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The age-herald., 1901-05-15
Outlook for Cotton.

Cotton is now selling fully 21a cents below the prices of January, and yet there are people who talk about still lower prices. There are some who think even cents would be too high. This sort of talk is based partly on the fact that the present crop was un- derestimated. It will exceed ten mil lion bales, or nearly a million bales over the early estimates. Then, too, the negotiations in China are proceed ing very slowly-so slowly that the bears are able to say that the vast and populous country will not be opened to trade this year, although no one can give any good reason why it should not be opened in months time after the indemnity question is settled, and that question will, 1t is conceded, be speed fly settled.
 But the chief influence towards lower prices is found in the new crop. The weather is the determining influence The start has not been wholly favor able. Some cotton had to be replanted, and some of the replantings are still out of sight because of cool, dry weather. These troubles will, however, soon disappear, but there will remain the weather as the all-controlling fac tor.
 There is feeling that twelve-mil- lion-bale crop has become a possibil- ity-in other words. that ten-million- bale crop is now minimum crop, and a twelve-million-bale crop a possible maximum. This may be so, for each five years is marked with an advance of about a million bales in minimum
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
About Trottinq Horses.

The Age-Herald's department de- voted to horse racing and particularly to the trotting and pacing world of horsedom, conducted by Judge A. E.. Caffee, will be made one of the fea- lures of the paper. No man in the South is better qualified to conduct such department, and few write more gracefully than Judge Caffee.
 All lovers of horses-especially the roadsters-should get The Age-Herald regularly for this attractive feature.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
TAXES HARD TO REPEAL.
'rom the Paris Messenger.

From the Paris Messenger.
 Some kind of taxes die hard. Once i'm posed, they go on year after year, simply because money Is wanted, and political economists do not know where to raise a new tax to replace the one abolished. For instance, the tax on doors and win dows in France was voted in what is known in Republican circles as the year VII. It was a war tax, and intended te be temporary, but once imposed 1t has remained. Even in the city, which brides itself upon being the Light of the World, taxes are paid on doors and windows Air and light are the two es- sentials for health. God gives them free. but people in France cannot enjoy them to the full without having to pay for them-without having to pay door and window tax A movement Is in progress in the center of France asking for the suppression of the tax on doors and win doWc 4,
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
Colonel KyIe's Suuqestion.

The Mobile Register does not con slider the suggestion of Colonel Kyle as an empty threat uttered with the intention of spurring Montgomery on to immediate action in the matter of providing hotel accommodations and a proper hall for the sessions of the con yention, although even if this were its only object it would serve the public interest; indeed, there is some ground for thinking that the Legislators who called the election upon the question of holding a convention contemplated the advisability of having the conven- tion held in some other place. The convention is required to assemble and organize in Montgomery in the hall of the House of Representatives Tues day, May 21, and continue in session until a revised constitution shall be framed and adopted, but said conven- tion may, in its discretion, adjourn to any other place it may see fit This can be interpreted to mean to any place. in Montgomery, or to mean any other city. If Montgomery offers no place more suitable than the Hall of Representatives, and Birmingham does offer such a place, the convention may decide that the language of the bill calling the convention gives authority to move the convention to Birming- ham,"
 The Register is talking with the bark of, for it goes on to tell the people of Montgomery that they should wakeup. "There is,' it adds, mo other city in the country that does not make some effort to receive and entertain conven- tions; Mobile, for example, always pro- viding entertainment and showing ap- preciation of the value of visits from distinguished men. In Montgomery nothing of the sort is attempted. Con- ventions come and go as matter of course. The people there seem to think that because the city is the State capi- tai conventions must come to their city and will always come, whether suitable accommodation is provided or not. The whole aggitation for the re- moval of the capital from Montgom- cry arises out of the attitude of the people of Montgomery. They do not appreciate the obligation resting upon them. Their newspapers are alert and have never tired in urging that some thing be done, but the public has been absolutely deaf to all remonstrances, until lately when talk of outside capi- tai building a hotel has scared the stockholders of the principal rattle trap of the city into some activity"
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
MAYOR MAsoN's TALE OF WOE.

