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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-27

Mr.. Eugene Sonf1eld, former Pine
Blufian, is in the city today.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-27

superintendent ]. II. Hinemon re-
turned this morning from Little
Rock, where he attended the State
convention. He was accompanied
home by a large number of teachers
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-27

We have been asked to request the
public TO ask MIR. W. B. Jumbo"
Howell to relate that thrilling story
about "Rosco. the Snake Eating
Man" It's "toothsome tale" Of a
wonderful man.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-27

M. Jake Katzenstein. Of the firm
OF J. & $. katzeIstein, of this city,
who has been residing at Shreveport,
La, for the past several months. is
here shaking hands with his many
friends. Mr. Katzanstein. though
in business there only a ehore while,
has one Of the largest shoe stores in
Louisiana. We are glad TO note
that be is meeting with such thor
ough success in his new field.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-27

Walker Drug Co keep standing
ready at all times a horse and BIZ
eicle for quick delivery of any thing
ordered from them. W
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-27

A handsome medallion portrait
FREE with 10 bars OF soap. Sam
pie medallion can be seen at our
store.-Strauss & Miller. s
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-27

.
Mr.. Herman Meyer, formerly res
ident Of this city, but now travelling
out OF New York, is in the city visit.
ing his trade.
Food and sleep are necessary to
life and health. IF You can't eat and
sleep, take Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t
creates good appetite, cures indi-
sestion and dyspepsia. oyereomes ner-
vousness and gives sweet, restful, re-
freshlng sleep.
The favorite cathartic is Hoods
Pills. 25e.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-27

Messre. Henry Al. Dial, John R.
Rutherford and Charles H. Triplett,
returned Tuesday afternoon from
Little Rock, where they witnessed
the conyehiag OF the great State
Democratic Convent Mr.. Dial
was a dee gate from Jefferson coun-
~
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-27

Prescription work is our hobby and
We are proud of this department..
Every thing delivered promptly up
until 10 O'Clock at night. w
Walker Drug Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-27

The german given by Mr.. and Mrs
E. G. Howell at the Valhalla Club
Tuesday evening mplimentary to
Mr.. Clifton Howell and Miss Bessie
Atwood, was largely attended and
proved a swell affair from start to
finish. Full mention VII appear in
Sunday s society column.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-27

Mr.. J !. Saunders, our clever and
genial county treasurer, represented
delegate Drew White in the conven-
ton Tuesday. He returned Tuesday
afternoon and said, up to the time
he left there. everything was running
along harmoniouslY.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-27

G. g. Schenck, bicycles, removed
fromL305 ". End to Citizens Bank
building on Pine street and End
avenue. tt
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06
Growth of Southern Towns.

The cities that now show growth In ten
years of about 80 per cent. showed a
growth Of 53 per cent between 1880 and 1890.
The cities of the country are not growing
as rapidly as they once did, and the rate
of growth will be still farther reduced in
the present decade. A growth of 20 per
cent is all the average city can reasonably
expect in 1910, and not few of them will
do well to hold their own.
The increase in New Orleans In the de-
cade just ended was IS per cent. This was
somewhat disappointing, but 1t was much
better than the gain in the second South
ern town, Richmond. The Virginia capital
had S1,3SS population in 1890, and it has now
S5.o5O-a gain of 4.56 per cent only. And
yet Richmond is reasonably prosperous.
Its tobacco and iron-working factories are
in operation. and 1t does not consider itself
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06

