davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12
The UNIVERSITY LANDS.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
There Is not man of affairs in Ala
bama who does not remember how Sc
verely Governor Johnston was criticised
for the snap sale of the university lands.
He literally compelled the trustees of
the university to dispose or the lands at
figure unwarrantably low, and it was
currently believed that ne expected a
profit therefrom by reason of the fact
that the sale of the university lands
would body up" and increase the value
of adjoining coal lands. in which he was
understood to have an interest.
The Johnston supporters say the lands
sold to the Sloss-Sheffield company ar.
now worth less than when they were first
sold. They contend that it would have
been an excellent thing for Alabama if
the sale had been confirmed and the
money kept In the treasury. "Just be-
cause Johnston did 1t the politicians
wanted to undo it, is the way the john
stonites dispose of the land deal, but
we shall see.
Under Governor Johnston Jelks admin
istration the trustees of the university
nave lsastu Vou acres u tHesl ldilu a. d
minimum royalty of $4,000. In other words
about one-third of the lands sold by
Governor Johnston for $4,000 now yields
to the university a rental Of not less than
$4,000 a year. Does that look like bad
financiering? If the balance of the land Is
leased at the same price it will be less
than five years until the mineral lands
pay as much money into the treasury as
Governor Johnston agreed to take for
them, and they will still belong to the
state
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12
TELEPHONES NEW USES
THAT WILL BE POPULAR

er's line and with the electrically ope-
rated burglar or fire deteetors. II a win
dow or a door in house thus protected
from thieves is opened a circuit IS made,
just as when subscriber takes the tele-
phone receiver OFF the hook.
To the telephone girl It seems like a
regular call. and it is only when she
makes the connection that she finds the
difference. Then all she gets as an an
swer to her hello. is a curious buzzing
sound which the phonolarm is making at
the other end of the line That sound
tells the story at once and the telephone
girl gets busy.
If the alarm IS from Main 1888 she
calls up police headquarters while the
operator finds out who Main 1888 Is. The
latter looks in the special book in which
the subscribers using this burglar alarm
service are enrolled. and there she finds
under Main 1888 an entry like this: Mr..
J. G. Smthers, 457s Walnut street Call:
First, police headquarters second. Main
472s. house of H. J. Dixon. 457s Walnut
street; third, M. L. Smithers, Main 2s2"
So after police headquarters is told
that there is a burglar in 457s Walnut
STREET, MI. HelBnpDIs MT. DIX
on, is notified and then Mr.. Smithers'
brother is told. Police headquarters noti-
fies the precinct in which the supposed
burglary is taking place and unless the
thief is wise the police have ten chances
of catching him to one chance of his
escaping. The burglar if everything goes
right has no chance. He can't even cut
the telephone wires before he enters be-
cause all the company's house connec-
lions are underground.
1t is practically the same with the frs
alarm service. The phonolarm is con.
nected with the automatic fire sprinkler
or whatever device is used to detect UNI
usual heat, and with the subscribers
trunk line. And central hears the fire
alarm Immediately and can give it to
the fire department in half a minute.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12
A PART OF THE TRUSTS.

From the New York Journal.
The republican party is responsible for
the food trust.
Congress. controlled in both branches
by the republican party, refused to re-
move the tariff duties on foreign cattle
and meats. Those duties enable the food
trust to monopoize the American market
and charge such prices as 1t pleases.
The Retail Butchers and Meat Dealers
National Association is not a political or
ganization, but 1t is evidently composed
of men who understand that a tariff can
not be changed without political action.
This association, whose membership
covers the whole United States, at its
annual national convention held in Wash
ington, on Thursday adopted a resolution
instructing all the local bodies from the
Atlantic to the Pacific to interrogate can
ddates for congress on the subject of
their attitude respecting the proposal to
repeal the tariff duties on meats and
meat products, and to support only such
candidates as are known to be opposed to
the food trust
This is business and rational politics.
No democratic candidate for congress
can, without being false to his party's
principles, decline to pledge himself to
vote for the removal of duties on the peo-
pies food. No republican candidate can
give such a pledge without putting him
self in opposition to his partys policy.
| Meat dealers and meat consumers must
, make up their minds to this fact:
Neither the food trust nor any other
trust will be destroyed by the republican
party.
The reason is that the republican party
is owned by the trusts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12
Three HomlcIdes in Three Weeks.

