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With speedy help doth lend redress.
—Romeo nnd Juliet.
BEGIN N INCi THE DAI —I thank
Thee, O inv God, for friends and
friendly nasoelatlona. Thou hast not ^
doomed me to live alone, hut hast ■ j
surrounded me with hearts that an- ij
swer to mine. I am upheld and com- |
furled nnd made rich l»> the com- j
pany of those who walk with me. j
Help me to live iinderstiindingly In
this foregleam of heaven, la ( hrlst's
v name. Amen.—H. M. IE
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The Aeroplane Stabilizer
The sad predicament of the dove ol
peace and the situation in Mexico
have not entirely diverted attention
from inventors who are working on
the problem of a stabilizer for aero
planes. Naturally, the success of their
efforts will have some effect on the
wars of the future by making war
aeroplanes safer, but the attempt now
being made to improve the aeroplane's
efficiency is not prompted by a de
sire to render war more deadly. It
has a broader and more utilitarian ob
ject. The birdman already has a p'.ace
in modern warfare, but as a comma* ,1
cial proposition the aeroplan^*;"
an experiment.
The British
have found a *'ice claims t0
tiral enough. g*aUiH”r that is prac
warrant the plan of it
being kept secret, although the British
government “will consider the ques
tion of revealing it soon in view of
the pressure being brought to bear to
make it public in the interest of hu
manity’s conquest of the air." This
stabilizer was invented by Col. J. E.
B. Seely, who claims that stability
depends chiefly on the shape of the
flying machine.
In a recent address delivered in
Philadelphia Mr. Wright said that
_t* .work on a stabilizer was making satis
r factory progress and spoke as if he
considered the problem solved, al
>• though aviation experts seem averse
'* .Alto | taking the public into their con
,</ 'IMence, so far as this matter is con
i' IT erned.
* Now that aerial flights are said to
cure some of the ills that flesh is heir
to and more and more people are ex
pressing a desire to aviate, the inven
tors should lose no time in making the
aeroplane both safe and sane. If it
d^n be so constructed that it won’t tip
ovtr, no matter what happens to the
operating machinery and the steering
gear, and no matter how the wind
blows, then the prediction that we will
soon be flying to business in aero
planes may be realized. Of course
such daring individuals as Aviator
Beachey, whose latest accomplishment
is the “corkscrew flip-flop,” would
scorn any contrivance designed to
prevent their necks from being broken,
but prudent people everywhere will
welcome the day whqn it will be possi
ble to navigate the air with the sense
V of security that is now so /woefully
lacking.
Dreadnaughts as Life Conservators
It has been the custom to regard
warships and dreadnaughts only
•S instruments of death and destruc
tion, but in view of recent events they
may become to be looked upon at
engines of preservation and media
of mercy. In fact, almost daily hat
the American navy been offering sig
nificant illustrations of the fact thai
the untimate purpose of our men ol
war and companioning craft is to con
serve life instead of destroying it
to further peace rather than prose
eating war.
Current advices are to the effec
that the Norwegian steamship At
lantis, after running aground a hund
rod miles from Tampico and being al
most In a sinking condition, was res
cued by the American man-of-wa
Connecticut and her entire crew saved
Only a few days a;;o another war
boat picked up five survivors of thi
steamship Columbian which was de
stroyed by fire in mid-Atlantic, am
the revenue Cutters Apache and Onon
daga went to\ the rescue of an un
'■ known vessel lying helpless at the
i mouth of the Potomac river.
Such occurences are becoming
common place and the record of these
war craft for useful and heroic deeds
is most brilliant. Frequent figuring
in such tragic events and participat
ing in deeds of mercy have a softening
effect upon those engaged therein as
well as upon those who read of the
deeds, and they but emphasize the fact
that maintenance of a great navy does I
not mean the brutalizing of men or I
nations, but upon the contrary it is J
instrumental in urging men to deeds j
of sacrifice and daring, inspiring them :
to respond to the impulses of altruism
I as well as insuring a more constant |
pursuit of all the arts of peace.
Commencement Season
This is the glad time of the year for
high school, seminary and college
graduates. It is commencement sea
son. Some of the finals have taken
place already, but many of them are
set for this week.
The old time baccalaureate sermon
was profound and sometimes dry, but '
the modern baccalaureate preacher is 1
chosen for his peculiar gifts, notably :
the gift of holding the attention of
old and young. He is a man with a
message, and with few exceptions,
what he has to say is clean cut and
animating. .
