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The age-herald., 1901-07-03
TESTERS MONTHLY STATEMENT.
Review Covers the Movement To the
 Close of June.

New Orleans, La., July 2. = Secretary Hester's New Orleans Cotton Exchange statement, issued today, covers the month ly movement to the close of June.
 Compared with last year 1t shows an in- crease for the month. in round figures, of 145, 900 bales, compared with year be- fore last an increase of 102,0O0 and with 1898 an increase of 126,0O0
 The total for June was PIT, 1926, against 133 ,1S5 last year. 176,2S6 year before last and 151, ,519 same time in 1898.
 The amount of the crop brought into sight for the ten months from September to June, inclusive, is 1,024,000 over last year, 1,033, ,000 under year before last and 1.052,OOO under 1S9S The movement from the first of September to the close of June, inclusive, shows receipts at all United States ports of 7,376,201 against 6,564, ,S2O last year, 8,376, ,433 year before last and S,619,751 same time in 1898; overland across the Ohio, Mississippi and Potomac rivers to northern mills and Canada l. 077, 1889, against 1,127,233 last year, 1,260 151 year before last and ,396 same time in 1898; southern mills takings, exclusive of COnSumDIlOIl dt OdlpOll lS, is@oo S45. against 1,3669S3 last year, 1.194,7S3 year before last and 1,O94.470 same time in 189S and interior stocks in excess of those held at the commencement of the season 21S531, against a decrease of 1H,- 59O under September 1 last year, an in crease of 172, AIS year before last and 106,- 342 same time in 1S9S
 Thasa la total QnnnIlnt nf the cotton crop brought into sight during the ten months closing with June 9,97o,966, against S,947,4 last year, 1,004,055 year before last and 1,132,336 same time in 1898.
 Northern spinners took during June S1,- BPS, against 6579 last year and 64,139 year before last, increasing their total for the ten months to 1.907, ,491, against 2.In,0S3 last year and 2,205, ,996 the year pefore. This makes their average weekly takings for the season 44,067, against 5O,2s5 last year and 50964 the year before.
 Foreign exports for the ten months or the season have been 6.136,237, showing an increase over last season of 455,90l and a decrease under the same period year be- fore last sos, ,S11. The gain in foreign ex- ports during June compared with June last year has been S4, 102 while compared with year before last there was loss of 27,O23.
 Stocks at the seaboard and the twenty nine leading southern interior markets at the close of June were 7n.667 against 27O,O29 the same date last year and 792972 the year before.
 Including port and interior towns stocks left over from the previous season and the number of bales of the current crop brought into sight during the ten months, the supply has been 10693,500. against 9.566.344 last year and Il, 271, ,621 the year before.
 Up to the close of June last year 94 S2-100 per cert of the cotton crop had been marketed, and for the same ten months of 1899 the percentage of the crop brought into sight was 9 eo-100 and for the same time in 1898 the percentage mar keted was eS 42-10O
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
NE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Primary Election in the Convention

The court house cliques got in their work in section IA of the suffrage arti- Gle. The General Assembly," it says, shall also make provision by law. not inconsistent with this article, for the regulation of primary elections, and
 punishing frauds at the same, but shall not make primary elections com pulsory."
 In other words, if the State wants a State primary, it shall not have it. One hundred and fifty-fve men in 1901 undertake to say that 5,0OO,000 of people in 1850 in Alabama shall not have State primary law, no matter how much they may want it. As matter of fact all caucuses and con ventions will be abolished in the next twenty years in all the States, and if Alabama wants State primary law she should be in position to have one.
 The truth is, the people want State primary law today, and if they had an opportunity to vote on the question would so vote. The politicians do not want one. The latter want something that can be juggled with, something that is capable of deals and dickers. . The people have everywhere declared in favor of direct action in primaries. and the people will have their way in the long run.
 If the convention does not wish to establish primaries at present, let it at least leave the Legislature in a posi- ton to establisL them whenever the people want them. Do not bind the State to the worn-out system of eau cuses and conventions, but let the Leg islature be the judge. The primary system is coming very fast in all States, as relief from boss rule, and party corruption and cliques. The words, "but shall not make primary elections compulsory" should be stricken out. Let the Legislature and the people be the judge. Leave them free to keep step with other States in this important respect. A determined fight should be made over the provis- ion, for it is intended to prohibit pri- maries. It's indefiniteness means that much. and if it is left in the article it will be so construed.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
THE TEST FOR 1904.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
 The Republican Presidential candidate of 1904 will have to state in precise and definite language, which can admit of but one construction, whether he favors or opposes that form of free trade which calls itself reciprocity" and consists in removing protection from one class of American products in order to make bet ter markets for others. If he Is opposed to 1t he will receive the vote of every loyal Republican and be elected. If he Is in favor of It, or if he or the platform is not absolutely unequivocal in confining con- sessions for reciprocity" to products not made in America, he may save himself the trouble of running, for Democrat will be elected if the candidate is yell low dog
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
AbsenteeIsm and Taxation.

