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phase of the problem. This question is one of the Advertisers own selec- tion, and 1t should not evade it's own choice.
 As the case stands, the presumption is that the Advertiser Is opposed to local taxation, as it confesses that it is opposed to a 3-mill State tax and 1-mill compulsory county tax. The two last-named would yield just about as much as the present appropriation for the schools, and the passage of both of the last-named measures would simply create school stagnation. The Democratic party stands pledged to see that no backward step is taken In re- lation to the schools. As the school policy has been one of progress, the substitution of stagnation would be a violation of a pledge that touches 72z,- s33 young lives in the State, good snare of whom belong in the oareioot class. esteemed contemporary. The Advertiser is in favor of violating the pledge of the party. It confesses to as much, leaving local taxation un- touched, but evidently in the same lot.
 The truth is, the Advertiser is op- posed to the s-mill State tax, to a com pulsory 1-mill county tax. and to local taxation also. It wants minimum of school taxation, while professing-on paper-to favor the utmost liberality" in school taxatian. This Is simply demagogical, ana It's almost" bond scheme is no relief to the situation. No one is surprised thereat, for it's tendencies and desires are well un- derstood among the friends of public schools throughout the State.
 Instead of crying out about free passes. it should first lend hand to- wards holding the Democratic party to it's solemn pledge made to the peo- pie of this State as to public schools. No backward step, said the Demo- cratic party, shall be taken, and yet the bond-creating Advertiser is in favo of taking not only a backward step, but of placing the peoples schools the schools of tne barefoot boys and. girls, on a toboggan slide. It is op- posed even to a standstill policy. It owns up to this, and even this would be false to the party pledge. It de- sires to be douDly false to that pledge, and in that way it touches and injures the lives of a vast number in the State today.
 The long and short of the matter is, the Advertiser is opposed to public scnools and always has been. It favors "bonds,' and county taxes that under the Browne plan require three-ifths vote, but it is opposed to anything uefinite, efficient and practicable in be- half of the public schools. It is smoked out at last.
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for this day, Tuesday. August 6. 1901:
 Deal, speculate, buy. and push ahead before ? p. m."
 Thou hast good birthday, and thy money and business will increase; thou wilt make new aequaintanees and benefit by them.'
 Women, be careful; put no faith In promises, but conduct thyselves with great circumspection."
 Fortunate will be the child born on this day. It will rise in life and be much helped by powerful friends. If female early marriage
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Extraordinary Mississippi LYnch;ng

The lynching bee at Carrollton, Miss, is fine example of the logical and really inevitable tendencies Of lynchings in general. A double murder had been committed, and the murderer confessedly had not been apprehended. The mob knew this fact. The district attorney told them he had not sue ceeded in arresting the murderer. All knew the murderer was not at hand, but a mob had gathered determined to have a lynching bee, and they took three persons-two women and one man-out of the jail, and hung them. The three victims knew that MT. Talia- ferro and his wife were to be mur- dered, but they had no hand in the killing, however guilty they may have been in foreknowledge. But there was very little evidence of guilty knowledge on their part
 The Memphis Scimitar pronounces the lynching as nothng less than cruel murder, and Governor Longino pro poses to bring the perpetrators of the deed to punishment. But editors who denounce lynchings and Governors who propose to punish the guilty are com mon enough in every State. The offer of reward in such cases is farce thor oughly exhausted to the point of tire someness. It deceives no one. What is wanted in such cases is a skilled de- tective or two, and judge who means business, and jury that has the cour age of it's convictions. In other words business methods are neededs as wei . as healthy public sentiment. A There was no reason to expect thai the murder of MT. Taliaferro and hi wife at Carrollton would go unpun ished. All knew the criminal or crimi nals would be punished. And yet in hot haste the mob took out two women and man, none of whom were c..arged with the full extent of the crime, and hung them. Is it not time to call a halt? The conduct of the Elmore case, and of the Jim Brown case may go to show that Alabama nas not fallen to the Carrollton. level Let us hope at least that the two cases will be conducted with real intention of maintaining respect for law and civ. ilized order.
 The Chicago Tribune shows that lynching is increasing in the South .1n 190O," says the Tribune, there were eight more than in 1899, and prob ably this year there will be more than there were last year. The year is little more than half gone, and yet there are eighty-eight cases, as compared with 115 for all of last year. The four southern States, Alabama, Georgia
 
