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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10
SOMETHING is LACKING.
Ensishman Talks Interestingly of
American Schools.

New York, July 9.-After trip Of in
spection through number of American
universities Prof. r. d. Redmsyne of
Birmingham. England, who IS in the city.
said:
II could not fail to be struck with the
fact that all your great institutions of
learning are yet lacking in that indef1n-
able something that contributes so much
to making Oxford what 1t is. The COM
mrnity of oxford scholars has given to
the place a priceless heritage We all
know how, in the course of time, their
influence has filtered out to the world
and has become potent in shaping his.
tory But wien / saw the stamp of mer
you have IT. your universities and the
stamp of yourg men they are turning
out, l became convinced that your insti-
tutions too, will have in time this potent
and precious atmosphere, and will treas
ure names like those If Arnold and New
man and the rest. / am glad that the
new scholarships will enable you to send
ever to us each year so many men to
feel this atmosphere and carry back the
word of it,.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10
FAMILY HAS HARD LUCK.
One Son Murdered and a Daughter
Killed by Storm.

ST. Paul, MINI. July o. AS a result Of
the terrific storms which prevailed south
and west of Waseoa, Mimi, Saturday
evening the family CT Adam Bishman,
Jr is again within the space of a month
Grief-stricken on account of n tragic
death In the family. On June 10 Philip
Bishman, the son, was murdered In the
town of Wilton. Hardly recovering from
the shock of that affair. the family at
the home place. four miles from here,
wes doing the usual evening work on the
place when The storm struck them Satur-
day evening.
The young brother, Adam Jr, his two
sisters and the hired man were in the
basement of the barn attending to the
milking when the storm burst in all its
fury.
The tarn wss torn asunder. tho heavy
me- IS of farm machinery and hay with
which the upper floors of the barn were
filled crashed into the basement upon
them Ore of the women was killed in
stantly and kdam Jr.. was 80 crushed
that he died from his injuries yesterday
The OTHER two occupants were rescued
fl ON suffocaticn only after long hours OF
work ty the neighboTs. Eight head Of
horses end six head of cattle were also
Killed. The lest of the family sought
shelter In the house and were unframed.
The storm scattered destruction In its
rath, but as FAR as reported no other
deaths occurred.
The damage WIS very heavy around
Wanda, and at Perhsm the storm leveled
circus tent which caught fire from the
lights Several people were burned and
81 uised but none was fatally injm ed
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by a majority of those voting it be-
comes void and of no effect.
The Oregon attempt to check and
control legislation is by no means the
first work of that nature IN this eoun-
try. South Dakota adopted a similar
constitutional amendment IN 1893. but
the Legislature has never passed the
laws that would render It operative.
Utah did likewise, and the Legislature
refused to put the amendment into
effect. In Oregon no legislation Is re-
quired, and the new amendment goes
into immediate effect. Nevada's Leg
islature Of 1908 will pass upon meas
ure providing for direct vote when
10 per cent of the voters ask for it.
and in Illinois Is per cent of the voters
Of district or 10 per cent of the State
may at any time demand an expression
of opinion upon any matter of public
policy.
These efforts towards establishing
the initiative and referendum grow out
of the distrust of modern Legislatures,
and the hope is that direct action will
operate as a check upon corrupt or
vicious work In lawmaking. The plan
has been employed in Switzerland a
long time, and its success in that coun-
try leads to the belief that it may be
used in this country with a fair meas
ure of success at least. Thus far the
plan has not been fairly tested in any
American state,S but the adoption of
the Oregon amendment will doubtless
afford an example that will be good
test of its practicability and value in
this country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10
Ir ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Corn in CHICAGO.

