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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-14

iron structure, seating 5000 persons, was
put up in 1870. 1t was enlarged in 1872, but
was destroyed by fire in December Of that
year.
A new tabernacle, seating 5000 persons
and containing standing room for 1000
more, was at once begun. The new build
ing was dedicated in 1874. That too was
burned down, in 1889.
A third tabernacle was b lit at Clinton
and Greene avenues, and 1t also was de-
stroyed by fire. in May 1894.
Two years after his first wife died Mr..
.Talmage married Miss Susan Whittemore
of Brooklyn His son, Frank Talmage,
by his first wife followed his fathers
calling. Besides the Rev. Frank Talmage.
four daughters survive Mr.. Talmage. All
Of them are married except one. One
daughter, Mrs. Daniel d. Morgan, lives
at Al Garden place. Brooklyn.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-14
WOMAN ROBS WOMAN
DISGUISED AS FRIEND

CHICAGO, April ia special to the
Record Herald from Butte, Mont, says:
Mrs Minnie Grady, who is under arrest,
charged with robbing Mrs. Emma Proulx,
a rich widow, has confessed that she in
vited the latter out for a buggy ride. in
duced her to take drug in the belief that
it was medicine for rheumatism and that
when Mrs. Proulx had commissions she
took her diamonds, left her in an out-of-
the-way place, expecting her to die. and
walked back to the city
The authorities have decided to exhume
the bodies of Mrs. Grady's husband and
15-year-old son, whose lives were insured
for 5000. This money was paid to Mrs.
Grady, z.----.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-14
CoUNTERFEITER SAID
TO BE UNBALANCED

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 12.-Judge
Jones, of the federal court, has ordered an
inquest to be made into the sanity of
Walter Shyrock. who several weeks ago
passed a lot Of twenty-dolar bills on the
merchants of Birmingham and was arrest
ed in the act. Shyrock came from Mob
erly. Mo-, to Talladega, Ala, where he
set up a Photographic shop in which he
made the spurious money by the hand
fulls. He had $4,000 worth of it when ar
rested. His relatives in Moberly con-
tend that he is of unsound mind.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-14
ROOSEVELT
MEN ARE NAMED

JACKSON. Miss. April 1.-THE Repub-
licans in Mississippi have begun to stir.
The state executive committee, which vas
so thoroughly snubbed by President
Roosevelt in his dishing out OF the nice,
fat federal Jobs in this state. have got 1t
in for the president. There were two va
cancies on the committee, and there were
four candidates for these honors, two
were ardent followers OF Roosevelt and
two were known not to favor the
president. The latter were CHOSEN in the
persons OF Sam P. Hurst and A c. Ed
wards.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-14
SOUTHERN SECURITIES co.
is NOW TO BE MADE

NEW YORK, April 12-Despite denials
from ]. p. Morgan & Co, the financial
agents, and Samuel Spencer. the presi-
dent, of the Southern railway, and from
August Belmont, the chairman of the
board of directors Of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad. insiders realize that the
furry in L. & N stock is due TO no skillful
corner" engineered by John W. Gates
and his western boomers.
1t simply means that the Southern rail-
way. or TO speak more definitely, that the
J. Pierpont Morgan group Of capitalists
has acquired control Of the Louisville and
Nashville railway. The Southern and the
L. & n. had become real competitors. and
the recent purchase BY the T.. a. N. Of the
Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern furnish
ca the L. & n another weapon with
which to fight the Southern.
~ Grant Merger Coming.
But this Community of interest which
is evident now between the Il & n. ana
the Southern is but a step in the direc-
ton of a new railroad consolidation,ya gi-
ant merger of roads in the southern states,
a sort of southern securities company,
formed on the same lines and directed by
the same guiding hand that directs the
tremendous Northern Securities compa-
MY. Pierrepont Morgan.
Another recent step which shows that
the end sought by the railroad magnates
Is the CEGdLlOn Oh a uldDlMAOln LdiALOdQ
merger, is the recent purchase of the
Plant system by the Atlantic Coast Line.
and the proviso fin the contract sale that
the Southern shall perpetually use the
Plant systems tracks into Jacksonville
Three competing railroads for the Florida
were thus given "a community
of interest" and put in a position where
Mr.. Morgan and his associates can easily
assinilate them in the proposed securi-
ties company which is to control all OF
the railroad lines south of the Potomac
and east OF the Mississippi, with possibly
one exception.
Greatest System in World.
Some idea of the vastness of the new
Southern Security company is shown by
the mileage herewith given of all the
railroads, which viii become q part 81 II,
exclusive Of the Seaboard Air Line.
Here are the roads and their mileage:
Road. Mileage.
Southern Railway dncluding the
Central Of Georgia, the Alabama
Great Southern, the Cincinnati,
New Orleans and Texas Pacific
and the Mobile and ohio. $500. 1887
Louisville and Nashville. 80. 5,lSS
Nashville. Chattanooga and st.
Louis Railroad...... ...-.... 1000. go
Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern
Railroad. $500. -. .......-...... 20
Atlantic Coast Line.... 80. .... ...... 2,lI7
Plant System.... 80. -. ........ z,zV1
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-14
Big warshlps are Rushed to Nlnepo.

