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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-23
BANKING AND HOUSE TRADING.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 It Is pity that David Harum could not have lived to read the Item In the news papers yesterday, to the effect that the banks of North Dakota are adding to their business a department of horse trading. That would have filled Davib soul with delight. and have beeen es- teemed by him the fitting recognition of a clever career. Horse trading has laid the modest base of many a fortune, and we do not see that it is any less respecta- be than swapping railroads or spndicat- ing steel plants. 1t is not the magnitude of the thing, but the way fn which 1t is done that determines the ethics of it. David Harum got the better of some of his fellow men, but managed to com mand the sympathies of a large circle of readers after his death. The banks of course, will find horses less convenient by way of deposit or collateral than pota- toes or oats would be, but, nevertheless, the next convention of the Populist party ought to tender them vote of thanks for affording the first practical exhibit of it's principles. Every bank will neces- sariy have Its horse safe; but the re- ceiving teller will have to stipulate that no horses not personally endorsed with at least two negotiable names will be ac- cepted. North Dakota is still a favorite haunt of horse thieves, who will now probably go in for a mastery of the fine art of burglary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-23
A Great Scholar.

Take the clergy of the Catholic church as a body and they are not surpassed in scholarship by any ether professional class, and when 1t comes to the bishops, they are as a rule men of exceptional talents and learnings." observed a cul- tured layman.
 As an example of the ecclesiastics of all round education we have Bishop BlenlS of Porto Rico. who, according to reports from Rome will probably be appointed papal delegate to Manila: He was educat- ed in New Orleans and in northern col leges. Afterward he went to Belley, France, to study at the School of Philoso- phy there and then entered the Marist novitaiate at Lyons Sometime later he went to Dublin to follow course of sci ence and higher mathematics, and there. as in the other places where he studied, he made a brilliant record.
 After leaving Dublin, Father Blenk went to St. Marys college, Dundalk, Ire land, to occupy the Chair of Mathematics He became a priest in 1885, and the same year returned to Louisiana In 1891 he became president of Jefferson college. In 1897 he took charge of the Church of the Holy Name of Mary, Algiers La. In 1899 Archbishop Chapelle recommended that he be made Bishop of Porto Rico, and he received the appointment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-23
SATAN WAS ALSO THERE.

It is recorded that when Job was on earth, as the sons of men went up to worship, Satan went also. Tn the light of recent events seems that the same con- ditions exist to-day. On Sunday night last at Miami, as the sons and daughters of men went up to wirship in one of the churches, Satan went also. As the con gregation was kneeling and the preacher was offering up a fervent petition the devil was there and got in his work One of the good brethren had his pocketbook in his hip pocket During the prayer he was slightly disturbed in his devotions by some one, as he thought, accidentally hit ting him in the vicinity of his hip pocket When he arose from his knees he no- ticed his pocketbook lying close by. This however, did not create any suspicion on his part. Picking 1t up and placing 1t again in his picket, he was soon engrossed by the words of the preacher. On reach ing home and examining his pocketbook he was surprised to find that the $9 which it had contained was gone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-23
Great Railroad Man.

"A.iJ. Cassatt, president of the Penn sylvania railroad, is the dominating character in what is known in the rail- road world as the Community of inter- ests,'" said a prominent man of affairs who has a personal acquaintance with MT. Cassatt.
 'Pierpont Morgan reles. greatly upon Cassatts judgment and advice, and, in fact, whatever the Pennsylvania magnate says goes. The president of the Penn sylvania road is civil engineer by pro- fession and worked his way up from the bottom of the engineering department of the great line. After filling the posi- tion of first vice president for some time MT. Cassatt retired from the service of the company He travelled abroad and then settled down as a country gentle man. Upon the death of President Thomson MT. Cassatt was elected to fill the vacancy. This brought him from his retirement and ever since he has been one of the busiest men in the country. He is at his office desk every morning by o'clock and dispatches important business until late in the afternoon. For several years Mir. Cassatt was promi- nent on the turf. He owns the famous Chesterbrook estate, on the edge of the Chester valley. This breeding farm is his delight.
 "The celebrated mare, the Bard, was a product of Chest erbrook. Gold Heels the winner of the recent suburban, and other great racers, came from the same place. But when racing degenerated in New Jersey MT. Cassatt severed his relations with the track and has never since re- turned to it. The breeding of fine hack ney horses is now the fad at Chester brook. Blood will tell and the axiom is given signal proof by the trophies these animals take repeatedly at all the horse shows where they are entered. While horses are supreme upon this farm, they Go not compriss all of the live stock. There is fine herd of Guernseys which especially attracted the attention of Lord Charles Russell, late chief justice of EnglandEngland. while the guest of Mir. Cassatt at Chesterbrook. The great jurist told the superintendent of the place that if his farm were located anywhere near MT. Cassatts he would certainly take one of the bulls to place at the head of his own herd. There are two colonial stone houses on the estate. During the spring and autumn MT. Cassatt may be found, night and morning. mounted on one of his finest animals, galloping over the great expanse of blue grass that cov- CTS the whole surface with its velvety luxuriance."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-23
MOOTED QUESTION OF
 MEANING OF ALABAMA

