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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-31
IPR1OR GENERAL OF THE AUGUSTHNIANS
AND OBJECT OF HIS VISIT TO u. S.

located in this city and at nearby points.
tion the prior general ANNOUNCED through
an interpreter that he did not care to
discuss that matter.
Among the communities he will visit
while in this country is the one situated
at Lawrence, Mass. Rev. James Reilly,
who with Father Jones, visited Presi-
dent Roosevelt at Oyster Bay in refer
ence to the friar agitation, is stationed
at Lawrence and it is probable that the
prior general will consult with him pre-
paratory to an interview with the Presl-
dent.
At the regular election held at Villano-
va last July Fathers Reilly and Jones
were appointed as a committee to consult
with President Roosevelt. They secured
an audience and what they have learned
will ultimately be impaired to Father
Rodriguez. The latter, It is said, will
have a distinct understanding with the
government In reference to the friars be-
fore he departs for Rome. The Angus
tinians, who were the pioneers of the
church in the Philippines, own three
fourths of the ecclesiastical property In
the islands.
The feast of st. Augustine was observed
yesterday with elaborate ceremonies at
Villanova. Father Rodriguez was the pom
tifcant at solemn high mass. Father
Geraghty. provincial of the American
Augustinians, stationed at villanova, was
his assistant. The deacon was former
Provincial Father Driscoll, and the SUBJ
deacon, Father Delurey, president of the
college. Father Gallagher, the prior. act
ed as master of ceremonies, and Messrs.
Keegan and Dunwoody were the acolytes.
At noon the distinguished guest was
dined and feted at a grand banquet. In
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-31
MOST DEsPoTIc OF TRUSTS.

From the Detroit Free Press.
OF all the trusts in the United States
that which controls anthracite coal is the
most absolute and the least responsible.
The Standard Oil company while it fixes
prices does not own all the oil fields. 1t
cannot cut off the supply. The beef
trust is merely the largest trader in the
market. Millions of pounds of beef are
handled by Independent dealers. The
steel trust is only one of many manufac-
turers Of iron. 1t owns mines and ships,
ana Is the greatest single manufacturer
OF steel, but if it closed it's plants the
country would not be left without steel
OF any kind. The coal trust, however. is
absolute. When it ceases operations not
a ton of anthracite coal can be mined.
Where it does not own the mines. it con-
trolls the transportation facilities. and its
fiat is law. When it has nothing to arbi-
trate there are no independent concerns
that can have something to arbitrate.
Competitions in respect to anthracite Goa,
is smothered.
1t is not strange that in the twentieth
century the American people are looking
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unique life Of the most unique of hill
plateaus
1T has grown into quite a novel. with
the summer girl. the football theolog.
and other university details brought out
against background of as true local
color as I could paint by dipping my
brush into twenty years experience OF
this wonderful scenery, and Of the noun
taineers and covites who dwell in it,
but imbibe none of its beauty. I have
tried to make an absolutely true pic
ture of these still semi-civiized Great
uresi not to idolize them as too many
who attempted to draw them have done.
when the book will appear is not yet
uennltely settled, but the work of re-
vision will be completed-barring anoth-
er knoek-down by illness-about mid
August. Then sans rest; l must get to
work in earnest on The Black Shadow
the race-problem novel which you know
began also up here In 1899 All sorts of
delays have beset this work. but I am
bent on finishing It before I come down
to the lowlands this year I was afraid
The Ieopard's Spot had, so to speak,
written my book for me-; So as I can
not read at all now. I had it read to
me. We treat the subject on wholly diff
ferent lines; for my northerner in the
south has his say; and he speaks out in
meeting with proper freedom and bold
ness, in reply to the home-brew on the
negro question. I am trying to write
the truth of the question which cannot
be accomplished by keeping any part of
it up my sleeve. The novel is all block
ed out and partly written, but shall
doubtless rewrite 1t entirely--if they do
not lynch all the available negroes mean
time
about the book of 'MemoirsT why
they are not Memoirs at all, no more
than Four Years in Rebel Capitals was
one That book, II I live to finish-or
rather to condense the vast accumulation
Of written matter and notes already in
hand for twill be a mere reporters
story of some of the notable people 1
have met, in a long and not very lazy or
stationary life. It will aspire to moth
ing like Dean Farrers, or Max Muller's
delightful stories of their friends in and
out of Bohemia. but 1t will have much
wider reach, because I do not criticise
or differentiate. I shall not appear in it
at ALL save as a mere report not
as biographer. But I fear, unless I can
play Joshua and make the sun stop
'turnin' roun us ebry day., la brother
Jasper-or, unless Pierepont Morgan or
hAr. Carnegie adopt me, for better or
worse-this book will not see the light
until I have ceased doing so. Eyes and
years combine to suggest this, but
mean to do my levelest bestest to finish
it; though the Black Shadow must take
the pas, both because of pledges made
and of timeliness
my lecture work does not conflict In
any with the 'demnition grind They
are familiar talks. on the Mondays and
riday evenings, which are not lectures
at ALL in the hard academic sense of the
term. | aim to entertaiR-not to instruct
the residents and the boys; but as
never dare even to hammer my typewrit-
er, at night now they lose no time from
the books. My chief object in these talks
is to get as far away from the stills of
the average 'platformer' as my weak old
legs will carry me"
ANNIE KENDRICK WALKER.
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LET US HAVE PEACE.