The schools, institutes and colleges
of Alabama are prospering, and the ,
commencement exercises this week |
will he full of interest. This state is ,
fortunate in having in her college ,
faculties men of exalted character and i
fine pedagogical equipment. The in
structors are earnest and conscien- |
tious. Their zeal has had a direct ef- ,
feet upon the student bodies, and the <
enthusiasm which is so much in evi- i
Jence in the class room comes in a <
urge measure from the enthusiasm of 1
[hose whose business and privilege 6
t is to impart knowledge to the young.
Among the commencements of the s
veek will be Howard’s and that at f
\uburn. This has been a banner year r
'or the Alabama Polytechnic institute. 1
\ccording to President Thach, Auburflf'
las had the most successful
jfear in
ts history. Its graduatin '-* ’ .
-iSrt-ig class is the
argest in many^r
“ years. The student
lodv total,■ n * ‘ „„
^rf.r about 820. 1 he institute
. technic in fact as well as in
f?1 Jfe, and in each department instruc
tion is thorough. Auburn has done
great work for Alabama, and it is
believed that next year the enrollment
of students will reach nearly, if not
quite, 1000.
The commencement at the Univer
sity of Alamaba begins next Sunday,
May 31, and will continue through
Wednesday, June 3. On Thursday,
June 2, Congressman A. Mitchell Pal
mer of Pennsylvania will deliver the
alumni address. Under the presidency
of Dr. .George H. Denny the university
has grown strong, and its influence is
now felt throughout the south as never
before.
Alabama is to be congratulated in
deed upon the achievements of its in
stitutions of higher learning.
Was St. Paul a Myth?
Surely these are the days of the
iconoclast and so-called higher crit
icism is mowing down the characters
of history as the reaper cuts the
grain. It is not unfamiliar to modern
j ears to hear the existence of Christ
denied, but now comes one Samuel
Lublinski, a German, who refutes the
historicity of St. Paul and asserts
that the great Damascene was but a
sun-god.
He advances as the proof of his
argument, if argument it may be
called, that St. Paul was said to have
been imprisoned at Philippi and Phil
ippi is a symbol for the land of the
dead. The disciple's journey from Asia
to Rome is said to typify the passing
of the sun from east to west. Peter
was a doube and Lydia, the “seller
of purple” was a double of the mythi
cal female Mary-Isis.
No one can think of treating Lub
linski .seriously and it may be set
down as certain that centuries hence
there will be found men of his ilk who
will declare that Napoleon was a sun
god, a double of Apollo. They will ar
gue in this fashion: Napoleon is an
anagram for Apolyon and Apolyon
means the sun. Napoleon was bom of
Letitia and Apollo’s mother was
named Latona, a slight variant. Bona
part had four brothers upon thrones
and they signify the four cardinal
points of the compass, north, west,
south and east. The Russian campaign
was but a symbol for the journey of
! the sun to the north. For a while the
snows melt before him but about the
time that Moscow was said to have
been reached, the sun began to re
cede. All a symbol of the sun-god, a
type of Apollo.
Nothing is better established his
torically than the identity of St. Paul
and one is sure that he is a real per
sonage. The conceit of this Lub
linski must be accredited to a mental
vagary or an abnormal craving for
notoriety in the securing of which
his sun-god theory is an absurd ef
fort.
I “Go ahead and leave me,” said Colonel
Roosevelt In the jungles of South America.
If the camera men could have been-there!
I
V i
W. C. Phalen of the United States geo
logical survey says the year 1913 was
the most prosperous In the history of the
bauxite and aluminum industries of this
country. The production of bauxite in
1913 was 210,211 long tons valued at $997,
696. It is chiefly used as raw material in
producing metallic aluminum, in the man
ufacture of aluminum salts, bauxite bricks
and alundiutn, which is used as an
abrasive. The aluminum consumed in this
country last year amounted to 72,379,090
pounds, nearly 10,000,000 pounds more than ^
whs consumed In the United States in
1912. Of the 377,000,000 pounds of aluminum 1
produced In the last 20 years more than !
329.000,000 pounds have been consumed in
the last 10 years, showing the re
markable growth of the aluminum
industry. In 1864 the total produc
tion was only 150,000 pounds. Alum
inum is used to a great extent in making
Looking utensils, but it is employed on a
larger scale in the construction of welded
tanks, cooking vats and vessels used by
jrewers. manufacturers of preserves and
rat renovators and in those industries
svhhh require a metal that will not con
Ju< t heat, will not corrode and is not
>oisonous. Experiments have shown that
m!y oranges, lemons, Brussels sprouts
md tomatoes affect this metal, but the
luminum dissolved by these agencies is
o small that no harm is done. The use
't aluminum wire in long distance power
ransmlsslon is also increasing. An alumi
iuni powder known as aluminum bronze
s used as a paint pigment, in making ex
plosives and in lithographing and printing,
aluminum foil is used for wrapping com
her dal articles such as cheese, choco
ate candies and tobacco, while aluminum
olos in shoes protect the foot from all
lampness and last much longer than
eat her soles.
