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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-02
WAS WASHINGTON
A CHURCH MEMBER

From the Presbyterian Banner.
The evidence is not as conclusive as
we could wish. Thomas Jefferson assert
ed that Gouyerneur Morris has often
told me that General Washington believ-
ed no more of that system than he him
self did" Bishop White testified that
while Mrs. Washington was a habitual
communicate the general never received
the communion in the church of which he
was believer in the Christian revelation.
DR.. Abercrombie, whose church Wash
ington frequently attended, is quoted as
saying that The had never been COM
municant," but was a Deist"
On the other hard, Senator Henry Ca
bot Lodge, a careful and competent his
torian and n hiographer of Washington.
declares that 1t is beyond question that
The believed In the efficacy of prayer,
for he prayed regularly and the proof
Is abundant that he would retire for
prayer In times of stress and trial." and
that The was generally Believed by mis-
cent emporaries. with few executions, to
be a Christian" Senator Lodge also cites
two expressions from carefully prepar-
ed State papers: "rhe pure and benign
ll2bt of revelation, and THE divine au-
thor of our bIeesed religion" which GER
tainly indicate a Christian belief, al
though rot creating any strong pre-
sumption Of church membership
The direct evidences of his communing
are: The record of his asking permis-
sion to partake of the sacrament with
the pastor and members of the First
Presbyterian church of Morristown, N
j., when the army lay encamped near
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-02
School Work.

1.-THE teachers institute at Knoxville Is
proving a marked success, but l think
the tendency of high school work is just a
little too much on the fad line remarked
an old time educator.
II approve of progressive methods to
some extent, but there is such a thing as
going too far. Psychology is certainly be-
ing worked to death in the up-to-date
educational system. 1t Is most
useful study. but the attempt to place
everything on a psychological basis
strikes me as absurd.
Children and young men and women
should always be treated as souls and
not as machines. Education Is a great
thing. but youth should not be crowded
Better go little slow and impart knowl-
edge along a few lines thoroughly than
try to teach many things and do 1t
specifically
School work here in Alabama is con-
Quoted on a high plane and is bearing
good fruit, but my remarks apply to the
public school tendency of the country gen.
orally, and while l would oppose re-
turn to Anticipated methods, certain
amount of old fashioned work would be
well to go along with the new ideas"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-02
Tea Growing in the South,

According to correspondence of the AS
ISOLATED Press from Toxic. dated June Il,
an important meeting of the tea mer-
chants throughout Japan was held at
Shidzoutka, Japan, early in June, about
200 being present. Among those present
were Mr.. Hirata, minister of agriculture
an commerce. and Baron Komura, min
lister of foreign affairs.
Baron Komura delivered an address in
which he said:
america is the best customer of the tea
world. Three-quarters of the total pro-
duction of tea in the world is consumed in
the United States. Despite this fact ia
pans tea trade with America appears to
have made no progress in the last ten
years. Ten years ago the export of tea
to America amounted to 6,5O0OOO yen in
value. which is also the case at present,
though the population of America has
greatly increased in the meantime. Sec
ondly, the Russians are great tea consum-
ers and If the Japanese pay attention to-
ward Russia that country will become a
good customer of Japanese tea"
Mr.. Olami Kahei, chairman of the Cen
trail Tea Guild, said:
The future prospects of Japan tea in
the United States are by no means reas-
surfing as the tea plantations in South
Carolina and other parts of America have
made remarkable progress of late years
and it is not at all improbable that the
American government may some time be
compelled to impose heavy duty on for
eign tea for the protection of the domestic
industry
The apprehensions thus expressed In ia
pan on the score of a growing American
industry will come as a surprise to most
Americans who, while aware that some.
thing has been done In the matter of the
idea that it has reached point where
it causes oriental tea growers solicitude.
A correspondent of the Charleston IN.
O. News and Courier describes a recent
visit to the tea gardens at Pinehurst, that
State. and explains the operations of a
mechanical witherer by which the freshly
plucked leaf is subjected to the action of
highly heated air under constant motion.
From this machine the tea goes at once
to a rolling machine, and the result is
that the whole process of making this
tea consumes about two .lours and with
out the necessity of manual assistance"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-02
Soil Survey in Perry.

