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The age-herald., 1901-08-16
THE NEGRO BuRNINes.

From the Springfield Republican.
 The ordinary negro lynching by hanging no longer attracts much attention. This Is because 1t proceeds in undiminished frequency, and also because the method of burning at the stake has come to be more generally employed than formerly, and produces horrors and agonies so much in excess of the lynching by rope and bullet that the latter tends neces- sarlly to the character of the common place, neither startling to the country nor sufficiently agonizing to satisfy the saw agery of the mob. But meantime the lynching by fire In turn drifts toward the ordinary, and to such an extent that the discovery on behalf of the mob of some new and more awful way of suf- fering slow death and torture would seem to be demanded
 When some seven years ago negro was burned at Paris, Texas, the whole country was moved by the performance and the newspapers employed columns to describe the awful spectacle, while com ment on 1t extended even to the European journals and magazines. But within two or three years burnings have become so frequent as to draw only passing atten- ton. On Wednesday of last week a negro was burned at the stake In Alabama, and on Saturday another the son of a we'll known local colored preacher was burned in Georgia. And these two af- fairs have received no more attention in the news of the country than the re-
 
 sissippi, which so worked upon the nerves of one innocent colored man that he killed himself to escape the torturing fear that his turn at the hands of the white mob might come next.
 Is the country finally to come to the point of accepting in silence all that goes on in the way of expressing the dead ly race prejudIces of white mobs? The north has been silenced, so far as the south is concerned, by recent negro burn ings of fits own--in Colorado, in Kansas and in Indiana. The Alabama and Geor- gia affairs of last week brought out a display of no greater savage fury or eas- erness to secure from the garments and charred flesh and bones of the victim souvenirs of the occasion than did the Terre Haute burning in Indiana only a few months back. The two sections stand on level in this matter, and nei- ther is now in position to taunt tho other. And so a boasted Christian civiliz- ation is evidently to submit In silence to these repeated revelations of itself as q ghastly mockery.
 The plain fact of the matter is that white hatred of people of dark color seems to be increasing in the United States, and contempt for their rights is at the moment a growing quantity How much this has been stimulated by na- tional display of disregard for the rights of so-called inferior peoples we shall not undertake to say; but that something has happened to stir white savagery to unusual depths of ferocity in dealing with the criminal black, and white prejudice to renewed and broadened efforts for race oppression. must be evident to alL
The age-herald., 1901-08-16
HOW TO REACH THE POLE.

H. L. Bridgman, in Leslie's Weekly. The prime, imperitive need for success full Arctic work Is a specially construct ed steamer, Ice protected and of high en- zine power, so that she can go anywhere and undertake anything. Every steam CT in the St. Johns fleet has drawbacks, and once the explorer had at his com mand just such steamer as Is needed, fast, strong and of small coal consump- ton, 200 or 300 miles of distance to the pole woud be gained and the base of sup plies and operations carried so much nearer the front.
 Peary's way to reach the pole, which he fully set forth in his American Geo
 graphical paper, January 12, 1897, which
 the societys committee approved and on the lines of which his present expedition
 is conducted, has both common sense and
 experience In it's favor. Had the Wind
 ward, in August, 1S9S reached her desti- nation at Sherrard, Osborne flord there 8 no telling that Peary might not that very
 winter and the next spring have pushed on to the goal One element of the polar
 problem, and one often lost sight of. is
 the necessity of return, for no one wishes to remain there, and there's nothing be-
 yond to go to or for. Therefore, the trav-
 eller must stop whenever his food for
 men and dogs is reduced to the limit
 which will bring him back to the start ing point In this fact, in the reduction of
 the known distance to the minimum, lies
 the essential merit and the certainly of
 Peary's methods.
 It is not always remembered that no
 explorer ever stopped going north be-
 cause he could go no farther. Markham,
 of the British expedition, had to turn to
 rades: Lockwood and Brainard had beat en the Englishman's farthest and placed their country's flag in the van, seeing a great gray mountain still beyond; while Captain Cagni at his hitherto unsur- passed S8 degrees. 39 minutes and IA sec onds last April reported the travel steadily improving as he advanced north ward Every one of the courageous and able men reached his limit and turned about simply by the memorable necessity of subsistence homeward. As Admiral Melville, veteran of many arduous Arctic | campaigns, says: If one could stop at
 Q hotel every night anybody could go to | the pole"
 | And so. as the army is said to move | on its belly, does the food factor deter mine the working out of the whole polar problem. And here is where the greatest | change of all has been effected. Modern
 methods have made food preservation a | simple and certain matter, and there is | no longer a shadow of excuse for a de- | fective Arctic dietery. Money will buy | food-all that is wanted and just what | Is wanted; it will build and man steam | CTS such as experience proves are needed and effective. Add to these American | pluck and common sense. and is there | any reasonable doubt remaining of How | to reach the pole"
The age-herald., 1901-08-16
NOT A CHEAP WINTER.
crom the Boston Herald

