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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10
sUBsCRIPrIoN RATES,
The Warm Wave Here and Elsewhere.

"Fair; continued high temperature, with
fresh southerly winds" so runs the
weather bureaus prediction for today and
all readers will learn from 1t that the
warm wave has not run its course. But
this is after all only customary August
weather. just good weather for the opcn-
ing of cotton and the hardening of corn.
and the increase of 50 Get potatoes in the
ground Occa sional showers keep the
earth IL, fruitful condition. and altogether
the weather is favorable, although 1t is
uncomfortably hot.
1 But when 1t Is hot in spacious Jones
, Valley, gently enclosed by distant green
hills, it is downright hot elsewhere-hot in
st. Paul, hot in New Orleans. hotter still
in Nashville, and much hotter in st. Louis
and Cincinnati. The man or woman who
is tied to home duties may dream of
mountain or sea, but 1t is hot there also.
1t is hotter in Charleston or Savannah or
Biloxi than. 1t is in Birmingham, and just
at present there is no cool place in the
country except at inaccessible attitudes or
ATTITUDES that no one contemplates visit
ing. All in all, the August average of the
country Is what we have to encounter day
by day. 1t is not as comfortable as
October weather, but it is as comfortable
as any weather our neighbors enjoy.
The temperature in this city on Tuesday
night, for example, at o'clock stood at 50
degrees. This was pretty warm for that
hour, but at that very time the tempera-
ture of New Orleans stood at 90 degrees;
Memphis also had 9O-degree warmth, and
so did Montgomery and vicksburg and
Little Rock and Dodge City, Ia. Kansas
City sweltered in a heat'of 92 degrees, and
in Abilene, Kas., the mercury scored at
O'Clock of the night in question 9S degrees.
1t was 2 degrees hotter in Chattanooga
than it was in Birmingham; equally as hot
in Atlanta and Cairo. ILL.,, and four degrees
hotter in Omaha. Other days than Tues
day would show similar differences, and 1t
seems therefore to be in order In Jones
valley to be thankful for the weather that
nature sends US. and to be glad that we
do not have to endure the weather dealt
out to other towns.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10
Coke and Coal Oil on Railroads.

A change of fuel in locomotives is going
on In New England that might without
much expense be copied on through pas
senger trains in the SOUTH and also on
yard engines within city limits. This
change consists in the use of coke instead
of COAL thus doing away with smoke Gin
ders and coal dust. All dust can be laid
by using coke in the locomotives. and
coal-on on the road beds, but it is best
not to expect the ideal at one bound.
abolished by the use of COKE The changes
in the tender and the equipping of the
furnaces with water CRATES would not cost
more than $50 for each engine, and the
cost of coke in Alabama would not
materially exceed the cost of coal. Tests
in New England show that locomotives
can be run $50 miles without exhausting
the supply of coke, and no engine is kept
running a greater distance
In the years to come the railway travel
Ter will not be subject to any of the an
noyances that spring from soft coal and
from the parched earth. Every one OF
such annoyances can be removed, and
when one road does 1t, the rest twill fol-
low suit The usecof coal oil on the road
bed and of coke in the locomotives points
the way. There is not a single objection
to their use that has not been fully over
come in the New England experiments,
and TODAY the Boston and Maine railroad
is free from dust, and will soon be free
from smoke and cinders.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10
The Iewett-Baker Circus.

