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The age-herald., 1901-07-26
MeeIy and Rathb0ne.

Between pull" at home and compli- cations in Cuba these looters of postal funds may regain their freedom-rnay never be brought to trial even. They must be tried by the Spanish courts according to the old Spanish code. The cuban officials say they have evidence enough to convict them if they could secure any support or cooperation from the officials in this country.
 Large sums were stolen from the postal funds of Cuba, and no one doubts the guilt of the sly Nicely or of the luxurious Rathbone. Their acts disrredited the American occupation of Cuba. for they pointed to more of the same sort. They were evil examples for the Cubans, who are about to man. age their own affairs, and yet they are not brought to trial. Even the deposi- tions- taken in this country have not been returned by the War Department. They are held up for some reasons. These dispositions are called in Span fish law .nquisitorial letters. The de- partment of justice says the War De- partment withholds these dispositions, and the charge is reciprocated. Any way, Nicely and Rathbone remain un- tried because of the want of evidence in case that is easily proven.
 It is but another example of pull" in this country. Rathbone was a nanna agent when the latter bought he seat he now. holds in the Senate, land Nicely has an abundance of pull" lin Indiana and out of it. The cases lre distressing to all Americans in tuba, and, they should be to all Amer tans out of it. Two precious political hscals stole large sums of money, and
 ley are not even brought to trial, and
 kre are intimations that they will be
 ned loose soon because of alleged
 hpiications. The real complications
 strictly of Ohio and Indiana origin,
 if the Democrats gain control of
 House next year the matter should
 ifted to the bottom.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26
About Persons.

MT. Sydenham Moore returned to Bir- mingham yesterday from his estates in Greene County. MT. Moore's family are at Blount Springs. Metropolitan.
 MT. Fred Saupe has returned to Bir- mingham from happy visit to his for mer home, Memphis. and he reports great prosperity in Tennessee's chief city.
 J. c. Hendrix of Atlanta is at the Metropolitan.
 R. R. Darden of Lafayette is at the Metropolitan.
 J. A. Lake. Jr, of Greenville, Miss. is at the Metropolitan.
 M. N. Faucher and J. A. Fuller of Selma are at the Metropolitan.
 J. H. Anderson of Memphis is at the Metropolitan.
 Jako Meyer Jr., of Chicago is at the Morris.
 William G. Andrews, E. M. Childs and Mart Bernheim of New York are at the Morris.
 s. NJ Puckett of Opelika is at the Nor ris.
 F. C. Shepard and T. J. Sparrenberger of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Montgomery, are at the Morris.
 MT. J. T. Grasty of the Baltimore News is at the Morris.
 D. R. LeFefre and J. L.. Horn of Liv- ingston, T. Fl wildman of Tuscaloosa, and Joseph Ifukker, I. c Crandall and T. M. Beattik of St. Louis are at the Morris. @
The age-herald., 1901-07-26
THE GRANDFATHER CLAUSE

yet the main things that the convention was called for has not been touched, | e.. the regulation of suffrage and the adjust ment of the educational fund
 From the Pickens County News
 The most serious objection that can be raised to the report of the committee on suffrage and election, as a whole. Is the clause pertaining to registration. The registrars are given too much power with no penalty whatever imposed. They are placed in absolute authority to register those whom they choose. The character and general qualification of men as elec- tors is left wholly within their jurisdic. tion. It does not take blind man to see that this throws the gate of fraud wide open again. We are brought face to facs with the bold evil that we were endeav. bring to remedy in the beginning.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26
Western Crop Scare.

