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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
HI6ERNiANS ARE ANGERED.
Circulars Distributed Saying They Are
 Not True to Ireland.

Denver, Col, July 1S.-Presldent Keat- ing. of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in his annual report referred feeIingly to the death of Archbishop Feehan, of Chicago.
 Of the progress and standing of the order, President Heating said: "We are today the strongest Catholic body or ganized in the United States. We can go further and proudly claim we are the strongest body in the world comprised of one nationality and belonging to one re- ligion. Our labors in the field of ben evolence have carried peace and happi- ness to many bereaved homes."
 President Heating reported the finances in good condition, notwithstanding the heavy expenses due to the charitable work at Galveston. He spoke of the fund for the aid of the Boers.
 President Heating recommended that more officers be provided for the organ ization of the country into six districts, each to be under the charge of national director. A generous tribute was paid to the work of the ladies auxiliary, but the president refrained from making any recommendation of separation. He urged that Irish history be taught in the parochial schools and spoke at length on the subject of Catholic education. In closing hts address, he urged dignified neutrality of the order as regards other orders of Irishmen.
 The anger of the delegates was aroused somewhat today by a statement contain ed in a printed circular distributed at the door of the convention hall to the effect that the order had not kept its promise to Ireland. It was aid freely that the circular was the product of the head officials of the United Irish League. ! A resolution indorsing the United Irish League is now in the resolution commit tees hands.
 The insurance committee reported re- commenting the plan of insurance now in use in the Illinois branch of the order as a safe one to adopt by any of the other States, wishing to branch out in this particular. The convention adopted the committees recommendation. The convention adopted report of the com mittee on ritual providing for an ad- visory board from the Ladies Auxiliary, consisting of five women, to sit with the national board of directors and have equal power with that body in all matters pertaining to subjects in which the women are exclusively interested.
 The Ladies Auxiliary pledged itself by resolution to raise $10,000 for a schol- arship in Trinity College at Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
BOUTWELL, A DEMOCRAT.
Reads Himself Out of the Republican
 Party on Imperial Question.

Boston, July 1S.-Hon George S. Bout well, after long life spent in the service of the Republican party, has read himself out of the party by declaring, no matter whom the Republicans nominated or what platform he may stand upon, he will not vote for him so long as he is an imperialist. "So far as the Democrats are are anti-imperia4-sts, he declared, T am with them. I don't think that there is any doubt about where I stand on this issue. l have spoken plainly, and I think I have been understood. I am against this accursed war. Imperialism must be crushed. I think we can do 1t. l shall not vote for a Republican candidate for President who is an imperialist. Even should he agree with me on every other thing, I should still refuse to support him so long as he held imperialistic ideas"
 Would you vote for a Democrat who was an anti-imperialist?' asked the re- porter.
 T have not sad for whom I should vote I have told you for whom I would not vote. No candidate for President, Republican. or Democrat, who is an im- perialist shall I knowingly vote for"
 MT. Boutweil is the only man hitherto classed as a Republican on the list of guests at the New England Democratic love feast July "A.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
Register Today.

Tn Bibb County there were in the census year 27S7 white males 21 years of age, and there are registered this year 2557 white males.
 In Jefferson County there were in the census year 23,S32 white males 21 years of age or over, and there are registered today less than 13,000 white males.
 Other counties are securing full reg istrations, while this county is ritter ing away its strength by neglecting a simple and easily performed duty.
 This is the last day in which the board of registration will sit at the court house, and 2000 citizens of this town should go before them and obtain registration certificates, good for life The duty is so plain and so important it is not necessary to enlarge upon it. Co to the court house today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
WHEN NEGROES ARE EDUCATED

