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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-02-21

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Coli Mt Cheu Chnse.

The interesting events are scheduled By the
Chevy Chase Golf Club for tomorrow. Washing
toms Birthday One VIII be a contest tor q cup
for the best gross goi. score. Another is To be
contest tor the best net score, and the third a
team contest. The Chevy Chase course Is said 10
be in splendid condition, and good sport IS anti
cip4ted from arrangements Toy tcna1rroyrs meet
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Safe deposit boxes for
rent in our large fire and
burglar-prOof Vaults per
annum and upward.
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
nf tho

CENTRAL. NATIONAL BANK
OF Washington City, at Washington, in the Dis
trict Of Columbia at the close Of bust
ness, February 5. 1901
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Total ....-...-.......--.-- 3r9,626 IS
City OF Washington, District OF Columbia s.:
J. a B. RUIZ Cashier Of the abo~r-na-1ed
bank do solennlr swear that the above statement
IL true to the best Of ny EnowIeoge and belief
A B. RUFF. Cashier
Subscribed and sworn 10 before re this 18th
day Of February 1901
FRANKLIN ?. ME%0ENUaTI1
Notary Public.
Correct-Attest:
CLARENCE 2 NORNEST,
EDWARD GRAVES
Z B EVANS.
DANIEL FRASER,
r P. MAY,
Il. BROWNING,
81 Directors.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF the
LINCOLN NATIONAL BANK
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF the

LINCOLN NATIONAL BANK
At Washington. IN the District Of Columbia At
the close OF business February ;, 1901.
RESUB RCES:
Loans and discounts sos 100 SO
Overdrafrs secured and unsecured. 30 >
l. : bonds 70 secure circu.atign...... 5000 -
Premiums on |. : bouds.-.--.-....-.. 90 90
Stocks securities, stc-..----------.--- g41q -
BANKING house, furniture, and fixtures I Sl3 81
Other real estate owned ------.----.-.- 3.715 y
Due from national banks mot reserve
agents. -..----.--- % $50 D
Due from state banks and bankers e-E3 -
Due from approved reserve agents.. $500 s.
Internal revenue ps-..--....-...... 2st %
Checks and other cash itergs------------ g55 -
Exchanges for clearing hoUse-----..--.- 237aS -
cents .... '.t. 57G
Lawful money reserve IN bank. viz:
specie S-S.4.s9 -
Legal tender nctes--.-.---- Jy,sIJ I'd
Redemption fund with L 5 Treasurer
Is per cent OF cIrcu-aJiga) -----.------ 1902 -
Total Observation-Disclosures. s5s.757 65
LIABILITIES:
Capital stock paid 500 go %
Surplus fund . $40 o.
Undivided profits, less expenses and
National bank notes outstanding. 5000 %
Due 10 state banks and bank
...-..-..-... -----.------- $40 50
Dividends unpaid -....-...-. 322 20
Individual deposits subject 10
check .-..--.--.----.-..- 627 1894 Il
Demand certificates of de
post OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 20 Is
Certified checks ............ 5go7 az
- G34,Io6 50
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Wagner Music in Birmingham.

The culture and musical ambition of this town will be put to a test when it is asked as it soon will be, to raise a guarantee fund of $5,O00 for night of Wagner at the hands of the great artists that Manager Grau has gath cred. These artists include Sembrich and Schumann-Henck and one of the De Reszkes, as well as a score more known to the musical world The con- pany that MT. Grau proposes to take to the Pacific coast is precisely the company that he employees when he presents the works of the masters in the Metropolitan Opera House in New York There is no question as to the excellence of the artists or the produc- tion of the opera, which will doubtless be one of Wagner's immortal works.
 The sole question relates to the de- sire of the people of Alabama. Do they want d HlSnI at uOulS Ol STduu OpSId This is the question. It Is not alto gether Birmingham issue, but an Alabama issue, for the Grau company will give but one night to the State. It is to sing it's way to the Pacific coast, and in the way lies Birmingham, town favorably known among peo- pie of musical culture. Shall the music lovers of Alabama have an opportunity to hear in the State the greatest lyric artists of the time? This is the ques- tion, and this question is to be an- swered in guarantee list. It cannot be answered in any other way.
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e.G,csze