From the Elba Clipper.
Now that the primaries are over and
Jelks has been overwhelmingly nominal
ed in the language of the great soldier,
'1et us have peace" Let all abide by the
primary, lay aside all prejudices and pull
together for the success of the ticket in
November.
1t is always customary for the defeat
ed faction to cry fraud and it may be
that this instance will not be an excep-
ton, but the Clipper trusts that 1t will
There is no cause for such a charge on
the part of Johnston and 1t would not re-
suit in any good to himself or the demo-
cratic party.
The nomination was made by a primary
of white democrats. regularly and fairly
conducted, and we believe that Johnston
has the manhood to openly acknowledge
that he was fairly defeated and is demo-
erat enough to aid in the election of his
successful competitor.
Yes, let us have peace. Let's lay aside
politics for a time, look after our home
affairs, and when the November election
rolls around go to the polls and help elect
the men we have nominated.
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"Mv Wife and Child "

The Age-Herald has bravely endeay.
ored to show that Stonewall Jackson
did not write my Wife and Child"
and that Henry r. Jackson of Savan-
nah did write the poem. We have
stated time and again that the great
soldier who fell at Charlottesville
wrote no poetry at all, but the Rich
mond Times, in an unguarded mo-
ment, when It's memory was on vaca-
ton. published the poem in question,
attributing it to Stonewall Jackson,
anu alleging that he wrote it while he
was serving in the Mexican war.
The Times has won out. The
authorship of the poem has been tras.
ferred from the dead and gone Henry
r. Jackson to Stonewall Jackson,
whose fame is secure without any
such addition. When such papers as
the Kansas City Star and even Geor-
gia and Alabama papers accept the
Times statement and reject that of
the Age-Herald, we feel the ground
slipping away from under us. We
may yet be compelled to eat our own
words and to humbly say that Henry
r. Jackson did not write the poem.
We are still holding out. however.
hoping that Truth will yet be given
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Deterioration in coilnn.

August is, it is true, a month as a
rule in which the cotton plant suffers
In condition. A decline of per cent
is not unusual in this month, but the
New York Journal of Commerce has
gathered information from 1900 CORE
spondents going to show that the
plant has lost this August nearly
per cent, leaving it in about the con
dition of the plant one year ago-a
trife better, but not to the extent OF
even / per cent.
The heaviest loss in condition oc-
cured in Alabama, 22.SS per cent; the
loss in Texas was 14.7 per cent; in
Louisiana, 10.1 per cent. and in Geor-
gia IA per cent. Alabama is 14.3
points behind her condition of last
year. We add a table showing the
Changes in August;
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start off by saying that the writer was
formerly and for years an emEoye of
this bureau, and that he Is. therefore,
thoroughly familiar with all our meth
eds.
Now, the funny part of the whole
matter is that the green goods operators
do not themselves know the correct
name of this institution, and in none of
their circulars does the correct name
every appear. They call 1t the bureal of
engraving tho department of stamp
ing, etc, but never by its right name;
and If people were posted, and knew the
right name of every branch of the gov
eminent service they would be able to
see at glance that the claims of these
fellows as to having worked here for
years were false. If such were the case
the green goods men would not make the
mistake of calling this bureau by other
than its name -.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-31
Street Beqaars.