After a majestic voyage across the At
antlc ocean the Vatcrland was humiliated
t Hoboken by an impudent little tub
rawing a barge. While waiting for the
ug to take itself out of the way she
rifted below her berth, and it took other
ugs four hours to straighten her out
gain.
Steerage passengers don't avail them
elves to any great extent oft the
king
acilities provided for
in one of the
ew liners, .
is not to be expected
hat
habits of a lifetime can be over
come during*a brief ocean voyage.
A New York barkeeper of many years'
experience bears the reputation of never
laving uttered a profane word. Yet, bar
ceiping presents many vexatious prob
enis that would try the patience of a
mint.
The plaintiffs in a Pittsburg lawsuit that
nsted 42 years were awarded 6'i cents and
ten-elevenths of 20 acres of land. As
-here were 70 plaintiffs the pro rata share
Is nothing to speak of.
A wealthy woman in Connecticut, old
enough to know better, has just married
her young chauffeur, who is thus moved
from the front seat to the back seat of
the tonneau.
A Massachusetts bellboy has received a
legacy of $30,000 because he was polite to
a hotel guest. The door of opportunity is
never closed to ambitious bellhops.
A Georgetown astronomer thinks the
new comet reported by observers is only
a tramp and has no real standing in the
society of comets.
A Brooklyn woman gave a party in
honor of a “hired girl," who has been in
her service 50 years. A rara avis among
domestics.
——- .
A Philadelphia savant says the hobble
skirt is 3000 years old. That's tracing it
back almost to the Garden of Eden.
BANK OF LIVINGSTON
From the Florence Times.
The people of Lexington intend to es
tablish a hank at that thriving town and
have already made up very nearly the
amount of capital necessary. The capital
stock will be $10,000 paid in. This is going
some, and it indicates the progressive
spirit of our people. With three banks in
Florence, and one in Rogersville, Water
loo and Lexington each, we will have am
ple banking facilities sure. Lauderdaie
is on the rising ground, and our progress
from now on will be steady and sure and
rapid.
ELECTRIC POWER IN BLOCTON
From the Blocton Enterprise.
R. A. Mitchell of Gadsden, vice presi
dent of several subsidiary companies of
the Alabama Power company, was here
Tuesday looking ovec the field with a
view of placing electric power in West
Blocton.
LUKE M’LUKE SAYS
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The old-fashioned man who wanted to
fight when you called him a liar now lias
a son who is a member of the Ananias
club.
When you see two White shoes drying
on a window sill and a girl hanging out
of the same window drying her hair, you
can bet that she isn't going to eat any
raw onions for supper.
No, Myrtle. Great heavens, no! Cyril
Maude is not a chorus lady. He is an
actor.
You may have noticed that the easy
going man is usually a kind of human
door mat..
A woman*is always tickled to death to
see a paperhanger when he comes, and
tickled to death to see him go when he
goes.
The only time I ever envy a deaf man
Is when he is going home to his wife
about 2 a. m. after having a large evening.
Before marriage the only thing she
w'on't believe about him is that he is
unworthy of her. After marriage it i«
the only thing she does believe about
him.
A woman is smarter than a man. She
can make him think he understands her
wl.cn he knows he doesn’t.
\ There is nothing wonderful In the fact
that a horse does not run away when he
sees an automobile. But a horse is en
titled to some credit for not running away
when he sees a girl wearing a purple hat
with a four-foot cerise how, a yellow
waist with blue trimmings, and a red
skirt with two green potato sacks hang
ing on her hips.
The girl who accepts the first boob who
comes along may be playing safe, but she
is missing a lot of valuable experi
ence. ;
The only way to account for some of the
husbands women marry is the fact that
most women are confirmed bargain fiends.
And the Lord Isn’t alone in loving a
cheerful giver.
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Alabama Crop*
"I have not taken a trip through the
state recently hut I get report* from
every section and am glad to he able to
say that the crop situation is all that
could be desired," said D. M. Dickson, the
well-known fertilizer salesman.
“Cotton Is in fine condition. The little
cool spell did not hurt, and now that we
are having hot weather again all the
crops v ill grow at. a great clip. All in
all. we have had a highly favorable sea
son. The old saying that a dry May means
a big cotton crop never fails to come
true. I would not be surprised to see a
record-breaking crop this summer.
