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The age-herald., 1901-08-07
Noted German Preacher.

Rev. c. A. Kienle, Evangelical pastor, Huntingburg. Ind, wha has been spend ing several days in Birmingham, will leave here for Atlanta today.
 Rev. MT. Kienle Is of the German Evan gelical Lutheran church. which has a handsome house of worship in Avenue F. and he is the president of the South ern district of that denomination. He Is a preacher of distinguished ability and remarkable eloquence. and is held in highest esteem throughout the strong church Of which he is a leader.
 Rev. MT. Kienle preached in the Ger man church in Avenue F last Sunday His sermon was one of good cheer, of hope, and in the course of 1t he referred to the late Col. Erwin Schillinger, who was his intimate friend and brother, as are August Schillinger and Louis Schil- finger. He paid a powerful tribute to Colonel schillinger as a great-hearted and good man.
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
This Crowded City.

At no other time within many months. perhaps never before except on special oc- casions, have the Birmingham hotels and the Birmingham streets been so crowded.
 Are the travelling men holding a con- vention?" was asked of a leading member of the Commercial Travellers Protective Association, in the lobby of one of the ho- tels yesterday.
 "No." he said. 'But everybody is busy business is good. There are hundreds of drummers in town, and thousands of oth- CT visitors"
 The hotel Hobbies have been very crowd ed and animated for several days past. Last night about the Metropolitan. Tor example. the crowd was so unusually large as to attract the special attention Of passersby. An old newspaper worker of Birmingham, observed the crowd close ly, and he didn't know one fin ten of the prosperous-iooking men,. Yet 1t is his business to know everybody"
 This goes to prove that there are a great many visitors in the city. Indeed. all the hotels are crowded. And there will be enough in addition to crowd the big new Hillman when it Is opened month hence.
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
Home Rule in School Questions


 The reactionary element in the con- ventlon, largely from the Black Belt, will no doubt endeavor to check and perhaps destroy educational progress in this State, but 1t Is hoped that the requirement. of an educational test in the permanent suffrage plan will rem der their shortsignted efforts in- effectual.
 The question is the broadest and deepest one that is before the conven- ton. The people of school age in the State number 722,333, and the action of the convention will affect for better or worse the lives of at least 600,000 of them. The convention is largely composed of men whose children are out of school, or of men who can af- ford to give their children superior instruction. Such men are apt to con- sider the appeals in behalf of the bare foot boys and girls of the State as demagogical. It Is on the other hand matter intensely practical and real alike to the army ot the States chill dren and to the welfare of the State itself.
 Unlike many other States, Alabama has not become accustomed to public schools and public education. The convention was called before public sentiment had ripened, but the strong far-seeing men in the convention may be trusted to look ahead and to do what IS best.
 The best thing that can come to the school system of the State is fiexibility. Give room for educational progress if progress DC considered desirable. Don't bind down by iron rules the people in the matter of public education Give them chance to exercise their own discretion, If a community wants bet ter schools give 1t scope and freedom in that respect. In that way there is no danger that Alabama will lag be- hind her sisters, or that discontent will arise over the constitution. Home rule is the very essence of popular govern ment, and home rule in school mat ters will prove especially beneficial and desirable. Let the Black Belt be reasonable in this respect, for 1t will not be affected by home rule of this sort
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
WNvVMev Are NOe SeNdvNo9
BY HON. MAURICE M. HINTON.

