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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
School Books al Trust Prices.

1t is well determined that the race
for superintendent of education is to
be run over, and this is a good time
to ascertain who stands for cheaper
text books and who does not. Alabama
parents are paying two prices for text
books, where every progressive state
from the Alabama line northward and
westward secures books at reasonable
prices. Tennessee has a general text
book law, and the prices paid for
school books in that state are fully 40
per cent below the prices extorted by
the book trust in this state.
AS none of these profits, every cent
of which above the prices charged in
states that have text book laws is ex-
tortion, go to southern producers, but
is carried away to be poured into bulg-
ing pockets, or is spent b debauch
southern legislators and county Off
GERS, we do not see why such taxation
should be further recognized and pro-
NOTED in Alabama. The book trust
does not include a single southern
stakeholder. 1t is a yankee concern
contrived largely to exploit states that
can be exploited through the bribery
of officials. Alabama is one of that
number
The race for attorney general is not
at all exciting, and the democrats of
Alabama can relieve the state of un-
necessary, unjust and wicked taxation
by giving their attention to the selec-
ton of a superintendent of education
who will do his utmost to procure the
passage of law that will confine the
book trust to legitimate profits. The
problem deserves the most careful
consideration, for thousands of chill
dren in this state are deprived of edu-
cation by the price of school books
This is not a question in which the
late gubernatorial contest should enter
at all. 1t is simply a matter of dollars
and cents-of just prices-of education
for the poor and humble. Give it care
full consideration when you go again
to the polls on September 10, and in
the meanwhile ascertain the views of
the aspirants for the Office of super
intendent of education.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
About Persons.

b. II. Sargent of Russellville is regis
tered at the Metropolitan.
C. II. Sheldon of Brunswick, Ca. is
registered at the Metropolitan
Sydney ]. Bowie and Alexander King
of Admission are at the Metropolitan.
]. H. Schroeder of Atlanta is registered
at the Metropolitan.
c. w. Brasfeld of Linden is at the
Metropolitan.
E. M. Selbro of Searles is at the Nor
ris.
NJ NJ. Cooper of Thomasville, Ca, is
the guest OF the Morris.
]. D. Cameron of Montevallo is at the
Morris.
H. C. Pentecost of Chattanooga is at
the Morris.
H. II. Kent of Cleveland. O.. is at the
Morris.
L. D. Gibbons of Montgomery is at the
Florence.
E. II. Bell of Savannah, Ca, is regis
tered at the Florence.
D. M. Lanksley of Nashville is at the
Florence.
o. P. Peck, clerk of the Florence, has
rat,,rned To birmingham from his xaco
tion.
The Rev. Anthony Asmar. a missionary
priest of the Maronite rite OF the Catho-
lie church will say mass at ST. Pauls
church tomorrow morning at O'clock
There are about 100 Syrian Catholics in
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
The TILLMANs AT HOME.

From the Columbia, s. c., State.
In a circular which Jim Tillman has
been distributing by thousands particu-
larly in the mills, and which could only
have been prepared by himself. he says:
THE man who beats James II. Tillman
will be the next governor of South Caro-
lima. This is the belief generally. Till
man has gone into the campaign with
all the support of Senator Tlllman, his
uncle, and has made a good impression
in the backwoods districts" In as much
as Senator Tillman has publicly declared
that he is supporting no one, is absolute
ly handsoff. Jim Tillman, by this publ
cation, distinctly charges his uncle with
bad faith-to be plain, with lying. OF
course, he himself is the liar in this case
but we wonder what Uncle Ben" will
think of the imputation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
RoosEvELTs EPIoRAMs.

1t is almost as Irritating to be patron
lied as to be wronged.
The country districts are those In which
we are surest to find the old American
spirit
A man to be a good citizen must first
be a good bread winner, a good husband,
a good father.
The forces which made these farm bred
boys leaders of men are still at work
in our country districts.
In the long run the only kind of help
that really avails is the help which
teaches a man to help himself.
Almost all of our great Presidents have
been brought up in the country. and
most of them worked hard on the farms.
Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality.
but it is doubtful whether in the long
run it works more damage than softness
of head.
Material prosperity without the moral
lift toward righteousness means a dimin-
ished capacity for happiness and de-
based character.
We live in an era when the best re-
suits can only be achieved, IL to individ-
ual self-help we add the mental self-help
which comes by combination.
The man on the farm, more than any
other of our citizens, today is called upon
continually to exercise the qualities we
like to think OF as typical of the United
States.
The true line of clearage lies between
the good citizen and the bad citizen,
and the line of cleavage may. and often
does. run at right angles to that which
divides the rich and the poor.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
Betting on Politics.

