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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22
SENATOR MONEY DOUBTS
PRESIDENTS SINCERITY

politically. were only made amendments
by dragooning southern states into their
support BY the threat of depriving them
of their federal relation. and in the state
Of Indiana BY a certificate that two-thirds
of the senate had voted affirmatively.
when in fact two-thirds were not present.
That question was imminent and over
whelming and some settlement was vital
" necessary and yet, after the heat OF
the four years conflict, ana the enormous
sympathy developed for the negro in the
north and the necessity for fixing his
status which was obvious to everybody.
there was really no fair adoption of the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments.
las a student and writer of history,
the President is acquainted with these
facts and 1t will be singular If he is not
aware of the difficulty of the constitu-
tional amendment that he speaks of. 1t
sounds very well to the people. Words
are cheap. but performance is difficult.
Even If the required two-third vote Of
each house could be obtained and the
President should give his signature then
three-fourths of the states must ratify
the amendment and to say that one
fourth of the republican states, at least,
are not absolutely dominated by the
trusts and their politicians would be too
absurd and would torture credulity. One
who fears the power of the trusts and
recognizes their terrible menace to free
institutions can take little comfort from
any utterance of President Roosevelt on
this subject, and giving him credit for
some knowledge, 1t is difficult to give
him credit for sincerity If he is sincere,
then he is repudiated by his party and
no hope of reform in this particular can
be expected by the public from the re-
publican party and its President"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22
TNFANT INDUSTRY BARRED.

From the Boston Globe.
News comes from st. Petersburg that
the commander of the cossaek station at
Wertsehink anxious that his district
should show a preponderance of males.
has ordered that the father of every girl
baby born in the district shall receive
fifty strokes with the knout.
In some countries the remedy would be
heavy tax on every female infant born,
but the Russian peasantry would escape
this, as they have nothing to pay with,
anyway. So the knout proves far more
effective.
The inevitable effect of war upon the
infant industries of nation is to make
females a drug on the market. Russia in
her search after material for big army
has not advanced a peg yet above the
cruel ethics of ancient Sparta
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22
All Democrats Stand Together.

"The newspapers" says the Oneonta
News-Dispatch, that supported ex-
Governor Johnston for the nomination
and made a vigorous fight against the
nomination of Governor jerks are TAX
ing broad and patriotic view of the
situation, and are pleading that all
democrats fall in line and support the
regular nominees of the party in the
November election. This is crafty
ing"
The Opelika News and the Mont
gomery Journal have fallen into line
in a way peculiar to themselves, but
they are in the fold, and the Journal
says the Johnston supporters will 10y
ally support the ticket.
This leaves the Albanian alone
outside the democratic camp. AS the
News-Dispatch says, such unanimity
is very gratifying 1t demonstrates
anew the strength and solidity of the
democratic party whenever an oppo-
nent appears in the field.
The new white mans republican
party will have its hands very full in
November.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22
THE PEOPLE OF MARS ARE
l,OOO,O OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Mars is inhabited, I am convinced. -
says Prof. G.. W. Hough, and its inhab-
itants are probably 100000 years in ad-
vance of us. They certainly should be
more intelligent than we are, if we ac-
cept the theory of evolution, as almost
all scientists do. Because it is smaller,
it solidified more rapidly than the earth,
and whatever forms of life were meant
to exist upon ID were given a start while
the earth was hot and still in a gaseous
state"
Professor Hough is head of the Dear
born observatory, connected with the
Northwestern university. He has been
studying Mars all summer. and this is
the tenor of report he is making of his
observations.
1t will be impossible ever to know
what form has been given to the inhabit-
ants of Mars" said he, but the fact re-
mains that their home was prepared for
them so long before ours that in the
course of evolution they should surpass
us in intelligence.
THE fishworms of whatever other form
of animal life from which we have
evolved, were certainly not a higher form
than the first life of Mars, providing it
was put there. Then why should the de-
velopment of life on the planet not be
further advanced?
They may have instruments of sufh-
cient power to see us. The earth being
so much larger than Mars increases
chances for successful observation"
Professor Hough smiled when asked to
go into discussion of the characteristics
of the people of Mars. He admitted that
astronomers could only agree that the
inhabitants were there, and that from
the meager glimpses given by the tele-
scope that the planet was in a high state
of civilization. To describe its people is
as much an impossibility. he says, as to
talk with them.
Astronomers have come to agree that
animal life could exist on Mars" he
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22
Old Ireland.

