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The age-herald., 1901-06-16
BALDWIN OFF FOR NORTH POLE,

N. T. Letter in Chicago Record-Herald.
 Evelyn B. Baldwin is in the first stage of his journey to the north pole. Accom- panied by William Ziegler he sailed to- day on the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser William der Crosse. They will go direct to England, where they will com plete their preparations for MT. Bald wins trip to the arctic regions
 MT. Baldwin will take with him the most extensive transport service ever talk en by any arctic explorer. He is to have a fleet of three ships-the America, Bel gica and Fridtjof The America Is to be the principal ship of the party and MT. Baldwin is to make his headquarters on her. She was formerly the whaler Es- Quimaux built principally for arctic serv- ice. She is a three-masted sailing ship with an auxiliary steaming plant driving a single screw. She has been entirely re- fitted.
 The America is to be accompanied by the Fridtjof a Norwegian sealer. carry ing provisions and supplies as far north as Franz Josef Land. The third ship. the Belgica, carried Captain der Gerlache and his party to the Antarctic ocean. She Is to be loaded with supplies and provisions which she will carry to the east coast of Greenland, where relief stations are to be established.
 Mir. Baldwin will sail from Tromsoe, Norway, on or about June 25
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Scholarly Men and Church Men.

"Of the ten most famous multimillion- aires of the United States it is interesting to know that most of them are either col lege-bred men or students who have ac- quired large scholarship outside of col lege halls" said a university professor.
 Andrew Carnegie was a poor boy and did not have the advantage of a college course. But he had high aspirations and a literary taste, and by the time he was 30 years old he had more book learning than the average Ph. D.
 "J. Pierpont Morgan is noted for his scholarship. He is not only Ph. D.. but has always kept himself in good practice on the classics William K. Vanderbilt, like all the younger generation of the Vanderbilt family, is university man. August Belmont has the degree of Mas ter of Arts. George Gould Is not a gradu- ate. but spent two years at college.
 "A. J. Cassatt, president of the Penn sylvania Railroad. Is a fine scholar and is civil engineer by profession. He ranks as the most thoroughly equipped railroad man in the United States.
 James J. .Hill, president of the Great Northern Railroad, had few school ad- vantages. but he has been great reader and has taken much interest in collea 8
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single weeks consumption. Those who are nervous over the immense pro duction should remember that this is the chief iron country of the world, and when prices are capitalized iron will begin to go out in it's crude forms. They should remember, too, that a great wheat harvest is in sight. and that other crops, including corn and cotton, are full of promise. Great crops this fall mean very great con sumption of iron. Altogether there are no reasons for anticipating lower prices unless crops fail. which is not probable.
 Nor need one be nervous over the coal situation. All the coal that can be mined will be needed to melt iron ore. to fill grates and stoves, and to keep locomotives on this side of the big river moving. Crude oil has never been used in grates and stoves and ranges, and probably never will be. It will not be used by railroads east end north of New Orleans. It will not be fed into blast furnaces or steel mills. Whatever may be the fate of Pennsylvania coal in the Lower Mis- sissippi country, Alabama coal will still be needed.
The age-herald., 1901-06-16
Alabama's First Governor.