Il have sworn off on election BETS
said a middle-aged business man. II
never gamble at cards. but 1 have put
up money on many elections, and have
often made winnings.
II risked more money than usual on
last Mondays primary. I distributed 1t
variously and each proposition was a
safe one 1 thought. 1 put the largest
amount on Johnston carrying Jefferson
county and the next largest on Johnston
carrying ten counties. l did not bet that
Johnston would carry the state. but I
did risk something on Jelks' majority not
being over 10000. The former governors
managers were so confident of their can
didates strength that 1 was led to be-
lieve there was something in it. If l had
lost one bet and won the others l would
have been satisfied, but losing them all
has cured me of betting"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
Texas Oil.

"The wealth brought to Beaumont,
Tex, by its oil wells is not without its
drawbacks" said Beaumont man at
the Hillman.
THE wells at first threw oil up to a
great height. Then after a time the oil
became less abundant and had to be
pumped out. Now third stage is reach
ed. 1t seems. in which gas comes up
along with the OIL and this gas is of a
poisonous character Inspector Hill re-
ports the conditions as alarming. The
gas, he says, is so dangerous that over
100 men are daily overcome by 1t, and
total blindness is apprehended from con-
slant contast with it. This seems to
be a novel development. While the va
por of petroleum may not be wholesome,
1t has not hitherto, it seems, been found
to be an active poison to the eyes"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
NO DIssENsIoN.

From the Mobile Herald.
The unanimity with which the result of
Mondays primary has been accepted all
through the state, has never been equall-
ed in an election in Alabama. The con-
test was singularly free from disputes
and disturbances and its close was mark
ed by a general feeling that the state
was all the better for the trial of strength
and would be still better off through the
outcome. The result has gone without
a single wrangle, due in a great meas
ure to the fact that the extent of Gov
ernor Jelks, fine majority left no room
for continuing the fight on Indifferent
technicahties though the end Is none the
less cause for satisfaction to the whole
democratic party Of the state, when the
voice of the majority Is accepted without
a murmur of discomfort.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
Corn and Pic Iron,

1t is announced that practically all
the pig iron that this district can
make in the first half of the year 1903
has been sold, and the indicationss are
that when the books are opened for
sales covering the last half of that
year all will be sold in single month.
These sales are made on basis that
leaves handsome profits behind. There
is a wide difference between prices
now and prices in 1897 and 1864
difference in favor of this district of
nearly two hundred per cent.
But prosperity in 1903 will not be
confined to this district. Great crops
of oats and wheat have been har-
vested, and II there is no widespread
frost in the next two weeks bumper
crop Of corn will be added. There are
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
COLLEGE, NEE UNIVERSITY.

From the Boston Transcript.
Mirable Mirable dictu! Proclaim it on
the housetopsl Tell it from Gath to Es-
kelon, or from Portland, Me-, to Portland
Ore. A president and board of trus-
tees have arisen with sense and grace
enough to cease calling their institution
university" and to revert 70 the older
fashioned and more exact title of col
lege." The president? Richard d. Harlan,
son of Justice Harlan OF the United
States supreme court. The Institution?
Lake Forest College. nee university, a
Presbyterian UNCONVENTIONAL school in
Illinois. If there were more men like
President Harlan and his board or trus-
tees, who put veracity of Technology
above pride. what a season of name
changing there might be among the ed
ucational institutions of the interior and
west, where universities are as numer-
Gus as colonies in Kentucky!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
ROOSEVELT TO REST.
Programme by Which the Chief Exeeu-
tive Can Have Pleasure.

Newbury, N. H. August IA pro-
gramme intended to give President
Roosevelt a period Of rest and pleasure
after nearly week Of hard work in
traversing the New England states and
delivering a large number Of speeches,
was before the chief executive today.
He passed the night at THE Falls"
the summer home Of Secretary Of State
Hay. and was not due to leave there IN
til 10 o'clock today Then he was going
only to Newport, n. H., twenty minutes
ride by train from Newbury, to spend the
rest of the day and the night In the great
park owned by the late Austin Corbin
of New York. The visit to this park,
foremost among the game preserves Of
the country. was anticipated by the Pres
ident with much pleasure He will spend
the night at the clubhouse IN the park.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
CAN DO AWAY WITH TRUSTS.