spirits which make for the redemption of humanity from all forms, of sin and coarseness, and which in themselves cre- ate the higher life of culture and sweet ness and light. Then is there conjoined In tender and beautiful communion the best that Is given us for our enlightenment and our moral and spirituaieregenerat our fuller and nobler salvation here for the now and here for the glorious after whiles.
 When two such women meet, as two such met in the afternoon of a perfect yesterday, the measure of human good ness and charity Is larger filled. The one had come into her kingdom and was royal in the majesty of superlative loveliness and surpassing virtues of womanliness She was one to inspire all worthy men and women to worthier lives, a beautiful ideal of all that is in womanhood best and most beautiful; one who never harbored in her white soul an ungenerous thought and who never gave speech to a word to hurt or that was hurtful; one who never stopped to the gabblers level and who re- mains unacauainted with the babblement of the babblers.
 The other, the younger one, with her kingdom scarce a dream of the passing hour of gladness and laughing with a spirit white as the robe of sinless one,' was joyous in the sweet presence of her sister woman of the broader horizon, the broader life, and eager in the kinship of the higher womanliness. This little one was as bright as dream of light, with never cloud above her" and as ex- quisitely lovely as any rose that ever un- folded In bloom in the rosebud garden of girls. Her eyes, luminous above all other light, flashed the fuller messages of her heart to the calm, clear, luminous eyes of the elder majesty; and no two spirits in the world could surpass these fair young women in gentleness, charity, goodness, and the wider nobility of unselfishness.
 No mean or uncharitable speech was uttered there in the tryst of those two who were pure of heart @and unspotted from the world! T
 
 Is is not for every one of you, my be- loved, 'to say this to some one true? This: Your hand-clasp is my haven and my , hope,
 Your love and faith the utmost gross
 and scope Of dreams and fact-this at the last
 know,
 Here, wabting!'
 Your friend, your nearest and dearest one. far off or near your@last desire-as- suredly he or she exists in the world as your haven and your hope!
 Assuredly you are blessed while such heart still beats in the fever of life!h
 And if you love mankind, mankind will love you, my beloved.
 THE -MURMURER.
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Jim Brown in Ashville.

The people of Springville, speaking for 10000 people in St. Clair County, have pledged themselves to let the law take it's course if a speedy trial of Jim 3rown be had, and it is understood that such a trial will take place. Such a trial will be, all things considered, a fine vindication of the methods of justice and of law and order, and it will be a great credit to the people of St. Clair, which is one of the best counties of the oLate, located as it is on the bank of noble river.
 The resolutions of the Springville people are very salty. They declare that the people of St. Clair are law abiding and law sustaining. They de- clare that no organization exists that proposes to take Jim Brown out of the hands of the sheriff. and they de- mand in the name of all their rights a speedy trial at Ashville instead of one at Birmingham. They declare that .Ae people of St. Clair will abide by that trial. This is a solemn pledge, and under this pledge the trial is to take place at Ashville. The people of St. Cialr would be doubly disgraced if this pledge should be broken. The
 
 Age-Herald believes it will be kept.
 The Ashville Aegis is wholly justified when it says that this pledge is worthy of imitation-the first presented by any county in such case since lynch ing has been visited upon such culprits as Jim Brown. It comments this pledge to the people of the State as an example of law and order that should in every other county be. fol lowed and repeated. The Aegis is in clined to support Governor Jelks in all tnes steps he has taken to preserve in this case the dignity of the State and the supremacy of law, and it antici- bates in a trial at Ashville complete yindication of the course of justice and of the good people of St. Clair. So, let us hope, it will be.
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A Grandfather Symposium.

