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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1901-08-18
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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1901-08-18

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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1901-08-18

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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1901-08-18

En- nuestro ndne 70 de anteayer
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The age-herald., 1901-08-23

friends of public educatioa should manifest. The S-mill tax is . good foundation upon which to build an efi- cient school system. The 8-mill tax is the minimum-the basis-the rock upon which to build hereafter. Let all accept it, and get ready to add to 1t from time to time whatever is needful. Nothing is to be gained by clinglng to the old constitution under which the school fund could be cut down to $10O, ,000, and under which fight must be made before each Legislature for educational facilities. Let us accept the advantages offered by the new con stitution, and use them as basis for bringing the school system up to a higher standard. e5
 The Age-Herald stood, as all it's read CTS know, in favor of simple suffrage system that would forever cut out all fraudulent practices, and it especially desired the right of local taxation for school purposes in each community. Neither was conceded, but the refusal does not alter the fact that the new constitution is better than the old con- stitution. Rome was not built in day, and all great reforms come slowly and by degrees. Let us all accept then the gains that are within reach, especially when these gains will lead on, as MT. Graham shows, to something better, even to changes that are ideal.
The age-herald., 1901-08-23
Ten Hours of ToiI Enouqh.

The International Union of Textile Workers of America has declared in favor of an universal" ten-hour law among the textile workers of the coun- vention may deem desirable. A special convention is to be held at Washing ton on November IS, and no doubt steps will be taken for the purpose of bringing about the adoption in all tex tile mills of ten-hour day of labor.
 This change will affect fully 50,000 workers, and will bring relief to many women and children. More than ten hours day in the lint-laden air of a cotton mill and amid the whirr and clash of machinery, is positively cruel to all but the rugged. It is especially cruel to toilers of immature age.
 The textile forces are to be consol- dated into one body to be known as the American Federation of Textile Workers. This will soon be accom- plished. and when it is there must be a ten-hour rule in all mills or strike will be inaugurated. The Federation has large fund at present, and this fund will be increased with a view to securing ten-hour day.
 Southern mills should fall into line without waiting for coercive measures. All other trades have secured a ten hour day or something better still. and there is nothing to be gained in South. ern mills by resisting this demand on the part of operatives for a ten-hour day.~ In the end it must be conceded, and if it be conceded without friction or trouble so much the better for all concerned.
The age-herald., 1901-08-23
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Whites and Blacks in I~y States.

In Lowndes County there were last year 4,762 whites and 30,sss blacks. or nearly seven blacks to one white man. This is Alabama's darkest county, all though Jefferson County contains many more negroes-in all. 56,917. But there are nearly 100000 whites in Jefferson. Proportions considered, no Alabama county approaches Lowndes, although Montgomery. Dallas, Macon, Bullock, and Marengo are not far behind. Greene and Hale follow Lowndes, how ever. Greene has 20,S75 negroes and 3,31O whites. Hale has 25,347 negroes and 5.664 whites. Lowndes, Greene and Hale are in order the darkest coun- ties in the State so far as proportions of negroes are concerned.
 But no one of them is equal in this respect to several Mississippi counties. We give below the figures for the coun- ties that are included in the Yazoo neIfa uhich fe narkeef Amnrica.
The age-herald., 1901-08-23
siqns of the Weather.

Last night there was a 'mackerep' sky, as the Irish in Ireland and the Scotch in Scotland describe the scaly white clouds that are clear against the blue. Such clouds are held in those countries to ordinarily betoken cessa- ton of rain in rainy season. In this country we call them cirrus clouds, and much the same significance is attached.
 Is the unusual, and prolonged rain in August ended? The sky last night gave token that 1t was ended, and the story of the sky was was backed up by the moon. The change of the moon occurred at 2:52 o'clock yesterday morning, and although there was a slight fall of rain after that hour. daylight was rainless. and the weather-wise argue that the rain is done. The wish may be father to that thought, and the pourdown may be resumed before these words are read by the public; but the pleasing fact is that yesterday was rainless day, the first such day of the two and twenty days of the first August of the new cen tury,
 The carriers may deliver The Age-Her- aid in the rain this morning-all signs fail rainy as well as in dry weather but last midnight the indications were that the destructive deluge had passed at last.
The age-herald., 1901-08-23
Public Library In the City Hall.