“Alabama will produce more corn and
hay than usual. We had a large corn
crop last year, hut as a larger acreage
was planted this spring the yield will
doubtless make a new high record this
year."
The South's Development
“In the new era of prosperity which
many leaders In the business world think
is in sight, the south is sure to have a
large share," said H. N. Humphrey of
Chicago.
"During my 20 years’ connection with
large mercantile Interests I have not
heard so .much of the south as I am
hearing at the present time. This section
is talked about favorably wherever I go.
The natural progress of the south has
been wonderful but its development will
be at a still taster rate within the next
five years."
% (irrat tear At Auburn
The Alabama Polytechnic institute at
Auburn lias issued an illustrated current
catalog for the 1913-14 session. It con
tains 192 pages and gives full Informa
tion concerning the institution. Among
the notable improvements lias been the
erection of the wireless telegraph sta
tion and the. establishment of a course in
wireless telegraphy. Here are some in
teresting facts culled from the catalog:
"The attendance of 820 students Is the
high water mark of the institution, in
eluding representation from every county
in Alabama save two; 16 states of the
union, and five foreign countries, includ
ing Mexico, Peru, Cuba, China and Guate
mala.
"The largest county representation^^re
W follows: Jefferson 86, Me JJ, .'‘jJontgom
■ry 42, Tallapoosa I** 4J#engo’ 17, Esram
;>ia *'• Mobile 16. r')lhoun 1B> Randolph 16.
Walker *•'- .icox 15, Russell 14, Elmore
", ‘ oog^,»|4 Chambers 12, Barbour 12,
l^tfnon 12, Marshall 12. Talladega 11, Hale
10, Geneva 9, Choctaw 9, Bullock 9, Bibb
9, Macon 9.
"The number of post-graduates Js 19.
seniors 122, juniors 128, Sophomores 166,
freshmen 114, school of pharmacy 4f>, vet
erinary medicine 66. mechanical arts 37,
short course students 58. irregular stu
dents 76. The senior class is the largest
in the history of the institution.
"The college of engineering Includes
electrical engineering 104, mechanical en
gineering 186, civil engineering 43, archi
tecture 38. mining engineering 12, survey
ing 195. descriptive geometry and mechan
ical drawing 487. mechanical arts 333.
"The college of agriculture includes an
imal industry 320, agriculture 269, horticul
ture 120, forestry 47, landscape gardening
26, chemistry 464, entomology 49, botany
197, veterinary medicine 69. pharmacy 68.
"Academic departments include English
620, history 394, mathematics 521, mod
ern languages 128, physics 464."
A Special < orrcMpoiHlent'n Review
"One of the most interesting and com- !
prehensive articles on Birmingham which
I have read recently is that by Albert
Phenls. special correspondent of the Haiti-j
more Manufacturers’ Record," said a
member of the Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Phenis is a luminous writer, but he
does not allow’ his imagination to get the
best, of him in presenting facts as they
are. He starts his article by saying:
“ 'Two influential factors for the utiliza
tion at this point of a most extraordinary
concentration of natural resources have
been the purchase by the United States
Steel corporation of the properties and
plants of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad company, and the hydro-electric
development activities of the Alabama
Power company. In a physical way, the
advent of the Steel corporation meant a
development such as could only come
when a highly specialized, deeply scien
tific and abundantly financed organiza
tion seriously and wnole-heartedly in
terested itself in the district. It is only
at this time, nearly seven years after
taking hold, that the company has com
pleted the expenditure of some $25,000,000
in practically rebuilding and equipping
every part of the works—coal mines, ore
mines, furnaces, steel mill*, coke plants,
water supply, etc.—and establishing ItRelf
on a basis to economically and properly
utilize the phenomenal conditions here of
proximity in ore. coal and limestone ma
terials, with well-developed transportation
lines for distribution of the manufactured
article in every direction.’
"Mr. Phenis mentioned the new wire
mill and a number of important indus
tries and recalls the late John W. Gates’
prophecy that Birmingham would be the
first Inland city in the United States to
show 1,000,000 people. The Manufacturers'
Record correspondent says:
" ‘Refined products of iron and steel, as
well as the heavier shapes, must be man
ufactured here by companies and Indi
viduals not now on the ground, as well
as by those who are already here, and
many other large and small Industrial
plants, manufacturing an almost Infinite
variety of articles, must be attracted to
the place. .It is no longer regarded as a
flight of fancy when Birmingham is re
ferred to as the Pittsburgh of the south.