supremacy of the western republic among
the world powers. A country that must
furnish coal for the navies of Europe, food
for her armies and money for her war
loans does not need big military estab-
lishment to become the greatest of world
powers. 1t is very certain that such a
country must be taken into account in
the adjustment of the international prob
lens of the future.
But the immediate significance of our
wonderful increase in exports of coal is
commercial rather than military" 1t is
also matter of far reaching industrial
Importance, for Europe must have coal for
the operation and development of her man.
ufacturng industries. He factories and
railroads, as well as her navies, must have
coal
The growing dependence of European
and Asiatie nations upon the United States
for their fuel has attracted the attention
of the economists and industrial authori-
ties of Great Britain and this country for
several years past. The increase in coal
exports has been SO great in the last three
years. however, that they promise to be-
come a greater factor in the growth of our
foreign commerce than the expectation of
any other product or commodity. Since
1896 it is found that the exports of coal
have increased 100 per cent. The greater
part of this gain has been shipments to
countries in this hemisphere. The heavy
movement toward Europe is, therefore, a
new factor in the export situation, and may
result in completely revolutionizing the
coal mining industry. The great miners
strike in Great Britain and the consequent
shortage of supply has caused a general
scramble all over Europe for source from
which to supply the demands for fuel in
all departments of Industrial activity.
If the Americans continue to press the
advantage already secured through the
mining difficulties in Great Britain it is
believed that American coal, once estab-
hshed in the markets of Europe, cannot
be displayed Treasury figures on exports
of coal indicate that during the year 1900
the exports of this fuel to Europe Asia,
Mexico and South America are likely to
reach S2O,00O0OO, as against $10,000,O00 in
1896. This is but drop in the bucket,
however, compared to the possibilities of
American expectation if the present
scarcity of fuel in Europe continues for
another year.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06
He oRLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Close of Crop Year.

Secretary Hester's cotton statement for
the crop year of 1S99-19OO is a document as
full of interest as a nut of meat. He shows
first, that, although the crop was less than
the preceding one by 1885, 424 bales. yet
its money value was greater by sS1,O12,OOO.
This fact carries its lesson-a lesson we
need not stop to reiterate.
He shows, too, that the South Is selling
less and less of each crop in the form of raw
cotton In 1870 the South had but $500
spindles; it now has 6,267 1853. The progress
of the cotton manufacturing industry in
this section is by leaps and bounds, and it
extends over the entire cotton belt. For
merly it was confined to four States, but
the hum of the mills will soon be heard
from the Rio Grande to the Potomac, from
the Gulf to the Ohio river.
The cotton consumed by Southern mills
is put by Secretary Hester at 1851, 112 bales,
an increase of 1918 bales over the con-
sumption of the previous year. The in
crease will not be less in the present crop
year although the demand for coarse cot
tons is stayed by the troubles in China
The consumption of Northern and South
ern mills will soon be equal In the year
just ended the Northern mills took 100000
bales, the Southern mills 1,597, liz bales.
The difference is about 100000 bales, and
this difference will disappear in the course
of five years. But every American spindle
will be needed for a long time to come.
1t is the foreign spindle that must give
way in the competition of the mills. This
country must spin its crop, and the sooner
foreign mills begin to learn that they must
take cotton in the form of yarns the better
1t will be for them. No raw cotton will be
exported from America in the long run
and the date of the change is not so very
distant. By 1925 not bale of raw cotton
should be sent abroad. America is equal
to the task of converting her crop into
yarns and she should hasten to do it,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06

by any means a stagnant, much less decay
ing town.
The truth is. Southern towns should not
be compared with Northern towns, because
the latter are fed and multiplied by immi-
grafton, and color prejudice deprives the
former of this source of population. South
ern towns must be judged by themselves.
They are not in the stream of immigration
and they must depend for growth upon fac
tories. The more mills the more popula-
ton. This is the Southern situation in
NUTSHELL and this is why Jefferson County,
Alabama, outnumbers all other counties in
the South (New Orleans excepted this
year and also why Birmingham will in 1910
pass all its rivals
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06
Russian Policy Comma Out.

