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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30
MILLION OF DOLLARS
TO ASSIST EDUCATION

From the washington Zines.
In discussing the origin of the general
education board yesterday William L.
Harris, United States commissioner OF
education, said that It grew out of the
interest Of wealthy New Workers in popu-
lar incorporation, passed by congress.
has aroused national attention.
Interest is all the more keen because
John d. Rockefeller, Robert c. Ogden,
and other wealthy men are interested in
the project Much of the money is given
with the request that the names of the
donors be withheld from the public. They
are interested in education; they have
the means and inclination to aid its pro-
gress but there is such a thing, as a
prominent man said this afternoon, as
mot allowing the right hand to know
what the left Is doing"
1T is the beginning" DR.. Harris said,
"of the most promising movement in ed
ucauon that we have at the present time.
There is almost unlimited money behind
that wealthy men in New York will give
millions of dollars, If they can be as
sured that in planting It fruit will be
produced. From the interest of a few
generous men came the southern Educa-
ton board, which is doing such a noble
work in the south, and out of that has
grown the general education board, which
will make the entire country its field,
although the south probably will be
helped most at first
II cannot give the names of benefac-
tors, but can assure you the board has
the very strongest financial support
Millions of dollars stand ready to back
Its efforts. The work is done quietly ana
without publicity. The object is to make
1t effective, to use the money judiciously
in stimulating effort. to help others to
help themselves. In addition to the pres
ent financial backing there is promise of
many great gifts which will broaden the
scope of the work and make 1t even more
effective. None of the names Is to be
made public. Men who are interested in
the general education board realize that
there has been a great deal of sentiment
talism connected with educational en-
doWments In this county-Sentlmenta
of the sort which has parafyzed rather
than stimulated effort"
sketchng briefly the origin of the gen.
eral education board, DR.. Harris declared
it was the result primarily of a confer
ence which took place at Capon Springs
W. Va, five years ago. Two other annual
conferences were held there, then a
~
ally fifth at Athens, Ca, April "a, 25
and &c, 1902, in the chapel of the Univer-
sity of Georgia, the Oldest state univer-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30
WHERE JAPAN FAILS.
From the London Leader.

From the London Leader.
Miss e. P. Hughes of the universities
of Cambridge and Wales, who was sent
out to Japan by the education department
and intrusted with the task of writing a
report upon Japanese education, has been
giving her impressions to representa-
tive of the Kobe Chronicle on the eve
of her departure from that country.
What struck Miss Hughes most was the
fact that in two directions Japanese wo-
men were considerably hampered, COM
pared with their western sisters.
"First," said Miss Hughes, socially
They have SO few opportunities. COM
pared with ourselves, OF learning from
intelligent society; they mix so little with
men of their own class-and, indeed, lit
tie with women of their own station in
life either. And. secondly, when once a
girl leaves school she has very little in
ducement to continue any intelligent
reading.
Good books are very rare in Japanese
homes, and there are scarcely any public
libraries. There are no lectures she can
attend, and cut off from social life, as
she is. 1t is only an exceptional woman
who Is likely to continue developing in
tellectually after she leaves school.
II have found" said Miss Hughes in
conclusion, many wise men in Japan
who agree with me that the greatest
problem which Japan has to consider at
the present time-greater, even. than are
her economic problems-is the problem Of
her women's education. On that depends
more than anything else, her real post
tion in the future both among western
nations and as the future regenerating
force of the east"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30
New York's Social Ways.