A wider understanding of the vast pos
sibilities the phenomenal aggregation of
resources here affords has led the whole
country to anticipate Birmingham’s de
velopment on an immense scale.’ "
Regarding Sunday Observance
"The general assembly of the North
ern Presbyterian church In session at
Chicago has urged a strict observance
of Sunday,’’ said a layman.
"The recommendations made by a
'Sabbath observance’ committee was,
in fact, a reiteration of the general
assembly's strong and emphatic dis
approval of all secular uses of the Sab
bath day, all games and sport, and all
unnecessary traveling and all excur
sions.’ Among the clauses in the. re
port adopted are these:
" ‘That the general assembly reiter
ates its emphatic condemnation of the
Sunday newspaper and urges the mem
jbers of tlie Presbyterian church to re
fuse to subscribe for it or read it or
| advertise in it.
“‘That the faculties of colleges and
seminaries, if the way be clear, be re
quested to omit recitations Monday
mornings so as to leave the Sabbath
free from the necessity of students pre
paring their lessons on that day.
“ ‘That a Sabbath observance com
mittee be organized In each synod and
presbytery.*
“My parents were members of the
Presbyterian church and when I was i
hoy, Sunday was strictly observed It
our home and among Presbyterlatn
generally. In my youth I had an Idef
that It was sinful to read anything or
Sunday but religious literature. I wa;
taught that It was wrong to ride on s
street car on Sunday. There was n<
Sunday morning paper. After 1 wai
grown I still kept up my church going
habit, but my views about Bundaj
changed. The daily paper began t<
issue a Sunday as well as a Mondaj
morning edition, and 1 felt no sting
of conscience In looking over the secu
lar press on the lyord’s day.
"T have no criticism to make of th<
genera] assemhly in its action regard
ing Sunday observance. People whc
conscientiously bold to the old-tlm<
Ideas should be consistent and keep
Sunday Just as their forefathers did
But I look on the Sunday paper ar
a necessity and on the operation ol
street ears as a necessity. I believ*
In Sunday afternoon concerts, moving
picture shows and other forms of hu
manizing diversions. The trouble with
some good people is that they would
If they could, through legislation, re
quire the general public to conform tc
their notions."
The Hiininrss Situation
Henry Clews In his Saturday review
says. In part:
"Tile slock exchange appears to be
anxious to assume a more cheerful
mood. Perhaps the most direct cause
of this change Is the greatly Improved
Mexican outlook. President Wilson
has, it Is to be hoped, succeeded in
avoiding Intervention by the United
states: thus saving the country from
wholesale loss of life and property.
"So far as the railroad situation is
concerned, it would Seem us if the
worst had been well discounted. The
tiatfic losses of last winter are now
a matter of history. During the bal
ance of the year, transportation Is more
likely to Increase than decrease, and a
moderate gain in tonnage woqld be in
finitely more advantageous to the roads
than any gain which they are ttVely to
secure through favor*!.)* conceaalona
In rates. ...
.Villi-4-tu.nparatively few weeks
.ne new hanking law will gradually
go, Into effect. Its Influence upon the
monetary situation will, of course, be
beneficial. Inasmuch as It will facili
tate credit operations and thus stimu
late activity In various directions In
trinsic business conditions from the
economic standpoint are sound.
"The preponderating influences favor
a better market. Some disturbing in
fluenccs have been thoroughly dis
counted. and in many cases there is
an amelioration of conditions which
justifies more hopeful views regarding
the future. Cheap money and good
crops are almost irresistible creators
of optimism. Their principal offsets
are the Mexican troubles and a con
rused political outlook. It Is difficult
to predict which set of influences will
gain control. Should the latter dim
inish in intensity, we are sure to wit
ness a revival in confidence and with
it more activity In business and a
better tone in the investment mar
kets. The Mexican outlook and the
foreign situation. however, require
close watching."
I.AUDEHDAI.E CROPS
From the Florence Times.
Lauderdale farmers are just beginning
to discover the wonderful capacity of then
soil. It has not been long ago when th<
man who made a bale of cotton to th«
acre was regarded as having accomplishes
a wonderful Job. Now a bale to the acr<
Is a common thing—one planter havini
made 30 bales on 30 acres. The garni
can be said of corn. A few years age
the idea that we could make 100 busheli
of corn on one acre was declared prepos
terous. Now several of our farmers hav<
shown that more than that much can b<
made on an acre. Over 130 bushels hav<
been made one one acre. The above, dem.
onstrations have opened the eyes of oui
people, and the effect has been remark
able. Hundreds of farmers are striving
for better results, and today over HO
boys are manfully struggling for prize!
for big crops, which already they hav<
shown can be grown.
