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The age-herald., 1902-01-06
WEEvIL STATISTICS.
Galveston News is Ascertaining the
 Damage Done to Cotton.

Galveston, January 5.-Desirous of as- certaining the area and extent of dam ago done by the boil weevil in Texas dur ing the past season the Galveston News sent requests to correspondents for in- formation and estimates on this sub ject. The report is made up of returns from all correspondents.
 From these returns it is shown that 55 counties are more or less affected, those of southern Texas being literally infested. while in north Texas they have only ap- peared in isolated localities. The great cotton producing counties of the state were attacked last year for the first time in a threatening manner, and there is great dread for the future. River coun- ties suffered most, and river farms ap- pear to be worse attacked. Wooded sec uons harbor weevil in winter.
 Taking the census figures of produc- tons as a basis, 1t Is estimated that the boil weevil destroyed cotton in the gen. eral districts as follows:
 Southwest Texas. 100000 bales; East Texas 7500; Central Texas 45o00. north Texas none; coast district 90,0o0. Total 242. 800 bales.
 In 1899 and 1900-Texas produced 2,65S,- 555 bales according to the United States census, of which 1,55S,500, or over half. were grown in the countries now infested with Weeyil.
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
TO TEACH YANKEE METHODS.

From Berlin Dispatch.
 In the four commercial universities at Aachen, Cologne, Leipsic and Frankfort on-the-Main the German government has determined to provide special course for young m en intending to enter the dip- lomatic, especially the consular. service. Instruction will be given on legal and commercial questions arising out of in ternational intercourse, and special atten- ton will be directed to American meth ods of doing business especially methods of extending trade in China and Japan.
 It Is no longer exceptional for a push ing German manufacturer or merchant to send his son to an American commercial city to study American business customs Several large firms in this city, in Leipsic Hamburg and Frankfort have their eyes fixed on the United States as their model and are represented In America by youth full m embers of the firm, who after a year or two return to the fatherland ar dent advocates of American push and thoroughness.
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
Innocence shall make false accusa- klon blush and tyranny tremble.
 Winters Tale.
Women in Methodism.

The Methodist church, North. has recently adopted and perfected sew eral amendments to its constitution that render the instrument much more democratic In the first place the con stitution may be amended hereafter by a two-thirds vote, instead of a three-fourths vote. Laymen's elec- toral meetings may hereafter vote on constitutional questions, and lastly but not leastly, women are hereafter to have the right to be elected as dele gates to the general conference, and to sit in it on the same terms as men.
 The last-named change has been a subject of agitation fully ten years, and it has now been adopted by more than a three-fourths vote of the con- ference. The more conservative con- ferences in New England and New York opposed the change, but the wide and populous West favored it, and it was readily carried.
 It is not expected that many women will seek seats in and general confer ence of the Northern Methodist church, but few will, and the effect will be to broaden and democratize a church that in the past was much under the control of the clericals. The laity are asserting themselves in various ways in the northern body, and this seems to be particularly ap- propriate in church that represents almost beyond any other ''the people" Women are to sit as delegates, be- cause women sit as members or con stituants. If they may be members of a church they are entitled to repre- sentation of their own choosing, and the northern branch ~fs thus keeping step with the dernocratic spirit of the age.
The age-herald., 1902-01-06

readily surpassed it, showing at It's close as a magnificent total, SIPS ,SSs,- 732. Here is a record indeed that will scarcely be surpassed very soon because it includes two gifts that to- gether exceed $72,00O, ,0OO.
 The years gifts include $6S,S5O ,961 given to education; $22,217,470 to charity; $15,9S8,7O0 to libraries; $11,- 133,112 to art, and s6,29S,4 to churches. The last named sum in- cludes specified sums only left by will or given outright, excluding all church offerings of an ordinary na- ture. Of lle vast sum donated dur ing the year $42,88S, ,5OO came from Mir Carnegie's fat purse; $30,000,000 from Jane L. Standford, and $2,SS9,- 750 from John D. Rockefeller. Twen- weight gifts ranged from $500,00O to $30,000, ,000, and there were fifty-one gifts all told each exceeding $100,000.
 Thus far MT Carnegie has built 162 libraries at cost of about SIT 100000. These libraries are scattered over Al .tates and territories. The world has never known continuous giving on such a scale as the Pittsburg ironmas- ter has planned and carried out.
 If such colossal gifts are to become feature of American life it begins to be an interesting question as to what it's effects will be. Thus far, however, the gifts of wealthy men do not outrun tue accumulation of prop erty in the country. This is fast be- coming the richest country in the world, and 1t would be strange indeed if some great gifts to public uses did not occur. It is estimated that such givers among New York millionaires are but one in a hundred.
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
BeautifyInq Country Homes.