The Age-Herald of Friday morning presented views upon the grandfather clause from Senator Morgan, Capt. William c. Ward, James J. Willett, and a Democrat who has led as many cam paigns, especially in critical times, as any of them, and all four agreed in ex- pressing a dislike of the clause that a majority of the suffrage committee is endeavoring to foist upon the State. When to these four men are added the four that signed the protesting minor icy report, list is presented that can not be matched in the State.
 Let us glance at the protests of Fri day morning. Senator Morgan, the noblest Roman of them all, dwells upon the un-American nature of polit- ical heredity. He draws the line be- tween regal government and popular government. Inheritable blood belongs to the former, never to the latter It would create a class that would assert itself in the history of the State. The veteran statesman sounds a note of warning, based on the dearest rights ot the people.
 Captain Ward is another member of the Old Guard of liberty and popular rights. He insists that the proposed registrars should be elected by the people, instead of being named by court house cliques. The people. and the people alone. should elect their own election officers-the men who are to pass upon the characters of the people who desire to become electors.
 MT. Willett considers the grand father. clause inconsistent with the denial in the Bill of Rights of heredi-
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tary distinction. The proposed consti- tuition would thus contradict itself; but if there must be heredity in the politi- cal system of the State he demands for obvious reasons a grandmother. rather than a grandfather, clause. He seems to think that the grandfathers were not as far above suspicion as Caesars wife should be.
 The eminent Alabamian, who has fought in many fields for the State, whose name we are not at liberty to give, considers the majority report a bundle of defects. The registration provision is distinctly a menace, en- abling the registrars to create at will life electorate. The appeal clause is practically imperative, and the regis State for quarter of a century to come. He would impose a poll tax of s3 head, making the tax collectors list registration list, thus doing away with registrars of the dictator sort, with the grandfather clause, and with fraud of all sort. After a while an educational and property qualifica- tion could be added. This simple plan would eliminate the negro, and it would solve the most difficult problem that ever came before any State with out bringing into that problem reme- dies that are as objectionable as the suffrage evils themselves.
The age-herald., 1901-07-14
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT MEN WHO
 ARE ATTEMPTING TO MAKE A CONSTITUTION