The thoughtful man can scarce read a great daily journal and lay 1t down without asking himself, "whither are we tending2n On one page he reads of the great or ganizations Of capital seeking out every class of human industry in order to make their owners richer; on another he reads of uninos of laborers seeking to unite themselves in compact bodies that they may not be crushed out of exist ence; on another he reads of entertain ments and magnificence that seem to eclipse In grandeur and lavishness the fabled or historic banquets.
 Millions are toiling for wages which scarce do more than provide a scant nv- ing. Millions with aspirations baff1ed by inexorable conditions chafe under the harness that restricts them from living in the condition of life which education and inclination point out as belonging to a sober, honest, hard-working American citizen.
 A few persons conspicuously identified with the great industrial and railroad corporations of the country by the law of attraction have drifted together upon q common strata of living and expense until they have become silently recog- nized as a distinctive class.
 These two classes. as time passes, be- come stronger. indiyidualized, antagonis- tic. With each generation the connection of a once common relationship becomes more visionary, at last 1t becomes wholly broken, and even the memory of 1t will fade.
 There was a time when the forefathers of the Czar of all the Russias and the proudest of his nobility were no more among the people than are today the workers at the furnaces of Carnegie or on the railroad tracks of the Vanderbilts They became chiefs, their children mo- bles arfstocracy formed itself in the pro- cession of generations. Today the nobil- ity of Russia and the peasantry of Rus sia are divided by an unbridgeable gulf. Today the sons of those who created the foundations of fortunes are arrogat- ing to themselves maddening pretensions and stiffening themselves by arrogant presumptions into a priviledged class. Beneath the surface there are omnibus sounds. What is their portent?
 The struggling millions are fed upon sentiment. They look at the flag of the
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
THE PRESS AS AN EDUCATOR.

Dr. J. M. Buckley Before the Epworth
 League.
 Long ago 1t was said that the world is governed by three boxes-the cartridge box, the ballot-box and the band-box- force. votes, women. But now a fourth must be added-the mail-box. loaded by the countless products of the printing press.
 Today the newspaper competes with seminaries, colleges and universities as an educator; with courts as a detector exposer and punisher of crime; with fash ion as a regulator of mannersand with the church as a. modifier of morals Through its advertisements and reports of transactions and markets, from the price of garden truck to the plans and achievements of the cosmopolitan finan- cers of the exchanges and bourses, 1t is the chief reliance of commerce. It can also nulify the acts of Legislatures and the decisions of courts by creating a sen timent inimical to their enforcement. and 1t even assumes to elect Presidents to de throne kings to declare war and to criticise and direct the movements of armies and navies.
 Speaking generally, what the press does for the public-including the church. in the dissemination of information, in unifying public sentiment and arousing 1t and bringing it to bear to remedy wrongs, expose abuses and to drag into light in- sidious vices which perish when known abroad; in concentrating public attsn- ton or unpunished crime. and revealing the fitness or unfitness of candidates for offfce cannot be over estimated
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
ErskIne Ramsay.

The resignation of Chief Engineer Erskine Ramsay of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company brings for the moment Into the greater glare of public light one of the most honored and suc- cessful men of the Birmingham district and one of the greatest mining engineers in America" conspicuous man of Bir- mingham said last night
 His great ability and skill in his work, together with his remarkable success, are of widest note.
 "On the sunny side of forty, MT Ram say Is a wealthy man, the maker of his own fortune. He has been out of school just eighteen yearsl
 And If Erskine Ramsay live to be twice forty he will then be as he Is now, the man of the sunshine heart and soul of song; the happy-hearted good fellow; the one whose religion is the humanities in the higher sense, which means fel- lowship and comradeship
 There never was yet a better fellow than he. The world praises him for his great knowledge of the difficult science of engineering-a practical capacity for everyday work which recently brought him an offer of a salary considerably more than half of that which the Pres ident of the United States received down to less than thirty years ago.
 But those of us who know the little baldheaded red man with the strong jaws and neck, the laughing eyes. the strong and laughing mouth the big heart and the kindly impulses-it is ourselves who know the man best and know best his powerful human qualities
 |" Everybody Is devoted to Erskine Ramsay Is phrase current in this valley and district these dozen years; and the phrase was and is true!
 ''The fact that MT. Ramsay will remain in Birmingham permanently Is good for Birmingham and the district. He has large property interests in this district, especially in banking and finance. No man In the district has larger heart in- terests; and, after all, this is what makes the man!'
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
THE oaLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Nice questions curtsy to great Kings.
 --Henry V.
Mr. cuIIom Explains the Situation.

