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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
Santo DOMINGO Treaty.

The Santo Domingo treaty is be-
iieved to be dead 1t may, however,
be mapping only. In the absence of
two more democratic recruits 1t is
hung up at any rate, and the opinion
prevails that Patterson, of Colorado,
and McEnery, of Louisiana, are all the
White House democrats that the Sen
ate contains. Two more are needed
in order to confirm the treaty and
they are not forthcoming. To confirm
q treaty a two-thirds vote is neces-
sary.
But the audacity of the President
may later on push his Santo Domingo
policy upon the country. He is said
to hold that a joint resolution would
give him all the authority he needs,
and a Joint resolution can be carried
through by majority vote. We freed
Cuba under joint resolution, and
Texas was annexed in a like manner.
The administration, therefore. thinks
It can gain free hand in Santo Do
mingo in like manner. A joint reso-
luton will no doubt be attempted, and
It will go through unless the Senate
talks 1t to death.
If the present receivership of Santo
Domingo be in any way confirmed,
new Monroe doctrine becomes at once
established, and creditors far and near,
and promoters and spectators, will
not be slow to take advantage of it.
They will bring about situations that
will apparently demand Intervention,
when in fact they would be working
Uncle Sam to fill their own pockets.
The American speculator will, as a
rule. be found at the bottom of such
a movement-some William Nelson
Cromwell right from the depths of
Wall street.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
Andrew 0. White on Lynching.

Goodwin Smith and Andrew ID. White
are men who study lynching without
stopping to consider its effects upon
the communities afflicted by it. 1t is
disorganizing, and upon the boys of a
community it is sadly demoralizing.
1t leads to more crime. Statistics show
this. But neither Goodwin Smith nor
Andrew d. White, living in localities
In which lynching is unknown, care
what becomes of distant communities
IN which the evil has foothold. They
are theorists of the college sort, a
thousand miles away from any pos
sibe case of lynching.
In their haste to denounce the great
wave of crime that covers this coun-
try, they demand more punishment.
Nine thousand persons are destined 10
be murdered this year in this country.
In Canada there is no homicidal wave,
nor is there one in any European coun-
try. simply as a matter of fact, +"
says Mr.. White, 1.-The United States is.
among all civilized nations of the
world, the country in which the crime
OF murder is most frequently commit
ted and least frequently punished
Our 5000 murderers a year should be
hung; no one will question that propo-
sition; and the fact that they are not
hung leads on to lynchings. But men
like Andrew D. White and Goodwin
Smith should ask themselves, do
lynchings lead to more crimes?' If
lynohings stopped the commission of
crimes, some justification for them
would exist, but statistics show that
is Just what they do not do. The
problem of crime in this country is a
difficult one, but it can be met and
solved. and the solution need not and
will not include a resort to Judge
Lynch. who stands for anarchy instead
of society, for decentralization Unsteady
of order, for injustice instead of law.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
CROMWELL SOME MORE.

From the Chicago Chronicle (Rep)
The breezy style of William Nelson
Cromwell in his testimony before the Sem
ate committee on Interoceanic canals, his
familiar way of coupling his own name
with those of Secretary Taft and other
high officials, speaking of our great
work and what we expected of Engineer
Wallace and the like, his assumption Of
superiority to members of the Senate
committee, his threat of personal violence
to one of them and his persistent refusal
to disclose matters which Congress ought
to know-all these things go to show that
Mr. Wallace was not far wrong in char
acterlzing Mr.. Cromwell as the Pooh
Bah of the canal and an intoIerable med
dler.
Mr. Cromwell is not lacking In a GER
tain kind of intelligence or deficient in as
surance easily passing into insolenee and
he evidently possesses the power of in
fuencing men by means of arguments
more speciops than substantial, and some
might say by hypnotic suggestions.
1t is not surprising, therefore, that his
services were used and priced by the
French Canal company and by various
isthmian authorities. including the officials
Of the seeded Republic of Panama, who
not improbably were persons selected by
himself to organize and lead the 'revolu-
ton which resulted in the separation OF
Panama from Colombia.
He seems to be a man we'll fitted by
knowledge, audacity and faculty and
taste for intrigue to do the kind of work
that the French company, the Panama
patriots and others concerned wished to
have done for them.
But for that very reason he is the kind
o. man whom. one would think, the high
officials Of our own government should
deal with cautiously and only to the ex-
tent rendered necessary by his relations
with those whom our government had to
deal with in negotiating the purchase of
the canal and the concessions needed from
Colombia, Panama or whatever country
might happen at the time to have juris-
diction over the territory traversed by the
canal.
He would, indeed, seem to be about the
last person with whom our government
should enter into confidential relations or
to whom 1t should intrust extraordinary
powers or upon whom 1t should depend
for advice and for information regarding
the acts of its own high officials and pre-
sumably trustworthy agents.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Storm Stories.

