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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1902-03-06
SCHLEY Is NO HERO.
NEITHER is SAMPSON AS FAR AS THE
BATTLE OF SANTIAGO is CONCERNED.

That is Decision of President ROOse-
welt - Says Neither One Deserves
Sprcia Credit, it Being a Captains
Fight all the Way Through Com
mander Wainwright the Real Hero
OF the Occasion-Loop Made by the
brooklyn Styled a Grave Mistake
Barring That, Schley Did Well. but
Sampson Was Technically in Com
mand-Full Text OF the Presidents
Decision.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1902-03-06

(other than the Brooklyn and New
York, the fagships Of the two ad-
mirals) which were actively engaged
in the fight. Admiral Philip is dead.
l quote extracts from his magazine
article on the fight, written i'm med iate-
ly after it occurred; closing with an
extract from his letter to the Secre-
tary of the Navy February 81, 1899:
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1902-03-06
Henry Perry,
.~InSurance.~

strong line nt roth life and Fire Conn
panie- represented. Policies issued and
risks placed 70 uest advantage.
Office i'll Court House.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1902-03-06

1t IS very con-
venient to attribute
the disasters which
overtake US to fate.
But for the most
part man is the
arbiter of his own
fortunes. Business
III en- are tru C k
down suddenly as
by lightning. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
ENGLISH HENRY PATTERSON.
London Writer Scores Smart Set for
 Their Way of Living.

From the Denver Times.
 Almost as scathing and quite as sensa- tional as Henry Watterson's attacks on New York's Four Hundred are the gos- sipy chapters on the English smart set which appear in An Onlooker's Note Book" written by the anonymous author of "Collections and Recollections." The writer especially 6eplores the worship of the golden calf. which, he says. is given precedence in England over birth, breed ing, rank. accomplishment or eminence in literature, art, or public service.
 Of the complete secularization of the Sabbath, he says:
 Smart people in London generally go away from Saturday until Monday. and, in the country houses, where they spend their 'week-ends,' Sunday is completely secularized The keener spirits play bridge in the garden, and in the evening, billiards and cards have effectually dis placed those ivory letters which were the extreme limit of the gayety permitted by our fathers. For servants, on the other hand, Sunday is a day of intending labor.
 "Old-fashioned people used to have cold dinner on Sunday, in order to diminish the pressure on the kitchen; or, if nature reYolted against the regimen, the hot meal was cut down to it's smallest dimen- sions. Today, whatever of Sunday is not occupied with exercises, is given to meals The early cup of tea, not without accompaniments, is followed by a break fast, which in quantity and quality, re- sembles a dinner, and is served any time from 10 to 12. good many people break fast in their own rooms, and do them- selves as the phrase is, uncommonly well there"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
Christmas Evergreen.

Holly and cedar have been in demand for church decoration ever since l can remember" said church warden last night, but these evergreens are now used extensively in house decoration, and not a few of them are seen in the stores and in the soda water shops.
 An old man living in the woods told me last week that he had sold s120 worth of holly this month, and that the greater part of his business had been with the merchants of Birmingham
 "one of the features of Christmastide in the Episcopal churches is the ever green decoration. I have visited churches in New England, in New York, in Vir- ginia, in Georgia and in Alabama, and in all of them cedar was used in profusion. The smell of cedar is grateful and every time I enter an Episcopal church on Christmas day I am reminded of an arti- cle once read on the psychology of in- cense. Incense affects one psycho1ogically, and so does cedar Music plays upon the heartstrings, and when I say music l mean to include the eloquent voice of the preacher; but incense and cedar are even more subtle than music, and many men and women have been brought near CT to God by these accessories of the church."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
A STANDARD OIL HoLD-uP.

From the Kansas City Star.
 It must be obvious to all persons who realize that a man can use just so much of this worlds goods and no more that the s16OOO.o GOO which John D. Rockefeller and his fellow conspirators will make by advancing the price of oil a cent a gal lon will do none of them any real good on earth. They all have now millions upon millions of money which they can not eat or wear or expend in any possi- ble way to add to their well being. They are literally gorged and weighed down with money, and they arc so enslaved by the love of it that they have lost all semblance to free and natural human creatures.
 But the power to dwarr and curse and vitate it's possessor which money devel- ops when it becomes the vile fetich which John D. Rockefeller and his kind make of it does not wholly relieve and avenge the injured consumers who are taxed with outrageous impunity to build up the fortunes of the multi millionaires. There is a certain comfort in knowing that not a single source of wholesome and worthy enjoyment or even any form of creature qualification can be accentuated by the breadth of a hair by the superfuous mill lions for which Rockefeller and his school sell their souls. And yet it is far from soothing for the pdbllc to feel that it is mulcted consistently to create ana maintain inequities which disturb the bal ance of society and present the gravest menace to its peace.
 The story of the brigandage of the Standard Oil Company, which is contin- ually cited as a great benevolent insttu- ton by the devotees of the trusts, is told in a truthful and simple manner by Ida Tarbell in McClure's-how it has vitiated railway corporations, overturned and de- stroyed individual enterprise, strangled competition and absorbed the riches which nature placed in the bosom of the earth for the benefit of mankind. That it's profits have been piratical and shame fully excessive is demonstrated by the price of it's stock and the enormity of a fortune which is being swelled daily to gratify the noble ambition of pious young man to be the first billionaire in the country.
 But the robbery in money to which the people are subjected by such insatiate monopolies as the Standard oil company is of far less consequence than the moral results of the form of licensed thievery which causes many shallow and thought less people to be unhappy because they are not rich; which inflanmes persons of
 