From the Boston Herald.
 Persons who have need to consult econ omy may as we'll begin figuring on win- ter the cost of living will be higher than usual. The failure in the yield of corn will be great. The first of August table of the Agricultural department promises only 54 per cent of a full crop per acre. The acreage planted was large, but there will be a shortage which will affect not only the price of the grain, but the price of meat, of cattle, of hogs. The wheat crop, while a good one, is not an extra ordinary one. and, owing to the scanty crops abroad. there will be an extraordi- nary demand for export, making the home price for flour a high one. The potato crop makes a bad showing. that having suffered damage only less than the dam age to corn. The apple crop will be very small. All summer vegetable crops in the West and South have been injured and command uncommon prices. The same drouth that has lessened their growth and yield has diminished the winter sup ply. It will not be a cheap year in the mat ter of table supplies This Is settled all ready. for no possible improvement of conditions can overcome the unfJNunate losses.
The age-herald., 1901-08-16
Old Senators for Jefferson.


 Ten years ago former Congressman Will liam A. Handley of Roanoke and the late John T. Milner of Jefferson were in the state senate together, and Major Handley was commonly referred to as the junior Senator for Jefferson. a fact which pleased both him and Senator Milner The extra title was given Major Handley because of the facts that he was great property owner of Birmingham. that he spent much of his time here, and that he took a close personal interest with Senator Miner in all legislation that per tained to the empire county.
 The eminent senators were very like in some leading characteristics, but who'll 1y unlike one another in personal appear ance. Senator Handley was and Is a physical giant, with tremendous head clean shaven face, dark. Senator Mill ner was a little man, with white chin whiskers-six or eight inches lower In stature than his colleague. They looked odd side by side. But, bless you, those two men could do more legislative work than any five ordinary senators.
 Major Handley as a delegate from Ran dolph, in the Constitutional convention, spoke again, and very strongly, for Je1- ferson in the debate on the three-mill tax rates for public schools which he supported. "IIe gave some statistics showing that the states financial condi- tion was admirable and said that in his opinion the state debt should be refund- ed at per cent which would save about $50 900 a year to the state in interest," The state would be able to meet all or its obligations and pay this fund to the schools The time would soon come when Birmingham alone would pay one-half of the states taxes. When he first went there he went to work at Red mountain where he saw a crop of iron that Grant with all his army could never gather in all their lives. It was wonderful! Its value could never be estlmated.'
 Major Handley Is one of the largest in- dividual taxpayers in Alabama. He owns In Birmingham some princely real pro perties, besides being heavily interested in a great wholesale hardware house. and in his home town of Roanoke he owns a bank, big county supply store and some cotton plantations, and is the prln- cipal owner of a cotton factory. Thus this eminent citizen was pleading for his own taxation when he was pleading for the schools With the solitary exception of Dr. Joseph R. Smith of Birmingham believed to be the largest taxpayer Tn Alabam, Major Handley will probably pay more money to the schools under the three-mill rate than any other one man in the state.
The age-herald., 1901-08-16
THREE TORPEDO BOAT
 DEsTRoYERs LAUNCHED
WhlppIe, Worden and Truxton Added To Navy-Largest Afloat of
 Their Kind.

Baltimore, August 15.-Three additions to the United States navy were chris- tened and launched at the shipyards Of the Maryland Steel Company here this afternoon. They are torpedo boat de- stroyers and will be known hereafter by the names of whipple, Truxton and Wor- den.
 When all was in readiness for the launching, Miss Isabelle Truxton of Nor folk. Va, took her place at the bow Of the boat of that name; Miss Elsie Pope of St. Paul, Minn.. at the bow of the Whippie: Miss Millie R. Worden at the bow of the worden. Each held in her hand a bottle of champagne encased in silver wire. As each boat in It's turn slid from the ways into the Patapsco the bottles were broken over the bows.
 The three boats are dissmilar in name only. They are the largest of their type in the United States navy, and are also among the largest in any navy in the world.
The age-herald., 1901-08-16
Admiral SchIey's Famous Loop.