From the New Orleans Picayune.
 It is impossible not to see that the negroes are rapidly learning to read and write, and that the time is not far distant when they will no longer be ex- cluded from the ballot by the barrier of illiteracy. The vigorous movement fa- thered by Northern men and assisted by enthusiastic Southern educators now in progress to promote the education of the South is going to bear abundant fruits, and in few years there will be few negroes who will be excluded from the polls by inability to read and write.
 Then the South will have upon it again the black peril in a more dangerous form than ever before, because the negroes educated will be more aggressive and more intelligent in their aggressiveness than when they were wholly illiterate. It was to meet this condition that the poll tax requirements was put into the Con stitution, because it was supposed that the negroes, who had been accustomed to receive money for their votes, would not be willing to pay for the privilege of voting, while the small sum of the poll tax would be readily paid by the whites when they knew it was a special safeguard for the maintenance of white supremacy in public affairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
HINTS OF THE COMING AUTUMN.

From Harper's Bazaar for August.
 Street gowns for the autumn are much like the models shown in the late spring or early summer; in fact, many of them bear a startling resemblance thereto and have undoubtedly been put away for this later use. The ordinary sreet gown is made short. The skirt still il1s closely to the figure and has considerable flare around the foot to make it becoming, or, as in the case of one or two of the new models, is very wide-too wide to be comfortable for walking, in spite of its being short There are seen number of smart black gowns and more of dark blue. Some attractive designs in red and green are shown. and most charming gowns in brown; in fact, brown is, the favorite color of the moment-a warm golden-brown, which is most becoming. of them in the fitted cutaway design, with facings of white moire, edged with black and white, black and silver braid or with braiding of gold and brown. .-ler is no trimming on the skirt save bias bands, and everything in the trim ming line is just as flat as possible. The sleeves are large, but not nearly so ex- aggerated as they were. The favorite sleeve fits close at the top, then gradually widens towards the hand in what is known as the shawl shape. The Things O. the coat are figured foulard or satin in preference to plain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
woRTH MILLloN ANp A HALF.

From the New York Journal.
 Millions of dollars are handled with the indifference Of a grocer's weekly ae- counts In the answer filed by Charles M. schwab. president of the United States Steel Corporation, in his answer to Q suit brought to prevent 0 bond conver- sion, and tho tally Of the corporation's earnings reads like an abstract from the treasury report of European kingdom.
 These facts are shown forth in detail on authority of Mir. sehwab for the first time sinoe tho incorporation of the steel trust.
 The assets of the corporation include; Four hundred producing mills
 of the value Of =. .......-....s $500 900, 900 Seventy-fve blast furnaces of
 the value Of ....... ;......,... 4S.OO0,o00 Iron and Bessemer orc proper
 ties of the value of ...........s 700, 900, 900 Coal and coke properties of tho
 value of ..... ...... ........... 100000, 900 Natural gas fields of the vaiuo
 Of ........ ....... .............. 1OOO0,0O0 Cnsh in bank to the value of.... e8Ooo.0o0 Materials in process of manu-
 facture of tho vnlue of ....... So0o0,0o0
 The total value of tho corporation's property. including cash snd cash assets, Is placed at Sl, 4Co, .o0o by MT. schwab, and the company's earnings are stated to te at the rate of $40 oOO,OoO a year. ! Round millions are also casually dis cursed in the statement of savings made by the organization of the trust. A saw ing of sS0. 900 year is credited to the ere properties. and it is also estimated that the ownership of transportation fa- oilities saves the company s10.0OO.0Oo a yeer. The earnings of the coal and coke S1. 100000 q month.
 The statement of Mir. Sehwab also points to earnings of IA per cent on the capital stock if continued during the pre sent year. He shows that the cash and cash assets on June l, 1902. amounted to SPA, PTS 900, which, after 6educting the firm liabilities, left ret cash assets of $14S, ,291.- coo.
 Mr. Schwab also points out that the present fixed charges of the United States Steel Corporation are 5 per cent per annum on $303 .0eO of bonds and an annual charge of SIS, ,327, $50. and that when the proposed issue ot second mortgage bends is outstanding namely, $250, ,O0O, 900 at per cert, together with an annual sinking fund of $1,0100OO, the total fixed charges Of the United States Steel Cor poration will be S31 737, $50, to provide which MT. Schwab says the corporation is now earning at the rate of S14O,OO0, GOO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
DayId Bennett HIIrs Opportunity.

