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The age-herald., 1902-05-15

cident, and he has brought in order, tranquility and peace to a remarkable extent. And, best of all, he Is an ad- vanced republican. He entertains no ideas that are not based on popular rule. He is even radical republican. Between his proven strength and the popularity of President Loubet, who comes from the ranks of the peasants, France Is very much of a republic, and she promises to remain one in definitely. Her monarchial and im- periahstic ventures have been both costly and unsatisfactory, and the re- public seems especially adapted to French tastes and French ideas. It's adaptability is proven by the fact that it keeps the country upon the highway of progress, and renders it respected everywhere. It in nowise interferes with alliances, even with autocratic Russia. It has come, it is plain, to stay.
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unapnreciated Gumwond.

As the supply of yellow pine in this section becomes less the value of gum will rise. The latter has long been discredited, because it was thought to have a tendency to warp, but it l has no more of such a tendency than yellow pine has, while it is much stronger and more durable. It is a hardwood, and yet it weighs but little more than yellow pine.
 The heart of the gum Is of red dish color, with beautiful grain, and wood workers in England call it American satinwood or satin walnut. The sap is light colored, and is equally as useful as the heart, although it does not take on quite so handsome a finish. but all is suitable for any pur- pose for which yellow pine is used. In England particularly the gum is recognized as valuable wood. The city of London uses vast quantities of it for paving purposes, and the Ar mour Packing Company is putting up large buildings in which gum is ex- clusively used for the timbers, sheet ing and flooring. It is also largely used in the manufacture of the lower priced grades of furniture.
 Altogether 1t is valuable wood, and the time is fast coming when every bit of it will be commercially valuable. Heretofore it has been largely cut for the manufacture of boxes, but it is fast becoming wood of recognized merit for building purposes. The peo- pie of Arkansas are urging upon the world the value of gum, and at the St. Louis fair they will endeavor to win over all disbelievers. There are great forests of gum in all the South ern States, but those of Arkansas are almost unlimited in extent.
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
Southern Educators.

"No matter what may be the school statistics of the South the most casual observer cannot fail to appreciate the fact that Southern professors and teach CTS are abreast of the time" said a law yer.
 Strangers who come from the East are quickly impressed with the ability and earnestness of the educators they find in this section. I was glad to read in the New York Times MT. Edward Cary's comprehensive letter on Southern educa- tion. That writer says:
 l !" One thing was constantly impressed on my mind during my trip. It was the evidence of rare intelligence, devotion, and energy among those engaged in edu- cation in the South. Of course, my ob- servation was limited, but I met men and women from a half dozen different states well informed as to the work they were themselves engaged in, college pres idents, professors in colleges and normal schools, teachers of schools, large and small; pupils in the normal schools, and school officers, and the impression was uniform and extremely satisfactory. The amount or WOrk actudlly uOlnS, the Keen sense and practical ability shown the patient industry and unseish, untiring enthusiasm were such as I have never met in like body of men and women of a like class
 "A few concrete instances will indicate the source of this impression. At Athens Ga., met the junior professor of mathe- mathics in the university. He is a young man educated in this country and in Ger many-a native, I think, of Georgia; cer- tainly a Southerner. In addition to the duties of his chair and the faculty work which Is much more exacting than in the North. he administers a dining hall, where he provides good board for 15O students at the average cost of $7.50 month And he also runs a farm of some 13O acres near the town, on which he applies the methods of modern and skilled agri- culture, partly, as I understand, for the measure and profit of the occupation and nartly for the study of it's capabilities in A scientific sense. He does not appear to regard the triple functions he performs AS anything extraordinary and I fear that he may be a little disturbed at this public reference to him. It is we'll for the South and for the country that there
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
SITUATION IN HAITI.
Commander of Fleet of Warships In
 Favor of Rebels.

