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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-10
Old Virginia.

IT was glad to see Richmond, Norfolk,
Roanoke and other cities In Virginia pro-
crossing rapidly" said E. T. Taiaferro,
who has just returned from a visit to his
native states, the Old Dominion.
TT had been several years since I was
in Richmond and l was delighted with the
handsome improvements that have been
made there. The historic old city on the
James has always been noted for its
picturesque features and now its streets
are more beautiful than ever.
"There is a great deal of accumulated
capital in Richmond. and evidences of the
public spirited policy of those who have
wealth are found in the expansion of the
cty's manufacturing and mercantile in
terests.
1.-The proverbial hospitality of Virginia
is well maintained and 1 think 1t was
never more generous than it Is now"
Mr.. Taliaferro accompanied Mrs. Tall
aferro to New York in June and spent
two weeks with her there before she
sailed for Europe to join DR.. and Mrs.
C. C. Terrell. Mrs. Taliaferro will return
home early in September.
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at the polls on the day a primary Is
held. The inspectors are in short TO
be sworn into office charged with the
responsibility of conducting the pri-
mary IN accordance with the primary
law itself and the rules of the party
holding the primary in question.
These inspectors will fill a large
place IN Alabama's political history,
for to them will be committed the ex-
eeution of the greatest political rsyo-
luton the state has known since the
days of reconstruction. The execution
of this responsibility should spring
from their best intelligence and con-
The primary now approach
ing should be so conducted that not
a charge of fraud, not even a suspi-
cion of ballot box tampering, will
arise. This can be done and the public
sentiment of the state demands that
1t shall be done, and this county offers
a good field for this much needed re-
form
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-10
Coronation of Edward VII.

England's seventh Edward was duly
crowned yesterday, and the mind nat
urally goes back, not to all his sue
eessors, covering fifteen hundred
years, but to the six who chose to be
known as the Edwards of the long
royal line.
Leaving out the Confessor, the son
of Ethelred, we come to the first Ed
ward, surnamed Longshanks. He was
a crusader, and he conquered Wales,
and was marching against Robert
Bruce when he died in 1907. His son
became Edward H., but he was both
weak and lazy He was deposed by
parliament, and shortly afterwards
was assassinated. His son became Ed
ward H., and England has scarcely
had a stronger ruler in all the years
of her great story. Together with his
son, the Black Prince, he invaded
France, and in the battles of Crecy,
and later at Portiers, he conquered a
number of French provinces and an
nexed them to England, He was
strong ruler, and also one of high
degree of popularity. The Black Prince
died before his father, and the next
Edward was the head of the house of
York, and he finally ended in his own
favor the War of the Roses. His young
son became Edward ", but the usurp-
ing Richard III. put him to death in
the tower, together with his brother.
Edward vi. was the son of Henry
VIII, a protestant, and young man
of great piety. In his reign was COM
piled the prayer book now in use in
the established church. He reigned
but six years, dying peacefully in 1858,
and was succeeded in turn by his IA
nous sisters, Bloody Mary and the
great Elizabeth.
No other Edward had been crowned
down to the browning of yesterday,
and while the new king cannot lay
claim to the genius of Edward Ill, or
the military prowess of the Black
Prince, or the religious fervor of Ed
ward VI, yet no one of the preceding
Edwards had more tact, more admin
istrative skill in the exercise of the
duties of constitutional monarch,
more genuine popularity than the Ed
ward now on the throne possesses. He
is an admirable example Of a king who
reigns, but does not rule. He has no
intention of attempting the latter bus
mess, as he stated at the outset, and
if long life be granted him, he will I'M
doubtedly prove himself the most pop
ular Edward that the ancient mon
archy has ever known,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-10
Railroad Promotions.

