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The age-herald., 1901-07-05
REDUCTION OF TAX
 LIMIT NOT APPROVED

that is to let the property holders alone vote this tax. It is a we'll known fact in the history of the world that men who own property are against all kinds of taxes. especially school tax, and taxes that tend to make the poor and outcast equal to the tax payer himself.
 But few communities will ever get a special school appropriation from ma that way, and every body knows it. An other remarkable thing about this law of reduction Is the few votes that were cast-66 for it and 32 against but out of the 155 there were only 9S votes cast. Where were the other 57 delegates that did not vote? More than one-third of the delegates were absent. This looks like there is something wrong in the make up of the convention when so many men are absent when important members are before the State and country that de- mand their presence in this conNntion. It is too serious and important to be neglected by such a large body of men.
 I hope every delegates intention is good and doubtless is, but I don't be- lieve the people will indorse the rigid limits and environments they are throw ing around the people of the State in the right of life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness" Very truly,
 A. E. TIANDLY.
 Gurley, Ala, July 1, 1901.
The age-herald., 1901-07-05
MT. MiddIeton's Effective Work.

"In the various newspaper accounts of the sale and reorganization of the Wal ker county coal properties I have seen no mention of one of the most important factors in the big deal, MT. Robert c. Middleton" said man largely inter- ested in the coal mining industry.
 MT Middleton went to work quietly some months ago and got options on the Corona, the Virginia and the Southern, With these options he went to Pittsburg, and after a patient and business-like ef- fort effected the sale of these properties to the Monongahela company. He con ducted his negotiations so silently that not half dozen persons knew or even suspected what he was up to until after the trade had been accomplished. It was the largest transaction in Alabama prop erty that had been made In recent years. It will, in my opinion, prove good thing for all parties and for the Birmingham district. The old stockholders got, through MT. Middleton. fine price for their holdings and the new owners are in a position to develop the mines on broader and more modern lines than could have been possible under the old arrangements.
 'Mr. Middleton. as president of the Block Coal Company, has been one of the most successful operators in the State, and as a business man he is es- teemed for his integrity as well as his brains"
The age-herald., 1901-07-05
Mill Building in the South.

Just as soon as China is fully opened and large orders from that country be- gin to come in, the Southern mills will begin to smile again. Some heavy shipments have already been made, and the hope Is that all war difficulties will be cleared away before the new crop begins to come in. Many mills are dependent upon the Chinese trade, and all will feel the impetus that will spring from the full opening of trade with that vast population.
 This will undoubtedly operate to in- crease the building of mills in the South. Of late the announcement of new spindles has been on declining scale, although the announcements for last month aggregated 95,5S4. In June, 1900, the announcements covered 112,- 900 spindles. The decrease is not great, and no doubt the lost ground will be regained if China is speedily opened. Seven new mills were begun last month. These seven will hold 65,500 spindles, leaving 30,000 spindles to be added in old mills The seven new mills are located iE Virginia, North and South Carolina, Alabama and Mis- sissippi. Huntsville furnishes Ala bama's new mill.
 These figures do not include the knit ting industry, which is gaining good foothold in the South. Birmingham is to have a new knitting mill, and two others were announced in the South last month. Altogether the great in dustry is coming along finely in this section, and all mill men anticipate a promising revival when China's wants begin to be felt in this country. A heavy demand always follows a war
 In the first six months of the pres en, year 45 mills were started in North Carolina, 36 in Georgia, 31 in South Carolina and 27 in Alabama. In the preceding six months only one more mill was started. In all 261 new tex tile enterprises were started in the six months just ended.
The age-herald., 1901-07-05
ROOT TAKES TO SHIRT WAIST.

Washington Cor. of Chicago Tribune.
 Secretary Root has joined the shirt waist brigade. At least he is member of this rapidly growing body of men dur ing office hours. Today the secretary was attred in a blue negligee shirt. He had discarded his suspenders, coat and vest. and wore a belt to do duty in place Of suspenders To make himself more com fortable the secretary cast aside the heavy leather office chair he uses during the cooler months and had several light wicker chairs placed in his office for the convenience and comfort of himself and visitors Secretary Root does not, how ever, appear upon the street without his coat He does not object to those with whom he has to transact business getting all the possible comfort out of life, and during the excessively hot spell many of the secretary's visitors have appeared be- fore him in trousers of light texture, out ing shirts and belts.
The age-herald., 1901-07-05
MlLLIONAlRES' DOG TAXES.