LONDON, April 10.-A dispatch to a
news agency from Shanghai published
here today, says that allegations of cru
city against Catholic missionaries have
caused an anti-foreign outbreak at Ming
Pc, city in the province of Che-Kiang,
where a statement was circulated that
some Of the missionaries gouged out a
boys eyes.
Two British and two German warships
have been despatched to Ning-Po>
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-14
WALLER FREE
ON MURDER
CHARGE
UNITED STATES OFFICER IS AC-
Quilted BY C0URTMARTIAL
FOR KILLING NATIVES WITH
OUT TRIAL.

MANILA. April 14.-AIaj. Lyttleton W.
7. Waller of the marine corps. has been
acquitted. He was tried by a courtmar
tial on the charge of killing natives Of the
island of Samar without a trial. The
court stood eleven to two for Walters
acquittal.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-14

A man in whom the elements are really
we'll mixed troubles very little about wo-
men, in so far as physical charm Il con-
cerned.-The Art Of Life
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-14
Firebuq Followed.

Mr.. Talmage's success in building up
the membership of the Brooklyn church
was such that the church building in
Schermerhorn street was outgrown and
the first Brooklyn Taberpacle' wood and
The age-herald., 1902-02-28
A Popular Actress.

At the Hotel Hillman yesterday ClaKton Wilstach, personal representative of that favorite little actress, Adelaide Thurston, was proclaiming the return of his star and her successful play, Sweet Clover" to the Jefferson next Wednesday.
 That Miss Thurston made a hit in Sweet Clover last autumn in the South is shown by the great increase in the box office receipts whenever return en- agreements have been played during the past two weeks When Miss Thurston comes South next season she will be seen in new play that is being written for her by Pauline Phelps and Marion Short, authors of Sweet Clover. Miss Thurston named that play and the title seemed to please. She has christened the new piece Cozy Corners and 1t strikes me as being a com fortable sort of title. It does not refer to 0 stack of fancy worked pillows in a corner couch. It is the name of n little New England village in which the action of the play takes place. It will give Miss Thurston a chance to deliniate the same sort of elfin character in which she was seen to such great advantage in "The Little Minister"
The age-herald., 1902-02-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
County Roads.

Tt is difficult to make progress with road work in bad weather, such as we have been having; still we arc doing something in the way of macadamizing, v said Colonel Jackson, supervisor of roads and bridges for Jefferson County.
 I've have in Jefferson 1879 miles of road. No three counties in the state have as much road mileage-perhaps no four counties. Of our Jefferson County roads, 22O miles are maeadamized, and l will make about 25 miles of macadam exten- sion this year In the course of a few years we will get our county mileage of macadam up to 400 miles, which will cover all pressing needs in this line.
 "Of course it would be a good thing if we could macadamize every cross road and every little stretch Of highway, but with 400 miles in first-class condition the majority of people who use the roads would have about what they wanted.
 'The National Good Roads Association is doing much to create an interest in better highways, and in time the whole south will see great results"
The age-herald., 1902-02-28
Rosebery's Novel.