 still more restless tendencies to hatred and fierce resentment, and which causes that saving element in society which is content with enough to look with disgust and humiliation on the whole detestable rage for plunder which Is practiced by the Chadbands of industry in this coun- try.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
MORGAN WILL SELL OUT.
After the First of the Year He Will
 Nave No Interest in the L. & N.

New York Special to the Memphis News.
 After the first of the year J. P. Nor gan & Co., will have no interest in the management of either the Atlantic Coast Line or the Louisville and Nashville Nor gan's interest at the present time is en- tirely confined to the completion of the sale of the controlling interest in the Louisville and Nashville to the Atlantic Coast Line. With this transaction com pleted the firm will have no voice in the management of either of these two prop critics, and no interest beyond that at- tached to minority holder
 The only stock which the firm of J. P. Morgan & Go. owns in the Atlantic Coast Line is the s5,0O0,0OO which was turned over in part payment of the s06,0O shares of the Louisville and Nashville. This stock is held by the firm for the under writing syndicate which undertook to carry through the transaction This sock will either be distributed among the mem- bers of the underwriting syndicate or sold and the proceeds distributed.
 The same interests which have hereto fore owned the majority of the stock of the Atlantic Coast Line will continue in control of that property as well as the Louisville and Nashville. No new inter- ests have entered the former road.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
UNIFORM TEXT BOOKS.

From the Bessemer Workman.
 If Alabama had a uniform text book law on her stateute books thousands of dol lars would be saved annually to the citi- zens of the state, and the education of the youth would not be such hard mat ter to many parents. As the law is now, each and every school uses different text books, and the removal from one district to another or from one county to another forces the parent to purchase new books and the loss of the old books, the latter perhaps being just as good as new.
 A uniform text book law, with con tract with the publishing houses for a term of years. would naturally secure the books at much lower rate, for the publishers could afford to make a reduc- ton when a contract for a term of years was signed.
 The uniform law would make 1t com, pulsory to adopt the same books in all of the schools, giving to the cities and towns and graded schools a supplement tary list to select from. in addition to the regularly adopted line. but in all places requiring strict uniformity.
 The cost of books is enormous, and to give an idea of the expense, a course of ten years in the graded schools of any of our cities will average over s2 per year. Under uniform text book system the cost would be reduced 40 per cent at least
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
MORGAN AS A LEVER.
To Force Southern Cotton to New
 York Port.

New York Special to Memphis Conner
 cial-Appeal.
 The $50 OOO.OOO Wall street pool, of which J. P Morgan, James Stillman and George F. Baker have the management, is to be utilized as a lever to force southern cot ton to this port for exportation in the settlement of New Yorlks indebtedness abroad.
 Statements were made today that per- haps s10OOOO.OOO of the pooi money would thus be used, because the effect of big movement of cotton abroad would be more beneficial to the market than any other one thing.
 The fact that the sub-treasury has transferred s6,OOO.0OO to New Orleans since Thursday without exciting comment in financial circles is taken as proof that the $50 coo, GOO pool is already at work.
 This news. coupled with the encourag- ing figures of the bank statement, made Wall street more cheerful place today, and caused advances in the speculative market. Todays bank statement showed that money from the interior is coming east again. The withdrawal of money from New York independent of the cotton movement is expected to be very small hereafter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
Turkeys.

'The high price of turkeys this season will put every farm wife in Alabama in the notion of raising this popular fowl next year." remarked Morris avenue man yesterday.
 T have been in the commission trade for twenty years, and I do not recall year when turkeys were as scarce and high as they are at this time. Twenty cents at retail used to be considered exhorbitant, but 25 cents is now the price, and people are thankful to get them at that fsurs'
 T know of few branches of business that pay better in the long run than poul- try. There is a demand for chickens and turkeys the year round, and the prices, even in comparatively dull times are suf- ficient to pay good profits. If the country people of Alabama had had the foresight to raise turkeys on a large scale this year they would have made more money than they made on cotton, and cotton has been very profitable"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
KITTY NEIL.