CAPITALISTS AT UNION SPRINGS
From the Bullock County Breeze.
F. .1. Lisman. a New York financier
Mr. Castell of Chicago and Mr. Stachl oi
Kentucky, influential capitalists and othei
gentlemen, cume In a special car ovJ
the Central and then switched onto thi
Birmingham and Southeastern track am
went over that road op a tour of inspec
tlon and were pleased with the outlook
They declared that there was more lam
In cultivation along one side of this roat
than on both sides of the jpond from New
York to Chicago. There la every Indies
tlon of something brewing on the Blrmlng
ham and Southeasern. That road wil
soon begin to extend both north anc
south. One or \wo right of ways Is nee
essary between Eclectrlc and Equality
There was a meeting at Equality thli
week to consult about the extension.
WORK ON NEW RAILROAD
From the Baldwin Times. _
W. H. Miller, general manager of th
Mobile and Baldwin County Electric rail
road, with headquarters at Volanta, Wa
here attending court, and he reports tha
the first station on the road outside o
Falrhope has been completed and a boa
has been secured to traneport the freigh
and passenger business across the has
The boat will run direct from Mobile t
Volanta and make no Intermediate stopi
The vessel will arrive this week.
The roadbed out of Volanta, on th
eastern shore, to Pensacola has bee
completed except for a distance of aboi
12 miles, Mr. Miller said, and he extpect
this to be finished within nine month!
The line Is projected to run from Volant
north to Bay Mlnette, with a branch crosi
ing to Mobile river and running to Moblli
CULLMAN’S NEW POSTOFFICE
From the Cullman Democrat.
Postmaster Griffin threw the doors c
the handsome new gocernment bulldln
open to the public Thursday night an
visitors were shown over the place whll
the Fourth Regiment band made the o<
caslon Joyful with excellent music.
The building cost W0,000, It Is construe:
ed of buff brick, Indiana stone and Al«
bama marble.
City free delivery will he started June
GEOROIANA AFTER IV ATEHVVORK
From the Butler County News.
Another enthusiastic meeting of tt
Georglana Commercial association wt
held Monday night. The chief topic ui
der discussion was a waterworks plant fi
Georglana. It was shown that the sa’
Ing In Insurance alone would make tl
Investment a profitable one to our li
ciUlty.
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| PROGRESSIVE PARTY RETURNS
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. By Bttitj TllTU
I * . . .
Wabhjnu'iun, May 24.—(Special.)
The progressive party is again
in our midst. Back from a long
trip through the Jungles of Braall, where
he discovered a river, which had care
fully refrained from being discovered in
order that It might cut a figure in the
next political campaign In the United
States, the progressive party announces
that after a few weeks rest, and abso
lute quiet he will have something to say
upon the political situation. Outside of
mnkftg a speech in Washington, going to
Madrid to the wedding of his son, and
calling a meeting of hts lieutenants, all
within the brief period of 10 days, the
colonel is going to lead a perfectly quiet
and retiring life until he gets rested up.
Of course, he will throw in a few Inter
views bawling out the administration, call.
Ing upon all men to witness what monu
mental liars those European scientists
aie who presume to question the discov
ery of his river, and carefully explaining
the gigantic blunders the democrats and
Piesident Wilson are making of things,
but he will not become really active until
he has fully recovered his old-time health
and \igor.
We've got to hand it to the colonel. It’s
a gieal thing to have been assistant sec
retary of the navy, colonel of the Rough
Riders. President of the United States, or
ganizer of the Ananias club, discoverer Of
a river, smasher of the republican party,
the whole cheese of a brand new political
party and father-in-law of Nick Uong
worin, all in a lifetime, and with untoki
possibilities for the future. The colonel
can boast of a longer list of actual
achievements than any other citizen of the
republic, and he Is still in the achieving
business. With what Is left of the old
time republican bosses-that Is, those who
still linger round,tjr edges of politics eat
ing o'lb’a! his hand, or not eating at all,
‘he colonel bids fair to cop the nomina
tion of both the progressives and the re
publicans In 19I«, or fix It so that the
fellow who gets the republican nomination
will have a lemon wished on him. He
is the one big cloud on the horizon to the
derru i ratio party.
Roosevelt Is a great, big man. So far
as is known he never originated an idea,
uui no mbs quic-K appreciation ot wnat is
a good Idea, and when some other fellow
originates 4t the colonel promptly grabs
it, adopts It, calls It his very own, proves
that It is, copyrights It, and gets away
with it. He has a faculty of making the
staunchest friends and the bitterest ene
mies. When his famous case of libel
against the editor out west, for charging
him with being In th% Huerta class, wus
on, there were hundreds of men In Wash
ington ready to swear that he never drank
a drop; also hundreds that declared most
emphatically that he did.
