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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-16
40 WHOLESALE RESTAURANTS.

New York Letter in Pittsburg Dispatch.
There are over forty Wholesale restau-
rants in New York. This TACT is typical
of the great and swift scale on which
New York-even the poor part-lives.
Their customers are not hungry individ-
uals, but retail restaurants, eating booths.
oyster stands and free lunch counters.
There YVES time when every place of
this sort owned and used its own kitchen,
but the increase of rents, The decrease
in the size of store property and the
greater economy neeessitated by keen
competition have brought the wholesale
restaurant into existence and made it a
financial succers. Most of these affairs
are on the J1astside, and arc managed
by Germans, Jews, Swiss and English,
their numbers being In the order named.
They supply roast beef, lamb, veal, NUT
ton. corn beef and pork, pot roasts. baked
and boiled fish, fried oysters, CLANS
scallops, cells, fish balls and soft-shell
crab, boiled potatoes. cabbage, turnips
and beets, cooked and ready to serve.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-16
EARLY NORTHERN STOCK
LESS MIXED THAN OURS

To the Editor Of the Age-Herald.
George Wilson, in your issue of July Is,
in an attempt to account for the essential
differences between the New Englanders
and the Southerners makes statements
which are at variance with almost uni
versally accepted chronological and philo-
logical theories His classification of
New Englanders among the so-called
Mediterraneans has no foundation; nor
is there any chronological basis for class
ing the Southerners among the so-called
Baltic stock.
Whatever differences there. may still
exist among ethnologists and philologers
on points lying anterior to the period
when the first branch of the Aryan mi
grafton entered Europe, there certainly
is substantial unanimity on the point that
the Teutonic tribes which came from
the Baltic took exclusive possession of
that portion of England which supplied
the population of early New England.
These first Teutonic settlers of that
part of England intermixed to no appre-
ciable extent with the existing non-Teu-
tonic population. Whatever additions to
this stock there were came from a kim
dred source-the Scandinavian. 1t may
be asserted with confidence that the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-16
BIG BULL DEAL IN CORN
HOLDS PUBLIC ATTENTION

Chicago, July H.-There are only FOUR
teen business days to the end Of the July
corn deal, and the coarse grain pit will
be the center of interest Tor the grain
world until that speculation closes. With
the bulls possessed of much money, 1t is
expected they will put their speculation
through. whether the surroundings the
them; but the conditions can make a
gre at difference to the profit and loss ac-
count. 1t is possible the receipts may be
large enough during the critical fortnight
to turn a speculation that now seems to
premise a profit into one that will work
out a loss. 1t is not likely the outsider
even knows the difference.
If the July bulls get millions OF cash
corn @hrc ugh the next two weeks they
will take the grain and pay for 1t. Per-
haps IL will only make 1t little harder
for the speculative short because of the
extra expense and trouble resulting from
the unexpected amount of corn delivered.
The effort of the western holder to get
his corn to market and In shape to deliver
the speculative short for the kird and
quantity of .srein which will fill his July
sales will be even rore fascinating. 1t
will be contest of intense human inter-
est with the prizes superb.
1t looks somewhat as If there had been
oyerconfidence on the side OF the bulis,
and as If, no matter what their strength
it lad been mistake to put the price SO
high SO early in the month In any con-
test 1t Is well to save all the points and
certainly the July corn longs gave away
some when they permitted the price to
get to 90 cents three weeks in advance
of the elimination of their speculation.
The result Of this very high figure is seen
in both the receipts and the grading of
last week Although the bulls have
shipped sway not less than one million
bushels of corn already delivered them
the grair has come so fast from the
country and the elevator people have
turned SO mu>h of the low grade into No.
Q there will be more contract corn here
Tue sday than there was a week ago.
Toward the close of last week the con-
tract corn was coming and being made at
the rate of 100000 bushels daily, and that
would mean almost 100000 bushels dur
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-16
TEXAS DEMOCRATS MEET.
Judge John P. Reagan Is Given a Great
Ovation.