NJ Maloney, who returned SATURDAY.
from visit to his parents in Ireland
said he enjoyed his trip and was greatly
gratified to see a marked Improvement
in the condition of the people of the
Emerald Isle.
81 have not been in Ireland for twenty
years." said Mr.. Maloney. Il travelled
through all four of the provinces but
spent the greater part of my time with
my father and n.oiner in my native place.
County Sligo. The Irish tenantiy is
much better off now than it was a few
years ago. For example. my father for
merly paid Ell year as the rent for his
12-acre truck farm. Now he pays ~
a year and that is not as much as the
taxes there are paid on some of the truck
farms of Jefferson county.
Some people outside Of Erin who do
not understand the situation say that
Ireland would have been well off all
along but for the political agitators. The
truth is all the relief measures granted
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22
From the Courier Journal.

From the Courier Journal
IN view of the recent conference at
Oyster Bay. in which a committee
3 of distinguished republican senators
met to edit the Presidents tongue on his
swing around the western circle and the
announcement that he would confine his
remarks to trust busting and eliminate
remarks anent tariff revision, Senator
fernando D. Money. of Mississippi. at
democratic congressional headquarters.
said:
THE President sent a message 10 con-
gress last December suggesting a remedy
for the trusts which was to give public
fty to their doings and bring everything
to the public view. His suggestion was
embodied in an amendmen, 10 the ess1-
sus bill offered by Senator Dubois and
every republican voted against 1t. thus
declaring that they were not In accord
with the President on that subject. The
President sent In no message recommend
ing constitutional amendment for the
control of the trusts. If he had done so,
1t IS a question whether It would not
have met the fate of his suggestion of
more light but he had patronage to
dispose of and real earnest effort on
his part probably would have carried Du-
Bots amendment to the census bill or
the Presidents recently proposed amend
ment to the constitution. He attempted
nothing while congress was in session.
He now proposes a constitutional
amendment which seems to be the only
remedy presented to his mind. Nobody
knows better than the President the ex-
ceeding difficulty of passing an amend
ment to the constitution. Even those
amendments which settled the status of
the freed negro as a citizen, civilly and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22
New Methods of Turpentininq.

DIR. Charles H. Herty who formerly
lived at Athens, Georgia, where he
was a member of the faculty of the
University Of Georgia, became convinc-
ed about year ago that the old-time
method of procuring rosin and turpen-
tine by boxing the trees was wasteful
in every respect, and he left Athens
and went down to the pine forests of
Irwin county, Georgia. where he has
been conducting experiments as an OF
cial of the United States government
His experiments cover eight months,
and at the annual meeting of the Tur-
pentine Operators association, recent
ly held in Jacksonville, Florida, he
demonstrated the complete success of
his plan.
Heretofore the trees have been
opened until a mere strip was left.
Three or four boxes were cut in the
same tree. This means the decay of
the tree and early death-the speedy
destruction of vast numbers of valua-
BILE trees. DR.. Herty's plan will at
least double the life of the trees. He
cuts no box at all-merely gutter at
the end of which is a clay cup. In
Irwin county he worked the two meth
DDS side by side, and the cup method
gave rosin and turpentine that brought
from 20 to 300 per cent more money.
In the end the Herty method increases
the yield from a tree. All operators
who have watched the Herty method
in actual operation do not hesitate to
say that 1t is preferable In every res
pect. The earthen cups needed are
inexpensive, and they should be made
in the south.
DIR. Herty himeself claims that his
method will not shorten the life of a
tree in the least, but even if it doubles
the life of tree, as all who have stu
died it say it will, 1t will add millions
to the wealth of this section 1t will
prolong the use of our great forests
indefinitely, and revoIutionize an in
dustry that has heretofore been con-
Quoted on wasteful lines.
No doubt. too, his plan can be ap-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22
CABLE TO HONOLULU.
Line for 2413 Miles Now on Board
Steamer at London.
Cable to the Chicago Tribune.

Cable to the Chicago Tribune
London, September 1S-The submarine
cable between San Francisco and Homo
lulu will be In working operation by
January l, 1903. The line to Masula will
be completed by July 4. 1903 The cable
for the line to Honolulu has been COM
pleted and is now on board the cable
steamer Silvertown, lying in the Thames
preparatory to sailing September 20 for
San Francisco, whence the vessel will
Immediately begin laying the cable to
Honolulu. The Silvertown is expected
to reach San Francisco early in Decem-
ber The cable is wound around three
enormous spools, each thirty feet in
diameter Its total length is 2n3 miles.
The strands are one to three inches
thick. The total weight of the cable is
10, 900 tons.
Vice President Ward of the CONNER
cial Pacific Cable company, who sails
for New York ON the steamer Celtic to-
morrow. said today:
1.-THE shipment of the cables gives the
assurance that the United States may
look forward to being in telegraphic COM
munication with Honolulu by the end of
the year The manufacl re of the re-
naming three sections to the Philippines
is proceeding at the rate of fifty miles
day. and | am confident they will be
finished by March and laid during next
summer. Two cable steamers, the Co
lonia and the Anglia, will lay the line
beyond NAVAL | would like to see the
entire project contaminated by next
fourth of July.
Pending the arrival of the Silvertown
work will be pushed on the underground
cable approaches at San Francisco and
Honolulu, each seven miles long 1t will
take the Silvertown two weeks to I'M
wind its spools between San Francisco
and Honolulu. The service will begin
Immediately thereafter
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22
CRUMBS FROM KANSAS.