The utmost severity of the drouth is confined to the southwest-to Texas, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas. There has been partial relief in Texas and Arkansas, but very little in Kansas and Missouri, where the corn crop is shriveling under intense heat and ex- treme dryness of the soil Outside of these four State seven more corn states are more or less affected by the drouth. and the eleven States grow all the surplus corn in the world. The other States and the other nations grow some corn, but none of them have any surplus for export. Last year this country sold s72,OOO,O00 worth of corn to the other nations.
 Present estimates put the corn crop at 1900 million bushels, a loss of 300 million bushels as compared with the crops of last year. The last great fail ure of the corn crop was in 1894, when the production fell to 1912 million bushels. In 1881 the crop was cut down to 1194 million bushels. But in both of these poor corn years other crops were deficient, and the loss of the corn crop was severely felt. In 1 1881 wheat and cotton alike were short crops, and crops in the early nineties were light. Nothing of this sort is probable this year. The wheat crop. now nearly harvested, will be fully 700 million bushels, or more than had ever been harvested in single year. The cotton crop will probably be of aver age size. So that if the corn crop be cut down to 1900 million bushels the country will not greatly feel the loss. There will be bread for man, and enough corn for beasts.
 A crop of 1900 million bushels would De worth on the farm fifty cents a bushel, or 800 million dollars for the crop. No previous crop ever brought that sum.
 If Missouri and Kansas had not har- vested great wheat crops, and if Texas and Arkansas did not expect to gather great cotton crops, they would each and all be in bad condition, but as the case stands they are beyond great sui fering, and their farmers will continue to be prosperous and to some extent great consumers of goods of various sorts. The drouth is shriveling vaiu- able crop in the corn belt, but 1t can not shrivel the wheat which has been harvested. or the cotton that laughs in those States at {:Ec suns best efforts.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26
IN HOTEL LoBE1ES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Rapnaels prophecies for this day, Friday. July 2e, 1so,:
 Ask favors, seek work and push ahead"
 Men may court women with confi'- dence.'
 Thou wilt have successful year with thy business, this being thy birthday but thou must expect sickness in thy family. Those in employ will meet promotion"
 Very fortunate in business will be the child born on this day, and it will rise rapidly in life"
The age-herald., 1901-07-26
OPPOSED TO ILLlTERAcY.

From the Galveston News.
 The News believes that in land of free schools, illiterates. of whatever col or should be excluded from the polls. from the jury box, from the public off, ces There Is no reason why wilful ig- norance should not pay some of it's own penalties, and there are many sound ar gumcnts in favor of placing a higher value on the privileges of full citizenship. This. aside from the danger of tr--2ing the public service over to the ig;Es,ace and vice of any community.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26
Keeping Good Men In Office.

To-day is the fifty-third anniversary of
 the birth of the Right Honora- ble Arthur James Balfour, the English
 Tory statesman, said a student of history last night, one who came personally to know Mr. Balfour and hear him in public debate.
 'Fifty-three is young age for pub-
 lie man in England. Over there they
 still call MT. Balfour the young man just
 as Gladstone did when he sneered at this young nephew of Lord Salisbury five and twenty years ago. If man elected to Parliament in that country proves himself able and trustworthy the people keep on electJng him every time Parlia-
 ment is dissolved. .ss'If one constituency
 what We caH district-siIould, in heat
 of passion or in change of public opin-
 ion, refuse te re-elect a good man, some
 other district in England, Wales, Ire land or Scotland chooses him. When Gladstone was defeated in England, he
 was elected in Scotland, and in more than one election he was elected for two or three constituencies. He then chose by law which he would sit for
 Any man In the British Empire proper eligible to Parliament is eligible for any
 auy district Of the empire, regardless of
 where he may reside.
 "In America a member of Congress
 must reside in the state from which he I is elected; but under the law Birming- 1 ham man, of the Ninth district of Alaba- ma, may be elected to represent Mobile,
 the First Alaba ma district, in Congress.
 "Mr GladstoAe was a member of the
 British Parliament for sixty-three years, and his older Contemporary, the Hon. | Charles Villiers{ an aristocrat of the mo- ! bflity served sixty-eight years in palia- nent and died a member at 93.
 'srhey keep gobd men in Parliament
 in the old countryp while in our country we frequently slaughter our best men," A Noble Old Alabama Statesman. t An Alabamian, the son of Aiabamians, said last night:
 ..The venerable and, venerated former
 Senator James L. Pugh, the illustrious Alabamian who at four score and two years has been for a week critically i'll in his home in Washington. is somewhat improved, as ali Alabamians will rejoice
 to know, though his great age makes
 critical any sickness that maya come to him. Senator Pugh is truly of that treat old school of public men5who were at once our grandfathers and political and social masters, and he is one of thf very few of the great ones who still fsurvive to point the present generation fo the right
The age-herald., 1901-07-26
THE cELIBATE'S IDEAL. r. R. wood fin pau Nal, Naeaz,n.