I well remember when an enlightened Texas constituency sent Colonel Bill Mar tin to Congress because he had led a gall lant charge at the head of a remnant of a regiment at the battle of Gaines Mill up in Virginia. Colonel Bill would fight a circular saw, a band of desperadoes or any other old thing where the six-shooter was useful, but six-shooters had no place in Congress, and therefore Colonel Martin was out of his element
 He actually blew out the gas in the old Willard Hotel the first night of his ar- rival in Washington. The next day he moved to boarding house in one of those Washington blocks where all houses are alike, Numbers had no meaning to him. Landmarks were his guiding stars But even the trees which grew along the block were all of the same species and of like size and stem. So when Bill re- turned from his first day at the capitol, playing the role of statesman, he sought the landmarks of the morning. There they were; but many of the same con- tour. Bill, however. made bold to guess and into one of the mansions he strutted with a proprietary air. and up the stairs to his front room he climbed. There to his amazement stood a woman deshabille before the dresser mirror arranging her hair Bill blurted out to know what she was doing in his room. The fair one shrieked wildly. fearing the attack of desperado. The neighborhood was aroused, police calls sent in and the re- serves were called out. As the Texas statesman backed out of the front door, a bit embarrassed, but ready to fight, the woman who conducted his boarding house next door recognized him, explained the case and led him meekly into his proper stall.
 Bill thought deeply that night The scene had embarrassed him. A repetition of the occurrence would distroy his use fulness So during the night he resolved to act next day.
 Bill possessed under garments of car mine hue. He was bit rheumatic in his advancing age, and he knew red wool to be rough on rheumatism. Having them he would make intelligent use of said garments. So bright and early in the morning, he carved from a shirt sleeve and this sleeve he tied lightly upon the knob of the doorbell as he took his de-
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scientific mind to pretend to be learned enough to do without a God-to pretend in fact to discover that the God who made all things is nonresident or unknowable But honest and pious old Joseph Le Conte could never play to the gallery of scien- tific prigs and self-sufficient unbelievers who make the world weary with their chatterings.
 Professor Le Conte was graduated in 1S41 at the age of IS, and four years later he secured the degree of M. D. from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. Entering the Scientific School of Harvard, he became a pupil of the immortal Agassiz; and since then he has enriched the fund of scientific knowledge to a greater general extent than any other man of this age, almost at any age.
 "No American scientist has yet pub lished textbook which is used more ex- tensively than the Elements of Geology, not only in the United States, but in Ja- pan, in European countries as well. Be- sides, his works on geology, Professor Le Conte has written much on philosophical and religious subjects; Like all scientists of the latter part of the nineteenth. cen- tury he was influenced much by the Origin of Species,' and the Descent of Man. but, unlike most scientists, his re- ligious faith remained absolutely stead fast. His book. Religion and Science was orthodox as Drummond's Natural Law in the Spiritual World' and the same may be said of Evolution and Its Relation to Re- ligious Thought which appeared in 1887.
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and is still used as a textbook by English students Sight, an Exposition of the Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision,' established the authors reputa- tion in France and made his work the standard authority at the Sorbonne.
 Professor Le Conte also contributed to many scientific and religious journals, writing much on the subject of psychol- ogy. He is the author of the theory that explanations of psychological phenomena must be arrived at through the channels offered by physiology" se
 Birmingham's Crowded Streets.
 "see the great crowds in the streets-in all the downtown streetsr' observed Mai. William A. Moody yesterday after noon. ;'..'.-se
 1T do not believe there is a city of a hundred thousand inhabitants in this country which can show such great crowds in the streets as we have here. in Birmingham. Our streets are not only crowded today. but are so every day of the business week.
 'There has been a great increase of population since the census of last year; and anybody seeing the crowds in our streets would feel inclined to think that maybe there were more people here than the census enumerators discovered"
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Educational Report.

The plan of the education committee is much better than the present State aid plan, because it is definite as we'll as flexible. It provides for State tax in aid of the public schools to the extent of 30 cents on every $100 of taxable values. This tax would thus become the States minimum appro- priation for schools. At present 1t would probably cut down the school appropriation. The poll tax on the voluntary basis cannot be depended on to yield a sum exceeding $100,000- thus involving a loss all told to the schools, of $s6,oo0. But this loss would probably. be made good through gains in taxable values. At any rate a def mite and fixed minimum is better than settlement of the question in each Legislature on political, and to large extent demagogical, lines. This fea-
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international Typographical Union.

Birmingham has a fine Auditorium, and yet it has not become as yet a prominent convention city. It may, be- come so. however, for it Is centrally located in the Cotton Belt, and has ample railroad connections. The hold ing in this city of great national con- ventions would do very much to make known our resources, and to attract people to the State.
 Such convention will be assembled here next month, when delegates to the number of 800 will gather here to transact the business that the Inter- national Typographical Union has in hand. Including wives and ciends, perhaps 1 LOGO people will be present, coming from every part of the coun- try. It will be a national convention in the fullest sense of the word, and the delegates composing it will be men in touch with the greatest force in the country.
 It is important that this body of del egates should be well entertained while they remain in the city, and the efforts of the local Union should re ceiye aid from every one who has the welfare of the city at heart. The en tertainment of these people should no be left to a small body of men, but al should lend a hand. We believe the. will, and the delegates will leave thi town favorably impressed with it an' with Southern hospitality.
The age-herald., 1901-07-14
FoRGIvENEss.