Miss Lillian Clayton Jewett, novelist,
who has had considerable experience in
various walks in life, ranging from an in
sane asylum. through the courts, to litera-
ture of the yellowest sort, has undertaken
a circus of a semi-political and semi-racial
nature. She is only "a years old, and it
does not appear that she has in those
years ever given much attention to phil
osophy, or. race problems. or theories Of
government. Her best grip" has been in
the direction of 'sensationallsm, and the re-
little Bakers is in the line that she freely
worked throughout her years of discre-
ton, so to speak. There is nothing of
value that Miss Jewett and her dark con-
tingent can accomplish in the north.
Skillfully conducted, her novel Uncle
Tom's -Cabin circus may be able to coin
more or less money; but that the show
can in these days of business activity and
business enterprise renew the bitterness of
reconstruction days is incredible In those
days the north did not know the south.
The problems--~of emancipation were
thought to be easy of solution. All intelli-
gent men in the north now know that the
race problems in the south are among the
most difficult that ever came before the
Anglo-Saxon race and all know, too, that
long periods of time are required in which
to handle most OF them. All know, too,
that outside meddling will not better af-
fairs. or hasten a settlement, in the
south.
For these reasons. and also because Miss
Jewett and her scheme are very gauzy. not
much will come from the new Baker expe-
dition. The Jewett-Baker company will no
doubt serve as a piece of midsummer silli-
ness, but 1t will not go much beyond.
The Age-Herald does not, for moment,
attempt to justify the action of the mob
at Lake City, but it does deprecate the use
of the incident in an attempt to increase
the feeling that may exist over 1t in an
other section of the country. Instead of in
creasng friction between sections, 1t is
the duty of all to lessen friction. leaving
each section free to handle as best it can
its own problems.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10
NED BRACE TELLS THE TRUE STORY
L OF BRYAN'S SPEAKERSHIP VOTE i'm CONGRESS

Springer. Why? Bryan believed in SPRING
er. Bryan was an Illinois boy-born and
reared in Springers home town. As a
youth he entered Springer's law office. He
studied law under the man. He honored
him and respected him. When, after
wards, he moved to Nebraska and became
a candidate for congress. Springer stump
ed his district for him. Bryan was elected.
and Bryan worked and voted for Springer
for speaker. No one honored him more
for 1t than Crisp. That grand and beloved
statesman afterwards appointed Bryan as
the junior democratic member of the Ways
and Means committee. He did it because
he believed the young man at that time ex-
hibited traits of ability which he thought
capable of great development. Judge Crisp
never regretted the appointment. In his
lifetime Judge Crisp never heard of the
charge now made against Mr.. Bryan. 1t is
new one to the lamented Judge Crisp's
friends and to Mr.. Bryan's friends. That
Mr. Bryan supported his friend Springer,
and, when he retired from the contest.
went to Judge Crisp is sufficient answer to
the charge. That it is the merest stun.
and that no one more heartily supported
Mr. Bryan three years ago, and more thor
oughly agreed with the Chicago platform
than Judge Crisp is within the full know.
ledge of thousands, one of whom is
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10
NEGRO DEPORTATION IMPOSSIBLE

From tie Chicago Times-Herald Ht
Under the immediate influence of Bishop
Turner the annual conference of the pre-
siding elders of the African Methodist
Episcopal Council of Georgia and Ala
bama has adopted a resolution calling for
congress to appropriate sl00,OOO,OOO for The
deportation of negroes from this country
to such place or places as may seem
most suitable to receive them. 1t is held
that the persistent race troubles in the
South may be cured only by race separa-
ton, and this opinion of the conference
is shared by considerable number of
white people of standing and championed
in certain Southern newspapers.
But it is certain, just the same. That
Bishop Turner's scheme is not feasible.
The objections to it are many and of va
rious kinds. There is the objection legal,
to begin with. 1t would require a very
great necessity to convince our courts
that congress had the power to appropriate
millions to assist emigration. We do not
say that such a power might not be ar
gued from the more general clauses of the
constitution, but there would not be the
disposition to find it unless the conditions
which 1t is hoped to relieve were far more
onerous and much wider spread than they
are at present.
Even supposing. however, that this DIFF
ficulty might be surmounted, the likei-
hood of a successful issue of the under
taking would be very small. 1t is highly
probab BILE that a great majority of the
negroes would not care to emigrate. They
are not of an adventurous spirit, and the
United States Is home to them as 1t is to
the rest of us. Indeed thousands of them
know no other home than some little
nook or countryside of this great nation
and would be completely lost to travel
hundred miles away.
Assuming, nevertheless, that deporta-
ticn is practical We have still to consider
the prospects abroad. What will those
exiles do who are dumped in hordes upon
a strange shore? A social, industrial and
political organization is the growth of
years, and it will not be discovered ready
made for a multitude in Liberia or any
other land that may be chosen for this
dubious experiment. The wanderers would
be sure to suffer from decentralization,
want and anarchy, and the better and
more capable persons among them would
naturally turn back to the mighty re-
public whose civilization. if not perfect,
is certainly thousands of years in advance
of African barbarism.
Admitting, therefore, that the negro
ought not to have been imported, 1t is
sufficiently clear that he cannot be de-
ported and kept out of the country He
Is here to stay, and he and the white man
of the South will have to dwell together
Nor is there any such terrible problem in
the necessity. The aw-abiding negro and
the 1aw-abiding white man will never have
any trouble. Let them unite for the sup
preston of race outrages, which are MI
a form of lawbreaking.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10
rhe Secret Dossier and the Truth.