Something was said in this place the other day to the effect that Governor Jellks was perhaps the youngest of all the thirty-two Governors of Alabama A friend wries:
 William Wyatt Blob, who had repre- scented his Georgia district in Congress for ten years, and who was subsequently elected United States Senator for Geor- gia, taking the oath of office as Senator on September 20, 1874 was appointed by President Monroe to the position of Territorial Governor of Alabama, his tenn porary commission bearing date Septem- Der 25, 1877, and permanent commission by consent of the Senate dated December 16, 1877, was elected Governor of the new State of Alabama in 1S19 and was sworn in in November of that year.
 Governor Bibb died in his 10th year, July 10. 1920
 According to PiclSett's Alabama, Gov ernor Bibb was born in Amelia county, Virginia, October 3, 17S1. His father, William Bibb, had held the commission of captain in the revolutionary war and was afterwards a respected member of the Legislature of Virginia. His mother, whose maiden name was Wyatt. a native of New Kent county, Virginia, was a lady of superior intellect, and was favorably known to the early settlers of Alabama The family removed to Georgia at an early period, and settled in Ebert coun- ty, upon the Savannah River. Captain Bibb died In 1796. leaving to his wife the care and responsibility of eight children, all of whom she lived to see in aff1uent and responsible positions in life. William Bibb was graduated from the college of William and Mary Virginia, and return ing to Georgia established himself as a burg. Shortly afterwards he was elected to the Georgia Legislature, and when barely of the legal age of twenty-five, he took his seat in Congress. in 1906. He was an active and efficient member. Ten years later he entered the Senate, where Monroe appointed him Governor of the Territory of Alabama.
 Governor Bibb dwelt at Coosada, in Autauga county, eight miles north of Montgomery where he lies buried. His splendid old mansion still stands as it tic oaks.
 Hon. William Crawford Bibb of Mont gomery is the present gifted and honored representative of the family of Alabama s first Governor"
The age-herald., 1901-06-16
Report of Taxation Committee.

The local taxation for the public schools offered by the committee on taxation is a shadow without sub stance. The State tax which now stands at a maximum of 75 cents on every S100 of taxable property has been cut down to 65 cents, and the saving of ten cents in the State tax is offered to the counties, cities and towns as a margin for the exercise of local taxation for school purposes. It IS meaningless. The State will be rob- bed of part of her income that the Legislature would gladly vote to the schools, and the part taken from the State may be voted to the schools If majority of the property holders and majority of the taxpayers oppose the proposition.
 This simply means that ten cents on every $100 will be taken from the schools. The schools will receive less support than they do now. Cities and towns cannot collect more than they do now. The rate now Is $125 in the country and !$1.75 in the cities of the State. It stands at those figures, but less by ten cents on every S100 of tax able property is to be paid over to the State. Nor will the abated tax be levied as a rue in the counties or towns.
 The taxation committee has fore
The age-herald., 1901-06-16

Richard Croker, the chief of Tammany will fight Hill. He and Hill despise one another. I hear from New York that William c. Whitney will probably be put forward by Tammany and can have the solid vote of the New York delegation if he wants it. Whitney is many times millionaire, is personally popular, and Is a man of undoubted ability. He made his fight several years ago with the gold Democrats But his fights were within party lines, and it is said he has always voted tho straight Democratic ticket, however much he might have disagreed with the platform on the money question.
 With the New York delegation behind Whitney he would undoubtedly make a strong fight in the convention. But 1t is too early yet to make predictions for political contests years hence.
 hear that the cause of the past weeks great rise in Tennessee stock is due, to- the fact that certain insiders of the Unit ed States Steel Corporation are quietly buying 1t up. It is also rumored that the Pennsylvania Steel Company, which is outside of the trust, has been investigat-
 
 with view of purchasing.
 As it is now, nobody seems to know what faction or set of men own a con- trolling interest in the Tennessee Com pany. It is owned, of course, largely in New York, and there Is always specula- ton as to what interest controls it, but no one seems to know definitely.
 Certain it is that an effort is being made by some unknown interest to acquire ownership or control of this company, and hear from New York that proposi- tion has been made by the United States Steel Corporation to exchange its pre- ferred stock, share for share, for the en- tire issue of Tennessee stock. In this event of course the United States Steel Company would assume the $,500,0O0 of Tennessee bonds.
 In the event of a purchase of this char acter Tennessee stock would immediately jump from its present market price of 68 to the price of Steel preferred which is 9S If this story be true, Tennessee stock Is good purchase.
The age-herald., 1901-06-16
Seal ai the State.

