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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06
THE WEAKNESS OF WEALTH.

The Rev. c. M. Sheldon. in Homiletic
 JIsview.
 The very rich men of the world are growing exceedingly tired of the vast wealth accumulated In New York scores and hundreds of men today are paying anywhere from 5000 to s16,oOO month rent for suites of rooms. not homes which they have built for their families, but simply apartments which they have rent ed for a while. The goddess magnificence, the selfish prodigality, the overwhelming ostentation of the wealth of New York in certain circles cannot be described; but 1t is all an indication of the fact that the climax has well nigh been reached in the display of what wealth can get. The world Is waiting now to know what wealth can give It is the nemesis of vast wealth that 1t brings its own retribution. and that retribution Is the weariness of being unable to find happiness In merely having things.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06
100 YEARS OF TROUSERS.
m the London Telegraph.

From the London Telegraph.
 Most people will be surprised to hear that trousers. as at present worn by the male portion of humanity, have just celebrated their centenary, but, accord ing to Fashion, such is undoubtedly the case. They "came in" on account of the high living prevalent a hundred years ago. This produced a good deal of gout, whose twinges the tight-fitting costume in use at that period made unbearable. Hence the invention of the wI~~r form of garment, which soon became popular and was adopted by many royal person. ages at home and abroad. Among the dandies of the period, however, the new style was regarded with contempt, and when AlmaclSs was at it's height as a fashionable resort the great Duke of Wellington was once refused admission because he presented himself in trousers instead of the (for that time) orthodox neither garments. So far has their sway now extended that they threaten to sup pant even the Scottish kilt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06
SIX ROOSEVELT AUTOGRAPHS.

from the New York Sun.
 To the Editor of the Sun-Sir: I am now going to give you an exact copy of the letter which the President wrote we six-Elsie Jenkins, Willie Board Cyrus Jones, Eddie Jenkins, David Board ana Clifford Jenkins-for contributing toward tho giving of the flowers which Elsie Jenkins threw at the President. They hit him in the chest and fell at his feet. Governor Murphy of New Jersey picked them up.
 The following is an exact copy of the letter:
 White House, Washington. Oyster Bay, July 26, 19O2-Dear Miss Jenkins; It was most kind of you to present me with flowers while passing through North Asbury. They were much appreciated and were afterward placed on the dining table of the Mayfiower. I take much pleasure in appending the six signatures you request as a slight return for them. Yours sincerely,
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Miss Elsie M. Jenkins, 600 Third avenue, Asbury Park, N. J.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06
TO BE AFRAID OF DEATH
 ONLY SHORTENS LIFE

quite pleasant to die; no sensation could be compared to it.''
 To prove this assertion M. Pinot quotes Helm, who related the sensations he ex- perienced while falling with his compan- ions from the summit of one of the Alps to a death which he miraculously escap- cd:
 "At first a sense of beatitude; then complete insensibility to touch and pain; finally an extreme rapidity of thought and of imagination, which in a few sec onds enabled him to iecollect the events of his whole life. Therefore it is not death we should fear, but the fear it inspires in us. We are wrong says Soc rates, to fear death, as 1t is our great est possession on earth. and Seneca adds that it is the best of the inventions of life, while Mcntesquieu concludes that we should shed tears for men when they are born and not when they die"
 M. Henry de Varigny examines the question Of longevity in "L Illustration" from another point of view. He asks! Has the man of today a chance to live longer than the man of POGO years ago? He bases bis conclusions upon charts and statistics published by Prof. Karl Pear sor in "Biometrika" and upon the re- searches made by W. Speigelberg of Strasburg, on the age of Egyptian num- mics. These conclusions are that an Egyptian who 2OoO years ago lived tc be sixty-eight years old was likely to live longer than a modern Englishman of the same age. M. de Varigny gives the following explanation:
 "Evi1ently there was among the Egyp- tiaps a natural selection, resulting from environment, that does not take place today, at least to the same degree, among civilized people. The Egyptians who reached the age of 6S years had robust constitutions, and therefore their chances of longey yity were exceptional"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06
zEIeLER HEARS FROM BALDWIN.
Says Beware of Canards and Cheer
 Up-Cablegram Unsigned.

