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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29
CHURCH PARADEs OF MEXICO.

Writing in Harpers for May of a re-
cent return to Mexico after an absence
OF twenty years, Mr.. Thomas A. Janvier
describes delightfully."- the many wonder
full changes in the City of Mexico.
Seriously disconcerting was my dscov-
cry, on my first Sunday. that the church
parade on San Franciscan ancient in
stitution Of the capitalized lost its most
enhancing distinction from church par
AIDES elsewhere. In the days thataEe dear
to my memory, the ornate youth of the
city lined up against the house fronts
with the look of uncapped caryatides-and
along the narrow pavement in front of
them the ladies of the city streamed
seemly black of richness and wearing
on their heads black lace mantillas;
garb in which the plainest of women be-
comes a bewitchment. and that so raw
ishingly enhances the beauty of beau
tiful woman as to make her seem land
fall in the latitude of dreamsi The par
AIDE still goes on. The young men still
stand in their caryatide row; and still
very handsomely, l think, under the ex-
listing cOnultlOns) loOki ana even speak
their admiration as the ladies still stream
past them-but the ladies no longer wear
black, and their grace-giving mantillas
are gone. To their undoing, they are
clad in silks of dynamic colorings, not
always harmonlzed; and upon their un-
happy heads are the hideously huge hats
of the perod-and the result of casting
aside a beautiful racial dress for an ugly
passing fashion is so disastrous that to
comment upon it would be not less I'M
gallant than unkind To find the women
of Mexico thus helping in the hapless
work of uprooting ancient custonls-and
in a manner so conspicuously to their
own OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES my most painful
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Fishing.

Somehow the fish are not biting well
this year" said man who knows an eel
when he sees one. Il suppose the water
is still too cold. Next month will how
ever, be season of great delight for all
disciples of Isaak Walton. The rod and
line and the can of bait will be much in
evidence.
Fishing is an art. 1t requires skill and
patlence-much of both. The chief pleas
ure to be derived from fishing is its uncer-
tainty. You never know when you are
going to get bite. Then. when you have
hooked lively fellow, the opportunity to
play with him until he surrenders appeals
to the latent, lingering impulses of the
savage which lie hidden within us.
1.-The chief advantage offered by fishing
is calm. Nothing soothes a ruffied mind
and dissipates carking care so effectually
as a day or a halliday of fishing on some
pleasant stream or lake. where offensive
man is limited to ourselves There is
nothing that surpasses angling as a seoa-
tive. 1t is part and parcel of the simple
life and has been held in esteem since the
most remote times"
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terprise, has returned from New Or
leans. where he attended the confed-
crate reunion.
Charles r. Dalbey Of New orleans'was
in woodlawn on Friday attending the
funeral Of his brother Frank Dalbey
Captain R. c. Couch of Bell Buckle,
Tenn, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. H.
E. Dalbey, 5s0l First avenue.
The register of the Metropolitan shows
the names Of the following Alabama visi-
tors: c. P. Jones and wife of cullman,
W. F. Cooper of Gadsden, W. L. Barnett
of Mobile, and Fred Gyr of Jasper.
p. Gaines of Tuscaloosa is stopping at
the Hil1man.
F. Marshall and wife of Montgomery
are registered at the Birmingham.
]. w. Day of Marburg is at the st.
Nicholas.
G. Fred Allen of Tuscaloosa is at the
Morris.
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IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Notable Church Trial.


THE Rev Dr. A. S. Crapsey, rector Of
St Andrews Episcopal church, Rochester,
n. Y, is, from all accounts, one of the
best and most highly esteemed men, but
he no longer believes in certain Of the
fundamental doctrines of the communion
to which he belongs" remarked church
man, "and I cannot understand why he
does not withdraw from the Episcopal
ministry He has just been tried by
church court for heresy, or rather for
violation of his ordination VOWS, and the
verdict will soon be known. DR.. Crapsey
does not believe in the virgin birth OF
Christ and other things contained in the
apostles creed / have known many
skeptlcs and have felt that this is an age
of nnbelief. Therefore ! am not startled
to find many of my friends refusing TO
accept the doctrines set forth in the form
ulars of the various Trinltarlah
churches. But minister who recites the
old creeds and then says he does not be,
lieve in the statements set forth in these
symbols plainly stultifies himself. 1t is
SO easy to resign and get out and not
scandalize the church of which one is
member, that I do not see why there
should be any hesitancy in the matter
While the Anglican communion is
noted for its 'hroadness having within its
fold men Of different views-eyangelicals
ritualists and higher criticism folks, the
vast majority have accepted literally the
apostles creed
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city. and especially the boys and girls
that she trained and inspired, cannot
well do less than to erect n statue to
her memory cut IN enduring Alabama
marble by the best artist within reach.
When that statue is unveiled In East
Park. it will not be a difficult task on
the part Of tue women of Birmingham
to induce the Mayor and Aldermen to
call the little park hereafter tho Caha-
Ian park. Let the change In name
await the installation of the statue. If
that Is acceptable, the proposed change
will follow readily.
The task in hand is 20 secure the
sum needful TO present for the good
of all an excellent likeness III marble
of one who stroye year in and year
out for children. The brain force and
nerve force that she expended in the
course of twenty-five years of educa-
tional work can never be estimated in
Tack and white, but statue set in a
park that carries her honored name
would be constant reminder to all
passers-by that a life. consecrated to
children cannot pass away without
some degree of appreciation.
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JOHN KNOWLES PAINE A
SCHOLARLY COMPOSER