"There is no rule for promotions in rail-
road service except that of fitness" said
an ex-ofhcial of a southern line. 1T used
to be that favoritism was in evidence but
it is not that way now to any great ex-
tent Nearly every railroad official that
know has worked his way up on his
merits.
"A majority of the general managers in
recent years have come from the dis
patcher's office a good school. A train
dispatcher gets to be a trainmaster, then
assistant division superintendent then
division superintendent. then general su-
perintendent or superintendent of trans
portation and then general manager
Another good training school for trans
portation men is in the yard. Many of
the ablest general managers have been
yard masters. 1t frequently happens
nowadays that train men-brakemen and
conductors-get in line of promotion.
"In years gone by nearly all the general
superintendent and general managers
had started as civil engineers. The old
system of giving engineers preference In
transportation promotion still obtains on
the Pennsylvania railroad but it is sell
ton man on other lines who has been an
engineer. Take them as a class the trans
portation officials rank very high as bus
mess men. Many of them get large
salaries"
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New Crop Situation.

It is neve wise to discount any par
ticular present condition of crop
that is subject to yicissitude until it
is picked, ginned and baled. The
present talk of bumper crop is much
too previous" There may be a 12,-
100000 bale crop, and then again the
present glowing prospects may fade
away like morning mist. The boil
weevil is at work in Texas, and an
early frost may do world of harm
in any or all of the cotton states. A
widespread early frost could reduce
the output fully a million bales.
The most that one can say at pres
ent is that the crop will not fall be-
low 100000 bales, and it may go to
10000 900 bales. A ten million bale
crop would make cotton worth 9
cents, while twelve million bale crop
would reduce the price to cents. The
difference to the cotton belt as a
whole would be inconsiderable, as the
one crop would sell for about as much
as the other.
If we split the difference by saying
the new crop will be 100000 bales,
worth in the farmers hands s cents,
we would make just as good a guess
as the situation justifies at this writ.
ing. But it is merely guess, and it
may be modified at any time by the
weather or by insects. We may, how
ever, venture the statement that the
world will consume an eleven-million-
bale crop, and that such a crop will
sell for cents, and possibly at times
for a trife more. Stocks are well
nigh exhausted, anu the world is call
ing for more and more cotton each
year.
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A REMARKABLE MAN.
Peter Power, the Possessor OF 100
Shares of Northern Pacific.

From the Cincinnati Times-Star
One of the most important, though
mysterious. figures in the recent history
of this country is one Peter Power,
young person, living, presumably, in New
York city. Mr.. Power Is the proud pos
SCISSOR of 100 shares of the stock of the
Northern Pacific. Also he is the plant
If, by virtue of his ownership of this
stock, in the celebrated Power case
against the formation of the Northern
Securities company-a case by the way
which it is safe to say has brought more
trouble and irritation to Morgan, Hill
and their fellows In the Northwestern
merger scheme than anything which has
occurred to them for years, Attorney Gen
eral Knox's suit against the same COM
pany alone excepted. So much is known
concerning Peter Power. If anyone knows
the interesting young gentleman init
mately or Is sure what manner of man
he is he had not until recently conhded
his knowledge to an interested public.
The general public has cause for griev-
ance against Mr.. Power. A person of
ings, should never shake the public faith
in him by doing so prosaic thing as get
ting married. And still this Is exactly
what Mr.. Power has done. In fact 1t is
believed that he has gotten married more
than once. Whenever his presence is ur-
gently required in court by the lawyers
for the defense II is found that he has
OF Tod 10 a n his
honeymoon This conduct on his part is
highly reprehensible. No man in this
free country of ours should endeavor
to be married more than three times in
any one summer, even though 1t be al
ways to the same girl. Once Mr.. Power
varied the monotony of his much mar
ried existence by securing severe at
tack of nervous irritability of the heart
in time to avoid an appearance In court.
This change, however, was even har-
der on his fine sensibilities than con-
tinued honeymoon, and he speedily re-
turned to the marriage habit. Meantime
the lawyers for the defense are twisting
their thumbs anxiously and at intervals
making further attempts to get their
hands on the plaintiff AS yet they have
been unable to do so.
Great Is Peter Power. BY his perform
ance of the past few months he has con-
tributed not a little to the gaiety of
nations. Also he has made the lawyers
for the defense in the famous merger
suit feel like the proverbial thirty cents
Most men find a single marriage quite
nerve-racking enough a performance to
satisfy them for lifetime Not so, how
ever, Mr.. Power. He is made of sterner
stuff. He stands the strain of many
marriages consistently and bravely. When
the marriage racket no longer suffices to
keep him out of court, however, We WON
der what new contrivance he will invent
to keep himself out of reach of the hos
tile lawyers. A Peter Power case with
a plaintiff actually In court would be
a tame affair indeed. After marriage Mr.
Power what next?
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SUGAR PROMISES TO SUCCEED COTTON I'm
+ A FEW YEARS AS CUBAS STAPLE CROP