of fiction, the author of which was the Mobile lawyer and poet Alexander B. Meek He 1t was who first gave that meaning in a fanciful after-dinner story of an Indian chief who was travelling westward with his tribe in quest of home.
 The Great Spirit had told him that at the end of each days journey he should strike his spear in the ground, and that on the following morning if the spear should incline westward, he was to re- sume his journey in that direction, but that when the spear remained upright or vertical on any morning after days travel, he should stop where he was and make his home. The spiritual injunction was followed by the chief and MT. MeeS, said the chief, when he saw the spear one morning standing erect. exclaimed: Ala 5ama," which, being interpreted, meant ''here we rest.'
 It happened long years after this ver- sion of the meaning of Alabama that Dr. William s. Wyman professor of ancient languages at the University of Alabama, devoted much research to the lore and language of the Indians who had inhab- tied Alabama. Ills studies and his corre- spondence with descendants of Indians who had dwelt In Alabama brought to him an interpretation of the word Ala bama," which was nearly contrary to that given by Meek. Accoi ding to Dr. Wyman's information the name was a compound of several words in the dia- lect of tne Alabama tribe which meant the people who gather mulberries."
 It was the custom of most of tha south- ern tribes to hold every year a fete or festival at the season of the ripening of corn-"The green corn fest1var' time. The small tribe of Alabarias were an ex-' ception. They held their annual fete when the mulberry trees became laden with ripe, juicy fruit, and they were known as tho "Alabamas," CT the people who gather mulb srries." This Is the recollec- tion of the story as 1t was given to this correspondent some years ago by Dr. Wyinan. Dr. Gannett, the compiler of tho geographic bulletin of the geological sur vey has been furnished Dr. Wyman's ad- dress, and will communicate with him on the subject.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-23
Oddities of the Registration.

Cullman county alone shows reg istration in excess of the number of males of voting age in 1900. In that year there were BETA white males of voting age in Cullman, including 415 of foreign birth. But the explanation of this registration is readily found in tEe addition after the census was taken of slice of territory cut from Biount county. The black man offers no explanation of this case, because the census shows there were in 1900 only five negroes in Cullman county of voting age.
 In other counties the registration is nearly as full. All but per cent are registered In Autauga; all but 8 per cent in Butler; all but 3 per cent in Clay; all but 4 per cent in Coosa; all but per cent in Dallasf all but per
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-23
Few Bets on Johnston.

'There is.p says the Montgomery Advertiser, "an undeniable scarcity of Johnston money" A scarcity of John son money means that there will be a scarcity of Johnston voters at the polls next Monday. Considerable odds are offered that Jelks will carry the state, and an offer of two to one is made in Montgomery that he will carry Montgomery county.
 Betting upon any event Is neither laudable nor desirable, but the betting man expresses, not campaign non. sense. but his best judgment The statement that Johnston money is scarce, which is unmistakably the case in all parts of the state, is simply a declaration that William D. Jelks will sweep the state.
 The Johnston-Waller campaign was foredoomed from the start, because it was founded upon the assumption that the rural voter can be deceived He is the very voter who cannot be de- ceived. No one knows how he ascer tains the truth, but all history and all experience go to show that in some way he does ascertain the truth, and his vote Is cast as rule for the best interests of the party and the state So 1t will be this time Unfounded pretensions have been sifted and an- alyzed on the farms and at the rural store and on the railroad platform, and Monday the conclusions thus formed here and there will be crys. tallized into ballots. Those who have assumed that the rural voter does not know the false from the true, will be surprised when the returns begin tc come in on Monday night from the rural districts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-23
Price of State Bonds.

In the flood of misrepresentation poured out in this campaign 1t is diff flcult to single out one as particularly fabulous, but perhaps the statement assiduously circulated by the John ston-Waller combine to the effect that Governor Johnston kept the price of state bonds at 112, while Governor Jelks let them drop to 1O5, Is entitled to first place. It is as artful as it is insidious, as demagogical as it is base less. It has not particle of fact to rest upon. The Montgomery Adver- user thus compactly explains the bond situation
 There are four classes of Alabama bonds outstanding. The class c As will be due in 1906. There are s966,- 900 f these. They are quoted at 1021-. There is another class of As, that is, bonds bearing per cent in- terest, due in 1920. There are S954,- 900 of these. They are quoted at III. Then there is the class A. There are $6,S04.000 of these. They bear per cent interest, and are due July, 1906. They are quoted at 10S1s. Class B bonds, of which there are s57S,000, are due July 1. 1906. They are quoted at 109la. Any business" man well knows that bond with eighteen years to run, purchased at Ill, will pay ex- actly, or nearly so, the same annual interest that a bond with four years to run will pay purchased at 1021a.
 In the Johnston-Waller campaign circular the fact is carefully suppressed that the Alabama As due in 1920 are selling at 111h. The fact also that bonds bearing high rates of interest drop in price as the day of redemption draws near is also carefully SUD- pressed. In fact, all the essential facts are concealed, and the bare quo tations are presented unexplained. And there are those who call this sort of work statesmanship!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-23
HoND.BlAINE CONVENTION.
kewfoundland's Premier Sails From
 Liverpool to Ratify Treaty.