He is the absolutely only truthful mat
of his personal knowledge. There are
ethers whom the colonel believes in, but it
tfiey should happen to peeve him as others
that he believed in, In the past have done,
they instantly become the most abom
inuble and debased creatures allowed to
roam at large. There Is but one way to
win his favor and keep It, and that is to
agree entirely with whfct he says all the
time, and lelterate dally that he is the
greatest President, the greatest scientist,
the gxetest exemplar of progress, the
greatest eolqief, the greatest disseminator
ot truth, justice, freedom and everything
that tend j to uplift, financially, commer- j
daily, morally and every other way, that a
the country has ever known; moreover I
will ever know*. So long as you subscribe I
to these opinions, and state them fear
Wsly upon any and all occasions, you are
aces up, with the colonel, and when you
fall to subscribe to them or waver In the i
slightest degree, you are a fat head. |
In the eyes of the colonel, Penrose and
ft-ot ate reactionaries, while Flinn and
George W. Pm kins are program**; can
non and Barnes are pirates, while Pinchot
and Murdoch are philanthropists. While
ai a matter of fact old man Joe Cannon
hi* mure patriotism and more brains thar.
all the rest put together, v. r. 1 Lli.r i ulcnel
thuwn in f<»r good measure.
M.ut f e gf=ts bv with it. He wilt i mtli.ne
to g :t by with it. Ills subllMu ogui mu
a 1Ci*i:lid ; cc is a dang«v *» 2* limiint,
uii.l if he can rull the rank and fi'3 t%* tie
republican party into camps he will defy i
the leaders, and will grab the nomination,
and it will take the hand of providence
to keep him from being elected President
of the United States for the third time.
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
.n •
TRIAL O F M. ZOLA
WHAT a monstrous injustice was
the trial of M. Zola, the emi
nent French writer, who was
arrested charged with libeling the
French army. The charge against him
was preferred by the same set of
Frenchmen who had consigned the In
nocent Alfred Dreyfus to a sentence
worse than death.
M. Delegorgue was the president of
the court of assises of the Seine, who
tried Zola. The hearing consumed 15 days
in February. 1 899. Hundreds of spec
tators were present duilng its continu
ation, and on the most part their con
duct waa most outrageous, and the
anti-Dreyfus demonstrations were en
couraged rather than otherwise by
those in charge of the trial. This rabble
was allowed to accentuate the pro
ceedings by clamor of assent or dis
sent as the evidence suited or dis
pleased them.
Zola, early in January of 1899, pub
lished in a dally paper In Paris called
"L'Aurore," a letter addressed to Presi
dent Faure. in which he charged, in
no uncertain or mealy terms, an ac
cusation against military tribunals
which, within the few^ preceding months
had acquitted an alleged traitor and
which, in 1894, had condemned another
army officer—Dreyfus—to banishment
for life in a penal settlement after his
conviction upon the charge of reveal
ing army secrets to a foreign govern
ment.
It was just after the acquital of
Esterhazy for his part In the Dreyfus
degradation and as the author of the
Bordereau, that Zola wrote the letter
to the President of France, accusing
both councils of war of having know
ingly screened the real culprit in pun
ishing Dreyfus and acquitting Ester
hazy.
The letter consumed several columns
of the “L'Aurore." Thereupon the mln
. lster of war, .under article 30 and 31
i of the correctional prees law of July
39, 1881, which punishes defamation,
preferred charges against Zola, which
charges Ignored all the other libelous
criticisms in the letter of what Zola
called "the Infamies of the Dreyfus
trial mainly behind closed doors and
with secret testimony," and confined
the prosecution to the charge that the
council of war which acquitted Eeter
hazy. acted not on evidence but on gov
ernment ordere to acquit lest convic
tion should free Dreyfus and convict
i the prior council of error.
Nearly all the Paris papers declared
that the honor of the French army had
been assailed by Zola and so inflated
a patriotic cry against him. The com
TOMORROW—TRIAL OF
t APPL1B8 TO HlTUltTA
f From the Kansas City Star,
t Huerta, in parleying for a return SB'
1 lute of "gun for gun," and trying to gsi
' something extra in hie order, remindi
William Allen White or the story of th<
gay drummer who, when the hatchet
» faced dining-room girl sSiied up to hln
11 with "beef - steak - pork - chops-cornbc*f
* hash - broiled - ham-baeon-and-eggs," re
{ plied, twirling his mustache and looklnl
i up Into her milk-blue eyes:
. "Sadie, will you kindly tell the cook ti
i. take two nice, fresh eggs—real nice, fresl
eggs, Sadie, and pour some boiling wate
in a hot crock—heat the crock before
hand, Sadie—and then arop those twi
f nice, fresh eggs In the boiling water li
3 the hot crock and wrap up the crock ill <
1 clean, whit# towel, Sadie, and let 1
e stand eight minutes; I know you'll di
- that, Sadie, for your old friend—eh
Sadie?" .
