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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
ONE YEARS LOSS IN RACING.
y Allen sangree. in Ainslee's.

By Allen Sangree. in Ainslee's.
 William C. Whitney. after balancing his accounts last year found himself to by s60O,000 loser through the sport of racing. A pretty large sum, Is 1t not? Enough to insure a poor man and his re- lations a comfortable living without work. hear him upbraid the ex-secre- tary of the navy for spending his money so foolishly. But to this MT. Whitney would reply that if he fancies losing $60O,OOO a year on his luxury, he Is to be no more blamed than the man that bor- rows money to get a piano for his daugh- ter.
 "So far from being blamed, there is a considerable population-the attaches of MT. Whitney's stabes-that look upon him as the essence of benevolence and humanity. Whenever their patron wins a race they all share in largesse. One day last summer a bookmaker went up to Trainer Rogers at the Saratoga track just after MT. Whitney had won a stake of $11OOo, and remarked, half interroga- tive: The old man made out well in that race, didn't he?'
 What do you meanT laughed the trainer. That's only drop in the bucket for MT. Whitney, and the bucket leaks at that Why he is so pleased over win ing this race that he'll give away twice Sl1, 900 to the stable employees. Each one will get anywhere from $5 to $25. To win a stake here doesn't mean anything
 "The entire community about race track rejoices when the Whitney outfit arrives, for money Is certain to be cir culated freely, and tricksters that fix up worthless horse so that he will win one race, hoping that MT Whitney will take the beast off their hands, are always waiting about in shoals. As an example of the racing Kings generosity, 1t is re- lated that upon winning the English derby last year he ordered certain hotel proprietor at Sheepshead Bay to give every one that entered a bottll of cham pagne. You may be sure the news spread quickly, and it was not long before the boniface had to call upon his neighbors for supplies. The bill that MT. Whitney's secretary received amounted to $e00O. It was paid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
Keynote Shaw's Speech.

Up in Vermont Secretary Shaw de- livered this week a keynote speech, but it was not speech that the trusts will object to or the consumers will find any comfort in. He endeavored to show that the Dingley tariff does not create or foster trusts, and he stood up to the meat trust by declar- ing that the tariff on meats should not be changed to the detriment of Iowa farmers. In other words, the Iowa farmers and the meat trust should be left free to exploit this country.
 The keynote speech is best answered by the platform of the Iowa republi- cans. They recently declared that the tariff should be changed whenever it affords shelter to monopoly" The Iowa republicans say that Dingleyism does create trusts-otherwise their words are idle. They also recognize the rights of consumers to walk the face of the earth--to live without be- ing exploited. Keynote Shaw does not appear to know there are any con sumers in this country, or if he does, ne does not think they have any rights the republicans should respect.
 The speech defines correctly the at titude of the real republican party. It states the position of the men who control the party-in other words. of the trusts. The speech is but a new illustration of the fact that tariff re- form cannot come from that party. Whenever tariff taxation bcomes in- tolerable the democratic party will be voted into power, and the day of its return to power is not far distant, if republican discontent in Iowa be a sign of the approaching storm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
Gov. Johnston's Latest Plea.