The Illinois State board of educa- ton is endeavoring to induce the own CTS of country homes to make them as attractive externally as city homes. In the central normal univer- sity of that State a department has been established which will keep this object strictly in view. A green house and garden plot and all kinds of plants and flowers will be utilized, and competent instructor will be placed in charge who will explain to every student expecting to become a public school teacher the best methods of arrangement, decoration and pro- pagation.
 It is proposed to dissiminate through teachers and pupils in the public schools a knowledge of flowers and to spread abroad their meaning, and to instill in the hearts of all a fondness for them. Every prospective teacher will go out fully instructed in the art of making and maintaining flower beds, and decorating both grounds and homes, and it is proposed to begin the work at the school houses themselves. The small school houses in the country are to be made as attractive as they are now offen- sive to the eye. They are to serve as object lessons, and if the average rural school house can be rendered at tractive surely the average home can and will be.
 The expenditure involved will not be large, and the effects will certainly be valuable and beneficial, for what ever brightens life, particularly a child's life, is very desirable and very far reaching. What Illinois proposes to do on a large scale, and very sys- tematically, too, might be tried in spots in Alabama, especially where there is a teacher or country super intendent who knows what blossoms stand for and mean and teach, and are deeply and truly worth.
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
Aided Athletics.

Tn order to protect the good name or Columbia University Seth Low while president of the university last year loan ed $1o,O0o to the undergraduate football association with which to pay outstand- ing debts on the rent of Manhattan Field and various other bills" said a New Yorker at the Hilman.
 ''At the time it was said that the grad uates had been the leaders ana nothins was mentioned in regard to MT. Low connection with the matter. Formal an nouncement of his generosity Will De made next week, however, In the report of the football manager. President Roose- welt, like Mayor Low, Is lover Of ath- letic sports. He has taken lively in- terest in boxing baseball. football and every other manly sport.
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
Want to Supply Gas.

Paris, January 5.-La Liberte has pub lished report to the effect that the Rockefellers intend to apply for a con- cession to supply gas to the city of Paris. The paper vigorously opposes this scheme and say it will be an act of mental alteration to accept such a pro- position, which would be disastrous to national production and powerful help to the designs of the Americans who wish, not only to expel foreign industry from their own country, but who seek to supplant foreigners, on their own ground. La Liberte says the Rockefellers would not use ton of French coal and that the granting of the concession to them would be a mighty weapon for the realization of the economic schemes of American imperialism in Europe.
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
MUST WE, TOO, HAVE A PANAMA

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. The new converts of the transcontinen- tai railway lobby, which is trying to kill every project for an isthmian canal, urge three points in favor of the purchase of the Panama canal:
 l. The Panama canal Is shorter than the Nicaragua canal, and therefore will be of greater advantage to American commerce.
 2. The Panama canal Is at sea level, and therefore will be more advantageous than any other isthmian canal with locks and dams.
 sell it's property and rights on the isth- mus for $40.000, 900, a ship canal under American control may be built on that route more satisfactory than on the Mic aragua route.
 To which the evident replies are:
 1. While the Panama canal would be shorter than the Nicaragua canal, the Panama route for shippers would be long CT. The Nicaragua route between New York and San Francisco or between New Orleans and San Francesca or between
 