By John Greenleaf Whittier. Y My heart was heavy, Tor it's trust had
 been N Abused, it's kindness answered wiN foul
 wrong; So, turning gloomly from my fellow-men, One summer Sabbath day, l strolled
 among
 The green mounds of the village .buriel
 place; Where pondering how all human love
 and hate
 Find one sad level; and how, soon or late, wronged and wrongdoer each with meek ened. face fAS And cold hands folded over still heart, Pass the green threshold of our common
 grave, s TT E whither all footsteps tend, whencsnone depart,za Awed for himself, and plying myrace, Our common sorrow. like a mighty wave. Swept all my pride away. and. trem-
 bling, forgave.
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ture of the report is commendable, and three-mil tax is generous.
 The one-mill county tax should be made mandatory instead of optional, because 1t wc1ld not carry the total taxation in a county beyond $1.25 per s100 of taxable values, the present maximum rate. Unless this tax is made mandatory some counties will have poor schools, and these counties will be the very ones that should have bet ter schools.
 Chairman Browne of the taxation committee recently said that there are seven districts in Talladega County that would under local taxation sec tion have excellent schools. Does MT. Browne know any reason why those seven districts in Talladega should not have excellent schools if they are will ing to pay for them after paying State and county school taxes? Indeed, he does not He certainly knows dozen reasons why this authority should be granted. He could protect the selfish and childless-the shortsighted-in those districts by applying again the number-and-yalue system that he bor- rowed from a sewer section of the Louisiana constitution.
 In this way Alabama would be given an ample and flexible system of school support, as follows:
 1. A State tax of mills, providing about $775,OOO.
 2. A county tax or 1 mill, yielding about $225,OOO.
 B.. Local taxation to fill gaps and af- ford the people of each locality an opportunity to have whatever they are willing to pay for.
 Anything short of this programme would prove deficient and unsatisfac- tory, and it would serve to shorten the term of the entire constitution. It should never be forgotten that all the other States are cutting down Hitter acy year by year, and Alabama cannot afford to stand still when her various districts are willing to come to the rescue. The esteemed Montgomery Advertiser seems to think schools and literacy are not allied, but no one else thinks so, and it's advice as to schools is open to question to say the least. The more schools and the better those schools are the more rapidly will Ala bama be developed, and the higher her reputation will become in other States and other lands.
The age-herald., 1901-07-14

> HIS weather Is not conducive to NF~ good hurnor in either speech or
 manuscript. There is a wealth
 = of warmth about it which develops the depth of dyspeptics in ones composition. It creates a desire to erupt on the subject of ones hobbies-to criticize those with whom we might dis agree-and to put in cold type facetious descriptive thoughts of the weaknesses of those beings whose work we cannot applaud. In this connection we all read much and think somewhat about the words and works of many of our alleged statesmen who are performing in the Constitutional Convention down in Mont gomery
 We are a bit disappointed at their pro cedure, and we are strongly inclined to judge harshly and say to ourselves and neighbors that the work of this conven- tion bids fair to be failure, and that the people will repudiate it, root and branch. Yet we should be generous Our dele- gates down in Montgomery are working under difficulties. They are sweltering. Many of them are listless under extreme heat-given to disagreeing and complain ing Several of them have said to me that they are handicapped by being bound hand and foot and gagged by platform. They are in bad humor. They need time for thought, and for consultation with thoughtful ones on the outside who have calmly watched their work to date. There fore were an adviser I would say to the Constitutional Conventions: "There is no hurry-recess for sixty days, rest your selves; wait for cool weather; give your selves time to think a bit-you are acting not only for present, but future genera tions; therefore give yourselves time for calm thought and you will act wisely"
 I fear there be members of this Consti- tutional Convention who went to 1t with out thought but simply seeking honor; who are as much out of place as are some men who break into Congress. Yet a man who goes to Congress is supposed to be one of great and transcendent abil- ity. The great public as a rule believes that of him. Yet the public Is often fooled. Good constituencies sometimes send men to Congress who are as unf1tted for the work they should perform as black belt negro is to construct storage battery.