Prof W. s. Wyman of the State Uni Sersity discusses the State Seal in a
 communication published in the Mont
 gomeY Advertiser. He thus describes
 the carpt bag seal of 1868, now in use:
 A bald-haded eag1e-recognized as a
 bird of prey. ever sirce the days of the
 patient Job-a bald-hfaded eagle, with a
 cluster of sharp arrdws clutched in one claw. trampling on fe seutcheon of state.
 The eagles wings ars uplifted, as if he were just honing to weep down on the state treasury, His n,ck is craned out to its full length, as if ht were getting ready to bury his beak in tn, vitals of the body politici This bald-bealed eagle fitly rep resents the swarm of fiui birds who came from the four ends of the United States, and from Austria and Africa to loot, to devour the little substance that the i'm poverished people had remfining to them as the result of the downfall of the Southern Confectionery But what is most striking and characteristic pf all, the so- called bird of freedom beaps In his beak scroll on which is insct tibed the car petbagger's favorite motto; Here we rest"
 As matter of fact tHe word Ala banla" never had any such Indian meaning. No Indian word ever has been discovered bearing such mean ing. As nearly as can ibe ascertained the name of tha Stata is derived from small band of Indians| who lived near Mobile. and who are Do longer repre- sented in descendantf anywhere out side of the land of the Great Spirit.
 The new article} on the Executive Department contsdns provision look ing to the adopt ton of new seal by the Legislaturs< The subject is not pressing or Aeeply important, but it is plain sxtate seal should not carry a statement that has nothing hro-sSG upon itself.
The age-herald., 1901-06-16
The Great Seal of Alabama.

''The present great seal of Alabama may not be in accord with the principles of heraldic art. but certainly the propo- sition offered in the constitutional con sent a man on horseback with a woman riding behind him is bordering closely up- on the absurd" said historian last night
 Some delegate in arguing against the present seal, tried to be funny about the 'bald-headed' eagle on it as a "bird of prey In that particular he ridicu1ed the most deeply-planted and most cherished sentiment of the American heart-that is, the American eagle. America, without It's eagle would not be America It is the symbol of our patriotism and our great ness. It is the very spirit of that which is noblest in our national life; and it i'll be- comes any delegate, however old or
 young, to sheer at the 'bald-head, the bird of prey The eagle is on the great seal of the United States and is found on the seals of eight of the states. Com mon patriotism should hold it sacred
 ''The proposed man on horseback with the young woman riding behind him, Is presumed to represent soldier. That teaches of war between men--the preying of men upon one another, andas therefore wholly unfit for and unsu$ed to the pur- poses of busy and peacable people. And, then, it Is proposed to put under the symbol the motto, we lead, or words to that effect. Who lead? The man on horseback and the woman behind him? Whom do they lead? What do they lead?
 "If the constitutional convention so wishes it will adopt new seal for the state, but Alabamians will pray that the possible new seal will not be silly, and that 1t will bear the impress of the Amer ican eagle"
The age-herald., 1901-06-16
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT IMPROVEMENTS
 AND INDUSTRIES IN BIRMINGHAM

Harry Atkinson's work in consolidating the Gas Company the Electric Light Company and the Street Railway Com pany into one great corporation means much. It means much profit, If bonds and stocks may be termed profit. to some peo- pie. The owners of the Gas Company for instance get $1, 1,O9S.O00 in securities in the new company for $s00.0 of old Gas Com pany securities, and the Electric Light Company people are equally fortunate; so are the owners of the Street Railway Company. Everybody gets a whole lot of stuff in the form of bonds and prefer red stock and common stock.
 