New York Letter.
 In Greenwich, Conn.,, every millionaire is known by his dog, the saying is, since the selectmen completed the dog census of the town and found that of the 1,436 dogs only one-third had been registered in the time prescribed by law. William G. Rockefeller licensed fifteen dogs when the collectors were seen coming around his kennels, but the enumerator's figures show that there were twenty-two more.
 The enumerators lists still show that there are other millionaires who have only partly complied with the dog law The officials will place a list of delinquents in the hands of the prosecuting attorney and the first arrests will be of those able to pay and who are not ignorant of the laws.
 In one instance 1t Is stated millionaire will contest the validity of the statute compelling the licensing of dogs, and a test case of interest to all Connecticut people will then ensue.
The age-herald., 1901-07-05
BRITISH TRIBUTES TO
 THE UNITED STATES
BY JOHN p. FOLEY.

gllng with her power provided We remain united"
 The Jeffersonian dream of an English government honestly friendly to the United States seems at last to be realized, that is If the professions of its ministers and the utterances of the official news- papers count for anything. For the vitu- peration that was cast upon America and all that was American in the early years of the dead century we have for the first year of the new era, peans of laudation that our national modesty compels us to put aside. From Edward VII down to the humblest officer of state and the most obscure newspaper exponent of public opinion, we receive the outward mani- festation and expression of the stateliest courtesies and consideration. The sim cerity of it all Is not to be questioned. But, at the same time the cold, blunt, prophetic reply of Adams to Jefferson's international sentimentalism cannot be put aside. In the procession of the years. however, the conditions which the two great statesmen desired to see brought about seem to be crystalized into fact, and the past should be allowed to keep its dead in peace.
 The material interests of the United States and Great Britain are now welded together by infinitely stronger bonds than kings cabinets or parliaments could have forged, and they cannot be broken with out incurring penalties and inviting dis asters which would be appalling In their consequences. It may be that English statesmen see this more clearly than we do. In the impetuous rush of our national life and in our supreme confidence in our own impregnability, we have not paused to consider the question, but nevertheless. In a vague way, we recognize all that 1t implies Alliance between the two coun- tries - that is, alliance in the accepted meaning of the term-there cannot be un- der our inviolable governmental tradi- tions; but at the same time there are ties between nations infinitely stronger than those formulated in parchments with pom derous seals and undecipherable sigma lures, and of this character are those which now subsist between ourselves and England, and which, while the two peo- ples retain their common sense, are not likely to be impaired; but, on the con- trary, so fortified that no power whatever can rive them apam
The age-herald., 1901-07-05

To the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 I think a large number of the people of the State of Alabama and especially North Alabama endorse your editorial position on all questions that have come before the State Convention. I have not found a man that endorses the reduction of the tax limit from 75 to 65 cents on the dollar.
 If that question was put before the State pure and simple the people would not endorse it., It comes on the people when they did not ask for it, nor expect it. Your able editorial and the able speeches of Messrs. White, Lomax, Watts and Lowe and others have been read with great interest in this section.
 We feel that this reduction has given the old soldier a hard blow and the edu- cational interests of the State will suffer, and the time will come when the credit and honor of the State may be seriously affected.
 It seems that the convention by this and other acts put a discount on the honor and patriotism of all future legis- latures that are supposed to spring from the very heart of the people. This is sad commentary on the intelligence and capacity of nearly two millions of the toiling, working and thinking people of the State.
 The special school tax feature to this reduction law deserves specific notice,
The age-herald., 1901-07-05
Colonel Tanner in Baltimore.

"Col James Lemuel Tanner, a promi- nent lawyer of Birmingham, Ala. is at the Carrollton today" says the Balti- more News of Tuesday. Colonel Tanner is deeply interested in the disfranchise- ment Of the negro question, which is now before the constitutional convention in That State. He said today:
 I received a telegram last night which said that the suffrage committee would report unfavorably on the disfranchise- ment question: but would recommend an educational qualification This committee, of which Judge T. w. Coleman. ex-Jus- tice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, Is chairman I am informed, will also recom- mend a poll tax. Baltimoreans are much interested in the affairs of Alabama, ow ing to the large amount of Baltimore capital invested in that State. Recently the investment of Baltimore capital in furnaces and other industries in my sec ton has been enormous. Business in Ala bama is booming and the State was never in better condition than 1t Is at present. Money Is easy and new enterprises are numerous. This state of affairs, believe, exists throughout the south.
 Colonel Tanner will spend several days in Baltimore before returning home."
The age-herald., 1901-07-05
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
An eye-sore to our solemn festival!
 The Tanning of the Shrew.
Alabama Coal for Exnort.