"Lord Rosebery, the English states man and Liberal leader, has completed his first novel but it remains to be seen whether he will publish it this year, said a literary person of Birmingham last night.
 If his lordship concludes to wait 1t will be because he doubts the wisdom of a political leader aspiring to reputation as an author of fiction. Engllshmen, lihe most other people, are slow to believe that a novelist can be a statesman. Disraeli s early novels delayed. l think, the day of that great mans recognition as a con- structive statesman, and 1t Is quite possi- ble that his motive for publishing his last two novels was to remind the public that a novelist and statesman were not incompatible terms.
 "If Rosebery does publish his novel next Autumn as many of his friends as- sert that he will, it will be received with much interest. His monograph on Napo- lean was universally praised. and if his novel should prove to be as good fiction as his Napolean was good history, his position as a novelist will be made. Lord Rosebery is a typical British politician. He is almost as fine an orator as his political mentor, the late Vim. E. Gladstone, was and he is not much behind him in literary skill as a magazine writer"
The age-herald., 1902-02-28
French General Election.

V In April occurs an election for mem bers of the House of Deputies. All the members of that body must go to the people in that month, and cleo. tions in France are conducted hon. estly.
 There can scarcely be said to be any issue before the country, unless it be the personal one relating to the present head of the Cabinet, M. Wal deck-Rosseau. The fight is one for or against him, and no other issue of Importance is before the voters of the republic.
 The Premier came into office in or der to safe the republic in the days of the Dreyfus case. He saved it from it's plotting enemies, and he has proven so resourceful and courageous that he has been kept in office ever since. In June he will have been Premier three years, a term never equalled in the second republic.
 The best friends of the republic are rallying to the support of M. Waldeck- Rosseau. He has driven out of sight almost ali the plotting Orleanists and Bonapartists, including our own Cas- teliane, and the republic under the peasant President is more securely anchored than it ever has been since it was founded thirty years ago upon the collapse of Bonapartism. Some in France do not hesitate to say that the Premier is a greater political leader than Gambetta. He is as full of tact as he is of convictions, and his cour- age is beyond question. Franco is coming. to know a good ruler when sf1ec1sees. him, and the chances are very good that the new House of Depu- ties will be controlled by the friends ofsNEs Valdeck-Rosseau.
The age-herald., 1902-02-28
Stove Makino in BirmInuharn.

The Wetter stove factory, recently destFeged by fire, is considering re- movafSfrom Memphis to some other city It commands a large trade, and up to the time of its destruction by fire it was one of the largest stove manufacturing concerns in the couh- try Says the Memphis Scimetar: "The officers Of the company have been considering outside propositions. The land in South Memphis on which the former plant of the company was located can be sold for $75,000. If a donation of land could be secured elsewhere, the officers point out the company would be ahead just SIS, 900. !" It has nothing to move except it's trade and good will, for the recent fire swept away all the buildings and their contents.
 This district is weak in stove mak- ing, although this is the great center of the making of foundry iron, and in the manufacture of thin castings no iron is more suitable, more fluid. To the use of pig iron at the lowest pos sible price will soon be added. water transportation, so that stoves can be barged to the sea at less than 50 cents a ton, and to any point in the Mis- sissippi valley at about 75 cents ton. These advantages should make this district the chief stove center of the country, and when the Warrior is opened, as it doubtless will be in about four years, this will be the result
 It would be well to start the busi- ness now by inducing the Wetter Company to establish themselves in this valley As soon as the insurance upon the plant Is adjusted, meeting of the stockholders is to be held, when the question of location will be de termined. If Birmingham or any oi its suburbs has a proposition to sub init it should be forwarded pretty soonSs
The age-herald., 1902-02-28

Dingley level. There Is no reason for anticipating troubles tn Louisiana or among the beet sugar growers from any concessions whatever to the Gu bans=not even from freo trade. The real difficulty springs from the out and-out Dingleyites who fear that one breach In the Chinese wall will lead to others.
 The question before Congress does not so much relate to aid for the Gu bans, although they greatly need 1t, as 1t does to the control by this ooun- try of Cubas $40,0Oo, 900 of trade. A 90 per cent concession ill tariff duties would give us full control of this fine trade, thereby especially helping our Gulf ports. The obstacle is the ex- tremely selfish, well-organized Dingley combine, consisting chiefly of cam paign-subseribing trusts. They do not object to a 50 per cent concession in Itself, but they fear it will hasten general tariff revision, which is in the air anyway. It is Dingleyism against trade at home and against relief for the Cubans. It Is Dingleyism in all it's graspihg hideousness, monopolis tic, aggressive and corrupt from the bottom up.
The age-herald., 1902-02-28
HoME-BUYING NEGROES.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 By acquiring homes Of their own the negroes can become not only self-respect- ing but respected citizens. There are numbers of instances in Alabama where colored men are owners of their own homes and are not only doing well, but have secured and maintained the respect of their white neighbors with whom they live in peace and harmony. It is certain that negro politicians will not receive much consideration in the south, and it Is equally certain that when the average country negro quits the farm and goes to the city he becomes a nuisance, and too often a criminal. Those Of the race who care to be good and useful citizens will find way if they are determined and preserving and can become inde- pendent and respected farmers on their own account. It may require both deter mination and some self-denial, but can be accomplished.
The age-herald., 1902-02-28
Great oil Company.