Contract corn, that is to say, corn
that is dry and good enough to be de-
livered on contracts, is worth in Chi
cago about IS cents, while wheat is
worth but 70 cents. There is no corn
to burn anywhere on account of the
very short crop that a drouth caused
last year, but the present price of corn
is due not SO much to that drouth as
to lot of spectators headed by John
w. Gates. The Gates people bought
about 100000 bushels of corn at be-
tween So and SIS cents a bushel. They
bought about all the corn that was fit
for delivery in July, and the scarcity
of the article for that purpose, outside
of the Gates holdings, has carried the
price up to IS cents. The Gates people
expect to be able to unload their corn
at IS cents, thus netting them a profit
of about $4,400,000.
Where will this profit come from?
1t will come in part from the negro
tenant farmer down in Lowndes. from
every man in the South who has
family or animals to feed, who did not
grow his own corn. When corn is
selling at So cents in Chicago it at one
bound rises to parity even in districts
that have but a weekly mail. How
they obtain the needful information,
no one knows, but they get it or feel
it a-coming, and prices are advanced
accordingly. The tenant who is grow
ing cotton on credit, pays today about
$3.50 a bushel for all the corn he buys,
and he must buy some.
There Is not much prospect of relief
in Chicago where the prices of corn
are established Country holders do
not hold very much corn, and much of
their holdings is not contract corn,
although some of it can be manipu-
lated into a deliverable article. The
corner may be Of long duration, for
the Gates people are now engaged in
buying September corn.
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TO WE'D IN DENMARK.
Woman Starts on Long Journey to
Meet Prospective Husband.

Chicago, July Sylvia u. Pho, who
has been an employ in the civil service
department at the city hall in Chicago
hes started for Denmark, her native
land. where she Is to marry Count Knuth
Eurg a member of one of the most Illus
trious and wealthy families of the coun-
try.
Miss Flo met Count Knuth, who was
travelling around the world, at Miami,
fla, last January. Louis Albert Francis
Pho, father of Sylvia. inaugurattd the
Danish Liberal party in 1871, but he lost
in the early struggles and was banished.
The Liberal movement. however. finally
triumphed in Denmark. and in July 1900
King Christian organized the first Lib
eral ministry in the history of the coun-
try.
After coming to this country Pho opened
a scandinavian colony in Florida, calling
1t White City. Today 1t is thriving
town. AS a result of his explorations in
Florida. Pho died in Chicago from fever
in 1894.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10
JUDGE WILLIAM MARVIN DEAD.
Was Provincial Governor of Louisiana
After the War.

Syracuse. N. r., July 9.-Judge William
Marvin died at his home in Skanateles
this morning, aged ninety-four years. He
was appointed United States district at
torney for Florida in 1885 by President
Jackson and was appointed United State
District Judge at Key West by President
Van Buren,.
He held court at Key West until 1863
and 1t was a Union court, with the
American flag floating over It. though
every attendant of the court, from dis
trict attorney to crier. Joined In seces-
sion.
After the war President Johnson ap-
pointed Judge Marvin provisional gov
ernor of Florida. After the government
was established he was elected to the
United States Senate. but was not allow
ed to take his seat because negroes had
been allowed to vote.
Judge Marvin returned to his home In
Skanateles In 1867, where he has since
lived. He has written several works up
on maritime law and upon theological
subjects. He was a warden of st. James
Episcopal church at Skanateles and
was deeply interested in church matters.
He voted for every Democrat from
Jackson to Cleveland. but bolted Bryan
in 1896.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10
Initiative and Referendum.

At the recent election in Oregon a
constitutional amendment was adopted
by two-thirds vote establishing the
initiative and referendum. Under this
amendment 8 per cent of the voters
Of the State can by petition procure
an election upon any defined policy or
proposed measure, and IL majority
approve it the force of law is added to
(. This is the initiative.
a petition of 5 per cent of the voters
81 the State will procure submission
# any act of the Legislature to the
people. and should it be disapproved
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10
At MONTGOMERY Today.