By J. F. Waller. 'Ah sweet Kitty Neil, rise up from that wheel Your neat little foot will be weary with spinningl Come trip down with me to the syca- more tree; Half the parish is there and the dance is beginning. The sun is gone down, but the full har- vest moon Shines sweetly and cool on the dew whitened valley; While all the air rings with the soft, loving things, Each little bird sings in the green shaded alley" With a blush and a smilt Kitty rose up, the while, Her eye in the glass, as she bound her hair. glancing; Iris hard to refuse when a young lover sues, So she couldn't but choose togo off to the dancing. And now on the green the glad grours are seen Each gay hearted lad with the lass of his choosing; And Pat without fail leads out sweet Kitty Neil Somehow, when he asked. she ne'er S. Now. Felix Magee put his pipe to his knee, And with flourish so free sets each couple in motion; With cheer and a bound, the lads pat ter the ground The maids move around just like swans on the ocean; Cheeks bright as the rose. feet light as the doe's Now coyly retiring, now boldly ad- vancing- Search the world all round, from the sky to the ground. No such sight can be found as an Irish lass dancing! Sweet Kate! who could view your bright eyes of deep blue. Beaming humidly through their dark lashes so mildly, Your fair turned arm. heaving breast. rounded form, \ Nor feel his heart warm, and his pulses N throb wildly? tesE. Young Pat feels his heart, as he gazes. depart, Subdued by the smart of such painful yet sweet love; The sight leaves. his eye,S as he cries. with Q sigh. Dance light for my heart it lies under your feet lnvef'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
Police Protection Demanded

Birmingham's police force has never been large enough to give adequate protection to the city, and now that the police jurisdiction includes a popu- lation of over one hundred thousand the forty-seven members of the force are too few to guard properly the business section, to say nothing of the residence and outlying quarters of the community.
 The oldest and most orderly cities in the United States have larger DO. lice departments in proportion to pop ulation than Birmingham One officer for every thousand people is regarded as barely sufficient for quiet communi- ties, while in cities like New York, Philadelphia and Chicago there arc not less than two policemen for every thousand of population.
 Birmingham conditions are such as may be found in all cities of rapid growth and high pressure energy. This is a brisk town, and the brisker the community the greater the number of thugs and crooks.
 The very tact that exceptional pros perity rules here makes Birmingham a particularly interesting field for criminals. Within the past week or two highwaymen and burglars have been so much in evidence that the public has become aroused and the demand for a large increase in the police force is now earnest and gen eral.
 The police commissioners have agreed to adopt a resolution at their next regular meeting asking the mayor and aldermen to provide for the em- ployment of 53 additional men. With this increase Birmingham would have 100 police officers, but 200 would not be too many. A hundred men, how ever, would probably be able to cope with crime and run highwaymen out of town.
 The city council should respond promptly to the demand of the police commission. The finance committee must find some way to provide for the pay of more policemen, even if ex- penses have to be reduced in other directions.
 Birmingham must have adequate po- lice protection.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
CARNES THE NEW FACTOR
 IN SOUTHERN BASEBALL

wouldsgo to the wall, but his indomitable courage and his great sresoureefulness saved him. Within the last year or so he sold out his interests in this enterprise, retaining a large share of it's stock and the presidency.
 Now he Is lending his talent to the developing of the Asphalt company, of which he is president, and also attending to several other large interests.
 Ever since my acquaintance with Gen. eral Carnes, he has been an ardent lover of sports. He was great baseball play CT in his day, and since the inauguration of professional ball has been identified with it's upbuilding. He has always owned fast horses, but. so far as know, has never raced them. He is a sportman for sports sake.
 If the people of New Orleans will pause to remember he is much better known here than most people imagine. From 1878 to 1894 he was president of the chiokasaw Guards. which held the worlds championship. The Chickasaw Guards were the deadliest rivals of the Crescent Rifles, and those who followed the fortunes of those two commands will have no difficulty in recalling the commander of the Memphis company.
 'I am in nowise interested in baseball, but have long been honored by General Carnes' confidence, and I have no hesi- tency in saying that when he entered into the fight against the Southern League he was there to stay. I believe he would have sacrificed his entire for tune to win. That is his way.
 q do not know that he believed Char ley Frank to be right in his attitude, as considered from the entire viewpoint, but I do know that he believed Frank to be conscientious and truthful. Once Gen. eraI Carnes gives you his confidence, you can command anything he has, That is why he took such a prominent part in the baseball situation. He liked Frank, and promised to aid him. With him it is all or nothing.
 General Carnes has nothing which he has not earned for himself. He occupies a proud position in the city where he has always lived, and those who know him swear by him. I think that he is one of the few men of whom 1t may be said that his word is as good as his bond. Now that he has cast his fortunes with the South ern league and for peace powerful fac tor has been added to the end of success full baseball in the south and should any disturbing element arise he will devote his time and his fortune to eliminating it, just as heartily as he gave both to Frank"
 MT. Talbert himself is very well known in New Orleans. At one time he was in the wholesale grocery business here, and spent several years in the city. Now he has varied interests, but claims Memphis for his home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
WILL WED FOR LOVE ONLY.
Bailey Has Received 2ooo Proposals
 of Marriage.

