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The age-herald., 1900-10-19
THAT JOYFUL FEELING

With the exhilarating sense of renewed health and strength and internal cleanli- ness, which follows the use of Syrup of Figs, is unknown to the few who have not progressed beyond the old time medicines and the cheap substitutes sometimes offer ed but never accepted by the well-inform- ed. Buy the genuine. Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
The age-herald., 1900-10-19
PRATT CITY
Daily Doings in the Little Coal Mining
 City

Pratt City, October 1S.-(Special)-As all ready announced the library will be form ally opened tomorrow, the afternoon will be relegated to the school children, and in the evening at the doors will be thrown open, when donations will be received. The Wom- ans Club will attend in body, and from them the library will receive a handsome gift The membership will be n per an mum.
 James H. Kirk left yesterday for Mont gomery, where he will attend the gun shoot.
 E. B. Lentz Is recovering from a recent spell of illness.
 Misses Grey and Jackson of Avondale are visiting Miss Julia Hollingsworth on North Highlands
 The Thread of the Story Club of Ensley met here today with Mrs. James A. Kirk.
 Misses Kate and Nell Delaney enter tained few friends at their home on East Highlands last night.
The age-herald., 1900-10-19
An A Added Interest

out new packs are used, with our soldiers and sailors faces on the court cards. Gilt edged, round corners, indexed, assorted backs, highest quality in leatherette case. Send 9 cents money or stamps for each pack, to Malt-Nutrine Dept, Anheuser- Busch Brewing Assn, St. Louis, Mo.
The age-herald., 1900-10-19
spiritualists RetaiIate

Cleveland, Ohio, October 1S.-The Naton- al Association of Spirtualists voted down the proposition to send delegates to the conventions of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union This was in retaliation for the refusal of the Womans Christian Temperance Union to recognize the asso- citation.
The age-herald., 1900-10-19
A NATIONAL BANK
 IN A CIVIL SUIT
New Trial Denied in RagSdale
 Against AvOndaIe Mills.
VERDICT FOR A RAILROAD
Man Demands $25,oOo for the Loss of Leg-Tax Collector Francis Re covering from Operation for
 Cataract-Court Notes

Suit has been filed in the United States Court by E. T. Ide, cashier of the Tredsgar National Bank at Jacksonville, Ala, against Fred Crosby of Boston and Peytor Rowan, George H. Rowan. John F. Rowan. William H. Dean Walter Dean and the Tredegdr National Bank, which involves the title to 50 shares of stock in the bank, the owner ship of which with other stock held by de- fendants, carries a controlling interest.
 The plaintiff claims that he purchased this stock of Edwin Underwood for $5l00 on Sep tember 1, the stock at the time being for certain reasons nominally in the name of B. F. Richardson; that Richardson thereafter without any right or authority, sold the stock to Fred Crosby and offered to turn the money over to Underwood, the real owner but that Underwood refused to re- ceve it. Richardson thereupon attempted to return the money to Crosby and get back the stock, but Crosby refused to give 1t up.
 The bill alleges that Crosby was acting only agent for Peyton Rowan, George H. Rowan. John F. Rowan, William H. Dean and Walter Dean, who desire to ob- tain a control of the banks capital stock. | The bill prays that the stock be decreed to be the property of plaintiff, and that de- fendants be enjoined from voting it at the | coming election.
The age-herald., 1900-10-19
Miss Brideweli's Concert

Carrie Bridewell and maid left New York for Birmingham today. She will stay one day in Washington to visit her mother. The sale of seats will begin tomorrow, Satur- day, morning, for her concert at the Jeff ferson Theatre. The price of tickets will be one dollar except the gallery, which is
The age-herald., 1900-10-19
EXPERT ESTIMATES OF COTTON
 VARY NEARLY ONE MILLION BALES
Two Famous Southerners Say Crop is Below Ten Million Bales.
 EngliSman Says Opposite.