The State Democratic Committee
meets in Montgomery today to decide
whether the Democrats of Alabama
shall select candidates for State politl.
cal offices by a primary, or whether
the old convention system shall be
continued.
Those who look wise and say the
organization of the party in the State
would be endangered by a resort to
the primary system seem to assume
that direct action by the people is
something radically new and tentative.
They forget that it has been in use in
South Carolina nearly ten years, and
the Democratic organization in that
State has not been impaired. 1t has
been in use in other States several
years, and in Switzerland it has been
employed many ages. The rank and
file are not anarchists, and all the pub
lie intelligence and public virtue is not
confined to any class.
1t is absurd to say the State Com
mittee has no power to call State pri-
mary. If it had power to call Con-
gressional primary in the Fiji dis
trict, it certainly has power to call a
State primary at the behests OF the
great majority Of the party. Shall the
few prevail, or shall the many have
an equal chance? This is the issue,
and there is no other. The former de
sire to monopolize the power of MAX
ing nominations, while the latter de-
sire all Democrats to share directly in
the work of selecting nominees. Which
should it be? Which will best conduce
to harmony? Which will bring out a
full vote? Which will invite party
split? Which Will render a split i'm
possible?
In very truth this should be the hour
of compromise-of concessions that
would bring all Democrats together.
Let each county ballot on given day
for candidates from United States Sen
ator down; then let the successful
candidates name the county's delega-
ton. In that way every Democrat
could express his choice for each Office
to be filed, and yet old forms would
be preserved. Such a compromise
would bring all Democrats together,
and the new constitution would be
fully installed by it's friends, and the
prosperity of the State would go on
unchecked.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10
CONSIDERING MoReAN's OFFER.
May Be Allowed to Furnish England
With Ships for Admiralty.

New York. July o-rhere was consider
able speculation in the House of Com
mons lobby with regard to ]. P. Morgan's
offer II the British admiralty. cables the
London correspondent Of the Tribune. Mr..
Arnold Foster stated definitely that Mr..
Morgan had ,ffered to place certain Brit
ish ships in the shipping combine at the
disposal of the admiralty for the next
fifty years. but he declined to communi-
cate the details to the house.
Mr.. PIERRE. when questioned the other
day on this topic by the steamship SUBJ
sides committee. simply shrugged his
should ers. bu. II Is clear from the adj
iniralty socretary's statement that the
proposal is now under consideration and
as 1t has not been promptly declined.
some members Of the Commons are con-
WINGED that its terms must be of Tempt
ing nature.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10
A Young Alabama Minister.

Alabanians generally feel more than
ordinary interest in the fortunes of the
Rev. Richard w. He que, late of Shelf
field, young clergyman of the Episcopal
church. Mr.. Hogue, who has been acting
of late as temporary rector of Christ
church, Mobile has accepted a call to
St. James church, Wilmington. N. c.,
ard is quitting Alabama perhaps perma-
nently.
This most promising young man, who
has already made a reputation much be-
ycnd what could be reasonably expected
of one of his years, is the son of the late
Cyrus d. Hogue of Perry, sometime state
euditor and one of the strongest and best
loved men Alabama has known in public
life during the past quarter of century.
In every one Of the sixty-six counties
there we're coed men who loved ICY"
Hogue as both brother and comrade and
when death claimed him, before his
time" there vas sorrow throughout the
state because of the ending of career
that promised very great achievements.
Those who know the son best hold him
to be entirely worthy of the father in all
the esser tials of a trave life. And proof
of this is found in the enviapie reputation
which the young man has so quickly
made In bis gentle calling as Christian
minister. Mr.. Hogue's mother, whose
death last year is still remembered with
sorrow was Miss Brown of Perry, sister
of Attorney General Charles G. Brown
nd Messrs. Wilson r. Brown and Eu-
gene Brown of Birmingham, and Will
liem Carrot Brown, the historian, of
II. ryard IJniVe1 sit.-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10
BOY AND GIRL SAVE TRAIN.
Wave Red Froek to Prevent Engine
Running on Spreading Rails.