Again he looked up with the eyes o
- a dying calf into the orb* of skimra#
milk-blue and heard this reply: "Tu’l
- git reglar egge." Huerta'll “«lt regl*
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PROLONGING I,1P*
6 From the New York World.
Health Commissioner Qoldwater has
r scheme afoot for adding 15.000,000 year
- to the lives of people living In New Yorl
e The scheme involves the medical ex*nr
i- inatlon of every man, woman and chll
la UM five burroughs at least once
V ■
plaint against the prisoner was sub
mitted by General Billot, minister of j
war, and after It was read by the coun- j
ty clerk, the attorney general, M. Van I
Casoel, opened for the prosecution. Aft- I
er he concluded with a speech consum- j
ing half an hour, M. La hot, the advocate j
of Zola, opened his defence In a spech I
that occupied more than three hours. It I
is said to have been most eloquently I
delivered. I
The trial, as it advanced, disclosed I
great personal feeling between the I
counsel and strong unconcealed judicial I
bias against Zola. On the second day I
of the trial Zola asked permission to \
be heard, which was granted. Of course j
he admitted writing the letter, but de
tended his doing so in a brilliant speech, i
Among the other witnesses called were
Paty du Clam, who declined to answer
questions on the ground of military
privileges, and Colonel Picquart, whose
testimony bore greatly in Zola’s favor.
Then the counsel on both sides began 1
summing up. Labori's oration occupied I
two days, and during its presentation so r
boisterous became the spectators in the [
court room at times that he stopped j
upon one occasion and said: “Alas, j
Monsieur le Judge, 1 am obliged to be [
my own policeman."
Labor! made a sublime panegyric of I
his client as author, patriot and friend 1
of all victims of Injustice. The sessions I
were finally ended and the jury retired j
for deliberation. After 35 minutes it re- S
turned with a verdict of guilty. Then |
the air was filled with cries of “Long |
live the army! Long live France! Down
with insulters; Death to Zola!" Amid
all the confusion Zola cried: “These
people are cannibals.’’
The court then adjourned to de
termine upon the sentence. They re
turned a few minutes later and con
demned the prisoner to the maximum
penalty of one year's Imprisonment and
a line of 3000 francs.
A few da^s after adjournment the
accused appealed from the verdict of j
the lower court and the appeal being •
heard by the court of cassation on
March 31, the finding of the jury wa* 1
sustained, but it applied to Zola what
was called the Berenger law', remitting
sentence Imposed upon first offenders i j
and consequently the sentence was set j
aside.
A second trial was held on the fol
lowing July 18, but without awaiting
the result Zola, by the advice of his |
counsel and friends, and for reasons of j
legal strategy, abruptly left France and J
took refuge In England and did not re- j
turn to France until the Dreyfus trial
was reversed.
ANDREW JACKSON
year, but he believes that the huge task
would Infinitely more than pay fori
Itself, because his estimate of 15,000,000
added years as a result Is a minimum.!
Five years, he believes. Is more likely t^
be ths new lease enjoyed on an average |
by each Individual.
The commissioner’e project Is, In re
ality, but a city wide application of the
“life extension" methods pursued by
many large corporations for the detection
and prevention of disease among their
employes. He has already put It Into
practice among tbs 3,000 employes of his
, own department, and he will shortly
; seek the approval or the board of es
. tlmate and ApP®*ntmelU for the exam
ination In *he same way of the em
( ployes of every city department.
THE THROSTLE
t By Alfred Tennyson.
( "Summer Is coming, summer Is coming,
I know it, I know It, I know It.
’ Light again, leaf again, life again, love
again,”
f Yes, my wild little poet.
I
I Sing the new year In under the blue.
Last year you sang It as gladly.
"New, new, new, new!’’ le It then so new
That you should carol eo madly?
"Love again, song again, nest again."
Never a prophet eo craxy!
And hardly a daisy as yet, little friend,
1 See, there le hardly a daisy.
i
“Here again,»here, here, here, happ>
year!”
O warble, unbidden, unbidden!
4 Bummer Is coming, la coming, my dear,
s Aad all the winner* are hidden.
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