The yield of the present cotton crop of the United States is variously estimated at from 9,OO00OO to 1O,25OOoO bales, depen- dent of course, in what interest the esti- mate is made
 The bulls and the bears are equally inter- -ested in the size of the crop. One will reap the profit if it reaches the maximum fig ure, while the others profit depends on the minimum production. Estimates com ing from the agents of European firms all approximate the higher figures, while most of the estimates made by Americans ex- cept the mill men, fall considerably under 10,000,000 bales
 George W. Truitt of Georgia, one of the largest cotton growers in the South, and man who has given much study to con- ditions controlling the growth and gather ing of cotton in past seasons, estimates the present crop at several hundred thousand under the ten-million-bale mark Samuel Kirkman of Florence, Ala, whose esti- mates for the past twenty years have never missed the annual yield more than few hundred thousand bales, estimates that the yield this year will not go over 9,3O0,- GOO bales On the other hand, A J. Buston, a Liverpool cotton merchant who has been in this country since the early part of September, estimates that the crop will be not less than 10, ,25O, 900 bales
 Alabama Mans tatement
 MT. Kirkman's estimate of the yield this
The age-herald., 1900-10-19
Circuit Court

GlfcuiU COurJ
 The Circuit Court is still engaged in try ing the case of William Yancey Adams, ad- ministrator. against the Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company.
 Judge Coleman has refused the motion for new trial made by the defendants in the case of William Ragsdae vs. the Avondale Mills and B. B. Conner The plaintiff in this case was arrested for trespass and sued the defendants recovering a verdict of $3OOo In the first division, in the case of w. H. Baker against the Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company, verdict was rendered for the defendant
 There was a judgment for claimant in the case of W. W. Crelin for use of the Bir- mingham Boiler Works against the Union Foundry and Machine Company.
 The case of Archibald Coleman, plo ami, against the Birmingham Southern Railroad Company is being tried. This is a suit for $25 GOO damages for the loss of a leg on street and First avenue.
 In the second division a suit was filed by Allen B. Oden against James B. Allen, eXecutor of Sarah r. Allen ct al. to have the administration removed from the Pro bate Court to the City Court
 Criminal Court
 Lucy Jackson was convicted of assault and battery and fined $5. Jim Blackman was acquitted of grand larceny but held on a charge of murder. Andrew McCuil was acquitted of grand larceny, and Virgil Evansville convicted of the same charge Marriage licenses were issued to Wallace Baird and Dottie Green F. B. Ford of Woodlawn and Mary Lottie Parr.
 
 Court Items
 Capt J. B. Francis, the tax collector, Is rapidly recovering from an operation in his eye for cataract His friends will be glad to know that the operation was successful and that his sight will be recovered.
 MT. W. s. Morrow clerk of the Board of Revenue, is engaged in checking over re- cent work of the board preparatory to it's meeting November 1.
 Sheriff Andrew W. Burgln reports every thing quiet at Ensley and everybody in a good humor
 A new paper, to be called the Daily Court Reporter, will probably issue its first num- Der today.
 The office at the court house of Assistant Solicitor John Mcqueen contains some fine engravingS of eminent lawyers, recently placed there by the solicitor. Clay, Web- ster, Calhoun and others adorn the wals' Petitions in bankruptcy Were filed yester- day by E. D. Dorsey and Sam Adelson.
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tContinued or Eighth pase)
The age-herald., 1900-10-19

No trace of the whereabouts of Mrs. Harriet McGlone has yet been discovered. The police are still on the lookout for her.
The age-herald., 1900-10-19

The Thread of the Story Club of Ensle met here today with Mrs. James A. Kirk.
The age-herald., 1900-10-19

James H. Kirk left yesterday for Mont gomery, where he will attend the gun shoot.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
Public School Question.

Editor of The Times:
Sir-I think the statistical reports of the
State Superintendent might be improved,
and in this paper 1 shall try to point out
in what particulars
The fundamental fact upon which any
intelligent effort for the education of the
people is to be based, rests necessarily
upon report of the number of people to
be educated.
The law counts all between five and
twenty-one years of age as people to be
educated by the State, and the school CEN
sus-taker must make his report conform
to the law, but it would be folly to as
sune that educational provision must be
made for all reported in the school census.
1t would be as big q, mistake for the
Superintendent of Schools to do this as it
would be for the commissary general of
an army to provide rations for all who
We're liable to military service
Again, the public school system OF Vir-
GINA does not enforce the attendance OF
the pupil. It Is clear then that the census
lists, as taken, must include a great num-
Der of people who cannot, will not or need
not go to the public schools. OF those are
the boys who have completed their primary
studies and are engaged in business or at
college; the girls who are married, are
teaching or are doing something else, and
then a large number who do not care for
an education and will not go to school,
Now if all these were eliminated and class
flied. as should be done In the case OF
those who had finished the primary course,
the problem of the education OF the people
would not appear to be 50 large, and
could be solved in a more Intelligent fash
ion than as now.
The Superintendent reports the school
population for 1899 az G65, S65, and the school
attendance as BOB 1856, not quite SO per cent.
'Oh. monstrous! but one half-penny worth
of bread to this intolerable deal of sack.
I make no doubt that the school census
report, presenting as it did, SO exaggerated
a picture OF the work to be done, was one
of the factors that led the Superintendent
and his predecessors to countenance and
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22