Whether or not all well-to-do New
Workers. will ultimately come to live in
apartment hotels is a question which, of
course, the future alone can answer.
Probably the milionaires, at any rate,
will keep to their own independent
houses" remarked a man who has lived
in New York.
THE inclination to live In the apart
ment hotel is, however, the most marked
tendency in New York's social ways that
has been exhibited for long time. Since
flats were first built there has been no
such decided novelty in New orks man
ner of living.
"one need only ride on the West Side
elevated road to observe what a part
they have come to play in the city's arch
itecture. Nearly every side street pos
sesses its apartment hotel towering above
the dwelling houses that formerly held
exclusive possession of these streets.
"And the new hotels of this kind are
almost as expensive as a single house, If
tenant desires to live with anything
like the same degree of comfort This way
of living has long ceased to be economi-
cal It may be cheaper theoretically than
maintaining a house; but it will cost quite
as much unless the entire manner Of
living is restricted, just as ones living
space is. Nevertheless the apartment no.
tells today are crowded until more and
more must be built. not because they
are inexpensive, but because they are
convenient.
Most of the entertaining, or certainly
a great deal of it, is now done at restau-
rants. It has been decidedly fashionable
for many years"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
New Years Eve.

Few religious observances of the year
impress me more deeply then the watch
services held in the Methodist churches on
New Years eve" said a citizen. THE
good old Methodist custom Is now more
generally in vogue in the north than it is
in the south, believe. But in the First
Methodist church of Birmingham the
watch services are held every year ana
they Will doubtless be attended by the
usual large crowd Wednesday night.
There is a poetic, as well as a religious
side to the Methodist meeting on New
Years eve. and il would be a pity if it
were to be discontinued"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

through the head was murder pure and
simple, and without extenuating circum-
stances. That was his way of looking
at it. This view had the force of a re-
ligion 18th old Squirrel Moore, and so
strong was he on point that he simply
would not hum with a man who Offend
ed in either of these particulars When
it came to the business of finding squlr-
rels-well, he was a world toater. He
could follow behind other men in the
woods and fill his hu-.ting bag with
squirrels when they would never as
much as find a trace of game OF any sort,
In fact, he used to delight in following
hunters just for the purpose of picking
up what they had overlooked He simply
had an eye for squirrels 1t 81 almost
impossible for these cunning creatures
to hide from him. And wen he found
one there was no chance for the s, 81
to escape. Yet he would never think of
shoe, ng them through the body. He
would watch for chance to shoot him
through the head, else he would pass on.
Never --ce would he shoot a squirrel
through the body. So the people of that
section came to call him old Squirrel
Moore, and, to tell the truth about it,
he was inclined to be just a little proud
OF the eobriquct. When you come to
think of it, the old fellow was right
about the matter. He went / for the
sport of the thing and not for LIE gain"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

sity in the country. having been chartered
in 1855.
Many prominent educators OF the south
were present, as well as men of influence
from New York, among the latter Mr..
Robert c. Ogden and DR.. Albert Shaw.
editor Of the Review of Reviews" DIT.
Harris was also present. The fourth OF
Winston-salem conference was the most
effective one. In accordance with the
special vote of the conference, Mr.. Ogden
of New York was made member of an
executive board in advance of its APP
pointment. Under authority of the plat
form adopted Mr.. Ogden named seven
gentlemen as members of the executive
board, as follows:
Hon. J. L. NJ. Curry of this city ex-
minister to Spain and agent for the Pea
body and Slater funds; Dr. e. A. Alder
man Of New Orleans; DR.. c. D. McIver.
of Greensboro, n. c.; DIR c. W. Dabney
of Knoxville, Tenn; DR.. II. B. Frissell
of Hampton, Va; Wallace Buttrick of
Albany, N. Y, and George Foster Pea
body of New York
The entire board assembled in New
York city November 5, 1901 and met
daily for five days. An organization was
effected by the election of Robert c. Og-
den, chairman; Charles D. McIver, Sec
rotary, and George Foster Peabody, treas
urer.
The investigation of the actual condi-
lions of the public, normal industrial
and other schools. The whole social
problem of the southern people comes
within the scope of this bureau, but for
the present its chief activity will be
limited to the investigation of the coun-
ty schools of the south, as the unit of
public education in the south is con-
sidered the county.
At its first New York meeting the ex-
ecutive board appointed DIR. G. S. Dicker-
man and DIR. Booker T. Washington field
agents The Rev. Edgar Gardner Muir
ply was associated va the chairman
in executive work Hon. Henry St.
George Tucker, former professor of law
at the Washington and Lee university,
former member of congress and son of
John Randolph Tucker, the great consti-
tutional lawyer of Virginia, and Dr.
Robert Fraser were ASSOCIATED with DR..
H. B. Frissell in his work in Virginia
The general education board is now
constituted as follows: William H Bald
win, Jr., chairman; George Foster Pea
body, treasurer; Wallace 5uttrick, sec
rotary and executive officer; Harriet
Hawley, assistant to the secretary; DR..
j. L. M. Curry, Frederick I. Gates, DR..
Daniel c. Gilman, Morris K. Jessup, Rob-
ert c. Ogden, Walter H. Page, and DR..
Albert Shaw. The headquarters of the
board are at 116 Nassau street. New York
city
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Most people don't know any better than
to know too much.
large bank account maketh a man
exceedingly suspicious just before Christ
mas.
No woman would care a rap whether
she was pretty or ugly II there were no.
body around to see it.
Sometimes when sickness turns a wo-
mans hair gray it is because she is too
sick to use the things that keep it from
being gray.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

