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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-02
THE CASE OF ROBSON.

From the Boston Post
 There Is a favorable report before the United States senate of bill authorizing the president to transfer Naval Construc- tor Richmond P. Hobson to the retired list of the navy on account of disabili- ties incurred In the line of duty. The plain statement of the case Is that Hob son came out of the Spanish war with an affection of the eyes which, while not incapacit ting him for the performance of his work in the construction bureau, must inevitably result in the loss of sight unless he takes entire rest for his eyes from such duty. Under tha regulations he could not be retired until his disability was complete. In other words hem ust lose his eyesight before he could be al- lowed to save 1t. Such was the decision of the examining board before which he set forth his case.
 Now, Hobson is one of the very few heroes of the Spanish war left to us by hostile fate. Almost all the rest have been shelved in some way Sampson is dead, Schley has been pursued vindic- lively, even Dewey suffered contumely during the Mckinley campaign because of his audacity in imagining the presi- dency to be open to the aspiration of any citizen, But Hobson, one of the minor. heroes represents one of the most bril- liant acts of daring in any war of any nation in history. And he surely de- serves consideration. Congress ought to pass the bill giving him his retirement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-02
Bible College in New York.

"There has been started in New York the Peoples Bible College with the cen- tral office at No 150 Fifth avenue" said A church worker. Tn connection with this centre 1t Is proposed to have branch es in cities and towns throughout the country The main purpose Is the study of the Bible and cognate subjects-not to the extent, perhaps, that would be found in a theological seminary, but in such A way as to help plain people to understand the Bible in the vernacular. It Is intended that there shall be course for home study, and that at the central meeting place there shall be public study of Sunday school methods and the Sunday school lessons for the following Sunday. These meetings will be kept up until about the middle of the month of June, and then, after the sum- mer vacation. will be resumed in the same place.
 At the opening of the meeting some feature of Sunday school work is pre- sented in brief lecture, followed by general discussion. Then the Sunday school lesson for the following Sunday is taught, and after the teacher has out lined the subject opportunity is given for questions and general conversation upon the lesson. These meeting are open to all classes without any charge"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-02
Rumors from Rome.

"From now until a successor to the late Archbishop Corrigan is appointed the newspaper correspondents at Rome will be busy sending out rumors ana contradictions and speculating on the oe- c,s,on of the Vatican in this matter, re- marked a Catholic layman.
 "A few days ago a report came lronh Rome to the Associated Press oy the way of London to the effect that the Pone had decided to transfer Archbishop I. !. Keane of Dubuque to the vacant archsee The next day that statement was positively denied.
 "On Saturday a Rome correspondent sent this observation: It appears no" to be extremely Improbable that the Pope will depart from his customary prs ctice of appointing an archoishop successor from among the clergy or the diocese in which the vacancy occurs
 ..The person who wrote that paragraph Is not informed. There is nothing in the customary practice, as the Pope ofteh selects for an archbishop one who IS not among the clergy of the diocese Tn WHICH the vacancy occurs, or even located In the province. Ir appointing the present archbishop of New Orleans his holiness went outside of the province of New or leans. In appointing the present arch bishop of Cincinnati a bishop outside the province was selected, and this is true of St. Louis and Dubuque.
 'I think it is as likely as not that Arch bishop Keane will be appointed arch bishop ot New York Many people seem to think thar the next metropolitan of New York will be crea+>a cardinal but there is no foundation for such notion. No new led nat will come to tue United States as long as Cardinal Gibbons
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-02
Senator Moruan Hopeful.