The production of coal in this coun- try is annually increasing at the rate of about per cent. The increase last year over the previous year was about 13,000,000 tons,, thus carrying the ton mage nicely above that of Great Brit ain The production in this country will undoubtedly exceed Great Britain's hereafter, making this the chief coal producing country of the world.
 This great production consists chief 1y of soft coal, although the hard coal production is no inconsiderable item, being about 60,Oo0,OOO tons a year. But all the hard coal is needed in this country. and it is the soft coal that will be sold abroad, and this will be, at least at first, steam coal. Such coal is worth at the sea about $2.50 ton, and the freight across the sea or to South American ports ranges from $2 to S3 a ton. So that American soft steam coal can be laid down in France or the Mediterranean or in South America at about $5 ton.
 Newcastle coal is worth at the sea s3.5O a ton, and at Cardiff the best steam coal is worth s4.50 ton. It will thus be seen that American coal has an important advantage at the start over english coal. Assuming that the advantage is but one dollar a Sfon at the home port, this should be sufficient to enable American operators and American shipowners to enter all ports on good terms. English coal is now taxed shilling ton, and the mining cost is becoming higher as the mines are carried to greater depth.
 Alabama coal will become a factor in the export trade as soon as the Warrior is opened No other soft coal is mined so near the sea, and no other coal can be barged to the sea. The opening of the Warrior Will enable Alabama operators to offer steam coal at the water side one dollar ton cheaper than it can be had at present at any Atlantic port. When American steam coal is laid down at the sea at $1.50 a ton England's supremacy in the coal export trade will be threatened indeed. The question of shipping would remain, but that part of the problem would be quickly supplied if the profits of the trade are known to be good. When the Warrior Is opened Alabama coal can be laid down in South Ameri- can ports at prices not much, if any, above the home prices of English coal, or from $3.50 to $450 a ton.
The age-herald., 1901-07-05
STEEL EXTORTION,
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 It costs nearly SIP ton to carry Ameri- can steel billets to a British port and thence by rail to an inland British city.
 The United States Steel Corporation is now, according to London advices, deliv- ering them to British buyers in the Black Country, back of Birmingham, paying all freight charges, at S25 per ton, S3 per ton less than the lowest market price for British-made billets.
 The price charged by the United States Steel Corporation for its bilets to Ameri- can buyers at Pittsburg is from $24 to $25 per ton.
 This proves conclusively that the steel trust is making a profit of at least s10 a ton on every ton of steel billets sold in this country over and above the profit which satisfies 1t on its sales in Great Britain-for of course the trust Is not constantly seeking foreign trade at a loss. And still the steel trust magnates are not ready to give up that $7.& per ton duty on foreign-made steel billets.
 Abolish the garrote on the American consumer and Americans would be able to buy their steel billets as cheaply as Englishmen.
The age-herald., 1901-07-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 There are easier things than wearing a willing collar and being in love at the same time.
 Many a man has never married when he meant to because of his first sight of her in bathing suit.
 Marriage vows wear out about as quick as anything that is made; but they are patched up to look almost as good as new.
 If any woman was ever foolish enough to really explain her reasons for things to a man she would lose her power over him.
 Somehow it is the way of clever women that if they didn't have anything but furs to wear in hot weather they would make themselves look cool.
 The man was never born who could make himself understand on a boiling hot night why woman wants to know for the fiftieth time if he loves her.
 Everybody will always tell a stranger 1t is very unusual weather, and we never had anything like it before, except one year when 1t was either warmer or cooler.
 When a woman sits down to think what she would like to eat if she went to a fashionable restaurant she never gets past thinking what she would like to wear while she was eating 1t.
The age-herald., 1901-07-05

At the beginning of the last century the British government and a large DOT ton, if not all, of the British people, held the young Republic in the deepest detestation. It was perhaps natural that 1t should be so. The colonies had thrown off allegiance to the mother country, and at the end of a protracted war, as re- lentless as that now waged in South Africa, our independence had to be re- luctantly acknowledged, and our sover- eign rights as a nation conceded. It was the sorest defeat that ever befell the armies of England. and the loss of terri tory which it involved was immeasura- bly, greater than had ever been struck at one blow from the possession of any nation in the worlds history. In the colonies, the moment hostilities came to an end, the feeling was far different from what it was in England. No trace of animosity toward her remained so far as our government was concerned, and when the old confederation disappeared in the more perfect union, the two adminis- trations of Washington and those that immediately followed them sedulously endeavored to cultivate the most friend ly relations with England.
 Thomas Jefferson, writing on this sub ect in 1916. to his English friend, Sir John Sinclair, safl: That friendly dis position towards Great Britain have been strong on our part in every adminis- tration from the first to the present one, that we would at any time have gone our full half way to meet them if single step in advance had been taken by the other party, I can affirm of my own in- innate knowledge of the fact" To ex- President John Adams, Jefferson wrote in the same year. as follows: Were the English people under a government which should treat us with justice and equity, I should myself feel with great strength the ties which bind us together, of origin, language, laws and manners; and l am persuaded the two peoples would become in future, as 1t was with the ancient Greeks, among whom it was reproachful for Greek to be found fighting against Greek in a foreign army" To this the great federalist ex-President made reply: Britain will never be our friend until we are her master. This will happen in less time than you and I have been strug-
The age-herald., 1901-07-05