q WI Mine not to name her name, Dead is desire: nor oven mine to kneel Again abased in psesion's vain appeal; And mine not any more the thirst to claim
 Kisses to greet me Flushed for her worship are the temple halls;
 Only along the echoing space falls Always the music of voice that calls
 Me, who am lowliest. Mine not to see her face,
 Dead is desire: nor even mine to feel Again dtllded passions long ordeal; And m,iie TO more the hunger to em- braces a4& ~
 Bliss that would cheat me. f, Cleansed are the temple chambers of my mind; f M Each wlth a choir to sing her praises odorops with outpoured incense aalr shrined
The age-herald., 1901-07-26
Horse millinery is still below par.
3. 6 A. AlR.LIMe RAILWAY.

From the Talladega Mountain Home
 The surveying corps of the Birming- ham and Atlanta Air Line Railway are now in the neighborhood of Chandler Springs this county. They are pushing east toward Atlanta and will have cross- ed the Talladega line and gone into Clay in few days.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26
rALLApE0A GIANT.

From the Talladega Mountain Home.
 G. W. Brown of Eastaboga, was in town Saturday and came to the Home office to compare his height with three of the county's giants whose height ap- peared in the Home some time since MT. Brown measures six feet eight inches and weighs 2s5 pounds. He says he can pick as much cotton in day as any man in the county.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26
ARRESTED FOR MURDER. James West Charged With Having Killed a Tennessee Merchant.

Chattanooga, Tenn, July 25.-James West is under arrest on the charge of having shot bnd killed w. N. Parrott. a prominent mdrchant of Oneida, Tenn, last night. It is hlieged that West and Par rott were alone in a back room of Par rott's store when Parrott was killed The dead man bore} an excellent reputation and was Mason of high degree. The cause of the killing is not known.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26
Coal War in Memphis.

|nphis takes 12,000 cars of coal a and over this handsome aggre- he railroads entering Memphis arrenng very much as dogs do bone. The sources of supply in are Alabama, Kentucky and
 The mines of Alabama are nearer Memphis than are the
 Kentucky, and much nearer
 nearest mines of Illinois.
 very properly claims an ad-
The age-herald., 1901-07-26
MACLAY ISiROASfED BY
 THE N. Y. INDEPENDENT
BY PARK BENJAMIN, IN THE INDEPENDENT.

 trght Benjamin has in constant touch with the of
 
 and his commission without Academy which onany
The age-herald., 1901-07-26
Manager scaIly Resigned.

It was reported last night that MT. M. J. ScaIly, who has since October last been the manager of the Morris Hotel, had re- signed the management of that popular place of public entertainment MT. Scally came to Birmingham from New Orleans, where he had for many years been the manager of the Metropolitan cafe. He is one of the most noted hotel and cafe men of the South. In Birmingham he has won great many friends. and these friends and the public will regret that he is quit ting the Morris. By his expert skill and his genial manner MT. Scally has impress ed himself upon this community, and there will be general regret that he is going away.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

Nicely, who footed the Cuban postal service, is still serenely awaiting a trial that win never come. Men with pulls" as large as his are not born to pc tried.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

The Ioungers arc prepared to ex- tend their syasathies to Earl Russell, whose harem tendencies have landed him in prison. .-
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

This one fact stands out-the Brook lyn commanded bv Admiral Schley in- l.-cted 5S per cent of the damage to Cervera's fleet, receiving in return 54 per cent of the damage sustained by the American feet.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

The mosquitoes are not altogther abolished. Now and then one cheer fully warbles it's song of blood and revenge.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

As fast as the drouth reduces the corn crop the market offers compen- sation in higher prices. This is na- ture's consolation purse.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

. Paul Kruger mourns the death of his faithful old wife, and the world weeps with the honest old man.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

Balloon racing is ten times more airy and aristocratic than auto racing even of the Vanderbilt Sort. w
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

Mrs. Dan Hanna sends back word that no Hanna can gain control of her children. Mark is up against it.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

Governor Candler has begun to make women colonels, because all the men already have that title.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

The educational test kept compara- lively few negroes from voting in Maryland.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

Coney Island is officially reported ready for the millennium.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

Baron Krupp is anotheN man, it ap- pears, who is to die disgraded. He is worth about s1OIOOo,OOO.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

Ice foes of the Labrador coastl This shows where the real summer resort is aside from Jones Valley.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

Arctic explorers are now the envy oi all those left perspiringly behind.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26
Kruaer at lIhe Hauue.

