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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-14
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-14
Government Bonds.
Memory of the Brave.

From the RS fillmore American.
Union Memorial day will soon be here u
prove again that this republic u not un
grateful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19
MIR. MORGAN AND THE KING,

From the Baltimore Sun.
 At Ambassador Choates' dinner to King Edward MT. J. P. Morgan was an hon ored guest. The Croesus of the American republic was as nonchalant and uncon- cerned as if he were in the habit of din- ing daily with crowned heads. As one of the kings subjects put 1t, MT. Morgan and the king seemed equally at home, and we wondered when we were going to get chance to join the ladies'" There was never any doubt in the American mind that MT. Morgan would be equal to the occasion. It must be admitted, however, that there was some apprehension on this side of the Atlantic about the king. It Is pleasant to learn that MT. Morgan treated him handsomely and that Ed ward Is still himself He had narrow escape, nevertheless. If MT. Morgan had been in a merging mood there is no telling what might have happened.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19
Manual Tralnlnq.

T was glad to read that the board of education of Birmingham expects to start department of shop and tool work for the boys and department of domes- tic economy for the girls in the public schools" said a prominent citizen.
 Manual training in the schools has long been one of Superintendent Phil lips cherished schemes, and were he to do nothing else for this district further than introduce a system of technical training he would be a great benefactor. Dr. Phillips has already proved himself a valuable man to this community, and if he widens the scope of the schools by giving the boys of Birmingham an ele- mentary knowledge of mechanics in con ntction with their book studies, he will lay the foundation for great high school of technology that must sooner or later be established here.
 There Is nothing in the way of edu- cation so much needed here as technical training. But as greatly needed us 1t Is TOW, 1t will be in even greater demand in the next two of three years. The board of education Is to be heartily com Inended for taking up this matter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19
Cotton and Dry Weather.

Soaking rains have occurred in Georgia and the two Carolinas, and the drouth in the Atlantic States is thoroughly broken, but the crop is not raised in the Atlantic States. The rest of the cotton belt, stretching from Alabama to Texas, including both, is dry, and in some sections, very dry. In some parts of Texas the crop is seriously endangered by dry weather, and this may be said to be the case in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama as well. There are four drouthy States-Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
 The crop can stand as a rule a great deal of dry weather, but when drouth occurs before the tap root has pene- trated the soil deeply serious results may follow. No great damage has thus far occurred, but the limit of safety has nearly been reached and
 
 ten days more of dry weather would seriously impair the crop in the four States, where nearly two-thirds of it is ordinarily produced.
 The dryness and heat cover the four States in about equal degree some portions of Texas suffering more per haps than the rest of the vast drouthy district Alabama is exceedingly dry, but it is not one bit dryer than the other three States named. There are few localities in each of the four States that have been relieved by showers, but those localities are so small that they scarcely modify the general condition. The crop is cer- tainly in a dangerous condition. and the weather conditions of the next few days will be watched with anxiety and misgivings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19

county, the unsuccessful man receivel large majority of the popular vote.
 The value of the Georgia plan de- bends of course upon the apportion- ment of representation. The AgeHer aid is welded to no plan. It suggested the Georgia plan as compromise that would bring all Democrats together. Those who are hunting Harmony with big H will be apt to prefer plan that is not at the outset revolutions ary. The Georgia plan is not of that nature.
 In short time the State Committee will have the footings of the registra- tion lists of each county. Those of the counties in the First Congressional district are already at hand. The rest soon will be, and 1t will not then be difficult to apportion representation in a just manner.
 The State Committee may say the task is too difficult, and they may adopt the simpler South Carolina plan. Very well. This will satisfy The Age Herald, but 1t will not please some portions of the State, and We were simply endeavoring 70 find romotnlng all could accept. We still believe the Georgia plan under an equitable ap- portionment of representation Is the best compromise the problem affords. The State Committee has a difficult task on its hands, and its action should be awaited with patience and modera- tion. Let us now, when the primary battle has been won,, be generous, req sonable and just to all sections of the State.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19
MisER DIES WRETcHEDLY,
Spent Only IS Gents a Day for Food.
 Money Goes to Public Treasury.

New York, June 1S-In the basement of house at No 65 West Houston street, wDich YVES both his home and workshop, Camille Lemoine has heen found dead. In his pockets 317S75 and a gold watch and chain were found, and in strong box were deeds of property estimated to be worth s50,00o, but he lived like man in dire poverty, and died uncared for and alone. A kitten that was his only com panion lay beside the miser.
 Lemoine was 57 years of age and was clever mechanic and manufactured tools and dyes used in the manufacture of ar- tificial flowers. It Is said that he once served in the French army, but he never told much of his life even to his intimate friends, and he had few of these. He slept on a wrteched bed in the rear of the little shop and ate sparingly at the cheapest restaurants. The police gay he spent less than 15 cents day for food.
 Most of the property to which deeds was found Is in Hoboken. It Is not known whether Lemoine has sny relatives living or not, so the public administrator took charge of the money and papers, and the body was sent to the morgue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19
Georgia or South Carolina.