"The delegates in the constitutional convention seem to imagine that they are the sole custodians of the peoples hber- ties, patriotism, honor and general We'll being, and that no Legislature of the fu- ture is to be trusted" said former legis- lator
 Yet less than two-thrds of g devoted delegates disposed of the second most important question: If not quite the most vital issue, which the convention can con- sider
 ''Ninety-eight delegates voting, out or 155, passed upon the main issue of taxa ton, only sixty-six, or twelve less than majority of the whole house, voting to limit the general tax rate to siXty-five cents on the hundred dollars, thereby crippling the State and gravely endanger- ing its credit
 Upon this all-important issue there were fifty-seven delegates not voting Had they been in their places and voted right, the public schools and the helpless old soldiers of Alabama would not have been made to suffer!
 Tt is not for me to charge demagogy; that is already written so large that the people can make no mistake, but it Is for every citizen to protest against that ab- senteeism which we are told threatens to make the convention go to pieces, and against that reckless spirit of unpro- gressiveness which imperils the honor and good name of the State, promises dls- aster to the public schools. and imposes still greater priva ton to the poor old sol diers who gave their best manhood to our war and who are now entitled to our sup port in their helpless age
 "The mischief of unwisdom at Mont gomery is that it will be perpetuated in some way at the polls however greatly 1t may endanger e general welfare. Whatever the character of the new con stitution, that instrument will be 'rati- fed
 "In their own conceit the delegates, with the sole duty to frame the organic law, are usurping the functions of the people in Legislature assembled. The ribaldry of such men as Delegate Key holds is not to be consjdered; but there are many delegates, good men and trust ed, who have made and are making prop ositions with which the convention has no more in wisdom to do than It has to make rules for the conferences Of the Methodist Church or the associations of the Baptists, to which churches probably most of the delegates give their allegi- ance!
 I've have had propositions to put the 'gu-anner' of the farms and likewise propositions to put almost every other thing in the constitution: and now let us hope that some delegate will seek to em- body a clause making the use of tooth brushes bathtubs and soap compulsory. This would make for morality, which 'gu-anner' doesn't. Imagine guano con stitution'
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
The Prosperous Southern Club.