1t is now plain that Russia will not be
permitted to dictate the political and diplo-
matte situation In China and it is equally
plain that the administration is not nearly
so tickled over its alliance with Adam-zad
as 1t was when it was first proposed.
Before the march to Pekin was begun
Russia explained its policy in note ad-
dressed to all the powers. She proposed
to assist in relieveing the legations, and
her further policy was thus summed up:
l. The maintenance of common agree
ment among the powers"
2 1.-THE maintenance of the former state
of organism in China"
3. THE removal of everything that could
lead to the partition of the Celestial En-
pire."
L. 1.-THE establishment with the united
powers of a legal central government at
Pekin, able alone to preserve order and
tranquility in the country"
The second point is the essential point in
the case. Russia proposed at the outset
to retain and support the Empress Dow
ager, and that is what she is doing today
by Withdrawing her troops from Pekin.
She gulled the United States very readily,
but the other nations were not easy"
The Russian policy has no other distinctive
meaning She wants to keep the Empress
Dowager in power although she knows,
as all the rest of the world knows, that
the Empress Dowager is anti-foreign, and
is chiefly responsible for all that has oc-
CURED in China.
The position of this country at Russas
heels serving Russian schemes and bar
gains with the Empress Dowager is dis
graceful, and the sooner the administra-
ton backs out of the Russian trap the bet
ter it will be for 1t and the country. The
latest news goes to show that it begins to
see the nature of Russian diplomacy and
cunning.
The secret understanding between Rus
STA and the Empress Dowager will never be
known, but that it relates to the Manchu-
rian provinces no one need doubt This
country has been caught in the nets of
European and Eastern politics, and, worst
of all, 1t is serving the most rapacious and
aggressive and cruel country of the entire
lot-the country that uses bayonets on ba-
bfes in war.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06

Washington, September 5-The Census
Bureau announces that the population of
Canton, O., is 30,667, as against 261S9 in
1890. This is an increase of 4,47S, or ITO per
cent.
The population of Dayton, o., is $685. as
against 61,226. This is an increase of "a, lis,
or 30.39 per cent.
The population of Lancaster, Pa, Is A.
459, against 32,O11 in 1890
The population of Albany, N. Y, is "a,
Isl, against 94,923 in 1890
The population of Bayonne, N. j., Is 81,
722 as against 1908 in $780,
The population of Salt Lake City, Utah,
is 53,53t, as against A, S43 in 1890.
The population of Akron is 42,72S, against
q, COL in 1890
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06
UNDER THE VIOLETS
n Wendell Holmes.

BY Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Her hands are cold, her face is white,
No more her pulses come and go;
Her eyes are shut to life and light
Fold the white vesture snow ON snow,
And lay her where the violets blow.
But not beneath a craven stone,
To plead for tears with alien eyes;
A single cross of wood alone
Shall say that here maiden lies
In peace beneath the peaceful skies.
And gray old trees of highest limbs
Shall wheel their circling shadows
round,
To make the scorching sunlight dim.
That drinks the greenness from the
ground,
And drop their dead leaves on her mound.
When DER their boughs the squirrels run,
And through their leaves the robins call
And ripening in the summer sun,
The aconrs and the chestnuts fall,
Doubt not that she will hear them ALL
For her the morning choir shall sing,
It's mathis from the branches high,
And every minstrel voice of spring
That trills beneath the April sky,
Shall greet her with its earliest cry.
When turning round the dial track,
Eastward the frightening shadows pass,
Her little mourners clad in black
The crickets, sliding through the grass,
Shall pipe for her an evening mass.
AT last the rootlets of the trees
Shall find the prison where she lies,
And bear the buried dust they seize
In leaves and blossoms to the skies:
So may the soul that warmed it rise!
II any. born of kindlier blood,
Should ask, What maiden lies below?
Say only this: A tender bud,
That tried to blossom in the snow,
Lies withered where the violets blow.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06
BRYAN AND TnE MONROE DOCTRINE

From the New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat.
Mr.. Bryan's doctrine may or may not be
the Monroe Doctrine. 1t may be only
cousin german to that doctrine. But all
the same, it is correct doctrine, and cam
not be sneered away. If in the wisdom Of
Congress We decide to treat the Filipinos
as we do the Cubans we are in duty
bound, for their interest as well as our
own, to see that they do not fall into the
possession of European or Asiatic powers.
They are weak and we are powerful; we
have set them up and 1t is our duty to pro-
tect them, just as we protected the Ha-
waaian Islands from seizure by Great
Britain
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06