Governor Johnston is still assailing the new constitution. In a letter ad- dressed to The Age-Herald he appeals to the prejudices who did not before February 1 pay poll taxes assessed against them, and he openly charges the framers of the constitution with desire to cut down the white cleo torate. And this, too, in the face of the fact that the white registration is fully 65,000 more than the vote cast for the lamented Samford-in face of the further fact that the payment of a poll tax considered so desirable by Governor Johnston would put any man in a position to vote-a poll tax of dollar and half, instead of the Sub stantial" poll tax which Governor Johnston desires to levy upon all re- gardless of age. The fact stands out that Governor Johnston desires com pulsory poll tax, presumably of "sub- stantial' nature, levied upon all. The poll tax payments of the present year are fully equal to the poll tax pay ments of any year during Governor Johnstons two terms in the state cap ital.
 Is Governor Johnston quite sure he has always been a faithful democrat? !? When the democratic legislators of Alabama, acting through their own party caucus called for a constitu- tional convention in 1900, and when the democrats in the legislature called the convention, and when the party convention of April, 1899, had nomi- mated 8 delegates to represent the senatorial districts, and when the county democratic primaries selected 100 other delegates in the counties when all this had been done by the party, was Governor Johnston faithful to that party when he proceeded by means of republicans and populists to upset all the party work? In the re- calcitrant majority he secured there was but one democrat, and this en- abled him to repeal the convention act, thus delaying suffrage reform two whole years. If this made him "a faithful democrat" then the phrase has a meaning we do not understand.
 Governor Johnston intimates that he has been ill-treated. because he was not sent to the senate Governor Mar tin abolished the state banks, and Governor Houston sealed the state debt from s32,O00,O0O to s9,00O Ooo. Martin was not given second guber-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
JOHNSTON AND THE SCHOOLS,

From the Tuscaloosa Gazette.
 One of the charges is that Jelks vioIent- ly opposed the increased revenue for public schools. when Johnston himself opposed 1t. A friend of Jelxs gives out this statement regarding the matter:
 Governor Johnston sent for the finance committee. The whole body went down into his office. Senator Meador at It's head, and the governor turned to this committee, of which the present gover- nor was member. and begged the com mittee to kill this bill. He was animated and warmed up-said the state could not stand t. ''The schools in a general ap- propriation bill had already had iargs increase. and that this bill must not pass" He moreover said: If you don't kill 1t in the senate I will veto 1t when it comes down here" Parading himself as a friend of the schools and fighting the present governor on the one-mill tax bill is one of the cheekiest and most im- pudent things that has made an appear ance In this campaign or is likely ever to appear in any campaign. And the gover- nor has not forgotten the visit of the finance committee. He recalls it when this history is told and when his paper prints 1t. The members Of the finance committee were: Senators Meador, Ma thews, Moody, Thompson, Jelks, Nunnel- lee, Horton, Windham Cass, Lyons Deans of Shelby. Every one of them will recall the visit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
Pistol Totinq.

Judge Feagin's determination to im- pose heavy penalties on men arrested for carrying concealed weapons is commend ed by all right-thinlSing people of this town" said a prominent merchant.
 'PuoIic sentiment is certainly becoming aroused in regard to the pistol-toting habit and the bloodshed that has brought reproach upon this community. But in addition to what the law can do, we need an organized movement to aid in sup pressing the pistol habit The Commercial club, the board of trade, the trades coun- cil and all the churches should take the matter up and help to establish an un- written law that would make it next to impossible for any man to carry a gun,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
IIIIterate Immiarants.

''The immigration into this country last year reached the enormous number of GAS ,743' said a statistician.
 This was a third more than the immi- grafton of 1901. and several times that of 1899. And it is also stated that there were 165, ,105 illiterate immigrants last year, against 117645 the year before. This is worth careful attention. This great na- tion can assmilate everything but ignor- ance and vice; and surely ignorant immi- grant are not desirable Pauper immi- grants are more desirable than the ignor- ant for it Is easier to supply money than culture and morals and intellectual train ing.
 This country Is getting to the point where 1t must not open its doors to the poor and oppressed of all nations, no matter how worthy they may be, else we will become poor and oppressed ourselves The great industrial corporations very naturally demand cheap labor, and there Is a disposition, now that international trusts and mergers are coming into vogue, to set aside the policy Of protec- ticn and to make the American labor market as nearly as possible like the European. Let this country and all of it's vast wealth and opportunity be re- served to the use and benefit of the peo- pie of this country.
 "Time was when we needed immigrants to settle the great west, to open the mines. fell forests and till the soil lying idle, but that time has passed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
County Road Work.

"A good deal of road work has been done this summer" said Col. J. F. B. Jackson, supervisor of roads and bridges for Jefferson county yesterday, and it will be pushed during the remainder of the year.
 T have made twenty-five miles of mac adamized extensions and re-macadamized thirty-f1ve miles of old road. Chert makes a fine road bed, as every one knows, and Jefferson has the most extensive system of macadamized roads of any county in Alamaba."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
.iowp' Cars Needed.

