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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
CABINET CONSIDERS
COLOMBIA'S OFFER

Washington, April 25.-The cabinet held
short session today. during which the
relative propositions of the Colombian and
Nicaraguan governments in connection
with the proposed canal were discussed.
Both propositions win at once be SUBJ
mitted to Congress. The President is ex-
ceedingly anxious that whatever de-
termination Congress may come to as to
the relative merits of the two routes In
event some decision may be reached. be
done at this session.
Comparison of the outlines of the agree
ments or treaties made by the State de-
partment with Colombia In relation to
the Panama canal and with Nicaragua
and Costa Rica as TO the Nicaragua canal
shows a general resemblance in the scope
of the arrangements, but important DIFF
ferences of the details. One report of the
semblance is the amount of money to be
paid down at once by the United States
government to the country making the
concession; in each case this is 1000. 600.
III the Panama route is chosen Colombia
gets all of this money. If the choice falls
on the Nicaragua route, Nicaragua will
receive 100000 and Costa RIGA LOCO, Co.,
No provision is made In the Colombian
protocol for the payment of the annual
lent. That matter will be left to future
adjustment, though, of course, some rent
viii be charged. The agreements as to
the Nicaragua canal. however, spec1fcai-
ly state that the rent to be paid is $50, 900
per annum, of which Nicaragua will get
about $4,000 and Costa RIGA $1,000. While
this rent is merely nominal, it serves q
Useful purpose in the estimate of the
isthmian republics namely. to continually
ragua and Costa Rica over the territory
through which the caral is cut.
The original proposition was to pay q
lump sum representing the capitalization
of this rent for ore hundred years, but
the Republics prefer 10 have the money
paid yearly In recognition Of their SOW
ereignty and in consideration of the al
lowanoe of their wish In this matter they
have gone to The length OF making the
lease to the United States perpetual as
against the one hundred year renewal
lease of rho Colombian agreement.
Neither Of the Ministers of Nicaragua
or Costa Rica mas yet received the full
powers from their governments neces-
gary to the perfe elton of the treaties
The question of the fiscal agency in the
| Philippines also was discussed by the
cabinet, hut no conclusion was reached.
and it wes stated that none can until the
encouragement renders his opinion on
the power of the guar anty trust to keep
| its agency
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
Opening OF the Baseball Season.

The work of the managers in the
various teams of the Southern League
will show for itself today, and specu-
lation will soon have something more
than theory and mere opinion to rest
upon. The ball player himself will
begin to talk, and he will do his talk
ing with his playing clothes on.
It is generally thought that better
ball is to be played in this section OF
the country that ever before, and that
not one of the eight teams in the
| league has a secure grip upon tall
end honors. In very truth, there IS
no one who is authorized to name
even first-division honors, saying moth
ing of the pennant itself
There is a feeling abroad in this
town. however, that Manager Halter
has gotten together a flrst-division
team, which has even a good right to
cherish flag aspirations. Some think
New Orleans and Little Rock and
Nashville are justified In looking In
like direction. but then there are some
who say Memphis, Atlanta, Shreveport
and Chattanooga will each and all be
heard from before the season is ended
in October. There is many slip be-
tween the April hope and the October
flag.
OF two things We may well feel
assured, namely, President Nicklin
will do his very best towards securing
competent and honest umpires, dis
carding the weakling and the partial,
and this In turn will assure good or
der and good interest In the games,
and also good attendance. These are
essential, and these are well assured
in the Southern League. Incompetent
and unjust umpires will not be re-
tanned; and the players must do hon.
est work. The national game has a
firm hold upon the lovers of outdoor
sports in this town. and the season
here will be opened under favorable
auspices. Sharp, clean ball will do
the rest.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
POLICY SHOP RAIDED.
Great Crowd Watches New York De-
teetives Smash Doors.