Park Benjamin, the naval expert and authority, recently explained the fam ous loop of the Brooklyn at Santiago. His article appeared in the Independ- ent. He begins with a statement of the position of the ships at 9:30 of the Sunday morning on which the battle occurred. The Brooklyn was in her place furtherest to the westward. The alarm is given. The Spanish feet un- expectedly comes out into the open sea.
 The Brooklyn approaches the shore, coming up to a point four-fifths of a mile from the Viscaya, the leading Spanish ship. The Iowa was distant 1.25 miles; the Texas, 1.3 miles; the Oregon, Is miles. and the Indiana, 1.45 miles.
 Now comes the famous loop. The Brooklyn goes to the right and south wardly until she completes a loop a half of mile long and a quarter of a mile wide coming back to her original position in the battle, but little closer to the land. The Brooklyn Is 400 feet long, Historian Maclay says the loop was "a wide circle which landed her broad off to sea-" It was made in as small an ellipse as vessel of her size and power could turn in, and she came back closer to shore than she was be- fore the loop was made.
 From the point of return she sailed westward parallel to all engaged in that mous running fight. She was but 1,760 yards from the Viscaya, and TO one of our fleet was nearer any Spanish ship. the Oregon alone ex- cepted. The Oregon was about half a mile from the Oquendo. The Teresa and the Oquendo were hammered to the shore and were on fire, leaving only the Colon and the Viscaya afloat. Where was the Brooklyn in the chase? When the Viscaya turns ashore the Brooklyn was 2,288 yards away, the nearest of our ships. Then began the chase after the Colon, the sole Spanish ship afloat The Brooklyn leads. She is GA miles from the flying ship; the Oregon, miles; the Texas, 7.3 miles; the Iowa, miles, and the Indiana, 9.S miles. Sampson and the New York brought up the rear The chase lasted | two hours, when the Colon surren- dered, the Brooklyn led the American fleet, being 3.5 miles away; the Ore | gon coming next, 4.6 miles distant; the Iexas was S.1 miles away, and the New York miles.
 MT. BenJamin shows that the Brook lyn kept close to the Spaniards. In the chase all the ships held to paral- Tel paths, the Oregon having the inside track, the Indiana, Oregon. Texas and Brooklyn sailing in southward paral- lels in the order named. The vessels steamed along about 800 yards from each other. At one time the Oregon did approach to point not over half a mile from the oquendo. but with that exception the Brooklyn was steadily the closest of the fleet to the Spanish vessels. And 1t must be remembered that she is a cruiser comparatively thinly armored. The Oregon has armor that no Spanish vessel could penetrate.
The age-herald., 1901-08-16
DESTROY IMMENSE ROCK. impeachment to Navigation In San Fran.
 cisco Harbor Blown Up.

San Francisco, August 15.-Shortly after noon today Arch rock, one of the greatest instructions to safe navigation in San Francisco bay, was destroyed by an cx- plosion of over thirty tons of nitro glycerine. The rock lay about midway be- tween Alcatras island and Lime point The rock was several acres in extent and all but its summit was under water.
 The explosion was set off by electricity and so great was the concussion that roci; and debris were scattered over a great area and a column of water and stone more than a thousand feet in height arose from the bay. The force of the ex- plosion was terrific and could be felt in many sections of the city. Large quanti- ties of fish were destroyed.
The age-herald., 1901-08-16

sumably. body of laws drafted to meet all known conditions. session once in four years ought to be enough to meet new situations. Much of the legislation new enacted annually or biennially would be found to be unnecessary at the end of a longer period. No bad re- suits. consequent upon biennial sessions. have followed the adoption of that plan in a majority of the States, no inter ests other than the batting of corpora tions and the furthering of petty politi- cal schemes being hampered by the change. Indeed there is almost as much complaint in some of the States with biennial sessions as in those with an- nual, of altogether too much making, and too little observance, of law.
The age-herald., 1901-08-16
Mrs. Nation and Others.