New York. August civilian ziegler who is interested in the Baldwin-Zegler expedition, says he has received an un- signed cablegram from Tromsoe, Norway, reading:
 ~Aeer up. Awaiting Frithof. Beware of csnards. Fearless"
 Although there Is no signature to the dispatch, MT. Ziegler said: Tt was un- questionably sent by Baldwin. The Frith- of referred to is the steamship I sent out with the America as a sort of con sort or transport to accompany the America, the vessel Baldwin was on. As for the mysterious deaths on board the America l have not received one word "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06
THE REGISTERED VOTE.
It Is Showing Up In Quite Large Pro-
 portions.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 The registration in Alabama has not been to the entire limit of qualified vot- CTS. According to the census returns for 1900 there were then 2S2,294 white males above the age of q and 1sl47 negro males of voting age. The returns that have reached the. Advertiser are from forty-nine counties, leaving seventeen yet unreported The total registered vote in fifty counties foots up 1424S1. and of these not over 2500 are negroes. The sixteen counties not yet in the table of figures have 54,1s7 white males over the age of 21 years and 1t is evident that the fafal .ufu oro to 175 00n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06
NEW YORK, BAcKwooDs TOWN.

From the New York Tribune.
 Only few hundreds of horsecars are now running in the United States, and, oddly enough, New York contains two- thirds of those which remain. he horse car will soon be extinct
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06
ODE ON A GREClAN URN.

 By John Keats. Thou still unravished bride of quietness. Thou foster child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express f1owery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Or deities or mortals, or of both, In temple or the dales of Already? What men or gods are these? What maidens loath? What mad pursuit? What struggles to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard melodies are sweet, but those un- heard Are sweeter; therefore, yet soft pipes, play on; Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees. thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal-yet do not grieve. She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fairl o, Attic shape! Fair attitude. with brede Of marble men and maidens over wrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other Than ours, a friend to man. to whom thou sayst, Beauty is truth, truth beauty"-that Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 It takes an awful lot of faith to believe that a woman is built like her clothes make her seem to be.
 The further a woman can go and yet make herself believe she is not over the line, the surer she is that there Is no harm in 1t.
 A woman has such a natural gift for hunting trouble that when she thinks she hears burglar downstairs she can begin worrying for fear there might also be one in her mothers house, too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06
SOME ARE NOT COLONIES.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
 'unofficially, of course" says the Chi cago Record-Herald, "every man in Ken lucky is colonel" This is a contempti- ble islander. Some of us are majors. Some of us are generals. Some of us are even misters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06
SOLVING THE RACE PROBLEM.

From the Galveston News.
 Texas will continue to spend $750 900 year to educate her negroes Texas is utilizing the school house in the work of solving the negro problem,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

Rudyard Kipling can sympathize with Captain Hobson, who Is another victim of fame in its strenuous moods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

Harry Tracy is moving eastward Let us hope he will not entertain any Reflection southward. Let him keep his face ever to the rising sun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

When King Edward has "done been" crowned on Saturday next all the world and the rest of mankind will breathe freer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

From the Bessemer Weekly.
 These anniversary and annual review editions of the press have become quite
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

It may be necessary to quarantine Los Alamos unless it overcomes the earthquake habit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

The coronation must take place without the presence and assistance of Whitelaw Reid's remarkable legs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

Rigid quarantines have been estab- lished in Kansas against Uncle Toms Cabin" companies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

New York's escaped but now cap- tured puma drinks milk, and responds to the name, hitty."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

Hell Roaring Jake did not create proach to these shores.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

What will Chicago's board of trade do in August that will outrank the capers of July?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

South Africa desires to duplicate this country, but it has not yet picked out it's J. P. Morgan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

MT. H. Tracy is writing a lecture entitled "Sherlffs l Have Shot"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

The consumer is ground between the upper and the neither millstone in a strike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