New York, April 25-District Attorney
Jerome has sent several staff detectives
into Chatham Square where they rails 81
an alleged policy shop. made two prison
ers and seized paraphernalia said to have
been used in the business. Chatham
Square is in the police precinct presided
over by Captain Yredenburgh, who re-
Gently was quoted in the newspapers as
having said he would give a reward of
$500 to any one who could discover dis
orderly house or policy shop in his pre-
cinct.
The raid was somewhat spectacular,
hundreds of people seeing the detectives
enter the place by smashing the doors,
Six men were in the room and the officers
had to use force in making arrests One
of the officers was so dazed by a blow
that one man he was holding got away,
as did three others by means of the fire
escape.
The raid is looked on as important, i'll
that the police claim it was the headquar-
tiers or clearing house for the down
town shops.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
Educational Work in the South.

The Southern Educational Board
that met this week Southern edu-
Gators at Athens, Ga, and that has
an ample fund at it's disposal, includ-
ing a gift of $1,OO0.0OO from John d.
Rockefeller, consists of some of the
most eminent phiianthropists and mil
lionaires in the country. 1t is branch
of the National Educational Board, OF
which w. II. Baldwin, Jr., is presi-
dent
The object of these boards is to
formulate a practicable plan by means
of which money from generous givers
will be expended in the South for the
education of whites and blacks by
practical and thoughtful men. The
plan will be devised by Southern
minds and the expenditures will be
guided by Southern hands. The OBJ
iect of the boards was thus expressed
by Northern man at Athens in these
words
you have shown us that the South is
| trying heroically to deal not only with
the negro, but with great unprivileged
masses of it's white population. You un-
derstand your own people and your own
! problems as we do not. This work Is,
therefore, yours. Take it and do it. In
so far as we can help you we are at your
service. We have no desire to NEEDLE
or interfere. If you will take the helm
we will stand by you, not as, northerners
but as fellow citizens of common coun-
try"
Vast sums of money can be pro-
cured by Mr.. Baldwin and his asso-
ciates IL they can show good results,
and this they will try to do. Edgar
Gardner Murphy, formerly a clergy
man of Montgomery, is secretary of
the Southern Education Board, and he
| recently stated that strong effort
would be made to teach whites and
blacks alike how to make living, and
| communities which help themselves
will be the ones first helped by the
board. For example, when Guildford
| County, North Carolina, raised $500
by local taxation for a normal train
ing school, the board added $4,000 from
its treasury. This indicates their gen.
eral policy. No great gifts will be
made, but every dollar will be quietly
and thoughtfully placed where it will
do the most good
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
NO CONVENTION WANTED.

From the Columbiana Chronicle.
Let us have primaries, straight and
conclusive and no convention afterwards
Let the people nominate their candidates
and stand by their choice In the primary
There is every guarantee now to the peo-
pie of the state by the new constitution
that the elections in the future shall and
must be honest, and the people will get
the officers they select. This can be
done II there are primary elections held
the same as the general elections with
no meddling afterwards by conventions
or party leaders. These are the reasons
why the affairs of our state are in such
a muddled condition. and 1t is the cause
ton.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26

be the Illustrations, which are piquant
and truthful. They fit the literary mater
ia1 of the book excellently. The decora-
tons are tasteful, and the typographical
appearance of the volume is pleasing. II
would be very suitable as a gift book.
In discussing Joel Chandler Harris new
volume the New York Times says:
To take up a volume by Mr. Harris N
to be instantly pervaded by a pleasurable
anticipatory glow. AS one reads the four
stories contained in 1.-THE Making of a
Statesman this grow suffers a little chile.
They are agreeably told the book will
not be amiss as a transient hammock
companion, but the tales are. by no
means, up to the level of Mr. Harris'
best work, and will not add to his repu-
tation.
The sacrifice made by the hero of the
first story Is happily impossible to such
man as he is described, and Is so far
from communicable that it suggests
George Eliots warning: Don't melt
yourself down for the benefit of the tall
low trade"
There Is pleasant glimpse of Mr. Billy
Sanders; but Aunt Minervy Ann, for once
In her life. is disappointing in her
methods and her hnmor. 1t is feared-let
1t be said with bated breath-that she
Is even little tiresome. .Flingin' Jim
and His Fool-Killer' is the most charac-
teristic tale, but not in it's authors de-
ngbtfully spontaneous vein.
Ii authors only knew how to harden
their hearts against publishers, and to
re1use TO write unless the spirit moves!
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
,radstreet's shows:

The prices named are the prices
per 100 pounds in each case, and they
show that even the great corn crop
of 1900 did not stay the plans of the
beef trust. It advanced prices in that
year as 1t has in the present year.
It should be remembered that tho
I'VE allied packers, constituting the
beef trust, slaughter the greater part
of the commercial meat of the coun-
try. In the census tables the meat OF
the farms is included. but the COM
mercial meats are in fact In great
part monopolized by the five allied
companies and by the independent
companies that seek protection be-
hind them and under them. And not
content with the output OF their
slaughter houses, they are now en-
gagged in securing through the use of
their storage plants control of the
eggs and poultry of the country.
What Is the remedy against such
extortion? There is but one-repea
the duties upon articles the trust deals
in. 1t Is now selling at low prices ii
other countries, and 1t Is demanding
or soon will demand prices at home
up to the tariff point. The only rem
edy consists in taking away that tariff
point altogether.
A more heartiess or more graspine
trust was never formed than the beef
trust. 1t together with the oleomar
garine bill Is direct attack upon the
consumers in the interest of the few.
Dingieyism and the oleomargarine bill
are "off" one piece. They are exactly
alike in principle. They confer priv
iieses upon the few at the expense of
the many, and until both are repealed
we may expect to be bled remorse-
lessly when we buy butter, eggs, poul-
try, or any of the meats of the meat
trust. Until the people see what Ding
leyism really is this species of rob-
berry will go on, and the robbers feel
so secure they do not hesitate now to
declare their protection sacred They
have come to consider it vested
right or something higher.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
a Crowd Looks on.

Every one, I believe likes to watch
the erection of a large building, SAID
a First avenue merchant yesterday and
very naturally the Woodward steel frame
building attracts attention. As the frame
work goes skyward the crowds OF look
ers-on increase.
This efternoon at $50 O'clock there
were not less than 300 people standing at
the corners of Twentieth street ana
First avenue watching the movement oil
the greet derrick and marveling at the
agility of the workbench as they adjusted
the heavy beams. Some Of the meehan-
les swing from the derrick in midair like
balloon artists.
Il have been intending all this week to
write an advertisement. but 1 have not
found time to do it, so busy have i
been keeping up with the progress OF the
steel frame work"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
British Neutrality at Chalmette.

Colonel Crowder, who was sent to
investigate the manner of conducting
affairs at Port Chalmette, has reported
that he finds no evidence of viola
ton of neutrality on the part of the
British officers at that great base of
supplies. No men have been enlisted
there; no British soldiers or guns are
there; no officers wear their uniforms,
and there are there no means of de.
Tense of any kind.
The British buy or rather ship from
there -four, mules, hay and horses and
other supplies, and these articles are
carried to South Africa in British
transports, either owned or chartered,
J but it has long been considered that
the mere purchase and shipment of
-four or mules or other similar articles
| does not constitute a breach of neu-
/ trality under the general international
Jaw or under the treaties existing be-
tween this country and Great Britain.
A mule may be at times very belliger-
ent, but he does not, it seems consti-
tute a military supply" any more
than bale of hay or barrel Of -four
does.
The camp at Chalmette has existed
two years and half, and in that time
the British have disbursed there,
through army officers not in uniform,
about SIS, 100000 for horses and mules,
and about s15.ooO,OOO for forage and
other supplies. In that time IT'S ships
have carried away $4,000 mules and
$4,000 horses, besides vast quantities
OF hay and other supplies. 1t is no
wonder, therefore, that New Orleans
and Lathrop, Mo-, construe the neu-
trality laws very literally. They de
sire to keep the best customer they
ever had. yhe little town Of Lathrop
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
Butter and Butterine.