 shorter than the Panama route.
 9 The statement that the Panama canal is partially constructed at the sea level is false. The canal was planned and adver- tised as a sea-level canal, but in 1887 it changed to lock canal, and the dams contemplated by the engineers are more difficult of construction than any on the Nicaragua canal
 3. If the Panama Canal Company would sell it's property and rights on the isth- mus for $l000 to say nothing of $40 GOO. 900, 1t would not be possible for the United States to construct on that route an American canal under American con- trol.
 If the United States should purchase all the rights and property of the Pan anna Canal Company, our engineers would still have eight years work before them, providing they could solve several prob lens now regarded as unsolvable, and meantime would not have a single con cession giving this country control of the canal.
 However, the convincing argument against the Panama project just now is that 1t Is advocated most furiously by the transcontinental railway lobby. This lobby is against any canal Therefore, when il advocates the Panama canal it gives the strongest proof that it knows the Panama canal is impossible.
 Yet this lobby finds newspapers to fool the people for it-Congressmen to shout buncombe for it. Shame on such perfidy. Must America. too. have it's Panama scandal?
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
Life of Gladstone.

s'John Morleys Life of Gladstone, at which the brilliant statesman has been at work for three years, will be publish ed next October and it will have many readers in the United States, where Glad stone was ardently admired" said prominent Alabamian of English par ents.
 MT. Morley is a great scholar and his literary style is luminous. He believed in Gladstone politically and he was deeply attached to him personally. but there was one question on which these two men were widely apart, namely religion. Glad stone was a churchman. not only In formal and academic way, but he was devout and his faith was like that of child.
 Gladstone was deeply interested in the tractarian enterprise and he thought seriously of following Newman into the Roman Catholic church. The illustrious statesman had a strong turn for theology and church history and wrote much on religious themes He was always ready for theological discussion with prelate or other clergyman and as for patristic literature there was hardly a bishop in the Church of England who could quote certain of the fathers so accurately.
 MT. Morley does not believe in any church. He is avowed aguostic and that being so he will have a singularly difficult task when he comes to treat the religious side of his hero. There will be a fine glow in Morley's general eulogy of Gladstone. but the chapters touching up- on Gladstone as a churchman must per- force be dull and cold because of lack of sympathy"
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
PRINCESS LOUISE INSANE.
Eccentric Daughter of King Leopold
 in a Hopeless Condition.

Berlin, January 5.-Princess Louise. the eccentric daughter of King Leopold of Belgium, who was divorced from her hus- band, Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha. and who has been held practically a prisoner in a retreat near Dresden for the last two years. has been pronounced hopelessly insane.
 Her daughter Princess Dorothea, was married to Ernest Genthir, Duke of Schles wig -Holstein. brother of the present Empress of Germany, and her sister, Princess Stephanie, was the wife of the Arch-Duke Rudolph of Austria, who com mitted suicide.
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Increase in Population.

Tt Is believed by persons in position to observe the growth of Jefferson coun- ty that the increase in the countys poPuz lation last year was equal to the increase in any two years prior to 1sOl' saio a we'll informed business man.
 From 1893 to 1897 there was httie or no increase, but the years lSsS ana IoSs were years of great growth and brought up the population to the census hgures- 10000 It Is estimated that since 1une' 1900, the county has increased at least 1000. Ensley is growing fast ana the country between Birmingham and Pratt City is filling up. When ground IS Droken for the projected steel plant at Thomas the county will get fresh impetus that will mean much to the business interests of Birmingham. Ensley has DIE starl on Thomas now but if the Republic Iron and Steel Company carries out it's scheme Thomas will be a pretty lively rival Of Ensley in the next four or five years.
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
WHEN FROST WAS A BLESSING.
om tbe washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 q believe the disastrous cold weather of several years ago was Godsend to Flor ida" said MT. Harrison O. Walters, of Jacksonville, Fla. "It used to be that the people down there thought they could raise nothing but oranges. After the groves were frozen out they were com pelled to turn their attention to other things, and now they raise almost as great a variety of farm products as the people in any other section of the coun- try. The Lord sent the frost I tell them. During the last couple of years Florida has been on the increase in all directions. Every form of commercial and industrial activity has picked up. The boom is a solid, permanent growth, too, not temporary spurt caused by the in- Aux of excursionists."
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
INSURANCE MONEY MISSING
B'Rith Abraham Order Discovers
 Shortage in Funds.