New York Letter in the Chicago Record.
 Mayor Joseph Mason of Vineland,N. J., found soon after he was elected that he could not live properly upon his sal ary of $so a year and keep up his social position. He made a fearful appeal to the council and there was hot debate as to whether his honor was worth any more money. It was decided that he was not
 Than a plan was figured out to make him janitor of the city hall at salary of s25 month. This would give him an income of $360 year, all told, and that spells prosperity fin Vineland.
 Mayor Mason went to work and shov- eled in the coal and "janited' with much energy. He was a thoroughly happy man. The only care he had was in making lightning changes from jenitor t, mayor in case young folks called to be married, or from mayor to janitor if the steps had to be swept
 Now. however. two sriefs have come to Mayor Mason's life. Councilman Gun
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
SOUTHERN INDUSTRY.

From the New York Commercial Adver-
 tiser.
 Southern phosphate deposits are practi- cally the only American deposits of the kind of commercial value. Even they, though, have felt the impulse of the new era, whether they be in the older fields of Florida or the newer ones of Tennes- see. With the destruction of the forests of the Middle West and West, Southern lumber Is becoming dominating in its field, and will be the leader whenever the effort shall be made to combine the lum- Der interests of the country. In West Virginia and Kentucky there are tenden- cies today toward placing the coal mining industry in closer touch with the bitumi- nous interests elsewhere, while some of the fuel In the Alabama region has al- ready been brought within the influence of the power centered at Pittsburg.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
APHORISMS BY
 CHARLES M. SCHWAB

that capital is united with this ability. is powerless except in a small way. The country is being ransacked for brains. brains, brains.
 T think 1t possible that so great com bination might be formed that no man could be found with the administrative ability, the brains, to manage 1t. But that will not happen for many years.
 "The question of organized labor is not a question of wages. It is a question of more vital importance. It is question of administration, of running your own works in your own way.
 'I have nothing to do with labor or ganizations, but If I was a workingman, as I was at one time I would not belong to a labor organization. They put all men on the same level.
 "If was bright. alert, competent man I would not be put in the same class with tha'Doorest mSh.
 Organized labor means that no man can advance unless all the others ad- vance,"
 
 
 cannot hold two offices and that Mason is either Mayor or janitor. but he IS not both.
 He has never qualified as janitor," says the relentless Cunningham. Under the law the janitor must be sworn in by the mayor. How can a man swear in himself?"
 Cunningham has prepared a resolution emDodying this opinion. If 1t is passed Mayor Mason will veto it. He says he swore himself in with the aid of Bible and looking glass.
 The other trouble that besets him Is purely social. A short time ago Mayor Mason gave to the Women's Golf Club, an aristocratic concern, the use of field. that was intended for municipal play ground.
 The women of the club out of gratitude elected him an honorary member. Now that he is a janitor, who shovels coal, they have intimated to him that they would prefer if he did not come around 'T don't know whether to give up my social prestige, my janitorship or my mayoralty," says the mayor.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
NEW DIAMOND CUTTING METHOD.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 An expert gem cutter recently discov- cred and patented a method of cutting diamonds by which, 1t is said, their bril- liancy and apparent size are increased 9 to 30 per cent. This remarkable effect is brought about by following the nat ural lines of specialization of the uncut gem. A brilliant may thus be cut with as many as eighty facets, while the num- Der under the old method never exceeds sixtyfour.
 The great amount of time and labor re- quired for this twentieth century cut ting, as 1t is called, augments Its cost, so that 1t will probably never entirely su- persede the present style of cutting. But the resultant increase in brillancy and effectiveness is such that the cost will not deter connoisseurs from investing.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
SUPPRESSION OF IRISH
 PAPER IS ALL THE TALK