 : worst offenders. Last year there were eight cases in Alabama, sixteen ir Georgia, twenty in Louisiana, and twenty in Mississippi, over one-hali the total This year to date there have been nine in Alabama, twelve in Geor gia, eleven in Louisiana, and thirteeI In Mississippi. again more than one half the total number in the whole United States It is to be said for eacf one of these States that law-abidine citizens in constitutional conventions and in executive offices are seeking tc prevent this disgrace and to restore the authority of the law. The statis l.cs show there is great need of effort '
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Latrobe movement, but the single darkey or single family is welcomed in the North wherever labor Is scarce. The demands of the labor market are, in other words, slowly leading to a dispersion over the entire country of the negro population, thus relieving congested districts of the South, and 1oing no harm anywhere.
 This dispersion is in fact the only great change that can be foreseen in the race problem. The removal of the blacks to Cuba or elsewhere be- yond the country is a dream that Is incapable of fulfillment. Dispersion under the fixed laws of political econ- omy is probable, and is perhaps in course of operation. Once fairly be- gun 1t will be difficult to name its linn its. or It's obstacles, or its effects.
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A SHAMEFUL STORY.

From, the vicksburg Herald.
 The Times-Democrat had two columns of description of the efforts of Circuit Judge Stevens, District Attorney Hii. State Senator George and other citizens to prevent the Carrollton lynching The sheriff of the county was not referred to once. Subsequent accounts state that since the lynching the mob has been securing the county openly looking for other victims-unopposed by the sheriff.
 Speaking of the application of moral svasion by Judge Stevens and District Attorney Hill. the Times-D Democrat ac- count said:
 They made these speeches to the mob
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THE DOOM OF THE MOSQUITO. From Harper's Weekly.

In this year of grace. 1901, the doom of the mosquito has been pronounced, and it is declared by the human race that this pest must go. It is one thing, however, to proclaim and another thing to compel. Although as members of the human race we must sympathize with bts efforts to exterminate the mosquito. and confidently expect that our side will win, we must express our admiration for the persistent and relentless hardihood of the foe. He is evidently possessed of courage which was once called splendid, but which is now so common that we may some day find 1t even in the heart of June bug But it is, nevertheless, true that the mosquito must go.
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Whites. Maiorittes
Alabama
In all the other States a simila

In all the other States similar story of white preponderance Is told. There is no exception thus far, and probably there will be none.
 Until all the returns are published it will be impossible to say what the tendency of the negro is, but the plain presumption now Is that negroes are simply seeking higher wages and bet ter conditions in Northern States. La bor in those States will not stand a
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ereensboro's Mayor Delighted.

'Ion Frank F. Otis, mayor of Greens boro, Ala, and one of the leading poli- ticians of his state, Is here with a party O. friends attending the exposition" runs a letter from Buffalo
 Tn an interview he said:
 The exposition is a great surprise to me. It's grandeur is beyond description end almost beyond the reach of praise so magnfficnet is 1t in all its details. The grounds, too, are lovely, the color effect charming. In fact see written in full lest detail the story of the progress of the mighty Caucasian race I am de- lighted at the prospects of the success of the exposition. Am pleased with the midway and am proud that Alabama Is so well represented in attendance. Hun dreds of our people have come and many are coming daily. The railroad excursion rates here are nearly four times higher though than they were to Chicago I do not say is as a citizen of the state, but as a thinking person cannot refrain from saying that am surprised at the mar vicious display made by Alabama In it's brief time for preparing an exhibit it did wondrously we'll.
 "Tts products compare favorably with those of the best states in the union and It's remarkable progress is due to it's vast resources and wonderful climate and fertility Alabama, find. Is the best ad- vertised state in the grounds. MT. R. W. German. who has charge of the ex- hibit, is an entertaining and tireless talker and has made a brilliant success of the stae's affairs. In addition to his other duties he corresponds for all his state papers, procures accommodations for all Alabamians and looks after their comfort It was indeed an suspicious day. for Alabama when 1t made its ex- hibit and sent MT. German here. I am glad to say that the Buffalo people are very kind and hospitable and Alabamians who write to our state exhibit before coming can live here much cheaper than they can in the hotels at home"
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REFLECTIONS O. A BACHELOR
,ba New York Press.