The ever-ready pistol and the equal
ly ready knife have in three weeks in
this town killed three men, and the
time has come when mawkish senti-
ment of any sort Is out of place. The
Age-Herald has no desire to PREJUDICE
the three cases, but it does desire a
full and impartial investigation in
which false public sentiment shall
have no part. The law should be ap-
piled in all three cases, and exact and
equal justice should be done. The
condition of affairs in this crowded
district demands that justice should
indeed be blind in these three cases.
If pistols and knives are to be drawn
in every difference in this valley with
impunity, then we have reached, or
rather descended to, low level of
civilization. We have returned to
frontier methods and frontier admins
tration of the law. Upon the prosecut-
ing officers and the coming juries rests
the determination of this question, and
without prejudging any one of the
three cases The Age-Herald asks again
that equal and exact justice be melted
out in each of them, for the good of
all-that law may again become SUI
preme instead of wishy-washy SYM
pathy, or a public sentiment that ig-
nores the rights of the many and the
reputation of the valley.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12
eUN5oAT STILL MISSING.
Nothing Has Been Heard of the
Boyaca Since July 20.

Colon, August n.-Nothing has beer
heard Of the government gunboat Boyaca,
which has been missing since July 20
when she left Panama with 800 men or
board to reinforce General BERT at Aqua
Dulce. No definite .hews has reached
here Of the battle between government
troops and revolutionists at Aqua Dulce
but 1t is said General BERT, the govern
ment leader. is still holding a strong po-
sition at Aqua Dulce and has been able
to break through weak points in General
Hererra's lines for the purpose of OBJ
tanning cattle
Government achievements from Sanv-
anilla are expected hourly at the 18th.
mus.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12
NOTICE TO suRscRIsERs.

Il IL reported to this office that
James 7. Allen Is travelling through
the state OF Alabama and soliciting
subscriptions for The Age-HeraId. This
Is to notify the public that J. T. Allen
has never been connected with The
Age-Herald and has no authority to
act as agent. The names Of the au-
thorIzed travelling representatives and
collectors of The Age-Herald are w. D..
6ankston, Nj. w. Carlisle and C. II.
Allen, Jr.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

In all that part Of the state lying
above the Black Belt. There are some
exceptions. as IN Walker where 4125
out of 1872 are registered, and Tai
lapoosa where 1929 out of 420s had
sense enough to enter their names on
the life lists. But as a rule there are
big percentages of the unregistered in
the northern counties. In Tuscaloosa
only S775 out of 1922 whites are reg
istered. This is but 65 per cent Nor
gan did not do much better, for there
are only 1926 registered out Of 51s5.
Etowah shows only $3.50 registered
out of 5189: Colbert only 1856 out of
s056, and Blount 1919 out of 4444. Bibb
did not do much better.
But by far the worst case is Jeffer-
son. Out of 1882 whites of voting
age in this great county only 1861
are registered. This is almost exactly
60 per cent. Two in every five white
men, in other words, are unregistered.
There is no other case of political
neglect in the state that equals this.
There are concerns in this city in
which fifty men are employed in which
there is not more than one OF two
registered. This neglect was inten-
tional, and is deep-seated. This town
is in fact altogether too cosmopolitan
to be politically sound
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12
AN INDICATION OF PROSPERITY.

Saratoga Letter to New York Times.
Mr.. Garfield says truly that there is nc
better barometer of the condition of the
country than his clubhouse. He studies
the restaurant bill daily, taking 25c
checks, summing up the total of what
they represent and dividing this sum by
the number of the checks. The result is
as follows: 1900, $40 per meal; 1901, SIS;
1902, $40. What he means is that the
average expenditure Of each diner at the
club increased 40 per cent last year over
the year 1900 and has increased 100 per
cent this year. Then again. it costs SIG
to make one bet-to buy one chip-and
yet the betting increases.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12
soUsA ON HORSEBACK.

Atlantic city Correspondent in Phil
adelphia Press
whats that rough rider on a horse?9
said man of a jockey who is here.
Named Sousa," answered the man.
Best horseman down here"
why, that's the man that has the
band?'
so they say answered the Jockey.
"All I say Is II he plays a drum as
well as he rides a horse, he's all right
Mr.. sousa probably does the latter far
not on the schedule that he can play the
drum" at all.
And he rides with great dexterity and
grace.
The March King" is among the nota-
bles who have taken cottages here for
the season, and he has brought his stable
of fine horses with him.
These horses are his recreation and
his fad. And one reason that he Is hap
PLY married is that Mrs. Sousa is as
fon- of horses as he is and always rides
with him.
Every morning between and 9 three
horses are brought around to the door.
and Mr. and Mrs. sousa, with Miss
Helen, go for a brisk two-hour ride.
Mr.. Sousa wears tan riding breeches,
tucked into tight-htting black leather
CATERS that reach almost to the knees.
a plated flannel shirt with rolling col
lar and a broad leather belt.
He tops this off with a rolling felt hat
pulled well down over his eyes. He Is
quite as picturesque in this garb on a
horse as he is in blue uniform holding
a baton.
Mrs. and Miss sousa wear ordinary
black skirts, plated white shirt waists
and broad-brimmed sailor hats draped
with wells.
Those curious to see the March King
off the platform have learned to watch
for the appearance of the smart-looking
trio as they go cantering toward Long
port each morning.
Mr.. Scusa feels he hasn't begun his
cay well if he is debarred from his IA
vorite exercise.
1ney are going in for quite a little Of
the social life down here, and give a
dinner to Miss Halle Erminie Rives, the
author of A1earts Courageous"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12
GETTING TO BUSINESS.
Strike Leaders In New York Confer
With the Officials.