Hell Roaring Jake has subsided. His salary for doing nothing is satis- factory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

Millions of pounds of British jam were consumed in South Africa while the war lasted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

Ine floods in Texas did not wash away it's democratic majorities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

me Tracy industry is apt to boom in the west.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

The beef trust announces that beef will never be cheap again. It knows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

MT. Fitzsimmons dried his tears when he was handed his share of the gate receipts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

All the brave defenders are now trying to be at once good Boers and good Britons
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

The North Pole is still pres crying it's splendid but frigid isolation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

The Schwab boys seem to have a liking for good fat jobs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06
WlLL sooN HAVE LElsuRE.

From the Mobile Herald
 MT. Johnston will be able to devote some time to ping pong after Augusta25.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

August oats are not valued as high. ly as July oats were.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06
About Persons.
THE AcE.HERALp's ANNUAL.

E. B. Barker of the Pensacola Press Is in the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

The gypsy moth is still live issue in Boston.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06

total will go to 175. 000
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-20

many. to study under Professor Seeliger,
one of the leading theoretical astrono-
mers of Europe.
He began to take lectures at Munich
in October, 1900 Although he has re :
ceivedz his degree this month he expects
to remain In Europe a year longer, hear
ing lectures by the leading astronomers
and mathematicians, visiting Paris to be-
come more familiar with the French LAM
guage and studying the educational sys-
TENS Of Euro0e. 81 & L
Before leaving this country, Mr.. New
kirk gathered material for his doctors
thesis, and this thesis when it is pub
lished will occupy prominent place in
the astronomical world. 1t; is the first
successful attempt to measure the dis
tance of a nebula. The subject of his
thesis is tThe oParallax OF the Ring Neb-
ula of Lyra.' The problem Of determin-
ing the parallax of star and from IT the
distance Of the starts one of the most
arduous with which the astronomers has
to deal. i. 5.za.,tst ~ 8ti.s =
The plan for Mr.. Newkirk,s- work as
outlined for him by Professor F. p.
Leavenworth at the university observa-
tory was to take a series Of about fifteen
photographs Of the ring nebula of Lyra
in October and November, and again in
April and May, and on these photographs
to measure the distance Of the nebula
from the netghbor1ng stars on the plates
The observatory at the university is .one
of the few in. this country which has
combination Photographic and visual tel
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-20
Minnesota Man Honored
oF Ev AMERICANS TO
RECEIVE DOCTORS DEGREE LAUDE,


The news was recently received of a,
high honor won by a Minneapolis boy
! Burt L. Newkirk, in passing the doctor
bof philosophy examination at the univer-
teity of Munich and receiving his degree
lsumma cum laude. This is the highest
sof the four grades given with. the Phi. D.
tn Germany and it is rare thing indeed
1or an American to win this great honor,
studying as he does under the disad-
Nantages of foreign language and a rev
method Of teaching. ..,s.
It Is to the credit of Mr.. Newkirk that
-he has received the degree at so young
Jan age. Mr.. Newkirk was born in 1876
sI1e was graduated from the East Side
Nigh School in 1898 and, entering the
university the following fall pursued the
classical course from which he was grad.
Ruated in 1897 with a record for high
scholarship. His undergraduate work
twas Of thoroughly broad character. Be-
sides taking wide variety of courses, he
twas prominent in the Forum literary So
iciety, was the strongest member Of the
debate team which, WON the debate with
yWisconsin in his sophomore year, was.
,selected to the board Of Ariel editors in
tthis Junior year and was one of the CON-
mencement speakers at graduation.
1t was not until the year after gradua
tion that he began to specialize in his
chosen line Of astronomy and mathe
matics. For three years he was assistant
to Professor Leavenworth in the observ
atory at the university.
In the summer of 1900 he left for Ger
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-20