The space allotted in the new city hall to stalls and meat and vegetable market Is altogether too contracted to meet the wants of rapidly increasing town. It cannot be enlarged. It must remain in size as planned at present, no matter how large the town becomes. The Age-Herald believes it wise to let the butchers and vegetable dealers make their own plans, as they desire to do. This will suit them better, and in the long run it will be better for the city.
 The beauty of the new city building begins to be seen as it rises, and when all it's proportions are brought to view by the builders feeling will arise that so fine a building should not be given over even in part to market purposes, when the dealers themselves stand ready to build a central market. At tue best but small share of the meats and vegetables sold in this town could be concentrated in the city hall, and it is not best to soil fine building in or der to accommodate a fraction deal CTS. Business Is gravitating to- wards the city hall, and the space can be rented for other purposes.
 But if it cannot be rented to good advantage, let the people serve them selves by devoting that space to public library purposes. This will save the expense of special library building, an expense that would have to be met by the people even if MT. Carnegie erected the building. The one great need of this town is public library. It is a reflection upon this town-a blot, and hindrance to public educa- tion and general growth, that 1t has no puD--c library. The present City Council is looking more to immediate dollars and cents than 1t is to the de- velopment of the city, but it should re- member that free public library is a necessity, and that no progressive town is without one, and that one must soon be established in this town at public expense.
The age-herald., 1901-08-23
Delta. which is Darkest America:


 The Yazoo Delta and five river coun- ties in all, contain the preponderance of blacks in the State. The other 57 counties of Mississippi contain ma jority of whites.
 The tendency in Mississippi Is to. wnrds a concentration of negroes in the Delta. It is becoming blacker while the rest of the State is becoming whiter, even the southern half of it. The Yazoo Delta lies along the river and extends into the central part of the State.
 We have not figures at hand that would show the populations of Lowndes, ureene and Hale in 1890, and of the Black Belt in general, and 1t is impossible to say without full figures what the tendency mas been in this State. The whites as a whole are nu- merically stronger than they were in 1890, but where the gains and losses have been we cannot at present say.
The age-herald., 1901-08-23
THE MOSQUITO AND OTHERS.

From the New York World
 Dr. L. O. Howard, entomoIogist of the department of agriculture has just made public some startling statements of the property losses caused by insects. He be- lieves they aggregate s30o.0o0. 900 @ year. Other agricultural experts have made higher estimates, and in years of un- usual insect activity the total loss has been doubtless much greater. The Rocky Mountain locust, or western grasshopper. for example. in 1874 ate up $1OooOo, 900 worth of the growing crops of Kansas. Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska. The chinch bug alone. according to Professor Web ster. has eaten ss30 0O0,0 900 worth of corn and wheat in the western states since ds5O-an average appetite of Hooo,ooe a year.
 As for the mosquito. apart from the losses believed to be due to it's per nicious activity in the spread of yellow fever and malaria, It is an immense de- precfator of real estate values. A New Jersey newspaper recently estimated that it's extermination In that one state alone would add to It's real estate valuation not less than $10o.0Oo,e0o.
 It certainly would pay to wage a con- tinuous war of extermination against all these insects
The age-herald., 1901-08-23
A SHORT TARIFF LESSON.
From the Brooklyn Herald.


 Reports from England assert that the American steel manufacturers are offer ing wire rods delivered in Manchester for $29 90 ton. For the same thing the price to customers in this country is ss9 a ton. That is to say. the American protective tariff. preventing free competition, en- ab1es the American manufacturer to charge $39 to Americans for what he sells to Englishmen for s29. 30. after freighting the goods across the Atlantic. Either the American producer makes a profit by selling his wire rods to the Englishmen at $2930 ton or he does not. If he does not make profit on foreign business, the ur- fortunate American customer for wire rods, and all things made from them. is forced to pay a price so excessive that the missionary manufacturer can let Eng lishmen have them at less than cost, which is nice for the foreigner. If he does make profit on his foreign sales. the case Is still worse, for the manufacturer is protected in extortlng an unnecessary and oppressive profit from his fellow citizens. Tn either case the American cus- toner Is fleeced. The manufacturer Is able to fleece him because the Republican party has given him tariff law designed and desired for that very purpose.
The age-herald., 1901-08-23
About Persons.