Port-au-Prince, Hayti, May 14-Admiral Killich, commander of the Haytien fleet. has started for Cape Haytien with the Haytien warships Crete-A-Pierat and Tousant Louverture, having declared himself in favor of General Firman, the i>.mer minister of Hayti at Paris, who is at the head of the revolutionary forces in the northern part of the island.
 The northern revolutionists have seized the custom houses of Cape Haytien, Port de Paix and Gonaives. and are collecting duties. Protests against this action on the part of General Firman have been entered by the National Bank and the diplom atic corps.
 A severe engagement between the north ern revolutionists and the southern forces, meaning the troops from Port-au- Prince and the cities of it's vicinity. is expected to take place tomorrow or Fri day.
 The French steamer Ollnde Roderiguez on which ex-President Sam embarked yesterday morning is still in the harbor of Port-au-Prince
 After the authorization of General Sam. all the political prisoners here were re- leased and last night they, with groups of drunken soldiers. paraded the streets. Shots were fired from time to time and 1t was feared that the plundering of stores and residences would follow.
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Lee for Vice-Presldent.

"Gen. Fitz Lee would be a good man for vice-President on a Democratic ticket headed by a New York candidate" said a lawyer. "of all the popular Democrats in the country I doubt if one of them Is better known or more highly esteemed than Lee.
 Prior to the Spanish-American war no ex-Confederate would have been consid- cred for the national ticket It is altogeth- CT different now. If Southern man is not put on the ticket in 1904 it will not be because of sectionalism.
 "It has usually happened in the last thirty years that the vice-president has been chosen without regard to his qualih- cations for the executive office. From this time on I believe both parties will nominate men for the second place who will measure up to the Presidential stand ard. Experience has taught that it should be so''
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
NEW COTTON GIN.
Inventor Claims It Will RevoIutionize
 the Industry.

Jackson. Tenn, May 14.-Capt. J. M. Brosius of this city has invented a cot ton gin that will prove in the estima- tion of its inventor, the greatest since Whitney perfected his gin, and one that will revolutionize the cotton industry.
 This new gin will not have any saws. The cotton Is to be prepared in advance, at a cost that amounts practically to nothing. The new invention removes all the lint from the seed, leaving the hull almost as bare as a shelled peanut. The staple is not cut by saws, is much longer than that ginned on the old gins, and has a silky appearance and feeling.
 An experienced cotton man, when shown a sample of lint prepared on the new gin, Is said to have pronounced it sea island cotton, although 1t was the or dinary cotton.
 It is estimated that cotton ginned on the new machine will sell from one to two cents higher than that from the or dinary gin. This will mean an increase in the price of raw cotton of at least $50,00O,- 900 year.
 A gin will be built here in time for the 1902 crop.
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Mental Equipment.

'John Skelton Williams, president of the Seaboard Air Line, is perhaps the best equipped business man of his age iIr this country" said a banker who has known the young railroad magnate for ten years.
 MT. Williams Is a successful banker and a leader in the railroad world. His mental equipment includes a training in the application of statistics, turn for details and, more important still a turn for apprehending quickly large questions and solving complex problems. Had he gone into politics he would have attained high rank as a statesman, or taken up a scientific profession high rank in science. Williams is only in his thirty-sixth or thirty-seventh year.
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
A VICTIM OF PiNG-PoNG.
From the St. Louis Republic.

From the St. Louis Republic.
 When Jerry Simpson, the one-time al- legedly sockless representative in Con- gross of a Kansas district, removed his habitation and talents to the younger and, in one sense, breezier Oklahoma country. the friends he left behind him proudly as- by the nation.
 And this confident prediction has come true. Recent news dispatches notify the world that Jerry is now the champion plngpong player of Montana. lie won the championship, we are told, in spir. ited tournament against Skew" John son, general agent of the Northern Paci- fic Railway; Conrad Kohrs, cattle million aire; San Scott, the millionaire manager of the Pioneer Cattle Company, and ex- Senator Tom Powers. The tourney took place in Helena, and may easily be imag- ined as a sort of Field of the Cloth of Gold, with doughty cow-kings, railway barons, and majestic statesmen ping ponging one another in the most intrepid manner.
 What a metam morphosis, however, for Jerry Simpson. this indulgence in the sport of aristocrats, his felow-gamesters being of the very class against whom he was wont to inveigh so bitterly, the men of millions, of railroads. of syndicates, the enemies and oppressors of the com mon people! Was 1t not in protest against their silken hose that Jerry refused flat footedly. so to speak, to wear any socks at all? Did he not use to hurl the anathe- ma maranatha of Populism at their heads, himself glowing with demagogic ardor ? &Ns Tor at, -by-jowl with such gentry, rubbing elbows with them as if there were no contamina- ton in their touch! Alas! Ehue; Ichabodl How have the mighty fallen.
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
A s7coo DINNER TO HARTMAN.