But the fact remains-thls old and worn out descendant of a race of scoundrels and practical professors of hideous immo- rality. asservated that most of the sacred doctrines of the Catholic faith were Idol atrous and superstitious. He has not yet recanted. He has not yet said word to indicate that he did not thoroughly np- prove of the terms of the oath framed fin the days of Titus The oath of perjurer is no less vile than that of the reigning king. but on pended knees the prince of the church knelt before this unutterably abominable person.
 Let us console ourselves with the fact that the presentees were English Catho- lies who are repudiated by the only really Catholic nation now in existence. The loyalists represented England only, and if English Catholics choose to acknowledge themselves superstitious idolaters it is rto fault of ours.
 History of the Editor.
 William oBrien, publisher of the Irish People, foundered that journal in 1898 at the time he organized the new agrarian movement known as the United Irish League. He was returned to Parliament by Cork last year. He was first elected in 1883 by Mallow,- County Cork, and sub sequently represented South Tyrone, 1885, 6. and the northeast division of Cork from 1887 to 1895, in which last mentioned year he retired from Parliament owing to dis sentions in the Irish party.
 MT. O'Brien is one of the most brilliant of the journalists in the United Kingdom. He began his career as a reporter of the Cork Daily Herald in 1869, position he occupied for six years. Thence he went to the Freeman's Journal, for which he wrote editorials until 1880. In that year he founded United Ireland He has been prosecuted nine times for political of lenses, and has spent two years in pris- O1
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
Revolt Proves Failure,

San Domingo. s. D., May 14.-The revolt in the provinces of Moca and Lavega has proved a failure. The operations of the government troops led by Vice President vasquez has been successful and the re- bel leaders have been made prisoners. The position of the government is strong financially.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
Captain Betts Appointed.

Manila, May 14.-The civil commission has appointed Captain Arlington U. Betts of the filth volunteer infantry to be civil governor of Albay province. Lieutenant Howard Lee Landers of the 4lst infan- try has been appointed treasurer of the same province. Lieutenant w. O. Thorn ton of the 3Sth infantry has been appoint ed treasurer of the province of Capiz, In Panay Island, vice Lieutenant Marion c. Raysor, who Is i'll.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
Free Over the L. q N.

St. Louis. May 14-John Fitzgerald, su- perintendent of terminals in St. Louis of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad to- day announced that his road was ready to transport free of cost anything in the way of supplies offered for the fire suf- ferers in Jacksonville. Fla
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
All for You, Strong and True.


 Somebody seems to have obtained the impression that some Birmingham news paper was not altogether friendly to the Hon. James H.Npnnalee of Dallas in his aspirations for the Alabama secretary ship of state, in 1902. That is erroneous and is hardly fair to old friends There is not a newspaper-worker in Alabama who doesn't lean affectionately toward Jim Nunnalee and who wouldn't be glad to see him as secretary of state or holding any other office he might de- sire.
 ''Jim'' Nunnalee, newspaper worker, de- sires to succeed Bob" McDavid, news paper worker, as secretary of the State. All other newspaper workers of Alabama are glad this is so, and every one of them wishes all manner of good luck to "Jim." So it ain't fair to say anybody's agin him!
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

Propositions go with panics, or rather panics go with expositions. There was one when the Chicago fair was held, and Buffalo brought one at the very outset.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 It isn't always the best woman in the world that's best for a good man.
 Emerson said that all healthy things are sweet-tempered Emerson never had a baby.
 No experience meeting is half so inti- mate as two women who have found that they each lost all their hair in exactly the same way.
 Every woman over thirty at some time in her life has opened somebody elses letter after making up her mind to think 1t was meant for her.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

Perry Heath might have brought out Mark Hanna for third term by using the long-distance telephone, instead of firing the announcement off in the ef- fete monarchies of the East.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
Strikers Raise Row.

Seville, Spain, May H.-A mob of strik- CTS here while attempting to force num- Der of workmen to leave their tasks, to- day came in conflict with the gendarmes Many were wounded and seventy arrests were made. The strike movement is spreading.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

The music trust is trying to crush out the ragtime article, but like the community-of-interes crowd it has bit off more than it can chew.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
Noble Charity of Noble Women.