The Rev Father Gaffney, a dIstin. guished priest of Memphis, was in Bir- mingham yesterday on his way east tc spend a thirty-day vacation. Hon. Ed deGrafenreid of Greensboro was in Birmingham last night. Buford Lynch, a former Alabamian now a brilliant and successful newspaper correspondent of Washington. is at the Metropolitan.
 Lucien V. LaTaste and W. A. Hall of Montgomery are at the Metropolitan. Henry Rigby, United States navy. Port Royal. s. C., is at the Metropolitan. Sol Blondheim of Tuscaloosa is at the Metropolitan.
 N. H. Frolichstein of Mobile is at the Metropolitan.
 Col John M. Caldwell of Anniston is at the Arlington.
 J. M. wikle of Warrior Is at the Metro politan.
 c. S. Pyle of Beaumont, Texas, where the oil comes from, is at the Metropolitan
 
 w J. Malone of Huntsville Is at the Metropolitan. -~,.f E. B. Hilliard of British, Ala. is at the Florence. burg are at the Florence.
 J. c. McFee of St. Louis Is at the Flor ence.
 A. F. Wilson, E. P. Wilson, B. K. Me Morris R. s. Mitchell and J. Brown and Mrs. Brown of Montgomery are at the Florence.
 Leo Alderman of Caheen Bros. is in Canada, and will visit New York before returning home.
 R. L. Edwards of sylacauga is at the Morris
 T. H. wildman and E. P. Loveman oi Tuscaloosa are at the Morris. Capt. William Frye Tebbetts, collector of the port of Mobile. and Hon. J. w. Weiss of that city. are at the Morris.
 sss
 Former United States Marshal Ben w Walker and Richard P. Dexter of Mont gomery are at the Morris.
 H. A. o'Grady and G. W. Weekes of Mobile are at the Morris.
The age-herald., 1901-08-23

As entered Washington City from the north by the Pennsylvania route l often watch the dome of the capitol. strided over by the Washington monument. The monument. being a mile further away, but two or. three times the heighth of the dome. thus performs a radius with the dome for it's axis So, 1t seems to me the executive end of the capitol Is striding over the independent departments of the government The legislators with some virtuous exceptions, had rather be around the taverns and receptions and pink teas in the west end than live near their work on Capitol Hill.
 For 101 years the supreme court has met in the capitol building. or on Capitol Hill It's efficient life has there been passed under Marshall, Curtis, Chase and others, men not much concerned in friv- olous society. But the influence of mon ey in hospitality is drawing the supreme court to the West end and the last two attorney generals, the council lawyers for the executive. have exerted them selves apparently to haul the supreme court to the white house, and leave it there, so that he attorney general may be the host of the court and the execu- tive lodge the judiciary.
 This was never thought of till McKfn- ley's administration in which the court played prisoners base with itself, one half capturing the other half, to the pug zle of the country, which has seen the Presidents first attorney general, McKen- na. added to the court. and the son of an- other Justice, Harlan, made an offiefal in Porto Rico, while the Porto Escan cases were pending
 Low birth and continuous luck will make some men venturesome till public opinion is tested out of it's habitation An experimental city like Washington alters It's departments from one place to another with great hazard. If the spot is not of consequence, neither may be the place. To remove the supreme court into the vftiated purlieu of the patronage faro deal where the game is perpetual, will increase the wonder of oId-fashfoned people that are even passive, listening bench has any independence left
 It is the instituted, the settled, the ir- z1 iinothihrdlu hrdl hrdl hrdlu hrdluu removable quality of the Judiciary which insures their unselfshness Judges
The age-herald., 1901-08-23
WHERE DUMONT FAILED.