From the New York Journal.
 It cost Hermann Oelrichs s112.91 a plate to entertain sixty-two guests of the Pa cifc Union Club, the principal figure of the banquet being President D. H. Har- rin an of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
 MT. Hartman, John w. Mackay, Whitelaw Reid and William H. Crocker sat immediately to the right and left of Hermann Oelrichs and near by was MT. Oelrichs' brother-in-law, Charles L. Fair.
 In the center of the long banquet board was a miniature lake with water two feet deep In the middle of the lake was a pretty reproduction of the Japanese tea garden in Golden Gate Park. There were stepping stones from either side to the tea garden and here and there were tiny moss-covered islands. Fish, ter rapin and frogs sported in the water.
 The menu comprised the finest dishes ever served at a dinner In San Francisco. The total cost to MT. Oeirichs was a fraction over $7000.
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
INVESTIGATING BEEF TRUST.
Federal Grand Jury In Indianapolis
 Takes Up Question.

Indianapolis, Ind, May 14-A federal grand jury in charge of District Attorney Healing begun an investigation today of the methods of the beef trust in Indian apolis.
 Representatives of the Chicago pack ing houses and local concerns were sum moned. It is understood that the inves- tigation is the result of official instruc- tions from Washington, but of sugges- tion of Attorney General Knox, who ask ed that all evidence possible be obtained for use in the federal suit against the trust.
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
CANNOT DIVORCE CATHOLICS.
Gaukler's Case Appealed to Bishop,
 and May Go to the Pope.

Chicago, May 14-It was announced to- day that the ecclesiastical divorce which Arthur c. Gaukler, Detroit lawyer and a Catholic, asked from the Chicago young woman who was formerly Miss Marian Loomis also a Catholic. has been re- fused. The case has been appealed to the archbishop of Cincinnati. Should his de- cision disagree with the one rendered In Chicago, the case will be taken to Rome for final adjudication.
 On their wedding day Gaukler alleges his wife left him because she said she had discovered that he is a hunchback. Gaukler secured a divorce in the civil courts.
 The finding of the ecclesiastical courts heard by the Rev. Father M. J. Mooney of St. Columbkills s church is that the marriage is a sacrament and cannot be broken by any power on earth.
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
ITALY NOT ALARMED,
Think Immigrants Will Continue to
 Use the Present Steamships.

Rome, May 14-Replying to a question in the Chamber of Deputies today on the subject of the Morgan shipping combine and its effect on Italian immigration to the United States, the under secretary of state, Signor Bartelli, said that increased dividends and advantages to American trade would naturally result from the combination. It was needless, however, to borrow alarm regarding an arbitrary increase of rates
 As to emigrants, If the combine desired to carry them 1t would have to secure the necessary license and agree to the immigrant rates, which the Italian gov ernment has the power to limit. The sec retary also said he thought immigrants would continue to use the present steam ships,
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press
 When mans troubled his marriage begins.
 Wise men never die. because they are never born.
 Gambling in Wall street is fishing for whales with spool of thread
 Some men are such turf hunters that they brag about losing all their money to big gun.
 Being hale fellow well met is about as much use to the man who is it as be- ing bottle of beer that is not flat and so Is sure to be disposed of,
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
DUTY TO THE PARTY.

From the Anniston Evening Star.
 Some of the state papers seem to think that because some of the members of the State Executive committee do not favor A Democratic primary there will be no pri mary. It does not follow. however, that such will be the case. As individuals some of the committeeman may not favor a Dem ocratic primary, but as members of the Democratic State Executive commit tee 1t is their duty to do what is best for the Democratic party, and if a major ity Of the Democrats of the state wish primary, it is unquestionably to the
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
French Legislative Elections.