 understand that the companies oper- ated separately last year earned per cent. on the total issue of bonds of the new concern, 6 per cent. on the total issue of preferred stock, and per cent. on the total issue of ss,5O0,0O0 of common stock. Of course the underwriting syndi- cate of the new concern get the common stock practically as a bonus. Thus the investment would appear to be a good one.
 If the pledges made by the owners of the new company are fulfilled the consoli- dation will be a good thing for Birming- ham. Transfers between all of the vari- ous street car lines are promised. Five cents is soon to carry one from Besse- mer to East Lake; or from North Bir- mingham to Ensley: or indeed from any one terminus of any of the lines to any other terminus.
 The people are to have dollar gas and gas cheaper than a dollar for cooking and heating purposes. And electricity for the purpose of lighting and for motive power Is promised at a rate As cheap as that secured by any other city in the land. All these reforms are promised immediately.
 With cheaper gas. street car transfers and other rights which the public is en- titled to, the people should likewise be granted those rights which actually be- long to them. They must have better streets. Tenth avenue, south, and High land avenue are in worse condition than any country road in Jefferson County. The street car tracks along Highland avenue are in many places high above the street, and are ballasted with slag and great
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rocks. Vehicles cannot cross the tracks in safety, and such gulleys are washed across the street that vehicles must slow up to a walk to pass along it. Indeed. Highland avenue, the alleged prettiest residence street of Birmingham, is In a fearful condition, while other streets in Birmingham not half so much used are getting the best of attention. Mayor Drennen and Street Commissioner Me Cartin owe 1t to themselves and to the citizens of the Southside to give this section attention at once.
 And the street railway company can well and quickly expeud portion of that million dollars which it has for improve ments on the Lake View route, especially along Twenty-flrst street and along High land avenue.
 Robert Jemison. the president of this great new concern. has opportunity to make himself the great spirit of Birming- ham, as well as one of the most popular men in it. hope and believe that he will get in action quickly, and do that good for Birmingham which he now has the power and opportunity to do.
 About Politics.
 Mckinley and Bryan are out of the way, so to speak, of Presidential aspirants for 1904. Mckinley says he would not accept the nomination were 1t rendered him. Bryan says that he will not again be a candidate. Thus the way is open for as- bring politicians of both parties.
 Mark Hanna will be conspicuous can- didate for the Republican nomination. Of course Roosevelt will be in the race; so will Lodge of Massachusetts, and would not be surprised to see Tim Reed again appear before the Republican con- vention-but this time as a New Yorker instead of Maine man.
 For the Democratic nomination there will undoubtedly be a scramble. Old time party leaders promise to re-appear in the foreground. Hill will surely be a can- didate, and if German Is successful in Maryland politics this year, he will like wise appear before the convention Ex- Governor Stone of Missouri will be an aspirant for the nomination, and so will Carter Harrison of Chicago.
The age-herald., 1901-06-16
Alabama Iron and Coal.

Production of pig iron was going on June at the unprecedented figures of 3O14, ,505 tons week, or at the rate of about 16.O0O.Oo0 tons year. Few con sider. however, what great popula- ton consumes in prosperous times, especially when final forms of the
 great commercial metal are going out freely to all parts of the world. Stocks
 were actually decreased in May to the extent of sO,OoO tons. and the entire supply on hand does not exceed g
The age-herald., 1901-06-16
THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.

If we will 1t so, to every one of us comes comfort, until there come the di- vine bliss of that selfish love which lifts to our "sole earth's heaven" and then breaks the heart in divine despair. Even parting Is ''such sweet sorrow that we might go on saying goodbye through every morrow of faithful life. Yet there be true and loving souls who will never say farewell, never speak goodbye lest 1t break the chain of the sweet charm that binds them to those who are de- parting. Goodbye to these spells a form of punishment, and banishment-death. But 'banished' to kill me?-'banished'? O friar, the damned use that word in he'll"
 Upon every human brow Is set the mark of pain; into the empire of suffer- ing must stray at some time every indi- vidual upon this earth. Some stay but little while, others longer; and behind others still the gates are closed with crash that is the crack of doom For such as these there shall be sleepless nights, and days of unrest; fears. fore bodings and all the black heresies and accuTSeU nODSODllIS or leVertu ullHuS, grown weary with pain and forbidden to slumber even a little ,while and crying vainly that the things that do murder peace might be forgot. Such as these shout their appeals for surcease of pain; but the appeals break upon the intangi- ble air and are whistled down the wind, dying away like the sigh of breeze on the reeds of a fever-laden marsh. That is physical agony; not comparable to varying forms of mental suffering. But to every form of pain shall come in the fullness of time all-heal. There shall be hysician-balm-sleep
 Some measure of joy Is for everyone who Is not without worthiness and hope, my beloved.
 Above and beyond the reach of earthly vision, where Faith falters weary in It's flight Hope plies her tireless wings to heaven.
 In starlit night of this Junetime, that is odorous of sweetness and opulent or flower and fruit and clinging vine, the tangible and breathing form of spiritual Hope stood at the crossing of the ways laughing. In the light that fell about her she seemed as if she might have been a wtngless messenger from the divine source of all beauty and goodness and hopefulness.
 Her intensely human figure of marvel ous grace bending and quivering and
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The Choral Society Popular.