ter" first performed at Portland, Me-,
in 1873 and next by the Handel and
Haydn in Boston, the following year,
was not stirred by the electric vigor Of
originality. His symphony in minor.
first performed in 1876 by Theodore
Thomas. was highly praised and remains
his greatest work. He composed the
Centennial hymn to Winters words, for
the opening of the great exposition in
Philadelphia. The same year he wrote
AS You Like It," overture; the next
year a symphonic poem, Shakespeare's
Tempest" Duo Concertante," for vio-
lin and cello with orchestra QS7s), and
"A Spring Symphony Qss0)-the latter
favorite work in Germany as we'll as In
America
Some of his best compositions are incl
dental music to renderings of Greek plays
performed in Sanders theater at Cam
bridge by the Harvard students; the
"Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles' and the
final scenes of the Birds of Aristo-
planes The Oedipus music has been re-
garded as "a work of wonderful sublini-
ity.p and when it was performed at tho
international concert at the wagner res
tival at Berlin, in the fall of 1903, 1T won
a triumph. Among his other writings
may be mentioned the can tata. -sPhoebus,
Arise" words by Drummond OF Haw-
thornden Qss2); Keats Realm of Fancy"
for chorus. quartet, and orchestra QSS2);
Millions Nativity for chorus, solos and
orchestra, composed for the Handel and
Haydn festival in Boston QSS3), and con-
sdered one of his highest achievements;
symphonic poem, IAN Island Fantasy
dsS) Song of Promise a cantata, COM
posed for the Cincinnati festival, May.
1888; Columbus march and hymn, com
posed by official invitation for the open
ing ceremonies of the worlds Columbian
exposition (fss2); Harvard hymn and ma
tional hymn, Freedom Our Queen" and
the official Hymn of the West" COM
posed for the opening of the st. Louis ex-
position, in 1904, and given by the Han
del and Haydn society of Boston, Febr,i-
airy, 1905, with great enthusiasm.
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From the Springfield Republican.

RN0AtC~~--r
IT HE death of John Knowles Paine,
(l0 the first professor of music in
university faculty in this coun-
try. and one of the eldest, as certainly
one of the best of scholarly composers,
is to be recognized with sincere and even
profound grief Mr.. Paine was but 81
years old, and he was busy upon COM
position of which much was expected in
beauty, dignity and historic Importance
1t was a symphony whose theme was
the character and career of Abraham
Lincoln. Largely with the purpose OF
writing this symphony did PROFESSOR
Paine resign his chair, not yet year
ago, and he had without doubt worked
upon it so as to jot down his main
themes. but how much actual elaborate
comnosition he has covered is not known
He died of pneumonia at his home in
Cambridge.
Paine was born in Portland, Me-, Jan
nary 1880, and was dedicated to a must
cal life; was well taught in Maine by
German musician. and at 10 he had be-
come good organist. and had written
some small compositions. Then he went
to Berlin; studied the organ, played the
great instrument in public, and gained
in his three years abroad some repute
as one of the brotherhood of the organ
That was his standing when he returned
to the United States in 1861, and he in
fluenced strongly the vogue of the Ger
tn well TO
John Sullivan Dwight Alexander w.
Thayer and others of German teaching,
was the purchase of the great Walcker
organ that was for so many years IN
Music hall the distinction of musical
Boston, and of the Handel and Haydn
festivals. He brought to this country
Bach and his disciples-a boon for which
we owe him gratitude. He began his
teaching at Harvard college in 1852. first
of all to establish music as branch or
academic study, and he retained this emil
nence; passing very slowly-very sluggish
was the conversion of the college alithori-
ties-from instructor in a half-ashamed
way, to assistant professor in 1873, and
only in 1875 professor. He was alone In
his work, practically until the recent ap-
pointment of two assistant professors and
an assistant in music w. r. Spauld-
ing will probably succeed to his chair
The number of students in this depart
ment now exceeds 200.
Prof. Paine cannot be called great
musician. but he was a thorough must
cal scholar, and as teacher superior.
His works are considerable in number,
but his chief one, the oratorio. 81. Pc
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Passlnn of the Veterans.