New York, August Nv. L. Jencks.
chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, and H. B. Penny, head of the
local firemen's organization, had con-
ference today with Alfred Skitt, vice pres
ident of the Manhattan elevated railroad.
After the meeting Vice President Slxitt
gave out the following:
.Messrs. Youngson and Wilson. accom-
panied by the members of their commit
tee. met Mr.. Skitt by appointment today.
Matters in dispute were discussed fully
and in a friendly spirit, there being no
important differences.
The Manhattan railway company made
to those gentlemen certain counter prop
ostions which Messrs. Youngson and
Wilson will present to their respective
brotherhoods for their consideration"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12
About Persons.

]. s. Martin and William Gerstman of
Talladega are at the Metropolitan.
Oscar Conway, prominent member of
the Atlanta gun club. is at the Metro
politan.
w. b. Reynolds and wife and Miss Alice
Fellows of Montevallo are at the Morris.
w. A. Blakely of Selma is at the Nor
ris.
Robt G. Patrick of Marion is at the
Metropolitan.
Jno. A. Perduean and M. K. Stern of
Atlanta are at the Hillman.
DIR. f. C. Wilson and w. ]. Thompson
OF Savannah are at the Hilman They
will attend the shooting tournament this
week.
]. T. Anthony of Charleston is at the
Hillman.
F. e. Duffy Of New York is at the
Hillman.
]. W. Weiss of Mobile is at the Hill
man. He spent last week at Tate Springs.
All the Tennesseans there were talking
big crops.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12
Large Crops.

1.-THE large crops of this summer will
keep business going for another twelve
MONTHS" said commercial traveller who
has spent a good deal of time in the
south and west.
1.-THE west will have bursting barns of
corn and wheat in the fall and the south
will have a mountaineering cotton crop.
These facts, with healthy condition
of trade in general will give us uncom-
mon prosperity from now until next sum-
mer at least"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
The most successful discoveries are
those who let other people do the search
ing.
Inere is nothing so foolish as trying
to tell the age of woman by the age
of her children.
The more man hurts a girl hugging
her the harder she wishes he could hug
her without hurting her.
A great many people in this world
would be better than they are If any
body could make 1t as interesting to
them as not being as bad as they might
be.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12
No Lyceum Lectures.

at looks as If we would have no
lyceum course of entertainments in Bir-
mingham next season. said H. x. White
who has managed the lecture business in
seasons past.
Jefferson and the Auditorium makes II
Impossible to secure either of those
houses in advance for lyceum enter
tainments. Several hundred people who
have been in the habit of subscribing to
the course Will miss the lectures and
concerts"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12
Healthy Climate,

81 am lgreeably surprised that I have
got through the summer thus far without
a touch CT fever" said man who lives
in Richmond, but who has spent most Of
err Alabama
when my business called me to Ala
bama 1 thought l would have acclimatza-
ton fever, but have escaped sickness al
together and gained flesh besides. This
is a healthy country"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12
NATURE OF tbs CHOICE.

From the Mobile Herald.
Choose this day whom you will follow:
Johnston. Jesse Stallings and "Billy-in-
the-low- Ground" benson or Jelks, Nor
gan, Pettus, Knox. Oates, Bankhead, I'M
derwood. Lomax. Sanford Wash" Tay-
lor and a host of other patriotic Ala
bamians
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12
THE RAILROAD COMMISSION.

From the Sheffield Standard.
Col. j. NJ Falkner has issued an adj
dress to the people of Alabama, in
which he presents some able and con-
vincing arguments against the election
of railroad commissioners by the people.
Among other things. Col. Falkner con-
tends that it is imanifestiy unfair TO the
great Investments of money to have men
elected with power to make rates. who
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

The doctors and the chaplains have
gone aboard our battleships at New
port. Nothing now remains to be
done but to sprinkle the decks with
sawdust.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

Attorney General Knox is now a
presidential possibility He was
knocked into the list by rowdy mil
lionaires.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

The launching of the Kaiser Will
helm II. will soon take place, and
when she is In the water the world
will possess a ship 707 feet long, with
a displacement Of 1880 tons. The
Great Eastern is no longer in it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