The Montgomery Advertiser does not like the Georgia plan. It says:
 The contention in Alabama on the part of the great majority of the Democrats has been for a straight Democratic pri- mary without the intervention of county or State conventions. Everything indi- cates that their wishes are to be com piled with and the Age-Heralds sugges- tion of a compromise is the first that we have heard of such a thing.
 There was no primary in Georgia, out side the limits of a county. That is to say, there was no vote that was general throughout the State, but in each county votes were cast and delegates chosen to a State convention who will vote as the majority in each county dictated This is no settlement of the question upon a gen. eral primary plan. Under this arrange ment a candidate might secure a major ity of delegates to a convention and be woefuily behind on popular vote. Indeed, in the Augusta district. where candidate for congress was chosen under the plan q delegates chosen at a primary in each
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19
Chinese Physician Lands.

San Francisco, June 1S-The Chinese bureau Is in a ferment over the landing of Dr. Yeang Wing from the steamer Gaelic on Friday last. The physician Is "A years old, a graduate of Yale and dressed in the garb of a European. It Is evident that he passed the inspector at the gang plank without a doubt of his right to land. for he had "declared'' on h.s baggage and paid $1 on dutiable arti- cles which 1t contained. Feeling secure in his papers of naturalization to Amer ican citizenship, he then went ashore, no one recognizing his Asiatic blood. He is now on his way to New Haven, Conn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19
Ht ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
As | for praise alone now seek to spill The poor deer's blood.
 Loves Labor Lost.
Three Canal Bills.

Today in the Senate the isthmian canal question will be settled for long time to come, and Senator Nor gan will go home tonight a disap- pointed or a victorious man. He has contended manfully and unfinchingly for the building of a canal on the Me aragua route. This plan Is now known as the Hepburn or House bill, and Senator Morgan unqualifedly sup ports 1t.
 There are two other bills. The Spooner substitute directs the Presi- dent to accept the Panama route if he can procure a clear title; if not, he is then to proceed to build canal on the Nicaragua route. The Hoar bill the President absolutely without direc- tions or limitations. Each of the three bills appropriates $10,000,000 with which to begin the construction of a canal.
 It is not necessary to forecast a vote that is so close at hand. But if the Spooner substitute is sent to the House thefe are indications that Mr. Hepburn and the rest of the canal committee of the House will not &C., cept 1t. The two Houses will thus be deadlocked, which is of course what many Senators and many others in Washington desire-no canal on any route. The hand of the international railroads Is in the Spooner substitute. They desire a deadlock, and they are striving to secure one. The Hanna Spooner crowd desire as rule no ca nal at all, and this is why deadlock will especially please them. At .his writing the entire question promises
 to go to the people to be settled by
 them in 1904, and the people are not owned and controlled by the interna- tional railroads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Is Cleveland a candldate7

'T am satisfied that a movement is be- Ing organized fer the purpose of bringing Grover Cleveland out as a candidate for the Presidency in 1904" said an old Dem ocrat yesterday.
 MT. Cleveland wanted and expected the Democratic nomination in 1892, and he was an easy winner. Having been defeat- cd in 1888 on his low tariff policy he was regarded as the logical candidate in IoJ2. There WAS some talk of running him again in 1896. but his enthusiastic friends who wanted another chance to vote for him became convinced that the anti-third termers would prevent any neadway in the direction referred to. It is known, too, that Mir Cleveland most fiatly refused to allow his name to be used in con nection with the nomination in 1896.
 Many thoughtful Democrats who ad- mire Cleveland are inclined to believe that the prejudice against third term would be as strongly in evidence in 1904 as 1t was In 1886, notwithstanding the fact that the eXAPr esident has been out of office two terms. I can hardly think that MT. Cleveland is giving his consent to this bioNeiuenl lOT putting HlIl III lHe rue. Yet l notice certain signs that are de- cidedly significant. When MT. Cleveland Is not running he is extremely reserved and studiously avoids public attention. He Goes not accept political invitations and does not answer many letters.
 Whenever he was a candidate In the past he was prompt In replying to corre- spcndents, and his letters often found their way into print He accepted invi- tations to make putlic addresses and kept himself very generally in the public eye.
 within the last few months MT. Cleveland has resumed the letter habit and the speech making habit. His com mencement address at the Augustinian College In Pennsylvania Monday was singularly happy, and his acceptance of the degree of doctor of Jurisprudence at the hands of the good monks was alto gether grateful. This conferrng of the degree was a rare distinction indeed, for MT Cleveland was the only person who ever received it. In view of the present drift Of Democratic politics. MT. Cleve- lands speech ct the 1ilden Club ir New York Thursday night will be read with uncommon interest
 eff Cleveland should be the next standard bearer thousands of his old partisans will take sincere pleasure in voting for him. But can he be nomi- nated7'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19
Gentry Hillman Returns.