The Southern Club is so strong and prosperous that 1t Is determined to build A handsome club house on the site of the present building at Fifth avenue and Twentieth street, as has been already stated In a circular letter issued to members, the Board of Control recom- mend that the architectural plans of Walters & Ullman of Birmingham be &C., cepted, and that the expenditure on the new building be limited to $35,OO0. of which s25O0O shall be expended in the erection of the building proper; archi- tects' fees. improvements on the lot, su- perintendent, and other incidental ex- penses, $5OOO; new furniture for club house, s50O0.
 To raise this money it is proposed to place per cent. first mortgage on the property for $20,000, and 6 per cent. sec ond mortgage for $15,000 sinking fund of s15OO year is to be provided for the redemption of the second mortgage. The initiation fee is raised to $50.
 This interesting and encouraging report is made by the committee:
 "We have arranged to place the first mortgage of $20000. It will be necessary, however, for the second mortgage bonds to be placed among the members of the club. We estimate that, with reasonable or careful management, there will be no difficulty in the clubs meeting it's obliga- tions as outlined above. The club has paid in cash on it's debt since January IS, 1896, the sum of $990O Much of this was paid during depressing periods of business stagnation. hi the year 1900 the net earn ings of the club were $S067.92. It is, of course, expected that with new club house the membership will rapidly in crease. We should have within another year 300 members. We have now about 200 members. We estimate, however, that the club can easily meet its obligations and retire $15OO worth of second mortgage bonds annually, even if its membership TO- mains at the present number. which is un- likely.
 '"The second mortgage bonds are to be legally secured the same as the first mort gage bonos. As the value of the property, including the furniture. will be about s55. 900. it ought to easily secure debt of
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
LiqhtWood's Local Lines.

These are the words of song of local significance which Lightwood sings nightly at Lakeview, and by which he delights the crowd:
 If you want to be an alderman
 Elected by the people straight And the council holds a meeting
 To elect it's own pet slate, Then is the time for disappearing:
 You take header and down you go. When the sky above is clearing
 You bob up serenely from below"
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
NO THIRD TERMER.
General Grosvenor Says He Has Been
 Misquoted ooout Mckinley.

Kansas City, July 2.-Gen. G. H. Gros~ venor of Ohio, speaking to a reporter of the utterances regarding the third term question imputed to him, said:
 "I was misrepresented. The interview published was distortion of a mere statement of historical facts regarding Washington's reasons for not accepting a third term which I made to party of young men. I will not say and have not said whether think MT Mckinley could be elected again, but do say that in my Judgment no man will ever be elected to a third term"
 General Grosvenor is en route to Win field, Kan, where he will deliver an ad- dress on July 4.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 It's a wise son that doesn't let on he knows his own father.
 If there was anything in Christian Science the baby farms would prove it.
 The difference between any mothers boy and any other mothers boy is just that she is his mother.
 No matter what they say, the only reason bachelors aren't married is be- cause no girl has asked them to ask her
 It's thousand to one no girl who ever went up in balloon dressed without planning in case she should come down without the balloon.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
"Dave" Scott.

Mai David M. Scott of Selma, who is in Birmingham on business, is now rapidly growing strong after an illness that was prolonged for several months. He suf- fered from nervous prostration, perhaps the most painful of all physical conditions.
 Major Scott is one of the best known and best liked travelling men in the South, and his friends everywhere will be glad that he has recovered from painful and dangerous illness.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaefs prophecies for this day, Wednesday. July 3, 1901:
 An unfortunate day"
 Much activity, but not much success, is signifled by this thy birthday. Thou wilt be annoyed by young persons and through letters and writings; keep thy business we'll in hand"
 Careless, untruthful, siovenly, and un- fortunate in business will be the child born on this day. If a female she Will marry an old man and be unhappy with him"
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
Dog Races With Trolley Car.

There is a pretty little dog, with long hair and face that seems to be actually alight with laughter, which races every troller car that passes his masters house in North Birmingham. Within few sec onds after a car leaves the station in front of the Country Club and when 1t has reached a high rate of speed, the little dog dashes out and alongside and the mad race Is run for two hundred yards, the dog always keeping little ahead of the car. If the motorman slacks the speed. the dog does likewise, and if full speed is put on the dog seems to almost fly.
 The dog has apparently fixed a par ticular point which he considers the end of the race and when he reaches that point he stops, turns, barks at the car and then leisurely trots back home. The motormen and conductors alwIJs look out for the dog, and he amuses hundreds of passengers over the trolley line.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
Lieutenant Downes Killed.