Senator Cullom and Senator Mark Hanna recently conferred" with the President at Canton. Ohio, and the outcome is declared by at least Sena- tor Cullom to be that the ship subsidy bill is to be put through the coming Congress, and all attempts at gen. eral revision of the tariff are to be frowned down. This decision should not surprise any one It was bargained for last year, and the bargain is to be carried out. Inc triumvirate has de- clared 1t, and the people are expected to accept it.
 There Is no evil m sight from the evils that affect the country until 1904. The trusts own all branches of power, and they are taking advantage of the robber tariff to work the coun- try for nearly all there is in it. They nave abolished competition, and 1t is with them now only a question as to how much can be extorted from the people. They sell goods exactly simi- lar at one price abroad and at other and, in some cases, double prices at home. This taxation is unprecedent- edly heavy, but 1t Is called protection by the trusts, and the Republican party has brought the people to worship it..
 The next Presidential campaign should be fought on tariff lines with the resultant trusts and billionaires as frightful examples. The Canton Big Three have determined the nature of the next campaign, and that campaign will not be unlike the battle that is now impending in the Pittsburg dis trict. In it the people will be lined ur on the one side, and the capitalists or the other. The lessons of Pittsbure will be useful in 1904. A leader who is competent and who will prove trust worthy and aggressive afterwards is the man that is wanted as the people s leader; and that man will be forthcom- ing before the year of ballots He is not in sight at present.
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
TEN YEARS ..a sTEEL-MAKING.
From the New York World.

From the New 1ork World
 An article In the International Monthly concisely presents some remarkable facts in the unavoidable of Americas growth in steel-making. These may be summarized: ::
 Our production of coal, coke and iron ore has in ten years nearly doubled: of Bessemer steel has doubled; of open hearthasteel more than tripled.
 In 1891 47 per cent of our pig iron be- came steel: in 1900. 77 per cent. Steel is replacing iron more rapidly here than in any other country Great Britain In 1899 turned 53 per cent of her iron into steel. twice our exports. Last year our exports were six times our imports, exceeding them by s10ooOO,0Oo.
 In 1894 and 1896 British production of iron surpassed American; during every other year of the decade the primacy re- mained with us. Last year British pro- duction was s,061, ,107 tons, American pro- duction 13,7s9, PAP tons.
 The writer of the article. John Franklin Crowell, considers that the further healthy development of the steel industry requires lower prices in the home market to increase demand and the general re- vision of our tariff, that foreigners may both sell and buy more freely in this country With both conclusions the pub lie will heartily agree.
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
A Dream DispeIIed.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 The woman was standing in the door way, shading her eyes with her hand. She called across the garden.
 You, Innocence Williams! Come in, honey, outen that hot sun. You'll burn yer little cheeks brown ez CT berry, Come in, Innocence!"
 One would have expected to see fairy like createure rise, as from the l%art of violet beds. But instead tall, gaunt fiR- ure. with face browned lnd bonnetted. shambled toward the house, dragging A dead rattlesnake by its rattles.
 It was Innocence Williams. Thar nanny" she exclaimed. tossing the snake over the paling. that makes ten I've killed since the fust O June" From the Chicago Post.
The age-herald., 1901-08-07

union, they real the declaration of inde- pendence, the constitution of the federal government They look at their news papers. With bewildered eyes they look at the social extravagance of their ln- dustrial kings, of their Iiveried retainers of their powdered lackeys, of the hun. dreds of thousands expended in pleasure They look at their humble homes, their tl-kept children, their restrained aspira- tions. Then the glance at their arms. touch their muscles or their brows. and say, with scowl: T am paying for that"
 This is a country different in every re- spect from any other country ever found on the map, ancient or modern. Taken by force from the Indian 1t belongs to no race to no people, other than those which tread its soil. To them 1t belongs. They came here to seek conditions oppo- site to those which existed in the land they left This energy to escape snd this wish to be emancipated pervades every fibre. every muscle. every scrap of bone, every drop of blood It Is transmitted from father to son. It never dies.
 In this country must be fought out and will be fought out the question touching the conditions of mankind from which the Europeans fled.
 The problems of human conditions, of human happiness, cannot be evaded. Riches and poverty are coming into strong contrast. With riches have come privileges, with poverty has come the acute sense that privileges are not Amer ican.
 Our rich people, by initiating the splen- dor of European aristocrats and by fol- lowing them in their arrogance, are cre- ating hostility they little appreciate OF realize. A storm Is brewing. There is cloud on the horizon. The rich rejoice that the times are good the poor de- clare the times are hard" Even when labor has increased, when the idle man is now engaged, there has come a sen- sation that there is vigorous band about labor which did not exist a few years gao. Something frets and chafes.
 With these two classes, the employer and the employee, eyeing each other with suspicion; with the sound of music and song on one side, and with murmurs on the other no man of ordinary intelli- gence can fail to see the handwriting on the wall and ask: 'Whither are we tending?"
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
ENDORSE sHIRTwAisTs.
Texas Legislators Will LegisIate With
 out Coats.