From the New York Press
 A girl that has never been kissed by a man has never had any temptation to do right.
 Why is 1t that the time woman talk the most baby talk is just the minute they wake up?
 For some reason when their stockings and their garters don't match girls act as uncomfortable as if everybody knew it. t9
 It's funny. but when a lot of wives get to talking about clothes all the married men look more scared than the unmar- ried girls.
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Grandeur of AIaska.

Mrs. John Hollis Bankhead, wife of the distinguished Congressman and one or the most brilliant women who adorn Wash- ington life, talks most entertaingly or her recent visit to Alabama.
 Some beautiful phrases of hers were quoted in this place yesterday, in rela- tion to her arrival in Birmingham on her return from the prolonged tour of the rivers and harbors committee. which 1n- cluded the Mexican Gulf coast, the coast of Californit, and a long dinstance or the coast of Alaska
 "On the Alaska coast our ship steamed inshore to within revolvershot of mag nificent glacier of vast extent, and our Kentucky Colonel actually fired at the still white Ice reaching from the mountain summit down to the black water or the sea-" Mrs. Bankhead said
 ''The effect of the colonePs shots was remarkable Each shot broke off huge mass of Ice as large as large hotel, and this ice seemed to roar as It fell with terrible crash into the seething sea.
 And those wonderful Alaskan moun- tains along the coast are amazingly splen- did. for they rise up almost like sheer peaks, and in looking at them one req lizes what is meant by mountain three miles high, for that is about the height (actual 15,50O feet) of each of two of the mountains. Besides these. Pike's Peak, which I saw the day before yester- day seems as mere hill. Yet Pike's Peak is 14,1E feet high, but 1t takes 1t about 5000 miles of country to get that high, and so its greatness Is less apparent.
 'The Alaskan mountains are absolutely glorious in their boldness, and covered py the Ice and snow that are for ever there they fascinate you, awe you, compel you to think how little is man in the world!
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Negroes Going Northward.

The race figures of Alabama, Arkan- sas, Kentucky, Maryland and Louisi- ana have been published, and in every one of them the white majorities are increasing. The white majorities in Alabama have steadily risen as fol lows:
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New Portrait of General Wheeler.

A new portrait of General Joseph Wheeler is to be painted by Leavitt, the famous New York portrait painter, &C., cording to a statement given out by Town Topics. The background will com prise an old Suanish blockhouse, and the general will wear the uniform worn by him during his Cuban campaign, with the sword presented to him by the Sons of the Revolution. The sittings will be at Newport. as the general expects to re- main there some time.
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Monument to Albert Pike.

''By the way" said Mrs. Bankhead' "our party were at Colorado Springs on Friday and witnessed the dedication of the monument there to General Albert Pike, in whose honor Pike's Peak was named. It was a great day at Colorado Springs; most days are great there.
 ''vice President Roosevelt was there and made the speech and got a wild welcome. There was barely standing room for any body anywhere, so great was the crowd"
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Congress will drink a new kind of water next winter, and some of it's members may conclude to fall back once more on Kentucky's staple prod uct.
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Minnie Deep Won.