THE Meridian tornado has called forth
many interesting stories of storms ana
cyclones and they are favorite topics Of
conversation in hotel Hobbies and else
where" said an old citizen yesterday.
Il heard an interesting story Of the
cyclone at Leeds. in this county, when
occurred In about the year 1884. Every
tree In that section of tho country except
young saplings and dead trees destitute
of branches and foliage, was torn up.
was there soon after the awful storm had
dealt out Its death and destruction of
property, and was talking to a man who
had his face and hands badly lacerated.
He told mo the whole story of the
storm. He was coming through the field
whe nhe saw the black clouds assemble
and the wind to increase in velocity BE
threw himself fiat ON the ground and
grasped a real young sapling. The wind
whipped and beat him against the earth
with awful force, but he held on to the
sapling at the cost of all the skin on
both of his hands He said that that
wind which lasted but two minutes, SEEM
ed to him to continue for two hours,
and 1t looked as though it would never
stop beating him against the ground.
That sapling and a few other young
trees that were too small to offer resist
ance to the wind were the only ones left
standing anywhere near the farmer, and
while he was badly injured he eongratu-
lated himself on escaping DEATH
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
THE EVANGELIST.

From the Atchison (kan) Globe.
1t must be nice to be an evangelist. He
goes into a strange town under the
most auspicious circumstances. Every
one is glad to see him. the church mem
bers give him their best cooking listen
tearfully to his seedlings, and beam at
his praise His old sermons are new to
them, and If he lifts any sinners out of
the mire he is gone from town and spared
the humility when they fall back in
again. He Is like a bright light in the
church sky; gone too soon for the peo-
pie to discover that it is only an ordinary
candle light and perhaps not as bright
as that which Eliminates their pulpit
every Sunday in the year. The preacher
does the hard milking and the evangelist
comes along and gets the cream Under
the circumstances the church people
should really think more of their
preacher. He deserves some credit be-
cause he has never deserted his work
to prance around in evangelistic fields.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
Coal Testing Plant.

The governments coal-testing plant
at st. Louis, containing five divisions,
was severely crippled by fire last Fri
day morning. The briquette and the
coal-washing departments were almost
entirely destroyed. The loss is about
S25, 900, and the government carries no
insurance.
Congress should make good the loss
by fire, for the plant has much work
to do in making tests of coal from
every section of the union. Coal is
brought in by carload lots, and the
tests at st. Louis determined its value
for all possible uses for scientific or
practical purposes. Briquettes were
turned out in large quantities.
The st. Louis mill was the largest
coal-testing plant in the world 1t was
established as a part of the st. Louis
exposition, and it has been maintained
in order to complete the tests of all
Goals in the country. There were
enough in sight to keep 1t in operation
throughout the present year.
This is why the burned departments
of the plant should be rebuilt, and as
Congress is in session provision for
rebuilding should not be long delayed.
The value of tests by the government
cannot well be overrated, for in no
other way can the TRUTH the whole
truth, be brought out in relation to all
kinds of coal in this country. We
need the plant, and its work should go
on without serious interruption.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
eRosvENoR IN DANGER.