New York. Jelly s.-Eldridge FinlSle. Is
years of age. and his sister. aged 10.
saved a train on the Poughkecpsie and
Esstern Railroad near Boston Corners,
In Duchefs County. from being wrecked
by tagging the locomotive with the girls
red frock just in time to prevent 1t from
rolling upon spreading rails, which would
have thrc wn the engine and six cars-four
freight, enc mail and one coach--down
steep emnarkment. The train was run
ming about thirty-fve miles an hour.
The frantic waving If the red frock by
the children enabled tie engineer to stop
the train within few, feet of the dan
grous trap.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10

Somebody ought to telegraph Presi-
Confederate flag eight by twelve feet
in size. is about to be placed on staff
on the main building of the Confederate
Soldiers Home at Mountain Creek, in
the sometime rebel State of Alabama .
said John Watley of Baldwin County last
night.
Seeing that the President took advant-
age of the solemnity of Declaration Day
in the North to make bitter sectional
speech, in the source of which he re-
hearsed ancient ISLANDERS to strengthen
his own present day vituperation, 1t
stands to reason that he will rely largely
upon sectionalism on his ridiculous stump
ing tour of the country in the interest
of his nomination for the Presidency
which he'll never secure. And so the
rebel rag as ne would call the flag at
Mountain Creek, will be pie to him. and
with 1t he will grow strong in whooping
up the pension sharks, the Dingley plum
derers and all the motley horde of rap
scallions to which coarseness and I'M
charitableness most strongly appeal.
"Of course all decent and respectable
Northerners laugh at Mr.. Roosevelt S
antics, though r-ost of them will fol-
low him to the polls II he be nominated In
1904, but up North there is a large ele-
ment of the population that is neither
decent nor respectable, and this element
loves nothing better than the specta-
Gle of the bloody shirt which the Pres
ident so ciumsily waved over the graves
of the dead in Arlington cemetery. So
with his eagle eye, picturing the Confed-
crate flag at Mountain creek and his
teeth chattering rage against the heirs
of the men who would have hanged Lin
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10
SONN EFT.

BY Shakespeare.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love.
Which alters when 1t alteration finds.
Or bends with the remover to remove.
Oh mol 1t Is an ever-fix-ed mark.
That looks on tempests, and is never
shaken:
1t Is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, altho his height
be taken.
Loves not Times fool, though rosy lips
and cheeks
Within his bending sickles compass come,
Love alters not with his brief hours and
weeks.
But bears 1t out even to the edge of doom
If this be error, and upon me proved.
never writ, nor no man ever loved
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10
QUAINT USES OF COMMON WORDS

From the Inglenook.
litter originally meant courtship.
Crowd was the old English name for
a fiddle or violin.
Good-by is a contraction of God be
with you.3
Deuteronomy is from two Greek words
meaning second and law. The fifth book
of Moses is so called from its being main
ly a repetition of laws previously enumer-
ated
Fashion was the old name for certain
disease of the horse. 1t is alluded to in
'the Tanning of the Shrew," where Pc
trucio's horse Is said to be infected with
the fashions" The complaint is COM
mon one. but not among horses,
Bug originally meant a goblin. The
Welsh word Dug means a ghost. The
Hebrew word which. in Psalms. xc:5. is
represented by terror" was In the early
translations rendered bug. the verse being
Thou shalt not need to be afraid of any
bugs by night"
At first sight there would appear to
be a little connection between f1attery
and the wagging of a dogs tail. Yet In
nearly all the Northern languages the
same word signifies both, and fiattery
is certainly derived from the word signi-
flying to wag the tail. In the old Norman
flagara, signifies to flatter and also to
wag the tail. In Danish, logre is to wag
the tall and logger for cen is to fawn on
one. In Dutch vieyden is to fiatter. and
vleyds teerton is to wap the fail Tn
the old German, wedeln is to wag the
tail, and in English wheedle is to gain
ones end by fiattery.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10
Joint Debate In Tennessee.