Galveston. Tex. July 15.-The Demo-
cratic state convention met here today
and organized with George Randleton
The usual committees were appointed
and adjournment was taken until tomor-
row. Congressman Ball Is chairman of
the sub-platform committee, which is at
work on the platform. Assistant Attor-
ney General r. A. John is chairman of
the full platform committee One of the
features of the session was an ovation
to Judge John P. Reagan who voluntar-
lily retires from the position of railroad
commissioner. The convention passed a
resolution eulogizing him as a patriot,
for half a century conspicuous as one
of the boldest, wisest and most faithful
champions of Democracy. He is the
only survivor of either of the Civil war
cabinets
After the passage of the resolution
Judge Reagan came forward and was
given an ovation, delegates rising and
cheering for several minutes. Judge
Reagan said he attended the first Dem
ocratic convention in Texas and had at
tended every one since, when he was In
the state.
The convention adjourned until morn
ing without going into permanent or
ganization. 1t is understood the plat
form will re-af1rm the Kansas City
platform without specifying particular
plans.
Encouragement S. w. T. Lanham
will be nominated for Governor by ac-
elamation.
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Cheerful crnn Prosnenls.

Because Alabama and Mississippi
are drouthy. we should not conclude
that the outlook in the country as
whole is gloomy. The reports of the
Agricultural Department show that It
has seldom been better A half crop
of corn in this State and In Mississippi
Is more than probable; it is almost
inevitable, but in the country as a
Whole a great crop IS almost assured.
The known acreage and present con-
dition present an estimated crop of
1853 million bushels, ags'ast 1888 mil
lion bushels in 1895, the greatest cror
OF corn hernofore grown IN this OF
any other country. Conditions may
change, but he chances are that
record-brcaking crop OF corn will De
grown and "a hered. This will mean
cheap corn zad cheaper meats in the
rarehed dis,l4ets of this state and Of
Mississippi.
The wheat crop is well-nigh gath
cred, and it Is put at $50 million bush
els. against 74S million bushels last
year But last years crop. like that
of 1899. was exceptionally large, and
the crop of the present year will be
large enough 20 meet all demands upon
it. It viii be iarger than any previous
crop except that of 1901 and 1898.
The oat crop OF the country promises
to- reach LII million bushels, or fully
80 railiicn Ssheis larger than any crop
previously grown. Barley and other
minor crops are art :, isiES, and all OF
these crops will seen re gathered or
assured.
Nor is there any reason to expert a
light cotton crop. The world needs
crop of 100000 tales, and--one
more general rain ia Teas will carry
the crop 10 those n5uIes. 1t is too
curly to say Mat the outcome in this
State and in Mis- sissippi will be. Good
showers are falling, GLt general rain
is needed and If such rain comes soon
there will be million tales grown IN
Alabama and another million in Mis-
sissippi and neither State often tx
ceeds this found abn.
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FRYE WEARS II.
Senator Sports the Finest Panama In
Congress.
From the. Washington Star.

From the Washington Star.
IA paragraph in the Star about Sena-
tor Fryes fine Panama hat a few days
ago made that hat famous said a men,
Der of Congress from New York, "but
don't believe Senior Fryes Panama is
the finest worn in Congress There is one
other man who has a finer hat. That
man Is Representative Storm of the Oys-
ter Bay district of New York. Mr..
Storms Panama is said to be worth close
to $500. He won't tell the price of ii him.
self, because he says 1t is foolish for
man to spend so much money on a hat.
1t is a beautifully-wov piece of straw.
and 1t is wonderful how the work could
have been done by hand.
1.-The fact is that there are some expen-
sive straw hats being worn by>men in
Washington this year and 1 am beginning
to wonder what the women are going to
say about 1t. Up to few years ago the
women had a monopoly on high-priced
hats, and the poor men fumed and swore
over having TO put up SIS or $40 for
creation of the female sort Now the men
don't hesitate to pay more than that for
their own hats and are even going up to
500 and $500 each for what they wear.
About the time the wives begin to ask
for this much money for a hat there will
be a hot time in the old town and 1t is
probable that expensive hats for men
will not BE In much demand after that"
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Lumber in Alabama.