Congressman Underwood inaugur-
ated rural free delivery in the South
by procuring the establishments of
over thirty routes in Jefferson County,
and he has now started in this section
soil surveys by inducing the Depart
ment of Agriculture to survey the soil
of Perry County, typical cotton-grow-
ing county. This sould be the begin
ming of sixty-five other similar sur
veys, each valuable, comprehensive
and trustworthy. Such surveys have
been made in many Northern counties,
but few, IL any, have been made in
the cotton belt, and the survey of
Perry will start a demand that will
spring up everywhere in the South.
The Southern counties are as a rule
largely agricultural, and the import
ance of knowing what the soil in them
is becomes apparent at once.
We have in hand pamphlet pre-
sentlng the soil survey of st. Mary
County, Maryland. 1t includes sew
eral illustrations, besides a large map
that shows at glance the nature of
the soil to the depth of three feet of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-02
Last Hours of Congress-.

The long session of the Fifty-seventh
Congress has run its course. It was
dominated throughout by the trusts,
and not single measure was passed
that they objected to. The sugar trust
and the Oxnardites defeated the Cuban
reciprocity bill, although the promise
had been made by President Mckinley
that concessions should be granted in
duties on Cuban sugar and tobacco.
The beet sugar trust and the sugar
trust vetoed the proposition, and it
died in the Senate.
The Philippine civil government bill
was largely dictated by large interests
that desire to exploit those islands,
and the lobby preferred the Panama
rather than the Nicaragua route in the
canal bill. The charters of national
banks were extended twenty years. A
butter ring put tax of 10 cents a
pound on oleomargarine, and butter
will no doubt be advanced up to the
tax limit The irrigation bill will cost
the country many millions, although
only small sections will be benefited.
The bills demanded by the people
were generally killed, or pigeon-holed,
which is much the same thing. In this
lot are the bills providing for the cleo
ton of United States Senators by di-
rect vote; the bill defining the mean
ing of conspiracy In injunction cases,
and the pure food bill. None of these
bills were favored by the strong in
fluences that control the Senate, and
none of them became or will become
laws at the hands of this Congress.
The Senate's ship subsidy bill is tied
up in the House until after the fall
elections, when no doubt it will be
passed. 1t is a trust measure, and
whatever the trusts favor goes through
this Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-02
A FINE PLACE FOR RICH BOYS.

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
Down in the State of Rhode Island they
appreciate greatness. Mr.. Reginald c.
Vanderbilt was arrested in Middletown
the other day for running his automobile
about six times as fast the law al
lowed. but the town authorities quickly
discharged him when they learned his
identity. explaining that inasmuch as the
young gentleman and his brother, Alfred
G., own fancy farms and pay nearly half
of the taxes collected in the place, moth
ing would be done that might have ten
dency to drive them froc the county.
We have heard good deal from Messrs.
Carnegie Rockefeller Schwab, Dolliver
and others about the disadvantages under
which the rich are compelled to struggle
along These philosophers tell us that the
rich mans lot is not happy one 1t is
pleasing, therefore, to hear Of such case
as that in which young Mr.. Vanderbilt
has just figured 1t is good to know that
here and there the rich young man may
even in these disagreeable days find that
life is almost worth living.
Mr. Vanderbilt is to be congratulated
upon his escape from prison and also upon
the fact that he may now get his red ter
ror out and run over anything in Middle
town that he thinks ought to be smashed.
Glorious days are In store for him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-02