London. August 22.-slr Robert Bond the premier and colonial secretary of Newfoundland sailed from Liverpool yesterday for Montreal on the Allen liner Pretorian, on his way to Washington with full power from the imperial government to reopen the negotiations through the British charge d'affairs for the ratifica- tion of the Bond Blaine convention.
 The Bond-Blalne convention was a special agreement entered Into about ten years ago between the late James G. mier of Newfoundland
 The convention on the part of New foundland granted to United States fish ermen considerable privileges in regard to purchasing bait, and Iargefy reduce the duties on a considerable class of American imports Into Newfoundland The United States on It's side opened it's markets to Newfoundland fisheries and raw products and confirmed the privilege of transportation of fresh fish in bond to the United States markets.
 The Newfoundland premier has declared himself in favor of free trade with the United States as against the union If the colony with the Dominion of Canada. His success in obtaining imperial sane ton for his present American visit Is the continuation of twelve years of persis- tent effort and only this week was he able to convince the government of the injustice done to Newfoundland by the ncn-ratification of the convention and secure its consent to the resumption of the recipi ocity negotiations. The premier will lose no time in getting to work and the British charge d'affairs will communi- cate with the state department shortly after his arrival in America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-23
REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN
 COMMITTEE APOLOGIES
sY WArTERsoN erEALEY.

Washington. August 22.-(Special)- This is the first time in the history of a political campaign when a campaign committee in publishing its campaign text book found it necessary to apolo- gize for the language of the President of the United States in his message to con gress," said Charles A. Edwards, secre- tary of the democratic congressional committee.
 This has been done by the republicans in their campaign book concerning the language used by President Roosevelt in his message to congress last December, where he touches upon the trust quos- ton. In explaining the Presidents atti- tude upon the trust question, the cam pa,gn book explains that the President did not mean what he said.
 "The campaign book says: President Roosevelt's discussion of the trust ques- tion in his first message to the Fifty seventh congress was conservative but fearless. He did not arraign the trusts as wholly bad but conceded that they were of tho industrial development Of this country as they were of the indus trial devlopment throughout the civilized world
 "in his message n speaking of the trust question the President says, It Is also true that there are real and grave evils, one of the chief being over-capitallzation because of It's many baleful consequences and resolute and practical effort must be made to corr ect these evils
 "fIe also says. There is a widespread conviction in the minds of the American people that the great corporations known as trusts are in certain of their features and tendencies hurtful to the general vel fare'
 He says further that, Corporations engaged in the interstate commerce should be regulated if they are found to exercise and license working to the pub- lic injury, and that 1t should be as much the aim of those who seek for social bet torment to rid the business world of crimes of cunning as to rid the entire body polite of crimes of violence
 'He again says that Tn the interest of the whole people the nation should, with out interfering with the power of the states In the matter itself. also assume the power of supervision or regulation over all corporations doing an interstate business.' and last but not least the President says in his message:
 The first essential in determining how to deal with the great industrial combinations is knowledge of the facts publicity
 The foregoing paragraph from the re- publican campaign book, 1t will be seen, apologies for the strenuous words of the President concerning trusts It also is silent concerning the last quotation from the President which recommends publicity. They no doubt were aware of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-23
MIR. EDlsoN's PREDICTION.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 MT. Edison is a sanguine man, and he has made many predictions as to his own inventions and those of others that have not come true, but his prediction Chat in thirty years steam locomotives and horses will be "back numbers" dis placed by electric motors, is so much in line with the general expectation that it will command large attention. The application of electricity to traction, lighting, and heating Is still in it's in fancy. This Is chiefly for the reason that electricity is not yet sufficiently abun- dant and cheap, owing to slow progress In harnessing waterfalls and utilizing cheap coal for its production. When every waterfall in our Piedmont country and every coal mine has electric genera tors close by with which to supply the needs of villages and cities near and remote, then electricity will tend to real ize MT Edisons prediction. At present we haul coal to the electric generator; what we need to do is to carry the gen orator to the mouth of the mine and use cheap coal that now goes to waste.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-23
PRESBYTERIAN REVISION.