New York Letter In the Chicago Tribune
Attorney General Philander C. Knox
with his son, Reed Knox, sailed for Eu-
rope today on the steamship Oceanic
When seen on the steamship Mr.. Knox
said, among other things. that President
Roosevelts speeches, In which he refer
red to the trusts would undoubtedly
cause congress to take some action at
its next meeting. He also said it all
rested with the people whether the trusts
be abolished or not
II am going abroad for the purpose of
obtaining a clear title to the property
bought by us from the Panama Canal
company said Mr.. Knox. II shall also
investigate the treaty between the Pam
anna Canal company and the Colombian
government which is to be transferred
to us.
Il have no doubt that everything will
go through all right, and the reports that
l have received from Mr.. Russell of the
department of justice. who has been in
Paris during the last six weeks. show
that all is going tremendously.
"In regard to the Presidents recent
speeches on the trust question, l can
only say that I am heartily in accord
with everything he has said I think
after what the President has said that
something in regard to the trusts will
be forthcoming at the next meeting of
congress The President has been maxi
ing great and wise speeches, which will
undoubtedly bear fruit"
Mr.. Knox was asked to give an opinion
on the prediction by Russell Sage In
which he said that the formation of
trusts would surely bring on a revolu-
ton.
'If the American people want the
trusts done away with 1t will done" Mr.
Knox said. 1T would be shameful for
the American people to admit that they
could not do anything that they want
"a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS.

From the Savannah News.
Senator Simmons of North Carolina
says the only way for the President to
build a respectable republican party
IN the south is to commence at the
ground and build upward; and If he
should attempt to do any such thing his
strongest opponents would be those who
now vote the republican ticket. No;
southern republicans do not want re
spectacle" party The leaders are now
pretty much all In office. and to regen-
crate the party on the lines suggested
would mean the firing of them all out
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
The Musical Season.

1.-THE outlook for the musical season in
Birmingham is not as good as it was last
year" said a musician yesterday. II
have not heard of any advance agents of
famous artists, orchestras or grand opera
companies being in town recently, but it
may be some of them will come later
What Birmingham needs is a subscrip-
ton association that would engage two
or three first class concert attractions
during the season The trouble with
most concert associations Is they under
take too much. Better have two fine at
fractions than a half dozen of the
mediocre sort
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
MoRGAN,s POWER.
New York Journal.

From the New York Journal.
j. Pierpont Morgan has brains. He is
not narrow-headed, self-satisfied, bias
phemous egotist like President Baer, who
thinks God Almighty has given him and
his associates charge OF the anthracite
coal fields to do what they like with
them. Mr.. Morgan can think and he
has an ear that can hear storm before
1t bursts upon his head
The business men of the country. the
worlSingmen, the poor of the great
cities the pulpit, the press-the entire
community has been goaded into exasper-
alton by the stupid stubbornness of the
coal trust, by its indifference to pub
lie interests and by the heavy and con-
tinuous money loss inflicted upon all
classes by the monstrous price to which
coal. a necessity of life has risen.
Mr.. Morgan is too intelligent to sup
pose that any business man or any set
of business men can afford to outrage
and defy the massed people of the
United States.
The tax of the coal trust upon the pub
lie temper and pocket following upon
and accompanying the like tax of the
food trust, has placed in the hands of
radical social reformers a weapon more
keen of edge than could have been pre-
scented to them by any enemy of the es-
tablished order of things. Hatred, we'll
grounded hatred of the coal and food
trusts may easily be transmitted in the
popular mind into hatred of organized
capital as a whole.
Mr.. Morgan more than any other man
in this republic, represents organized
capital
Therefore, it is profoundly to the in
terest Of Mr. Morgan to end the strike
and push the coal trust out of view as
soon as possible.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
The Elks.

Birmingham is large enough and rich
enough to entertain large conventions and
the Birmingham Lodge of Elks will prob
ably make an organized effort next year
to induce the grand lodge to meet here
In 1904 or 1906" said a member of the
order.
Baltimore is to be the meeting place
In 1903 and at that session Birmingham
should be placed in nomination. The
Elks are great spenders and nearly every
body in this city will feel a practical in
terest in the question of swinging the
grand lodge this way"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
THE EXPLANATION.