 More than ordinary interest attaches to this statement set forth in yesterdays Montgomery Advertiser:
 "St. Vincents Hospital in Birmingham Is in charge of the Sisters of. Charity and 1t is one of the most successful eleemosy- nary institutions in the South.
 "The following self-explanatory letter was received last night:
 Birmingham Ala, May IS, 1901. 'tMr. F. P. Glass. Montgomery. Ala.
 My Dear Sir-I learn that a movement is on foot in your city to establish hos pital, similar to Birmingham's St. Vim cent. 1 hope that the Advertiser and yourself will become Identified with the movement It Is a glorious work.
 "The Sisters of Charity will contribute a large proportion of the money. Mont gomery will be the gainer in every way If you can secure a handsome and we'll equipped, up-to-date hospital Such an in- stitution, controlled by the Sisters of Charity, will be conducted on the highest lines of philanthropy and surgical and medical science. It will be in fact. as well as in name, a charity hospital, whose portals welcome anyone Wno IS SICK ana needy regardless of race, condition or re- ligious views. Sectarlanism plays no part in it's conduct It's purpose and aim seem only to relieve pain, restore health and preserve human life.
 "As you know, I am a Protestant, but that fact does not close my eyes to the benevolence and. charities practiced by those with whose religious opinions dif- fer. I am firmly convinced that to no or der, among men and women, so safely as to the Sisters of Charity can be conf1ded the responsibility of a permanent hospi- tai. Once begun by these consecrated women, the task is never quilted A ha- ven for the sick will always be open. If fire destroys or earthquake demolishes the material fabric, their devoted work will go along, if need be, in tents, under trees or the vault of heaven-but 1t will go on somehow and somewhere.
 Birmingham is prouder of nothing more than of St. Vincent's Hospital. Get something like it for Montgomery, if you can.
 T am yours very truly,
 RUFUS N. RHODES"
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

No watered stocks can now be sold, because the lambs are penniless. The Wall street manipulators have killed the geese that laid the golden eggs.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

The Wall street bear is still walking like man with his hat on one side of his head, and one eyeshut.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

President sohwab is lining up with Chauncey M. Depew and Andrew Car negie as a great public moralist and eminent example.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

Mayor Tom Johnson is picturesque figure, and he is trying also to be practical Mayor, and that, too, in Mark Hanna's imperial town.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

Russell Sage would not object to perpetual panic that permits him to loan money at so per cent.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

If student of books Is called book worm, the Boston Herald thinks a student of the ticker should be called tape worm.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

Brigadier General Funston has his eyes on the Presidency, for he is saw ing wood and saying nothing.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
HeIp for JacksonvlIle.

Mrs w. c. Cooper of Birmingham has undertaken to solicit clothing and other necessaries of life for the victims of the Jacksonville fire MT. Coopers father and
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

Although 700 millions of dollars were lost on Black and Blue Thursday, no one Is willing to own up that he was loser.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

The Duke of Manchester's debts have assumed an international charac- ter to Pa Zimmerman at least.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

Harvard proposes to ratify the de- gree conferred on Mir Mckinley by the electoral college.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
IN HOTEL HOBBIES {sE
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for this day, Wednesday, May 15, 1sO1s
 Travel, remove, and deal with women before noon: then sell"
 Thou art treatened with losses, law, sickness. and an unfavorable year gen orally, this being thy birthday; keep thy business well under control, and do not speculate nor quarrel Those in employ will run the risk of losing it.
 "A child born on this day will be un- lucky in all 1t undertakes and often in poverty and trouble"
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

There should be bear panic in strawberries.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

Russell Sage is a prophet and a money changer who is honored in his own country.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

Count Boni has appendicitis. All have it that can afford it.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

General Miles ranks photographers above editorial writers. Every man to his taste.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

The shorn lamb has all summer to grow wool in for Wall street shears.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

It is called Black and Blue Thurs day.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

The corner in corn has stopped the starch mills, but not the moonshine mills.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
The Empire Is Come.