London. August b.-Richard Brokers Minnie Deep Reifr) won the saltley plate at the Birmingham August meeting today. William C. whitney's Luke Ward G. Reif) was second, and Haut-en-bas. third. f
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The Philippine Commission in deciding to give the city of Manila municipal government closely resembling in it's fun- damental features the administration of the District of Columbia could not have arrived at a better solution of the pro- blem which confronts 1t in the largest and most important community of these far away American possessions. Washington is the model city not only of the United States, but of the world. In nearly every respect the management of It's affairs may be truthfully said to be ideal Its magni- ficent avenues and streets are almost as pure as are the railways of the residences that from them in such stately array. The parks are gems of shade and flowers and verdure and fountains which cannot be paralleled anywhere on earth. There is no vulgar and corrupt political boss around to say who shall and who shall not hold places of trust. to dictate nomina- tions for elective offices, to run so-called representative conventions of the people and to levy blackmail upon those that thrive on vice and make their living from the classes fourishing on abhorrent im- morality. Nowhere is there a more effi- cient police department. A better fire de- partment cannot be found. The public school regime is excellent.
 What Is the system under which these beneficcnt results have been attained? First of all, the Federal government is supreme, and 1t vests it's authority in three commissioners chosen by the presi- dent. Two of them are citizens; the third Is an army officer. Politically speaking one of the civil commissioners is gener- ally a republican and the other a demo- crat. Upon this triparte body the whole machinery of administration hangs. They appoint the entire list of subordinates in all the departments except the judiciary. There the president and senate control. Previous to 1902, while the Capital City was being laid out, the place was under commission rule, one of the body being Daniel Carroll of Duddington, a brother, or cousin, have forgotten which, of the great Charles of Independence Declara- tion fame. He was one of the two or three owners of all the territory which is today covered by the city of Washington. His plantation comprised all that section beginning at the hill on which the Capi- tol stands, and running away to the stream called the Eastern branch He made a present to the government of the site on which the most splendid govern
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The plutocrats will soon want priv ate airships, and the private car nui- sance will become thing of the past.
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His Liabilities Are SPAS, ,44e.

New York, August 5.-H. Morton Moore. a builder, filed a petition in bankruptcy today. The total liabilities are s745, ,44s of which ssooOoo is secured. There are no aaaefa
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fortnight sinces the writer had no thought or desire of reopening the stone-Hefiin matter in their candidacy for chief justice in the State convention of 1ss6
 "The incident was mentioned merely to show the fealty and consistency of Judge Heflin to party under very trying circum- stances. And parenthetlcally, the tribute was not produced In it's entirety, being cut short on publishing the convention ep- isode Relating that event was not the last of the tribute
 That a majority of the votes of the convention on a particular ballot were for Judge Hefiin Is not denied. That changes were made m the vote be- fore its Announcement sufficient to give the nomination to Judge Stone Is an admitted fact. This was all legitimate, and there was no fraud in the transac- tion Nor was fraud ever charged by the writer. The action of a convention may be harsh without being fraudulent. Both Judge Hefiin and Judge Stone were incap- able of fraud, and neither would have ac- cepted a nomination at the hands of a convention obtained through fraud. At different times both had lived in Talla- dega, practiced law in the courts, and both alike honored by the people But the result was not the less disappointing to Judge Hef1ln and his friends, and for a time keenly felt Yet there was no suk- ing. He entered the canvass for the ticket with the same characteristic zeal and ability that always marked his action n political contests.
 lr4Y oF I1Iu tor n day issue of the Age-Herald, Col. J. l.. Tanner a1ludes to the late Hon. Frank w. Bowdon as a near relative of Judge lief lin The facts are that MT. Bowdon was his step-son, Judge Hef1in having mar ried MT. Bowdons mother, a most charm ing and gifted woman, the widow of the elder Frank W. Bowdon, who in the late forties and early flfties was the honored representative of the Seventh Congress sional District. In the gifts of oratory the elder Bowdon had few equals and no superiors in Alabama.
 "So much for the truth of historyl"
 About Persons.
 J. W. vankerlinger, J. E. Avery, H. R.. Cunning, and H. M. Hill of Atlanta are at the Morris.
 M D. Seligman of Montgomery is at the Metropolitan.
 D. J. Nixon of Chattanooga Is at the Metropolitan.
 G. M. Macmurdo of New Orleans is at the Metropolitan.
 P. H. Seabrook and J. Lockwood of Charleston, s. C., are at the Morris.
 Major D. M. Scott of Selma is at the Morris.
 B. Rosenberg of Knoxville is at the Nor ris.
 N. G. Win nof Demopolis Is at the Nor rts.
 John Diamond of Philadelphia is at the Morris.
 Mrs. William Frye Tebbetts, wife of Collector Tebbetts of the port of Mobile, formerly Miss Hattie McKleroy of Annis- ton, came to Birmingham yesterday even ing, accompanied by Misses Marguerite and Mamie Kelley of Anniston. Mrs. Ted betts was joined here by Captain Tebbetts and they proceeded south. The Misses Kelley proceeded north.
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In the governments land lottery the prizes were not all absorbed by 'fn- siders." This took it out of the mod ern lottery class.
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On Staten Island they have about concluded that they will have to catch their mosquitoes before they cook them in kerosene.
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George Kennan was non persona grata to the Russian, but not to his own publisher. The art of free adver- Using Is international.
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The poor Boers are now up against the Portuguese. All the world is against man when he does not know when he has had enough.
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The Hef,In-stone Affair.