every locality N the county. The geog-
raphy, history. geology and physical
geography, conditions of agriculture,
transportation and climate are each
and all discussed, but the greater part
of the pamphlet relates to the soils of
the eounty-what they are good for
what they need in the way of fertil-
izers-what each class of soil in the
county contains. In each analysis of
soil no words are used that all can
not readily understand. The value and
deficiency of each class of soil is plain
" told and located, for every road and
postofiice is shown in the map and IN
the text. 1t is like going through the
soil with a lantern. There is no I'M
necessary display of learning in these
surveys, and there is no exaggeration.
The truth is plainly told by men who
have studied soils long time. In the
pamphlet before us no soil in the
Maryland county is overlooked, and
the man who is looking for a new home
can tell at a glance whether there are
lands in that county which would suit
him.
The value of these surveys are very
great and We hope every other men,
Der of the Alabama delegation will en-
deayor to increase the number made
in the State. Such surveys are prac-
teal rather than technical, and yet
they are trustworthy and thorough.
Perry leads, and the other sixty-fve
counties should follow suit
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-02
REPUBLICANS NAME TICKET.
Minnesota Convention Reaffirms PhlIa.
delphia Platform of 1900.

st. Paul Mimi. July 1.-The Minnesota
Republicans in convention today month";
ated the following ticket:
Governor, Samuel r. Van SAINT; lieuten-
ant governor, Ray w. Jones; secretary
of State, Peter F. Hanson; State auditor
s. G. Iverson; treasurer, ]. H Block: at
torney general, w. B. Douglas; clerk Su-
preme Court C. A. Pidgeon; railroad com
missioner, c. f. Staples.
The platform reaffirms the Philadelphia
platform of 1900 and recomemnds Presi-
dent Roosevelt for second term The
assassination of President Mckinley is
deplored and Governor Van SAINT is upheld
in his fight against the consolidation
of railroads.
Regarding the Philippines 1t urges that
the inhabitants be encouraged in partic-
ipating in democratic government as far
as practicable when peace shall have been
established and they shall have shown
their capacity for self government The
policy of protection is endorsed. though
such notifications are favored as may
be necessary to extend the trade of the
United States among the nations The
platform recommends a plan of recipro-
city with Cuba which shall insure the
profitable interchange of commodities
with that country without interrupting
production or enriching trusts or monop-
o1ies
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
AND ELSEWHERE
Fourth Of July Melons.

Birmingham IS a great consumer Of
watermelons and eanteloupes. and this
being Fourth Of July week the demand Is
unusually brisk" said Morris avenue
merchant yesterday.
"a large supply has been provided for,
but every melon will be sold. Birmingham
will use fully fifty car loads of water
melons this week. The prices are run
ming all the way from IS to SIS per hun
bred.
"Canteloupes were never so abundant
as they are this season and the price is
cheap enough for everybody to get their
nli."
The first car load of canteloupes ever
billed for Birmingham will be due here
tomorrow It comes from Abel. Ca, and
will be consigned to P. Giacoppazzi. The
car will contain about 5000 canteloupes.
There will be several varieties in the
shipment but a large percentage will be
what Is known to the trade as the "Au-
gusta Market" The usual way of ship
ping canteloupes is by express. but so
great Is the demand that a full car load
can be quickly disposed of on the eve
of the Fourth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-02
OUR LUXURY CLASS.
One Per Cent of Fifteen Million Fami-
lies Own Half Our Wealth.


From Airslee's.
Few, however, can readily afford any
considerable degree of luxury. There are
in the United States about 15,500.0o0 fam
HES and l per cent of these own more
than half OF the aggregate wealth of the
country. These 10000 families. presum-
ably, can afford to be luxurious in their
living, but the standards they make are
not safe standards for any but them
selves. The man with $1,000 a year is sure
to come quickly to grief If he try to live
as the man does VINO has $4,000 year.
And so on down the whole list. If we do
not regulate our luxury according to our
means, 'demnition is our certain por-
ton"
I he 1 per cent who own 50 per cent of
the wealth are not all millionaires, one
one-third millionalres. But they can iaf-
ford the luxuries, ana Ii may be that
we have no right or reason to Slamc
them. Mr.. Carnegie says they are very
valuable and Mr.. Carnegie is far from
being a lover or an apprcc;aior of lux
ury He inherited a love of haggis-that
was in his Scotch blood-and ne acquired
love for scrapple-that was his en-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-02
The Mint Industry.