culture. The executive and cabinet. who
have been apprised Of the report arc
elated and have pledged Mr.. Ireland's
friends their active cooperation, per-
sonal as well as official. in developing
the cotton idea. Members of the senate
and deputies are also discussing the adj
visibility of removing all duties upon cot
ton machinery and otherwise encourage
ing the enterprise, and those which may
follow it up and assist directly or in
directly in the development of the Cuban
cotton belt or tend to encourage residents
of other provinces Of the island to engage
in the culture of the new STAPLE"
The Philadelphia syndicate proposes to
go into the business upon a large scale,
having secured for such purpose quite a
body of land in the vicinity of Bayamo
and along the line of the new railway
being constructed TO connect this city
with the Port of Manzavillo. Improved
cotton machinery will be brought to the
island and set up on the property and,
though Cuban labor will be employed as
far as possible in the cotton fields, induce
ments may, later on, be offered to settlers
from the southern states who have had
experience in cotton.
For the first few years the fibre will
be exported to the best markets of the
world where a good grade of Sea Island
cotton is in demand; but Mr.. ireland pre-
diets that ere five years, Cuba will have
| more than one cotton mill and, like Geor-
| gia, manufacture her own cloth
The possibilities are great. Capital only
| Is needed. And this Is assured.
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red flag of the present Cuban republic
first displayed, had been a cotton field
before it was finally planted In sugar
cane! And the wealthy Terry family
of Santa Clara ENTHUSIASTICALLY
Americans, being descended from Ma
thaniel Terry of Virginia, an officer of
the American Revolutionary war serv-
ing upon Washingtons staff-did some
experimenting in cotton culture further
east before finally settling down as
sugar planters near Cienfuegos, where
they now own the largest estate in all
Cuba.
But the discovery of the cotton belt
of Cuba and it's practical development
would appear to have been left to Amer
icans-to Yankee enterprise and to Phil
adelphia. Boston and Ohio capitalists,
represented in Cuba by Mr.. George w.
Ireland, of the Quaker City, who has
made the island a special study and rid
den thousands of miles through the coun-
try, extending his Investigations into
every province, from Macey's Point to
Cape San Antonio.
And since 1t began to appear that with
the uelay upon the part VI Inc Soh6AeSo
of the United States and the government
at Washington in the matter of economic
relief for Cuba. through the lowering
of the American duties upon sugar and
other products of the new republic, some
other staple crop must be discovered to
take the place of cane-some product
which could command a market in Eu-
rope as we'll as In the States-this syndi-
Gates agents in the field here, encour-
aged by President Estrada Palma and
supported by Secretary of Agriculture
Terry, have been in active search OF a
feasible solution calculated to solve the
economic and industrial problem, and Mr..
Ireland tells me that he has found it!
49, Upon his return to Havana from
eastern Cuba yesterday he brought some
beautiful samples of long staple cottor
from the historic Bayamo district. the
soil of which section the chemists and
experts of the company he represents
claim to be specially adapted to cotton
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-10
Blu Southern Certainty.