Hon. W. Taylor. writing from Talla- dega, says:
 Tn preparing the brief tribute recalling some of the characteristics of Judge lief lin. which appeared in the Age-Herald a
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The refitted Independence is yawn- ing to get into the wash with both the Columbia and the Constitution.
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Carrollton, Mississippi, holds the lynching record.
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Pretty soon there will go up from the cotton fields great cry for labor CTS, and the supply will be deficient.
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Kipling has fallen almost to the poet laureate level, we regret to say.
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Large eIass Works Burned.

Stockholm, Sweden, August 5.-The Kosta glass works, the largest in Sweden, have been burned
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Tickets in the Oklahoma land lot tery were really high-priced. Some of them cost lives.
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The Deutschland is the Cresceus of the salted seas. The unsalted seas whalebacks are outclassed.
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No, King Edward does not wear his crown or his boots to bed. He has re- formed.
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Chicago's $4O,O00, 900 central railway station is hot air on a large scale.
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Governor Yates and Teddy" have formed a combine marked "1904."
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THE "ALSO RAINS"

From the Selma Times.
 The esteemed Age-Herald says we are slightly mistaken If we think Senator Pettus will have a walkover in his race to succeed himself, and says further that the opposition Is already beginning to show it's hand We profess we can not see 1t in the light of our contemporary and believe that it is allowing itself 10 be a little unnecessarily alarmed through it's fears There may be opposition, for Alabama Democracy is not exempt from having some among it's members whose vaulting abition and lack of discretion would urge them to contest in the race to obtain the questionables notoriety of having ran against Genera1 Psttus. There have always been "also rans." and this race will, perhaps, increase the number. But that does not make it less probable that "Old Pet" will not have a walkover,
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The sea lawyers are now putting in full time on the Schley-Sampson case.
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The Kaiser's new whiskers grow apace, and the nations are sullenly silent.
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Government by injunction looms up again, black, threatening and revolu- tionary.
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Criminal courts are no longer needed in Mississippi.
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Georgia's bid for a prize fight Is not exalting her reputation among the States.
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Corn and the Corn King are alik in trouble.
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HE ONLY DAILY HrWspAPIR IN ALABAMA

Wit shall not go unrewarded while am King of this country.
 Tempest.
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Mrs William Frye Tebbetts, wife of Collector Tebbetts of the port of Mobile, formerly Miss Hattie McKleroy of Annis- ton, came to Birmingham yesterday even ing. accompanied by Misses Marguerite and Mamie Kelley of Anniston. Mrs. Ted betts was joined here by Captain Tebbetts and they proceeded south. The Misses Kelley proceeded north.