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The age-herald., 1901-08-14
Condition of Corn Crop.

The government reports and the re- ports gathered by newspaper and com mercial organizations substantially agree in saying that the corn crop in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, iAansas and Nebraska has fallen from an anticipated crop of nearly two tho1sand million bushels to about half that amount. The estimated loss in lae seven great corn States Is put at S00,000, 900 bushels, loss that is all most calamity in it's magnitude and food effects. The crop in the seven States is now estimated at 1,103, ,223, 300 bushels. The total crop may go to 1900, 900, 900 bushels, as against crop of 2,105, ,102,516 bushels last year. This loss Is aggravated by the loss in the potato crop, whicn is now estimated at 160,000, ,000 bushels as against 210,000,- 900 bushels last year.
 The corn crop in Alabama is an
 
 average one, ana good care should be applied to it, for corn will be corn this year. And SO it is with sweet potatoes. Unusual care should be taken in storing sweet potatoes, so that they can be marketed in the winter and spring months that are coming. The crop will be an abundant one. By turn ing all of it to use as food, 1t will go far towards making the corn crop of the State answer the States own needs. The housing of corn and sweet potatoes should be given double the attention they ordinarily receive, for Irish potatoes and Western corn will be scarce and high priced. Alabama should and could readily raise its own corn, but it does not do so, and those who have this year full corn cribs will see how important the crop Is as an article of food. corn is now worth 50 cents bushel in Chicago, which means 80 cents at least at Southern points, And a full dollar to the con- sumer.
The age-herald., 1901-08-14
SHE Is SORRY NOW.

Chicago Special to New York Journal.
 The love story of the celebrated paint CT, John Millais, and the wife of John Ruskln was duplicated recently, so far as the husbands sacrifice was concerned, by David Burch, a machinist, of Macon, Mo, who gave up his bride of three months to Walter Guthrie, a Chicago board of trade man, in order that she might be happy.
 Burch first discovered his wife's love for Guthrie in a letter filled with endearing passages the latter had sent her. Burch took the letter to his wife, and though crushed and heartbroken told her he would gladly give her to the man she loved if that would insure her happi- ness.
 Mrs. Burch was i'll at the time, but Her husband nursed her back to health and then sent her to Chicago to be joined to the man of her choice.
 When, however, the woman arrived in Chicago, Guthrie returned her letters un- opened and refused to see her. Heart broken the unhappy wife sat down and wrote to the husband, pleading to be taken back.
 "Let us forget the past and begin life anew" she wrote.
The age-herald., 1901-08-14

Alabama. The natives are just as anxious to have clothes and to be educated as American negroes. Many Of them want to come to America. They do not seem to be lazy, but they cannot do great deal of work on the food they now eat, which is principally rice. There Is at Lome a native who runs a seven room boarding house. He also conducts a large business for a German who lives In Berlin.
 Tagoland is the smallest of the four German colonies in Africa. It is sit uated on the west coast, north of the Gulf of Guinea, and from 1t many of the slaves were taken that were brought to America in Dutch and Brit ish ships. The colony lies about 400 miles north of the equator, lying be- tween the gold coast and Dahomey. It is a little larger than South Carolina. and it contains about 2,500.00O natives, and 120 Germans. The town of Togo has population of 5000.
 Emperor William himself saw that experts of African descent from the United States would succeed where others had failed. It Is claimed that the African territory, although near the equator, is not too hot for cotton grow ing. It is fertile anu well watered. The experiment may lead to a rival in cot ton raising, as labor is abundant, and if it does the negro ln this country will know where he can grow cotton and be free from social domination and distinction. Altogether the experiment is an interesting one.
The age-herald., 1901-08-14
Cotton Growing in German Africa.

About a year ago three negro experts of the Tuskegee Institute were induced to go to Africa in the service of the German Emperor, and a cotton-gin, press, cottonseed, cotton planters, hoes, blows and the like were sent with them. They reached Lome in Tagoland about two months later, and letters re- ceiveH from them relate their ex- periences. Sheppard L. Harris relates that they had cleared" more than 100 acres of the bush. and 1t is planted in cotton, corn and peanuts. His letter is dated May IS. and he says that the cot ton plants are remarkably full of fruit. There is no doubt." he says. about the growing of cotton here, for 1t has been demonstrated" And yet he says that while the natives like the work, yet they soon give out"
 Superintendent Galloway discusses the natives in particular. He says:
 The nativess do not differ very much from the uneducated negro of the "Beack Belt" in the South. I believe the Africans have a better disposition. Color is about the same. If did not know that am in Africa I could easily believe myself in
The age-herald., 1901-08-14
MoRcAN's BODY GUARD.

From Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette.
 Since the steel conference on Saturday we hear more than usual about the big policeman who serves as bodysuard to J.. Pierpont Morgan. His name Is Powers He is detailed from the Old Slip station to keep an eye on MT. Morgan's person at all times, when he is down town, to watch every one going into the bank and to follow the great financier when he goes to luncheon or to visit any other office. The policeman is in uniform and he does his work discreetly and unobtrusively. He does not keep too near the banker, and he never speaks to him. but he Is al- ways within reach. It is said that MT. Morgan indignantly declines to allow plain clothes man to keep with him. say ing that he is strong enough to take care of himself, and he does not need body guard of any kind. Still. in view of the tremendous responsibilities resting on him MT. Morgan's leonic head. 1t is quite as well that Powers, the special police man, Is a sharp-eyed, active man. who Is always near enough to reach him in jump.
The age-herald., 1901-08-14
This Years Cotton Crop.

Recent rains have put the growing cotton crop in promising condition in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. These seem to be the States that have been the most highly favored by Proyi- dence.
 An average crop is expected in Geor- gia and the Carolinas, although there are many complaints from these At lantic coast otates, especially from North Carolina. But the best opinion is that their yieid will be about up to that of an average crop.
 In the rest of the cotton belt drouth has been hurtful. It has injured the yield in the hill districts of Tennessee, and short crop is expected. Arkan- sas cotton has also suffered from the heat and drouth of July, and the cotton fields of Oklahoma and of the Indian Territory bear marks of that same hurtful month. Still the lowlands of all these districts will show reason ably good outturn.
 It is difficult to say what Texas will do. The State is so large 1t has to be considered by sections, for the condi- tions of one section have not been the conditions of another section. In east Texas the condition of the crop is ex- cellent, but as one goes west or south evidences of damage by drouth appear. The crops of central and southern Texas will certainly be below average. In north Texas there may be an aver age crop-in east Texas, rather more than an average crop. The State as whole will not have great crop.
 If the present crop goes to 10,500,000 1 bales, 1t Is possible that the growing crop will be 100000 bales. Dry, hot seasons generally result in good product, and this season has been of that nature. The mistake should not be made of Judging the entire crop by that of Alabama. This one of the best, l. not the best, of the States this year. and the conditions that have prevailed here have not been the conditions in Tennessee, or the Carolinas or in Texas. and the last-named State grows nearly a third of the entire crop.
The age-herald., 1901-08-14
An Outrageous Charge.

".Mr. c. A, Beauchamp of Montgom- cry Sundayed with home folks here' IS statement made by the Eufaula Times which I desire to deny absolutely" said a Mason yesterday
 ',Mr. Beauchamp never Sundayed Tn ms life for he is a man of the highest char acter and the best of good morals. More over he Is a true and tried Free Mason as hundreds of the best men in Jefferson county can testify, and as the grand sec retary of the grand lodge of Alabama hs commands the respect of all honorable men,
 Like a good many other good men, MT. Beauchamp formerly dwelt in Flu faula and everybody there knows him and loves him, too. Therefore. 1t is all the more outrageous.all the more inexcusable, that his home paper should boldly and baldly accuse him of the vice of having 'sundayed with home folks here
 ITO have Sundayed' in any circum- stance is vice of such hideous mien that to be hated needs but to be seen, but to be accused outright by ones home paper of having Sundayed with home folks is. in the particular instance of Grand Secretary George A. Beau champ, a monstrous calumny.
 "Bless you, mani there is not in the whole world a better fellow. a better. truer, man. than George Beauchamp. and I make bold to personally deny the all legation that he committed the vice of sundayed. defy the allegator to prove this charge against so good and so hon orable a man. I have known George
The age-herald., 1901-08-14
Another State Fair.

The State Fair grounds are now we'll equipped with buildings and are in good condition for a profitable and en- joyable event, and this town should arouse itself to that end. A fair should be organized that would be fully repre- scented, and if steps were taken at once exhibits could be procured from every county in the State. Sixty-six county exhibits would make a whole that would be very attractive and very sur prising. There are various ways of procuring the sixty-six exhibits, and enterprise and energy can readily pro- cure that number. It would be some thing that had never before been ac- complished, and the task should be un- dertaken and fully carried out. The railroads will do their part in free transportation.
 No one should think for a moment Lat fair is not to be held next No vember, for one certainly will be. The state of the grounds and of public sentiment demands fair this fall. and a fair will be organized and duly held and great will be the attendance there at. Let no one harbor doubts as to a.. this. The fair will take form in a few days, when an announcement of the programme will be made. All should land a helninp hand
The age-herald., 1901-08-14
THE GREATEST QUESTION.