From the Independent.
 J. Wilbur Chapman. D. D., secretary of the national committee of evangelistic work created by the Presbyterian gen- eral assembly at it's last session, says:
 '"rhe settlement of the discussion re- garding the creed has had splendid ef- feet, and Presbyterians are now ready for aggressive movement all over tho country"
 The work of the committee thus far, led by so experienced an evangelist as Dr. Chapman, has beer confined mainly the past year to sections of the central states. and between 12.0OO and 15,O0O accessions te the churches have been traced to it. The best evangelists in the English-speak@ ing world are expected to take part in the enlarged work of the coming season, in which $125,00d will be expended, much of 1t in the larger cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-23
MERITS OF APPLEJAcK.

From the New York Press
 When in Jersey do as the Jerseyites do drink applejack. The only safe way is to make today of it, with a plenty of baked apple. There are applejack, apple john, Jersey lightning, and Virginia brandy-all the same. The liquor Is merely a cider brandy, pure white substance distilled from the apple itself or a perversion. conversion, of the cider It really Is not fit for dog to drink, and its effects are frightful. It serves it's best and proper purpose in the bath. Four ounces in 100 gallons of water will revivify almost any human wreck. Jer- seyites who have bathed in it for years would not consider any other tonic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-23
IS EXPECTED OF MORGAN.

Settle the coal strike.
 Appoint a temporary successor to Pres ident schwab of the steel trust.
 Settle the Louisville and Nashville deal. Arrange the final details of the steam ship combine.
 Formulate a plan for a holding com pany to combine all the southern rail- ways.
 Reconcile the Standard oil and Heinze factions in the copper war.
 Inaugurate a bull movement which will give an opportunity to the pig pools and syndicates. which are loaded up with railroad and industrial stocks of all kinds, to market them during the coming win ter, or at least before the pendulum be- gins to swing the other way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-23
Sky scraper Construction.

'The rapidity of slxy-scraper construc- tion appalls even the blase New Yorker" !" said a New York drummer at the Morris.
 ''The New York man can hardly go across the pond and come back without finding some part of the city changed. The sky scraper springs out of the earth like the pot plant, and yet unlike the pot plant, it is marvel of strength. It would not be a great surprise if building contractors were to adopt business card something like this: Before going to Eu- rope leave your prescription for a sky scraper.f Built equipped and supplied with tenants before your return.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-23

the fact that a democrat introduced in the senate an amendment to a bill exact 1y embodying the Presidents suggestion and recommendation concerning publicity anent trusts and that 1t was voted down by a solid republican vote in that body. l do not blame them, therefore, for ignor- ing this whole question and apologizing for the attitude of the President on this question. I have been merely. waiting. before mentioning this subject, for a final denial that the republican campaign book Is to be revised on account of the failure to present this trust question ac- cording to the ideas of the President also his attitude on the Cuban reciprocity question. l have received that denial The book is being issued, and it is an- nounced that there Is no conflict between the President and the campaign commit tee on the subject.
 Tt must be remembered that this book is the textbook of the party, the political bible of the campaign from republican standpont, and presumed to contain an exposition of all the issues which the republican managers recognize as being present in the campaign. If 1t is true that the President is satisfied with the book, the public has a misconception of the at titude of MT. Roosevelt with reference to reciprocity and to the trusts.
 "The question of reciprocity is ignored as not being of sufficient consequence to be considered, or as presenting an issue for which the republicans as an organiza- ton is not willing to take responsibility The acceptance by the President of this disposition of the question amounts to an acquiescence in the position of the cam paign managers of the republican party and an abandonment of the proposition and estops him from advocating Cuban reciprocity on the hustings during his swing around the circle' which begins in September. It Is a practical admission that the republicans have abandoned this position and that he must depend upon democrats for support if anything Is to be accomplished.
 with reference to the trust question, the acceptance by the President as sat- isfactory the presentation made by the Republican Campaign Book is a reversal from the position which the President is publicly supposed to have taken, and which he evidently did take from the extracts above quoted from his message. The spirit and argument of the Republi- can Campaign Book Is in the defense of trusts in general, it being merely con- ceded that there Is a possibility of some trusts being objectionable. They not only have done this, but apparently fearing that too much importance might be att tached to the apparent hostility of the President towards trusts, they have apol- ogized for his position.
 'aThe public may draw it's own conclu- sions"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-23
IN HOTEL LoB8IEs.
Weather Predictions.

''rhe weather averages by seasons. and as we have had such long hot spell this summer, 1t is safe prediction that we will have cool September" said an old citizen.
 When we have had cool summers the heat has been fierce in September. Tho hottest spell of ten days in the history of Birmingham up to three years ago was from the 1st to the 10th of September. It is pleasant now to look forward to next month."