"A need which of late has become ai- most an imperative necessity is an owl street car service between Birmingham and it's suburbs" said a night worker.
 The street car company, instead of suspending traffic completely between midnight and a. rn.. as is the case now, should run cars at stated intervals in the early hours of the morning, say at and o'clock. Such accommodations are found in other populous cities.
 An owl service in Birmingham, with its diversified industries in operation at night, would certainly be most welcome. East Lake, Powderly, Ensley and North Birmingham and the intermediate sta tions are now completely isolated for five hours. believe owl cars would pay the company"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
AMERICAS LARGEST PEARL.
Found in the Upper Part of the Mis-
 sssippi River.
From the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
 The largest pearl ever found in Amer ica is now in the possession of firm of Milwaukee jewellers.
 This pearl perfect in luster and form, was found by some fishermen near Prarie du chien, in the bed of the Mis- sissippi.
 It is a sphere of ivory white, weighing 121 grains, and is the finest specimen or the gem ever found in America.
 Experts value 1t at s1o,Ooo. unmounted and unpublished.
 What the real Value of the jewel made ready for adornment of milady, will be has not yet been determined.
 It was by accident that this valuable jewel was brought to light.
 Two old fishermen, Benton and Jones, from town near St. Louis, who for years had piled up and down the Missis- sippi river with varying luck, cast their net one morning last spring after heavy storm.
 They came in straining with their load. which was principally weeds and river refuse.
 While cleaning the net preparatory to another cast, old Benton's sharp eyes saw a glistering ball of white clinging to a mass of clay and rock.
 Having found pearls of greater or less value during his many years on the river. Benton called his partner, Jones. To- gether they carefully washed the dirt away and loosened the gem from it's bed of rock.
 Realizing that 1t was of unusual size. Benton proposed taking 1t to Chicago. A visit to several jewellers proved that the pearl was one of value and after con- suting with his partrf3k Benton sold it to a Chicago dealer for a few hundred dollars.
 From Chicago the pearl was sent to Milwaukee, where it was purchased by the present owners, who have handled American pearls for years, and who de- clare that this gem is by far the largest and finest that has ever come into their possession.
 It is a S1O0O0 fancy" as it lies in its velvet bed, unmounted and unadorned, but that is not the market value put upon the gem
 Just what the pearl will sell for or who will be the lucky buyer are ques- tions which are interesting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
DOWN WITH OUTLAWS.

From the Houston Post
 ''We need a social code that will ostra- cize the braggart and the bully. We need officers that will arrest men who are known to be laying for one another, and put them under peace bonds We need justice in the court blind to color or condi- ton, Proclaim 1t at the club, on the streets, and in the newspapers-and then make 1t stick in the courthouse-that wanton killing is murder that murder is personal disgrace and social aeath, that individual vengeance Is crime, and that the armed citizen is a public enemy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
MARY MACLANE SEEING
 THE GREAT METROPOLIS

have made her happy, and now he was no more.
 For little space she wept large, spher- ical tears. Then, as she seated herself in our runabout, she pulled a notebook from her pocket extracted a well-chewed pen- ell from her hair and wrote, moistening the paper now and then with a tear. At length she left off, and without a word passed the notebook over to us. Here is what she had written: You're gone; the dreary sun still shines, As when you once did shoot; The wind still walls above the mines, The stupid mines of Butte. But down within my heart yearn
 For one who did and dared, There are no geniuses to burn,
 And you could i'll be spared. Alone I'll walk the barren sands,
 In vain I'll look to see You cross the hills with outstretched
 hands,
 My lost affinity. You're called at last. Full well below
 And he will see you now.
 Pardon the poker terms" said tha genius; "one falls into the use of them in Montana"
 Are you going to send that to Tracy today?' we asked
 No" said Mary MacLane. "I'u send to from Butte; that's nearer to where he's gone.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
TRIPLE BEHIND ON THE "NEws."
Was Anxious About What Was Done
 to the Man Who Shot Mckinley.
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 Pennsylvania train No. 2SS, Harry Lan- ders, conductor, sets the clocks of four counties along the northern coast of New Jersey, where she runs every week day of the year along the brink of sea and harbor into'>the great city. Neither drifting snows nor summer tempests de- lay her, and in every farm house or fish erman's cottage that she runs past in the winter season they know that when the second hand of the kitchen ciocK comes around to a certain inclination they will see her steam through the trees, and that if they don't, in rinety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the fault of the clock, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22