Austin. Texas, August 6.-The Texas Legislature convened in special session here today for the purpose of consider ing a re-districting of the congressional districts of the State so as to add three additional districts to the thirteen already given.
 The house endorsed the shirtwaist fad by adopting a resolution recommending that it's members go in their shirt sleeves or in shirt-waists during the present ses- sion owing to the hot weather.
 Considerable excitement seems attend ant upon the closing of the First Nation al bank of the city by the federal ex- aminer 1t now developes that the State of Texas may lose something like $s75. .00O by the action. and the Governor has call ed the attention of the Senators to the matter. sf
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
TO THE skYLARk.
By William Wordsworth.

By William Wordsworth. Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the slxvf Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound, Or while the wings aspire, are heart and
 eye
 Both with thy nest upon the dewy
 ground? Thy nest. which thou canst drop into at
 will. Those quivering wings composed, that
 music still! To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler! that love
 prompted strain 'Twfxt thee and thine a never failing bond Thrills not the less the bosom of the
 plain: Yet mightier thou seem. proud privilege
 to sing All independent of the ieafy spring. Leave to the nightingale her shady wood: A privacy of glorious light is thine, Whence thou dost pour upon the world a
 flood
 Of harmony. with instinct more divine Type of the wise, who Soar but never
 roam True to the kindred points of heaven and
 home.
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
Great Steel Strike.

It goes without saying that the men have a right to consolidate and to work for their own interest. The mills have carried that practice to limit, and the men may do likewise in the course of the present strike. All union organ izations regard the pending strike as the crisis of all labor organizations, and they are offering both money and sympathy. The billion-dollar trust is fighting capitals battle. and million of workmen will endeavor to meet it and defeat 1t. The clash and outcome
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
B. & B. R. R.

From the Ashland Standard.
 A letter from President Machen of the Brunswick and Birmingham railroad very strongly indicates that the route finally to be chosen for this road will pass Clay and Talladega Counties There is no doubt but that we are on the most nothing of the vast amount of tonnage offered, We stand a splendid showing to secure this road. Work is progressing rapidly on the Brunswick end of the road, several miles having already been con- pleted. It will now be only a few months before the work of surveying ard locat- ing the road through Alabama will be commenced.
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
Mobile Flowers.
From the Mobile Register.

From the Mobile Register.
 Out on Spring Hill avenue. on one of the lawns, some vines have been trained so as to present the shape of a lady stand ing on the lawn dressed in green. while some plant with red flowers has been trained to bloom just above where lady usually wears a corsage bouquet. The whole is topped by face of woman drawn on wood and crowned with white straw sailor hat. The figure Is quite 8 novelty.
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
Songs of the Old confeds.

