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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
Princeton's New President.

"The resignation of the Rev. Dr. Fran els L. Patton as president of Princeton University was certainly great sur prise to the public, but the selection of Prof Woodrow Wilson as his successor is peculiarly fitting" said an old friend of Princeton.
 "Dr. Patton succeeded the late Dr. McCosh about fourteen years ago, and while he had not the worldwide fame of the Scotch metaphysician, he is one of the strongest men who ever presided over the university. He is a ripe scholar and sound thinker.
 Professor Wilson has filled the chair of jurisprudence and political science Tor many years. He is an accepted authority on American history as well as the the ory of politics He is a luminous writer and an impressive orator. He is the au- thor of several textbooks in the line or political history, among his best known works being The Congress and The State The latter work has had large sale and is found in the library of every institution of learning and every reading man. Wilson apprehends truth clearly and states it with a charm of expression that Is peculiarly his own.
 His essay entitled On the Writing of History" is a master piece of English, to say nothing of the keen insight into abstract truth which the author there reveals By the way, l do not know where one will find more satisfactory explanation of the difference between concrete facts and truth In its broader scope than in the essay referred to. In discussing the truth of history Wilson shows how a collection of facts may be set forth and yet not convey truth. The historian must not only have imagi- nation but a thorough understanding of the philosophy of relations.
 Another strong essay of Wilson's Is on Grover Cleveland written soon after Mr. Cleveland retired from the Presi- dency in 1S97 At that time he had no personal acquaintance with the ex-Presi- dent but from his study of MT. Cleve- lands state papers and his public life in general he reached an estimate of the sages character and mental powers that will not have to be changed in the time to come. Wilson is always calm and in assessing Cleveland there is not a sug- gestion of adulation; but nothing ever written about the great Democrat was so grateful to MT. Cleveland and his ad mirers perhaps as this study by Wood row Wilson.
 Professor Wilson is a native of Virginia but his youth was spent in Georgia. His father the Rev. Dr. Wilson, for long years the stated clerk of the Southern Presbyterian General Assembly entered him at Princeton when the boy was only 16 years of age. The venerable father was a man of high attachments, and he determined to give his son, in whom he was wrapped up, even finer educational advantages than he himself had enjoyed.
 "A few years ago I asked Dr. Wilson whom he considered the greatest man in America With characteristic humor he replied dryly: If you were to ask me to name the two great men of the country I would say they were my son Woodrow and myself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press.
 The man for the average woman is the man she can get.
 The woman who doesn't care for babies Is as normal as the man who doesn't care for women.
 A great many moralists can stand heavy doses of wickedness If 1t is not mixed with coarseness.
 A bore is a man who wants to talk to you about himself when you want to talk to him about yourself.
 It takes an ingenious trap to catch most any wild animal, but a clever girl can catch a man with bit of ribbon and a hairpin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
ORDER A PRIMARY.
be Huntsville Democrat.

From the Huntsville Democrat.
 From every section of Alabama comes the cry for state Democratic primary to nominate state officers. The indications point 70 a call for the antiquated meth- ods by the state executive committee and we warn 1t if 1t wishes to maintain the organization of the party it had best heed the demand of the people and crder a primary. This talk about the inability of the average voter to judge of the uuali- fications of tho candidates and that convention can judge for them better than they can for themselves, is a slam at. the intelligence of tho voters, who will speedily give an evidence of their ability to manage their own affairs if this warning is disregardcd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
Men of Power.

'I heard a discussion the other day." said a student of affairs, "as to the three men in this country who were regarded as foremost in power.
 "There were several men in the party and all of them agreed that Pierpont Morgan was the most potential individual in the Unite.. States and that President Roosevelt ranged next in power. There was no idea of disparaging the high office of President by putting Morgan first. Individuals without special regard to of- ticial position were considered.
 When 1t came to the third man of power, various names were proposed, and finally a unanimous vote was given for Cardinal Gibbons"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
The Drouth.

"The market is fairly well supplied with vegetables" said a Morris avenue merchant. "The only effect of the drouth so far as the trade is concerned just now is an advance in prices.
 ''The potato crop will be very short Some farmers in Jefferson county who planted potatoes will not dig a bushel There has not been rain enough In this section to soak through the ground in over two months"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
About Persons.