The lumber industry of the country,
including logging, saving and planning,
is the fourth in rank among the great
manufacturing branches OF the land.
Iron and steel come first, the textile
mills next, the slaughtering and meat
packing plants third, and lumber, en-
bracing 39,0S5 establishments, is
fourth. the value of the products of
these establishments in the census
year was $317 9,54S. Nearly 100000
persons were employed in them.
In Alabama there were in the CEN
sus year I'LL establishments, employ
ing $13,020,183 of capital, affording
employment to 9273 persons, and pro-
ducing articles worth $12,S67 ,551 Geor-
gia has 1854 mills, but Mississippi has
only S44. Tennessee has 1882 mills,
and is the leading lumber State in the
South. Alabama is in the next group.
In this State the machinery costs per
establishment $3905, and the average
output of the Alabama mill is Sill, 581.
1t keeps 8 persons busy, paying them
$2039 a year, or $244 apiece. The aver
age product per wage Garner is $685.
There were 659 logging camps in the
State, employing 3709 persons, cutting
S1S,5S7 M. IT., b. m. In the census
year the stumpage of yellow pine was
7,SS6,3SS M. f., exceeding by about
40 per cent the stumpage of white
pine. The sawmills were 1887 in num-
Der, employing 1858 wage earners, be-
sides BAT salaried employees. These
mills turned out lumber to the value
of $1O,514,349. OF planning mills Ala
bama had in the census year 251, en-
ploying 1913 persons.
The yellow pine standing is esti-
mated at 300 billion of feet, or enough
to last thirty three years. The esti-
mated wooded area of Alabama is 49,
800 square miles, or just about three
quarters of the total area. The stand
of yellow pine is estimated at 81 1872
million feet, and the annual cut at a
billion feet. The pine of the State
therefore promises to last twenty-one
years.
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FAITH.

