
and talks interestingly of the present and
future greatness of Alabama.
1.-The entire country" said Mr. Bowie.
lis becoming fully alive to the fact that
Alabama is destined to be one of the
leading states in the union. The eyes of
the world are on Alabama, and we must
rise to the occasion.
I'm my opinion the supreme need Of
today is a broader extension of our ed
vocational facilities. AS we develop in
should increase our educational advant-
ages. Compared with this question all
other issues sink into insignificance.
''The practical and ready solution of
the problem is special taxation for edu-
cational purposes. Looking to this end
every county in the state should hasten
to follow the example of the other coun-
ties that have called elections and al
ready voted to levy a special tax to edu-
cate the young boys and girls of the rural
districts.
1.-THE cold statistics which reveal the
fact that a large per cent of the youths
of the isolated districts are growing up
without educational advantages, is a
truth that we can't dodge.
s.when every county in Alabama has
levied a special school tax, then we
shall know that we are on the path to
true greatness"
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gari must be held in order to prqserVe
the line of retreat. The country all
about Kirin and Hardin and the Sun
gari river is fiat, fertile and fully oe-
cupied.
It is plain that the Japanese are
pressing the Russians before they can
become recognized, and before the
frost comes out of the ground in April.
The frost at Hardin may stay in the
ground until May.
The distances from Tie Pass are
about as follows To Hardin, 300
miles; to Kirin, about 200 miles; to
Vladivostok via Kirin, about 500 miles.
Along the Hardin line are three con-
siderable towns, Kaiyuan, Yungyuan-
gao, and Yingling. Kanjuan is in the
hill country, about twenty-five miles
north of Tie Pass. If Kuropatkln
makes a stand anywhere it will be at
Kaiyuan. Beyond Kaiyuan a great
plain stretches away, and the broken
Russian army could not withstand in
that fiat district the movements of the
victorious Japanese. A speedy and
perhaps disastrous retreat to Hardin
seems to be all that is open to the
baffled and defeated Russians.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-18
Country Life.

IT was driving through the country sew
eral days ago." said man last night.
land l longed to be a farmer.
"On every farm, hands were busily at
work cleaning out fence corners repair
ing roofs of outhouses and making gem
eral preparations for spring If I should
lose my position in the city or If ! could
get my wife'r consent for me to resign.
l would take up farm life Nothing is so
pleasant as country life in the spring,
while in the winter it is not so laborious
as some would think. I believe there is
the country. an no matter how crowded
the cities may become the country win
have room enough to hold us all. and
land Is cheap"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-18
Concerning Dogs.

II certainly want to join in the protest
against the multitude of CANNES that in
fest the streets of the city" said a man
last night, after being reproyed by a
dog himself in rather deelamatory way
Il know little concerning the extent of
the intellect of dogs. but I am sure that
they are masters of the art of contro-
versy, for every night they hold council
meetings in my front yard, and wax warm
in the discussion of the events of dog
dom. I asked an old man the other day
how many dogs he had. and found out
that he had a family of no less than
eight, while the baby had several pups
for playmates. While all negroes are not
so fortunate in the number of their re-
tanners, few of them have none. / do
not speak of the dogs that wear tags, for
1 don't remember ever seeing but one
of that order.'
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Birmingham 20 eessemer.

II expect to live to see one solid town
along this line from Birmingham to Bes-
semer' remarked a gentleman on a car
from Bessemer yesterday.
For the past few years I have inter-
ested myself in watching the steady i'm
provement along this line. See that group
of new cottages there? There are about
dozen in the group. They have been
built in the past few months and are
all rented at good prices. Property is
advancing rapidly all along TIE line and
any of 1T Is desirable. l am a young
man. but expect to see this land selling
at city prices and being improved with
handsome residences and business blocks;
every mile of it."
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IN HOTEL LOB8IES
More ProsnerltY.

Speaking OF the Birmingham district
and its prosperity. did you notice in to-
days paper the special from Montgomery
giving the record of incorporation papers
filed with the secretary of state?" asked
the man who reads the daily papers.
According to the special three incorpo-
ration papers were filed with the state
officials yesterday-two of these being
Birmingham and Birmingham district
concerns. The other was one located in
Jasper.
This is a true index of the growth of
Birmingham. 1 always look over the list
OF new corporations and never fail to
find two or three from Birmingham.
whenever the secretary of state publishes
the list.
4 understand that more corporations
with larger capitals file articles with
the probate judge of Jefferson county
than are field with half dozen other
probate judges of the state"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-18
HOW TO WEAR CUFF BUTTONS

From the Philadelphia Record.
'Your cuff buttons are not properly
worm" said a jeweler to one of his GUS
toners.
whats the matter with them? Have
not / got them in r-y cuffs?"
Eyes" replied the jeweler, ''but you are
like a great many other people; you are
not close observer. You have the little
gold piece at one end of each link placed
so that in one cuff it is toward your
body and in the other away from you.
The small end of the link should in every
case be toward you. Yet nine men out of
ten pay no attention TO this detail. The
careful dresser never has the small end
of link button on the far side of the
cuff"
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THE WRONG MAN.
washington Correspondent New York
World

Washington Correspondent New York
World
A local photographer wanted the pic
ture of the Presidents friend. Seth Bull
lock, the sheriff of Deadwood. who
lead the cowboy bunch in the inaugural
procession He sent an assistant out to
round up Bullock and bring him to be
photographed. Presently the assistant
came back with a gray-mustached man
in tow and announced that his tow was
the man wanted. The man sat for sew
cral pictures AS he was going out the
clerk in the gallery said: by the way.
Mr.. Bullock, please give me your full
name for the pictures"
Bullock hell!' said the man. II am
not Bullock am Morgan Bulkeley
senator-elect from Connecticut"
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o'Neal for Governor.