The pen pictures of Mrs. Emily Crawford
from day to day bring the Dreyfus retrial
vividly before the reader. One can almost
see in her lines the ancient Breton town,
and its crowds of excited people rushing
hither and yon. The pale-faced, nerve
ure. and the stern Jouaust, president of the
court, is rarely absent from the pictures
The keen French lawyers will yet have
prominent places in the scenes.
When Dreyfus said that his only crime
consisted in the fact that he was born a
Jew, he described the undercurrent of the
case He has the Jews behind him. and
they are neither numerous nor popular in
France. Others have come to his aid, but
after all his pull is chiefly confined to
those of his religious faith. Those who
greatly dislike his people dislike him.
Besides this, Captain Dreyfus has been
made the scapegoat of every evil in France
Every demagogue has turned him to ac-
count, and there are moro demagogues to
the square acre in France than there are
even in America, strange as the statement
may appear. The anti-Semites used him in
their endeavors ito stir up religious strife
The socialists used him to get into power,
one at least reaching a cabinet place. Even
the army used him in their secret desire to
overthrow the republic. All parties used
nd oil Inn
He has only truth. instice and his own
people at his back, and the greatest of these
in this crisis is Truth. Joseph Reipach,
who was driven out of the French army
in the Dreyfus excitement. thus explains
the truth of the case:
1.-THE truth is very simple Esterhazy, an
adventurer and mercenary, was a spy In
the pay of Prussia Captain Dreyfus was
condemned in his place for two reasons:
First, because his handwriting vaguely re-
sembled that of Esterhazy; second, be-
cause his principal accuser before the
court martial was Henry, who had sue
ceeded in gaining the confidence of all his
superior officers and who was Esterhazy' s
partner Tin treason).
when the truth was discovered, princi-
pany by Colonel Picquart, then chief of the
secret intelligence department, and Scheur-
er-Kestner, vice-president of the senate, II
seemed so extraordinary to our country
carried away by the military spirit, that il
refused for long time to believe it, in
spite of evidence. The general staff had the
audacity to perpetuate its errors and has
concealed its action by crime and prejury.'
Beyond doubt this is the truth, and just
how far and how clearly it can be brought
out at Rennes, is now the problem. The
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10
AsTOR'S ANCESTORS
rom the washington Star.


The mistake that the ambitious Mr.
Aston made when he was hunting up a
titled ancestor to help him break into the
ranks of the English aristocracy was in
not going back to the early Roman days,
and claiming Astur. who, with his -four
fold Shield fought Horatius when he held
the bridge. To be sure, ''the Great Lord
of Luna" was badly knocked out In that
famous scrap. according to Macaulay. but
it cannot be given to everybody to be a
conqueror. nor yet the descendant of con-
querors. and, besides. 1t has sometimes
happened that the vanquished has been a
rather sweeter character than the victor
But that is neither here nor there. The
great thing is that by going back to Astur
the overworked revocation of the edict of
Nantes would have been avoided, and that
Is the pit into which the unwary Willie fell,
according to the English genealogical
sleuths who have been camping on his
trail.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10