BY Thomas Chatterton.
o God. whose thunder shakes the sky.
Whose eye this atom globe SURVEYS
To thee my only rock. 1 fly,
Thy mercy In thy justice praise.
The mystic mazes of thy will,
The shadows of celestial light.
Are past the power of human skill:
But what the Eternal acts is right
o, teach me in the trying hour.
When anguish swells the dewy tear.
To still my sorrows own they power.
Thy goodness love, thy justice fear.
III In this bosom aught but thee
Encroaching sought a boundless sway,
Omniscience could the danger see
And Mercy look the cause away.
Then why, my soul. dost thou complain.
Why dropping seek the dark recess?
Shake off the melancholy chain,
For God created all to bless.
But ali, my breast is human still:
The rising sigh. the falling tear.
My languid vitals feeble rill,
The sickness of my soul declare.
But yet. with fortitude resigned.
I'll thank the infiictor of the blow:
Forbid the sigh, compose my mind.
Nor let the gush of misery flow.
The gloomy mantle of the night.
Which on my sinking spirit steals,
viii vanisl at the morning light,
Which God. my east my sun, rauaala
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ter OF the exports Of American eommeroe
but we contributed every President Of the
United States but one, who was condemn
ed and repudiated, for the first thirty
five earlier years, the crucial years of test
of cur national life. In word. the South,
always in the minority governed the
United States. preserved in theories, won
it's battles, added its conquests and stood
for its glory. up to 1850.
We have had no slaves for the last
forty years How does the record stand
In Alabama? We have lost nothing OF
character as a people by the abolition Of
slavery. Who came out of the war with
Spain with unblemished names and with
the trophies of supremest excellence7
Joseph Wheeler and Richmond P. Hobson.
But the power of Alabama as a brighter
circle Of glory around 1t of this later time
than the gallantry of her sons in war.
We found the State reduced to militarism
with the last forty years of absence OF
slavery. Within that time, step by step,
in patience In crosses, in degredations
from without we have proceeded upon the
line OF our own ideal until in we re-
established a white mans government
and hold up to the eyes of the civilized
world lie best organic law known to the
peoples or the nations.
The free people of the South were the
basis upon which the social fabric of the
south was established in the beginning.
African slavery was an incident of their
civilization, no more and no less. Rum
manufacturers and trade in Africans were
the leading Industries of New England for
awhile but the New Englanders in their
peculiar characteristics were the base of
the civilization there; wheat growing and
corn have lsft Ohio as the main support
of prosperity to go west; gold mining is
not now the chief glory of California. The
people remain; the institutions change.
Singing out Calhoun for further illus
trations. the distinguished orator at
Thorsby said of his influence in the crea-
ton of the Southern Confederacy:
"In the contest he failed national SUI
premacy triumpheq over State sover-
eighty"
Admitting for sake of argument that
the Confederacy fell, If Colonel benson
will refer to the oath of office prescribed
in the Alabama constitution of 1860 he
will find a complete renunciation in its
words Of the ancient doctrines of State
rights. Passing on to the reformed State
constitution of 1875 he will find that oath
eliminated and none like unto it in its
place. In the reformed constitution of
1875 there is some sop to Cerberus.
For example Section IS of the Declaration
Of Rights says something ABOUT Ala
bama's acceptance of the accomplished
fact of the demise of the right of seces-
sion. Passing on yet farther into our
stage of recovery we see the consutu-
ton OF 1901 eliminating section 80 and
all else of that METEOROLOGICAL character Of
politics.
The national supremacy is yet ram
pant in ]. P. Morgan, etc., but the mind
and heart of Alabama was never confined
within the presence of the negro race
inhabiting the State. Alabama has been
and will ever be superior to the ma
chinations of politics that seek to suppress
white supremacy. ]. w. DUBOSE
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Some Figures Corrected.

The esteemed MergenthaIer dropped
the word white" from an article on
registration published on Sunday
morning, and this has led. to some
misapprehension. There were in the
year 1900 in JEFFERSON County 23,3S2
white males 81 years of age or over.
This number has since been increased
to fully 5,0O0-probably more. But
$4,000 is minimum estimate of the
white males of voting age in this
county.
OF black males of voting age in the
county in the census year there were
1S,4S5. Their number, too, has been
increased, and some of them have been
registered, and rightfully at that, for
some of them are entitled to registra-
ton, and more will be after while.
But the registration of the $4,000
white males of voting age is what con-
Germs US now, because they are almost
to man Democrats. Only 1912 had
been registered up to the beginning of
the present week, or less than one-half,
and only four days remain in which
registration can be secured in this
town.
It is estimated that fully 1000 white
males OF voting age are unregistered
In this town alone. Is it best to let me
registration and therefore the politi-
cal power of his town run down in
this manner? AAis is a serious CUES
ton. 1t relates to the next city cleo
ton, as well as to the approaching
county and State elections. 1t involves
the next national election. For regis
tration now is registration for life,
without reference to the payment of
poll taxes past, present or prospective.
The payment of poll taxes is in no.
wise connected with registration
II 5000 additional white males should
be registered in this county there
would still be 5000 whlle males un-
registered, and certainly that is
enough Of non-votlng white males in
! single county. Let there be, how
bver, a general effort on the part of
III to carry the registration of the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-16
ENTERTAINMENTS CONTINUE.
Colonial Visitors In London Are Shown
Every Attention.