Up in New York the Democratic nomination for Governor is going a-begging, very much as the nomina- tion of the Johnston faction was hawked about in this State. Chief Judge Parker was asked to take 1t, and he replied:
 Under no circumstances would I con sent to be a candidate for Governor. If that is your idea. you will only waste your time in coming
 Ex-Secretary of War Lamont's name was then proposed, and he promptly said:
 "Under no circumstances would I per init the use of my name as a candidate for the nomination for that office"
 John G. Milburn was the third man named, and he thus defines his posi- tion:
 q am not a candidate for the Demo- cratic nomination for Governor, and would not accept the nomination even if if were offered to me-"
 These are declinations that decline that leave no room for doubt or eva sion-that put their respective writers wholly out of the running. The Dem ocratic nomination is now squarely up 1 to David Bennett Hill, and he is keep I ing very still; but if he expects to be- come the nominee of his party in 1904, he should throw off the "stilp' habit and face the music himself He is the man who should lead the Democrats of New York this year, and if he can carry the State, as he seems to think he can, he will be a star in 1904 sure enough. At present he is a selling platter. Let him test his strength in New York, thus demonstrating with arithmetical accuracy his right to a Presidential nomination based on the electoral vote of New York. If he Is not willing to lead the Democrats this year, then let him maintain his still policy and assiduously cultivate the practive of law, for he will not be wanted in 1904, when gold bricks will be barred.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
III Founded Warninu.

''Thunderstorms are usually frequent in July and August. and well meant advice to people who are in dread of lightning is now given freely in various publica- tions." said New York man.
 "one rather eccentric counsellor sug- gests that people should not seek refuge under the grandstands at racetracks and county fairs while such tempests are rag ing.
 This seems to be an ill-founded warm ing. How many grandstands at race tracks or county fairs have ever been struck by lightning while the sports were in progress? Very few; and 1t is not tc be expected that multitudes of spectators will stand out in the open and be drenched to the skin for fear of light ning''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
SIX YEARS FOR IS COMPLETION.

Paris Letter to the Chicago Tribune.
 Charles de Lesseps, son of the late Ferdinand de Lesseps in conversation expresses the opinion that the Panama canal without locks, can easily be com pleted in six years. He declares that the exact amount expended under his super vision on the construction of the Pan- anna canal was 1.25s 0OO.oOO francs. or s252.- OO0ooO. He said that with 500, 0000OO francs (s12o 0O0,00o) additional he could have fin- ished the canal with locks so immeasur- ably superior that he has no doubt the United otates will adopt that plan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
ALICE ROOSEVELT NOT ENGAGED.
Presidents Daughter Does Not Even
 Know Young Clark.

Oyster Bay, N. r., July 1S.-Arrange- ments were completed partly last even ing for former Senator HILL who came to Oyster Bay to spend the night with William F. Sheehan. to meet the Presi- dent at Sagamore HI. but it was found impossible to fix upon time that would be convenient to both. Senator Hill re- turned to New York early today without meeting MT. Roosevelt
 The reported engagement of Miss Alice Roosevelt to Lieutenant Robert Sterling Clark, of New York. son of MT. Alfred Corning Clark is emphatically denied by authority of the President. Miss Roose- welt has not even a personal acquaintance with Lieutenant Clark.
 This afternoon the President and Mrs. Roosevelt accompanied by some of the children went out on an old fashioned pie nic. taking a lunch basket
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
The Promise. of the South