Knoxville, Tenn, July 81. w. Borches,
state chairman. ammo unces that the pro-
posed joint debate between the Guberna-
torial candidates will ocsur II both can
didates are willing and IL Judge Camp
BELLS health viii permit. Judge Campbell
is the Republican ncniines and j. 3. Fra
zier Of Chattanooga is the Democratic
nominee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
The surest way to avoid divorce court
is to avoid the marriage altar.
When girl is mad about having to
cross a muddy street II is a sign there
is a hole in her stocking.
The man who makes his wife an allow
ance could always borrow 1t back from
her if she didn't keep drawing it in ad-
vance.
The same man who locks the stable door
after the horse is stolen sits down to con-
slider the serious side of matrimony after
he has gone and done it
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10

Boston, July 9-Mrs. B. P. Cheney,
(Julia Arthur was operated upon for
appendicitis yesterday at her home on Lit
tie Brewster Island. Boston harbor. The
operation was successful and 1t is expect
ed that Mrs. Cheney's convalescence will
be rapid unless some unexpected compli-
cations should manifest themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10
AN ANTEDlLuvlAN ARRIVAL.

From the Philadelphia Press.
They are alleging that Noah's ark has
been discovered somewhere in Alaska.
AS likely as not 1t will be found full of
Democrats, who will come out shouting
for the good old times reioieed to find
Pattison still running for Governor az
Of yore and Incidentally inquirlng the
way to the polls.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10
Record Breaking Run.

Springfield, ILL.,, July s--The fast mail
on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
road made record run yesterday from
Washington, Ind, to East ST. Louis. a.
distance of 165 miles. In 1sS minutes, in
Guiding six stops which averaged FIVE
minutes each, making the actua, running
time 1853 minutes. The train consisted Of
an engine and six coaches.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10

Secretary of the Navy Moody is en-
deavoring to make it unpleasant for
the vigilant correspondent who goes
out to report the army and naval
maneuvers of September.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10

What is needed in this town is
twenty-story building, the top story to
be devoted to the courts, so that bust
ness on the earth can go on without
interrnntion.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10

The snow that is falling in the Far
West is either the tailend of one win
ter, or the floor man OF next winter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10

The 17-year locusts generally bring
cool weather, and barrel or two is
needed down this way.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10

Andrew Carnegie has two avenues
of escape against dying disgraced,
namely, to start a newspaper or a
worlds fair.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10

Aguinaldo will make Boston his base
of operations when he begins to ex-
plot this country from the lecture
platform.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10

King Edwards constitution must be
pretty sound when he can hold out
against perityphlitis and seven doc
tors.
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Nothing is voluntary in the Philip
pines; all is compulsory in this part
of the great republic.
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WOULD RE READY re sELL our

WOOEO De nEAON SEEE ~ -
From the Boston Globe.
We recently published pan for the
solution of the Philippine problem sug-
gested by Gen. A. s. Burt, retired, who
recently arrived from the Philippines. 1t
was to turn the islands over to the ia
panese on the instalment plan for $780,
10000.
An arrangement of that kind can be
effected that will give the United States
as broad a road into the markets Of the
Orient as If we retained the islands; be-
sides, we will be making strong allies
of two nations that will represent our In
terest on that side of the globe, without
the necessary or presence Ct a large
army at an enormous cost.
1t is to be noted that Japan Is now
ready to negotiate for the purchase of
the Philippines, according to DR.. s. Goto,
civil governor of Formosa, who is at
present in Chicago. and here seems to be
offered an excellent opportunity for us
to sell out and be rid of an expensive
elephant.
The cost of the army before the Span
ish war was about S3O,000,000 year. 1t is
now over s10OOOo,OOO year. The amount
for the present year has been about $780,
100000 Deduct the $30,0Oo,000 that was
formerly the normal cost of the army and
we have ssS, 900 600 left which Is almost en-
tirely devoted to the expense of the mill
itary occupation of the Philippines. This
is simply for maintenance Add the trans
portation expenses, and the total Phil
ippine military expenses will foot up near
ly s100. 900 annually.
Why should we longer keep the Philip
pines when the 'Japs' are willing to
take them off our hands and when it costs
so much to keep them? At the lowest es-
Inmates, the annual continuing expense
of the military occupation of the Phil
ippines including transportation, cannot
be less than sS5,OOo 900. Here is our OPP
portunity. to say nothing of an immense
Tightening of the national conscience.