The French Parliamentary elections are ended, and the Waldeck- -Rosseau ministry has won great victory, and the republic, now over thirty years old, seems fully established. There arc really no reactionists In sight un- less Boni Castellane be one. Out of tho 8,S63,7a7 votes in the first cleo. tiol. the Inin!stcrials boiled 5,19S,193, thus giving them a popular majority of nearly two millions. The victory was overwhelming.
 There were, however, 175 seats for which no one had a clear majority, and the second ballotings occurred last Sunday. Then again the ministry won seats, and it's majority in the House of Deputies has been hand somcly increased, and the enemies of Ntc republic are rendered powerless. Here and there a Bonapartist or roy alist bobs up, but In the Chamber he will be uninfuential, a mere cipher.
 All the predictions of the enemies of the republic have been reversed by the wisdom and firmness of the min istry headed by M. Waldeck-R -Rosseau, who has proven himself the best poli- tician and leader that France has per  haps ever known. He took hold of public affairs when all was in con fusion on account of the Dreyfus in
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
! ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Volcanic Explosives.

Nearly all the theorists-for nothing of a definite nature Is known-say that water in large quantities from the surface finds it's way towards the denths of the earth. where it becomes snperheated. and both volcanoes and earthquakes thus become possible. If the force of the superheated water is not great enough to find a vent at the surface, the steamy affair may be con tent with the production of an earth quake alone, but if it come to the surface there will be both an earth quake and a volcano. That water has much to do with volcanoes is amply proven by the presence of microscopic diatoms in the mud and lava sent out by volcanic action. These diatoms are bred in water only, some of them in fresh water, and some varieties in salt water.
 But what superheated the water? This is a hard one, and no one has ever been down deep enough to find out. Scientists as rule discard nowa- days the theory that the interior of the earth is a sea of fire and birthstone and molten matter. This theory is now generally discarded, and any one is at liberty to supply imaginatiyely the fire by which the lakes from the surface become superheated to tho explosive point. Some oxyhydrogen gas theory may have to be introduced and if all else fail resort may be had to the old theory of a central molten mass in the heart of the earth, and then all one has to do is to bring the molten mass and the water together, each leaking towards the other-each seeking the other in order to make trouble at the surface of a vexed sphere, and showing perhaps how the world may be destroyed in the long run. Professor Chamberlain, who fills the chair of geology in the Chi cago University, says the immediate cause of volcano lis a conduction of the high temperature of the deep in- terior towards the surface" This melts the rocks of the subcrust. And he calls attention to the fact that the Pelee disturbance was unique in that the death loss Is among the highest on record, while there was less lava emitted than by several of the other eruptions in history. The lava, in. stead of flowing down the sides of the mountain, evidently belched into the air and descended like rain upon those so unfortunate as to be caught under 1t. This renders the Mont Pelee erup- ton singular and unique, and this is one of the reasons why scientists are hurrying to the scene in order to 2 study all it's phenomena.
 After all, they will be able to ascer- tain very little, but every little helps in matter of deep concern. in which We know absolutely nothing. We have the sun as the source of all energy. and we have water, and we have this unstable swinging planet, and that Is about all We have in the complex problem that We understand. How the three cooperate to bring about Pelee disaster we do not know, and ignor- ance stands therefore as the sum of our confession.
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
ALLOW BOERS TO MEET.
Kitchener Will Not Interfere With
 Conference on Peace Terms.

London, May 14.-Lord Kitchener has notified the war office that reports of all the bodies of Boers throughout the Transvaal and Orange river colonies are gathering at Vereenigng for the confer ence which begins tomorrow and that he has arranged that the delegates shall not be impeded in reaching the rendezvous. Consequently the assemblage is expected to be large,
 The decision reached regarding the peace terms will later be submitted to the British A delegation consisting prob ably of the same Boer leaders who went to Pretoria recently will be deputized to convey the decision to Lord Kitchener.
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
STABBED BY BURGLAR.
Merchant Shoots Thief In Leg and
 Hits Him On Head.