To Camp Hardee: Homespun Songs, by Homespun Man." Is the title of lit tie book of verse by Prof. Samuel L. Rob ertson of Birmingham widely known Confederate Veteran and true singer who for forty years has sung tenderly and faithfully the old Confederate sentiment.
 To Hang Among the Willows-1S66; Our Flag-1s61;' "O'er some Unknown Confederate Dead-1ss0;" 'oThe Songs I Love to Hear-1s90;" "Above a Comrades Gravel" The Old Confed:'' For Old Acquaintance Sake" lines read to the Confederate Veterans at picnic at Tuxedo Park, Birmingham, July 1s 19O1-these make up the little volume, and very charming they are.
 These lines from the poem "The Old Confed" will arouse cordial responses from every Southerner who reads them: word for the boy who wore
 The homemade suit of gray; His like, pcrchance, we'll see no more,
 No matter where we stray. The offspring of conditions rare,
 In them he f1ourished well; For them he was wont to do or dare,
 And with them he fought and fell. But whether right or whether wrong.
 care not, that Is past:
 But that he's worthy deathless song,
 I maintain 1t to the last
 7 | And maintain, that right or wrong,
 He was not sold or bought, But stands today the noblest knight,
 That e'er for country wrought.
 Everybody in Jefferson. county knows and esteems Professor Robertson, and everybody has enjoyed his verse, much of which has appeared in The Age-Her- aid from time to time, ever since this newspaper was established eight and twenty years ago. As was said of an immortal of the long ago, Professor Robertson "sings to one clear harp in divers tones,' and all those tones are sweetly sung.
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
REFLECTIONS or A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 The ideal husband is the man who hasn't got married yet.
 Marrying drunkard to reform him is like frying fish to make beefsteak out of 1t. pa
 When a woman Is dead sure that she has a man she Is never dead sure that she wants him.
 A woman is never so much afraid she may lose a mans love as she is that some other woman may gain 1t.
 No matter how much of a past a man has had. there arc always some women who can teach him more than he knew before. ~
The age-herald., 1901-08-07

In 1895, 1898 and 1899 We exported more pounds of raw cotton, but in no previous year was the value of the ex- ported cotton so large as it was in the year recently ended A near approach to it occurred in 1866, when, on account of the civil war, cotton was abnormally high. The exports of 1866 were valued at $2S1, ,385,22S. pig as this sum is, 1t was exceeded in the year ended June sJ by over thirty million dollars. In 1891, big crop year, the value of raw cotton exported footed up $29O,712,S98. These two years stand as second and third to the record just completed. There are no other close competitors for record honors.
 In the matter of exports 1t Is all non- sense to talk about King Hay or King Corn or any other King but King Cot ton. The value of all the exported breadstuffs put togther in the year just ended was but $275,594.e18, and the value of all exported provisions was but s196.s5S,s7s. The yield of the cot ton fields stands at the top of the list, and it will continue to stand there ac- cording to present indications. The dethronement of King Cotton has been indefinitely postponed.
The age-herald., 1901-08-07

Senatorial seats in the federal body could be disposed of by lottery on the Oklahoma plan, which would be great improvement over the deal-and-dicker plan now in use.
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
THE STRIKERS ULTIMATUM.

We, the members of the executive board of the Amalgamated Association, hereby present the following proposition as a reply to that received from the United States Steel corporations:
 Sheet Mills-All mills signed for last year, with the exception of Saltshurg and Scottdale, and with the addition of Mo Keesport and Wellsville.
 Hoop Mills-All mills now known to be organized, viz: Youngstown, Girard, Greeville, Pomeroy, Warren, Painters. Lindsay 6 McCutcheon, Clark, Monessen, Mingo and Bar mill, 12 inch, inch and hoop mills of the Cleveland Rolling Co.
 Tin Mills-All mills except Monessen.
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
Wharfs Repaired.

From the Daphne Standard.
 Both wharves are being put in first-class repair and the boat will land at both. MT. J. s. Lowell will have charge of the wharf at the hotel and Sam Taylor will be wharfmaster. It Is understood that there will be no charge for foot passage over this wharf. A petition has been circu- lated by MT. Lowell for siKners asking that the boat land regularly at the hotel wharf. which has been very generally signed.
The age-herald., 1901-08-07
When They Swim.

From the Buffalo Express. tA' The athlete goes swimming In the river
 broad and deep, The matron takes the water where the
 oceans ripples weep. The debutante goes bathing where her
 suit can best be viewed, ,y And Willie, unaffected, goes a-swimminag
 in the nude.