ut is estimated that the mint beds OF
Jefferson County yield fully $1,000 dur
ing a season." said Il prominent saloon
man.
'Of the 200 or more barrooms in this
town. at least sixty of them sell mint
juleps, and these sixty will buy on an
average about 90 cents worth of mint
a day, which Will about to s45. The sea-
son runs for about ninety days. which
would account for a consumption OF
about $4,000 worth Of mint. Then in adj
dition to the saloons considerable mint
is used by the soda water vendors, and
somes goes to private houses.
"The money received by the sellers of
mint is practically all profit, for while
some mint beds are cultivated, little or
no expense is involved. A very fine quail
,ty of mint used to be found in the Tux
edo Park sect;on."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-02
PRATT CITY

Pratt City, July Especially The
miners of Pratt City, Ensley and Wy
lam held mass meeting at Ensley
this morning, several hundred being
in attendance. AS far as can be
learned nothing definite was deter
mined upon as regards the strike situa-
ton
The Junior Epworth League will give
a 10-cent social at the home of DIR.
r. T. Lovelady tomorrow evening from
s to IL o'clock.
Miss Leota Gillian entertained a
number of her friends at a birthday
party last evening.
Mesdames Dave Guillim and w. E.
Woodman returned yesterday from a
visit to relatives at Sale Creek, Tenn.
Mr.. G. w. Taylor and wife are visit
ing relatives at Pinson.
Mrs. w. L. Smith is at Compton, hay
ing been called there on account of
the illness of her sister.
Miss May Delaney has returned from
visit to Miss frankie Mcnamara of
West End.
Mr.. and Mrs e. H. Wren, who have
been the guests of Mrs. s. A. Melon
aid on East Highlands for several
days, will leave tomorrow for their
home at Sumpterville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Job Going entertained
Mr.. Roof Going of New York, Mr..
Henry Going and Miss Elizabeth Going
of Birmingham at supper this evening.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-02
MISS ANNIE kENDRIck WALKER.
he Montgomery Advertiser.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
Miss Walker is the brilliant young
woman who has had charge of the worn-
ans department of the Birmingham Age
Herald for the past three years. She has
in that time established herself as. one
of the most influential woman journalists
of tho South, ard as such she is recog-
nized by all who keep pace with current
Journalistic history. She has lately re-
ceived the fattering invitation TO deliver
an address on Authors and Press Day
at the Montesgle Chautauqua which
meets early in August. Outside her work
in her department In The Age-Herald
Miss Walker has done and continues to
do special work which IS accepted and
meets with notable commentator. One
Of her articles, a sketch Of and an inter-
view with Mary Johnston, accompanied
with pictures, was simultaneously
printed In several of The big dailies of the
United States. Her work is all character
lied by painstaking care-none Of the
careless slurring Of the average news-of-
the-day writer is found in her lightest
work.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-02
SOME NOVEL IDEAS.
the New York Fress.

From the New York Fress.
Who will write novel containing:
A fight between a giant and dwarf
and let the giant VIM
A fire IN which the heroine escapes by
the fire escape and the hero loses his
nerve before roscuing anybody?
A scene on the beech In which the
heroine's hair doesn't curl up in crisp
little ringlets about her forehead and
the nape ef her neck" but struggles down
in her eyes?
A mysterious" woman who wears a
red Napoleon hat an up-to-date stock
and Louis Quinze shoes instead of "a
black cloalx?"
A divorce which IS mutually agreeable?
A young widow with a respectable
character?
An old family servent who is working
for his wages?
A house in 4 red brick row?
No historical characters?
A struggle, six to one, and let the six
come out alive and victorious?
A few new thoughts?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-02