MT. Gentry Hillman, the we'll known furnace manager, has returned from the north, where he has been since the first of May studying modern furnace plants. He spent several weeks in Pennsylvania and some time in and around Chicago. He had, of course, kept up with what was going on in furnace construction and furnace practice in the north by reading, but what he desired was a careful inspec- ton of the latest improvements. He was greatly interested in what he saw and his trip was in every way profitable from a professional and practical point of view.
 MT. Hillman says that the modern fur mace costs a vast amount of money, as everybody knows, but that the large orig inal cost results in great economy. Labor saving devices are being applied all the while and the progress in that direction has been wonderful. Mir Hillman thinks the southern furnace of the future will be million dollar affair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19
Nothing But Snarls and Tangles
 in Congress Now

ly false. Palma said he wouldn't stoop to reply. Old Gomez said nothing in all manner of languages. Gomez seems to have better thing than the presidency of Cuba.
 Meanwhile the beet sugar senators and members are hopping mad and getting madder. Recognizing that MT. Roose- velt's last message was in fact a po- litical pronunciamento, they are hotter than the weather even.
 Perhaps no great political party ever had more remarkable record for get ting together than the Republicans, but If the members of that party in congress get together on this Cuban reciprocity busi- ness 1t will be the most extraordinary triumph of party discipline In the his- tory of the parliamentary system of gov- ernment.
 The administration senators are begin- ming to show considerable resentment to- wards the members of the party in con- gress opposed to the administration's Cu- ban policy" calmly and gingerly observes one of Roosevelt's local organs.
 Considerable resentment! Why those senators are as mad as Towser, and Tow ser was so mad he bit off his own tail
 "Still the administration senators" are not half as mad as the other fellows. In fact they are just joking as compared with the enraged beet sugar men; they are like the man who had no stomach for fighting the other-"don't want to fight nohow-jest jokin'"
 The beet sugar men had all they in- tended to take even before the Presidents last message. Now, they say, and with show of fairness, the President took ad- vantage of his position to strike them below the belt" as they express the sit uation.
 There is one ray of hope, bright and burning, that Congress may quit business and go home within the next month though good MT. Teller says two months.
 Probably it Is in bad taste to mention this hope to southerners in mid-June-it Is the heat! Hot! Bah, the ravements are melting That Is the truth. the pavements ere melting. The air js stining; has tho odor of a dry stable. In search of one breath of fresh air little party of US at fall of day boarded trolley car that bore up through the hot streets out over the htls end far away into Maryland how far we 1iGn't know, didn't care, for we found what we sought amidst the ripening hay. and had no wish to ever return to work. But needs must; and as we reached the foot of hill re-entering the town there was that eonfounded dry stable odor waiting for us.
 Yet we have daily showers of rain, and the hot season Is barely begun,
 The good brethren of the Alabama Press Association are scheduled to reach this town a month hence. wonder If they have ever experienced Washington weather in July ? Then are the skies hot brass and the streets molten asphalt July in Washington? Merciful goodness, for bear. LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19
THE RAILROAD COMMISSION.

From the Gadsden Evening Journal.
 The Journal Is glad to note that some enterprising people In Birmingham have started a movement, which if success full, will do away with the Alabama Railroad Commission as 1t Is now consti- tuted. We have always believed that 1t is about the weakest part of our govern ment and sometimes 1t Is posivtively a menace. When the legislature gets to talking about electing the commission by the people and paying 1t by the state and granting 1t more power there Is volume of assurance that the commits sion Is better by appointment; that 1t is foolish to prevent the railroads from con- tributing the salaries of the commission CTS and that the commission has all the power 1t needs. Yet. when we go before the commissioners with clear proof that the railroads are illegally discriminating and iagrantly violating the laws of the state we are told that they have no power to prevent 1t. The truth of the matter is we should have no commission at all or change the mode of making one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19
The Press Association.