The boom States in the South are iexas, Florida, Louisiana and Ala bama The growth of Texas is due to size and immigration; that of Florida to the yellow pine industries and i'm migration of santarium nature; that of Louisiana to pine, rice, and cypress; that of Alabama to iron and lumber.
 If these States were fed by tide of immigration exceeding half a million of people year. their prosperity would be very great, and the fact that they keep up with the procession without It is tribute to their resources. Ala baha, for example, grew in the ten years nearly as rapidly as New York did, with it's large cities, its vast wealth, and it's tide of immigration. That it did so in the decade ended last
The age-herald., 1901-07-05
Colonel Herbert and Truth.

As might have been expected, the un- just and rancorous charge made by fer. mer Congressman William M. Springer of Illinois, that Hon. Hilary A. Herbert of Alabama voted for Mckinley for Presi- dent, Is promptly and emphatically de- nied by Colonel Herbert. in his direct and manly letter addressed to the editor of the Age-Herald and published today said personal friend of the former Sec retary of the Navy yesterday.
 'Mr. Springer stated positively, as of his own knowledge. to the Washington cor respondent of the Age-Herald that Colo nel Herbert voted for Mckinley in 1900. He couldn't have known how Colonel Herbert voted except from Colonel Her bert himself.
 MT. Springer's recl1lessness in this in- stance is in keeping with his reputation for inaccuracy while he was a member of Congress. from which the Democrats of his own district retired him years ago. Yet certain newspapers, which would seem to see nothing good in anything ex cept that which is not good, accepted MT. Springer's untruthful assertion as truth and proceeded to harshly criticise an en- tirely innocent and unoffending man. And that too, in the face of the familiar fact that Colonel Herbert has done more for Alsbamians in the way of getting them honorable and profitable employ ment under the government than any other Alabamian who was ever in public life.
 This work of friendship and love for the people of his own State Colonel Her bert still continues-sin private life, all though he Is very busy man in his own business and is not in the strongest health. have just read a private letter from Colonel Herbert in which he tells of certain important action he has taken to further the interests of an Alabama youth whom he has never seen and whose father he doesn't know. The simple re- quest was made of him that he speak word to high authority in favor of this youth. He did more than was asked and did it instantly.
 That is the kind of Alabamian Colonel Herbert is; the man whose very language is being distorted and misrepresented' ana who is being abused because William M. Springer slandered him politically.
 "No man has a warmer place in the hearts of enlightened Alabamians than Colonel Herbert. Happily he is beyond the reach of the petty spite that seeks to hurt him.
 'Over his own signature Colonel Her bert writes to the editor of The Age Herald q
 "'Mr Springer says l supported Me Kinley. I did not. He classes me with the protectionists. My speech shows he Is mistaken. He classes me with Senator McLaurin, with whom I disagree widely. And lastly, his statement that l am awaiting an opportunity to turn Repub- lican, is simply an absurd reply to an ar gument of which MT. Springer had only a chance to read an incomplete synop- eiet
The age-herald., 1901-07-05

year is a guarantee that it will do as well in the present decade. It will do better if the Warrior is opened, and the fact Is recognized that no State presents better advantages. Our farm CTS sons can find as good opportunities in this State as they can in Texas, and the more ambitious young men need no longer wander away to distant cities. With no immigrants coming from over seas, and with people removing to Texas and to large cities, it is indeed surprising that Alabama came out of the decennial count in the boom list.
The age-herald., 1901-07-05
These Be Doa Days.

The Glorious Fourth was the second dog day. An English almanac notes that the Fourth Is remarkable only for the trans lation of St. Martin" But an English man probably doesn't care to remember that very remarkable political event took place on the 4th of July, 1776.
 Dog Days, or Canicular Days, are the forty days between July and August Il. Canicular is derived from Canicula, the Latin name of Sirius, the dog-star, which rose heliacally-emerged from the light of the rising sun-near July 1. The ancients ascribed the great heat of summer to the influence of this star, but 1t was by acci- dent only that it's rising coincided with the warmest season. The exact time of its rising depends on the latitude of the country, and, owing to procession, is later every year.