From the Atchison Globe.
A good many children are like the duck
whose mother, a hen, sits on the bank
all day and scolds because 1t swims.
Some men seem to move to a larger
town for no other reason than that they
have to make bigger fools of them
selves there to attract attention
My darling" an Atchison man said
to his wife, you are looking badly, and
l want you to go to the seashore for
rest No" the wife replied, syou
have a scheme to get rid of me. I am
afraid of what will go on after 1 am
out of town.
An Atchison woman spent a fortune in
educating her son and setting him up in
business. He was married two or three
years when he died, and his wife got ali
his money. Justice demands something
for the poor old n9ther, and the laws
give her no show.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22
GO, LOVELY ROSE,

BY Edmund Waller.
Go, lovely rose!
Tell her, that wastes her time and me
That now she knows,
When resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Tell her that's young
And shuns to have her graces spied,
That hadst thou sprung
In deserts, where no men abide,
Thou must have uncommended died.
Small is the worth
OF beauty from the light retired;
Bid her come forth,
Suffer herself to be desired,
And not blush SO to be admired.
Then die, that she
The common fate of all things rare
May read In thee:
How small a part of time they sha-o
That are SO wondrous sweet and fairl
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22
ITS WUTH IT."

From the New York Times.
The venerable Bishop Williams of Con-
necticut for many years presiding bishop
of the Episcopal church In America, and
who lived all his life a bachelor, was
talking one day with young man from
the west about possible tax a western
state was trying to impose on bachelors,
the tax to be increased a certain per cent
for every ten years of bachelorhood.
why, bishop" said the young man,
"at your age you would have to pay
about 500 year"
WELL said The bishop quietly and in
his old time vernaeular its with it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
Sunday Onnnlnn.

Il understand that the state fair is to
be opened on Sunday after z o'clock in
order that wage workers. who cannot see
the exhibits during the week may have
an opportunity of doing SO on the after
noon of their day of rest" said a citizen.
"on every bright Sunday 10000 people
ride on the street cars. It is reasonably
to say that 70 per cent of them are
pleasure riders--worklng people. including
merchants and clerks, who can not take
much recreation on other days. It will
be no more sinful for the crowds 10 go
to the fair for the purpose of looking at
the exhibits and listening to fine music,
than it is for them to go to East Lake
and other suburban resorts. At least
that is my view and the view of many
who are much better in the performance
of religious duties than I am. And yet
many church people there be who will
protest against the Sunday opening. To
hear them talk one might suppose that
listening to lively music on Sunday was
as bad as visiting a drinking saloon or
gambling club on the Lords day But in
the minds of a majority of God-fearing
people there is a very wide difference"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22
AMONG THE FIRST.

From the Camden Progressive Era.
When the legislature meets we hope a
uniform textbook bill will be among the
very first to receive attention. With the
state doing everything in It's power to pro-
vide sufficient schools, there only remains
compulsory education and a uniform
textbook law and in very short time
We will wipe out Alabama.s very unen-
viable reputation for illiteracy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22
Ne ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Growth in Literacy.

The children of the great republic
ire pretty well educated, and the
trend is in the right direction. In 1890
there were but thirteen states in
which 80 per cent of the children aged
40 to IA years could read and write;
now there are twenty-seven such
states. We add a table showing the
pen centage of persons between the
ages Of 10 and IA who can read and
write:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22

stitutional amendment is also good but
too slow and roundabout.
Here is something definite.
Here is something direct.
Here is something effective.
Speaker Henderson did not need to
point out the fact that the wage earners
of the country are becoming FESTIVE under
present conditions. They connect the
trust question with the tariff question.
They cannot be fooled. They know what
they want. If the republicans do not
give them what they want they will try
the other party.
We shall know in ten days or two
weeks what President Roosevelt proposes
respecting the Iowa idea. The speeches
will tell it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22

In 1890 Alabama held third place
place from the bottom, having South
Carolina and Louisiana below, just as
she does now, but her per centage of
literate children in 1890 was but 64.50,
whereas it is now I'LL. This is a
very handsome gain, and it would
have moved this states name up the
per centage list If other states and
territories had not made equally hand
some gains.
The schools are efficient In every
American state, and if Alabama ex-
poets to climb up the per centage lad.
der she must see to it that the school
monies are well apportioned and every
dollar used to the greatest adyan-
tage. It is the object of the public
school system to bring the rudiments
of an education to every child. This
must be done if Alabama's name is
to be kept from the foot of the per
centage ladder. Louisiana's new con-
stitution affords the widest opportun-
ity for local taxation, and the schools
of that state will be bettered very
rapidly Alabama will be passed by
Louisiana unless she betters her
schools by local taxation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22
Is THERE STILL.