by James Montague, in the New York Evening Journal.
 'Is this Miners Union DayT' asked poor little Mary MacLane, as she strug- gled for breath in pocket made by the eddy of the crowd that swept up the ap- breaches of the Brooklyn bridge.
 Miners Union Day?' we repeated, what is Miners Union Day?"
 Why, the day the Miners Union set apart for their vulgar celebration and unreasoning joy-the day that the crowds come into town; surely this crowd must be for something-for a circus, or a con- vention. These cannot all live here" She was assured that the crowds were indigenous to the soil, and that more- over, the crop Is short at this season of the year, owing to the absence of the millionaires at the summer resorts
 q miss the millionaires," she said, with sigh. i've have so many of them in Montana, but the miners look natural, and I am glad they are not on their va- cation.'
 We did not remember to have seen any miners, and said so.
 "Oh, yes," said Mary, with enthusiasm, T have seen them everywhere, blasting, digging, picking-why, right over there they are taking ore out of one of the shafts" and she pointed to gang of men at work in Park row.
 That is characteristic of Mary MacLane She refuses to be impressed by anything. The Chicago stock yards and the drain
 
 with one of her weary, disgusted feel ings, and now she mistook New York s magnificent subway for copper mine!
 Do you care anything for art. Miss MacLane?" we asked, as soon as we had recovered from the sock of this marvel of indifference.
 "Oh, yes; am an artist of the highest and most artistic type, as every one who has read my book should know. I have the finest collection of cigar box pictures in Butte and'---
 All right. We'll go see the Metropoli- tan Museum"
 But we didn't When we reached the museum, or rather the site of the museum, we found nothing but a large expansive cellar. A policeman explained that Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt wanted some of her Newport guests to see a statue in the collection and had sent down and had the building taken to New port on special train. We thought this example of what money can do would impress the stranger, but she merely said:
 "Oh, we have money In Montana. Once Marcus Daly and Senator Clark were playing poker and New York million aire wanted to get into the game. He laid down a million dollars"-
 We had heard that story in Montana before Mary was born. so we changed the subject.
 q should so like to see Tracy" re- marked the genius, after a dull, sicken- ing pause in the conversation. q heard he was headed for Montana. and I want ed to go back, but the people who sent for me to come to New York said they would bring him out here if would only come. Where is he?"
 Poor little Mary MacLane! The grief which was pictured on her calm. beauti- full countenance when she learned that Tracy was dead was almost as pathetic as her writings. Here, indeed. was a devil = no claw-hammer suit imitation. but the real thing, the one she had been waiting, hoping. signing for She had come to New York in the hope of meet ing him; he was the one man who might
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
Field Sports.

Tn addition to the regular field sports which will take place at the fair grounds cn labor day, Monday, September l, there will be horse racing and music.
 The committee in charge of the pro- gramme intends to make the attractions tho best of the kind ever offered here. Several thousand tickets have been dis tributsd and every one of them will be sold. 5Re proceeds will be applied to the orphanage at East Lake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
About Persons.

W. E. Russell of Selma is at the Metro politan.
 Thomas J. Scott of Montgomery is registered at the Metropolitan.
 J. O. Sturdivant widely-known bank CT of Alexander City, is at the Metropoli- tan.
 Sidney J. Bowie of Anniston is regis tered at the Metropolitan.
 w. L. sibley of coaldaie is at the Met ropolitan.
 c. c. McCabe of Atlanta is at the Nor ris.
 Henry A. Jones of Tuscaloosa is at the Morris.
 G. r. Peter of Maylene is at the Morris. Charles B. Stacy of Ricfmond, Va, is registered at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
COME, YE DIscoNsoLATE.