R. s. Christian of Richmond. Va. is al the Hillman.
 L. II. Beck and W. F. Pattillo of At lanta are at the IIillman.
 w. B. Roberts of Nashville is at the Hinman.
 w. D. crossweil of New York is at tho Hillman.
 William Heinking of Atlanta is at the Hlllman.
 R. E. Watson of Atlanta is at the Hill man.
 w. R. Peacock of Selma is at the Hill. man.
 MT. and Mrs A IT. Sterne of Meridian are at the Hillman.
 John K Wilson of Baltimore is at the Hilman.
 l.. F. cantrell of New Orleans is at the Metropolitan.
 c. c. Lindsay of Atlanta is at the Metropolitan.
 J. R. Billings of Chicago is at the Metropolitan.
 J. J. Atkinson of Atlanta is at the Metropolitan.
 F. L. Chase of Atlanta is at the Metropolitan.
 T. Barrow of Philadelphia is at the Metropolitan.
 R. II. Cobbs of Anniston is at the Morris.
 T. L. Robinson of Anniston is at the Norris
 w NJ. Barrett of New Orleans is at the Morris.
 R. F. Morgan of Cincinnati is at the Morris
 M. S. Parrill of Baltimore is at the Morris.
 J. H. Minge of Faunsdale is at the Morris.
 S. w. Cunningham and J. A. Cunning ham of Mobile are at the Morris. Charles Henderson, president of the Board of Trade of Troy, Ala, is at the Morris.
 L. M. Boshminsky of Troy is at the Morris
 J. c. Hendrix of Atlanta is at the Metropolitan.
 o. J. Knox of Auburn is at the Met ropolitan.
 Spencer Eakin of Nashville is at the Metropolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
Trade In Rirminuharn.

'I suppose there Is more money in circulation here now than at any time in the city's history, and yet the restaur- ants and some of the saloons have been unusually dull this week." said a Twen- tieth street cafe proprietor last night.
 "The eating business had been very good up to a few days ago and I cannot account for this sudden falling off I have heard number of saloon keepers complaining. They said their trade was fine up to this week but that their re- ceipts this week were not much more than enough to pay running expenses.
 "The hotels and the retail merchants are very busy and I hope money will come our way again before long"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
Names Should Be Displayed.

"The city authorities of Birmingham on the corners so that strangers could find their way about without having to stop and inquire" remarked MT. A. l.. Donovan travelling man representing a prominent New Haven, Conn, firm.
 My headquarters are at Dallas, Tex, Birmingham is progressive city, in many respects the most progressive city in the South, and therefore I am all the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
The French Cabinet.

The new French Cabinet is now nearly completed, as follows:
 Premier. Minister of the Interior and Minister of Public Worship-Senator combes.
 Minister of Justice-Senator Valle.
 Minister of Foreign Affalrs-M. Del casse.
 Minister of War-General Andre.
 Minister of Marine-M. Pelleban.
 Minister of Public Instruction-Senator Chaumie.
 joule.
 Minister of Colonies-M Dounergue. Minister of Commerce-M. Trouillot.
 Minister of Finance-M. Rouvier.
 But little is known in this country of the successor of M. Waldeck- Rosseau. but Dr. Combes Is by no means an unknown man in France or in Europe. He has been the presiding officer of the French Senate. He is known in French politics as "the country doctor" He is 67 years old, a successful physician, and an un- swerving Republican. Nor is he with out public experience, for he has been a Senator since 1885, and at one time he held the portfolio of Instruction. He is really a radical Republican, sound, sensible, successful man, and all turned towards h4m when M. Wal deck-Rosseau decided to lay down the cares of office.
 The rest of the Cabinet is made up chiefly of men .ighly considered in eign portfolio, and General Andre that of War. These are the only two min isters who have been brought over from the Waldeck-Rosseau ministry. These retentions ensure a maintenance of the present peace policy and also oi a reorganization of the army, which is now progressing. M. Rouvier, the new Minister of Finance is well known in France, where he has often been called into Cabinets either as Minis ter of Commerce or of Finance M Pelletan, the new Minister of Marine. has long favored naval retrenchment. M. Maruejoule, who takes the port folio of rublic Works, is an engineer of distinction, and a frequent writer on engineering subjects in the maga. zines. M. Dounergue, who takes the portfolio of Colonies, is young man. but he has had much experience in the colonies themselves, especially in Algeria and Indo-China.
 The Cabinet as a whole Is consid- cred a Bourgeois" or middle-class Cabinet, with a tendency to conserva- tive Republicanism, but the reaction ists in France will none the less de- clare it revolutionary and extremely radical. The truth is, the new Cabi- net very fairly represents the entire Republican party, and nothing start ling or radical Is expected at its hands. It will be apt to continue in a sensi- be way the policy of the outgoing min- istry. Dr. Combes is a capable admin istrator, and he will give the royalists and imperialists, who are politically known as Nationalists, little comfort and leverage. Republicanism was never more strongly entrenched in France than it Is today, and the Cas- tenanes of the Chamber of Deputies will have small opportunity for mis- chief while M, Combes is in charge of public affairs.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
6o,ooO School Children See the
 Old Liberty Bell.