was almost in the condition of unsettled country. This Is a most striking record. It Is made still more striking by eompari- son with what has been done in the last score of years.
 Since 1880 the total manufacturing cap ital of the South has increased from t250.ooo.O 900 to tl.loO, 100000. or more than fourfold. The cotton mill capital has ad- vanoed from s2i, 900, 900 to s150. 900. The entirely new industry created from the waste of cottonseed employs g capital of S50o00,o00. and the almost new industry of fruit and truck farming for the Northern and western markets turns out product of nearly s10o,OOO,OOO a year. The manufacture of furniture is rapidly riyaiing that of the great Michigan pen insula, and the possession of "one-half the standing timber of the United states' promises that 1t will in time surpass it.
 This is the field which Mir Edmonds appeals to the South to cultivate In the only way adequate to secure the great and brilliant promise it holds out, by thorough technical education. One con- crete example Is worth much exhorta- tion. Here is one that Mir. Edmonds cites:
 Tn Charleston fifteen or more years ago a boy of aristocratic birth saw the light that beckoned away from the pro- fessional thought of the South, and de- spite parental objections, and despite the most fiattering offers of financial aid if he would only abandon his engineering proclivities, W. B. Smith Whaley saved money enough to pay his way north. In a big Providence cotton mill working for wages. he started at the bottom and, working his way through the rattle and roar of the whirring machinery, saved in order that he might enter techni- cal school When he had graduated there he determined to go back to South Carolina and prove to the young men of that state, many of whom were claiming that the South afforded no business op- portunities, what energy and trained skill combined could accomplish. That was only ten or twelve years ago, but today Smith Whaley operates as president of three or four cotton mills, more spindles than any other man in the South. Only a few weeks ago he received a contract to design and build mill in New Eng land to cost nearly $1000,000 and he is even now organizing a company to build ' in the West, at a cost of $10,0O0,0o0, the largest cotton mill in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
An overuorked Word.

T believe in progress. and it gives me satisfaction to think that the progress sive educators of the country have done much to improve pedagogy but as some one observed in the columns Of the Age Herald recently, the educational associa- tions are running too much to fads." said an old citizen yesterday.
 "A striking example of fadism In teach ing circles Is the excessive use of the word psychology. Twenty-Five or thirty years ago one rarely came across the word outside of university text books. Today 1t is used glibly by high school and college graduates, a majority of whom 1t Is safe to say do not have a correct idea of its meaning.
 Shakespeare uses the word metaphy- sics only once and the word psychology not at all, for the good reason that it had not been introduced into the English language in his day, certainly not for ordinary use. And yet his tragedies are great specimens of psychological treat ment
 ''But coming down to modern times Nathaniel Hawthorne who was a past master in analyizing character and trac- ing springs of action never in all his writings, so far as I recall, used the word psychology but twice. and George Eliot who was a genius in portraying character and dealing with human emotions, em- pioyed the word only three or four times
 This latter day effort to push psy- choiogy, especially the so-called new psy- chology, as an every day science involves a woeful waste of time.
 ''rhe average college student in his teens is slow in getting into his head just what the objective and the subject mean, and when it comes to psychology, old or new, speculative or empirical, he is apt to be very far at sea, so to speak.
 'fDr Borden P. Browne, professor of philosophy in Boston University, con- tributed short paper to the Independent recently in which he discussed with re- freshing wit the new psychology. When the psychological laboratories were opened a few years ago. says pr. Browne, prophecies abounded of good things to come, and the stock was f1oated at a premium. But now that 1t has been on the market for some time without the declaration of any very valuable divi- dends, the psychological public is begin ming to be haunted with doubts concern ing it. The additions to knowledge have been rather scanty and not over fruitful The question, Whats the use? is well known to be depressing to. enthusiasm but 1t is often a source of illumination, when appraising our speculative assets.
 Browne then takes up the question of distribution of tactile sensibility, to which the experimenters have devoted a deal of attention, and shows that no new knowledge of real value has been brought to bear on familiar facts regard ing touch, facts doubtless known to Noah before he entered the ark. He goes through a list of discoveries in the new psychology whose results have been hopelessly barren, and the half playful way in which he exposes new school ideas will, I trust. have the desired ef- feet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
LORD ROBERTS WILL PRESIDE.
Was Invited by Gen. Joe Wheeler and
 Has Signified Acceptance.