From the New York World
1t is time for all true friends of Cen
eral Grosvenor to rush to his help and
prevent President Roosevelt from kid
mapping him for consular duty.
The Generals right TO retire to the ut
most privacy of life must be respected.
His appeal must not fall on deaf ears
Fortunately he realizes fully the peril OF
his position. He swears that he will not
accept any consular appointment within
the present gift of the President Of the
United States.
Mr. Roosevelt has not revealed to what
foreign parts he intends to exile General
Grosvenor or whether he has any inten-
tlon of exiting him at all. But the Cen
eral knows what is likely to happen to
a statesman out of a job, and he Is TAX
ing precautions
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
CHIEF JUSTICE wEAkLEY.

From the Memphis Commercially
The appointment of Sam Weakley to
be chief Justice of Alabama will be very
gratifying to his many friends in Mem
phls He is a nephew of the late Col
Josiah Patterson and began the practice
of law In this city. He was shortly AFTER
wards appointed assistant attorney-gen-
eral of Shelby county and distinguished
himself as an able and aggressive prose-
cutor. Subsequently he was candidate
for the democratic nomination. but was
defeated He made his mark in this COM
munity as a young lawyer Of great prom
ise, and his old friends will be glad TO
hear that he has been appointed chief
justice of Alabama. That he will fill the
office honorably and worthily cannot be
doubted
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05

school authorities and the mill own
ers as to what constitutes the qualiil-
cation of reading within the meaning
of the factory law. The school au-
thorities say that reading without I'M
derstanding is not the reading that
the law contemplates. The mill own
ers say, on the other hand, that any
reading will suffice whether it be in
telligent or not
In no other state would such an Is
sue be raised, much less debated from
one end of 1t to the other, but Massa-
chusetts considers it a subject that
cuts deeply, and the school authori-
ties propose to carry a test case to
the courts, for they are confident no
court will say that mere ability to read
printed matter parrot fashion is SUI
felent. The legislators meant that a
child should read Understandings, and
that if he or she does not do that. IL
literacy exists.
It is, of course, difficult to put a
limit to the new definition of illiteracy,
because some things are stated In
print that few or none can read under
standingly, and the court that accepts
the theory of understanding will have
to devise a line and draw it with skill
and defniteness.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
TRACTS FRAGMENT.

BY Robert Burns.
All villain as ! ana damned wretch,
A hardened, stubborn. unrepentfng sin
ner-
Still my heart melts at human wretched-
ness,
And with sincere, tho unayailing. signs
I view the helpless children of distress
With tears indignant behold the oppres-
sor
Rejoicing In the honest mans destruc-
ton.
Whose unsubmtting heart was all his
crime.
Ev'n you, We hapless crew, I pity you
Ye, whom the seeming good think sin to
pity:
Ye poor. despised. abandoned vagabonds,
Whom Vice. as usual, has turned DER to
ruin.
o. but for friends and interposing heaven
l had been driven forth like you forlorn,
The most detested.s worthless wretch
among you'll
o injured God Thy goodness has endow-
ed me
With talents passing most of my COM
peers
Which in just proportion have abused
As far surprising other common villains
AS Thou in natural parts has given me
more.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
AUTHOR OF A NOTED WAR
TIME POEM PASSES AWAY