,'Tbat public which a few months ago read columns in the daily newspapers re- garding Mrs. Carrie Nation, and which since then has forgotten her as complete ly as it has forgotten the blasphemous Kansas preacher, Sheldon-I believe that was the quack parsons name-may be in- terested in knowing that the fat fanatic. foolish Carrie, the joint-smasher, Is now languishng in jail in Topeka, where she has been kept through all the hot weath- CT because she couldn't pay fine and costs for malicious mischief, amounting to less than $i5O" said George Wright of Leavenworth at the Florence last night.
 ''The intensely religious and faithful fanatics throughout the country who howled fat Carrie on in her mischief have entirely deserted her cause and have left her to grow thin indefinitely In jail for the want of miserable $i50 which Is less than the cost of many a single sa- loon mirror she smashed. The Womans Christian Temperance Union of Kansas, of which this woman was a shining light, and the various church societies in the country which invited her to lecture have not come forward with a dollar to- wards paying her fine and costs. and there is no telling how long she'll have to remain in the Topeka jail Meantime old man Nation. her husband, whom she declared the Lord sent her in answer to her prayer for a proper husband, has brought suit for divorce from the bowling wife of his soft and tender bosom.
 Poor old Carrie-poor old Nation-poor old Sheldon-poor old Maryyellen Lease poor old all those freaks of bleeding Kansas! Time works in its revenges in- evitably, and the way of the transgressor is hard.'
The age-herald., 1901-08-16
"eut Words are Words.v

"Not little complaint is being made about some recent prolonged public speeches upon festive occasions In and about Birmingham. and if reports be true emphatic grumbling is justiflable," said Q conspicuous newspaper worker yesterday.
 "In the course of our work many of us who make newspapers are actually com pelled to listen to, and even report, long winded speeches, and so we in measure become accustomed to this mental and physical torture; but it Is not fair for a home orator to impose a speech an hour or an hour and half long on honored visitors at time of festivity.
 .'There is not a man in Jefferson County or in any one of the 'sixty-six' who Is capable of entertaining any holiday. car nival. festive or social audience for a longer period than ten minutes; yet, as
The age-herald., 1901-08-16
CROP coNpITIoNs.

Jasper Eagle: Crops continue to look
 well.
 Greensboro Beacon: Fodder pulling has commenced, but the fodder Is very inferior on account of dry weather. Attalla Mirror: The farmers are all
 through work and are now trying to keep
 cool this hot August weather. Crops are
 just tolerably good.
 Marion County News: The first open
 boil of cotton that we have seen of this
 years crop was brought into our office
 on Monday by J. P. Allen. who lives near Barnesville.
 Guntersville Democrat: We have had
 fine rains for the past week and our crops
 are improving rapidly. Cotton is real good
 and if seasons continue we will make
 plenty of corn for home use. Huntsville Tribune: We farmers In and
 around Huntsville should wear smiling faces. for what may have been the mis-
 fortunes of our brothers, we have truly played in luck and have fine crops. North Alabama Breeze: We were in the southern part of Tuscaloosa and tho
 northern part of Hale County last week
 and found the crops good. We believe that more than an average crop of corn
 and cotton will be made.
 Ashland Standard: The crop prospects in Clay County was never much finer at
 this season of the year than at present. Corn Is exceptionally fine and Is maturing rapidly, and with one or two more rains at reasonable times the crop will have passed the danger points of a drouth and | will become an assured success. Livingston Home: The showers are in time to save the great quantities of late corn planted in the truck patches here. | It Is very promising and Is now quite | safe. Cotton in this immediate vicinity,
 while not approaching a full crop,- Is fair
 ly good for dry year, but out south and
 southeast from here the yield will be very 1 short.
 Mobile Register: The first bale of new
 cotton received here Monday afternoon by | D. R. Burgess & Co. was sold yesterday
 at auction in front of the Cotton Ex-
 change by Major James K. Glennon. The 1 bale weighed 436 pounds, classed middling
 and brought 101a cents, the market price 1 for middling at the time of the sale be- 1 Ing 7A cents. 'le bidding was very spir-
 tied, and the bale was bought by Col. T. 1 K. Irwin.
 Canebrake Herald: The ''watermillion'' season seems to be waning. Not nearly so
 many wagons come to town, but those l that come are center of interest to the
 colored population. Every darkey in sight 1 comes to the melon wagon, and all who
 can climb on the wheels or perch on the
 body and watch the sale. A good load of
 melons is soon disposed of, and then the l watches chamber down and wait for an- l other wagon. During the time the dar- keys are perched upon the wagon the
 melon vendor must watch his stock with | an eagle eye. If for a moment he relaxes | vigilance a melon is slipped over the
 wagon side and passed to a darkey on the | ground and is carried to an alley. where l a royal feast Is had.
The age-herald., 1901-08-16
ouApRENNIAL SESSIONS.