The recent reunion at New Orleans
recalls the fact that the veterans of
the civil war will soon pass away. The
heroic deeds they wrought will live as
long as the republic does, and perhaps
even longer, but in few years the last
soldier of the greatest civil struggle
in the history of the world will have
gone to his reward.
1t is estimated that 100000 Confed-
crate soldiers survived the war, out of
a total enrolment of 100000 men. The
north put 2,75O, 900 soldiers in the field,
of whom 100000 came out of the war
alive. The Jacksonville Times-Union
takes these figures, and by applying TO
them the rules of insurance tables it
constructs a table of survival by ten
year periods of the veterans, as fol
lows
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East Parks Statue.

The voluntary unsolicited subscrip-
lions to fund for the erection of a
memorial to Mary Catalan are coming
In rapidly, and when the. pupils of each
year in the great teachers career are
seen the fund will assuredly assume
sufficient, even handsome, proportions.
Her career was so exceptional in
ateadfast and unqualified altruism. this
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remnants Past and Future.

The New Orleans team won the
Southern league pennant last year on
a percentage of Col, while Montgomery
with a percentage of 573 was second
to it. In the American league no pen
nant winner has ever reached at the
end a percentage of $50, except Bos-
ton in 1903, when percentage of $50
was recorded. More pennanrs have
been won under $50 than over it, and
history is apt to repeat itself even in
baseball. The teams in the Southern
league are of evener merit than had a
month ago been expected. The Mem
phis team has been materially strength
ened, and Little Rock is to be put on
stronger footing, and Nashville is
coming out finely. The team that has
o percentage of $50 in September will
have a right to expect the highest
honor of the league
What is the outlook in cold figures
of the Birmingham team?
It has won fourteen games out of
sixteen played. 1t is scheduled to play
twenty-four games ION the road, play
ing with all the teams in the league
except Nashville. 1t will probably play
twenty of the twenty-four games the
other four being either tied games or
else games postponed by wet weather,
If the home team should win ten of
the twenty games, it would return to
playa long series on the home grounds,
and its percentage at the outset OF the
home series would be SCI. That is a
winning percentage under such cir
cumstances, and that is all that need
be said on. that point at this writing,
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5lrmineham's Amusements.

Birmingham is getting to be good
amusement CENTER said citizen last
night.
The skating auditorium is popular
resort and another large rink is being
put up at East Lake. In addition to the
skating rink at East Lake the Casino
and many other amusement enterprises,
a circle swing has been added. This will
prove one of the most attractive fea-
lures of the park
The Bijou has been doing a fine bust
ness lately, a street carnival has been
in progress, we have had three tent shows
recently and numerous other forms of
entertainment In fact one can take his
choice of half a dozen places to go al
most any night in the week.
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New Idea.

Il have a new idea about site for
Vulcan" said member of the CONNER
cial club.
How would the top of the Brown-Marx
building do? The elevation would be
sufficient to smooth over his roughness
and give him a grand appearance. The
location is central, and would suit those
who want him placed in the city The
derrick is now in position to pick up
the iron man and place him right up in
the air. Think it over. Why not?
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WAR IN HOUSTON, TEX.

From the Houston Post.
To think that two boys can fight for
fifteen minutes in front of the leading
hotel OF the city, and carry their battle
even across the street, causing 200 Wild
~ interested spectators to blockade the
sidewalks and even interfere with traf-
nc in the center of the street, and not a
policeman near enough in all that time
to preserve order. 1t is no wonder that
robbers can enter homes in the residence
district in daylight. when such things can
the city.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
Lots of people would get up to see the
sun rise If they could bet on it.
The dangerous thing about getting en-
gagged to girl is you may have to marry
her
There is something about baseball that
makes a man awful glad he doesn't care
for grand opera.
No matter how much a man loves a
woman it is better for him TO tell her
he loves her more
Generally a woman keeps the pair OF
slippers she wore at her first ball along
with her love letters.
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wo well-dressed men met on
quiet street. They glared at each
other a moment and then both