they seek to ratify him whom the demo-
Gratis of his country have once honored
and are determined to honor and try
again.
The correspondent of the New York
Journal at Saratoga seeking to boom Van
wyck says the south will oppose Bryan
because Bryan refused to vote for Crisp
for speaker of the national House of Rep
resentatives, "giving as his reason that he
could not vote for an ex-Confederate SOL
der" This is heralded abroad It is an
nounced that Bryan is against the ex-Con-
federate soldier and that he fought Crisp
on that line
Now for the facts. I happened at that
time to be in position to know. The can
didates for of the house of representa-
tives were Crisp, Mills. Mcmillan and
Springer. The contest was a hard fought
one. Crisp led for many ballots. Mills was
close second. Springer and Mcmillan
had small following. Mcmillan and his
strength went to Mills. Crisp still led. 1t
developed that to whomsoever Springers
full strength went the speakership would
go. Springer himself was for himself His
following was almost unanimous for Crisp.
Springer could not deliver his vote to Mills
though 1t was alleged he was inclined to
do so. His followers caucussed Result
the entire Springer vote went to Crisp and
the great and gallant Georgian was elect
ed. Bryan voted for Crisp. Bryan had.
however, up to the last ballot voted for
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10
COAL AND IRON IN NORTHWEST

From the Philadelphia Record.
The consumption of crude pig iron on
the Pacific coast now largely exceeds
hundred tons a year, and it Is said that the
greater part of this supply Is brought
from the South by rail and water. The
freight amounts to about $11.50 ton,
which Is a great deal more than the cost
of the iron at the furnace. and more than
the selling price until very recently. Iron
ores of good quality as we'll as coal and
lime are found in abundance in some parts
of the Northwest near the Pacific coast,
and it seems surprising, therefore, that no
serious efforts have been made to establish
an iron industry in that region. Both BIZ
luminous and anthracite coal have been
discovered in the state of Westinghouse
table at Cokedale and Fairhaven, where
coke for smelling purposes in now being
produced. In British Columbia, at a point
about fifty miles from the coal deposits in
the state of Washington. rich iron mines
have been found. Iron deposits have also
been located on several small islands in
Barclay Sound, which washes the south
west coast of Vancouver Island.
1t is stated that several years ago two
blast furnaces were erected in the north
west-one at Port Townsend, Wash, the
other at Oswego, Oregon. These furnaces
were, however, constructed to burn char
coal as fuel and, although wood was plen-
tiful the cost of making pig iron in this
old-fashioned way exceeded the cost Of pig
iron imported from the South with the
freight added; hence the furnaces proved
that the demand for iron and steel is so
rapidly increasing, and that more ship
yards are to be established on the Pacific
coast, it would seem that there Is fine
unexplored field for the iron manufacture
ers in the Northwest. Capitalists are not
of invading new territory to supply an
evident want, especially where there is
good margin of profit in sight. The an
'nual statictical report of the American
Iron and Steel association states that mo
pig iron was produced either in Oregon or
Washington in 1897" and the statistics of
The Engineering and Mining Journal show
that in the same year those states produc-
ed over one and a half million tons Of coal,
most Of which came from Washington. In
1898 Washington alone produced over 2000,-
900 tons of coal. the average value per ton
having been SLIP as compared with s2.23
in 1897.
as the natural resources of the Pacific
Northwest in iron ore, fuel and fuxes
shall become widely known the building
up of large and important iron industry
will commence.
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ceived. He has taken the bucket to his lips
and has been applauded. Asked yesterday
as to hisl purposes, ne answered that he
had nothing to say further than that he
would be governor of Alabama.
Hon. w. P. Pinckard left yesterday af-
ternoon for New York.
Preston Haskell, accompanied by Mrs
Haskell. who was Miss Susie Howe, has
returned from Honduras.
The regular term of the United States
court which would ordinarily assemble in
September is not likely to meet before No
vember At that time will come up the
new questions regarding the Highland
Avenue and Belt Line Railroad COM
pany.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10
REFLECTiONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
Man is an animal and woman is an ami
NAL trainer a
A woman rather likes trusting that you
mistrust her until she mistrusts that she
trusts you.
When a woman begins a discussion by
agreeing with everything you say, there is
a terrific storm brewing.
If a woman thinks her husband Is the
meanest critter on earth she can brag
about him just as hard as If she didn't.
The average woman who begins married
life thinks she lives on love; but it isn't
long before she gets down to three meals
day. and she doesn't even try to stay
her appetite on the other.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10
THE GAS PROBLEM.