Femme Legouves "Histoire Morale des
Femmes." and others.
DR.. Palmer was a member Of the edi-
torial force of the Century dictionary,
and also contributed to the Standard
dictionary. He leaves one Son, courtlandt
b. Palmer a worthy member OF the INTEL
lectual society of Manhattan. It Is well
to give here the famous poem Of Stone
wall Jaekson's Way" which he wrote at
Oakland. Md. September II. 1862. while
the cannon of Antietam were echoing over
the hills:
Come, stack arms. men: pile on the rails;
Stir up the camp fire bright!
No growing If the canteen falls;
Wen make a roaring night.
Here Shenandoah brawls along,
There burly Blue Ridge echoes strong,
To swell the brigade's rousing song
OF stonewall Jackson's way.
We see him now-the queer slouched hat
Cooked DER his eye askew;
The shrewd. dry smile; the speech so pat,
So calm. so blunt, so true.
The 'Bluelight Elder knows 'em well,
Says he: That's Banks; he's fond of shell
Lord save his soul! Well give him -;
That's Stonewall Jackson's way.
Silence Ground arms Kneel all! Caps off
Old Massa's going to pray.
Strange the fool that dares to scott
Attention. It's his way.
Appealing from his native sod.
In forma pauperis to God,
Lay bare thine arml Stretch forth thy
rod,
Amen. That's stonewalrs way.
He's in the saddle now. Fall in.
Steady the whole brigade!
Hills at the ford, cut off; we'll win
His way out, ball and blade
What matter IL our shoes are worn?
What matter IL our feet are torn?
Quick stepl We're with him before morn,
That's Stonewall Jackson's way.
The suns bright lances rout the mists
OF morning; and, by George
Here's Longstreet, struggling in the lists.
Hemmed in an ugly gorge.
Pope and his Dutchmenl whipped before
"Bay'nets and grape' hear Stonewall
roar.
Charge. Stuart Pay off Ashby's score
In Stonewall Jacksons way.
Ali maiden. wait, and watch and yearn
For news of Stonewalls band
All! widow, read with eyes that burn
That ring upon thy hand.
All! wife, sew on, pray on, hope on;
Thy life shall not be all forlorn;
The foe had better ne'er been born
That gets in Stonewall's way.
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From the Springfield Republican.

~ NOTABLE poet and newspaper
APU worker was DR.. John William
son Palmer, who has died at his
home IN Baltimore, very near to his s0th
birthday. Palmer, born in Baltimore April
l. 1925 graduated as doctor of medicine
from the University of Maryland in 1s47.
and married In 1866 Henrietta Lee, who
had a career of her own as a writer,
and survives him. He was one of the
Forty-niners, and became the first city
physician of San Francisco. He travelled
over great part of the Asiatic world,
and while in China was surgeon In the
East India company's service; he wrote
up his experiences in the Burmese war
and his observations of Burma China,
Malaeca, Hindustan and other countries
for magazines for many years. When
the civil war began he offered his SER
vices to the New York Times, on whose
editorial force he was serving, as cor
respondent from the side of the south.
The letters he wrote were not published
by the Times, as Henry j. Raymond, the
editor. thought the constituency of that
paper would not tolerate them; he conse-
quently contributed these papers to the
New York Tribune, as Mr.. Greeley
thought they were just what the Trlbune's
public ought to read
DR.. Palmer was a graphic narrator, a
versatile essayist and a true lyrist, as
his most famous poem, "Stonewall Jack
sons Way" bears witness. This. however,
was not superior in merit, but only in oc-
casion, TO a number of his other war
lyrics. such as THE Fight at San Jacin-
to- and THE Maryland Battalion" an
other single poem, exquisite in beauty,
For Charles Sake" may be mentioned.
Richard Henry Stoddard and Edmund c.
Stedman have done honor to "Stonewall
Jackson's Way as one of the chief,
perhaps quite the chief, of Confederate
ballads. DR.. Palmer wrote also 1.-THE
Queens Heart" comedy in 1858; THE
New and DID, in 1859; up and Down
the Irrawaddi," Folk Songs" in 1860;
"A Treatise on Epidemic Cholera" 1856;
and he published in 1901 his collection,
"For Charles Sake, and Other Lyrics
and Ballads" Besides he made many
interesting transiatlons from the French,
as of Michelets "LAmour' and La
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
MARVEL IN MILLINERY
Is Wonderful Silver Hat Worn by Mrs.
Longworth.

From the New York American.
When Mrs Longworth was gathering to-
gether the most remarkable trousseau
ever purchased in America she decided
that she would have a hat that had no
counterpart upon this continent. A hat
of pure silver decorated with a giant
plume of silver, was what she made up
her mind to have.
Nobody had ever seen an ostrich plume
of silver. and such creation had GER
tainly never been attempted in this coun-
try, If in any other. The most skillful
worker in silver and feathers was engage
ed, and he set to work to manufacture
from countless filiaments of silver an
ostrich feather that would be almost as
light as real feather and have the APP
pearance Of one. save the glory of light
radiating from 1t.
He made plume 40 inches in length
that curls almost around the large rolling
hat of silver which it adorns and droops
down upon the hair of the young bride.
The hat is woven entirely of silver and
has silver tulle drawn In loose folds
around the crown and clustered at the
back over the bandeau. which Tits the
hat forward over the face a little. The
giant plume is fastened to the right side
and sweeps around the left Of the crown.
over and around the brim and down
upon the hair.
Mrs. Longworth has the distinction of
wearing the only ostrich plume of silver
ever made In America-or anywhere, 1t is
said-and that plume weighs not more
than four ounces. The entire hat, when
finished. weighed half pound, and 1T is
marvel in millinery skill, In weaving
and in plume making.
The cost of the hat is $500, including the
plume.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
path of a Cyclone.