Washington, July 2.-General MacAr- thur cables to the War Department from Manila that First Lieut. Edward E. Downes, First Infantry, was killed in southern Samar Downes was appointed to West Point from Texas in 1896, but in 1898 entered the service as a second lieu tenant without graduating from the Mil- itary Academy.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03

xatered securities. With the Stand ard oil naming the price of illuminat- ing oil and the soft coal combine nam ing the price of fuel, we are fast com ing to a stage that renders monopoly supreme in this country, and that gives the individual precious little oppor- tunity for independent action.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
Russian Crops Witherinu,

London, July "A dispatch from St.
 Petersburg says the crops of the province of Saratoff are whitening and the grass is scorched, owing to the prolonged heat and drought. The price of corn is jump ing up and the outlook of Saratoff and in the neighboring Volga districts is alarming. The scarcity promises to be as severe as the famine of decade ago.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
The stamped bank check is passe.
There will be no frost tonight.
ALL KANSAS WORKED SUNDAY.

Topeka. Kan, July 2.-Sunday ten thousand harvest machines were running in Kansas, and 5000 men labored from sunrise to sunset In the wheat fields A great drought Is sweeping over the West. and the wheat must be saved within a and the wheat must be saved within a lost. score of wheat fields have been burned by sparks from passing trains.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
LIEF ENANT SCOTT RESIGNS.
IGished Himself at Cardenas in Spanish War.


New York July 2.-Lieut. J. H. Scott of the Revenue Marine Service, who dis tinguished himself at the rescue of the persons on the disabled torpedo boat Winslow off Cardenas on May H. 1S9S has resigned and gone into the railroad business under T. c. Pollock, the foreign freight agent of the Pennsylvania Rail- road
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
NEWSPAPER PASSES.
the Savannah Press.

From the Savannah Press.
 The case of newspapers is different from that of lawmakers The Alabama reform CT who hopes to guard the newspaper from the insidious and corrupting wiles of the free ticket should understand the situation. Newspapers do large amount of advertising for the railroads. Some pa- pers accept money for this space and some take their pay in transportation. Some journals divide the contracts talk ing in return for the advertising half money and half transportation. When this Is done there can be no objection to the free pass arrangement any more than there could be to the old system, where the editor received his subscription dur ing the winter in cordwood and red fan nel. The man who brought his lightwood knots to the sanctum was not brihlng the editor-he was only paying the printer; and so the manager who sends the pro- prietor a pass to Goose Pond and return is only carrying out part of his contract He shows his schedule in the public ga- zette and runs the notices of his eXcur- sions and cannon-ball trains. All of this is paid for, and if the editor, instead of charging 1t all up In cold cash, receives as requital in whole or in part a ticket, In winch he agrees with the railroad that if there is any damage to himself or bag gage he will not sue the company, how Is the public injured and how Is the freedom of the press throttled? The Alabama law maker is too good for this earth.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03

One P. Booker Reed, candidate for Mayor in Louisville, encouraged by the examples of Platt, Quay and Hanna, says, T am a spoilsman in all the word implies, and if I have a chance I will deliver the goods" Whose goods? The people of Louisville will answer this question.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
Hanued Himself.

Chicago. July 2-C. w. Williamson, commercial traveller. representing the Corbin-Cabin Lock Company of New Brit ain. Conn.,, died here today by hanging himself with his suspenders at hotel. He left letters to his wife and employer. No motive for the deed is known.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03

Captain Hobson is outclassed now by President Schwab of the steel trust. ! wo hundred women kissed the latter's pig iron face in twenty minutes re- gently.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
ONE DEED. By Richard Watson Glider.

By NIcHaru WHts0n 9Huer. One deed may mar a life.
 And one can make it: Held firm thy will for strife.
 Lest quick blow break 1t! Even now from far on viewless wing Hither speeds tho nameless thing Shall put thy spirit to the test.
 Haply or e'er yon sinking sun Shall drop behind the purple We0e
 And shall be lost OF wonl
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
Killed Ills Wifi.