In the wild excitement of the baseball game between the News and the Age Herald yesterday afternoon, a News man at one time knocked a ball out of sight, it being driven over the fence and through the back door of cullud pus- sons cottage, about quarter of mile away.
 Considerable damage was done by this far-driven ball. a pane of glass and the chief household lamp being broken.
 Viewing the shattered fragments of the lamp which did not least its light upon the tufted floor. the ebony mistress of the household cried: -'4,
 ''Whar's de empire? Tse gwinter hab de empirel Ise jest gwinter make de em- pire pay for dat lamp"
 Thuo the ebony mistress of the humble cottage hurried out and called down the Hon. Hugh Morrow. State Senator, 'de empire of de game" and he had to ''come across"
 De empire sho is come" she said. not knowing she spoke with the gift of great political prophecy.
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The age-herald., 1901-05-15

Fortunately for the shorn lambs in Wall street the weather is mild,
The age-herald., 1901-05-15
The Elderly "Rooter."

The elderly "rooter'' of the graphite pencil sat with his younger comrade of the press, who doesn't know precisely what "rooter'' means, beholding the Age Herald and Birmingham. News baseball game yesterday afternoon, and the two of them shouted like schoolboys and were very happy-calling, just like the other boys, to Allen, Billie, "Ros- coe", "Bozie", "Pickens" "Festus'', Vance, "Alf Walker, 'Phillie', and all the others of the boys It was like old times-it was old times come back again for just one golden glorious May afternoon. down there in our valley of the vivid green!
 The elderly ''rooter'' was a living pie ture of present-day joy He kept his younger comrade informed as to the whole game, that comrade absolutely happy in seeing the boys happy in thing it wasn't his fault he did not com prehend in a scientific manner.
 'He oughtn't to have missed that!"
 My! What ball!'
 ''Now, that was fine-fne-fne!'
 Look at Alf-don't know him-you do what fine young fellow!"
 ''There is the younger Bulger-Roscoe- what noble physical strength is there!"
 And Boles and Bozie-how full of 1t they are!'
 And thus the elderly "rooter" ran on to his younger comrade of the graphite pencil, who was as happy as a child, see ing all that fun there in the vivid green valley within the shadow of the vivid green mountain. And thither there came fair little gentlewomen to lend their gra- cious presence to that time of merriment and manly sport.
 (Which is 'she'-the one?" demanded the elderly 'rooter." He was informed concerning things perhaps it was not his place to know.
 Man, 1t was fine. as they say in Fife shire-that game of base ball between the Age-Herald and Birmingham News!
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

Be check'd for silence, but never taxed for speech.
 -All's We'll That Ends We'll.
The age-herald., 1901-05-15

D. A. Fitch and J. c. Little are the only authorized travelling representatives or The Age-Herald in its circulating depart ment.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-14
HELD TO GRAND JURY
DULUTH MAN ARRESTED ON A
CHARGE OF FORGERY.

DULUTH. Mimi. Oct. 1S.-(SpeciaL)-
Herbert w. Craig, an employee of the
acknowledgement Commission company,
was arrested Saturday by Omitted States
Postoffice Inspector Meyers, of St Paul.
charged with forging name to a post
office money order for s25. He was ex-
amined and held to the next term OF the
federal court. The offense occurred at
the Delaware hotel. The order was re-
ceived in letter for woman guest, and
Craig, who boarded at the hotel. is said
to have stolen the letter and cashed the
order. The clerk at the hotel was sus-
pected, and has been under surveillance
by the police authorities for several
weeks, and was several times subjected to
the sweat-box ordeal to induce confess
sion. Finally, however, a clew leading
to Craig was found, and the arrest fol-
lowed. Every effort has been made to
keep the matter quiet, but it is said the
young man has confessed.