IT see the street beggars are again do
ing business at the same old stands .
said a citizen last night
Chief Austin makes a clean sweep
of them occasionally, but he has either
lately modified his policy or the Birming-
ham mendicant is too persistent for the
spasmodic efforts of our efficient chief.
Anyway, the up to date beggar is a
good business man. He is quick to recog-
nize the best places to conduct his trade
and follow In the wake of pi osperity. He
recognizes Birmingham as one of his
best fields, and when once here, he is
hard proposition to be rid Of.
Some day. however, a place may be
provided for him and we will miss his
agonized plea for aid from our busy
thoroughbred
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Green Goods Men and Suckers.

'ln spite OF all the exposures OF green
goods rascals, it is remarkable to learn
that so many suckers of dishonest char
acter are still left in the country" said
a government official. every week Or
two gangs of green goods crooks make
big harls. and yet there are many suck
ers left.
"The director of the bureau of engrav-
ing and printing remarked recently: IF
people would take the trouble to post
themselves as to the name and function
of each and every branch of the govern
ment service it might in the long run
prove the means of saving them consider
able money.
The green goods men are rather ac-
tive just at present and, as a result a
good many green goods letters are find
ing their way 10 my desk from people.
mostly farmers who are shrewd enough
not to invest until they have found out
more about the matter. These letters are
the same old green goods circulars. and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-31
Progress of Cremation.

Sir Henry Thompson, the Englishman
of science, has long been an earnest advo-
cate of cremation as the proper method of
disposing of the dead and the figures
which he gives to show the progress of
crematoria In Europe will be noted with
satisfaction by those who think that dead
bodies should be burned In the interest
Of health" said a Birmingham physi-
clan.
1T seems that cremation Is coming to
be more in vogue in America than it is
in the old country. There are twenty
six crematoria In the United States. AT
Fresh Pond, N. Y. 654 bodies were ere
mated in 1901, 666 at San Francisco and
1872 at Chicago. A general adoption of
the cleansing fire. of cremation for the
disposal of the dead would rapidly have
a very marked effect upon the progress of
disease"
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IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
sIoss-S Sheffield.

mot many stocks are attracting more
attention on Wall ntreet than the sloss-
Sheffield common end its rapid advance
within the past few weeks is said to
be based on sound theories Of speeula-
ton" said a local finaneler yesterday.
THE s1oss-shenield Steel and Iron
company will make a wonderfully fine
showing this month, and IS its No. fur
mace at North Birmingham goes IN blast
next week, the company will have a rec
ord-breaking output in September.
1.-THE fact that President Maben of the
sloss-sneffleld and George II. Schiller Of
the Alabama Steel and Wire company are
both In New York at this time has re-
vived the rupor that the two companies
are to be consolidated"
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THE SANDS o. DEE.

BY Charles Kingsley.
Oh, Mary, go and call the cattle home.
And call the cattle home.
And call the cattle home,
Across the sands o. Deer
The western wind was wild and dank WI
foam,
And all alone went she.
The creeping tide came UP along the
sand
And DER and Ger the sand.
And round and round the sano,
AS far as eye could see;
The binding mist came down and hid the
land
And never home came she.
"Oh, is 1t weed, or fish, or floating hair-
A tress o. golden hair,
O. drowned maiden's hair,
Above the nets at sea?
Was never salmon yet that shone so fair
Among the stakes on Dee"
They rowed her in across the rolling
FOAM
The cruel, crawling foam,
The cruel hungry foam,
TO her grave beside the sea-
But still the boatmen hear her call tho
cattle home
Across the sands o. Dee.
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askance at this industrial relic of the six
teenth century. 1t is not surprising that
they are coming to challenge not only
the moral but the legal right of any body
of men to exercise the despotic powers
Of absolute monopoly, no matter where
or how they acquired the title to their
property. If railroad company is
quasi-public corporation, whose affairs
can be regulated by the people, it would
seem as if the business of mining an
thracite coal was of some concern to the
public as a whole, and that it was time
the public began to manifest it's apprecia-
ton of its rights.
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Change