New York January 5.-Officers of the Order of B'Rith Abraham, which had a stormy session at the Grand Central Pal ace last Sunday while trying to fix the responsibility for an alleged shortage in the lodge funds, decided today that the laws governing life insurance in the or- der had been violated.
 It was therefore determined to draft resolutions to request that the commits sioner of insurance investigate the ai- legged embezzlement with a view to the punishment of the guilty parties. It was stated today that the shortage might prove to be $2600O upon further investi- gation.
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
ALTAR TO OPERATING TABLE.

New York correspondent of Chicago Re-
 cord d-Herald
 A drive from the hospital to the brides home. a wedding and then a drive back was the rem arkable nuptial programme or LeRoy M. Young today. MT. Young is a lawyer of Babylon, L.. l., and his presence in Brooklyn for the last week was due to a sudden attack of appendicitis, which arrived in his system just in time to pre- vent his marriage with Miss Grace Alma Salmon on Christmas. The doctors agreed that the husband-elect could stand the fatigue of the journey and the ceremony. An hour after being declared benedict Young was on the operating table.
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
LUCK ALONE GAN BEAT BANK.

From the London Tatler.
 Apropos of Lord Rosslyns article in last weeks issue on his infallible system for breaking the bank of Monte Carlo, correspondent who has visited the tables every year for nearly a quarter of cen tury tells me that the only successful system is luck.
 Wells won e9OO0O by what he called a new system of his own. But those who watched his play carefully could see no traces of any system; he merely played boldly and for time had luck. In the same way one of the Joels on a certain occasion won a15,000, but his win showed clearly how absurd 1t is to rely on prob abilities, for the red won no fewer than a dozen consecutive times, run which 1t is most likely that any system could have calculated for.
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
MT. Pettus' Educational Campaign.

MT. Pettus of the Huntsville board of trade proposes to organize an edu- cational campaign committee that shall visit and canvass every town and hamlet in the State. This is a good-sized task. and few men would be willing to undertake it, especially if they have to pay their own ex- penses. Such a campaign would be but temporarily felt, and it would probably be intellectual from the out set.
 What is needed is constitutional amendment that will give every tax paying citizen a proprietary interest in the school of his neighborhood. When man pays money toward the support of a school, he at once ac- quires proprietor's interest and feel ing. He becomes a party to every thing done in the school. He investi- gates, criticizes perhaps, and becomes at any rate an active school man. An amendment that authorizes local tax ation for school purposes is what is needed. The other States under stand this, and almost without excep- tion they have adopted local taxation, not only for revenues sake, but also for the purpose of inducing all citi- gems to take an interest in school af- fairs.
 The local taxation offered by the constitution is valueless. It makes the county the unit, whereas the school district should be the unit, and each battle out at home. County local taxation will not be applied any where It is not wanted. But real local taxation is much needed, and in the long run will be adopted. Ala bama may be little slow in educa- tional matters, but after a while she sees the real necessities of the States educational needs and proceeds to ap- ply the proper remedy. So it will be in the matter of local taxation. It is coming, and until it does come all parents cannot be induced to cooper ate in maintaining good schools in the State. This is the experience of other States, and their experience be- fore local taxation was adopted is Alabama's experience today.
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
RIENZPS ADDRESS,