Professor Triggs now ranks Mary
MacLane with Rockefeller, both being
a notch or two above Shakespeare.
Go it, Triggsy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

Arctic Explorer Baldwin denies the
current allegations, and defes of
course the alligators. There is not
much else he can do.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

Peter Power, as well as Peter Piper,
seems to be a mythical parsonage. At
any rate he has not as yet material
lied
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

Gates and Hinky Dink are both at
Saratoga, and business will soon be
opened up on a great scale.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

The friars in the Philippines seem
to have lot of business sense of the
most modern sort, for they have or
ganized a land syndicate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

Kipling's "Absent-Minded Beggar"
yielded $6,oOO,OOO to the families of
those who were then sewing in South
Africa.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

Let us hope Winston is not holding
back her registration returns for the
purpose of overwhelming the rest of
the state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

Explorer Baldwin still has faith in
angel zeigler. but the vice versa side
of the case has not been heard from.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

The republican spellbinders' text
book is the biggest Joke of the season.
IL avoids all live subjects.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

know nothing Of railroad business and
who are chosen merely because they
know how to induce people to vote for
them. The most practical solution Of
the matter would be to abolish the rail-
road commission altogether. II It has
ever accomplished anything. nobody has
heard OF IT,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

South Africa does not know what to
do with it's ex-Presidents.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

Senator Hanna is a joker. His re-
tirement joke is his latest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

The trusts may decide to deport the
Gear to his own Siberia.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

Cuba is trying to secure friends by
unloading a lot of bonds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

As we'll be amlty and life tween snow
and fire.
Merchant of Venice.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

The crown business is well off King
Edwards hands at last.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

Japan is planning a navy big enough
to whip any other nation, and sink her
own finances.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

The demand for arbitration in the
hard coal districts is becoming both
deep and strong.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

Saratoga is the American Monte
Carlo.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

The King is crowned-now let him
recuperate in peace
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

Peter Powers is construetively i
Jail.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-12

]. s. Martin and william Gerstman of
Taladega are at the Metropolitan.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-29

hama Art League will give members
first view of the exhibition of oil paint
ings, water colors. pastelles and China,
in the league rooms in the Progress
block. Eighty-four pictures have been
hung to the best advantage. The dis
play is much larger than the league
had even hoped for. Beginning with
Monday morning the exhibition will be
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-29

led the ribbons. In the party were
Miss Gardie Macfarlane, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. C. Perkins, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S. Walk
err. Mrs. Mary Gum, Miss Juliet King,
Miss Jennie Giffard, Mr.. Clifford Kim
ball, Mr.. Robert Atkinson, Mr.. Isaac
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-29

ed fourteen guests at Thanksgiving
dinner. The dining room was marvel
of harvest decoration. all manner OF
fruits being displayed in large bowls
Vegetables of many varieties in other
dishes, together with interweavings of
greens and croton leaves formed pic
tUresque background.
.& - -
This evening at o'clock the Kilo-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-29

open from 9 to daily and from to
in the evening to the public. The league
will follow up the plan Of last year
and have sale Of original Christmas
cards commencing with this evening.
D. Howard Hitchcock, chairman of
the pictorial committee of the league.
will be assisted in receiving the menu
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-29

~ OCIETY has turned out en- masse
to the polo games this week,
and this afternoon, if the rainy
weather takes a vacation and al.
lows old Sol an opportunity to smile
upon Kapiolani park. one OF the largest
gatherings of society folk and polo en-
thusiasts will assemble around the
tournament field. Being the champion
ship game bewteen the Oahu and Maui
picked teams, interest has centered on
today's event. The Dillingham; tallyho
Thursday Mr. Walter Dillingham; hand
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-29

Continued on Page 81
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-29

Mr. and Mrs. F. ]. .Lowrey entertain
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-29
Advertisement Changed Mondays.

All the stock and fresh and in beautiful
Prices will than avorably prices
and they cannot be duplicated in Honolulu
embroderies daper net all laces chiffon applique all
Swiss embroderies Swiss insertions ali widths
Swiss applique beading, etc. Note these prices:
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-06-13

Manila, June S.-A sergeant, two d.
porals and four privates of the Fiji
United States cavalry were decorating ii,
graves of American soldiers at Bincsp.
goran, Risal province, Luzon, last DecOl.
Ition day, when a large number d L.
1rones attacked the town and captursi
the men OF the Fifth cavalry, as well i
the president of the town, his secretarv.
doctor and other prominent Filipiua
Inc prisoners were hurried northwsri
through the mountains.
Later two soldiers and four Filipne
escaped from the Ladrones and made ther
way to the town of Morong. Troops and
eonstabulary were at once sent out ID
pursuit of the bandits.
Inc Ladrones who attacked Bingf
goran have also captured large quantg
II dynamite which was stored at sons
quarries.