A large company is being organized for the refinement of oil at Beaumont, Tex, which includes, according to the New Orleans Picayune, two Birmingham men-Major Charles Wheelock and MT. J. w Bushg
 MT. P. Cunningham who has impor- tant financial connections in New York, is managing the scheme" said a New Or leans man at the Hilman.
 "The company is capitalized at $5,000, = 0OO It owns twenty-four acres of land in the oil belt in the northern part of Alabama and southern part of Tennessee, Twenty acres of land in Jefferson County, Texas, on the Neches river, and an S0,O0O,- barrel-a-day gusher on Spindle Top heights, which was bought on Decem- Der 2S.
 MT. Cunningham says the company expects to begin operations within sixty days, and to have the refinery running by July 1. It will be located on the com pany's land near Beaumont
 ''He says the oil has been analysed and found to contain 37 and a fraction per cent of Illuminating oil, besides which there are by-products sufficient to allow all the Illuminating oil to be thrown away and still be profitable. Ten per cent he says, is asphalt, and besides there can be gotten out of 1t four kinds of oil used in the manufacture of leather one of which is French de graw.
 After taking out the Illuminating oil and all the by-products MT Cunningham says, the refuse makes an excellent fer tilizer far superior to cotton seed meal.
 "'fhere is profit all around, according to MT. Cunningham, and if all his views are right, the Beaumont oil field is a gold mine"
The age-herald., 1902-02-28
Suqar at Washinuton.

Tho sugar trust does not seem to be active in Washington at present. The battle is between the Oxnard com binc of beet sugar growers assisted by the Louisiana interests on the one hand, and the friends of Cuba on tho other, supported of course by those who desire to extend the country's trade. A concession of 20 per cent only would not help materially the country's trade in and from Cuba. A concession of 50 per cent is needed for that purpose.
 Nor would a concession of 50 per cent injure any interest in this coun- try. simply because the consumption here outruns the home, colonial and Cuban crops by fully 100000 tons. This means that the price of sugar would be held up to the high-tariff
The age-herald., 1902-02-28

world. And the reason we selected 'II9- guenots' is because it calls for our full star east-three great sopranos, Due the great tenor from the grand opera at Paris and several other famous artists. The ballet will also be a feature of Les Huguenots'
 "The company will arrive here on the afternoon of Friday but 1t will spend Friday night in resting, so that the sing CTS will be fresh and at their best on Saturday. I have nothing to say against MT. Maurice Grau. but am satisfied that the Birmingham public will say our per formances are unequaled in point of all round excellence. We carry an orchestra of forty and our chorus is larger than Graus"
The age-herald., 1902-02-28
ABOUT GIRLS,

Ar old bachelor of this town who claim g to have just reached his prime must have been very much delayed.
 Som etimes when girl seems to take really feels a greater interest In his fare. well.
 All is not gold that glitters is what we heard a girl tell young man the other day when he was exhibiting to her 5Oc gold plated ring.
 A Louisville man claims that his hired girl has so much temper that she keeps his entire family hot all the time and saves him the expense of fuel a.f
 A bachelor of this town has been trying for the past twenty years to photograph his girl on his heart and all he has ever gotten of her Is a negative. .D 4f From the Editorial page of the Stevenson
 Chronicle.
 A certain girl went to a home in this county to live as one of the family and soon left because the head member un- dertook to treat her es one of the fam fly.
 short time ago a Kentucky girl horse whipped dentist for thanking googoo eyes at her. One of the local editors of the town in writing up the affair stated that the girls bosom was filled with rage The mischevous printer put il rags. They say the editor is still camp- ing out on the hill north of town. &
 A Cumberland county woman who was thought to be dying was imploring her husband to be good to her children who would soon be motherless. Don't worry about the children, dear. I'll soon get an other mother for them," replied the hus- band. The wife at once rose up in the bed and exclaimed. Oh, you will eh? Well you won't, I'll get well if it kills me. She got we'll
 It took us long time to learn that A girl would sit in parlor all the after noon with her best fellow and the mercury down to zero and then say she ula not get cold but let her mother ask her to brina a bucket of water or go to the kitchen when the thermometer registers temner- ate and she will say. "Oh It's too cold. ? What curious mortals girls are say fiaw.
The age-herald., 1902-02-28
About Persons.