Mrs. Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor is an
amateur bookbinder, and the union,
regardless Of her formidable name, has
notified her to show union card
This plan, extended to General Tribe
Tribe, would lessen revolutions in Co.
lombia.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

The men in this post-Christmas Pc
Rod are bravely endeavoring to wear
all the necktie5 and smoke all the
cigars they received
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

Kansas is very much ashamed of
that Pittsburg lyncning case, but thus
far the governor of the state has not
called the murderer5 to account.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

The American eagle is becoming
FESTIVE behind that blockade. Either
the eagle or the blockade will have
to be raised.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30
Cheap Houses.

II read much in the papers about the
needs of Birmingham" said a young mar
ried man who works for a moderate sal
airy, but from my point of view a lower
range of rents is among the greatest If
indeed it is not the greatest need.
II was house-hunting today and could
not find a dwelling IN a good neighbor-
hood that was fit for a white man to live
in for less than s25 a month. A man in
my circumstances should not pay more
than SIS a month. Three or four rooms
would be sufficient for my small family,
and might go in partnership with some
other man with a small family and rent a
seven or eight-room house for $50 or ss5
month. But 1 do not like the idea of
living with another family.
"In some cities Live and Let Live COM
panies have been formed for the purpose
of building good houses and renting them
at moderate rates to wage-earners. In
vestments of this sort would pay here.
Birmingham has excellent schools,
good water and a good street car sys-
tem-important things. II we only had
small, well-bult dwellings or fats that
would rent for amounts to suit the pock-
etbooks of the men who have to live
on $500 or $500 a year. such people would
be happy, or they should be at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

The Pacific is in places five miles
deep, while a depth of two miles is
about all the Atlantic can boast of.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

The Crown Prince and the Crown
Princess of Saxony seem to be barred
with one stick.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

The corporation Santa Claus has
been active, and on New Years Day
Lis work will become effective.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

David Bennett Hill has recovered his
wind and is about to shy his castor
again into the Presidential ring.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

Bridge whist begins to feel unsafe
in New York, where raids are nightly
made la Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

The girl who Tilted Marconi begins
to think she did not see very far into
a milestone.
The Kaiser and kipling have not yet
submitted their differences to The
hague court.
The Cleveland cult of Alabama and
the Parker boom of Texas are about
TO collide.
James J. Hill is now convinced the
blizzard has no pre- respect for plu-
toerats.
There is not a great demand for
Kipling's works in Berlin.
The calendars, instead of the Camp
bells, are coming.
Marconi is a winner where Mascagni
has been a loser.
Sig. Mascagni should use his baton
as a club.
The bill collectors will call on jan
uary 2.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

The days are getting longer, but
purses are not yet much fuller.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

The carrier pigeon is the only rival
of wireless telegraphy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30
About Persons.