The crop prospect is much less
bright than it was month ago, and
yet the outlook in Texas and Arkansas
and North Carolina is still better than
It was last year at the corresponding
date. A bull campaign is possible, but
caution at this stage of the crop is
the better policy. No one as yet
knows what the outturn will be, ex
cept that it will not be 10000, OOC
bales. 1t will be something below
that magnificent figure, but how much
below no one at present knows.
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tin, Lowell, Mass. q5O yards) third; j.
P. Jacobson, New Haven, Conn, Q5O
yards) fourth; George Schneider, New
York 600 yards) fifth. Time, lib.
Two-thirds mile, professional consola-
ton race-Won by owen Kimble. Louis
vile; Menus Bedell, Lynnbrook, L. l.,
second; ]. B. Fowler, Chicago, third.
Time, 120.
One third mile, national circuit cham
pionship, final heat-Won by Frank Ia.
Kramer East Orange, N. j.; Major Tay-
lor, Worcester, Mass, second Time, ;4S.
John Bedell, Lynnbrook and liver Lawson.
Chicago, finished second and third, but
were disqualified for team work.
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Guckenberger's Success.

81 had the pleasure of meeting Ben
jamin Guckenberger and hearing some
very fine music he is giving at the swell
new Ocean hotel at Swampscott, the most
fashionable resort in Massachusetts,"
said Oliver Chalifoux, who retired a day
or two ago from an eastern trip.
IT was visiting relatives in Lynn and
ran over to Swampscott for a half day
I did not know that Guckenberger was
there. was accompanied by a musical
friend and we were both caught by the
strains of a chamber orchestra never
heard a small band discourse such ex-
cellent music. My friend and I sat off
at some distance listening, not dreaming
that Guclzenberger was the leader. The
ensemble of the players was perfect. Two
or three pieces had been performed be-
fore I looked at the programme and
found to my amazement and delight that
Guckenberger was the director After the
concert we exchanged greetings and talk
ed over matters musical. I could hardly
find words to express my satisfaction
at the quality of the music that he was
giving the cultured guests at the hotel.
Mr. Guckonberger' orchestra is made
up of Boston symphony artists-the pick
of them. His programmes contain only
good music. of course, for Guckenberger
would almost starve before he would play
anything that was trashy. lie was for
tunate, indeed. in securing so con-
genital and profitable a summer engage
ment as that at Swampscott"
Mr.. Chalifoux spent some time in New
York, where business is wonderfully
brisk. He says the jobbers are having IA
large trade He suffered from the chilly
weather. He bought himself an overcoat
and had to wear 1t every day.
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repIying to a toast, Father Rodriguez
commended the force of the American
and gave encouragement to the Order of
st. Augustine. THE destiny of the
United States" he said, lis In the hands
of the people, who will maintain her
proud position among nations If they ad-
here to the constitution and remain close
to God"
The community of Augustinians at
yillanova constitutes the mother station
of the organization. During his stay in
this country the prior general will visit
the following Augustinian stations: At
lantic City, Lawrence, Mass; Chestnut
Hill, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Waterford,
N. Y; Mechanicsville, N. Y; Greenwich,
N Y; Cambridge, N. Y; Hoosac, N. y;
Andover, Mass; Havana, Cuba; Staten
Island and Schaghticoke, N. Y.
Father Rodriguez is the official head Of
more than 1000 priests of the order, dis
tributed throughout the world. 1t is prob
able that when he returns to Rome he
will be accompanied by a number of
American members of the order, who will
be ordered to the Philippines.
On Sunday morning the prior general
will celebrate high pontificial mass at st.
Augustines church, Fourth and Vine
streets. He will be assisted by the Rev..
Vincent Fernandez, one of his five coun-
sellers. The sermon will be preached by
the Rev. Father MCGOWAN. The exercises
will mark the dual feasts of ST. Au-
gustine and the Archconfraternity of st.
Agnes and ST. Monica.
On Monday next Father Rodriguez will
officially begin his duties as prior general
at villanova. He will personally meet the
Augustinian fathers and participate in a
special demonstration arranged In his
honor.
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Restaurants Plentiful.