IL there are any doubts relative to the
nature of Judge Feagins backbone. let
them be dismissed at once. 1t is still
Herald
me judge is setting a good example and
we nope he will stick to 1t. If he can
succeed In making pistol toting both I'M
safe and unpopular in Birmingham, per-
maps the good example will spread to
other cities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22

SAID. 1t has been proved that climatic
conditions on the planet are the same
as on the earth. 1t has an atmosphere
and is covered with a red vegetation.
This much has been determined, but the
largest telescope is not strong enough to
enable the eye to see any sign there of
animal life which may exist
1T would be folly to suppose however,
that not only one but millions of solar
systems would be created that a little
planet like the earth might alone be In
habited And since Mars, and possibly
Mercury and Venus. are fit for habita~
ton, reason tells US that people have
been put there. The planets were not
created merely to fly around in space"
Mars first became fit for habitation,
Professor Hough asserts, and its people
should have become much superior in In
telligence to those of the earth.
Professor Hough derides the theory of
the possibility of ever establishing com
munication between the Inhabitants OF
the earth and any of the other planets
THAT theory is visionary" he saws
land utterly impossible. There are no
facts in our possession to warrant the
belief that such an event will ever come
to pass. 1t is beyond the Imagination of
even the most optimistic scientist. The
people of Mars may be looking down upon
us through superior telescopes with SUI
perior intelligence, but they can never
communicate with us or we with them.
There have been no startling discov-
cries in astronomy for a century. The
conclusions that are drawn now result
from gradual observations-the gathering
together of little bits of information from
all over the world.
1T is certain that there is no animal
life on any of the planets except the
earth, Mars and Venus. Jupiter, which
Is seven times as large as the earth, has
plastic surface of a substance of a
density half way between that of air
and water. 1t is still in a gaseous state
and undergoing the process of soliditica-
ton that would make it fit for the re-
ception of life"
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piled to the rubber trees in South
America. thus prolonging another
great industry and eheapening an arti-
Gle of every day. use. The value of
the discovery cannot well be over
-otad
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22
SWAPPING SALARIES.

From the Sheffield Standard.
One of the editors of the Montgomery
Journal has resigned. to enter the Meth
odlst ministry. The salary of a Mont
gomery editor Is about the same as that
of Methodist circuit rider. SO he cannot
be charged with ayariee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22
A FAMILIAR NAME.

FROM the New Decatur Advertiser.
So Smith is nominated for governor of
Alabama by the republicans. And who Is
SMITH Seems to US we have heard the
name before
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22

The republican party of Alabama
has been snugly fitted to the offices in
hand and in sight, and no recruits
need apply.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22

If John w. Gates is really "the most
vulgar millionaire in America" he
must be worse than the general pub
lie had reason to expect.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22

If the Colombian revolutionists do
not keep off the Panama canal, Uncle
Sam will soon know the reason why.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22

New York is worried more by the
stringency in the coal market than by
the tightness of the money market.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22

Hen Watterson and Mark Twain
should form a trust and attack the
-four hundred" together.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22

Indian summer seems to be the
only compromise the hard coal strike
is capable Of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22

James ]. Hill is becoming stiller as
Philander Knox approaches these
shores.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22

The remarkable Mr.. Baer of Penn.
sylvania has subsidized.
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About Persona.


H. F. Little of CORTLAND is at the
Morris.
J. E. Raindollar of Baltimore is at the
Morris.
Frank A. Wright of Philadelphia is at
the Morris.
G. Henry Boehl of Louisville is at the
Morris.
J. L. Noveri of New Orleans Is at the
Morris.
NJ. B. Tiehenor of indianapolis is at the
Metropolitan.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. F. Sloan of Tuscaloosa
are at the Metropolitan
George Ratz of Chicago is at the Me-
tropolitan.
J. II. Willis of Memphis is at the Me-
tropolitan.
B. c. Jennett of Mobile is at the Me-
tropolitan.
c. II. Bowers of Washington. D. c.,
is at the Hillman.
Henry Mclaughlin of New York is at
the Hillman.
James G. cantren of st. Louis, gen.
enarl western agent of the seaboard Air
Line, spent yesterday In Birmingham as
h. - d
agent of the Seaboard. Tt was Mr. CAN
trell's first visit and as he was leaving he
said Birmingham had surpassed even
his highest expectations as a solid and
beautiful city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22

Colonel Watterson is a society re-
porter reversed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22

While General Miles is away ex-
Secretary Alger will slip into the
senate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22

Grand Duke Boris escaped where
Nicholas Fish did not.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-22

The Martians are, it seems, more
American than Americans.