From New York Evening Post:
 A radical step has been taken by the Alabama Constitutional Convention in providing for quadrenniai sessions of the Legislature. Having transferred to county boards much local legislation which formerly ciogged the legislative whells. the Convention thought one ses- sion in four years, with authority to call an extra session when needed. suf- ficient for the interests of the state. The outcome will probably justify this change from biennial to quadrennial. in a State as old as Alabama with, pre-
The age-herald., 1901-08-16
IN HOTEL LOBBTES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Rahpael's prophecies for this day, Tuesday. August 18 1901:
 Court Marry. ask favors. and push thy business in the afternoon"
 Expect changess travel or removal; thy business will cause thee great anx- iety"
 'The young will court or marry"
 "A child born on this day will be care less over money and will spend it fool ishly. and be generally poor. If a female unhappy in marriage"
The age-herald., 1901-08-16

Lucien V. La Taste of Montgomery, former National president of the Travel CTS Protective Association of America, was in Birmingham yesterday. The Bir- mingham and Montgomery lodges of the Elks have strongly recommended MT. La Taste for the position of district deputy of the Elks for Alabama, a position equivalent to deputy Grand Exalted Rul- CT. for which everybody knows him to be eminently qualified.
The age-herald., 1901-08-16
INCENSE FOR MOSQUITOES,
he New York Times.

From the NeW ork Times.
 Chinese incense is said to keep away mosquitoes. It can be found for fifteen cents box, containing ten or dozen small packages. There is also the Incense in a powder, to be burned in the attrac- tive metal incense burners.
The age-herald., 1901-08-16

The proposed closing of the Buffalo Midway when the West Point cadets arrive may be on account of the Mid way performers themselves, who are beyond evil communications.
The age-herald., 1901-08-16

It is proposed that rural mail car riers shall display flags indicating along their routes the weather proba- bilities. This will be the fapmers' gold brick.
The age-herald., 1901-08-16

St. Louis now boasts milllon-barrel beer concern-a million bales year. Nothing less than a million goes nowa- days.
The age-herald., 1901-08-16
About Persons.

John Pope of Louisville Is at the Mor- ris.
 J. A. Thompson of Boston is at the Nor ris.
 w. L. Murfee of Marion Is at the Nor ris.
 Robert F. Gould of St. Louis Is at the Morris.
 w. N. Bowman of Cincinnati Is at the Morris.
 A. Illges of Columbus. .Ga.. is at the Morris. Ht R. L. Edwards of sylacauga is at the Morris.
 H. D. Prince of New York is at the Morris.
 A. F. Wilson of Montgomery Is at tho Florence.
 John Fulton of Johnstown, Pa, Is at the Morris.
  IL. R. lHOIlpSoH ol oyldcduSd IS at liic Metropolitan.
 C. C. Green of Edinburgh, Ind, is at the Metropolitan.
 George c. Randolph of Blocton is at the Florence.
 Clinton R. Walker of Savannah Is at tba ITInran@a
 Hon. J. P. Mcqueen of Eutaw was in Birmingham yesterday. Henry c. Bowen of Providence, R. l., is at the Metropolitan. Dr. Eugene A. Smith, the state geolo- glst, is in Birmingham. J. H. Rogers and Miss Rogers of Orr vile are at the Florence. B. F. Wasson and Mrs. Wasson of Greenville, Miss, are at the Metropolitan. W. T. Greaves of Cincinnati and Her bert Lee of Baltimore are at the Morris.
 
 John Calman has returned to Birming- ham after several weeks spent in the east.
 George o. Berry and Mrs. Berry and H. M. Howard of Columbus, Ga, are at the Metropolitan. R. P. Gross and J. R. Robinson of Ope- lika and D. R. Collins of Fayetteville are at the Metropolitan.
 Judge Charles A. Senn and family have returned to Birmingham after a vacation spent in North Carolina and the East.
  Professof A. A. Persons of the Uni versity Of Alabama Is at the Florence. It was in Professor Persons house that the late Governor Sanford died.