While all others lose confidence in action by the Senate on the Hepburn bill at this session, Senator Morgan does not. He writes thus to the Washington Times: q am satisfied that legislation looking to the con struction of an isthmian or inter oceanic canal will be enacted before the Fffty-seventh Congress adjourns. It has been agreed in the Senate that the canal bill is to follow the Philip pine civil government bill, which is now being discussed"
 It will be noticed that Senator Nor gan does not predict that the bill will be passed at this session by the Sen ate, but that it will go through before March 4, when this Congress will come to an end. This is very possi- ble.
 Senator Morgan luther says: "I am hOI oIlg OdtloiCo liob bAiC Suhoi DliA will pass this Congress, but am san guine that the Nicaragua route will be the one named in the bill. For the past twelve years I have urged the construction of an interoceanic canal, and have introduced measure after measure, without result. I be- lieve that the time has now come when it is both practical and expe- dient to consider the proposition to construct such. a waterway, and further believe that both houses of Congress feel as do in regard to this matter. I would be in favor of any route that was the most feasible and practical, but after the broadest and most searching inquiry and considera- tion, still maintain there Is but one practical and feasible route, and that is the Nicaraguan."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-02
HANNA's CAMPAIGN CRY.
From the New Orleans Times Democrat. "Keep on letting well enough alone"

From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
 Keep on letting well enough alone" That Is the cry that the Hon. Mark A. Hanna, a United States Senator from Ohio, has invented for use in the Repub- lican Congressional campaign of 1902 Well. let us see.
 The sugar trust holds Republican Unit ed States Senators in the hollow of it's hand. ('Keep on letting we'll enough alone.D
 The beef trust has sent the price of meat so high that the people are subsist- ing on a vegetable diet ("Keep on letting well enough alone.'O
 The grain trust has so cornered the cereal market that men have tied the wheat crop in their handkerchiefs and held it there till working women through out the country have been compelled to pay higher prices for flour they carried home to their furnishing children. (''Keep on letting we'll enough alone.')
 The coal trust has sent the price of coal skyward and refused to advance the wages of working men who bring the product from the bowels of the earth Strikes are on in the great coal regions of the United States. C'Keep on letting well enough alone.)
 The ice trust has put the price up on every pound of ice and knocked the weight of on every ton. ('Keep on let ting well enough alone.)
 The American flag has been perverted fin the Philippines into an emblem of ty- ranny. torture, spoilation and murder ("Keep on letting well enough alone.O
 The Declaration of Independence has been repealed. ("Keep on letting well enough alone.")
 The Monroe doctrine has been nullified C'Keep on letting we'll enough alone")
 Dewey and Schley, who honored their country, have been degraded Crownin- shield and Funston. who degraded their country. have been hcnored. Keep on letting we'll enough elonc.")
 And so onto the end of the chapte
 And yet this Republican Senator from Ohio, hiding behind McKinley's tomb stone" peeps out and cries: Keep on letting we'll enough alone"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-02
HANNA AND JOHNSON.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch
 There is a general recognition of the fact that Tom L. Johnson is in the race as Democratic possibility for the nom- nation of two years hence. This reeogni- ton comes, singularly enough. concur rently with the peculiar deadlock which has appeared between Mayor Johnson and Senator Hanna on the subject of street railway franchises In Cleveland.
 Johnson as mayor stands on the plat form that Senator Hanna's street railway franchises shall not be renewed except on the condition of reduced fares. Hanna, as street railway owner, Is quoted as say ing that does not object to the reduc- tion of fares, but he will see Johnson fur ther before he lets him make the political capital of having secured the reduction. So there the mighty forces stand
 But on this very statement Johnson has Hanna in cleft stick For if the dead lock holds Johnson will get more fame and political capital for demanding the reduction which Hanna refuses than he sould for demanding the reduction which Hanna grants. He will get some political capital either way. but the most if Han ma keeps up the fight.
 The only way in which Hanna can beat Johnson out of the political capital is to concede more than Johnson asks. That would put the latter in the fight of not having asked enough. Let the Senator try that way of defeating the ambitious Johnson, and the people of Cleveland will accept whatever results may accrue with due philosophy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-02
TheoloaIcaI Seminaries.