Congressman Oscar w. Underwood who came from Washington on account of the illness of his friend, MT. P. K. Campbell will remain until the crisis in MT. Camp bells case is passed. MT. Campbell has been Ill with pneumonia since last Satur- day week. He is improving slowly but he is still very sick man.
 J. D. Rhodes of St Louis is at the Me tropolitan.
 A. W. Wright of Newark, N. J., is at the Metropolitan.
 Capt. NJ. II. Amerine of Montgomery is at the Metropolitan.
 MT. A. j. Augustine of New Orleans is at the Metropolitan MT. Augustine Is a well known newspaper man, and is a brother of the editor of the Times Dem- ocrat.
 The Rev. John D. Keith and pr. c. A. zeigler of Warsay are at the Metrepel- itan.
 Phil c. Jacobs of Cincinnati Is at the IIillman.
 F. W. Allen of Nashville Is at the Hillman.
 J. T. Jones of Atlanta is at the Flor ence.
 c. A. Kitchings of Atlanta is at the Hillman.
 T. B. McNeal of Patton is at tho Flor ence. e- -=ti-. '"s..' ss = .-s44 -e--.... Kyl fr cA 4taA 4 Florence
 George G. Thompson of Nashville Is at the Florence. R. L. Simpson of Washington is at the Florence.
 The Hon. Jack Moore of Walker county is at the Metropolitan.
 w. E. Knox of Anniston Is at the Metro politan. ~ ;,
 w. B. Reynolds of MontevalIo is at the Metropolitan
 c. N Black of New York is at the Hilman. k.#4=
 J. L. Baldwin of Louisville is at the Morris.
 K. D. Yeaton of New York is at the Hilman. J. P. Tuekerman of Philadelphia is at the Morris. f'1'tt
 R. o. Crawford of Jasper is at the Mor- ris.
 
 c. F. Forsyth of New. York is at the Morris. fEt Ay"y
 A. J. Pughsley of New Orleans is at | the Morris. MT. J. M. Tull of Charlotte N C., is in | the city.
The age-herald., 1902-02-28
Public Spirit.

Ut is very encouraging to find the busl- ness men of Birmingham ready to respond promptly to request to go on the music festival guarantee fund" said an of- ficer of the Choral Society.
 Scarcely any one declines Occasionally we come across man who has to be talked into it-talked into helping this great local enterprise-but 90 per cent of our prominent citizens put their names down with alaclty and thank the committee for calling This is public spirit. When the business men of any city lend ready helping hands to music festivals, regardless of whether they themselves are music lovers or not, it is a healthy. progressive sign"
The age-herald., 1902-02-28
A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING
 SEA.

By Allan Cunningham. A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
 A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail
 And bends the gallant mast: And bends the gallant mast, my boyu
 While like the eagle free Away the good ship flies and leaves
 Old England on the lee. o for a soft and gentle windi
 heard a fair one cry; But give to me the snoring breeze
 And white waves heaying high; And white waves heaving high, my lads
 The good ship tight and free:- The world of waters is our home,
 And merry men are we. There's tempest In yon horned moon,
 And lightning in yon cloud; But hark the music, mariner!
 The wind is piping loud: ! While the hollow oak our nalace tA
 Our heritage the sea,
The age-herald., 1902-02-28
EDUCATORS END LAeoRs.
Prof. c. M. Jordan of Minneapolis Is
 Elected President, 'a II

Chicago, February 27.--Members of the department of superintendence of the Ma tional Educational Association concluded their deliberations today and adjourned to meet again in New Orleans next year. The following officers were chosen: Pres ident c. M. Jordan, superintendent of schools Minneapolis; first vice president, c. F. Carroll, superintendent of schools, Worcester, Mass; second vice president. Warren Easton, superintendent of schools, New Orleans; treasurer, J. N. Wilkinson, president of State Normal School, Emporia, Kan ' '