John P. Hazard of Mooreville is at the
Morris.
Eugene Ware of Baltimore is at the
Morris.
D. H. Riddle of Goodwater is at the
Morris.
James P. Young of Philadelphia is at
the Morris.
w. H. Moore of Jasper is at the Nor
ris.
Charles S. DuBose of Athens is at the
Morris.
]. t. Wilson and wife Of Eutaw is at
the Morris.
w. G. Tunstall. Jr.. of Admission is at
the Metropolitan.
C. A. Fonville of Meridian, Miss, is at
the Metropolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30
A. Latady.

The poem in Sundays Age-Herald en-
titled Tribute to DR.. oliver Goldsmith"
was written by A. Latady, whose name
was inadvertently omitted by the printer.
1t was read and praised by many per-
sons of recognized literary taste.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30
The exchanging of Christmas

ents is now in order
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

The calendars, instead of the Camp
bells, are coming.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

Marconi is winner where Mascagni
has been loser.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

There is not a great demand for
Kipling's works in Berlin.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

Sig. Mascagni should use his baton
as a club.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-30

The bill collectors will call on Jan
uary 2.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-28
WEALTH OF MINNESOTA.

The crop reporter of the Northern
Pacific railway comes in with tho
greatest harvest story that has been
recorded in years-20 to 25 bushels per
acre of wheat, Is to 20 bushels ner
acre of flax, so to 80 bushels per acre
of corn and oats, 200 to 800 bushels DER
acre of early Ohio and Burbank no.
tatoes, and the rest of the .crop to
match.
The meadows are in the most pro-
ductiVe condition known in MANY years
The raising of live stock was never nro-
crossing at such strides. The cream
cry butter product was never SO heavy
ana profitable. In short, the ranches.
the diaries, the market gardens. the
grain fields, the farms and gardens, 1T
tie and big, are bursting with prosper
ity.
A like report halls from the iron
ranges in the northeastern section OF
the commonwealth. Minnesota already
has passed Michigan in output of iron
ore and risen to the rank Of first ore
producer in the nation and in the world,
and this year we shall beat our own
record by 25 to SO per cent and ship
out body of high-grade ore that has
no parallel in the annals of man.
The forest product will be at a high
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-28
REMINISCENT OF BLAINE.

PRESIDENT Roosevelt on IueSday VS.
tied the home of James G. Blaine. He
talked with Blaine's townsmen, stopped
at the Blaine homestead and at night
slept in the room once occupied by
Names brilliant statesman.
Naturally the president grew remi-
niscent of Blaine and the Blaine po-
litical philosophy. The occurrence
causes us all to grow reminiscent. 1t
raises such queries as these, touching
the Blaine policy of commercial extern
sion:
What would that far-seeing states
man, who, in his denunciation of the
shortcomings of the Mckinley tariff
bill, destroyed his silk hat by dashing
it against the wall Of the tariff COM
mittee room, have thought Of recent
Republican Cuban and Porto Rican
legislation and the defeat of Canadian
reciprocity?
What would he have thought of the
proposition to spend $100,00G, 900 per
annum to acquire 100000 Philip
pine trade?
What would he have thought of sac
rificing the reciprocal trade of our
neighbor, Canada, whose recent devel-
opment means growing commerce OF
a hundred millions and more per an
mum, simply because of the royalty
interests Of handful of pine stumpage
kings?
What would he have thought of los
ing a heavy and growing trade with
our other near neighbor, Cuba, because
of the selfish protest of one Oxnard
and his beet sugar combine?
What would he have thought of the
Porto Rican cowardice and infamy in
violation of both commercial interest
and national honor?
What would he have thought of our
Gripping our commerce with China
with a duty on tea?
What would he have thought of
policy of commercial narrowness and
Indifference which in Latin-America,
where by liberal tariff provisions and
ties Of commercial friendship he saw
the brightest commercial field on the
globe for the United States under a
PanAmerican banner, our country at
this hour has less trade than Europe,
three thousand miles further distant?
Finally, what would he have thought
of the greatest exporting nation in the
world and the greatest producing peo-
pie under the sun, not only maintaining
all of the absurd Mckinley tariff pro-
visions for driving away commerce,
but magnifying and extending the Nc
Kinley provisions by the Dingley
schedules, the highest and most hostile
known to the legislation of ancient or
modern man?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-28
THURSDAY, AUG. %, 1902.
MINORITY GOVERNORS.