Professor Harper of the University Of Chicago thinks the time is near at hand when the theological seminary, standing above and apart from other educational work, will not be able to attract even the ordinary student, and that the great theological seminaries of the future will have to be identified directly or indirectly with the universities observed re- ligious man.
 ''The trouble about Dr. Harper's propo- sition is that 1t Is next to impossible for great universities to keep on old ortho- dox lines. Unless I am mistaken. Harper himself leans to the so-called new the ology prominent Baptist minister who once heard Harper discuss religion at a Baptist meeting told me that he, the Rockefeller president, was far from the old way of thinking on theological ques- tions. He was entirely too broad.
 Theological seminaries will do well to remain independent of secular universi- ties"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-02
Freight Discrimination at Sea.

A correspondent of the New York Evening Post calls attention to the discriminations that attend even ship ments by sea:
 An illustration of the protection that does not protect may be instanced by not ing that cotton freights from New Or leans to Lancashire, Eng, are now 20c per 100, while the rate to Fall River, Mass, Is 3Sc per 100. Freights to New York are BOG per 100 and to Liverpool via New York are 20c Or, in other words, the steamship that brings cotton to New York at 30c, brings also cotton here. transships it to another steamship and pays the ocean freights all for 2Oc per 1OO."
 When cotton is picked up in this country and laid down at Manchester, England, at a dollar a bale, it must be admitted that the margin of the Southern spinner Is not very great. It is seen at once why the English spinning industry is prosperous and inclined to extensions and improve ments. They get cotton almost as cheaply as a mill does in Birmingham, and nearly a dollar bale cheaper than Fall River.
 It Is surprising that Fall River sub mits to such charges, when it could readily charter sailing ship or tramp steamer that, especially if they can secure for it a return cargo of some sort. England's ability to furnish cargoes both ways has much to dc with her low freight rates. No one cares how low her rates be, but it is plain 1t Is hurtful to this country to have to pay high rates when England does not. Fall River Is handicapped with freight rates, and it has not therefore a fair chance in foreign markets as against British spinners
 The South should take the side of the Fall River spinner, because 1t Is to the interest of all in this country that a market be found for surplus American goods. We should aid Fall River to secure lower rates. We should aid any American mill in all reasonable demands, our battle being directed against the foreign spinner and not against home mills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-02
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.
Question About Upward Tide Since
 Peace was Announced.

London. June 1.-The most interesting question today in connection with the stock exchange is whether or not the steady upward tide of the past week will spend itself in the face of the off cial announcement of peace. The gen. eral impression is that this tide will not stop, although prices generally consid- ering the trade outlook are quite high. Indeed the more optimistic observers look forward to a prolonged boom and only a few conservatives profess to be- lieve that the advance has already been discounted.
 Conditions are not altogether favorable for lively trading. Money was decidedly scarce at the recent settlement and big speculative account is already open for the rise. It is also fully expected that discounts will put up the rate. Still the tone of the market has been remark ably cheerful. consols closing last week at the highest price of the year and the American outlook is rapidly clearing on better money the crop outlook and the hopeful reports of the coal strike. Loan issues, both colonial and provincial fared very well last week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-02
RHODES WORTH $3o,ooo,ooo.
Probate of His Will to Be Taken Out
 In South Africa.

New York. June 1.-Cecil Rhodes exc cutors have decided that the probate of the will should be taken out in South Af- rica, cables the London correspondent of the Tribune, and this will be done after the return of Dr. Jameson and MT. Mitch- ell to the cape.
 Nothing definite is known as to the extent of MT. Rhodes fortune, but so far as has been ascertained it will amount to $25, 0OO.0 900 or $50, 0OO,OO0. His educational scheme has been gone into by the exc cutors, but 1t will be some time before the arrangements can be completed. It is hoped however, that the first of the Rhodes scholars will enter Oxford Uni versity at the October term next year. Dr. Jameson and MT. Mitchell have been authorized to represent the executors in South Africa. Lord Milner is unable at present to take any active part in the administration of the estate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-02

because of poor health, and his friends will be glad to know that he comes back well.
 MT. M. H. Dooiey of Washington, D. G., chief law agent of the Southern Railway Company, is in the city.
 MT. Harry F. Bishop has resigned his position as stenographer at the Continen- tai Gin Works to accept service with a telephone company in Nashville.
 Mir. John R. Ryan, assistant general manager of the Corona Coal and Iron Company, passed through the city Sat urday night for Jackson. Miss.
 Advices received from Cincinnati yes- terday report the condition of MT. W. J. Murphy, general manager of the A. G. S. Railroad, slightly improved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-02
FOOLISH PLAN FOR NEGROES.