From the WASHINGTON Post.
Nothing more inexplicable and reasonless
has come under my notice for an age than
the present rage for using and abusing the
word fierce. There was time when fierce
meant-well, it meant fierce, and nothing in
the world but fierce. Now, it seems to
mean pretty much what anybody happens
to want it to mean I heard girl sing a
love ditty recent evening. The man
next me said she was simply fierce-mild
she was, too, mild as May morning.
saw man in pink and purple striped
shirt waist. The man in the seersucker
coat said it was fierce. Bess asked for an
ice-cream soda, and wouldn't drink 1t be-
cause it was fierce. l suppose it's only
bit of midsummer madness, but 1t seems a
little madden than most things of the
kind.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06

needed. He accepted pleasantly, and we
sat in the smoking compartment for an
hour or two, during which time he gave
me the benefit of his Accordingly interest
ing conversation, touching on various great
subjects.
II had ticket for the desirable lower
clear that General Gordon had the upper
berth. He had remarked that he had be-
gun the journey unexpectedly, and, the car
being crowded, it was evident that he was
unable to secure a lower berth. 1 made
up my mind at once that he should have
my lower but knowing how very sensi-
tive General Gordon always was about APP
pearing to cause any one any sort of in
convenience, 1 hesitated to offer the ex-
change, fearing he would refuse. I sought
the conductor, and he and L agreed that
he should simply inform General Gordon
that arrangements had been made for him
to accupy the lower berth. This he did,
and General Gordon at once stoutly object
ed to interfering with me- as he expressed
himself He and the conductor both came
to me, and the three of US fought 1t out,
two against one, and finally General Cor
don yielded. His thanks would have been
reward enough to me for sitting up all
night to say nothing of sleeping in an
upper berth.
THAT night as the General and 1 sat in
the smoking compartment in pleasant con-
verse in clouds of tobacco smoke, chiefly
from my pipe, he confessed to me that my
lower was really a great relief to him, as
he was not strong, and there were other
reasons why a lower was best for him.
The incident is perhaps not worth telling,
except to illustrate General Gordon's great
goodheartedness, his consideration of 9TH
ers, his civility, and his geniality-not the
least qualities which have made him per-
sonally the best loved American of today
The heat of the noontime yesterday was
excessively oppressive and sickening, COM
ing after cool night and morning. The
public may expect that sort of discomfort
for three weeks to come. The cool nights
and hot moons will be very trying on the
health of the people.
1t was stated here the other day that the
late Coils P. Huntington gave Booker
Washington $4,000 for the negro school at
Tuskegee. That princely gift was given
privately, and the fact was not made pub
lie until after Mr.. Huntington's death.
John D. Rockefeller, who has given nearly
$10,000,00O to white schools, now comes for
ward with $1sO,0OO to a negro school in
Georgia. Yet in New York and Ohio ne
groes are being mobbed because they are
negroes!
Hon. Frank P. O'Brien and Mrs. o Brien,
who are now in New York, are expected
to return to Birmingham within a few
days.
William J. Dangaix has returned from
Europe, in which he spent the summer
travelling.
Mr.. NJ. Blair Dickinson OF Hampden Sid
ney, Virginia, co-principal of the UNIVERSE
ty High School for Boys, has arrived in the
city. Mr.. Dickinson is a teacher of wide
experience and comes highly endorsed by
his former professors and patrons. He is
bachelor of arts of Hampden Sidney
Callege and master of arts of the UNIVERSE
ty of Virginia.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06
Wheels That Mourn,