From the New York Verdict.
This is from a sure source. Read it and
discover If there isn't a dollar and cent ar
gument hidden therein for city ownership:
"Widnes. in Lancashire, England, owns
a gas plant of its own. Once every year
since it undertook municipal ownership it
has realized a surplus from the business
and has reduced the price of gas to con-
sumers. This year there is an advance of
80 per cent. in the cost of coal, but in face
of it. the authorities of Widnes have taken
another penny 1.-TWO cents of their
charges for gas. Their charge is now Is.
Sd. about 80 cents) thousand feet TO
large consumers, and Is sd (about "a cents)
to ordinary users. Yet even at these rates
the town is making handsome profit.
The cost of manufacture and distribution
is found to be triihe less than sixpence
haIfpenny d3 cents a thousand cubic feet.
the total cost including all charges Tor
municipal administration, interest ana
everything else, amounting to almost ex-
aetly % cents in our money. This leaves
a profit of from six to nine cents thous-
and feet on all the gas Sold.
And doesn't this support the theory that
our present New York system of lighting
borders with its lofty figures on what is
coiloquially called "a skin gamer Mind
you, not word is sasid for the city owen
ership of gas plant that can't be said for
the city owership of your telephone, water,
electric and transit-whether tunnel,
bridge, surface or Neutrality-suspicious.. And
there'd be no strikes. We wouldn't have
to be blown up in street cars, or run from
mobs, or hire a police force to club
street car force to death. Municipal own
ership means peace and plenty; it means
low taxes Allied with income tax, 1t
means tax justice.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10

secret dossier contains nothing that impli-
Gates Captain Dreyfus unless he can be
connected with the giving away of the
documents described in 1t. No one believes
he can be. The documents in the secret
dossier are in fact chiefly mlstranslations
and forgeries having little connection with
the Dreyfus case.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10

Myor Woodward of Atlanta must to-
morrow decide whether he will hand over
the office the people conferred upon him
to clique or keep 1t himself. The indi-
cation are that he will keep it. and throw
the burden of proof upon the other fell
lows
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10
Died of Fever.

Huntsville, August 9.-(SpeciaL> Frank
B. Lockard, aged % years. died yesterday
at his home In this city of fever con-
tracted in Cuba. Lockard went to Cuba
to engage In business shortly after the
war ended and returned home. sick. His
remains were inferred In the city cemetery
at Z o'clock this afternoon.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10

It Is a close race for the top figures be-
tween the timber lands and the mineral
lands of the state. The mineral lands OF
Franklin at least are ahead. Those of
Montevallo seem to be tagging.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10

The children of Santiago, says General
Wood, are thinking more about learning
English than they are of evacuation by
the men who speak that language.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10

Mary Ellen Lease has advanced from
populism to spritualism or spookism She
wanted something substantial
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10

Mr.. Alger has decided to stay in Detroit
where he can go at low rates to Belle isle
every day when the natural, not popular.
ice does not forbid.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10

The late President Heareaux was a po-
litcal boss who carried a gun In this
country they carry wallets.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10

The determination of ignorance is to on
at a frightful rate in Manila in tine next
scholastic year.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10

The state must connect Captain Dreyfus
with the impaired secrets, thus shifting
the burden of proof. Ordinarily in France
/. rests on the accused
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10

William Waldorf Aston may not be ex-
actly popular, but he could outpoll in all
most any race either Corbin or fussy Otis,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10

The old-fashioned corn bread and the
old-fashioned moasses have both come to
grief. They pinned away together
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10

The word "hello" is English, and il has
spread all over the world, but the hello
girl declines to leave America.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10

The plumber is distanced by the owner
of an automobile repair shop. but the
sleeping car porter still leads them both.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10

The October Cuban census is to be tabu-
lated before congress meets.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-10

General Miles and Secretary Root were
up to last night at peace.