As the tickets for the Alabama Press Association's trip next month will be limited to 100, Secretary Rountree is very busy just now filling up the list. The association has had many delightful trips, but the one this year will doubt less be the best of all.
 MT. Lancaster Williams, president of the Norfolk street car system, has writ ten to Mir. Rountree asking the members of the association to accept the priv ileges of his line and also to be his guests at dinner at Ocean View. The associa- tion's first stop will be at Norfolk, and MT. Williams will set the pace for hos pitalities in general The president of the street car line is brother of MT. John Skelton Williams and is a member of the famous banking firm of John L. Will Hams & Sons of Richmond.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19
Washington Day bY Day

Washington, June 18-(Special) 1.-The combat thickens, and it Is on ye brave, who rush to sugar or to grieve. Or maybe the combat Is deepening while plots are thickenng. Have 1t as you may, 1t amounts to the same.
 If ever there were a tangle and snarl and the giving in of tangling and snarl- ing, we have these things in Congress just now.
 In faith, no ran knows what the hour may bring-it nay be anything, from hot ter rebelliousness to sweet peace Itself; though, to tell the truth, if peace were suddenly to appear Tn the Capitol no man would recognize 1t without carefully in- specting its features.
 The situation of the Republican party In congress grows worse, and even "wus- ser and 1t is highly diverting-couldnt well be anything more comical in any po- litical party so moribund as the Repub- lican. Moribund is the word, or seems to be. As far as possible the administration has scurried to cover Asked any rcason- able question, the answer 's the fright entd schoolboy's
 Ain goin' tell"
 Show us," the Democrats ask
 "Ain't," the administration replies, with one finger in its pie"
 The g. O. D. elephant is trying the ex- ample of the COW that jumped over the neon; 1t is trying to get out of the way of things.
 But the elephant cannot succeed; 1t is hobbled and blindfolded.
 "by George" cries the President in his beloved old oath of ancient England "by Geoige!" But, like a certain brand of whisky much advertised, that's all"
 Rumors? You never heard so many ru- mors, nor any such threatening grave ones. Every other man one meets has heard that there are about to be more revelations and more serious facts brought to light than heretofore. Philip pines horrors? Light as air. The admin istration paying money to help the sugar trust lobby? Playful. Wait till you hear:
 And you do wait and wait, wondering what there can be, cannot be, in any one or all these rumors.
 In one respect Washington Is like a Scotch town. Everybody in 1t Is saying, "What-what-w
 Rumor ever whets the desire for more. you know. Yet we have facts enough and to spare. Brave old warrior Maxine Co., meg refusing with lofty dsdain a pen- sion of six thousand dollars year from the Cuban Congress. after having &C., cepted nineteen thousand for nine months from Governor General Leonard Wood nineteen thousand is the sum concerning which there Is no doubtl How much more? What for? Ard the old man was given rent free a fine house, too. When 1t was stated the other day that the ad- ministration gave Gomez a lump sum of $25,000 for preventing civil strife in Cuba pending the Republican campaign of 1900, Mir. Root and General Wood has, tened to proclaim the statement absolute
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19
THE STATE CONGRATULATED.
From the Selma Times

From the Selma Times.
 And so Chap Cory Is candidate for the nomination for state superintendent of ed- ucation, sure enough. Well, we have said that if he wanted 1t the people were will ing to give 1t to him, and we 1,on't take 1t back. There Is no dsputing the facts CD That Chap Cory is competent In ev- cry respect to fill that office or any other that the people might select him to fill CD That the honors would be divided be- tween himself and the State should he be selected as State offcial G)-But 1t Is useless to enumerate further; the facts are too well known to everybody. The Times congratulates the people of Ala bama that he has made up his mind to offer for the position.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19
THE GEORGIA PLAN.

From the Mobile Herald.
 Our opinion on the question is that each county in addition to representation based on white population or white regis tration, should be allowed representatives also on three -flftbs of its colored popula- tion. as was allowed tho south by the constitut' 'on of the United States. But we have full confidence in the patriotism and fairness of the state executive com mittee.
 We do not believe that the Johnst on crowd will agree to the very fair propo- sition of the Age-Herald They will in the event the committee sdopts the ccmpro- mise begin 10 cry out exceedingly, and vii. call the committee a machine, and its members ringsters
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19
- - ALL DESIRE THE PRIMARY,

From the Eufaula Times.
 We have heard few dissenting voices in regard to the holding of a general pri- mary, while most of the state and coun- ty candidates are In favor of it. Most of the candidates state that they will abide by the action of the executive commit tee but they are personally in favor of a primary.
 A primary Is certainly a fairer test of the peoples choice and we believe 1t the best method of determining who the peo- pie want to serve them in official posi- tions.
 Governor Jelks is quoted with saying
 "I do not know what the state com mlttee will order. Personally favor a primary"
 We think that the state committee would do wrong not to order a primary when there Is so much desire for 1t upon the part of the whole people.