There was no fuss and feathers about
Coils Huntington, but when he was dead
and gone his friends and admirers set
fashion that has since been followed in the
case of Edward S. Washburn of the Kan
sas City and Birmingham system. If this
machinery as means of mourning the
death of railroad officials is to become gen
eral, railroad schedules will cease to be
trustworthy, and railroad delays will be-
come as numerous as those leaves in VAL
lambrosa were said to be.
The operatives of a railroad thus afflicted
may sincerely mourn a loss; but it is
wholly within the bounds of prudence to
say that the detained and overheated pas
senger will not. He will be a compulsory
mourner, and it may we'll be imagined that
he will not be in wholly decorous and
religious frame Of mind while he waits.
Compulsory mourning is not apt to come
straight from the heart. 1t is more apt to
arouse explosives than tears, and the new
fashion should be nipped in the bud.
If indeed the spirits of the departed could
communicate with this world, we feel sure
that Coils Huntington would have sent
back an order forbidding the fashion that
over-zealous admirers inaugurated on his
old system of roads. He never did indulge
in eccentricities and freaks of fashion in
this world, and the fact that he sent no
order back about it goes to show that COM
munications between the celestial world
and this world are more difficult and rarer
than those between Pekin and Che Foo.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
Nearness separates people lot oftener
than distance does.
The hardest work a man ever has is to
have no woman to work for.
When you are trying to make woman
love you, the best way TO tire her out Is
to quit
No woman knows how to hurt the man
she hates half well as she does to hurt
the man she loves.
When there is only a little bit of room
on the street car seat, a man will sit on
the edge and wriggle back carefully; a
woman always backs in till she touches
before she LETS harsaf down
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06
Stea mer Overdue

San Francisco September Sword was
received in this city today that the steamer
William Cliff, which left Kingston, ia
maica, on August q, for Vera Cruz, has
not yet arrived at her destination, under
usual circumstances a three days voyage.
Among the passengers on the Cliff are
forty members of the Azili Grand italian
Opera Company. 1t is feared that some
disaster has befallen the Cliff in the recent
storms off the Yucatan coast
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06
Turf Congress Meeting

Louisville, KY, Sept. 5. - The annual
meeting of the American Turf Congress
will be held here on the 18th instant Prob
ably the most interesting matter to be con-
sidered is the power of the license COM
Mittee. This committee at present claims
the right to not only isseue and revoke IL
censes but to issue conditional or restric-
tive licenses
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06
Steamer Ralph sunk

Memphis, Tenn, September 5.-The small
Mississippi steamer Ralph engaged in the
lower trade went to the bottom of the
river early this morning. All hands were
saved after many narrow escapes. The
loss is total. The vessel struck a hidden
obstruction resulting in the disaster. She
was of $50 tons burden and valued at
500
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06
More KIoudike Gold

San Francisco, September 5-The steamer
Umatilla has arrived from the North,
bringing $1,500,000 in treasure from the
Klondke and Douglas Island and a few
nuggets from Nome.
The passengers from Nome all tell stories
of hard luck.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06
Street Railway Strike

st. Louis, September BY the strike of
one hundred motormen, conductors and
shop men on the Belleville, Ills, street car
lines, not a car in Belleville was operated
today. The cause of the strike was the
discharge of a union man.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06
Declined the Honor

Wheeling, w. Va, September 5.-Thomas
M. Jackson, a nephew of Stonewall Jack
son. who was last week nominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the First
District has declined the honor and his
successor will be appointed by the Con-
gressional Committee.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06
Snh-CommitteG MeeIs

New York, September 5.-The sub-com-
mittee of the Democratic National Com
mittee which will have charge of the cam
paign here in the East, met for the first
time with all members present in the Hoff-
man House today. The session was ex-
ecutiVe.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06

Simla, September 5.-Lord Ampthill, the
private secretary of Mr.. Joseph Chamber
lain, the Secretary of State for the Colo
MES since 1897 succeeds Sir Arthur Have
lock as Governor of Madras.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06
sIayden Renomiaated

Llano, Tex, September 5.-The Demo-
cratic Convention of the Twelfth Cengres-
sional District today renominated non.
James l.. Slayden.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06
SATIATED

From the ST. Louis Republic.
Former Presidents Cleveland and Harri-
son should make ideal peace aroitrators.
As party leaders they've probably mad
fighting enough for one lifetime
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06

There is feeling abroad that General
Joe Wheeler cannot be kept on the retired
asst unless the country remains in a pro-
found state of peace. He has already asked
for service in China
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-06

.Bonny Castellane promises to strain the
spent $6,000,000 in single year, SO blue is
his blood and so generous is he with his
wife's money.