Fort Smith, Ark, May H.-P. R. Davis, wealthy wholesale merchant of Fort Smith. was stabbed five times in an en- counter in his bedroom with a negro burglar early today. Davis shot the bur- with his revolver, but the man escaped.
 A posse has started out in search of him and there is talk of a lynching The negro's clothing was found later in the house of a negro doctor. The doctor has disappeared Davis wounds are serious
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
DlAZ ON TRUSTS.

From Modern Mexico.
 President Diaz is a trust smasher who does not temporize with combinations that would oppress the people. He gave the corn corner last year a sudden and telling blow by arranging to sell corn to the poor classes at low rates, and he gives notice that "the same methods can well be adopted as often as it may be necessary to counteract the pernicious eHects or artificial combinations inspired by moderate greed of gain"
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
ISLAND OF GOLD
Found In Pacific Ocean Somewhere
 Off Coast of Ecuador.

San Francisco, May 1I-The treasure land for which an expedition started from this port last December on the schooner w. S. Phelps has been reached in safety, according to a letter received In this city from a member of the party. The writer says that gold was found in the sand on the seashore and that also quartz discov- cred on the island is supposed to be gold bearing.
 The location of the island Is not stated. As the letter was posted in Ecuador 1t S surmised the rich island Is off the coast of that country.
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
Summer Sickness.

There would be less summer sickness if people would be more careful about their diet" said an old physician.
 Most persons eat too many unripe rectly to green fruit or vegetables that are not matured. and bad flyers are often the result of imprudence. If one will only stick to proper food and drink lemon or lime juice every day there will be little trouble with the liver"
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
NED BRACE ON TOUR OF STATE.

From the Bessemer Weekly.
 Editor E. ". Barrett of The Age-Herald is making a tour of the state and is writing some very clever and interesting articles for his paper. MT. Barrett should not fail to visit Bessemer No town in Alabama can furnish subject matter of greater scope and the history of no other municipality is more replete with achieve ments that give promise of a glorious, prosperous future.
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
FLYNN OF VIRGINIA,

y Bret Harte. Didn't know Flynn Flynn of Virginia
 Long as he's been var?
 Look'ee here, stranger, War hey you been? Here in this tunnel He was my partner, That same Tom Flynn Working together,
 In wind and weather, Day out and in. Didn't know Flynn! Well, that is queer. / Why, it's a sin To think of Tom Flynn
 Tom, with his cheer; Tom, without fear Stranger, look var! Thar in the drift,
 Back to the wall, He held the timbers
 Ready to fall; Then in the darkness
 l heard him call:
 Run for your life, Jake! Run for your wife's sake! Don't wait for me-" And that was all
 Heard in the din,
 Heard of Tom Flynn Flynn of Virginia. That lets me out
 Here in the damp Out of the sun
 That 'ar derned lamp Makes my eyes run. Well, there-I'm done. But, sir, when you'll Hear the next fool Asking for Flynn
 Flynn of Virginia
 Just you chip in,
 Say you knew Flynn; Say that you've been var.
The age-herald., 1902-05-15

The young man just out of college cannot find a man to talk to whom he knows to be his superior. Edward Everett Hales rule Is therefore inn practicable in his case.
The age-herald., 1902-05-15
Youth and Maturity.

From the Washington Star.
 Johnny is a terrible annoyance with his little tin wagon and his tin trumpet" {"
 ''Yes. When he grows up l am afraid he will be one of those people who race automobiles and blow tally-ho horns.
The age-herald., 1902-05-15

interest of the party to hold the prima- ry and it is, therefore, the duty of the committee to provide for primary, with out regard to what they, as individuals, may think about it.
The age-herald., 1902-05-15

Nearly eleven thousand arrests last year in town that contained in the census year less than 10000 people Is not a fact to be proud of. One in every four of us was sent to jail!
The age-herald., 1902-05-15

Gen. Tiresias Simon Sam of Hayti does not know whether it is best to become revolutionary general in his native island or lecturer under Maj. J. B. Pond.
The age-herald., 1902-05-15

Senator Tom Platt has taken it back, and he will permit his machine to re-elect him Senator. But the Dem- ocrats may have a word or two to say on that subject.
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The volcano in the Aleutian islands is not misplaced. They need some thing warm up there.