From the New York Sun..
 We print elsewhere on this page letter by Senator Morgan of Alabama called out by the proposition, since adopted by the constitutional convention of that State, to establish hereditary qualification for the suffrage,
 This utterance of the Alabama Senator is not new. His letter was written a month ago. but 1t is of significance DO profound and of statesmanllke percep- ton so true that 1t cannot become out of date.
 It makes manifest that by the device of the grandfather clause and kindred de- vices to take away the privilege of the franchise from negro citizens without ex- ciuding from 1t whites with the same dis qualification of illiteracy, Southern States have violated the fundamental principle of democratic government and thus m- troduced into our politics a question or more momentous importance than any other which has been projected in the his- tory of the American Republic.
 As Senator Morgan says, our American revolution was primarily and essentially a struggle to abolish hereditary privilege in government, with all its apputenances. This Southern movement is now made squarely for the purpose of reviving that privilege "To make blood the medium of transmitting the electoral power from father to son, Is to uproot, from it's foun- dations, the whole system of democratic government and to reinstate the system and form of regal government or, to express 1t differently, to revive a prime feature of the feudalistic system, the last yestiges of which this Republic was founded to destroy.
 Talk of imperialistic tendencies In this country. simply because of our territorial expansion as a consequence of the war with Spain, has come from narrow and superficial minds; but in this revival of hereditary privilege there is actually a precedent which violates so radically the essential theory of our democratic Repub- | lie that 1t must be resisted and rebuked and rendered abortive by popular senti- ment and removed finally by judicial de- csion, or our government as founded and preserved hitherto will be subverted ana destructive oligarchy of contradictory hereditary privilege substituted for the | democracy of the past.
 That in this movement Is the only real danger now confronting our political in stitutions is made apparent in the Ala bama Senator's discerning and statesman like discussion of hereditary distinctions of franchise. Consequently we give 1t great prominence today, in order that it may command the thoughtful considera- tion of every reader of the Sun. It raises 1 the greatest question at present before the American people
The age-herald., 1901-08-14
HOTEL FOR BOYS.

Detroit Special Chicago Chronicle.
 J. L. Hudson, one of Detroit's leading merchants, has purchased the old Biddle house, at one time the leading hotelAo the city. It has been idle for years and MT. Hudson will. 1t is stated. turn it over to Rev. c. L. Arnold, rector of St. Peters s Episcopal church, to be used as home for boys The price is not given.
 The clergyman has long harbored the scheme for a boys hotel, and has tried to interest various wealthy men in his idea The maximum price to the guests or the hotel will be $50 per week. but many will be provided for at much less ex- pense. Baths, swimming pool. bowling alley, billiard room and roof garden with restaurant will be provided.
 In one part of the hotel will be bunk room for waifs, where bed and breakfast may be had for two cents each. The boys will be granted the privilege of taking stock in the hotel.
The age-herald., 1901-08-14
A. G. S., 1a; Ressemer, ii.

From the Philadelphia Post.
 MT. James Wilson, Secretary of Agri- culture, though a Scot by birth, passed part of his boyhood in New England, and he loves to go back there now and then to see how the country looks
 "The New England farmer" he said to recent visitor. has a pretty hard struggle to make flying from the soil. but there is a charm about life amid its hills which no one can resist. Where he cannot raise crops, he can at least raise wild animals.
 "I was travelling through Nek Ramp shire some time ago on my way to de- liver an address, when, looking out of the car window, saw a boy trying to capture a woodchuck which had taken refuge in a hole In the ground and was showing fight.
 Tt fairly made my heart leap again as it used to when I was lad. If l had owned the railroad I would have thrown business to the winds and ordered the conductor to stop the train and hold 1t till I could get off and help the boy catch that woodchuck.
 "I wonder If he ever caught it," he added, dreamily, after a pause. ]
The age-herald., 1901-08-14
HIoh Price of Country Produce.

Many articles of country produce are much higher now than they were year ago." said a Morris avenue merchant.
 Last August Irish potatoes were sell ing wholesale at 60 cents a bushel; today they are bringing s1.60 The drouth has caused a short crop. Sweet potatoes are selling at $3.75 to A a barrel. These were about the opening figures last August, but in two or three weeks the price drop ped and the ruling quotations in the fall were around g. From the present out look sweet potatoes will not be much lower than they are now.
 Cabbage that was selling last August at 1h cents a pound now brings PA to B.
 Pears are selling at s225 to s2.50 bar rel and peaches at $l26 to $1.50 a crate.
 Eggs are in demand at 161k cents, and the tendency Is upward. They will soon bring 20 cents. Chickens are good sellers at IS to 22 cents.
 There is a brisk demand for all coun- try produce. Birmingham, as every one knows, Is a great consumer and it keeps us hustling this time of the year to main tain our stocks"
The age-herald., 1901-08-14
THE WELCOME.
'homas Osborne Davis.