The correspondent says; THE work
of this machine has surpassed general
expectation. The green teas now being
manufactured at Pinehurst through it's
agency are the equal, at least in quail
ity of the best imported green teas and
without any deleterious substance what
ever. The teas which are usually inn
ported from the east to this country are
said to be VIGOROUSLY adulterated. The
glaze or facing noticeable or both green
and black tea is pronounced to be abso-
lutely artificial. that on the green being
mixture OF Prussian blue, tumerc or
sulphate of lime and that on the black
sometimes black lead"
The cheapness of oriental labor has
been bar to profitable competition in
this field of industry in the past but it
appears that American inventiveness is
about to achieve new successes by
matching the advantages of cheap labor
with mechanical appliances.
The Charleston newspapers cores
pendent relates other details of the tea
growing industry at Pmehurst, and con-
cludes:
Just now there is a considerable stir
in Ceylon over the making of green in
stead of black tea, and a factory has
been built for the making Of green tea
at Colombo, and, strange to say, its pro-
jectors have ignored in a measure, it is
understood, Deane's process of manufac-
turing this tea by steaming in boxes.
They have gone back to hand manipula-
ton by the Chinese and japanese.
There appears to be great interest ta-
ken in the tea culture throughout the
country and developments at Pinehurst
have been carefully watched.
early this year Minister Takahira of
the Japanese empire, was among the
many and most interested and observ-
ant of the visitors of Pinehurst, and re-
Gently the Japanese consul general at
New York paid visit to tne tea estates
here.
about a month ago DR.. r. H. True,
of the bureau of plant industry, came to
Summerville, and is still here engaged in
scientific researches covering the cult
walton of tea at Pinehurst. Dr. True's re-
port of his Investigations now in pro-
gress will no doubt be CT the most in
teresting and scientific character, and it
is pleasing to note that he has selected
Pinehurst and its interest as the basis
for intelligent, valuable and far-reach-
ing observations.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-02
COLUMBUS WINS.
Defeats Brewton by to Am Alleged
Detective.

Columbus, Ca, July 1.-(Special. )-Co-
lumbus defeated the Brewton, Ala. team
to l this afternoon. Moate, the locals
new pitcher was in the box for them for
the first time and did fine work.
A mild sensation developed here today
when verious bills. approved" by w. H.
Cody, alias w. Fl. Davis, a white man
about thirty years old. were turned
down by the Central of Georgia Railway
officers here. Cody came here June g.
representing himself to be a special de-
tective of the Central railroad. He left
here Saturday owing several hundred
dollars around town. He and his wife
lived like princes. 1t is said that he
formerly lived in Birmingham. 1t is
thought that he went from here to New
Orleans. He was well dressed and Of
suave manners and had no difficulty in
getting credit here He claimed to be a
thirty-second degree Mason and ordered
fine pin while here, but the jeweler
would not credit him for 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-02

BY. and his doing so on the following
Sabbath; the testimony of Major Pop
ham, an officer with Washington during
the war, who wrote when 81 years old,
that he attended the same church in
New York. and had knelt with Wash
ington in the reception of the eommun-
ion; and the letter of Nellie Custis. the
granddaughter of Mrs. Washington to
the historian Sparks. that she had heard
her mother say that General Washing
ton always received the sacrament with
my grandmother before the Revolution"
The affirmative evidence certainly seems
stronger than the negative, yet 1t scarcely
Justites our thinking of Washington as
eommuning regularly. It is not improb-
anle that upon entering into political life
ne may have refrained from public iden-
lhcatlon with the church of his youth
ana early manhood, and thus may have
given some ground for the belief of the
part OF the Deists of his day that he was
one OF their belief. Perhaps too much
was inferred from his l.ss frequent at
tendance at church and his non-obser-
vance of the sacrament. DIR. Ashbel
Green, who was chaplain of Congress and
frequently dined with Washington. re-
lates in his autobiography that while he
was regularly called on to ask blessing
before the guests took their seats at the
table, on one occasion the Presidents
mind was probably occupied with some
interesting concern, and on going to the
table he began to ask blessing him
self. He uttered but a word or two when.
bowling to me, he requested me to pro-
coed, which | accordingly did. l mention
this because 1t shows that President
Washington always asked blessing him.
self when a chaplain was not present.