The Hague, July 25.-Mr. Kruger ar- rived here this afternoon and proceeded to the residence of MT. Wolmarens, one of the Boer envoy at Scheveningen, a watering place on She North Sea.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26
REFLEoTioNs1pr A AcHELoR.

From the New Press.
 Marriage dos change a wornan,s tastes much ex} husbands
 When wofn ress is made in a curious way on SC to be conforta- ble it never Is
 The reason oman Is so seldom as good co pan is because she is so lacking nation.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

Mrs. Frank Leslie has suddenly be- come the Baroness de Bazus without explaining how or why.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26
strike Declared of.

Fort Worth. Texas. July 25 5-The strike of all uniops in the building trade here was today ldeclared off by order of the National Btiilding Trades Council.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26
From the Uniontown Herald.

From the Uniontown Herald
 The convention has passed an ordinance providing for a continuance of pay. and are going to stay indefinitely. The fifty days expired Monday. How long the con vention will remain is uncertain, but we suppose they will stay as long as there is any cash in the treasury. Alabama is getting weary of the convention, but we are in the predicament of the man who caught the bear. We need somebody to help us turn it loose
 From the Montgomery Journal.
 MT Lowe's suffrage ordinance printed in the Journal of yesterday will be offered as a substitute for the whole article when completed. It is very simple and pro vides no qualification except the poll tax or contribution to education. The list of those who pay 1t is the list of qualified voters. General Shelly thinks that is ample and The Age-Herald is behind 1t also. The lamented Francis l.. Pettus gave 1t his sanction as being sufficient qualification.
 From the Athens Courier.
 The prime thing that moved the calling of this convention was the regulation of the suffrage clause and some remedy for the educational clause, but the convention has formulated itself into a legislature, a trial court and body of orators with more wind than work. First. they have tried to make a party measure out of every article introduced. and every fellow went loaded with resolutions and they have spent the time allotted them and have not much more than gotten organ ized They are snarling and snapping at railroads, are trying to regulate the af- fairs of state so that in future the legis- latures will have but little powerl left, and might nearly as well not be convened. ana
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

The silence of silver in politics speaks volumes.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

Junketing statesmen were never more numerous.
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

Wanted in the|southern LeagS Se-an errorless umph
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

3N April 1898, when the war began,
 Rear Admiral schley had served in
 the navy for nearly forty-two years, Ss and had passed through every grade from midshipman to commodore,
The age-herald., 1901-07-26

D. A. Fitch and J. c. Little are the only authorized travelling representatives of The Age-Herald in its circulating depart menk
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-24
KILLED AT NEW ORLEANS
william LasheIi shot TO Death by Finch
Girard In q Battle.

New Orleans. Dec. 2l.-wm. Lashell
alias VIM. o. Day. who had been here
three months. was killed In desperate
duel in the tenderloin at 3 o'clock this
morning. by Finch Glrard, a notorious
character, who has served a term In
Texas prison. Glrard was also
wounded.
Lashells wife is in the city and said
Lashell was the son OF a prominent ex-
Judge OF Minneapolis. Mimi, and that
be had lived In Houston. Tex, Shreve'
port, La. Joplin. Mo. and Gainesville
Tex, and had trouble with the police
in each town, serving a term In the
Texas penitentiary at Rusk for robbery
committed at Gainesville.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-24
british After Nor. OIL Wells.

Beaumont. Tex. Dec. 2l.-The repre-
sentative OF an English synd cate who
refuses TO give the names OF his prin'
clpals has secured options on ten com.
pleted gushers In this field and the
trade is TO be closed by January l. IL
Is believed here that he is representing
the Roche Stuart people OF London.
who are also negotiating with the
Hogg- Swayne syndicate for a portion
OF its holdings. The price fixed on
the gushers is not published. but a
gusher was sold this week for t25.'
900.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-24
shn, br prunksn Negro.

Bristol. Tenn. Dec. 2i.-A drunken
negro shot and fatally wounded Secre-
tory and Treasurer Dayton II. Miller OF
the Big Coal company al Toms Creek
In Wise county Virginia. and then
turned the revolver on Charles VIII
lIams. a commissary clerk. and fatally
shot him. The negro was captured and
threats OF lynching made
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-24
wlLL nAloE SUGAR CANE
All state Convict. wan ~. Used on Stat
Farms Hereafter.