other moment and then both
whipped out revolvers. Thick and fast
the bullets rained. Puffs of smoke rose
on the air and hoated away in the tree
tops, until one of the combatants fell to
the ground writhing In agony. But he
was not dead. The spirit of fight was
still dominant within his breast. Painful
ly drawing another pistol from his hip
pocket, the wounded man again opened
fire on his adversary who had received
a bullet in his right forearm and was
now using his left hand to empty sec
ond revolver. shot through the stom-
aeh also brought him low. The two men
were now lying on the ground shooting
venomousy. Their weapons again ex-
hausted, they crawled slowly toward each
other. The man with a shattered arm
held a knife In his left hand, the other
man. faint from loss of blood, exhibited
stletto, while his eyes betrayed a dead
ly look. Their arms rose and fell in
the CORY fray, slower and slower the
blows descended weaker and weaker the
two combatants grew until both sank on
the ground dead. A beautiful young
woman rushed up and clasped one of the
men in her arms, sobbing convulsively.
Is 1t a mortal tragedy we are telling you
about, Phyllis? No! Is it a fight for love
and honor? Mo-! Is it a joke? Noll!
The participants in this affair were hired
to enact a tragedy for a moving picture
machine. A man is operating a camera
near by and when the films are ready
they will be shown in family theatres.
WHEN HOBSON GOES TO CONGRESS.
Old Washington will wake up when
Young Hobson hits the town,
All covered Ger with kissing fame
And Merrimac renown.
Excitement will disrupt the House,
The Senate will allow
Itself to be entangled in
The universal row
The ladies will come out in force
To see what man is he
That hath so many projects tried
To win celebrity.
The gallery for visitors
VIII scarcely hold the crush,
And when the gallant Hobson talks
The veterans will hush.
The guides will point him out each day
OuI 4Nlth VIII step dSlutf
Attic the nations bridegroom who
Took Alice for bride.
The captain will be all the show,
The echo of his fame
Will make the mighty Theodore
Seem commonplace and tame.
Yes, he will make record there
What kind is hard to say,
But we may count upon him to
Do something, any way.
He may not bluff the big wide world
With Yankee sailor boys,
But as a congressman, you bet,
He'll make a lot of noise
It's very hard sometimes to convince a
girl that you met her last summer.
One of the crueest remarks ever made
about Shakespeare is that of central
western paper which says that if he
were living now he would be 342 years
old and would probably be a citizen Of
Indiana.
A mild odor can still be detected rising
from the insurance companies.
While it is probably true that the
Presidents muck rake speech gave John
Bunyans "Pngrim's Progress a great
boom, mere money can't do John any
good now.
COMING ENTERTAINMENT.
When summer evenings roll around
And many folks perspire
Wen see some moving pictures of
The San Francisco fire.
I
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The old soldiers will soon be but a
small percentage of the population,
and this sad but inevitable fact should
not be lost sight of in the Alabama
legislature when it meets next winter
and proceeds to consider the claims Of
the old soldiers. At present there are
15 140 pensioners on the states rolls.
They received pensions ranging from
$50 down to soto all $462,620 was
paid in the fiscal year ended Septem-
Der 80 last. Pensioners of the fourth
class receive but $50 year, and nearly
all the men on the rolls are in that
class.
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DELUSIONS.
5he Atlanta Journal.

From the Atlanta Journal.
Strange how decisions strike baseball
teams. The Birmingham club is laboring
under the delusion that it is the New
York Giants club, while our Atlanta
bunch is laboring under the delusion that
1t is the Brooklyn outfit
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Poultney Bigelow is coming back
from the isthmus loaded with facts
and pictures that he proposes to fire
into Secretary Taft, who is an excel
lent and abundant target.
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The Boston Globe says that Hobson
is running for Congress down in Ala
bama, but hasn't begun kissing the
babies yet. The esteemed Globe should
wake I'M. Hobson is elected.
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MAKING 1T STRONG.

From the Birmingham Times.
L. B. Musgrove of Walker is the Mark
Hanna in Alabama democratic politics.
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Speaker Cannon's home papers are
pushing him for President, and there
is a suspicion that their articles are
not wholly lacking in inspiration.
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Sioux Falls thinks there are harder
things to bear in this world than earth
quakes.
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General Porter wants the money APP
lpropriated to reimburse him for his
expenditures in searching for the body
of John Paul Jones added to the cost
of the hero's crypt. General Porter is
the right sort. ~
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The plutocrats are giving one min
ute's income to the homeless in San
Francisco.
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General Funston got the glory and
General Greedy will do the work, of
the disaster.
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Marriage licenses are in demand in
San Francisco. Love laughs at earth
ouakes, locksmiths and stern parents
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Knives were used in a class rush at
an Ohio school. That is indeed going
too far.
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Castro has turned his country over
to his understudy, but this country
would buck severely if President
Roosevelt should beckon Understudy
Fairbanks to come in and get warm.
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A corset company in New York has
increased its capitalization, but not its
waist measures.
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person can now own and smoke a
cigarette in Indiana, but it is not yet
safe to sell one
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Both Cunningham and Conner are in
a mood to agree that joint debates are
wearing
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HoBsoN's VICTORY

washington POST Captain Hobson
must be given credit for pluck, at least.
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Edwin M. Stanton gave Andrew Car
negie start in life. 1t must have
been good one.
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The interests that get the largest
ralle-offs out of Dingleyism say there
shall be no revision of that sacred in
strument.f
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Vesuvius now has mouth nearly 4
mile wide, but wide mouth is never
considered a good feature.
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French republication does not diff
fer greatly from the Russian article.
Suppression of opposition by the Big
Stick is Article One of both.