The esteemed republican newspa-
pers are again distressed by the sure
thing In the southern states, where
I1S democrats will be elected, there
being that many sure southern dis
tricts at least, out of total in the
country of 3S6.
At present the republicans have
four congressman from West Virginia,
two from Tennessee. one from Della
ware, three from Kentucky, six from
Maryland, two from Missouri and two
from North Carolina total of TWEEN
ty. They hold the entire delegations
of West Virginia, Maryland and Della
ware. Good observers say that the
number of republicans from the en-
tire south will be reduced from TWEEN
ty to eight. Delaware will elect a
democrat, Maryland will elect four
democrats, West Virginia will elect
two-a change of seven seats in the
three states. Two seats will be gained
in North Carolina, one in Missouri,
and two in Kentucky. The total gain
will probably be twelve seats, leaving
the republicans but eight in the en-
tire south, namely, two in Maryland,
two In West Virginia, two in Tennes-
see, and one each in Kentucky and
Missouri.
The organs do not like the outlook
in the old south. Not only will this
section elect more members under the
new apportionment, but it will elect
fewer Dingley tariff republicans. 1t
will repudiate the trusts and the tariff
that makes them possible, because ii
does not fancy the outrageous taxa.
tion involved in trust domination.
A reduction of twelve seats by this
section from the republican side OF
the house will go far towards an an.
Inhalation of the power of that body
for mischief. A like gain in New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana
would revolutionize the house, and
that is probably what will occur.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-10

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Havana, Cuba, August 3.-Cotton prom
Uses to succeed sugar within few years
as the staple crop of the island of Cuba
1t was grown to some extent, though not
extensively, here more than a century
ago-introdueed by the indigo planters
and rice growers from the Sea Islands of
the Carolina and Georgia coast; and
again. In 1S61-when the outbreak of the
civil war In the United States threatened
a blockade of the South Atlantic seaboard
and Gulf ports-some far sighted Cubans,
associated with British capitalists from
Jamaica and the Bahamas planted great
fields of cotton In eastern Cuba, around
Bayamo and in the suburban districts
of Manzanillo adjacent to the streams
tributary to the Cauto river, northwest
of Santiago de Cuba; but the Spanish
government famous for its official dis
couragement of agricultural enterprise,
placed such difficulties in the way of the
cotton produced and shipped. as 10 dis
courage many of the planters who had
taken stock in the enterprise. .
Then. the Cuban revolution, which be-
gan in 1868, put an end to the efforts of
the "Orientales" to develop an enterprise
to which the soil of their portion of Cuba
was shown by the experiments made to
be so well adapted. Yet. today, hundreds
of abandoned estates scattered through
eastern Cuba have occasional clumps of
cotton trees here and there, twenty to
thirty feet in height, and bearing hollis
much larger than does the cultivated
cotton, but the fibre of which has de-
generated both in fineness of texture and
purity of color.
Inquiry develops the fact, not generally
known, thdt Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
Leader of that outbreak near Bayamo
in 1868 which resulted in the Ten Years
War--was one of those prominent Gu
bans interested some years previously
in the introduction of Sea Island cotton
to Cuba; and that his "El Yara" estate,
NEAR Manzanillo. where the cry of Cuba
libre was first raised and the lone star
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Catholic Population.

Salvatore Cortesi of Rome, writing to
the Independent, points out that while
the population of the United States has
increased nineteen fold since 1890. the
Catholic population has been multiplied
by SOO." remarked Catholic.
THE writer hints that as this coun-
try is now the fourth Catholic in the
world it should be represented in the
sacred college of several cardinals, in
stead Of only one. Spain has seven car
dinals and so I believe has France. The
United States is worth more to the church
from material point of view than either
of the great Latin countries, but the
policy. of the vatican is conservative and
it will be some years yet refore many
red hats will .e seen on this side of the
Atlantic"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-10
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
BlrmInahamIs eood HeaIth.

"The health Of Birmingham Is usually
good during the summer, and this sum-
mer has been no exception to the rule"
said an old physician. of course there
is some typhoid fever here just as there
is in all cities. but the fatal cases have
been comparatively few,
mo city of large size anywhere in the
country is less likely to be visited by
epidemies than Birmingham, and no city
in the south Is more comfortable as a
are of decided interest to newcomers, es-
pecially since the impression prevails in
some quarters of the north and east that
Birmingham is as hot and malarial as
cities farther SOUTH
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-10
Presidents of the u. s.