The path of cyclone is always very
distinct Frequently buildings on one side
of street will be entirely demolished
and those on the other side will be but
little damaged" said a man who has
just returned from Meridian. Il noticed
in Meridian that all the buildings on one
side of Front street were, totally de-
stroyed, while some of those on the other
side were but scarcely harmed. OF
course the glass was blown out of the
windows and some of the cornices were
torn off the buildings. but I mean that
none of them were demolished.
This same fact was true the entire
length of the storms course. | drove
from end to end of the storms path in
Meridian and the immediate suburbs and,
the tornado did but little damage out of
a path several hundred feet wide. One
of the most striking variations from this
rule was the negro church at George
town, which was several hundred feet out
of the path of the wind. ! cannot under
stand what demolished this church. 1t
locked as If some monster giant had sat
on the roof and literally crushed it to
the ground.
There is debris in many of the streets
of Meridian and the suburbs, and 1t was
impossible to drive on some of them. On
others | had to drive over the roofs of
houses. which had been blown to the
ground, around the stumps Of trees. over
fences, which We're lying across the street
and in deep holes which were caused by
the unrooting of trees"
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CROMWELL'S IMPERTlNENCE.

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal
Rogers of Standard Oil fame won't an
swer questions, Rockefeller won't come
into court and William Nelson Cromwell
impudently defies the Senate.
Looks like the big trust has put the law
out of business, while the Washington
bureau, whose agent this Cromwell man
was, seems bent upon sitting down hard
upon the Senate.
Cromwell is a creature of the Panama
canal. He bobbed up, too, in the San
Domingo matter. and 1t is possible has
irons in the fires of one or two more of
the volcanic republics about which the
powers that be seem so thoroughly So
fictitious The Senate committee before
which his examination is being held has
exhibited a disposition to protect him in
his insolence to the venerable senator who
is conducting the examination.
The inference is bound to be that the
majority power in the Senate does not
want this individual to disgorge his knowl-
edge of Panama affairs. When a body
like this senatorial committee is willing
to go to the public baff1ed, badgered and
lilSuiltQ ny a nAthcSSf VIZ 10 PSiihittCu
to escape free of punishment, it naturally
gives rise to the suspicion that those in
control of the situation prefer this sort
of humiliation rather than that which
might follow If the witness should be
forced to give the testimony sought.
No one doubts the genuineness of Sem
ator Morgans efforts to get at the truth
of the matters withheld by Cromwell,
but unless the committee changes its ~rul-
ing and forces this impertinent witness
to answer questions the public will be
convinced that the majority of the COM
mttee have reason to dread any publicity
of the matters which this witness keeps
so well and so closely concealed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
ORIGIN OF ToAsT-DRINklNG.

From the New York Globe.
As early as Falstaff's time, at least, a
piece of toasted bread or biscuit in sack
was considered to improve the flavor.
This is the origin of the toast drink
ing'' also. OF the tale told in the old
.Tatler' of the beauty's bathing at Bath
in Charles lis time. the drinking of
her bath water by gallant company of
admirers, and the gay fellow, half-fud-
died" who wanted to jump in after her
vowlng that he liked not the liquor but
The toast in 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-05
1T YET MAY sE.

From the Philadelphia Press.
"see here" said the lobbyist of the flu
ture, Il want you to secure the vote of
Mrs. State Senator Jiggins You ought
to get ii for $500.
'Oh. N.Y." exclaimed his female assist
ant. Il wouldn't think of offering her
that
You don't mean to say shed want
more?'
"oh, no! I'll offer her $685."