Come, ye disconsolate, whereer you
 languish. Come, at Gods altar fervently kneel, Here bring your wounded hearts, here
 tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven can-
 not heal. Joy of the desolate. Light of the straying, Hope. when all others die, fadeless and
 pure, Here speaks the Comforter, in Gods name
 saying. Earth has no sorrow that Heaven
 cannot cure" Go. ask the infidel what boon he brings us, What charm for aching hearts he can
 reveal Sweet as that heavenly promise Hope
 sings us. Earth has no sorrow that God cannot
 heal.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
not of. locomotive No. sso. which hauis

not of. locomotive No. 6so which hauls her.
 The train is social institution, too, and the Christmas dinner of her crew while she Is lying up somewhere below Manasauan before her afternoon flight ranks with the firemen's ball as an event.
 So it happens that folk who spend their lives down that way always travel by No. 2ss when they go down to Perth to do their quarterly buying. knowing that In side her hospitable vestibules they are pretty sure to foregather with equally prosperous friends of kindred interests.
 One day recently an elderly man of this type boarded her from an ancient farm wagon at Deal. newsboy came through at Elberon and he bought an evening pa per. which he scanned rapidly and laid aside. Another abandoned paper was ly- ing in the aisle. Furtiveiy he picked IL up went through it with equal rapidity, and cast it aside.
 By the time Red Bank was passed he had handled at least a dozen newspapers in like manner, and then fat man with a silk skull cap, whose privilege 1t is to take a long ride on No. 2sS every day ana who had first formed the old farmers acquaintance couple of years ago, re- minded him that they had met before and asked if he could help him.
 Well" he said, T don't want to bother you, and I'm kind of ashamed to. too, but we had hard winter and we've been pretty busy getting the new barn to rights this spring, and somehow haven | been over to the tracks since fall, so haven't heard much of what's going on What I'm trying to find out is whatever did they do to that villain who killed I3rasidavt N4oI<tulavp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22

The prices in Birmingham exceed those in Atlanta about 25 per cent, and the prices in Atlanta exceed by 20 per cent the prices that obtain in states that have a uniform text book law, thus enabling state board to contract for a supply large enough to meet the needs of many people. Geor- gia has no such law, the book trust obiecting, and so the Atlanta board of education is compelled to shift for itself This it has done to pretty good advantage, obtaining books for its children at low prices, although those prices cover "a few little items" Any profits left over are, however, to be divided equitably among the schools of that town.
 4 These are the bare facts. The book trust continues to exploit Alabama This state and Arkansas are about all 1nS seatSo IL ID apiS to cAPiois "ihnou' mercy, for it's wings are more or less clipped in the other states. It makes money in all the states, but in Ala bama it has a bonanza. It taxes this state beyond just. profits about mil lion dollars a year. Remember this when you vote for members of the legislature and a superintendent oi education next Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Baseiy yielded upon compromise, That which hs noble ancestors achieved with blows.
 king Richard Il.
Book Trusts Taxation.

In Atlanta the board of education supplies school books to all students, and the prices charged are sufficient to cover the expense of printing cata- logues "and few other little items" What the other little items may be is not stated in the Atlanta papers, but the. prices of the books are, and we present a list showing the prices that students in Atlanta pay and also showing what students in Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Thieves can't steal your money if you spend 1t fast enough.
 Don't forget that the man wno sells ice doesn't cut 1t in the same season.
 Nice women shudder at chorus girls who get presents of valuable jewels, but they can't help thinking how lucky they are.
 When a woman's husband quits doing something he knows she doesn't like II is time for her to discover what he has begun doing in its place.
 When young girl begins to confide to her mother how silly 1t is for other young girls to pay any attention to boys, that Is the time for her mother to look out for her own little girl