of our mercy This President seeks to make righteousness of our cause of de- struction against those somi-savages in the far east and upon the stump, spealS- ing as enc who has authority to speak, proclaims the glory of those who murder and spsre not
 Nothing in tile wide round of our pa- triotism and our motherhood surpasses the glory of the reception of the Lib erty Bell in Washington. It Is the first lime within my recollection that the Lib erty Bell has been received here. Ger tainly 1t ,s that GO, GOO school children and perhaps 100000 others, joined in greeting this bell. During the several times l have seen the bell, from Montgo mery, Alabama, to Philadelphia, have not seen it more frequently or more fervently lis sed. There is something of patriotism in this higher thar the cry of the multi tude, higher than the watered eye of the children, higher than the admonition of motherhood. It is the glory of the union cf the republic. Nothing within the his- tory Of cur country has so luminously proclaimed the love of country, as these thranging thousands around the Liberty Bell have proclaimed 1t today. Once for all. we proclaim the world Is ours. There Is no falsehood hcre; no claim to super lative patriotism Where there stood the Pro sident there was not greater love of the Republic than where stood the chill dren of the poor. The salute of the Pres- 1 ident was not so great as was the hum ble kiss of the ragamuff1n child held up in it's mothers arms that 1t might kiss the flag of freedom
 The President might have said This is my country"
 The children of the peer might have raid This is my people,"
 Search the wide world over and you can see and could not see a nobler les- sen fin human love and human usefulness than this. The President of us all salutes the bell Of us all. The little children of the roor likewise salute the Bell of us all. To US, all of us, it Is the Bell the Bell, the Bell.
 And n view of all this love of country theTe comes a fool story given by a fool It has reference to the gift by the Elm peror William tho Second of Germany, that he might give some work of Fred erick the Great, his comment on our gov ern,nent of America would return to the good old way. The great Frederick was an autocrat without any sympathy for our colonies in their struggles with the mother country Without any belief in any government except that based or absolutism.
 Bismarck said, "Baycnets are the only arguments to be used against the Dem. ocrats." If we are to have old Fritzf statue, we had better ask the Kaiser to send us one of Bisplarck's also
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
Tipping the Guest.

From the Chicago News.
 Waiter-Beg pardon, sir. but haven't you forgotten something?
 Guest-Forgotten something? An, yes: a toothpick. Thanks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

The building fund of the Young Mems Christian Association has been started handsomely, and it will grow right along to a grand and beneficent result.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

'Lige has ordered his male followers to throw away their razors. This means that new Populits party is about to spring up on the Great Lakes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM.

From the Camp Hill Times.
 Jefferson county's tax assessments have increased a million dollars in twelve months. Hurrah for Jefferson, may she continue to grow In wealth until we of the poor counties can cut the acquain- tance of the tax gatherer altogether.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

The troubles and complications of the Third Alabama Regiment are sim ply endless, and unless they are stop ped the influences of the regiment will soon be gone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

Dom Paul refuses to become a pris- oner of war, prefering death in exile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

The Hanna boom rolls over such men as Theodore E. Burton, who is worth more to the country than a regiment of politicians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

The War Department will needs have better luck than the Indians had if it entraps General Miles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

more surprised that 1t Is without signs giving the names of the streets. This may seem a small matter but 1t is not. Strangers are impressed by good streets, good street car service. good hotels and good theatres. Along in this category come street names prominently dis played"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

Gen. Teresias Simon Sam Is now one of the lions of Paris. He has $S,000,000 about his person.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

Another Schwab has appeared, and he, too, is earning, or rather receiving. $50,000 a year from trust
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
Much in Her Name.
he Yonkers Statesman.

l From the Yonkers Statesman. | Church-She is a Russian countess | Gotham-Indeed! Has she much in her own name?
 Has she? She's got the entire alpha pet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

Poet Laureate Austin Is working on his coronation ode, and he cannot stop to sing the Boer war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

If Lord Kitchener will study modern American history, he will go directly to India, and not go to England at all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
From the Vernon Courier.

The Seaboard Air Line ard the I. c. people are likely to form traffic relations and meet in Birmingham. his will re- suit in the building of the c. A. & N. road during the present year or early next year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

Pope Leo will soon be fully in- formed concerning broncho busting and kindred subjects.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

No molten lava whatever has been thrown out of Mont Pelee, the corre- spondents to the contrary notwith- standing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

Ragtime is not strenuous enough to be played hereafter in the White House grounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

Two hundred and thirty Canadian volunteers lost their lives in the Boer war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

MT. Bryan is faring better than the Kansas City platform in these latter day conventions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

The celebration of Fourth of July is the latest hot weather problem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

The Filipinos do not admire hy- dropathy as it is applied in their isl ands by Amercan conquerors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

Mont Pelee now confines it's work to spectacular effects only.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
From the Selma Times.