BY Rudyard Kipling.
Love and Death once ceased their strife
AT the Tavern of Mans Life.
called Tor wine, and threw-alas!-
Each his culver on the grass
When the bout was DER they found
Mingled arrows strewed the ground.
Hastily they gathered then
Each the loves and lives CT men.
All. the Hateful dawn deceived
mingled arrows each one sheaved:
Deaths dread armory was stored
With the shafts he most abhorred:
Loves light CULVER groaned beneath
Venom-heaoed darts of Death.
Thus 1t was they wrought and woe
At the Tavern long ago.
Tell me, do our masters know,
Loosing blindly as they fly,
Old men love while young men def
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press.
Two leans never made a fat.
1t is seldom the price that makes the
value.
1t is speculation when you lose; invest
ment when you win.
In the game Of success a level head is
the trump and a silent tongue the Joker.
After q woman has learned one lead
in bridge whist she IL ready to instruct
a class IN the game.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

The poor in Boston who buy hard
coal by the pail are paying s2s ton
for it. and yet there is nothing to
arbitrate!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

Edward Cudahy is to receive $780,
900 year for his services as manager
of the new beef trust. This will not.
however, put him on speaking terms
with the million-dollar Schwab.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

The Presidents MSS. must be la.
beled OF numbered correctly, for each
seems to be continuation of what
had been fred or before.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

The retirement of Admiral Won
Diederichs takes out of active life an
other Manila Bay figure. He was the
meddler of the historic scene.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

Generals Botha, DeWet and Delarey
seem to think they know more about
the Boer war than Web Davis did
when he wrote his $4,000 book.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

No arctic explorer can lecture sue
cessfully unless he is able to produce
the North Pole, or show certificate
from 1t that he had interviewed il.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

Governor Taft is trying to pacify
the friars and the Moros at one time.
and he is not inclined to call for more
work.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

Aguinaldo now proposes to turn
farmer in some American state, which
is an improvement upon lecturing in
all the states.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

Men and women outrank In true dig
nifty ladies and gentlemen, and Presi-
dent Roosevelt recognizes the distinc-
ton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

President Roosevelt never begins
an address with Ladies and Gentle.
men" He says, "Mr Chairman. Men
and Women" which is much better.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

The Cervera of the mock naval war
was Commander Pillsbury, and letters
of coincidence are due him from Spain.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

If General Miles wears his full uni
form in the Philippines the natives
will be struck motionless at once.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

The trusts do not seem to be
alarmed over President Roosevelts
proposed curbing efforts. Those eff
forts are much too hazy TO alarm any
one
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

NJ. Santos-Dumont complains that
he got nothing in the United States
but hot air, when that is just what he
needs in his business.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30
VACATION ECHO.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Hark, bark. the dogs do bark
The folks come back to town:
Some in rags. and some with jags,
And sunburnt good and brown.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

The cranberry harvest is progress
ing and even Thanksgiving Day is
approaching.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

The automobile scoreher should be
held to strict account both publicly
and privately.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

Bartholin of Chicago has gone to
join Pat Grove and Frank Duncan.
The colony of disappearants is inereas-
ing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

This years Labor Day celebration in
this district should surpass all previ-
Gus efforts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

Count Castellane's career is con-
sciously recorded on the stubs of
check books.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

General Cronje was Napoleons sue
cessor on the Island of ST. Helena.
and he is not grieving over his place
in the line.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

Birmingham. and Father Asmar comes
to minister especially TO them. He VIII
hear their confessions this afternoon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

Henry Watterson attacks "the 400"
and Grover Cleveland indiscriminately.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-30

Strikes are not settled while you
wait in the hard coal districts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-07
FAST RAILR0ADING.
No Figures Given, but Evidences that
the Speed Was Pretty Well Up.

New Orleans Times-Democrat
They had been speaking of fast runs on
railroads. THAT reminds me of run we
made some time ago on train which came
in from point on the coast" said the man
who wanted to add Zest to the conversation,
land 1t was about the f1eetest trip / ever
had railroad.
1.-The train was behind time about an
hour, and think the engineer made an eff
fort to catch up between the city and
point not so very far out on the coast. At
any rate, il looked very much like it to
me. We shot through the air like an
arrow. Sometimes IL would seem to me
that we had left the track altogether. That
clicking peculiar to railroad trains could
not be heard. About all We could hear
at times would be the whizzing of the
wind as il split by the windows. Across
bayous and through marshes we rushed
like mad When we reached the Rigolets
the most remarkable thing l ever saw took
Mace. The train was travelling so fast
In sucked the water up behind ii as il
rushed across the trestle, and could hear
the fishes groan as We flew over this neck
of the gulf. Most remarkable thing l ever
saw in the way or fast runs And he
lapsed into silence.
I'm glad YOU reminded me OF that run"
said another member of the group. II had
forgotten the incident l can vouch for all
Won saw. for I was on the back end OF the
last coach. and the water which was sucked
i'm behind the train by the vacuum almost
washed me overheard. but 1 held on all
right, and when we had made the crossing
and the waters had receded I picked up
on the platform OF the rear coach the
finest bunch Of fish ever saw. They were,
no doubt. the fsh you heard sroaning."