Special to the New York World.
 ropeka-Governor- -elect ". J. Bailey to- night said there was no truth in the re- port that he had decided not to marry.
 eeNo man." he said. "can make such a decision without running the risk of hav- ing the decision overruled. A man marries when the spirit moves him and the girl is willing. In my case the spirit simply hasn't made itself felt. Maybe will marry, maybe won't heaven only knows at this time.
 T believe in marrying for love. My old father and mother, whom I buried within the year, married for love, and they were supremely happy for half century. When wed shall love the girl as my father loved my mother, and I hope my wife will love me as my mother loved my father"
 w. J. Bailey. governor-elect, and D. J. Hanna, lieutenant governor-elect, are bachelors. The former is forty-eight, the latter forty Both are rich, each owning a hank and a large cattle ranch.
 Henry J. Allen, editor of the Ottawa Herald, got up a proposal of marriage, dated at Boston, and signed "Sweetie Heart" and sent it to Bailey. The re- porters got hold of the letter and it was telegraphed all over the United States.
 The fake proposal brought to MT. Bailey over 5000 letters, from thirty-e'ght states and territories. Two-thirds of them are proposals of marriage The Kansas papers made much of the incident and urged mar riageable young women to also consider the lieutenant governor-elect, MT. Hanna. The suggestion was taken and stream of proposals began to flow into Hannas office. A comparison of the letters showed that many women had proposed to both men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
The Kaiser.

Speaking of the German Kaiser. I am reminded of a story that l heard in England, said man wno has travelled. "The narrator was an English professor in one of the small German universities.
 "A dispute arose between the professors of the university on some detail of man agement, and when, after much argu- ment, it seemed impossible for them to agree, the English lecturers chief aston ished him by saying. Well. there is no help for it; we must write to the kaiser about itr Surely" said the lecturer, you would not dream of troubling his majesty about such a small matter!' Indeed, I shall, the professor insisted, and he'll settle it, too. The Englishman smiled sarcastcally as he pictured some one of the kaiser's many secretaries re- plying formally and in a thoroughly non commttal manner to the communication, and so making an end of the business. Judge, then, of his surprIse when, few days afterward, the professor showed him a letter written at the kaisers dieta- tion, saying that his majesty would in six weeks time be visiting the neighbor- hood of the said university and would make a detour to consult with the pro- fessors about the question in dispute. At the time appointed-to the day and hour the emperor came, heard the whole subject discussed it from every point, showing in the task infinite ability, pa tience and tact, and finally settled it to the satisfaction of every one concerned"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
[ OHLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AlAB,aA
The lark at heavens gate sings, and Phoebus gins arise.
 --CymbeIine.
Santa Claus as an Imposior.

The Ministers Union at Hamilton Ohio. has declared Santa Claus an impostor-a theatrical impostor-and accommodated the jolly old gift distributor. A theatrical imposture $ a very bad thing, but if all such i'm pastures are no worse than Santa Claus, then we desire more of the same sort, for such impostors make a dull unimaginative world happier and better.
 Christmas is no longer, it is true, the Christ Mass of early Christianity. The festival had been enlarged and broadened until all regardless of con dition celebrate the coming into the world of the Saviour King by making some human soul happier. The darker and gloomier and more lonely the soul the greater the benefit the Christmas giver confers. If to make children happier, if to bring joy to some human soul be an "imposture," then the more impostures we have the better.
 The Ministers Union of Hamilton, Ohio, either should take something for their flyers, or else they need some thing that will take the puritanical kinks out of their seventeenth or eighteenth century heads. They are simply out of date.
 Santa Claus is needed in Hamilton, Ohio, as much as in any other town. There are children there to be made happier; there are the poor there, too, who need the love of humanity that Santa Claus serves and recalls to us. The great wide world needs Santa Claus, even if he be a theatrical i'm posture. All desire to be imposed upon by him in his best theatrical manner. Long may he make way his annual bund in sledge or auto or in any other way that suits him. The old fellow is always welcome at Christmas time, and the puritan brotherhood of Hamilton, Ohio, should seek a com mon hole in this season of the year, and pull the hole in behind them.