"The Birmingham Choral Society is meeting with great encouragement. and Is growing fast said the secretary, John L Parker, yesterday.
 'The fact that so many prominent citi- zens are calling on me to have their names enrolled is gratifying and signifl- cant. It shows that this is musical city and that festivals have been really appreciated, for the object of the society is to raise money enough ip membership dues to pay for the next festival without asking for guarantee fund.
 Several persons living outside of Bir- mingham have asked if they were eligible for membership in the choral society. Out of town people are eligible for constituting membership, but only those living near enough to attend the rehearsas will be admitted to active membership in the chorus"
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Keep Out of the Trap.

There can be little doubt but that the Republicans are waiting to get as many States into their Fifteenth Amendment trap as they can before because only four States are in the trap, and they want at least twice that number. When all are in that are like ly to enter the trap, then will be be- gun trap-springing campaign, and it will be a very popular one in the States that are to gain additional power through it, both in Congress and in the electoral college.
 Just how the Republican leaders will proceed cannot exactly be foreseen, but it is very probable that other decisions In the Supreme Court-by one major Ity-will be utilized. The granddaddy clause and the understanding clause and the discretionary boars of regula- tion can all be reached in this way, and when the Republicans are fortified by decisions of the highest court it is foolish to assume that they will not act. They certainly will, and the case will take such form that Northern Democrats will not be inclined to help ,Ae South. No one can defend before
 
 a Northern constituency r5presenta- tion that has no votes behind it.
 conservative men in all States are today hoping that no more States will waik into the trap. Virginia certainly will not. It is hoped Alabama will not. At heart the Republicans hope both of these States will swing away from Georgia, tennessee and Texas, to line up with the four States that have acted When poll tax provision to- gether with a good primary election law will give the State an intelligent electorate and will forever abolish cor rupt electoral practices, it seems un- wise to invite villification from other States and loss in representation.
The age-herald., 1901-06-16
PRESIDENT PATToNS VIEWS.
From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
 President Patton tells the Princeton College graduates that life is going to will find it very difficult to make them, and those who succeed will be few. Let us not set our hearts on wealth, be- cause we will be disappointed. The time is not far off when it will be difficult to put an advertisement upon any com modity. and say of anything that we eat or drink or wear or use: This is not made by a trust.'" Hence the moral would seem to be: Get into trust of some kind as soon as possible. But Presi- dent Patton advised anything but that.
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HIqh churchman and Mason.

The Rev. Preston Nash, rector of Christ Episcopal church, Richmond, who died a few days ago, was resident of Mobile minister" said a clergyman who knew him we'll
 ''He got to be a very high churchman. and would have had ritualistic services in his church but for his bishops stern dis- approval of any departure from low church practice which has long been the rule in Virginia. Mr. Nash was an ac- tive Mason and took a lively interest in Templar work and the Scottish Rite. He was made Mason in Mobile"
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stalled the education committee. and it has devised a plan that means less money for schools while holding out an apparent increase through local taxa tion. No other State in the Union would thus restrict public education. No other State would thus hobble it's own citizens in the use of their own money
 If the committee had left taxation as it stands today, and had added a section embodying the optional author ity found in the Louisiana constitution they would have taken the shackles from progress and productive power, and they would not have transgressed a single pledge of any sort. An op- tional authority is not a tax. If the people levy tax under it, that is their business. They should have that right "a right enjoyed in all other States, but denied in Alabama for some req son at present unexplained.