New York, July 15.-The round of colo
NAL entertainments has been continued
with a banquet at the National Liberal
Club. where the front opposition bench
Of the House of Commons was well rep
resented. cables the London correspond
ent of the Tribune.
The colonial visitors were greatly sur
prised by the sudden retirement of Lord
Salisbury and incredulous when assured
that no immediate change in the political
fortunes of Colonial Secretary Chamber
lain was likely to occur.
The feeling among the Liberals varies
with temperament. Premier Balfour has
the late President McKinley's tact and
dexterity In dealing with opposition and
is personally liked because he is con-
siderate and never wounds the suscepti-
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SLAVERY NOT BASIS OF
SOUTHERN CIVILIZATION

To the Editor OF the Age-Herald.
1t is Of the sentiments of one of the
brilliant and devoted statesmen among
us 1 would write a single word Thy
friend Is daring even to the verge that
brave men may go; he Is generous of i'm
pulse. always: his gentle heart is sur
charged with love of truth and his fellow
man; his locks, white as snow. prema-
turely, attest the place he IN extreme
youth, held for himself amidst unen-
durable hardshlps IN impossible under
takings beneath the Southern battle
cross. This friend of mine busy day in,
even into the small hours of the next
day, with high problems his exalted pro-
fession, turning the law into channels
of justice and making OF 1t the defence
Of the weak has evidently stolen
glance into some university and high
school history" a marketable commo-
dity In these times, and has forgotten
to close the book. He Is 80 entirely
persona grata on the platform that ora
tor and audience blend in mysterious
unity. The listeners before him imagine.
each man, that he hears himself talk and
feels the spontaneous outpour of his own
emotions so lucid and so pungent is the
outflow from the great interpreter who
utters his mind and his heart.
Colonel benson went over to the new
and interesting colony of Swedes and
Norwegians at Thorsby to talk to them
about the Fourth of July. The occasion
ran well with the grain of the orator and
his published address is a valuable con-
tribution to Alabama literature of its
kind. There was less of the machine in
our politics when we had more Fourth
Of July than we have had of late years;
let us profit in the thought.
In sketching graphically the course of
politics in this country, the orator at
Thorsby sought to Illustrate his theme
by bold word paintings of the great tri-
umvirate, Calhoun, Clay and Webster.
In this connection, he came to say:
African slavery was the basis upon
which the social fabric of the South
was established, as it was the inspira-
ton of all political thought and action
from 1920 to $780,
If African slavery was the basis of CIV
ilization In the South, why did the same
institution fail of corresponding results in
South America and the West Indies?
have not at hand the statistics to cite
volume and page, but it is true that more
than two Africans were carried as slaves
to the most congenial evil and climate of
those tropical lands to one that was
brought here. Those countries to the
south of us no matter how prosperous in
commerce, never were able to build upon
African slavery or free constitutional gov
eminent. On the other hand while Afri-
can slavery prevailed in the South we not
only supplied nineteen-twentieths or bet
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-16
BRAGG DENIES REPORT.
Says He Did Not Think About Cuba as
Recently Published.

New York, July 15.-Consul- General
Bragg says the publication of an alleged
statement by him In a letter to his wife
that Uncle Sam might as well try to
make a whistle out of a pigs tail as to
try to do anything with the Cubans,"
was wholly unwarranted, cables the Ha-
vana corr espondent OF the Herald. He
has teleeTaphed to the state department
that he was not accurately quoted.
What General Bragg said, continues
the correspondent, was that when Uncle
Sam got through trying to make q whis-
tie out of a pigs tail he would report
whether he could make an Angio-Saxon
out Of Cuban.
AS a public officer in the consular SER
vice of the United States, General Bragg
said he would not authorize any such
statement for general publication. What
he thinks of Cubs ard the Cubans he will
report to the appointing power in Wash
ington.
Cubans here are inclined to accept Cen
eral BraEg's statement that he was not
quoted correctly No action contemplate
ing the recall of General Bragg has yet
been taken by the Cuban government.