zone of the many evidences Of the
thrift Of Birmingham is the large num-
Der of restaurants that It supports" said
the proprietor of a porular cafe on TWEEN
tieth street.
There arc eleven restaurants within
three blocks on Twentieth street, and all
of them seem to be thriving. I doubt f
there is another city of 100000 population
Greater birmingham size) that can
boast of so many good eating places as
this city,"
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From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Ostensibly visiting this country in COM
pliance with the rules of his organization.
Most Rev. Thomas Rodriguez, prior gen.
eral of the order of St Augustine, who
is now staying at Villanova college, will
doubtless interest himself to large ex-
tent while in this country in the friar
question In the Philippines. The prior
general, whose headquarters are in Rome,
was one of the Taft commission appointed
by the President to adjust the differences
between this country and the Catholic
church which exist In the Philippines.
Father Rodriguez's first impressions of
America were gathered under particular
ly exciting circumstances. The steamship
Liguria of the Italian Royal Mail Steam
ship company, on which the distinguished
prelate was passenger, was run down
in the narrows in New York harbor on
Wednesday by the British steamer Pc
comic. The italian liners hull was cut to
the waters edge and the widest excite
ment ensued among the HOO persons on
board. Father Rodriguez was keenly alive
to the peril caused by the accident but,
according to eye witnesses, maintained
an air of absolute calm. To Rev. A.
Fernandez. one of his counselors, the
prior general smilngly observed that the
accident did not surprise him as he did
not understand how so many vessels
could glide in and out of the harbor with
any degree Of safety.
Father Rodriguez will probably remain
in this country five or six weeks. He
will devote the major portion of his
time to Philadelphia and vicinity. Many
of the stations Of the Augustinians are
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
rom the New York Press.

FTOIN IIlb NbW TUX TTtSS.
Nowadays everybody forgets there are
other kinds of fortune than the money
kind.
1t is easier most always to marry the
person you love than to love the person
you marry.
scorn for thinking is she has so little use
for 1t among her friends.
Some people<who get rich quick seem
to be afraid Nobody will know 1t unless
they make fools of themselves
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MIGHT EFEERvEscE.

From the Albany Argus.
Foraker's friends suspect that his Vice
presidential boomlet, just OUT is an I'M
derhanded invention of Mark Hanna.
But, gee Whit Wouldn't Roosevelt and
Eoraker be gin flzz ticketi
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ONE DANGER LESS.

From the Commercial Appeal.
The absence of Crunshell will relieve
the naval maneuvers of all danger of a
clash between our. warships and the
coast of Massachusetts.
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Alabama Postoffices.

Washington, August S0.-(Special)-A
postoffice has been established at Seman.
Gilmore county, with David o. Britt post
master. The postoff1ce at Sledge, Mobile
county, will be discontinued after Septem-
her Is
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SPICY CARTOONS.

From the uniontown Herald.
The Age-Ierald's cartoons have added
considerable spiciness to what might
otherwise have been monotonous cam
pairn.
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Gen. Tribe Tribe is trying to hold
UP the Panama canal, and he may
succeed unless we dispatch Chatfield-
Chatfield Taylor there to grapple him.
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The strikers and the coal operators
in the hard coal districts may be will
ing to fight it out, but the empty coal
scuttles call aloud for arbitration.
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Grand Duke Boris is seeking a peer.
less incognito city, and Chicago will
soon know him no more.
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Grand Duke Boris distributed fare
well kisses among the Chicago chorus
girls, and departed.
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1t is feared some Newport rival Of
nrs. Vanderbilt may hook in the navy
and compel it to give mock battle
as a side feature of swell entertain
ment.