If anyone imagines that the Re-
publican organization in this state has
a cinch on the office of governor. his
dream will be dispelled when he ex-
amines the election record of the past
twenty years.
AS a matter Of fact, the returns
show that Minnesota has not been re-
Hably Republican for the office of gov
ernor since the last election of Hub
bard in 1888.
Since that date, only two governors
of Minnesota have been elected by a
majority of the votes cast for that Of
flee. Those two are w. r. Merriam, in
the strongly Republican presidential
year, 1888, who had a majority of only
1913 over his Democratic and Prohibi-
ZIONIST opponents, and John Lind in
1898, who, not only had a plurality of
20,1S4 over his Republican opponent.
but clear majority of 1888 over the
combined vote of his Republican, Pro-
hibitionist, Socialist and midroad Pom
ulist opponents
All other governors or Minnesota. in
twenty years have been elected by
minority of votes, and in four of the
six cases the Republican plurality has
been so close-2,000 to 5000 votes-that
the successful candidate was saved
only by desperate resorts during the
last forty-eight hours Of the campaign
or by some election technicaIity or
tampering of the returns.
Beginning with 1886, Minnesota has
been doubtful state for the Office of
governor. A. R. McGill, one of the
strongest and most respected Repub-
hcan leaders of the state, was that wear
elected over Ames, the Democratic
nominee, by the close margin of onIv
1900 votes; and it was freely charged
and quite generally believed that this
narrow margin was produced by the
tampering of delayed returns in the
back districts. McGill was minority
governor, receiving 107, O64 out of a to-
tai gubernatorial vote of 22O,55S.
Merriam in 1888 had the best op-
portuhlty IN the states history to pile
up a Republican majority; but by the
liberal use of campaign funds in a
strongly Republican presidential year
he received only 1000 more than half of
the gubernatorial vote. That was the
last time the Republicans in this state
polled for governor majority of the
total vote cast for that office.
In 1890 Merriam was elected by a
trif1e over one third of the total vote
cast for governor, and came within
2,267 votes of defeat by the Democratic
nominee, Thomas Wilson Merriam
had only 88,111 out of total guber-
material vote of 24o,S92; Wilson, Demo-
crat, polling 1884; S. M. owen. Al
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-28
GOLDEN JUBILEE OF The
DIOCESE OF ST. PAUL

1841, is duly recorded and his labors
in behalf of the souls of the many In
dams and few whites, given it's due
need of appreciation. Father Ravoux,
Father Lacombe, of Pembina now an
old, old man, and who came all the
way from New Calgary last summer
to take part in the jubilee, and Father
BeHecourt, together with Mr.. Auguste
Larpenteur of st. Paul, are about the
only living links between those old
days and the present.
Preparing to Celebrate.
The second chapter of Father Nc
Nulty'S book is given over to deScrip-
ton of the preparations made by the
Catholics of st. Paul to celebrate in
proper manner this fiftieth anniversary
of the diocese. Here are recorded the
names of the various committees, both
OF clergy and laymen, and the third
chapter to an account of the exercises
of the first day, the second of July,
1901. 1t tells of the open air jubilee
mass celebrated on the beautiful
grounds of the st. Paul seminary, at
which there were present five hundred
clergy and from eight to ten thousand
persons. Also is given here in full the
sermon of Archbishop Ireland on that
occasion which was a most eloquent
and exhaustive review of the great
work of the Catholic church in Mime
sofa during the last fifty years.
The fourth and fifth chapters contain
the congratulatory letter Of the Pope,
Leo XIII to Archbishop Ireland, and
description of the laying of the cor
nerstone of the memorial chapel in the
afternoon, now being built upon the
seminary grounds and the sermon
preached upon that occasion and here
given in full, of the Right Rev. Thomas
O,Gorman, now Bishop of Sioux Falls,
S. D., and himself identified with the
early days of st. Paul. Here also is
described the wonderful gift of eighty
thousand dollars which the priests of