and did not.
Each teacher makes a monthly report
to his County Superintendent upon form
supplied by the State Superintendent.
A good form would show all the facts
that go to make a good school, |. e.. the
number OF pupils enrolled, the number OF
these pupils VINO attend every day. etc.
Every body ethat knows anything abou:
school knows that the pupils who profit
most are those VINO come regularly BY
introducing the seemingly innocuous phrase
average attendance" no one but the Coun-
" Superintendent and the teacher would
ba able to say whether any single child III
thai school had attended continuously
through the month or term. I nave ex-
amned hundreds OF these teachers re-
ports, and can say truthfuiIy that few OF
tha pupils attended the school twelve days
out OF the twenty. and very few as many
az eighteen days. This matter OF irregular
attendance seems to have been something
not worth the attention OF the State Super
intendenr, as he only uses the paper TO re-
port average daily attendance.
T knew a colored teacher who hired the
children OF one family to go 10 school one
week and the children OF another family
the next week. This practice OF his
Strengthened his monthly report IN tho
matter OF average attendance. Irregular
attendance, which destroys tho efficiency
OF tho schools, Is matter OF no concern
to the perfunctory teacher, but submit
that It does not concern the public. and
should as Tar as may. be preIsnted.
I tried, as County Superintendent, to
break up the evil Of irregular attendance
by ordering the teachers to suspend pupils
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22

where she could have found a modiste
ready to turn out so many and such
artistic ones. One Of her gowns was of
a decidedly novel texture and might have
been one Of the new satin striped pop
Inns which come now in all the shades.
The dress is light weight and very sum-
merry, though by no means wash fabric.
Another very new gown was one worn
by an American woman. It was OF
Javenaise crepe, that new material when
is woven in horizontal tucks. the idea be-
ing to do away with all tucking by hand.
OF course, the tucks were absolutely ac-
curate and were exceedingly chic, made
so as TO run horizontally across the vest
and on the perpendicular in coat and
skirt.
The first gowns Of fall may show a
return to the very long lines that once
prevailed. One of the very latest mod
els exhibited by a Paris designer to sew
eral private patrons, was fashioned of
Lansdowne cloth, very soft and delicate
in texture, and absolutely lustrous This
fabric is one of the seasons novelties,
and will be much in vogue this autumn.
The plan of the gown was decidedly
novel. 1t was Princess, without break
from neck to hem. The sleeves, which
were plain, were slightly wrinkled to the
wrists, but the sleeve caps and the yoke
were exquisite!y traced with silver braid
ing. The gown, 1t may be stated, was
pearl blue, upon which this silver en-
brodery set well.
The novel feature lay in the tuckng,
which began ut the bust and extended
in long straight tucks, very narrow and
very tightly stitched, SO as to look al
most like cords, right down to a point
below the knees. Below this the gown
fared and lay upon the ground, very
long in front and back.
Upon the bust were two very large roses
Of shell pink panne velvet so attached
as to stand out in beautiful relief.
Such a gown as this, while too light for
the street wear OF the practical woman,
might be initiated, say in Roman blue
cloth, with black velvet braiding, with
roses of deep red velvet.
Hats this fall will de worn we'll off the
face and with strings. The day of the
string is at hand. If wide. the strings
are made Of tulle or chiffon, and are
attached to the back of the hat and
brought forward under the chin, and
sometimes wound around several times
II they are made of narrow bands OF vel
vet. these velvet streamers are caught
upon the front of the gown In pictur-
esque bow.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22