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 It does not follow because M Santos Dumont's balloon collided with a six story building in Paris yesterday morn- ing that the principle on which the air. ship was constructed is wrong. In previ- ous experiments the Brazilian had de- monstrated his ability to steer the ball. loon, to cause it to rise or to fall, to travel with Or against the wind, and to make landings and ascensions at his pleasure.
 In fact, nearly every condition re- quired by M. Deutsch, who offers 100000 francs to the balloonist who will round the Eiffel tower and return to the start ing point within a given time. was so nearly complied with that M. Deutsch objects to an abandonment of Dumont's attempts. The impression is widespread among Partisan aeronauts that Dumont has the idea upon which the successful airship is eventually to be constructed, whether or not he has made the best ap- pIication of it in building his present machine.
 Tho qualification, nearly compiled with" used above is employed deslgn- edly. M Dumonts machine filled every condition save the most important one it could not be navigated at the will of the navigator against a strong wind. For pleasure purposes ballon that could be navigated in ordinary weather might be regarded as long step in advance, but for commercial purposes no balloon that will not be as controIlable in the air as a shin is on the ocean can ever be pro- nounced a success.
 Even for pleasure purposes balloon that cannot be controlled in rough weather will never become popular with. the people Amateur balloonists and pro- fessional aeronauts might experiment with such machines to their hearts con tent, and even accomplish marvellous feats with them. but the perfect airship must be one that can be navigated as easily and as safely as the ordinary sloop- built yacht.
 Notwithstanding the progress that M Santos-Dumont appears to have made in certain directions, we seem to be as lar from the solution of aerial navigation as ever-not because his balloon collapsed vesterday morning, but because, even if if had not collapsed. it was not a machine that could have stood up and made head- way and effected landing in the face of a gale of wind The machine that is to navigate the air successfully, if such a machine is ever to be invented. must be no more of toy than the machine that blows through the oceans in rough weather as well as smooth, for, to all in- tents and purposes. 1t will have precisely the same conditions to meet C. c~pt that in a storm the chances of the sl ip will always be better than the chances of the balloon. .uISi
The age-herald., 1901-08-23
A PRAYER.

By Christiana G. Rossetti. Lord, grant us eyes to see, and ears to
 hear, And souls to love. and minds to under
 stand,
 And steadfast faces toward the Holy
 Land. And confidence of hope. and filfaI fear, And citizenship where thy saints appear Before Thee, heart in heart and hand in
 hand, And alleluias where their chanting band As waters and as tlianders fill tho
 sphere
 Lord. grant us what Thou wilt. and
 what Thou wilt Deny. and fold us in thy peaceful fold; Not as the world gives. give to us Thine
 own;
 Inbuild us where Jerusalem Is built With walls of jasper and stre' . of gold, And. Thou. Thyself, Lord Christ. the
 cornerstone.
The age-herald., 1901-08-23
] Lei Us Be Reasonable.

Chairman James B. Graham is good friend of the public schools--a good man in all respects-and he advises the friends of public education to ac cept the new constitution He frankly admits that the plan Tor county taxa ton Is not ideal" but he believes \ is a step that will lead in a few years to an ideal system of district and town ship taxation. He thinks that when the state sees 1t has an intelligent and responsible electorate, local taxation for schools will be readily conceded.
 This is the spirit which all other
The age-herald., 1901-08-23
CASE OF POLITICAL NECESSITY.

Washington Correspondence of the Louis
 vile Courier-Journal.
 Immediately after the adjournment of Congress 1t was. announced that few ap- pointments would be made during the re- cess. This rule has been generally ob- served except in cases of political neces- sfty.' Such a case occurred yesterday when the President removed Jules Bing- ham, collector of internal revenue of the Alabama district, and appointed T. B. Morton. The only excuse for Bingham S removal is National Committeeman Vaughan. Hanna's agent in Alabama, de- sired 1t at once fin order to thoroughly pre- pare the Republican machine in that State for the coming battle for control of na- tfonal convention delegates Evidently in the eyes of the administration the Sapp case is small matter compared with that of MT. Bingham.
The age-herald., 1901-08-23
SENATOR PETTUS.