escope and it was with this telescope that
the photographs were taken. Usually the
plates were exposed for two hours, the
observer sitting at the, instrument con :
tinuously to see that the telescope fol-
lowed he stars accurately in their. mo-
tion across the sky. 4
After the photographs haye, been made
they are placed in the Photographic meas.
uring machine for measurement. This is
another Instrument which the university
is fortunate. in possessing; as only two
other institutions, Columbia and Vassar,
own similar machines: .a @E s+
The Repshold measuring machine is
constructed for very accurate work. It
measures the distances between stars on
the plates in millemeters which are aft
erwards reduced to seconds of arc or
time.
The fact that Mr., Newkirk has found
an appreciable sparallax for the nebula
in LYra is. the chief result of his work
which Professor g seeliger has praised
very highly. It adds to the positive
knowledge of the distance and distribu-
tion of nebulae in the sky. Mr.. New
kirk found as a result of his investiga :,
tions that this nebula has parallax of
0.104 which means that the earth's orbit
as-;seen from Lyra would seem to occupy
an angle Of that size in the sky. 4. The
distance of the nebula obtained from.
this result is approxima tely $50 900, 600, ,0e0
miles. But approximately here means
that we cannot be sure of this distance
within forty trillions of miles, even with
the most accurate measurements possible.
The nebula in Lyra is about Alps, 900
times as far. away from. the earth as is
the SUM- or it takes. about thirty-tl three
years for it's light to reach the earth.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-20

drought to Philadelphia, one by John L..
kConaway, the other by Barclay Warbur-
Hon, and here, too, they had an instanta-
lneous and overwhelming success, and the
Pdealers were besought vainly by their
epatrons to procure a stock Of them,- but
Ethis WAS impossible at first to do.
| Panama hats are made by old men, wo-
taneu and little children in the interior of
Observation-Disclosures the best come-and of
EColombia and Of Peru. They are woven of
Ethe leaves of the screw palm, which the
Eandtans call the jipijapa (pronouncdng 1t
and which naturalists call
hthe carludovica palmata. OF this palm
Gharles Richards Dodge, the United States
hgovernment expert upon fibres, says: cit
tds a stemless species, common in shady
splaoes all over Panama and along the
scoast of New Granada and Ecuador. The
leaves, plated like fan, are borne on
three -cornered stalks, six to fourteen feet
high. They are about four feet in diane
ter and deeply cut into four or five divi-,
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-20
THE POPULAR PANAMA HAT
Demand for the Product Of the Jpijapa Palm Will Be
Greater This Year Than Last-.How and Where
They Are Made--How the Trade Grows-Price From
So to $1oo.

The Panama hat was extremely popular
last summer, but this summer 1t will be
more popular STILL Women, as we'll as
men, are going to wear it. and the dealers,
though their stocks are large, expect to
run out. as they did in 1901, before the
season shall be over.
The cause of the popularity of the Pan-
ANA hat lies in the beauty of the shape in
which, after 200 years, 1t has at last ccme
to be made. For these hats, for 200 and
maybe for 300 or 400 years, have been
made by the Indians of South America,
but they were all woven, UP to 1900, upon
round blocks, and they had form that
was uncomfortable save to old men-a circu-
! lar form, with a crease like the crease
| in pair of trousers running through the
center of the crown.
But in 1897 an ingenious dealer in
Guayaquil, the shipping point of Ecuador,
had few dozen hats woven in what Is
termed the Fedora, or Alpine, or tourist
shape. These he sent to London, and one
of them he presented to the Prince of
Wales. Their success was instantaneous
and overwhelming. They sold at a tre-
tmendous figure. And two of them were
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-20