A Kentucky preacher calls upon God to rain men like Roosevelt for a year" Which goes to show that even the minis. try has no cinch on protecting it's rank, from the introduction of asses and idiots,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
ALABAMA EDITORS,

From the Gadsden Journal
 Higdon has been bounced by the Gov. ernor. His friends should now muzzl, him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
From the Gadsden Journal.

From the Gadsden Journal.
 When the Birmingham police cannot finG scrap with an ordinary citizen they get up q fight among themselves. We suppose this is done to keep their hands
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12

T here can be no party convention in AL abama until theIe arc two or more parties in the State When the constitutional convention was about to organize last summer a motion was made to assign the opposition delegates to one corner of the hall in a lot of seats off to them selves. Judge Thomas G. Jones and oth- CT delegates. of tho first rank in ability, declared there was no political party as- semblcd. Tfs people were assembled in convention by their delegates. So with a Democratic State convention, it Is the people in convention ass smbled, because the candidates named arc absolutely the men that will be sworn into the offices None but those candidates can become officers.
 There is no way to create a legislature but upon popular basis. There is a de- mand very widely made. to create the two other departments of state on a bas- is of registered voters.
 A governor, therefore, arising from a registered voters basis, may veto the will of the legislature arising from the population basis, and Supreme Court, coming out from registered voters bas- is, may upset every act of the creatures Of the population basis.
 We do not aspire to maioritv rule Laws are not needed by majorities The minority is the element Tn need of laws No statesman has appeared thus far to tell us how State government of three coordinate departments Is to operate when the legislative department issues from the population fasis and the other two, that control the legislature, are to issue from the registered voters basis
 A primary Is cd machine or q bad mac nine, but machine only. A convention is Q machine. liable to the ills of the flesh that oomposes it. The late Col. D. s. Troy gave seyeral weeks of his time. not more than rlnety days before he died suddenly, to the preparation of rlan to purge orip aries and conven- tons of their vicious characteristics. The paper is the honest work of one of the first minds of Alabama. It is a lucid ar. gument and ought to be republished im- mediately. No politica, literature would critical moment. In proportions 1t is probably 250o words. J. W. DuBOSE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
NEGRO REPRESENTATION.

To the Editor of the Herald:
 When the constitution was adopted they Ohe negroes) were not regarded in any of the States as members of the conmunity.-Chief Justice Fancy in the Dred Scott case.
 In fact, on the day that Alabama de- cided that no negro in New York State could vote, although slavery there had been abolished more than half a cen- tuy. In the first congress South Caro- lima and Pennsylvania, Virginia and Mas sachusetts all the states north and south alike, sent representatives appor- toned to three out of i've negroes, be- cause the negroes were in all States in bondage. The States of the north, each in it's own time and methods, manumit- ted the negroes. Manumission was not presently followed by endowment with the suffrage at all. Manumission was at once followed. nevertheless, by enumera- tion of all negroes( instead three out of fiYe) for representation in congress and this manumission of negroes increased the power of the north in congress and in the electoral college, while the policy did not affect the state government. Ala bama now is in precisely the condition, as to negro suffrage, that New York was up to 1S61-negroes are not endowed with the electorate. Alabama Is in the same condition now that every State of the north was in when each for itself abol- ished slavery, to-wit: negroes not en- franchised are counted per caipta for representation in State and Federal gov ernment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
From the Mobile Herald.

It was really very unfeeling in tn, Boers not to keep on fighting so as to give some American editors something to write about.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
om the scottsboro Citizen.

From the Scottsboro Citizen.
 Hugh Wilson of the Opelika News must be a pretty busy man. He is editor of the News, register in chancery and oir- cult court clerk of Lee county He is also booming Capt Joe Johnston for Governor Hugh evidently has his hands full.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
rom the Florence Times

The political cauldron is beginning to simmer just little in Lauderdale. The people are beginning to inquire who and what.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
From the Selma Times.

From the Selma Times.
 Tennessee Democrats said it mildly" is the comment of the goldbug press. But all the same they said it, and they are not likely to unsay It. The Democrats in control of that convention are not given to saying things they don't mean, mildly or otherwise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
From the Mobile Herald.

From the Mobile Herald.
 Of course the President has found man willing to take the office of consul at St. Pierre. He could find plenty of men willing and eager to take the office if it were located in the crater of Mont Pelee itself. Some people would rather do anything than work for a living.