permit the extraordinary, and as since adj
mtted. unnecessary increase in the num-
Der OF public schools.
I think that in reporting enrolment as
only one-half and attendance as less than
one-third, the Superintendent supplied him
self with a basis of fact which ought to
have restrained him and his predecessors
in the matter of too many schools, but IN
the study OF the school system of the
past I can find no fact to warrant the
conclusion that any other motive ruled
them than the desire to prove progress in
the public school system by an annual
showing of an increase in the number OF
public schools. I suppose some will OBJ
ject to my holding the present Superinten-
dent OF Schools equally blameworthy with
his predecessors for the admittedly hurt
full increase in public schools, because he
admits the evil My contention is that he
knew the evil and had power to redress 1t
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22

from the schools who were absent three or
four days; in ths month without valid ex-
cuse Tho evil was abated somewhat. but
+ did not succeed as L would had I been
backed by central authority.
This paper concludes my criticism OF the
Board Of Education and OF the State Super
intendsnts.
T charged that It was the failure to fix
a territorial unit for 4 school district. as
required by tho Constitution. which led
to the hurtfuI multiplication of county
schools. In these papers l have assaiIed
tina financial and statistical forms OF the
State Superintendent as unsatisfactory and
confusing. leave it all 10 the public.
1t concerns the people; they must decide.
But, I protest that I am not open to the
charge OF hostility to the public FREQ school
system.
I gave twenty-ons years OF my lie to
theic service. and honestly strovs TO make
them better. I think my nelghbors will say.
The free schools are a great instrument
tally for the good OF the people. I think
they have been miserably mismanaged, and
I propose to submit a schema before I am
done. for putting them upon more sacs-
factory and efficient basis.
In the next paper I shall discuss tht
subject OF freq school legislation.
r. c.. SAUNDERS.
vi Va
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
WHAT THEY ARE WEARING IN FAIR PARIS
Fashions Fances and Follies When the The
mOmeter Indicates the Days Of Midsummer.

ance will deceive you, and it is only upon
actually passing the fingers over the fabric
that you can detect the difference between
the applique and woven goods. between in
serion and cunningly cut and stamped
goods.
1t is as if the manufacturers Of all ma
tons had suddenly awakened to the posi-
bilities of machinery, and We're devotinS
their entire time and labor to the reproduce
ton of elegant fabrics. Useless now the
modiste's art, idle the embroidery needle,
for the goods can be purchased by the
yard for less cost than a single hand-width
could be worked: and the whole is i'm
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22

PARIS. July 14.-Loitering along the Rue
Rivoli any pleasant day one sees the most
exquisite costumes. Yet it is a fact that
the mind wanders away from the styles,
away from ruffle and tuck and insertion,
snto 3 contemplation of the enchanting ma
terials from which these costumes are
made.
That which at first sight appeared to
consist OF row after row of silk and lace,
carefully Joined and alternated with bands
OF satin, proves TO be, upon closer inspec-
ton. a fabric woven in one piece, and
bought by the yard for the fashioning of
handsome gowns. Sometimes the appear
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
There is more catarrh in this section

There is more Catarrh in this section
OF the country than all other diseases put
together, and until the last few years
was supposed to be incurable. Fos "a
great many years doctors pronounce -
q. local disease, and prescribed local RENE
dies, and by constantly failing 20 cure
with local treatment. pronounced IL m
cnrableS- Science has proven catarrh to
be a constitutional disease, and. tnerelo PIE.
requires constitutional treatment HaIs
Catarrh Cure. Manufactured by +. J..
Cheney 6 Co.. Toledo. ONO .s =, srk Inc only
:, so, go internally in doses from 10 drops
=. - sa' fa,.nscaful II nsts Directly on the
Wood - snd nucous su-faees Of the ayssem.
they Offer one hu.ass ses aal tnr tor any
80 testimonials. Address.
a +. J.cHENEY & CO., Toledo. o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halp. Family Pills ara The best -.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-19

give up this means of making money
or quit. A strong innovation is that 10
university team shall take part in any
contest on any other than college
grounds.
OF course the object of all this is the
same as that of the Amateur Athletic
Association, viz: to do away with the
professional in college athletics. The
professional element in the east was
done away with first, and within the
last few years has been cleaned out
from the West and Middle West. In
the cleaning out of the latter some of
our Island young men took a promi-
nent part.
There is nothing more important than
that amateur sport should be amateur
sport and that all tinge of professional
ism should be eliminated. Down here
there has not been that clear cut line
which has been drawn on the mainland,
though much has been done towards 1t.
If the new rules go into force the line
will be more strict than even in the
colleges of the United States.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-19
AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