damask, and its fibers are as delicate as
threads of linen. straw broken, a knot
obtruding on the pattern, decreases the
value of this hat from so to rs per cent.
Hence the care the natives use may be i'm :.
agined.
Woven from end to end by hand,
Panama hats cannot be made save by
those born and bred to the art. The little
children down there are set to work on
little: native hats Of coarse palm fibre as
soon as they are or years of age They
pursue the work daily. advancing each
season to fibre Of finer quality, and in
twelve or fifteen years-by the time. that
is, that they are 20-they are able to make
Panamas Of a fairly good sort, /: The ma
,jority never become expert enough to
weave the finest hats t-..s 81 Z,
The dealers here order their hats
through Swiss and German middlemen
who live in Guayaquil. The goods come
north unshaped and sunbleached which is
what the dealers WISH or coated thickly
with gum and powdered sulphur, which is
undesirable, because this coating must
be washed off, and the process requires
two or three days time.
A single. instance will suffice to show
how tremendously the trade in Panama.
hats has grown. A Philadelphia importer
handled three years ago from twenty to
thirty hats season, and this season he
will handle at least 25 900. .3s.
In price they will run from SO to $780,
They are classified, according to. their
quality, in numbers A No 1 hat will re.
tail at from So to So a No at $12 and
SO on up to Nos. 8, Sand 10. The higher
grades will be, scarce, the lower ones fair,
ly plentiful Thus it will, perhaps, be.
possible to buy No. Is all through the
summer, but Nos. 5, 6, ~ etc, which will
cost $50 or s25 up, will probably run out
by July. =. :. &,
Yet, in keeping the price uniform, the
importers will suffer now and then, for
the market in South America is most un=
stable. Middlemen' rum it. ~ They are
Swiss and Germans, residents of Guaya-
quill, who, receiving an order from the
north, distribute it among the, many In
dian weavers of the interior, and collect
a commission at both ends.
They never guarantee prices "A ship
ment of hats may arrive from them to-
day billed at $50 a. Dozen and another
shipment of the same quality may come
in to-morrQM .hilled at. go ~ So. =: -.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-20

fine ones--those that cost from 81 90 up
are never worked on save by candle light
The Indians-old men, women, boys andf
girls-sit on the ground before their little
houses to work the hat block, a wooden
sphere, between their knees. Their straw
is rlfable, and every moment they dip 1t.
In water. They begin to weave from the
center of the crown, and.t their little Cir
5cular beginning, which Is the size of a.
ten -cent piece, is. called hsthel button. BY
this button an expert can tell where a
hat was made. for the panama &of Ecua
dor has button of one shape. that of
Colombia another. that Of Peru another,
and those of jamaica and Of France still
another. ''.55' Sss# Il iSSsr s,$
"a a hat of the very finest quality takes six
months in the weaving; it's texture Is like
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-20
!. AN .ElolPEMENT. BLOCKED
Mother of 15-Year-Old Girl Has Girl

Mother of 15-Year-OId Girl Has GirI
Arrested.
Mrs. Alice Galley. 10 w Ninth street. St.
Paul, had her 15-yearold daughter arrested
Yesterday to prevent the girl from eloping
with man many years older than herself.
The girl is infatuated with Alfred Toler. a
widower with five children, some of whom are
older than the girl herself and yesterday the
couple eycalled on a lawyer to see IL there was
some way in which they could get married.
They found that 1t would be necessary to gain
the mothers consent. which was refused.
Mrs. Galley. fearing an elopement, had the
girl arrested.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-20

Err SHAPE.
width and yard in length, are rolled
by the weavers from either edge They
sions, each Of which is again cut. The
leaves are gathered while young and stiff,
and the parallel veins are removed, after
thus become each a yard-long straw,
round, with two little circles showing on
the under side. They are then pressed
out fat, and are ready for the processes
of weaving. They are rolled in that pc
culiar way in order that they may have
no raw edge. -
The Indian weavers can work by nat
ural light during only the first hour of
daybreak aid the last hour of twilight.
Through the rest of the day the sun is
SO warm and the air SO dry that the
flbers of the palm Become brittle and
break in the weaving. But at dawn and
at twilight the air is sufficiently moist
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-20
| MIGHTY sTREET r r. ocToP1Js

A MIGHTY STREET R. r. OCTOPUS.
I New York May 2o.-With the, ,afixing of
their signatures by officials Of the Union
Traction company of the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit company, the lease of all the troll
ley lines operated heretofore by the Union
Traction company has passed to the new cor
poration controlled by the Mack syndicate.
The document transfers to the new company
the larger street railway system in the world,
comprising trackage Of over 4S0 miles.