Every person acquainted with Ameri-
can history knows that all our Presi-
dents have been men of high character
and above taking advantage of the Of
flee they held to make money for them
Selves" said lawyer. Marrow and
evil minded politicians there have been
who did not hesitate to hint that certain
of our chief magistrates used the presi-
dency for gain. but all insinuations Of
this kind have been deprecated by intel
ligent and patriotic men.
ANDREW d. White, United States am
bassador to Berlin, one of the greatest
of American scholars and men of af-
fairs, made an address at Leipsic not
long since in which he said:
More than twenty years ago I called
attention to a remark made by a Ger
man historian of the United States,
Neumann. 1t seemed to me profoundly
just and the more 1 have reflected upon
it the more it has seemed to present a
fact not sufficiently recognized either by
our own countrymen or by the world at
large. Arriving, in his history, at the
Presidents whose administrations &C.
cupy the middle years of the nineteenth
century, Neumann wrote in substance on
this wise:
1T is said that Presidents of this period
are far inferior TO those during the earlier
days of the republic. Inferior some of
them may be, but in what age or coun-
try will you find so long an array of
rulers, every one of them a man of high
capacity, as in the case of the long series
of Presidents of the United States. every
one of these, even by the avowal of his
enemies. patriot and man of high
character and ability?'
" Had Dr. Neumann lived longer and
written the history of the later Presi-
dents, from the middle OF the iast CEN
fury to the present hour, he would have
been still more impressed by the truth of
his generalization. We can now look back
and apply it to the whole line, including
Washington and Roosevelt, To every one
of these Neumann's remarks can be just
ly applied, and of nearly all, if not all,
far more than this can be said in their
praise. 40 this rule there is no excep-
ton. OF the twenty-five Presidents of the
United States thus far. each and every
one has been a man of high character,
good capacity and patriotism fully
proved
"Those are true words. and coming
| from man of DR.. Whites IearnIng, In
sight and character, they cannot fail to
make an Impression abroad. They will
certainly be endorsed by Americans in
| general"
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Some men wouldn't be any worse than
they are even If they were married.
A woman sort of expects burglars to
come around in the same regular way
as the milkman.
Mighty few girls can ever talk about a
new engagement without wetting their
lips nervously.
There is some hope for the idiot who
thinks he knows all about gardening
but none at all for him when he thinks
the same way about women.
The average man thinks he is getting
into public life when he marches in a
political torchlight parade and Is allow
ed TO contribute toward buying the uni
forms.
* a woman could only get husband
who would come home regularly every
evening and be able to match silk for
her she wouldn't feel there was so much
need for her to worry about what heaven
was like.
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The pineapples were not grown in
Georgia, but the other fruits named
were grown in that state. The total
shipments from Georgia have not
been compiled, but when the returns
from all railroads are in it will be
seen no doubt that the season has
been a very prosperous one among
the first growers of our sister state.
The total shipment Of peaches from
Georgia will probably rise to 1000 car
loads, and about as many more car
loads of watermelons and cantaloupes
will be shown to have been sent out
A state that ships out 1000 carloads of
fruits is not state that is "all cot
tom" 1t is not state that is depend
ing upon one crop; 1t is a state that
is becoming richer each year. The
Alabama farmers should stop and
heed this lesson.
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THE NEW CONSTITUTION.

Who would deny to the new constitution
fair and full trial, especially since we
have spent so much money and had our
ablest and wisest men to frame it2 Who
should give 1t trial7 In whose hands
should It be placed for administration 7
Should it be in the hands of Its enemies
or its friends? Which would most like
ly give it fair trial? Governor Jelks
has been its consistent friend from the
beginning. Governor Johnston has been
Its violent enemy. Our people should
make no mistake.
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Gen. Jake Smiths feelings are hurt,
but so were those of ten years of age
and over in the province he ruled.
They were hurt in the neck and have
not recovered.
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not recoveret

Emperor William is opposed to dis
armament of any sort. He sees social
lists in the night, and he is still posing
as war lord, although he never saw
a battle.