By Mary Russell Milford. Friends. 3 I come not here to talk. Ye know if The story of our thraldom:-,I
 slaves! The bright sun rises to his COT
 lights sd A race of slaves. He sets, ana 4
 beam vi Falls on slave!-not such as.
 along
 By the full tide of power, the con
 leads t4 To crimson glory and undying fal ft But base. ignoble slaves-sla yes <.
 horde < Of petty tyrants, feudal despo s, Rich in some dozen paltry village'A Strong in some hundred spear;io
 great 6 sf ',s In that strange spell, name!, Eao hour, Or open rapine, or protected inul CT, Cries out against them. But thls very
 day, An. honest man. my neighbor-there he
 stands
 Was struck-struck like a dog-by one
 who wore i The badge of Ursini! because forsooth. He tossed not high his ready cap in air. Nor lifted up his voice in servile shouts. At sight of that great ruffian! Be VI
 men, II And suffer such dishonor? Men and we |
 not II The stains away in blood? Such sham.
 are common sl I have known deeper wrongs that spsajl
 to ye,
 I had a brother once. gracious boy, Full of all gentleness, of calmest hops. Of sweet and quiet joy; there was the|
 look Of heaven upon his face, which limners'
 give To the beloved disciple. How I loved That gracious boy! Younger by fifteen
 years, Brother at once and son. He left my side A summer bloom on his fair cheeks, q
 smile Parting his innocent lips. In one shork
 hour The pretty. harmless boy was slain!
 saw The corse. the mangled corse. and tn
 I cried
 For vengeance! Rouse. ye Romans! rousd ye slaves!
 Have ye brave sons? Look in the mex.
 fierce brawl, To see them die! Have ye fair daughtersi
 Look
 To see them live, torn from your arm%
 d1Sta1ne0
 Dishonoredi and If ye dare call for justicD Be answered by the lash! Yet this l
 Rome,
 That sat on her seven hills, and from hd
 throne Of. beauty. ruled the world! Yet we al
 Romans.
 Why, in that elder day. to be a RomanI Was greater than king-and once agaii Hear me. ye walls, that echoed to Ill
 tread Of either Brutus!-once again swearl The Eternal city shall be free! her q Shall walk with princes!
The age-herald., 1902-01-06

and will remain here for a week or ten days. They are at the Hillman. MT. Halls is vice president of the Hanover National Bank of New York and vice president of the Birmingham Realty Com pany.
 Congressman J. H. Bankhead spent yes- terday in Birmingham and will leave at o'clock this morning for Washington.
 Among the late arrivals at the Hillman last night were R. A. Hunt of Chatta- nooga, James Parish of Nashville, M. B. Lewis of Sylacauga, B. E. Dryden of Montgomery, L. c. Edwards of Dothan, and H. Seydel of Charlotte, N. c.
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
MeanIno Will be Revealed.

''The secret meaning of Conan Doyle s new Sherlock Holmes serial, now running in The Strand under the title or The Hound of the Baskervilles." which so Tar has been carefully preserved, will be re- vealed in the March number of the maga- zine" said a subscriber of The Strand.
 ''It will be published in book form In America by Mcclure, Phillips & Co. It is said that Sir George Newnes. the editor of The Strand. has already contracted with the author for another series depict ing further edvantures of the great detec- tive of the deductive system
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press
 The first baby makes a man crazy with joy; the others make him crazy without it.
 A woman can imagine anything in the world except what she doesn't want to imagine.
 You can never convince vain woman who has grown fat that she is until she gets stuck trying to get in a carriage door.
 Proof to a woman that you love is when she thinks you get miserable every once in a while imagining how lonely you would be if she went to visit her mother.
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
A WORK OF ART,

From the Conecuh Record.
 The Age-Herald's new years pf last Sunday is work of art and ! to its proprietors. The Age-Heralc up-to-date daily, always full of u latest news and complete with al torials.
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
SERVED UNDER ENGLISH.
Americans Who Fought the Boers Re
 turn Home.

Halifax, N. S., January 5.-The British troopship Manhattan arrived today from Capetown, December 8, via St. Vincent, December "A. On board of the trooper were two Americans who fought under the British flag in South Africa.
 T. Ryan served two years with the Duke of Edinburgh colonial corps. He took part in eight engagements, the most important of which was the relief of Kimberly. His home is Arizona, and he is going to New Orleans. Harry Welsh Is the second man.
The age-herald., 1902-01-06
Truck Farming.

"A canning factory here will tend to stimulate truck farming in Jefferson and adjoining countless remarked a real es- tate man.
 cessful trucking in this county, but there is room for more. Little farms intelli- gently and industriously cultivated never fail to pay. After one canning factory is in operation several more may be expect ed to follow"