From the New York Mail and Express
 (Rep)
 If the request of the Colored Emigra- ton and Commercial Convention now in session in Chattanooga were for Congress to appropriate $5,OOOooO instead of the modest sum of $500, 0O,O00, it would be as absurd and would deserve as little at tention. The folly of any plan to deport the negroes of the United States has been often exposed, by none better than by Booker T. Washington, who showed that more negroes are born In this coun- try each day than could take passage for foreign port in a week.
 Whatever the political wrongs that grieve the colored man. his material salvation Is in his own hands. His real leaders are Washington and his colabor- CTS, who are pointing the way for his industrial development whereby he will become an honest, useful and respected member of any community. His worst enemies are the men-no matter whether they be well-meaning fanatics or self seeking schemers-such as the preachers of this new exodus or the advocate of crusade of assassination who delivered his murderous tirade in Chicago the oth- CT day.
 The negro deserves aid when he be- gins to help himself. In this country he has been developed from the Congo savage to his present status. His furth- CT rise must be wrought by his own ex- ertions in the land best suited to him. He need look for no encouragement from right thinking men In any misguided ef- fort to found a new Haiti or another Liberia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-02
election in Oreuon.

The first state election of the year and practically the first of the Roose- welt administration will be held in Oregon today, when a Governor and other state officers, and two Congress men will be chosen. There are no focal issues of prominence, and the election will turn upon the question that Congress has recently discussed -upon Cuban reciprocity, the Philip. pine policy, the tariff and the trusts.
 The state has of late been strongly Republican. The present Governor, Republican, was elected in 1898 by a plurality of 10,551 over the fusion candidate. McKinley's plurality in 1900 was 19,141. The present Legis- lature consists of fifty-six Republicans and thirtyEour Democrats on joint ballot These are large majorities in a state of small population. They are equivalent to a majority of 50,O0O in Alabama. and that would be consid- cred a sweeping victory.
 Although the Democrats have an uphill task they are working hopeful ly, and the vote will be scanned close ly for evidence of the trend of public sentiment. Oregon, like all the other Pacific coast states, regards without undue criticism expansion in the Pa. cific, and any change in the vote will no doubt relate more to the tariff and the trusts it has created. This will, however, be the controlling issue in all the states this fall.
 The Republican nominee for Gov. ernor MT. Furnish, was five years ago a Democrat, and he will encounter some opposition in his own party on that account. MT. Chamberlain, the Democratic nominee, is strong man, and he will poll the full Democratic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-02