II used to eat butter, and the best quail
ity of butter but l was reduced to but
terine year ago and have not tasted
the old-fashioned article since" said a
man of moderate means.
eat first I was prejudced against imi-
tation butter, but now I have come to
like the substitute pretty well. Good but
terine is certainly a great Improvement
on common butter; but the trouble is, the
price of butterine has got so high that 1
am thinking of getting down to dry
bread
Speaking of substitutes for butter,
nearly all the hotels and boarding houses
in large cities use oleomargarine for
cooking and butterine on the table. In
former years there was enough butter to
go round, but there is not near enough
now. Consumers have not only increased
in number, but in their capacity to con-
sumo"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
Bishop Thompson's Diocese.

1.-THE address of the Right Rev. Hugh
Miller Thompson. bishop of the Pro-
testant Episcopal diocese of Mississippi,
made at the seventy-ffth council, held
this week at Jackson, was one of the most
forceful ever delivered by that able
churchm an" said a layman yesterday.
I'm reviewing the work of the church
under his charge for 10 years the good
bishop said the result was somewhat
saddening since so much had been hop
cd and SO little had been accomplished,
Rat he concluded his address with manly
cheer. The outlook, he said, had never
been so hopeful Among other things he
observed: The church is no sect of yes
terday no hastily gathered expression of
folk scared about the salvation of their
poor little souls. 1t has its grip on and
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
The Knights of Columbus.

Forty or fifty Knights of Columbus will
go from Birmingham to Mobile tonight
to assist in the initiation of a large class
of candidates and the institution of a new
council of the order.
There will be visitors in Mobile from
other cities, and all the knights and all
the candidates will attend mass in a body
at the cathedral Sunday. Bishop Allen
will deliver the address of welcome and
the Rev. Father Doyle of Admission will
preach the sermon. The Rev. Father
OReilly will be one of tho principal
speakers at the banquet Sunday night
While the order of knights of Columbus
is not total abstinence organization,
wine is never seen at banquets given in
its name.
The Birmingham contingent will travel
in two special sieepers by the Southern
Railway.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
REBELS FIGHT IMPERIAL TROOPS
Chinese Government Troops Scatter
Opponents and Xiii Their Leader.

Hong Kong, April 25--Adyices received
here today from WI Chow. under date
of April e, announce that bloody bat
tie was then proceeding between a force
of imperial troops on their way to Nan
Mig, and large force of rebels.
The imperial army attacked the rebels
eneampment in the WI Chang hills,
brought pp two Maxims. and two twelve
Founders, and finally scattered the rebels
and captured their leader, Hung Yune.
Seng, who was killed. subsequently, the
rebels captured two villages on the out
skirts OF Nan Ming and established their
headquarters In those Villages.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
FIGHTING TO CONTROL EGGS.
Struggle Between Big Houses Has Be.
come Fiercest in the West.

Chicago, April 25.-The struggle for the
control of the eggs of the country has
become the fiercest in the whole range
of products, says the Record-Herald.
Every corner of the western states is be-
ing searched for eggs by agents of Swift
& Co., Armour & Co. and few smaller
dealers who have capital enough TO en-
able them to compete with these leaders
of the provision world.
AS a result of this competition, prices
paid to farmers are rapidly advancing,
and every indication points to unprece-
denied high prices for cold storage eggs
next winter.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
BERRY HOWARD ACQUITTED.
Was Charged With Completely In the
Murder of William GoebeI.

Frankfort. KY. April 25.-Berry How
ard was today acquitted on the charge
of com plicity in the murder of William
Goebel. The jury stood ten to two for
acquittal on the first ballot and was unan-
imous on the second.
Berry Howard ia the second in the
long list of those charged with completely
in the murder of William Goebel to be
acquitted. The other one acquitted was
Captain Garrett D. Ripley of Henry
county, who was tried last year. Those
convicted and serving life sentences are
ex-Seeretary of State Caleb Powers and
James Howard, each tried twice, and
Henry Youtsey, who accepted life SEN
tence on his first conviction. The cases
of Caleb Powers and James Howard have
again been appealed to the court of ap-
peals.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
1t takes a good woman to make a bad
woman hate her.
An engaged girl never changes the color
of her hair over night.
What woman doesn't tell about her.
self causes many marriage.
The woman with an absent husband has
no paddock on her fancy.
The seasoned love of a twice-made
widow has Its reminiscent periods.
A widow just in mourning has a year
to study the eoiors that will match her
better than the old ones
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
Prices Of Meats and the Tariff.