From the Gadsde1 Times-News.
1t is generally believed that Hon. EN-
NETT O'Neal will be a candidate for gov
error of Alabama. Mr.. O'Neal is son
of Ex-Governor O'Nea1 and is a prom
inent lawyer and successful politician.
He was presidential elector in 1884 and
again in 1892. and in 1893 was appointed
United States marshal by President
Cleveland. He has been city attorney of
Florence for many ,ears, and last week
was made president Ct the Business and
Industrial league. While 1t is generally
admitted by friends of Mr.. o'Neal that
he will enter the race, the prospective
candidate himself has said nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-18
EVERYTHING WAS LOVELY.

From the Portland Oregonian.
Society note from the Klamath Reser-
walton:
A pleasant dance was given here last
night, and all those present report =
good time was had. Through a misunder-
standing William Barley shot two Of
the dancers. but as neither was fatally
wounded nothing occurred to mar the
pleasure of the occasion.
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By James witcomb pi.ey.

BY James Witcomb pi.ey.
Someday-So many fearful eyes
Are watching for thy dawning light;
So many faces toward the skies
Are weary of the night!
So many failing prayers that reel
And stagger upward through the storm,
And yearning hands that reach and feel
No pressure true and warm.
So many hearts whose crimson wine
Is wasted to a purple stain,
And blurred and streaked with drops Of
brine
Upon the lips of Pain.
oh, come to them-those weary ones.
Or. If thou still must bide a while,
Make stronger yet the hope that runs
Before thy coming smile;
And haste and find them where they wait.
Let summer winds blow down that way.
All, all they long Tor, soon or late.
Bring round to them. Somebody.
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WHAT TO WEAR TO aPARslFAL.v
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
What to wear to "Parsifal" is not a
question of sufficient Importance to call
for any DETECTION of the mental concen-
tration which is said to be requisite to an
adequate understanding of Wagner's great
masterpiece. To fully. or even partially,
absorb the profound mysticism of Par
sifaP' and to gain profitable edification
from its massive symbolism, the specta-
tor must not it should be obvious. take
any thought as to his or her raiment. To
gown or a gown cut low in the neck.
or Of a coat of this or that pattern, in
connection with such a grand spiritual
revelation as "ParsifaP' would be a most
unseemly obtrusion. 1t is latter all these
things that the gentiles seek"
If you desire to wear evening clothes to
''Parsifaf' you can point to such illus
trious and competent authority as the
King and Queen Of England. If you pre-
fer to twist the tail of the British lion.
you can wear the sort of toys that you
go about in on the streets. 1t will be all
the same to Mr.. Wagner.
Happily. that kind Of hairsplitting does
not trouble the people of Kansas City
very much. They are most too whole
some to let matters of that sort disturb
them. When you go to church, you will
see men in frock suits rnd silk hats
that is. few, and you viii see more in
knock-abouts and derbies. Most Kansas
City women have the good taste to dress
quietly for church. "Parsifal" will allow
more latitude. but one might suppose that.
from its profoundly religious character.
that anything that will do for Sunday
worship might go a. the Willis Wood
for the rest of this week.
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Strenuous Literature.

From the Centrevillc Press.
A citizen came down on Monday morn
ing, looking as if he had spent a weary,
restless night, and on someone inquiring
about his appearance he said: Sunday
evening and night 1 read one of the
Sherlock Holmes stories in the Age
Herald, and after retiring and going
to sleep, the plot thickened. and I ives
making all kinds of hair-breadth escapes.
This detective life," said he, lis too
strenuous for me even in my Sleep
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-18
WAS NOT MORGAN

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
''Words fail me-" said senator recent
ly. The name of the senator was not
given. but the Rochester Post-Express In
fers that 1t was not Mr.. Beveridge Of
Indiana. We hasten to nominate, also,
Mr.. Morgan Of Alabama.
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NOT MUCH.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
If President Roosevelt could reduce the
membership of the United States Senate
he proposes to reduce the membership of
the Panama Canal commission. do you
think he would be long in doing it?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-18

From the Mobile Item.
A physician in st. Louis, by solution
of salt infused into the veins of a "
man who was supposed to be dead, so
revived her that she is now believed to be
or the high road to recovery. This was
alright in the case of this good woman
but there should be some restrictions
placed on such physician There are some
people should be allowed to stay dead
when they die
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Lawyers in Bibb.

From the Centreville Press.
BIB has her share of lawyers without
a license who can hold their own with
the best of them. They are not usually
gifted with speech neither do they argue
points of law to the court, but they get
there just the same.
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Trouble Brewlnu.

From the Montgomery Times.
The Senate has again side-stepped the
President, this time n a negative way.
by allowing the Santo Domingo treaty
to lapse The outlook is good for another
case of family difference like that enjoyed
by Mr. Cleveland.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-18

Governor Adams of Colorado has
been unseated, and he should take an
appeal to the people of Colorado, who
We him last November a plurality
of q000
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The HAM.LAYING HEN.

From the Franklin (Penn.) News.
This mild weather gives biddy a chance
to go singing around as of DID, which
means ham and eggs for breakfast.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-18

A New York promoter, it seems, Is
trying to displace al Alabama conces-
sionaire in Santo Domingo. Senator
Morgan uncovered in the Senate the
entire scheme.
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wickEpNEss IN LUvERNE.

From the Luverne Journal.
Everybody in Luverne knows the young
ladies who lock arms with the devil.
You can fool some of the people some
of the time, but you can't fool all the
people all Of the time"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-18

Do not for one moment believe that
the Russians are retreating to Vladi-
vostok, for that town offers no line
of retreat, and the Russians need one
in their business.