Austin. Dec. Ex-Governor sayers
announces that the penitentiary board
has at last definitely decided TO pur'
chase the Clemens farm Of $500 acres
and 10 erect thereon a sugar mill 70
cost between $3.50 600 and 100000 The
plantations owned by the state now
comprising 5000 acres. are TO be devot'
ed solely 10 the raising Of sugar cane
and convict labor to be employed 10
che mill. This will remove all convict
labor from railroads and other con
tract employment. The mill will be
built next year.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-24

New York. Dec. 2I.-Accordng 20 the
Gultamala correspondent Of the Her
aid Senior Rafael Montufar has writ
ten an editorial which appeared In the
leading newspaper OF this city. desig-
nating the Interpretation OF the Mon
roe doctrine given In President Roose'
velts message as the Roosevelt Doc
trino. Senior Montufar suggests that
the Pan-Amerlcan congress should not
close It's sessions with declaring Mr..
Rooseyelt's view TO be the basis OF the
Pan-Ameriean policy.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-24
No Standing n. no.r G.n.r.I.

New York. Dec 21-A dispatch from
Brussels says that General Samuel
Pearson. who has been reported to be
an accredited Boer representative In
the United states has no standing az
a Boer general. and merely acts as a
private individual anxious 10 follow the
interests OF peace.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-24
Aa,l..a Irl.h to stay nem..

London. Dec 2i-Patrick A. McHugh.
member OF parliament, speaking at a
public meeting at Sligo. declares the
lesson he had learned from his recent
tour OF the United States was simply
that Irish should stay at home. This.
he added. is the advice OF one who has
seen the dark as well as the bright side
OF life In great American cities"
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-24
demand for Underground wires.

London, Dec 2l-The break down Of
England's telegraphic system which Is
stlll In state OF semi-chaos as result
OF recent severe storms has produced
a widespread demand for underground
wires system Is already In use be-
tween London and birmingham an Is
being extended northward.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-24
Lilo. M.nsesmert crItIeI..d.

New York. Dec. 2l.-The grand jury
has filed a presentment criticising the
management OF the Brooklyn bridge
The jury did not find that any one con-
nected with the MANAGEMENT OF the
bridge was chargeable with tho neglect
duty. but il held that there had been a
lack OF proper care OF the structure
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-24
Iuombsrr Acquitted.

Helena. Mont. Dec 2l-C r. Blom-
berg who killed vs.. s. Millspaush. the
CHICAGO mining millionaire last Octo-
Der during "a quarrel was acquitted by
a jury al Virginia City. The plea OF
self defense was sustained. Millspaugh
was formerly general solicitor OF the
Southern pacifc and an intimate friend
OF the late e. r. Huntington.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-24
nr. HaIles Dead.

New York. Dec. 22-Dr. George
Baylds Is dead at his home In Orange,
y. j.. aged s. years. In 1890. DR..
Bayles was a delegate from the New
York Academy Of Medicine 10 the in
ternatlonal medical congress In Berlin.
He was post surgeon at Fort Hancock
during the Spanish-American war.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-24

Atlanta. Dec. 2l.-The crest OF the
cold wave which has been central In
Tennessee and Kentucky reached this
section Friday night. reducing temper
ature 20 six degrees above zero al At
lanta, the coolest weather OF the sea-
son. Freezing temperature has reach
ed southern Florida below Tampa.
where the temperature was e. Warm
or weather Us predicted
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-24
OFFER TO MARCONl.
Canadian Governments Bids Him Max
All Experiments at Nova Scotia.

All Experiments at Nova Scotia.
ST. Johns. ~ f.. Dec. 2l-Finanee
Minister Fielding OF the Dominion gov
eminent has telegraphed to Marconi
from Ottawa, Offering him In behalf o.
Canadian cabinet. every facility foI
erecting wireless telegraph stations on
the Nova Scotlan seaboard, making
him most encouraging proposition, as
surfing him there will be no obstacle In
the way Of his carrying out his expert
ments in Canadian territory and in
wiling him 20 Ottawa 10 discuss the
matter. In consequence of this pro.
posal Marconl will leave 81. Johns foI
Ottawa at once.