When the facts connected with the
tremendous advances in the prices of
meats are closely scanned it is seen
at once that the failure of the corn
crop last fall is but scapegoat on
the part of the beef trust. 1t has
been engaged in pushing prices up In
years of great plenty, In the best OF
corn years as we'll as in the poorest,
as the following table published by
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
The Marconi Factory.

"Mr. Pfaffman, representing the Cleve-
land Macaroni Company. who visited At
lanta and Birmingham recently with
view to locating a Southern plant, went
from here to Maridian, and from the way
he talked to our people he (has about
made up his mind to recommend his
company to build a factory in that city,"
said Meridian man at the MetropoIi-
tan.
Meridian is not only a growing place
but the inducements that We're offered
to Mr.. Pfaffman made strong impress
sion. If the Cleveland Macaroni Com
pany will put up plant there it gets
free site and ten years exemption from
taxes"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
WOULD BE A MISTAKE.
From the Greensboro Waterman.

From the Greensboro Waterman.
1t Is now beginning to be freely pre-
dicted that the state Democratic exec
ptive committee will refuse to call a
state primary for The nomination of Of
ficials, and 1t is being as freely predict
ed that there will be revolt from the
ruling, and ticket put out opposing the
convention nominees. Tho black belt
not being in condition to respond to
the call Of the leaders for ''majorities, -
the convention nominees are likely to
find themselves beaten. We trust the ex-
ecutive committee will not make the
fatal mistake of refusing the demands Of
the masses for a primary.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
He Explained IL.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
A negro who had been arrested on sus-
picien gave himself away" in a clever
reply to question recently.
How old are your asked the Justice.
81 dunno, SUM-"
You don't know your own ege?"
mo, suh.'
We'll, now. that's stranger
You may think so now, subj" was the
reply, but wen you heE been ia de peni-
tertiary ez long ca hez. you'll lose track
er time, tool"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26

Senator Clark on scorching auto.
mobile is censured, while Senator
Money is bruised in a scrimmage with
car conductor. General Fred Fun
ston seems to have started wave of
lese majestic.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26

st. Louis cannot postpone her fair
to 1905 because Santos-Dumont says
he has another engagement that VIII
take him to the North Pole at that
time.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
MORGAN PUT SCOTT TO SLEEP,
Washington Correspondent of Pittsbura

washington correspondent of Pittsbura
Dispatch.
Senator Morgan is Is years old. Last
week he stood en- his feet for five hours
and read $4,000 words of a Nicaragua
canal speech, and was as fresh as
daisy when he had finished. Everybody
left the chamber, but Senator Morgan
ambled along contentedly, and probably
didn't knew OF care whether one Senator
or fifty listened to him. President Frye
escaped early. He called Senator Scott
to the chair. Senator Scott kept awake
as long as he could and then took nap.
Senator Kttridge was present most Of
the time, because he is going to make
speech in reply to Morgan. Once he ross
to make an inquiry. Senator Scott slept
peacefully.
Change carsi' said the reading clerk.
Senator SCOTT awoke with q start and
answered the question. and Senator Nor
gan went on and on and on.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26
THE ISSUE GROWS DAILY.

From the Oneonta Democrat.
The demand for O state primary con-
tirues to grow among the masses. but a
majority of the state committee Is said
to be opposed to 1t. The primary plan is
fair and just to all and should be adopt
ed
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26

The meat trust counts that day lost
that does not enable 1t to advance at
least one of its products. The con-
sumers have been rendered helpless
by Dingleyism.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-26

The snow furry period in Chicago
is not considered closed before May
Is. This postpones the straw hat
period in that city.