the scene of the novel shifts between Ari- zona and the rich farming country of New York State, and the story is full of sharp | contrasts. Mrs. Foote is spending the | summer at Manchester Mass. but her home Is in California. Rudyard Kipling, Sir Charles Dilke and Frank Bullen are among the contributors of volume designed fittingly to com memorate the coronation naval review The first named has for several year.. been regarded as the poem of the navy. Sir Charles has written much about mod ern sea fighters from scientific point of view while MT. Bullen may fittingly be called the Boswell of the man before the mast.
 The popular books of the week ended May 10, as reported by the circulating de- partment of the New York Public Lie brary, are The Hound of the Basker. villes,' by Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Vernon" by MT. Charles Ma. jor; Audrey" by Mary Johnston. Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Car. roll; Little Women." by Louisa M. Al- cott Red Fairy Book" by Andrew Lang; Making of an American" by Ia, cob A. Riis; up from Slavery h Booker T. Washington; Psychology in the Schooiroom," by Dexter and Garlick
 harpers Magazine for June contains an f'icie eItitieo Insects and Civilization by pr. Henry c. McCook. Tn 1t he esti. mates that "the pigmy captains of ner. niclous industry, whose hosts onerata ,r the granaries fields stock farms ana stock yards Of our country" are responsi. pie Tor losses aggregating about $3Oo. ooo.. VVo' lie concludes that "the flying creen. lhs things innumerable are mighty foes, put man mas been given domain over all the earth' and modern civilization, which represents the highest type of man. viii surely not surrender to the insects :, ,rh. same magazine has an interesting and schoiarly article by Prof Morris Ja.- troW' Jr.' of the University of PennsyI- vsnla, on Creation Legends of Ancient Religions
 CONSCIENCE. Written for the Age-Herald by W. E. Horne.
 We sometimes do a menial thjng
 A wrong maybe, we can't forget, f. That leaves behind poisoned sting.
 Envenomed by remorse, regreti Ihls pricking comes to those who feel
 hc Sup'ie touCn or that within, Called Conscience and tho wound may
 heal,
 A scar is where the wound had beenl Ihis scar remains through all the yearAu
 But to remind us of the pain, we telt when first with bitter tears
 We did, what we'd ne'er do againi Tis timely though that, for our veal
 Our conscience bricks us, gives us pain@ It makes us for our fellows feel,
 Who would themselves from wrong re<
 frain.
 There's comradeship with those whd
 would,
 Up higher climb. climb higher still With consciousness of brotherhood,
 Mong those who help you up the hillt Then he who would conscience obey
 Lives life of joy is kind, humane, And has escaped, he'll find some day
 Many heartache-many 8 paint
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-02
Peace Except in the Philippines.

Peace having come between the British and the Boers, all the world will go unarmed save in the Philip pines. For a protocol has been ar ranged between Chilli and Argentina, which provides for compulsory arbi- tration of the difficulties that had arisen between these two prosperous and progressive South American re- publics. The questions involved relate alike to the Peru-Bolivia dispute over the nitrate provinces and their sea ports, and to the boundary line be- tween Chi1i and Argentina. Argentina accepts the status quo in the former case and the latter is to be settled by arbitration. Both republics are to stop preparing for war and neither is to fortify the Straits of Magellan. Thus a conflict in the best port of South America is averted.
 If now the door of Janus Is to be flung wide open in South Africa, and Boer and Briton are to dwell together in peace and unity as they have long done in Cape Colony and Natal, then will be peace the world round save in the Philippines, and the situation in that populous archipelago is anything but promising All signs now point to a long struggle-one, too, that will be very expensive both in respect to life ard to treasure. The stubborn Malays do not propose to become Americans. They desire independence. We propose to make them colonlsts, and the issue is to be fought out.
 The world will soon hold no other theatre of war, and the world vii have opportunity therefore to consid CT and study the effort of a republi in enslaving a distant and strang' people Why a republic should dt this. is the curious political problem of the day. How it can do it, is the business of the present administra- tion
 The Philippine question is rising in importance, for 1t is seen that it involves the keeping there of large standing army, and that complete pacifcetion of the almost uncounted islands is well nigh impossible. Some of tko i1lands are filled with a Moslem population, and not one of them has a trait or a feature that can ever be assimilated. The people out there are not Americans, and there are ten mil lions of them, more or less.
 It seems impossible to concentrate public opinion upon the Philippine problem, but when all the rest of the world is at peace perhaps people in this country will stop long enough to consider what we are doing in the islands and how we are doing it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-02
ENGLAND PUZZLED,
No Intiniation as to Who Will Succeed
 Lord Pauncefote.

Washington, June 1.-The question of the succession to the place in the British embassy here vacated by the death of Lord Pauncefote, is attracting attention in official circles to an unprecedented de- gree. In the present case there has not been the slightest hint or suggestion to indicate the intention of the British gov- ernment in the matter.
 The names of the persons mentioned In the Associated Press dispatch of last night are all favorably received by the officers here, and it may be stated on the highest authority that the President will cheerfully receive any of them persona grata. The weight of opinion here is that Michael Herbert, now secretary and min ister at Paris, will receive the appoint ment as Lord Pauncefote's successor.