Warren, O., July 2-Rowlin Hawkins. a farmer, residing near Newton Falls, to- day shot and killed his wife and then attempted suicide He failed to inf1ict a fatal injury upon himself. and is now in jail Jealousy was the cause of tEe trsg- edy.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03

Indianapolis has ring that fur nishes for fat fees insanity testimony regardless of the individual It offers to prove any one insane, and it is gen. erally right
The age-herald., 1901-07-03

What will we do with the North Pole when we discover'it? It is a fixture, and every man cannot have a splinter from 1t.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03

A new cry for the great American novel has sprung up, now that the peo- pie are deprived of the Congressional Record and Mark Hanna's orations.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03

Tomorrow Is the small boys best holiday in many States. He rises up early and goes to bed covered with burns and bruises.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
Killed by Lightning.

Saginaw, Mich., July 2.-Hon. George W. Davenport, a former State Senator, and one of the most prominent men in this section of the State, was killed by light ming at his summer home, short distance from this city, today.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03

ss5 eco. If the club prospers and is well managed in the future. the second mort gage bonds should all be redeemed in about five years"
The age-herald., 1901-07-03

The women who smoke cannot be received at King Edwards court, and presumably not the woman who chews or dips.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03

The reorganizers call themselves Til den Democrats, when in point of fact they are Grover Cleveland Democrats.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03
Aged Citizen Dies.

Huntsville. July 2-(Special.)-S. s. Stiles. an aged citizen of Guriey, died yesterday at the age of 71 years. A wife and ten children survive him.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03

The Russian tariff war is punching holes in our Chinese wall, and letting the light shine on the people.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03

The silence of Web. Davis is becom- ing inexplicable, and in Kansas it is the cause of deep rejoicing.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03

The Melikoff constitution is again under consideration in Russia as re- lief from continuous Nihilism.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03

'Inabality to work" is feature of the new horse disease in New York, thus making the horse and man akin.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03


 side the mark.
 From the Washington Post, Dem. If the Alabama constitutional conven- tion shall finally adopt a franchise clause such as is outlined in the press dispatches published yesterday morning-only barring what is known as the grandfather pro- viso-the Democratic leaders of that State will have taken the lead in enlightenins. legislation for the ballot box, and, incl dentally settled the negro question so far as concerns politics. We note with grat- ification the protest entered by number of the most prominent and influential whites against the inherited right of suf- frage. The denunciation of this expedient which is nothing more or less than the disfranchisement of the negro because of the color of his skin-and by such men as former Congressman and Governor William c. Oates, constitutes one of the most encouraging indications that has yet come to our notice in this connection. Let us hope that it will prevail with the con- vention and that Alabama will refuse the unworthy part that has been played in
 
 Louisiana and North Carolina.
 MT. Oates and his coadjutors take the same ground which the Post has occupied ever since the Louisiana proposition was first broached-that the policy in question Is not only unwise, unjust and mischiev- ous, but that it is f1agrantly illegal as well. They address themselves to the reason and the conscience of the conven- tion more especially, however. They in- sist first, that an illiterate and worthless white makes quite as undesirable a voter as the illiterate and worthless negro, and they declare, secondly that the conven- ton should be ashamed to apply to the blacks any test to which they are afraid to subject the superior race. The whites have been free for centuries, the negroes for less than forty years. Such of the former as cannot now qualify by the same standards as are set up for the latter cannot be said to deserve the suffrage at all. Finally, to enfranchise an otherwise disqualified white man simply because his father or grandfather was a useful citizen Is merely to magnify the mans unworthness and to disgrace the legisla- tion that operates so wicked an injustice. It seems to us that the franchise clause already proposed-leaving out the vicious feature above discussed-will, under any honest and intelligent administration of the law, secure to Alabama as large a result of purity at the ballot box as Is possible under our institutions. It excludes all illiterates, idle and shiftless persons, tax-dodgers and vagrants, and thereby contemplates a minimum of ignorance and corruption at the polls. Surely the prop erty-owning, tax-paying, enlightened, and progressive classes of the Southern States must realize by this time the importance, if not the necessity, of curtailing the in- influence in their domestic affairs of the bulldozers and the outlaws, nearly all of whom are to be found among the shiftless and irresponsible white illiterates of that section.
The age-herald., 1901-07-03

The growth of Governor Odell of New York astonishes the country.