By Thomas Osborne Davis. Thomas Osborne Davis was born at Mallow, County Cork, Ireland in 1915. and died in Dublin September 26, 1S45 He was a graduate of Trinity College. Dublin. He was admitted to the bar in 1883. He was one of the founders of the Dublin Nation. He was also founder of the Young Ire- land political party. Come in the evening or come in the morn-
 ing; Come when you're looked for. or come
 without warning. Kisses and welcome you'll find here be-
 fore you, And the oftener you come here the more
 I'll adore youl Light is my heart since the day we were Red Is my cheek that they told me was The green of the trees looks far greener
 than ever. And the linnets are singing,
 True lovers don't sever!'' I'll pull you sweet flowers to wear if you
 choose them; Or, after you've kissed them, they'll lie
 on my bosom; I'll fetch from the mountain its breeze to
 inspire you; I'll fetch from my fancy tale that won't
 tire you. o, your steps like the rain to the summer
 vexed farmer, Or saber and shield to a knight without
 armor: I'll sing you sweet songs till the stars rise
 above me. Then. wandering, I'll wish you in silence
 to love me. We'll look through the trees at the cliff
 and the eyrie; We'll tread round the rath on the track
 of the fairy; We'll look on the stars and we'll list to
 the river, Till you ask of your darling what gift
 you can give her. O, she'll whisper you, Love. as un--
 changeably beaming. s9 And trust when in secret, most tunefu',y
 streaming; Till the starlight of heaven above us shall
 qufver. As our souls flow in one down h:terni.y.s
 river"
 morning; Come when you're looked for, or come
 without warning; Kisses and welcome you'll find here be-
 fore you, And the oftener you come here the more
 I'll adore you! Light is my heart since the day we were
 plighted; Red is my cheek that they told me was
 blighted; The green of the trees looks far greener
 than ever, And the linnets are singing, True lovers don't severr'
The age-herald., 1901-08-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
rrom the New York Press.

From the New York Press
 Engagements are the cream Of love; marriage the skinned milk.
 You can always tell the kind of ideas woman hasn't got by the kind of stock ings she doesn't wear.
 Drink and woman never seem the same as they were the night before to man who contemplates them from his pillow in the morning.
 It isn't how many women a man sees coming home late at night that worries him, it's how many different places the woman is in at the same time.
 Wonder who started that fool idea that the quietest way for a husband to sneak up stairs at night is with his shoes in his hand when the only thing they do is to keep falling downf
The age-herald., 1901-08-14
ANTlsEPTIc SURGERY.

From the New York Tribune.
 Sir William MacCormac, president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Eng land one of the highest of living authori- ties on gunshot wounds, says that in pres ent conditions only about 6 per cent. of the men hurt in battle die from their in- jiiries. This Is the dearest proof of the wonderful advance made in antiseptic surgery in recent years, and is gratifying in its alleviation of the worst horrors of uar
The age-herald., 1901-08-14
Frank o,arIen by the Sea.

Listening to what the wild waves are saying, needing the songs or the oeep' cooled by the waters fitful sprayihs' lulled by the song of the winds to sleep the Hon. Frank P. o'Brien Is having d happy time at Asbury Park This IS ms twentieth consecutive summer at that re- sort and so he feels quite at home.
 MT. o'Brien's health, so long unsausiac- tory is now fully restored. and he Is as well and jolly and happy as ever he was Mrs. O'Brien is with him at Aspury Park. and so are his daughter and son-in- law MT. and Mrs. Hundley of Huntsville.
The age-herald., 1901-08-14
NOT ALWAYS FATAL
m the New York World.

From the New York World.
 A stroke of lightning is not always fatal. Different kinds of lightning cause greater or lesser injuries. says Dr. Sul- livan. A flame of sheet lightning does not always kill. Two thin. tense flashes are deadly. zigzag or forked lightning causes muscular contractions. Ball light ming gives a shock like a bomb.
The age-herald., 1901-08-14
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaefs prophecies for this day. Wednesday. August IA, 1901:
 Sell in the afternoon; evil for all else" Thou wilt have a year of many changes; losses and some sicknes In thy family. Keep thy business well in hand, and avoid risks"
 "Quick and ambitious will be the child born on this day, and 1t will rise rap idly in llfe."
The age-herald., 1901-08-14
A rvpocRAPHlcAL ERROR.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 Hungry Hawkins-I once answered a want ad.
 Tatterdon Torn-Gwan! Wot was de job?
 Hungry Hawkins-It was all a mistake. A printer advertised for a good feeder.