From the Mobile Register. 1SiT~
 The Albany. N Y.. Argus, taking up the Birmingham Age-Herald's praise tof Gen. ator Pettus, says: That view may well be shared by his fellow citizens every- where without regard to party. Senator Pettus is fine old Democrat and 8 true Southern gentleman of the old school. The Democrats of Alabama cannot afford to treat him as the Republican party treated Thomas B. Reed, who is right and lonesome because he is right"
The age-herald., 1901-08-23
Richar- Fries to Return.

Richard Fries, the former well known young lawyer of Birmingham, who re- moved to Pensacola two years ago. has determined to return to Birmingham to resume his law practice here. He will come in October.
 MT. Fries has been quite successful in his law work in Pensacola, and he made reputation by his ardent and eloquent advocacy of the annexation of west Flor ida to Alabama; but that issue is not now promising of success. and Mir. Fries be- coming finally convinced that Birming- ham is the first of southern cities. he returns to it to permanently reside.
The age-herald., 1901-08-23
SHERIFF KYLE OF TUSCALOOSA

FTOm the OretHVIIIe AuVUCdte
 Opportunity taken advantage of at the
 Sheriff W. c. Kyle of Tuscaloosa coun- ty, is talked about all over the country today as a great hero because he, sin gle-handed and alone, protected negro prisoner last Wednesday night against a mob of fifty men who went to the jail to lynch the negro. He frightened the mob away and saved his prisoners neck. Had the mob never come, or had he failed to do his duty and not protected the negro he would in all probability have died without his name being known outside of Tuscaloosa county.
The age-herald., 1901-08-23
SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
Stole a March on the Governor.

Stole March on the Governor,
 During the recent Northern Pacific cor- ner report was printed in all the pa- pers that ex-Secretary Daniel Lamont had given ex-President Cleveland the tip to buy and that MT. Cleveland had profited to the extent of several hundred thousand dollars by the information. The story of how Lamont first won Cleveland's con- fidence and rose through Mir. Cleveland's favor and his own ability from the posi- ton of a private secretary to the Gov ernor to a place in the Presidents cab inet is an interesting one, relates the New York Times.
 When MT. Cleveland was nominated for Governor, Lamont was connected with the state Democratic committed He had never met MT. Cleveland. Evidently he saw great possibilities in Mir. Cleveland's career, for he determined to win his friendship. Every night he wrote out Q report upon the political situation in the state, based upon the latest information which had come to the committee, and mailed the report to MT. Cleveland at Buffalo. When MT. Cleveland was elect ed Governor he chose Lamont for his private secretary over many aspirants. On the day of the inauguration MT. La mont asked the Governor what time he would expect him at the executive man. sion the next morning.
 'Oh. long about g o'clock" said the Governor. When Lamont went home that evening he told his wife to see that breakfast was ready at 7:3o. He was at the executive chamber at 8 o'clock.
 'I had not been in more than ten min utes" says MT. Lamont, when in walked the Governor"
The age-herald., 1901-08-23
POTATOES IN ONE COUNTY.
From the Baltimore American.

From the Baltimore American.
 It is estimated that in one county on the eastern shore of Virginia, containing a population of about 1s,oOo. there was sold this year 550,0OO barrels of Irish po- tatoes at a profit of $ioO0.OO0 which means that every man, woman, and child In the county would be entitled to re- ceive. if the money were distributed pro rata, something more than $75 from one crop alone. Potatoes of both kinds are the chief product in that section. This year there was an extraordinary demand for Irish potatoes. which has accounted for the high prices. Ordinarily the peo- pie are satisfied with profit of $1 bar rel
The age-herald., 1901-08-23

mingham Auditorium. october 20, have been sold in two days!
 The box office of the Auditorium was opened at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning for the sale of tickets. It remained open till D. m., and during that time tickets to the value of sl1oo were sold The sales yesterday amounted to about slo00 The special sale of tickets will continue to. day and tomorrow, and 1t is believed that the total receipts will reach s4OOO. The guarantors will have until October 29 to make up the additional 5000 necessary to complete the guaranteed fund of 5000. Tickets are being sold to residents of every important town in the state, and 1t is clear that grand opera will be the greatest social as well as musical event, in the history of Alabama.