The committee of professors of the
leading colleges recently made their re-
port dealing with the abuse of amateur
sports and framing rules to meet the
eXigency. The following gentlemen
formed the committees:
Professor Ira n. Hollis. Harvard .
Professor George s. Patterson. Univer-
sity Of Pennsylvania; Professor Henry
b. Fine, Princeton; Professor Wilfred
II. Munro, Brown; President BENJAMIN
/. Wheeler, University of California.
Professor James F. Kemp, Columbia.
and Professor Louis NJ. Dennis, Cor
nell.
The college men themselves have for
some years carried on under the Inter
collegiate American Amateur Athletic
Association rules, and the new rules
are to relieve the association from deal
ing with violation of it's regulations by
having a committee upon which the
faculty is represented.
Men going in for athletics will have
to satisfy the committee not only by
taking the entrance examination, but
by showing that he intends to spend
the full year in college and take the
full years work. Students who form
summer mines" and other semi-pro-
fessional ventures, will either have to
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-19
GOING TO DESTRUCTION.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they
first make mad. The Independent party
has gone mad indeed. 1t did have two
respectable men, two able men on it's
ticket. but they were too Independent
for the Independents. They would not
sign any iron clad oaths, and they dar-
ed to appear at democratic meeting
This was an independence that the In
dependents could not stand, so Messrs.
]. o. Carter and f. c. Macfarlane were
ANONYMOUSLY kicked out and E. c.
Rowe and Solomon Meheula were APP
pointed in their place. Later a native
was turned down to give John Emme-
luth a chance.
In this one can see the hand of the
plumbing trust 1t fears legislation
from either of the two great parties,
but thinks it can block it through a
victory for the Independents. This is
an unwise move, for it will only add to
the unpopularity of the Independent
party whose forces are melting away,
and will do no good to the trust which
need not be attacked through the Leg
isature, but can be through the courts
with considerable force.
A party which is cutting such extra
ordinary capers as the Independent
party begins to show it's weakness.
| There seemed the elements of strength
in the party at one time, but it is
steadily alternating from itself any re-
| spectacle forces it could draw from
and is now out and out for greed and
! Doodle both in the Legislature and in
commercial transactions as well.
The action of the committee has
alienated a large number of Hawaiians
who will follow Carter and Macfarlane
/ into the democratic camp. OF those
whom the Independents have taken in
to their bosom the number of voters is
comparatively few However mistakes
of this kind are constantly being made
| by a party which is steadily marching
! to defeat 1t is the unsuccessful that
! is for ever changing it's men, and hop
ing TO get something out of the shuttle.
! Every day makes a change which is
/ favorable to the Republicans, and we
can now look with confidence to the
| ticket, the solid ticket, heading the
polls. WicoX's name is mud, he won't
have a chance to learn new rag time
styles South of Pennsylvania avenue.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-19

So apparently the Hawaiians have
been treated free in the Hospital sim
ply as a whim of some one in power.
That many poor Hawaiians have been
treated is true, but many who could
afford to pay have also been so treated
The poor white men had just as much
right to be treated free. 1t is curious
the trustees only found this out when
they knew no more funds could be OBJ
tanned from the public treasury on the
present basis. Had this discovery"
been made some time ago the Hospital
would have escaped much structure and
been much more popular than it is now.
What the Hospital needs is free ward
without distinction as to nationalities,
the present system Of discrimination
should be done away with at once.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-19

What is the matter about having set
of rough riders in the next Republican
parade. Col. Parker is our cowboy de-
legate, and it would be a very appro-
pirate compliment to our future vice.
president. The boys had better get out
their bronchos, Spanish saddles, big
spurs and cowboy hats, and liven up
the parade a little. Will Fisher would
look immense in this style of costume
it would just suit his expansive style
of beauty.