New York, July 1S.-Lord Roberts will preside at the organization of the Pil- grim Club, which will be held, says a London dispatch to the Herald, at the Carlton Hotel on July 2f.
 The commander-in-chief has written to Gen. Joseph Wheeler signifying his ac- ceptance of the invitation extended to him and expressing his cordial sympathy with the movement to establish an Anglo American club.
 According to H. E. K. Brittan. the sec retary of the committee which has draft ed the plan of organization it is expected to bring about closer relations between Americans and Englishmen all over the globe, and 1t is intended to establish branches in all larger cities throughout the English-speaking world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
Stock Advancinu,

"The fact that the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company made better showing in earning for the last quarter than ever the companys officials expected has made an impression in Wall street. and the stock is up about sz a share" re- marked a banker yesterday.
 Ut has been some time since there was any speculative activity in Tennes- see Coal and Iron, but I would not be surprised to see the stock go up a good many points within the next two weeks But the market Is very uncertain and il may be that the Tennessee stock will remain about where 1t is during the re- mainder of the summer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
HON. cHAPPELL CORY.
Beeaemer Worknnn.

From the Bessemer Workman.
 There is no man in the field for super intendent of education who so fully meas ures up to tho mark as a competent. en- ergetic, enthusiastic and capable candi- date as Hon. Chapel Cory, and his cleo uon to the office means that the schools of Alabama will be pushed forward in a marked degree. No mistake will be made by supporting him for this important off, flee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
DRAYAeE WAR IS SPREADING.
The K. C., M. & B. Will Now Adopt the
 Free System in Vogue.

Memphis, July l8.-The free delivery system inaugurated in Memphis by the Illinois Central and the Louisville and Nashville railroads as the extension of a fight originating in Louisville, is spreading.
 Effective July 21, the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham. the eastern branch of the Frisco. and the Southern will adopt the free drayage system. TAe Frisco will not adopt the policy west of the river, and for this reason the liklihood of the other western roads taking hand Is minimized.
 It is thought that the Nashville Chat taDooga and St. Louis Railroad will be drawn into the fight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
OIeomarqarine Under the Law.

A number of manufacturers of oleo- margarine have closed their establish ments. believing that sale of uncol- ored oleomargarine is impracticable, wholesome and clean though it be- far more wholesome than inferior but ter which is worked over, colored, favored and otherwise manipulated. This worked-over inferior butter is now sold largely in the South, and it is less wholesome than oleomargarine. No tax is laid on worked-over butter, because the dairy interest which die tated the characteristic class tax wants the entire field and will not listen to anything in behalf even of health and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
WOMAN CLAIMS REWARD.
Delivered the Body of Convict Merrill to Authorities and Demands $15oo.

Salem, Ore, July 1S.-The remains of David Merrill, escaped convict have been delivered at the Oregon penitentiary after being brought here by Mrs. Mary Waggoner, who found the body near Chehalis. Warden James, of the Oregon penitentiary, and one of the prison guards readily identified the dead convict. The casket was inferred in the prison ceme- tery without ceremony.
 Mrs. Waggoner made a formal demand upon Superintendent Lee for the reward of $500. MT. Lee declined to pay the same, offering her $500 for her trouble and ex- pense and explaining that the reward could only be paid for the capture of the convict and that she had not captured Merrill, but had merely found his dead body by accident. Mrs. Waggoner refals- ed the amount offered and made a formal written demand for the full reward to be paid by Governor Geer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
CHARLESTON IN GOOD HuMoR.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
 Who sit that ten year~ ago would have believed that the general government deepening the water in our harbor? Who is there that five years ago could foresee that there would even be such a military establishment on Sullivan's Island as we now have? Who would have believed, three years ago, that we could get s250- 600 out of the government for a Charles ton exposition? Let us think of these things and not be Respondent.